September/October 2008
School for Leadership Training 2009
Christians Engaging Cultural Change
Twenty-first century Christians find themselves in a sweeping cultural change that includes rapidly developing technologies and disillusionment with the ability of scientific advances to bring meaning and wholeness to life. How do we live in this environment as a faithful priesthood of all believers?
School for Leadership Training 2009 encourages engagement with specific cultural changes in areas such as communication media, relationships between races and genders, and scientific and societal discoveries about how humans function in the world. Daily worship times, keynote addresses, workshops and interest groups will offer many lenses through which to relate to American culture as Christians.
Participants will find a new understanding of this era and their proactive place in it. Keynote speakers are: Shane Hipps, pastor of Trinity Mennonite Church in Phoenix, Ariz. and author of The Hidden Power of Electronic Culture: How Media Shapes Faith, the Gospel, and Church, and Regina Shands Stoltzfus, adjunct professor at Goshen (Ind.) College. For more information see the brochure in this packet or visit www.emu.edu/seminary/slt. Online registration begins Aug. 15.