Healing the Brokenness: Shaping Communities of Peace and Reconciliation in Christ
HEALING THE BROKENNESS:
Shaping Communities of Peace & Reconciliation in Christ
Sept. 28 & 29, 2007
Brought to you by Duke Center for Reconciliation, Bellaire United Methodist Church
Mission Houston, and the 5th Ward Coalition of Churches
"Healing the Brokenness" is designed to encourage us in continuing the difficult work of becoming one as the people of God. Dr. Emmanuel Katongole and Rev. Chris Rice, co-directors of Center for Reconciliation at Duke Divinity School, will be speaking at a pastor's and lay leader's luncheon on Friday, Sept. 28, 2007, and leading a workshop on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007, for the purpose of assisting laity and clergy in the greater Houston area with naming, addressing and healing the personal, social and structural divisions that divide us as the people of God, including racial, economic, denominational, class and other social barriers.
"I pray also for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so that the world may believe that you have sent me..."
John 17: 20-21
PASTOR'S & LAY LEADER'S LUNCHEON
Friday, Sept. 28, 2007
11:30 AM - 1 PM
The Victuals
On the Pleasant Hill Campus
1510 Pannell Street, Houston, TX
Cost: $10*
"HEALING THE BROKENNESS" WORKSHOP
Saturday, Sept. 29, 2007
9:30 AM - 3 PM
Bellaire United Methodist Church
4417 Bellaire Blvd., Bellaire, TX 77401
Cost: $10* (Lunch included)
(Childcare available upon request with registration)
Cost for both the Luncheon and the Workshop: $15*
(*Scholarships are available.)
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Saturday Workshop Schedule
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM: Registration and Gathering
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM: Opening Session: Reconciliation: A Journey of Pain and Hope
- Chris Rice and Emmanuel Katongole will share stories of brokenness and transformation from Africa to inner city America and cast a vision of the call and journey of reconciliation in our time.
11:30 AM - 1 PM: Small Group Break-Out Session Over Lunch
- Sharing personal, social and church experiences of the need and challenges of reconciliation.
1 PM - 2:30 PM: Afternoon Session: "Reconciliation: Gift and Invitation"
- Gathering Group Reflections: Reconciliation, A Gift and an Invitation
- "Stories from the Trenches"
- The Duke Center for Reconciliation
2:30 PM - 3 PM: Closing: "Claiming the Vision through the Praise of God"
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| Emmanuel Katongole brings his experience of growing up in Africa under the brutal regime of Idi Amin, of the genocide in neighboring Rwanda, and his involvement in the dynamic and rich traditions of the African church. He is the co-director of the Center for Reconciliation, and serves as Associate Professor of Theology & World Christianity at Duke Divinity School. He is the author of A Future for Africa: Critical Essays in Christian Social Imagination. |  |
 | Chris Rice lived and worked for 17 years in an inner-city neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi with Voice of Calvary, an interracial church and Christian community-development ministry. He is co-author of More than Equals: Racial Healing for the Sake of the Gospel and author of Grace Matters, a memoir of his Mississippi journey. In 2004, Chris convened the track on Reconciliation at the 2004 Lausanne Forum on World Evangelization. |
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