Presenter: Chap Clark
People who work with youth spend their hearts, souls, minds, and energy nurturing teenagers. REFOCUS creates time and space for nurturing these workers with resources, fellowship, a fresh outlook, and a time to be on the receiving end of ministry. During the process, you’ll also learn how to provide meaningful pastoral care to today’s teenagers.
Presenter: Jon Brown
We are called to be the “Beloved Community.” Too often we are age-segregated groups existing together. Learn from proven models and experiences of worship, mission, education, and fellowship to discover how we can reach beyond the usual boundaries to become the Beloved Community we were meant to be!
Registration fee: $175/person ($75 for APCE Members & UMC Commissioned Parish Christian Educators)
Recommended for Christian educators, clergy, and other church leaders.
Qualifies for 1.7 Clergy CEUs
Led by the Reverend Dr. Whitney Bodman, associate professor of comparative religion
Date: October 28
Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. (lunch served)
Cost: Free
Location: First Presbyterian Church
215 Locust Street Northeast | Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102
We will examine Bibles, Torahs, Qur’ans, and other texts to explore the basic question of what a scripture is. We use scripture all the time as pastors and teachers, but observation of a scripture as a physical object, compared to other scriptures, tells us much about our assumptions about what we are doing and how we are doing it. This will be a hands-on interaction.
Led by the Reverend Dr. Whitney Bodman, associate professor of comparative religion
Date: October 28
Time: 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Cost: Free
Location: First Presbyterian Church
215 Locust Street Northeast | Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102
In two presentations we will examine the basics of the Islamic tradition: Muhammad, the Qur’an, and the roots of Islamic law. In the second presentation we will look at modern Islam in its great diversity, from feminist movements to radical and violent expressions.