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Believers Church Conference

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

$125 Regular

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$50 Student

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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

Each click adds 1 ticket. 

$50 Student
Until Day of Event

Each click adds 1 ticket. 

$75 Early Bird
Until midnight Oct. 31, 2022

$100 Pre-sale
Until Dec. 31, 2022