Workshops
1:15-A The Churches in Myanmar
Martha Hackett, member of a missionary family living in Burma
Proclaiming. Witnessing. Serving. Growing and Celebrating the Gospel: A story of
hope in difficult circumstances.
1:15-B Missions from the Methodist Perspective
Peter Weaver, Bishop, New England Conference, United Methodist Church
Explore how the spirit is working transformation as the word is boldly proclaimed
through the United Methodist Church.
1:15-C Connecting the Threads of Mission
Jan Aerie, Wider Church Ministries and Global Ministries, UCC
Experience the textures of mission around the world. Learn how mission mindedness
of the past created ways we can be a global church today.
1:15-D The Legacy of Adoniram Judson
John Douhan, Retired Associate Executive Minister, American Baptist Churches
of Massachusetts
The legacy of Adoniram Judson as it has been lived out among American Baptists
and their understanding and practice of Mission.
1:15-E The New Great Awakening
Timothy Tennent, Associate Professor of World Missions and Director of
Missions Programs, Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary
Today’s Great Awakening across New England among the immigrant population.
1:15-F Liberation Theology Comes Home
Newell Hendricks, U.S. staff member of Kairos Association for Formation
Learn how partnerships between U.S. churches and base Christian communities
with Nicaraguan campesinos can transform not only the meaning of “mission” but
the very nature of Christian community.
1:15-G The Gospel as a Way of Life: A Model for Urban Ministry
Shane Claiborne, The Simple Way Community
Learn from the experiences of a radical faith community that lives among and
serves the poor.
1:15-H Think Globally—Work Locally: Local Congregations Engaged in
Homeland Mission
The Berkshire Food Project & The Take and Eat project in North Adams, MA
Explore the struggles and the impact on lives of congregations engaged in local
missions.
1:15-I Go Into All the World: Local Congregations Engaged in World Missions
The Sudan Task Force of Williamstown; North Adams’s Haiti Plunge
From firsthand experiences hear how “people in the pew” were inspired to reach
out into the world and how it has shaped the lives of those involved.
2:45-J Pilgrimage to South Africa: Inhabiting the Tension between Despair
and Hope
Emily Martin, M.Div. student at Columbia Presbyterian Seminary, Decatur, GA
In the Haystack spirit, Emily embarked on a Watson Fellowship year to learn from
the experiences of churches struggling to cope and to hope in the midst of the
HIV/AIDS catastrophe. Her story inspires pilgrimages of all sorts.
2:45-K Lessons We Are Learning from Hawaii
Aletha Kaohi and other members of the Hawaii Conference, UCC
The American Board considered Hawaii a great achievement; since then, questions
have been raised about its impact. Learn about the ongoing dialogue among those
who have inherited the legacy of the mission to Hawaii.
2:45-L A Storm, a Haystack, and ‘A Still, Small Voice’
Douglas Showalter, Sr. Minister, First Congregational Church of Falmouth
A look at the fascinating history of the 1806 Haystack Prayer Meeting and the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, which grew out of it.
2:45-M Singing the World’s Song
Patrick Evans, Yale Divinity School
Experience firsthand how global music can connect us as one community of faith.
2:45-N Cross-Cultural Missions:Wonder of the Past, Excitement
of the Future
Marian Boehr, ABC Medical Missionary to India
A physician looks back at her 38 wonderful years of medical ministry in India, and
then looks ahead to the new non-Western chapter in Christian mission, relating
her experiences in Brazil last year.
2:45-O The Role of College Students in the Mission Movement Today
Jim Tebbe, Dir, Urbana ’06
A discussion on the continuing legacy of student involvement in missions.
2:45-P Mission and Life Direction
James Cox Chapman
A “modern Haystacker” shares his experience of how working in the mission field
impacted and continues to shape his life and work.
2:45-Q How Cross-Cultural Mission Experiences Enrich
Contemporary Christian Faith
Barbara Brown Zikmund, Professor, Doshisha University, Japan
BBZ (as she is called) will share her insights on contemporary Christianity and
mission in Japan and how living in a non-Christian culture stretches and reshapes
Christian understandings and commitments.
2:45-R Youth In Mission
Local churches’ youth programs
The nuts and bolts as well as value and impact of youth national and international
mission trips.