PaCT Events
Celebrating Our Faith: Third National Seminar on Word and Music in Worship
From Friday 16 October 2009 to Sunday 18 October 2009, the Wesley Music Centre will be holding a conference intended for worship leaders, musicians, ministers and pastors, theological students and the ecumenical community. PaCT is sponsering this event, which will be held at Welsey Uniting Church and Wesley Music Centre at 20-22 National Circuit in Forrest, ACT. The event will include three outstanding international speakers:
John Bell, Iona Community, Scotland
Colin Gibson, a leading New Zealand author and composer of songs and hymns
Michael Hawn, Professor of Church Music, Perkins School of Theology, Dallas, and leader in world Christian music
plus six specialist facilitators.
During six plenary sessions and ten elective sessions, they will explore and lead discussion on contemporary issues and challenges in 21st century approachesto word and music in Christian worship. Topics will include thought prvoking themes such as "Public liturgy in a privatised society", "Songs of justice: futile or fertile?", "Recovering the voice of the people", "In search of beauty...and justice", "Constructing sermonless worship," "Singing global faith in local places" and "Make room for comedy: the case for laughable hymns".
There will also be very practical sessions for leaders and participants in worship on "Intergenerational worship", "Using technology in worship", "Contemporary Australian songs", "Contemporary acoustic intrumental music", "singing and music for non-singers", "Contemporary Australian choral music" and "Resourcing and enlivining worship in small congregations".
Early bird prices apply for those who register before 31 August 2009. For registration forms, or for program or speaker information, please visit the Wesley Music Centre website at www.wesleycanberra.org.au/music
If you have any other enquiries about this event, please contact the Wesley Music Centre;
Postal address: 20 National Cct, Forrest ACT 2603
Email: wesleymc@bigpond.net.au
Phone: (02) 6232 7248
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"Christian Mission in the Public Square" conference
About a hundred reflective-practitioners of mission met for a conference on "Christian Mission in the Public Square" at the Australian Centre for Christianity & Culture (ACC&C) in Canberra from 2 to 5 October 2008.
Nearly forty papers were given, from all streams of mission studies, including public theology, global mission, mission history, contextual mission and congregational mission. A special mission history stream continued the tradition of previous missionary history conferences run by Ian Welch at the Australian National University . Selected papers will be published in the Australian Journal of Mission Studies (if submitted).
The keynote speaker was Professor Nico Koopman, Director of the Beyers Naudé Centre for Public Theology in the Faculty of Theology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa, and a key player in the Global Public Theology Network.
The former governor of Western Australia and former head of the Australian Army, Lt-General John Sanderson, addressed the conference dinner on indigenous affairs, in which he is actively engaged encouraging spirituality and reconciliation through dialogue.
AAMS and PaCT were very grateful to the following financial sponsors of the conference:
- Australian Catholic Bishops Conference
- Board of Mission, Uniting Church in NSW/ACT
- Catholic Mission, Melbourne
- Columban Mission Society in Australia
- Divine Word Missionaries in Australia
- Charles Sturt University (through PaCT)
Read Papers given at the "Christian Mission in the Public Square" conference here
See photos from the "Christian Mission in the Public Square" conference in the gallery of the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture website
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