Mid-Winter Convocation

Engaging Scripture in a Community of Faith with Heart, Mind and Spirit

Jan. 13-15, 2010
Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn.

Convocation Schedule

All worship services, plenary sessions, the forum and Thursday evening concert will take place in the Chapel of the Incarnation in the Olson Campus Center. When you arrive and receive your welcome packet, it will contain information on workshop locations.

Wednesday, January 13
9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Registration, Check-In, Resource Fair - Olson Campus Center
10 a.m. Chapel Service with Holy Communion
Mary Hinkle Shore, presiding
11:15 a.m. Greeting: Richard Bliese, Seminary President
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Keynote: Mark Allan Powell
"The Promise and Peril of Polyvalence"
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 - 1:45 p.m. Gathering Music
1:45 - 2:45 p.m. Keynote: Mike Householder
"Watering the World: Biblical Fluency & Hundredfold Returns"
2:45 - 3:15 p.m. Break
3:15 - 4:30 p.m. Workshops
4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Resource Fair
4:45 - 5:30 p.m. Live Sermon Brainwave Podcast Recording with David Lose, Karoline Lewis and Matt Skinner
5:30 - 6:30 p.m. Dinner Buffet (ticket required)
7 p.m. Evening Entertainment
Robert Robinson
Thursday, January 14
7:30 - 8:45 a.m. Seminary Relations Breakfast (ticket required)
8 a.m. Registration Desk and Resource Fair Open - Olson Campus Center
9 a.m. Keynote: Mary Hinkle Shore
"Worship as Welcome into Scripture's Story"
10 a.m. Chapel Service
Mike Householder, presiding
10:30 - 11 a.m. Break
11 a.m. - Noon Faithfulness in Ministry Cross Awards
followed by Seminary President's Corner
Noon - 1 p.m. Lunch
1:15 - 2:30 p.m. Workshops
2:30 - 3 p.m. Break
3 - 4 p.m. Keynote: Mark Allan Powell
"Word of God as Transforming Power: The Potential for Scripture to Shape Communities and Change Lives"
4 - 4:30 p.m. EntertheBible.org Demonstration
5 - 6 p.m. Reception
6 p.m. Reunion Dinners
1964, 1965, 1984, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2009, all M.A. graduates
Friday, January 15
7:30 - 8:30 a.m. Book of Faith Breakfast (ticket required)
9 - 10 a.m. Panel Discussion with Mark Allan Powell, Mike Householder and Mary Hinkle Shore, moderated by David Lose
10 a.m. Chapel Service with Holy Communion
Roland Martinson, Academic Dean, presiding
11 a.m. Lunch