Today at NOAC 2023 – Friday, Sept. 8 – “God Is Doing a New Thing”
Today at NOAC 2023 – Friday, Sept. 8 – “God Is Doing a New Thing”
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Today at NOAC 2023 – Thursday, Sept. 7 – “…What God Will Do”
Today at NOAC 2023 – Thursday, Sept. 7 – “…What God Will Do”
Up early for a good walk, and a good cause
For those like myself, who are accustomed at NOAC to looking out through the window in the direction of the lake and seeing nothing but grey fog, it is a surprise to learn that before it is properly dawn there is a clear sky. Walking along the lakefront on the Rose Path, it was good to look up and see the cross shining brightly on the hill
Learning about the Cherokee
Many of the 46 NOAC attendees who traveled by bus to Cherokee Village, and to the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, were still mulling over what they had heard earlier in the day from keynote speaker Mark Charles.
Today at NOAC 2023 – Wednesday, Sept. 6 – “…What God Is Doing”
Today at NOAC 2023 – Wednesday, Sept. 6 – “…What God Is Doing”
Tracing a traumatic history, laying bare the roots of the Doctrine of Discovery
One of the reasons Mark Charles believes that the United States needs a Truth and Conciliation Commission instead of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission conducted by South Africa, is that we cannot be reconciled if we have never experienced conciliation in the first place.
Today at NOAC 2023 – Tuesday, Sept. 5 – “…What God Has Done”
Today at NOAC 2023 – Tuesday, Sept. 5 – “…What God Has Done”
National Older Adult Conference 2023 will meet on the theme ‘God Is Doing a New Thing!’
“God Is Doing a New Thing!” is the theme for the 2023 National Older Adult Conference (NOAC), inspired by the scripture text from Isaiah 43:19: “I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.”
NOAC keynoter Karen González speaks on immigration and the church
Participants in the 2021 virtual National Older Adult Conference heard a detailed but very accessible presentation on immigration, including how to see it from a biblical perspective, from keynote apeaker Karen González.
Lisa Sharon Harper takes NOAC along on a journey wrestling with identity
undertook a journey to wrestle with her identity. The journey took her along the Trail of Tears as well as into the heart of slavery in the American South.
