2009 Student Ministry Conference

Great news! The 5th Annual 2009 Student Ministry Conference is coming to Swift Hall on May 1st and 2nd:

From the Ends of the Earth:

Christianity in the 21st Century

Christianity is no longer a religion dominated by the West. It is estimated that by 2050, two-thirds of the world's then three billion Christians will be of non-European descent. The implications of such statistics require focused attention as we move into the 21st century. With this conference we hope to address issues that arise from these transformations in Christianity.

How will the co-incidence of the post-colony with the failures of nationalism influence new forms of Christian leadership? How, in turn, will developing practices of Christian organization demand and resist new approaches to cooperation and unity? Finally, how do these things influence and even produce new self-understanding for the Church in America? While building on important efforts of social scientists and missiologists, the 5th Annual Ministry Conference of the University of Chicago Divinity School will approach these topics with specifically ministerial and ecclesiological lenses. This conference seeks (1) to help deepen understanding among ministers, students and lay-persons as well as professional academics of certain realities and potential futures of being Christian around the world and (2) to equip the same with resources for engaging the issues of the conference further.

The conferece features: Dr. Kwok Pui Lan, William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality at Episcopal Divinity School; Dr. Dwight N. Hopkins, Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School; Dr. Soong-Chan Rah, Assistant Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism at Northpark Theological Seminary; and Dr. Betta Mengistu, founding member of Beza International Ministries in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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