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10-February-2000 
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    Montreat to Host Annual Recreation Workshop 
 
    47th annual fete to feature famous clown Albert Alter 
 
    by Emily Enders Odom 
    Montreat Conference Center 
 
MONTREAT, N.C. - The clowns are back in town! 
 
    Each May, the Montreat Conference Center flings open its portals to 
welcome a host of clowns and cloggers, mimes and music-makers, potters and 
pastors for a week of high-energy training in recreation leadership.  Now 
in its 47th year at Montreat Conference Center, the Annual Recreation 
Workshop - a hands and feet-on training event for all leaders of the church 
who want to incorporate recreation into their ministry - will take place 
May 8-13. 
 
    The highlight of this year's annual workshop will be a pre-conference 
event featuring the gifts of Albert Alter, an internationally-acclaimed 
entertainer, clown, mime and physical comedian.  Alter will also be on hand 
throughout the week to offer courses in both beginning and advanced 
clowning. 
 
    "After 46 years," noted Glenn Bannerman, professor emeritus of 
recreational and outdoor ministry at Union Theological 
Seminary-Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Va., and a 
conference leader, "the Annual Recreation Workshop is still on the cutting 
edge of church recreation.  There isn't another conference that helps 
individuals explore and experience play, worship, spirituality, creative 
expression and rejoicing the way ARW does." 
 
    Course offerings by the country's leading recreation leadership 
specialists will address such creative topics as "Dulcimer Making," "Holy 
Motion," "Papercrafts," "Popcorn and Theology! Life, Faith and Fun at the 
Movies!" and "Recreation with Dance, Music and Movement." 
 
    More information is available by contacting registrar Kathy Emerson at 
(803) 328-2764 or by e-mail at <hemerson@infoave.net>; Montreat at 
1-800-572-2257, ext. 335; or the Annual Recreation Workshop Web site at 
www.recreationworkshop.org.   

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