rethinking evangelism: Faithful witness in a new apostolic era

July 22-24, 2013
Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minn.

Schedule

All worship services and plenary sessions will take place in the Chapel of the Incarnation in the Olson Campus Center.

Monday, July 22

9:30 a.m.
Registration open
10 a.m.
 Orientation for small-group facilitators
11:30 a.m.
 Lunch (included)
12:30 p.m.
 Welcome: Mary Sue Dreier and Dwight Zscheile
SESSION 1  
12:45 p.m.

Introduction and Explanation of Process, Rolf Jacobson
1 p.m.
 Dwight Zscheile: "Evangelism after Establishment: Joining God in the Neighborhood"
1:35 p.m.
 Participant Reflection
1:40 p.m.
 Observations, Rolf Jacobson
1:45 p.m.
 Mesfin Ayele: "A Perspective of the Global South: Holistic Evangelism and the Priesthood of All Believers"
2:20 p.m.
 Participant Reflection
2:25 p.m.

Observations, Rolf Jacobson
2:30 p.m. Break
3 p.m. Nadia Bolz-Weber: "Evangelism—I Have No Strategy for You ... But I Have Some Pretty Good Stories to Tell"
3:35 p.m. Participant Reflection
3:40 p.m. Observations, Rolf Jacobson
3:45 p.m. Guided Inquiry, Ideas and Insights Capture on TodaysMeet
4:45 p.m. Networking Reception
6 p.m Dinner (on your own)

Tuesday, July 23

SESSION 2  
8:30 a.m. Summarize and Transition, Rolf Jacobson
8:45 a.m. Bryan Stone: "Beauty Will Save the World: Toward a Christian Aesthetics of Evangelism"
9:20 a.m.
 Participant Reflection
9:25 a.m.
 Observations, Rolf Jacobson
9:30 a.m.

Stephanie Spellers: "The Secret of Evangelism Is ... Shhh—Listening for the Gospel on Your Margins"
10:05 a.m.
 Participant Reflection
10:10 a.m.
 Observations, Rolf Jacobson
10:15 a.m.
 Break
10:45 a.m.
 Walter Sundberg: "Toward a Theology of Conversion"
11:20 a.m.
 Participant Reflection
11:25 a.m.
 Observations, Rolf Jacobson
11:30 a.m.
 Guided Inquiry, Ideas and Insights Captured on TodaysMeet
12:30 p.m. Lunch (included)
SESSION 3  
1:30 p.m. Worship
2 p.m. Rolf Jacobson, Summarize and Transition
2:10 p.m. Jannie Swart: "E-A-R-S FOR JESUS—Learning to Find the Other Hospitable"
2:45 p.m. Participant Reflection
2:50 p.m.

Observations, Rolf Jacobson
2:55 p.m. Break
4 p.m. Participant Reflection
4:05 p.m. Observations, Rolf Jacobson
4:10 p.m. Guided Inquiry, Ideas and Insights Captured on TodaysMeet
5 p.m. End of Day

Wednesday, July 24

SESSION 4  
8:30 a.m. Summarize and Transition, Rolf Jacobson
8:45 a.m.
 Mary Sue Dreier, "'You Change Me!' The Unlikely Evangelism of a Lutheran Pastor"
9:20 a.m.
 Participant Reflection
9:25 a.m.
 Observations, Rolf Jacobson
9:30 a.m. Mike Housholder: "Ready, Set ... Whoa! Evangelism Hurdles We Trip On & How to Get Back in the Race"
10:05 a.m. Participant Reflection
10:10 a.m. Observations, Rolf Jacobson
10:15 a.m. Break
10:35 a.m. Ruben Duran: "Good News from Samaria
11:10 a.m. Participant Reflection
11:15 a.m. Observations, Rolf Jacobson
11:30 a.m. Closing Worship
Noon Lunch to Go/End of Day