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

Daybook, Episcopal News Service

October 11, 2005 - Tuesday to Note & To Read

Black congregational development conference set for November 13-18 at
Kanuga

[Episcopal News Service] Clergy and laity interested in models and
resources
for Black congregational development in the Episcopal Church will gather
November 13-18 at Kanuga Conference Center in Hendersonville, North
Carolina, for Transformation & Renewal IV.

Meeting under the theme "Behold a New Thing -- Challenges and
Opportunities," the conference will hold a variety of workshops,
lectures,
daily Bible study, networking opportunities, and a chance for relaxation
and
reflection.

Co-sponsored by Kanuga, the Episcopal Church's Office of Black
Ministries
and the Union of Black Episcopalians (UBE), Transformation & Renewal IV
aims
to inspire, encourage and transform clergy and lay people to "embrace a
vision, stay on mission and be assured that God is in the midst of it
all."

This year's keynote speakers will be the Rev. Dr. Renita J. Weems,
author
and speaker who served as the William and Camille Cosby Visiting
Professor
of Humanities from 2003-2005 at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia; and
the
Rev. Dr. Grainger Browning Jr., senior pastor of Ebenezer A.M.E. Church,
Fort Washington, Maryland, who transformed a congregation of 17 into
more
than 10,000.

The Rev. Karen B. Montagno, dean of students at Episcopal Divinity
School,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Rev. Nelson Pinder of Orlando,
Florida,
president of the UBE, will serve as conference chaplains. Dr. Horace
Clarence Boyer, general editor of Lift Every Voice and Sing II, will
lead
the music for the conference. Featured performers will include the Jazz
Mass
Quartet of St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, Raleigh, North Carolina, and
Trinity Hip Hop Mass, of Trinity Church of Morrisania, Bronx, New York.

Development workshops will focus on five areas:

* Visioning and Appreciative Inquiry (how organizations change by
seeking
and appreciating what is best in themselves, their people and their
setting)

* Mission and mobilization
* Understanding the Percept tools
* Christian hospitality
* Evangelism: Christian formation, spirituality, discipleship training.
Registration information is essential for this area of the workshop.

For additional information and registration visit http://www.kanuga.org

Note: The following title is available from the Episcopal Book/Resource
Center, 815 Second Ave., New York, NY 10017; 800.334.7626;
http://www.episcopalbookstore.org/

To read: WHERE THE EDGE GATHERS: Building a Community of Radical
Inclusion
by Yvette A. Flunder (The Pilgrim Press, Cleveland, Ohio, 2005, 144
pages,
$23.)

>From the publisher: In Where the Edge Gathers, Flunder uses examples of
persons most marginalized by church and society to illustrate the use of
"village ethics" - knowing where the boundaries are when all things are
exposed - and "village theology" - giving everyone a seat at the central
meeting place or welcome table.

Yvette A. Flunder, an inner-city pastor for 20 years, is senior pastor
of
City of Refuge United Church of Christ in San Francisco, California. She
received her M. Div from Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley,
California
and her D. Min from San Francisco Theological Seminary. Flunder is also
a
renowned gospel recording artist.

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