By Rhonda Pittman Gingrich
Wish you could have attended more equipping sessions during Annual Conference? Recordings of the hybrid equipping sessions are still available to registered attendees on the Eventsquid platform (links are provided to those who registered for the Conference).
Wish you had a copy of the table liturgy and “The Table Song” used as part of that liturgy during each worship service? You can find both posted online at www.brethren.org/ac2024/worship.
Wish there was a Spotify or YouTube playlist for the music used at Annual Conference? You can find those posted online, also at www.brethren.org/ac2024/worship, click on “Songs and Hymns” in the column at left.
Wish you had the list of books recommended by Annual Conference preachers? Here they are (books are listed with their links to purchase through Brethren Press):
Recommended by 2024 moderator Madalyn Metzger: Apostles of Change by Philipe Hinojosa and The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby (www.brethrenpress.com/product_p/9780310597261.htm)
Recommended by Greg Broyles: Encouragement: The Unexpected Power of Building Others Up by Larry Crab and Dan Allender (www.brethrenpress.com/product_p/9780310336891.htm)
Recommended by Brandon Grady: Twelve Years a Slave by Solamon Northrop (www.brethrenpress.com/product_p/9780143106708.htm)
Recommended by Leonard Dow: The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby (www.brethrenpress.com/product_p/9780310597261.htm)
Recommended by Cindy Laprade Lattimer: This Here Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley (www.brethrenpress.com/product_p/9780593239797.htm)
Books by other speakers who presented at Annual Conference:
From Weary to Wholehearted by Callie Swanlund (www.brethrenpress.com/product_p/9781640656789.htm)
Her Words, My Voice by Heidi Ramer (www.brethrenpress.com/product_p/9781489745309.htm)
Learning Together to Preach edited by John McClure, with chapters by Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm and Katie Shaw Thompson (www.brethrenpress.com/product_p/9781666743814.htm)
They Like to Never Quit Praisin’ God by Frank Thomas (www.brethrenpress.com/product_p/9780829819786.htm)
God of the Dangerous Sermon by Frank Thomas (www.brethrenpress.com/product_p/9781791020224.htm)
Making its debut at Annual Conference:
Notes to the Church by Wendy McFadden, published by Brethren Press (www.brethrenpress.com/product_p/9780871783660.htm)
— Rhonda Pittman Gingrich is director of the Conference Office for the Church of the Brethren. Find out more about Annual Conference at www.brethren.org/ac. Jeff Lennard of the Brethren Press staff contributed to this article.
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