wfn.org | Christian educators plan national conference

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Sept. 3, 2002 News media contact: Kathy L. Gilbert7(615)742-54707Nashville,
Tenn.   10-71B{387}

By United Methodist News Service

The Christian Educators Fellowship will hold a national conference Oct. 3-7
in Norfolk, Va., featuring worship, workshops and resources for Sunday
school teachers, youth pastors, directors of children's ministries, program
directors, pastors and others. 

The fellowship is an organization for Christian educators in the United
Methodist Church. It is affiliated with the denomination's Board of
Discipleship, based in Nashville, Tenn.

"By Rivers of Living Water," is the theme for the event. Participants will
be able to choose from several mini-plenary sessions and multiple workshops.

A keynote speaker will be the Rev. Gary Gunderson, director of the
Interfaith Health Program of Emory School of Public Health and author of
Deeply Woven Roots and Playing to Our Strengths. He will lead a session on
"Drawing From Deep Wells: Leadership for Community Transformation." 

"Participants will explore the ways that the living water the world needs is
more likely to be found beneath us, deep in the 'aquifer' of meaning,
coherence and traditions that nurture mature faith," he said. 

Registration deadline is Sept. 10. For information on the conference,
contact the fellowship at (615) 749-6870 or go to www.cefumc.org online.
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