wfn.org | MissionFest 97 to be featured at Denver Assembly

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August 22, 1996
Disciples News Service
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Contact: Clifford L. Willis
Cliff_Willis.parti@ecunet.org
     
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     INDIANAPOLIS (DNS) -- A new venture of the General
Assembly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Church) has
been named "MissionFest  97."  The festive exposition of
mission-in-action exhibits and presentations will be
launched at the 1997 Disciples biennial gathering in Denver,
Colo. July 25-29, 1997.  

     Every Disciples congregation will be invited to share,
through displays and demonstrations, the vital ways they are
giving life to the Mission Imperatives of the Christian
Church (Disciples of Christ) for 1996-2000. 

     Participants are expected to showcase such imperatives-related efforts as
reconciliation, compassion, unity and
justice ministries, while others may demonstrate their
outreach to children, youth and young adults.  Examples of
congregational renewal, evangelism and new congregation
establishment efforts are expected as well. 

     As its name implies, MissionFest  97 is being planned
as a celebratory event. It will take place in a festival
park atmosphere on Saturday and Sunday, July 26-27, from 2
p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Convention Center in Denver.  

     The new undertaking expands assembly educational
opportunities, which include workshops, interest groups and
forums.  Plans call for simultaneous scheduling of those
opportunities and MissionFest  97 activities to allow these
educational events to complement one another.   

     MissionFest  97 planners will convey detailed
invitations to all Disciples congregations in a September
1996 mailing. 

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