Renew

November 4, 2014 - November 6, 2014
Offered by Knox College
TorontoON
Canada

 


Knox College is delighted to announce the return of RENEW, a continuing education event for those on the frontlines of theology and practice. This year’s event will focus on leadership and the various areas in which ideas are shared to renew and reenergize ministry as well as provide opportunities to reconnect with other ministers and lay leaders.REGISTER NOW>>>>>>
SCHEDULE

Tuesday, November 4 Wednesday, November 5 Thursday, November 6
Morning
Re-Imagining Youth Leadership: Theologically Reflective, Publicly Engaged Adolescents
With Dr. Almeda Wright
Re-imagining Leadership as Helping People Choose ChangeWith The Rev. Dr. Peter Coutts
Afternoon
Re-Imagining Youth Leadership: Theologically Reflective, Publicly Engaged Adolescents
With Dr. Almeda Wright
Re-imagining Leadership as Helping People Choose ChangeWith The Rev. Dr. Peter Coutts Re-imagining Women’s Leadership: One Woman’s StoryWith The Rev. Dr. Sang Chang
Evening
A Special Convocation celebrating 170 years of Christian LeadershipConvocation Address
The Rev. Dr. Sang Chang
Co-President of the World Council of Churches

Re-Imagining Youth Leadership: Theologically Reflective, Publicly Engaged Adolescents
With Dr. Almeda Wright
This presentation will explore the role of youth and young adults as public theologians, discussing definitions of public theology and how it serves as a practical and theoretical framework for reimagining youth leadership. Ways of empowering youth, young adults, and youth workers to become more fully engaged in the life of the church and in service to the world around them will be explored and will discuss the need to empower young people to participate in ongoing theological reflection about their lives and the larger world around them.Dr. Almeda Wright  is Assistant Professor of Religious Education at Yale Divinity School.   She is an ordained minister of the American Baptist Churches.
Re-imagining Leadership as Helping People Choose ChangeWith The Rev. Dr. Peter CouttsThis presentation will help you re-imagine leadership as a practice focused primarily on helping a congregation have the most positive experience of change possible. Emerging from tenets of our faith and learnings from the social sciences we will explore how to create a greater readiness for change, attitudes and how they are changed, a basic model for motivational leadership, how congregational anxiety hinders and helps, the different kinds of people needed in order to get on board with a new direction and the necessity for and elements of a good change story.The Rev. Dr. Peter Coutts CEC is General Presbyter of the Presbytery of Calgary-Macleod and has been a minister for 26 years.  He is an Executive Coach certified by the International Coach Federation and the author of Choosing Change: How to Motivate Churches to Face the Future.
Re-imagining Women’s Leadership: One Woman’s StoryWith The Rev. Dr. Sang ChangThe Rev. Dr Chang has been a pioneer in opening new doors for women’s participation in new realms. She is a respected scholar in New Testament studies, the author of many publications and was one of the founding members of the Korean Association of Women Theologians. She was the first person to be appointed prime minister of the Republic of Korea in 2002, thus paving the way for women’s leadership in Korean politics. She will share stories of her life in leadership.The Dr Sang Chang is Co-President of the World Council of Churches and an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea.

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For more information about RENEW, contact the Continuing Education Coordinator.


Education does not end at graduation – it is a life-long process. Knox College offers its graduates and friends the opportunity to stay current with theological thinking and practice through lectures and workshops offered throughout the year.

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