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14-January-1999 
99013 
 
    Registration Nears For Regional 
    Global Mission Conferences 
 
    by Jerry L. Van Marter 
 
LOUISVILLE, Ky.--Registration will begin soon for three regional global 
mission conferences that will be sponsored by the Worldwide Ministries 
Division next fall. 
 
    Entitled "Congregations in Global Mission: Stepping into God's Future," 
the conferences are designed to equip congregations to engage in global 
mission. They are building on the success of a national conference on 
congregational involvement in global mission held a year ago in St. Louis. 
 
    The conferences will be held Oct. 21-24 in Seattle, Oct. 28-31 in 
Houston and Nov. 4-7 in Falls Church, Va. 
 
    "Increasing numbers of congregations are seeking to make a difference 
through mission engagement that is global as well as local," explained the 
Rev. Tricia Lloyd-Sidle, coordinator of conference planning.  "These 
conferences will put local church folks in touch with one another, with the 
resources of the connectional church and with the insights of Christian 
partners from around the world." 
 
    Each conference will include keynote speeches by Rodger Nishioka, 
coordinator for young adult ministries for the PC(USA), and Rev. Marian 
McClure, the WMD director, and a performance by Thuma Mina, the PC(USA)'s 
mission-themed theater troupe. 
 
    Each conference also will include an address by a mission professor 
from one of the PC(USA)'s theological institutions.  Participants in 
Seattle will hear the Rev. Philip Wickeri, professor of mission and 
evangelism at San Francisco Theological Seminary.  Houston conferees will 
hear from Rev. Sherron George, professor of evangelism and mission at 
Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.  Those in Falls Church will hear 
the Rev. Sam Moffett, professor emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary. 
 
    For more information about these conferences, call conference registrar 
Vennie Constant at (502) 569-5338, or by visiting the conference website at 
wmdconf@pcusa.org 

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