Worship and the Future

A Conference for Pastors & Church Staff

September 22-23, 2010

Register for the 2010 Pastor Conference

About the Conference:

The conference is designed as a retreat, a gathering of ideas, and an opportunity to share experiences with others - all church staff and spouses are welcome. Whether your church is large or small, it is affected by popular culture, style changes, technological opportunities, and population shifts. Process those changes and acquire new tools and inspiration with knowledgeable leaders and affirming peers.

Registration: $60 per pastor & church leader ($30 for spouses)
Includes Thursday lunch, coffee breaks, and speaker costs

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Speaker List
	Leonard Sweet Leonard Sweet is a best-selling author of over 40 books, including The Jesus Manifesto (with Frank Viola), Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who is Already There, and So Beautiful: Divine Design for Life & the Church. He is the E. Stanley Jones professor at Drew University & Distinguished Visiting Professor at George Fox University. Sweet's sermons are published weekly by sermons.com. He is an ordained United Methodist minister. www.leonardsweet.com
David Joynt David Joynt is senior pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Toms River, NJ, an evangelical PCUSA church of 2,700 adult members with 13 full-time and 7 part-time staff. Joynt holds the MA in Theology from Oxford University and a PhD in Theology and Ethics from Princeton Seminary. During his time in the UK, Joynt's tutor was Alister McGrath and his study partner was Ricky Gumbel (Alpha series creator). The Presbyterian Church of Toms River developed the "House of Hope," an ecumenical mission center that has 60 congregations and 1,500 volunteers participating. www.pctr.org
	Tim Lucas Tim Lucas is senior pastor of Liquid Church in Basking Ridge, NJ, a church using experimental worship and unique outreach. Begun as a Sunday School class in the 150-year-old Millington Baptist Church, it moved to a tavern and then a hotel, all with an unconventional "contemporary" format. Liquid now has two campuses nad over 1,500 in regular attendance at 5 services. Another 550 attend church online through live streaming. Lucas is a graduate of Wheaton College and teaches as an adjunct at Biblical Theological Seminary. www.liquidchurch.com
Joseph Martin Joseph Martin is a pianist, organist, composer, recording artist, and conductor. He is director of sacred publications for Shawnee Press, the choral and instrumental music company that Hal Leonard Corporation acquired last year. Martin is responsible for the overall publishing for the church market, for Shawnee and its imprints including Harold Flammer Music, GlorySound and Mark Foster Music. His wife, Sue, is a concert soloist and among other performances sings the voice of Disney's "Little Mermaid."
	Gary Schnittjer Gary Schnittjer is Professor of Biblical Studies at Philadelphia Biblical University and author of The Torah Story: An Apprenticeship to the Pentateuch (Zondervan, 2006). He specializes in biblical narrative and intertextuality, teaching biblical Hebrew, biblical narratives, and the ancient Near Eastern and second temple Judaic contexts of the Christian Bible. He also reguarly teaches a graduate course on Film, Culture, & Theology. His work on film enriches interpretation of scriptural narration, even with the significant media differences. He holds a PhD from dallas Theological Seminary with postgraduate studies on the Hebrew Bible at the University of Pennsylvania.
Richard Stanislaw Richard Stanislaw is President and CEO of Ocean City Tabernacle. His Doctor of Musical Arts in Choral Conducting is from the University of Illinois. Stanislaw is author of the Companion to the Worshipping Church (Hope Publishing Co.), a humnal dictionary. He has been an active church musician for over 40 years and was Academic Vice President and Professor of Music at Taylor University.