The 2008 Southeastern Regional Emergent Conference

“A Sustainable Faith: A Simpler Way to Do Faith, Spirituality, and Life”

Friday:

7.30pm – 10.30pm Kickoff Celebrations:

Option #1

Uptown Bar

658 Central Ave. St. Petersburg, FL

-    COST: $3
-    Featuring music from Preson Phillips (Worship Indie Rock), The Refuge Collective (Experimental Alternative Rock), Odon Soterias (Medieval Celtic), and Here Lies Ben (Southern Punk)
-   Informal Discussion
-   General Emergent Information
-   Optional donation
-   Registration

Option #2

Shuffle Board (No seriously, Shuffleboard)

559 Mirror Lake Drive North downtown St. Petersburg

It's a bit tricky so follow these directions:
http://www.shuffleboardclub.org/directions.htm

-    COST: FREE
-    BYOB
-    Live Music is likely
-   Informal Discussion
-   General Emergent Information
-   Optional donation
-   Registration

Saturday:

8:30 – 9:30 am Registration; Prayer Room open

9:30 – 9:45 am Morning Prayer

9:45 – 11:15 am Welcoming Session
-   Rick Bennett on Emergent and the importance of sustainability in its many varieties
-   Music with Christopher Dixon
-   Keynote - Tim Keel – Sustainable Leadership

11:30 – 12:30 pm Breakout Sessions 1
-   Brian Sanders - Importance of Biblical Community in Living a Sustainable Faith
-   Frank Valdez – Contra Mundum: The Church as the Community of Resistance
-   Bruce Wright – A Movement of the Poor: Justice, Community, and Peace Led By and From the Point of View of the Poor
-   Rodney Shores - Sustainable Worship: Finding Context within the Story of God
-    Geoff Kohler – Simplicity Through Obedience

12:30 – 2:30 pm Lunch/Reflection Time
-    Spencer Burke - “Out of the Ooze” Luncheon 12:45-2:00 (Cost: $10)

2:30 – 2:45 pm Afternoon Prayer

2:45 – 4:15 pm Afternoon Session
-   Stories from Journey – Danielle Shroyer
-   Music with Preson Phillips
-   Keynote - Frank Viola - Reconceiving Church: Living Out a Narrative Ecclesiology Rooted in the Triune God

4:30 – 5:30 pm Breakout Sessions 2
-    Cozy Dixon – Sustainable Relationships
-   Matthew Huett - Sustainable Prayer: Lectio Divina as a Spiritual Grid for a Post-Modern/Post-Colonial Context
-   Rick Bennett – Is the Emergent Church Sustainable?
-   Chris Haw - Practicing Resurrection (and Sociological Consciousness and Israeli Identity) in Urban Wastelands
-   Danielle Shroyer - Sustaining Sabbath

5:30 – 7:30 pm Dinner/Community Interactivity

7:30 – 7:45 pm Evening Prayer

7:45 – 9:00 pm Interactive Night Session
-   Stories from Camden House – Chris Haw
-   Music with Odon Soterias
-   Panel Discussion: Sustainable Living in the Christian Community with Tim Keel, Troy Bronsink, Danielle Shroyer, Chris Haw, and Frank Viola
-   Prayer Room closed

Sunday:

1:00 – 2:30 pm Opening Session
-   Stories from Southeast Emergent – Troy Bronsink
-   Music with Roger Sullins
-   Keynote – Shane Claiborne - Another Way of Doing Life

2:45 – 3:30 pm Breakout Sessions 3
-   Tim Keel - TBA
-   Frank Viola - TBA
-   Billy Daniel - Eschatological Economics: Trinity, Liturgy and Capitalism
-   Troy Bronsink - Adaptive Re-Use: Using Everything We've Left Behind
-   Odon Soterias – Living Eden: A Theology of Cosmic Salvation

3:45 – 5:30 pm Closing Session
-   Stories from Jacob’s Well – Tim Keel
-   Keynote – Shane Claiborne - Big Beasts and Little Prophets
-   Music with Odon Soterias
-   Prayer Room closed