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General Assembly 2006
Witherspoon Events |
Witherspoon luncheon – we’ve added
more tickets, so just come on Sunday!
[6-16-06]The GA ticket office was telling
people yesterday that tickets were sold out for the Witherspoon Awards
Luncheon, which will be Sunday, June 18, at 12:30 in Sheraton Ballroom V and
IX (does it sound we’re divided??) .
Well, in the great Christian of hospitality, we’ve ordered
more places, so we will have more tickets available at the door on Sunday.
We hope you’ll come and find a place at the table!
The speaker will be the Rev. Eugenia A. Gamble, Writer in
Residence, Presbytery of Sheppards and Lapsley. Rev. Gamble’s featured
address is entitled "Embodying Love."
More about Eugenia Gamble >>
The Andrew Murray Award will be presented to Anne Bartow
and Tom Driver, in recognition of their strong roles in developing
accompaniment programs in Colombia, Haiti, and Central America.
The Whole Gospel Congregation Award will be presented to
First Presbyterian Church of Birmingham.
And – most exciting of all! – the Witherspoon
business meeting will follow the luncheon.
Ticket price: $35.00 |
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Witherspoon Society events at General Assembly
We hope you'll join us for any or
all of these events!
[2-24-06]
Wednesday, June 14, 1:00 to 4:00 pm
Semper Reformanda Pre-GA Conversation
(sponsored by the Witherspoon Society)
Speaker: Dr. Mark Lewis Taylor, Professor of Theology and
Culture, Princeton Theological Seminary
This conversation will look at the United States as
empire. This will be addressed in Dr. Taylor’s remarks and in looking at
the document, “Covenanting for Justice in the Economy and the Earth,”
adopted by the World Alliance of Reformed Churches in Accra, Ghana in
2004. Dr Taylor is author of the recent book,
Religion, Politics, and the
Christian Right: Post-9/11 Powers and American Empire.
First Presbyterian Church, 2100 4th Avenue North, about 5
blocks from the Convention Center.
Ticket price: $15.00
Wednesday, June 14, 8:30 to 10:30 pm (immediately following Covenant
Network dinner)
Witherspoon GA Issues Briefing
Speaker: Eugene Teselle, Witherspoon Society Issues Analyst,
and Friends.
This regular Witherspoon Society event for commissioners and
others provides a progressive look at the Assembly and the issues, ideas on
how to be an effective participant, and a chance to meet other progressives.
Location To be announced
Ticket price: $15.00
Saturday, June 17, 9:00 pm to 1:00 am
Witherspoon Party and Dance
Time for a break! This is a great chance to relax and
enjoy great music, dancing and conversation and also a good time to meet
others at the Assembly.
Sheraton Ballroom XII
Ticket price: $20.00
Sunday, June 18, 12:30 to 2:30 pm
Witherspoon Society Awards Luncheon
Speaker: Rev. Eugenia A. Gamble, Writer in Residence,
Presbytery of Sheppards and Lapsley.
Rev. Gamble’s featured address is entitled “Embodying Love.”
More about Eugenia Gamble >>
The Andrew Murray and Whole Gospel Congregation Awards
will be presented and the Witherspoon business meeting will follow the
luncheon.
Sheraton Ballroom I
Ticket price: $35.00 |
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Witherspoon Luncheon speaker:
The Rev. Eugenia A. Gamble,
on “Embodying Love”
[2-24-06]
We first invited the Rev. Eugenia Gamble as our major
speaker for the Witherspoon Luncheon at General Assembly, because we had
heard so much about her exciting and creative ministry from 1996 to 2005 as
Senior Pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Birmingham, where the Assembly
will be convening.
While in Birmingham she provided leadership in the
development and implementation of the vision of First Light, Inc., a center
for homeless women and children. First Light provides emergency shelter,
long term shelter for the disabled homeless, day programming, and on site
psychiatric services. It was just such work that earned her the Outstanding
Woman of the Year award for 2004, presented by the Women’s Center of
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
But there is much more in her experience and varieties of
ministry that promises an interesting and challenging luncheon address for
all of us, as she talks of ways the church does indeed “embody love.”
Since her ordination in 1984, she has served congregations
in Colorado, as Staff Associate for Leader Development of Women under the
General Assembly Mission Council, and Associate Executive Presbyter for the
Presbytery of Sheppards and Lapsley, before being called by the Birmingham
congregation. Along the way she has participated in various regional and
national committees, including the Committee of 15 to draft “A Brief
Statement of Faith.”
She has been the keynote speaker at numerous conferences,
schools and colleges, presbyteries and synods, including Montreat Conference
Center, Mo-Ranch Conference Center, Presbyterian Women national meetings,
Epworth by the Sea Conference Center, and the dedication of the Third World
Church Leaders Center in Seoul, Korea. She has also been the featured
preacher on the Protestant Hour international radio broadcast, and the “30
Good Minutes” television broadcast.
She doesn’t just talk, though. She writes, having authored a
number of study and worship resources for women, including Glimpses of
Home: Images of the Realm of God in Scripture, the annual Bible Study
for Presbyterian Women, which won the Associated Church Press First Place
Award for Excellence, for Bible Study, in 1995. |
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Some blogs worth visiting |
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Voices of Sophia blog
Heather Reichgott, who has created this new blog
for Voices of Sophia, introduces it:
After fifteen years of scholarship and activism,
Voices of Sophia presents a blog. Here, we present the voices of
feminist theologians of all stripes: scholars, clergy, students,
exiles, missionaries, workers, thinkers, artists, lovers and
devotees, from many parts of the world, all children of the God in
whose image women are made. .... This blog seeks to glorify God
through prayer, work, art, and intellectual reflection. Through
articles and ensuing discussion we hope to become an active and
thoughtful community. |
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Witherspoon’s Facebook page
Mitch Trigger, Witherspoon’s
Secretary/Communicator, has created a Facebook page where
Witherspoon members and others can gather to exchange news and
views. Mitch and a few others have posted bits of news, both
personal and organizational. But there’s room for more!
You can post your own news and views, or initiate
a conversation about a topic of interest to you. |
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John Harris’ Summit to Shore blogspot
Theological and philosophical reflections on
everything between summit to shore, including kayaking, climbing,
religion, spirituality, philosophy, theology, politics, culture,
travel, The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), New York City and the
Queens neighborhood of Ridgewood by a progressive New York City
Presbyterian Pastor. John is a former member of the Witherspoon
board, and is designated pastor of North Presbyterian Church in
Flushing, NY. |
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John
Shuck’s Shuck and Jive
A Presbyterian minister, currently serving as
pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Elizabethton, Tenn., blogs
about spirituality, culture, religion (both organized and
disorganized), life, evolution, literature, Jesus, and lightening
up. |
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Got more blogs to recommend?
Please
send a note, and we'll see what we can do! |
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Plan now for our 2010 Ghost Ranch
Seminar!
GHOST RANCH SEMINAR
July 26-August 1, 2010
WE’RE
ALL IN THIS TOGETHER
CONFRONTING THE STRUCTURES OF INJUSTICE |
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