wfn.org | BPFNA Summer Conference news release

[bpfna@primeline.com (Baptist Peace Fellowship)]

July 7, 1998
For more information contact:
Ken Sehested, Executive Director, or David Teague, Associate Editor
Phone: 704/456-1881
Fax: 704/456-1883
Internet: bpfna@primeline.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BPFNA announces dates, speakers for conference

Lake Junaluska, N.C.-"Proclaim Jubilee: Scripture's vision for the healing
of creation and all that dwell therein" is the theme of the 13th annual
gathering of the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America, July 27-August
1, at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana.
A festival of music, preaching, study and recreation, the conference will
focus on the biblical theme of Jubilee, rediscovering the Baptist heritage
of peacemaking, and exploring Earlham College's Quaker roots. Preaching
will be led by Bob Hunter, an adjunct professor in Religion and African
American Studies at Earlham College. Sharon Ringe, professor of New
Testament at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. will lead
daily Bible study. Music will be led by Andrew Donaldson, music director of
Beaches Presbyterian Church, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and Luis N.
Rivera-Pagán, professor of humanities at the University of Puerto Rico,
will be plenary speaker.
The conference will include special programming for children and youth, in
addition to a variety of seminars, field trips and special musical events.
For more information, contact: BPFNA, P.O. Box 280, Lake Junaluska, N.C.
28745; phone, 828/456-1881; fax, 828/456-1883; or e-mail,
bpfna@primeline.com.

Founded in 1984, the BPFNA is a network linking Baptists involved in
justice and peace issues throughout North America. Its board of directors
is composed of members affiliated with 12 Baptist conventions and five
racial/ethnic groups in Canada, the U.S., Puerto Rico and Mexico. The
organization has no official sponsorship of any convention. Its primary
purpose is to encourage greater Baptist involvement-at local, national and
international levels-in justice and peace concerns and to help clarify
understanding of such involvement as essential to Christian discipleship.