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Conference to Explore Multicultural Ministry
OAKLAND, CA (March 24, 2003) - First Covenant Church in Oakland will host "Doing
Church in a Multicultural World," a conference sponsored by The Renewal
Project, a Walnut Creek-based organization.
Speakers at the May 15-17 event will include Juan Carlos Ortiz, Dolphus
Weary, Todd Spitzer, Adam Edgerly and Russell Yee. Worship, panel
discussions and seminars are part of the three-day event.
Ortiz once was senior pastor of the largest evangelical church in Argentina
and now leads the Crystal Cathedral's Hispanic congregation in southern
California. He will preach at a Thursday evening service and lead a Friday
afternoon seminar on pastoring in the Hispanic context.
Weary, executive director of Mission Mississippi, a racial reconciliation
organization, will speak about racial reconciliation during a Friday
morning session and will lead a Friday afternoon seminar entitled,
"Churches Connecting Across the Racial Divide."
Edgerly served with the Pacific Southwest Conference of the Evangelical
Covenant Church as director of Holistic Ministries and now serves a church
plant supported by Newsong Community Covenant Church in Santa Ana. He will
lead a Friday afternoon
session on American Multiculturalism and later lead a seminar entitled,
"Cutting Edge Urban Culture as Gospel Medium."
Yee, a professor at Fuller Theological Seminary's Bay Area extension, will
discuss how to reach the next generation of Asian Americans during a Friday
afternoon seminar and then will lead a Friday evening session focusing on
the subject of worship. Spitzer, pastor of an Oakland area church plant
called Regeneration, will discuss how to plant and lead a church for the
"20-Something" generation during a Friday seminar and will lead a
Saturday morning session as well.
Other seminar leaders with Covenant connections include Paul Wilson, pastor
at First Covenant Church in Oakland; Kelly Ballard, associate pastor at
University Covenant Church in Davis; and Doug Stevens, a longtime Covenant
pastor who is director of the Renewal Project.
Registration and other conference information is available by calling
Stevens at 925-947-1490 or by emailing the organization at
trpinc@pacbell.net.
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