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I will be coming to Houston tomorrow for the Celebrating a Call to Lay Ministry Conference which begins Thursday evening and continues all day Friday. I will be speaking Friday on a nice non-controversial topic— ‘In Christ there is neither clergy nor laity’.   You are most welcome to come.     Here is the full conference schedule—

“Celebrating a Call to
Lay Ministry”

February 4 and 5, 2010

 

Department of
Spiritual Care & Education

The Methodist Hospital – Sponsor

 

St. Paul’s United
Methodist Church

Houston, TX – Host Church

 

 

Thursday, February 4, 2010

 

5:00pm –
6:00pm                 Conference
Registration 

 

                                                Conference
Book Room (closes 6:00pm)

 

6:00pm –
8:00pm                 “An Evening with
Kathleen Norris”

                                                   Dinner and Conversation

 

Welcome – Chaplain Ted M. Smith, Director, Spiritual Care
& Education,

The Methodist Hospital

            Greeting – Dr. L. James Bankston,
Senior Minister,    

St. Paul’s United Methodist Church

Dinner

            Poetry Reading by Ms. Norris

            Informal Conversation with Ms.
Norris

 

8:00pm –
8:30pm                 Book Room open

 

 

Friday, February 5, 2010

 

8:00am –
8:50am                 Conference
Registration

 

Continental Breakfast

 

                                                Book
Room (closes 8:50am)

 

9:00am –
9:10am                 Welcome and
Announcements – Chaplain Smith

                                               

9:10am –
10:00am               Ms. Kathleen Norris
“Story Telling as Witness”

 

10:00am –
10:10am                        Q and A
with Ms. Norris

 

10:10am –
10:30am                        Break /
Book Room open

                       

10:30am –
11: 20am           Dr. Ben Witherington

Laying
It on the Line: The Role of Laity in Ministry”

 

11:20am –
11:30am            Q and A with Dr.
Witherington

 

11:30am –
11:50am                        Book Room
open

 

Book Signing – Ms. Norris and Dr.
Witherington

 

 

12noon –
12:50am              Lunch

 

 

1:00pm –
1:50pm                 Ms. Norris – “Hope and Healing”

 

1:50pm –
2:00pm                 Q and A with Ms.
Norris

 

 

2:00pm –
2:20pm                 Break / Book Room
open

 

 

2:20pm –
3:10pm                 Rev. Vance
Ross 

“Ministry Of, By, and
For the People – In Jesus’ Name”

 

3:10pm –
3:20pm                 Q and A with Rev.
Ross

 

3:20pm –
3:25pm                 Concluding Remarks
– Chaplain Smith

 

3:35pm –
3:45pm                 Gather for Worship
– Sanctuary

 

3:45pm –
4:45pm                 Closing Worship
with Holy Communion

Ms. Leah Taylor, homilist

                                                            Mr.
Mark Edenfield, organist

                                                            Ms.
Dawn Uebelhart, soloist

 

4:45pm –
5:00pm                 Book Room open

 

5:00pm                                   Conference
Concludes

 

In addition I will be preaching Sunday morning at Rev. Steve Wende’s   First UMC Church in downtown Houston  on ‘Attempting to overcome A Tempting’— any one tempted to come?   The services are at 8:30 and 11 a.m.  Ya;ll come one down.

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