Mission Alive 2008 - Conference Schedule

Friday, April 4th

12:30 – Registration Opens

1:30 – Plenary Session
Welcome and Opening Worship

          Biblical Bases of Mission
               Overview of direction for mission in the Old and New Testaments
                    Moderator: Stephen Reid
                    Old Testament overview- Gene Roop
                    New Testament overview- Dorothy Jean Weaver
                    Dialog between these portions of scripture
                    Question and answer time

Reflections: How well have we responded to these calls? – Galen Hackman

4:00 – Workshops Session I

5:00 – 7 PM – Dinner break

7:00 – Worship
Theme: Celebrate a fruitful past

                    Ted & Company, special music
                    Speaker: Pastor Rebecca Baile Crouse
                    former Dominican mission staff, pastoral team for Warrensburg (MO) congregation

8:30 – Ice Cream Social

Saturday, April 5th

8:30 Opening Worship

Plenary Session
Theme: “a Fruitful Past,” continued

          The A Mack review of CoB mission: a light-hearted, multi-media approach
                    Reflections and learnings
                    Question and answer time

10:30 Workshop Session II

11:30 – 12:30 Lunch (provided) or
Focus on Denominational Mission Today

12:45 – 1:45 Switch

2:00 Plenary Session

Presentation: Leadership for the missional church- Paul E. Mundey

          Cultivating Faith-Full Congregations:
                    A panel of congregational models that engage mission
                    Question and answer time

          Challenges facing the church in mission:
                    Pastor Jim Beckwith, 2008 Annual Conference Moderator
                    Stanley Noffsinger, General Secretary

4:30 – 5:30 Workshop session III

5:30 – 6:30 Dinner break

7:00 – Worship

          Theme: Mission is the Faith-Full Future
                    Special Guest Speaker: Rt. Rev. Mano Rumalshah
                         Bishop of the Diocese of Peshawar in the Church of Pakistan.
          Offering for Emerging Global Mission Fund

8:30 – 9:30 Workshop session IV
Talk-on with guest speaker

Sunday, April 6th

8:30 – 9:30 AM Closing Worship

          Theme: “For All the World”
                    Speaker – Pastor Robert Alley
                         Bridgewater Church of the Brethren

Post-Conference event

Heritage lecture
Sponsored by the Valley Brethren Mennonite Heritage Center
Time, theme, speaker (to be announced)
separate registration