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Schedule of Events

HAYSTACK BICENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
September 22, 23, 24, 2006

Friday, September 22

Registration 3:00–9:00 p.m.
Fellowship Hall, First Congregational Church, UCC
Exhibits, SERRVice Mart, Bookstore, Hospitality

Fellowship buffet dinner 6:00–7:15 p.m.
The Williams Inn

“Through Every Land, By Every Tongue: Receiving the Gifts of the World Church” 8:00–9:30 p.m.
Songs of faith and hope from around the world
Worship Leader/Musician: C. Michael Hawn

After-hours activities 9:30 p.m.

Saturday, September 23

Sunrise Service 6:45 a.m.
Haystack Monument, Mission Park, Williams College

Continental breakfast 7:00–8:00 a.m.
First United Methodist Church

Registration 8:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Fellowship Hall, First Congregational Church, UCC

“The Field is the World” 8:30 a.m.
Class of 1962 Center for Theatre and Dance
Opening Devotions
Film: Haystack and Its Legacy
Keynote Address: Lamin Sanneh: “Christianity, the West, and the World”

Cookout lunch on Sawyer Lawn, Williams College

Workshops 1:15–2:30 p.m. and 2:45–4:00 p.m.
Various campus locations - details available at Registration

“What is Mission?” Panel and Discussion 4:15–5:45 p.m.
Thompson Memorial Chapel

Vespers at Haystack Monument 6:00 p.m.

Mission dinner 7:00–8:30 p.m.
Lasell Gymnasium

After-hours activities 9:00 p.m.

Sunday, September 24

Continental breakfast 8:00–9:00 a.m.
First United Methodist Church

Morning worship
Northern Berkshire Churches

Celebration Worship Service 2:30 p.m.
Thompson Memorial Chapel
Worship Leader: Bart Campolo