Believers Church Conference - Black Church Leadership Academy

Black Church Leadership Academy

Believers Church Conference

Thursday, Jan. 26th
through Saturday, Jan. 28th, 2023

$125 Regular

$50 Student

19th Believers Churches
Conference Schedule

Thursday,
26 January 2023


200 – 220	Centering Moment and Orientation
220 – 240	Presentation 1 The Story of the Believers Church Conferences 1967-2023: A Still Relevant Ecumenical Challenge	Dr. Teun van der Leer, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
240 – 300	Question, Answer, Interaction	Attendees
300 – 320	Presentation 2 Rauschenbusch, King, and a Believer’s Church Social Gospel for the 21stCentury	Dr. Scott John Holland Bethany Theological Seminary, Richmond, IN
320 – 340	Presentation 3 Blessed are the Peacemakers: Living Like Jesus, Leading Like King	Dr. Lesley Francisco McClendon Pastor, Hampton VA
340 – 400	Question, Answer, Interaction	Attendees
400 – 430	Health Break
430 – 450	Presentation 4 Ella Baker as Prophet of Renewal for Baptist Ecclesiology	Dr. Mikael Broadway – Shaw University
450 – 510	Presentation 5 An Ecumenical Theology of Companionship	Dr. Fernando Enns – Universität Hamburg
510 – 530	Question, Answer, Interaction	Attendees
530 – 545	Break
545 – 645	Dinner
700 – 830	Worship	Dr. John E. Guns – Dean, Samuel Dewitt Proctor School of Theology at Virginia Union University

19th Believers Churches
Conference Schedule

Friday,
27 January 2023


930 – 1000	Centering Moment and Music
1000 – 1020	Presentation 6 Leadership and the Black Church in Nova Scotia	Mr. Dudley A. Brown – Acadia Centre for Baptist and Anabaptist Studies
1020 – 1040	Presentation 7 “Martin Luther King ́s Influence over the Mexican Baptists 1960-1968.”	Rubí Elizabeth Barocio Castells National Mexican Baptist Convention
1040 – 1100	Question, Answer, Interaction	Attendees
1100 – 1130	Break
1130 – 1150	Presentation 8 – Mennonite Innocence	Dr. Andres Felipe Pacheo Lozan, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
1150 – 1210	Student Panel
1210 – 1230	Question, Answer, Interaction	Attendees
1230 – 115	Lunch
115 – 200	Book Launch – Seeds of the Church: Toward an Ecumenical Baptist Theology	Dr. Teun van der Leer; Dr. Steve Harmon, Gardner-Webb University School of Divinity; Dr. Beth Newman. Duke University School of Divinity
200 – 300	Touring Shaw Sacred Spaces
300 – 400	Conversation about SNCC	Dr. David C. Forbes, a founding member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee at Shaw University
400 – 530	Summation of the Conference and Conversation about next steps – publications and continuation
600 – 700	Dinner and Fellowship

19th Believers Churches
Conference Schedule

Saturday,
28 January 2023



900 – 1200	Campus Tour and Conversation about Race and Reconciliation in Higher Education – Duke Divinity School as a case study	Dr. W. C. Turner, Professor Emeritus, Duke Divinity School in conversation
1200 – 1245	Lunch

$125 Regular
Until Day of Event

$50 Student
Until Day of Event

$75 Early Bird
Until midnight Oct. 31, 2022

$100 Pre-sale
Until Dec. 31, 2022