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Symposium
Schedule: Oct. 3-6, 2004, Louisville, Ky.
God's Missionary People:
A New Way of Being Church
A Call for Reassessment and Renewal in the United States
 Last updated: June 1, 2004.
Sunday, October 3,
2004
Afternoon:
Registration
7:00
PM:
Welcome:
Father Dan Dorsey, president of Glenmary Home Missioners;
Sister Rosanne Rustemeyer, SSND, executive director of the
United States Catholic Mission Association; and the Most
Rev. Thomas Kelly, OP, Archbishop of Louisville.
Opening Prayer: Archbishop Thomas Kelly
Symposium Overview: Father Anthony Gittins, CSSp,
professor of Catholic Missiology, Catholic Theological Union.
7:30
PM
Keynote Address: ‘The Church as Mission’
Father John Fuellenbach, SVD, professor of theology, Pontifical
Gregorian University, Rome
8:15
PM: Table Discussions
8:45
PM: Prayer Service
9:00
PM: Social
Monday,
October 4, 2004
7:00
AM: Eucharist
7:30
AM: Continental Breakfast
8:30
AM: Prayer Service
8:50
AM
Presentation: ‘The Context Calls for Mission:
A Lens on Some Issues’
M. Shawn Copeland, associate professor of theology, Boston
College.
9:40
AM: Table Discussions
10:00
AM: Break
10:20
AM
Presentation: ‘The Church Lives at the Intersection
of the Gospel and the Culture in Which It Participates’
The Rev. George Hunsberger, professor of congregational
mission, Western Theological Seminary.
12:00:
Lunch (provided)
2:00
PM: Conversations With Presenters: Father John
Fuellenbach, M. Shawn Copeland and the Rev. George Hunsberger
3:00
PM: Break
3:30
PM
Church as Mission: A Variety of Views
A Bishop’s View: Bishop William R. Houck, president of Catholic Extension
Society
A Lay Leader’s View: Joel Shorn
An Interfaith View:
Jewish:
Rabbi Herman Schaalman
Southern Baptist: Dr. Leslis Hollon
Muslim: Aminah McCloud, professor of Islamic studies,
DePaul University
5:15
PM: Break
Monday
Evening: USCMA Annual Meeting, 5:30–7:00 PM
USCMA members—and all who are interested—are invited to attend. Finger foods will be served.
Tuesday,
October 5, 2004
7:00
AM: Eucharist
7:30
AM: Continental Breakfast 8:30
AM
Gathering Hymn
Nine Workshops: ‘Engaging the Areopagus'
An Overview by Sister Rosanne Rustemeyer, SSND
(All workshops are offered twice.)
Youth
Ministry in an Inconvenient Church: Finding a Believable
'Ekklesia':
Michael Warren
Mission Engages Communicationsia: Father Derek
Simons, SVD, and Susan O'Halloran
How the Church Relates to Fundamentalist Groups:
Father Robert Schreiter,CPPS
Mission and Ecology: Sister Dianne Bergant,
CSA
Globalization and Its Effects on Appalachia:
Glenmary Father John Rausch
Engaging Multicultural Realities in the United States:
Sister Marie Chin, RSM, president of the Sisters of Mercy of
the Americas
The Christian Community as Mission: The
Rev. Lois Barrett
The Forgotten: The Vulnerable at our Gates:
Edwina Gateley
Engaging the Hispanic Presence in Our Midst:
Gilberto Cavazos-Gonzales
8:45–10:15
AM: Workshop Session I
10:15
AM: Break
10:45
AM–12:15 AM: Workshop Session II
12:30
PM: Lunch (provided)
2:00
PM:
The ‘Church as Mission’ in Action: Three Examples
Baptist-Catholic Dialogue / Presenters: Glenmary
Father Frank Ruff and Dr. Leslie Hollon
Peace Builders Initiative / Presenter: Angela
Appleby-Purcell
JustFaith: A Strategy to Empower the Work of Justice:
/ Presenter: Jack Jezreel
3:30
PM: Break
4:00
PM: Table Discussions
4:40
PM: Quiet Reflection to Prepare for Vespers
4:45
PM: Vespers
5:15
PM: Wine and Cheese Social
6:00
PM: Banquet
Wednesday,
October 6, 2004
7:00:
AM: Eucharist
7:30:
AM: Continental Breakfast
8:30:
AM:
Gathering Hymn
Presentation: ‘Missionary Imagination: How Can
We Imagine the Church as Mission?’
A conversation between between Father John Fuellenbach, SVD, and
Father Robert Schreiter, CPPS, Bernardin Center Vatican
Council II Chair in Theology, Catholic Theological Union.
9:15
AM: Table Conversations
9:30
AM: Plenary Session: ‘The Church as Mission—Expanding
the Conversation’
An opportunitiy for all presenters and participants to join
the conversation between Father John Fuellenbach and Father
Robert Schreiter. Facilitated by Father Tony Gittens
10:15
AM: Break
10:45
AM: Closing Remarks
By Sister Rosanne Rustemeyer, SSND, and Glenmary Father
Dan Dorsey
11:00
AM: Liturgy of Praise and
Sending Ceremony
For
more information,
contact Father Wil Steinbacher at 615-256-1905 or wsteinbacher@glenmary.org.
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