Program
Conference Schedule
July 28-31, 2010
Wednesday, July 28
3:00 p.m. Registration (Waltner Hall, Main Entrance)
5:00 p.m. Dinner in Local Restaurants
6:45 p.m. Hymn Sing (Chapel of the Sermon on the Mount)
7:30 Opening Worship (Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary)
- Welcome and Introduction to the Conference
- Sermon by Mary Jo Leddy, Romero House Community and Regis College
9:00 Refreshments (Courtyard & Student Lounge)
Thursday, July 29 - Theological, Ethical, Ecclesiological Foundations
7:00 a.m. Breakfast (Lambright Center, Dining Hall)
8:00 Morning Prayer (Chapel of the Sermon on the Mount)
8:30 Opening Panel – Alternative Approaches to Christians and War*
- Rita Nakashima Brock, Faith Voices for the Common Good
- Philip LeMasters, McMurray University
9:30 Large Group Response
10:00 Break (Courtyard and Student Lounge)
10:15 Second Panel – Just War and Pacifism in Dialogue*
- Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University
- Gerard Powers, University of Notre Dame
- Moderated Discussion
11:45 Large Group Response
12:30 Lunch (Lambright Center Dining Hall) - Lunch Meetings & Locations, TBA
2:00 p.m. Decade to Overcome Violence & International Ecumenical Peace Convocation*
- Guillermo Kerber, World Council of Churches
- Kent Yoder, former staff of the Decade to Overcome Violence
3:00 Large Group Responses
3:30 Break (Courtyard & Student Lounge)
4:00 Discernment Session: Practices of unity for peace*
- Dick Hamm, Christian Churches Together in the USA
- Reflection from Listening Committee
- Large and Small Group Discussion
6:00 Dinner (Lambright Center Dining Hall)
7:00 Bus Departure for Evening Worship (Entrance of Lambright Hall)
7:30 Evening Worship (First Presbyterian Church)
- Sermon by Itonde Kakoma, Wartburg Theological Seminary
9:00 Refreshments (First Presbyterian Church of Elkhart)
9:30 Buses return to AMBS and Courtyard Suites
Friday, July 30 – Wrestling with Faithfulness in Peacemaking
7:00 a.m. Breakfast (Lambright Center Dining Hall)
8:00 Morning Prayer (Chapel of the Sermon on the Mount)
8:30 Concurrent Sessions (Locations, TBA)
- Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women – Gail Allan
- Eucharist & Peacemaking - Weldon Nisly & Alex Patico
- Forgiveness, Reconciliation & Accountability – Rodney Peterson, Itonde Kakoma, Michael Eastridge & Dan Philpott
- Just Peacemaking – Glen Stassen & Theodore Koontz
- Just Policing – Gerald Schlabach, Andy Alexis-Baker
- Military Chaplaincy – Herm Keizer & Andre Gingerich Stoner
- Nationalism and Idolatry – Craig Watts & Richard Hughes
- Nuclear Weapons – Margaret Pfeil & Tyler Wigg-Stevenson
- Responsibility to Protect – Ernie Regehr & Carol Rose
- Selective Conscientious Objection – Mark Johnson & Logan Mehl-Laituri
9:30 Break (Student Lounge)
9:40 Concurrent Sessions Continued - World Café Discussions
10:40 Break (Student Lounge)
10:50 Concurrent Sessions Continued - Group Discussion
11:30 a.m. Break (Student Lounge)
12:00 p.m. Lunch (Lambright Center, Dining Hall)
2:00 New Views – Visions for Peacemaking in North America*
- Brian McLaren, Author of A New Kind of Christianity
- Paul Alexander, Co-founder of Pentecostals & Charismatics for Peace & Justice
3:00 Large Group Response
3:30 Break (Courtyard & Student Lounge)
4:00 Discernment: Practices that challenge unity for peace*
- Dick Hamm, Christian Churches Together in the USA
- Conference Listening Committee
- Large and Small Group Discussion
5:30 Banquet - Ted & Company “I’d Like to Buy an Enemy” (Lambright Center, Dining Hall)
7:30 Evening Worship (St. Vincent DePaul Catholic Church of Elkhart)
- Sermon by Bogdan Bucur, Duquesene University
9:00 Refreshments (St. Vincent DePaul Catholic Church of Elkhart)
9:30 Buses return to AMBS and Courtyard Suites
10:00 Optional Film Viewing – Soldiers of Conscience (Student Lounge)
Saturday, July 31 – Our Future Work Together
7:00 a.m. Breakfast (Lambright Center, Dining Hall)
8:00 Morning Prayer (Chapel of the Sermon on the Mount)
8:30 Domestic and International Peacemaking in Perspective* - Jarrod McKenna, Anabaptist Network of Australia - Linda Gehman Peachey, Mennonite Central Committee
9:30 Large Group Response
9:50 Introduce Working Sessions
10:00 Break (Courtyard & Student Lounge)
10:30 Working Sessions (Locations, TBA)
– Christian Understanding of War in an Age of Terror(ism): NCCC study document - Michael Trice & Rich Meyer – Global Ecumenical Peace Network - Tim Seidel & Focus Group – North American Ecumenical Peace Center - Alex Patico & Focus Group – Peace Dialogue - John Rempel - Report from the Truth Commission on Conscience in War - Rita Nakashima Brock - Responses to the IEPC Just Peace Declaration - Scott Holland - US Nuclear Weapons: Are Churches Making a Different? - David Culp & Jonathan Frerichs
12:30 p.m. Lunch (Lambright Center, Dining Hall)
1:30 Working Sessions Continued
3:30 Break (Courtyard & Student Lounge)
4:00 Discernment: Where do we go from here?*
- Dick Hamm, Christian Churches Together in the USA
- Conference Listening Committee
- Reports from Working Sessions
- Large Group Discussion
6:00 Dinner (Lambright Center, Dining Hall)
7:30 Worship (St. James A.M.E. Church of Elkhart)
- Sermon by Andre Gingerich Stoner, Mennonite Church USA
9:00 Refreshments (St. James A.M.E. Church of Elkhart)
9:30 Buses return to AMBS and Courtyard Suites
Sunday, August 1
Worship in Local Congregations
*Will take place at AMBS in the Chapel of the Sermon on the Mount
Program schedule