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["Matthew Davies" <mdavies@episcopalchurch.org>]

Daybook, from Episcopal News Service

August 23, 2005 -- Tuesday: To Note

Transforming the world is focus of WCC events

[ENS, Source: WCC] -- Transforming the world will be the focus of two
October conferences organized by the U.S. office of the World Council of
Churches (WCC), an ecumenical organization with 34 member churches in
the
United States -- including the Episcopal Church -- and more than 340
worldwide.

"Shift your space -- transform the world: young adults connecting
ecumenically for peace and justice," which will be held October 8-10 in
Hyde
Park, Chicago, is an event for young adult leaders in peace and justice
work
which will "provide opportunities to draw on the strength of the unity
of
the church by building ecumenical connections."

Seminarians, students and youth delegates to the WCC's 9th Assembly,
which
will meet in Porto Alegre, Brazil, February 14-23, 2006 "will find links
between their peace and justice work and the World Council of Churches,
and
engage with the vision for peace promoted by the initiative, 'Decade to
Overcome Violence: Churches Seeking Reconciliation & Peace 2001-2010
(DOV).'"

Activities will include participation in local peace and justice
projects,
including an action with the Chicago chapter of the National Interfaith
Committee for Worker Justice. There will be time for sharing resources,
and
space for theological reflection with peace and justice leaders in the
WCC
and member communions. In addition, attendees will participate in a
visioning process with members of the U.S. Decade to Overcome Violence
Committee to determine how the committee can best support young adults
in
ecumenical peace and justice work.

Hyde Park is home to the University of Chicago Divinity School, the
Lutheran
School of Theology at Chicago, McCormick Theological Seminary and
others.
"Seminarians are at the forefront of innovative peace and justice work,"
says Jenny Phillips, U.S. Decade to Overcome Violence program assistant
and
coordinator of this event. "We look forward to the wisdom and insight
Chicago seminarians can share."

"Shift your space - transform the world" will overlap with the annual
meeting of the U.S. Conference for the World Council of Churches and the
WCC
Ninth Assembly Pre-Event, which will be held October 10-12, 2005 at the
O'Hare Crown Plaza Hotel in Chicago. The morning of Monday, October 10,
will
be used to prepare a young adult presentation for the annual meeting
plenary
to be held that evening.

Young adults are invited to stay and participate in the annual meeting
for
as long or as little as they like. "The Ninth Assembly of the World
Council
of Churches has been deemed 'the youth assembly' by general secretary,
Dr.
Sam Kobia," says Rev. Deborah DeWinter, WCC program executive for the
United
States. "We are excited for the wisdom and passion U.S. young adults
will
bring to the U.S. Annual Meeting and 9th Assembly Pre-Event."

"Shift your space - transform the world" will cost $75 for the event,
food
and hostel-style lodging at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Youth
Center. For those who live in the area or prefer to secure other
lodging,
the event will cost $35, including lunch and dinner on Saturday and
Sunday.

Further information and registration details can be found online at:
http://www.wcc-usa.org.

The registration deadline is Friday, September 16, 2005.

If you have questions, or would like to receive information about future
US
DOV young adult events, email Jenny Phillips, US DOV Program Assistant
at
us-dov@wcc-coe.org.

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