Future and Current
Canada: Ontario, Toronto, 13-16 May 2008: Refresh!
This annual continuing education conference will take place at Wycliffe College, Toronto.
USA: New York, Crestwood, 4-8 June 2008: Rome,
Constantinople and Canterbury: Mother Churches?
'The Fellowship of St Alban and St Sergius, founded in 1928, exists to work and pray for greater
understanding and cooperation between Christians, particularly Anglican and Orthodox. This conference is open to the public and anyone
interested may register; however, registration and accommodation are limited.' Hosted by St Vladimir's
Seminary.
USA: Maryland, Baltimore, 5-8 June 2008: Everyone
Everywhere
'Everyone, Everywhere is a conference for parishes, dioceses, individuals, and groups active in the global mission of The Episcopal Church.
The event is for people committed to building and maintaining companion relationships with our brothers and sisters in Christ around
the world.'
USA: New York, Vestal, 22-27 June 2008: Finger
Lakes Conference: Endings and Beginnings
'Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, General Lecturer, will lead participants through the process of celebration, reunion, and closure at the
final presentation and gathering of the wonderful community that, for the past 70 years, has been known as Finger Lakes Conference.'
USA: Minnesota, Minneapolis, 23-26 June 2008: Vision and Vitality: Ordained
Ministry in the 21st Century
'Confirmed speakers include the Right Reverend Sean W. Rowe, Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania and the Right Reverend James E. Waggoner,
Bishop of Spokane. In addition representatives from the Episcopal Church Center and the Church Pension Fund will lead workshops and make
presentations for the conference participants.' This is the 38th annual conference of the National Network
of Episcopal Clergy Associations.
USA: Oregon, Portland, 18-20, 23-27 June 2008: Summer
Seminars
'This year the Center [for Spiritual Development at Trinity Cathedral, Portland] offers two Summer Seminars, back-to-back: a three-day
seminar with Martin Marty and Peter Marty and a week-long seminar on Jesus and Christian Formation today with Marcus Borg and John Dominic
Crossan.'
Canada: Quebec, Montreal, 25-29 June 2008: Biennial
Anglican Lutheran Worship Conference
The next biennial Worship Conference of the Lutheran and Anglican Churches of Canada will take place in Montreal. Watch the dedicated
conference website for more information.
United Kingdom: Hoddesden, 8-11 July 2008: Saving
the Soul of Anglicanism: The Nature and Future of the Anglican Communion
The Modern Churchpeople's Union's 2008 conference will feature speeches by leaders from Botswana, England, Ireland and the United States.
Australia: Canberra, 27, 28, 29 August 2008: Third Australian National
University Missionary History Conference
'The theme for 2008 is the history of missionary language learning, particularly
in the 19th century. Participants are invited to share their knowledge of ways in which missionaries went about learning the languages
of the peoples among whom they worked. Papers on mission language policy in areas such as Curriculum, Examination, Translation, Romanization,
Publishing and related issues, are among the papers sought for this conference. An important strand will be identifying how individual
missionaries reported their language learning experiences. This is not a conference focussed on linguistics or related issues but upon
the practical issues of language learning in the Asia-Pacific region.' Direct inquiries to Dr Ian Welch, Convenor, ANU Missionary History
Conference, at ian.welch@anu.edu.au.
USA: Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, 2008: Celebrate
250
'Celebrate 250 is an initiat[i]ve of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh celebrating with Pittsburgh
250: Imagine! A full-featured website celebrating 250 years of Anglican Roots and the Flowering of Christianity in Southwestern Pennsy[l]vania
is slated for launch in Fall of 2007.'
UK: 2008: Hope 2008
'Churches across the United Kingdom are constantly at work serving and communicating with 58 Million residents and many visitors to the
United Kingdom. 'Hope' proposes to support this work, by facilitating intensified, united, focused prayer and a year of activities,
communicating the Gospel through words and actions, creating a lasting legacy of both physical and spiritual change in the lives
of communities and individuals.'
Canada: Diocese of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island: 2010
Celebration
'the 300th Anniversary of the first B.C.P. service held in Canada. The exact date was October 10th, 1710, at Port Royal in Annapolis
Royal. We also celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the opening of the Cathedral Church of All Saints, on September 10th., 1910. Our theme
is "A journey Just Begun" from the Common Praise song 'She Flies on." 2010 Anniversary events will take place during the
time leading up to the October 2010 celebration.' |
