A conference for all who are interested in church growth, building community, small group facilitating and Christian Education

Saturday, January 8, 2005

Sponsored by SW Fla Via Media & St. Peter’s Cathedral

9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Featuring

Diana Butler-Bass

Senior Research Fellow in church history at Virginia Theological Seminary

Are mainline churches really in decline? 

Are liberals and conservatives really at war with each other? 

Dr. Butler-Bass’s presentation explodes many "mainline myths" and looks at what is really happening in mainline congregations across the country--and finds surprising new creativity and vitality in congregations engaging Christian practices and reworking tradition. See American culture and congregational change in surprising ways, open your imagination to new congregational possibilities and learn a new vocabulary for speaking about political and cultural tensions.

And

Fran McKendree

Musician and Community builder

"My hope is to remain thankful for and receptive to the movement of God in my life, and to do this in a humble, energetic manner, celebrating our differences and similarities as creatures of God, and remembering always we are called to actualize our faith in the world."

Fran will offer a workshop on community building & an evening concert

Plus workshops on:

Community Building

Facilitating Small Groups

Episcopalians for Global Reconciliation

The Windsor Report

Tried and True ideas for Sunday School Teachers

$25.00 includes continental breakfast, lunch, dinner, and concert

Celtic Eucharist—Friday at 7:00PM

Soup & salad offered at 6:00PM

For those who are wearied by life’s struggles and challenges St. Peter’s Cathedral offers a quiet evening of music - incense - candles - sacred space

Soup & salad dinner at 6:00 PM