Thursday, October 12, 2023
8:30 am – 4:30 pm (EST)
In Person and Online
You are invited to join leading thinkers, clergy and others to creatively engage with issues facing the Church in Canada.
Many of us have been thinking about new church trends for a long time. In 2011 the Congregational Leadership Program at Grebel hosted a day of conversation on Leading the Church in a Post-Christian, Postmodern World. At that time, we did not anticipate a global pandemic. Now, as churches emerge from major societal disruption, how has the conversation regarding the future of the Canadian church changed? How do we attend to the key challenges of our time? What opportunities are before us?
Join Betty Pries, Derek Suderman and Paul Okoye in a day of instruction and dialogue.
Date:
Thursday, October 12, 2023: 8:30am - 4:30 pm EST
Conrad Grebel University College, Great Hall (Room 1111)
140 Westmount Road North, Waterloo, N2L 3G6
SCHEDULE: (subject to minor edits - All EST)
8:30 Registration and Coffee (in person attendees)
9:00 Welcome and Introductions
9:15 Hope for the Church in an Age of Anxiety Betty Pries
10:15 Conversation Groups
10:45 Refreshment Break
11:00 Encountering Scripture Anew Derek Suderman
12:30 - 1:30 LUNCH BREAK
1:30 Creating Congregations of Belonging Paul Okoye
2:30 Conversation Groups
3:00 Refreshment Break
3:15 Where do we go from here?
Summary and key questions that arise. Betty Pries
4:30 Close
This event is presented in partnership between the Conflict Management and Congregational Leadership Certificate Program at Conrad Grebel University College, and Credence and Company.