Delaware Maryland Synod 1988 - Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Events

Partners in Faith, Partners in Vision 2005

Leadership Event of the Delaware-Maryland Synod

Saturday, October 22, 2005. 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.

St. Michael Lutheran Church, Perry Hall, MD

Purpose:

A day to inspire all partners in leadership and to equip them for better serving their congregations.

Theme:

Moving Beyond the Walls

Keynote speakers:

Donation guidelines for 2005:

Where else can you get a bargain like this - two meals, three workshops, two keynote speakers, and a bookstore We bring presenters at the top of their fields from all over the country to offer you the best of current ministry practices.

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Biographies of keynote speakers:

The Rev. Dr. Stephen Paul Bouman was elected bishop of the Metropolitan New York Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, in June of 1996 and officially assumed office in September of that year. He was re-elected in 2002. The Metropolitan New York Synod, or district, embraces the five boroughs of New York City, Long Island, and several counties north and west. It includes 236 member congregations.

Bishop Bouman was born in Melrose Park, Illinois, on April 14, 1947. He is a graduate of Concordia Theological Seminary/Seminex and holds the Doctor of Ministry degree from New York Theological Seminary. He began his pastoral ministry in 1973 at St. Jacobus Lutheran Church, Woodside, Queens. He then pastored Atonement Lutheran Church, Jackson Heights, from 1974 until 1981; and Trinity Lutheran Church, Bogota, N.J., from 1982 through 1992. He is founder of the Diaconia ministry education program, which trains lay people for ministry in local congregations. His parish ministry also included building strong multicultural outreach, the launching of two parochial schools, and a variety of ministries of assistance and advocacy among the poor.

Pastor Bouman served as assistant to the bishop from 1992 until his election as bishop in 1996. His responsibilities in this capacity included regional care of congregations in the Bronx, Manhattan, Westchester and northern counties of the Hudson Valley. In addition, he bore primary responsibility for evangelism and social ministry, as well as worship and communications. He also chaired the ELCA Board of Higher Education and Schools. Bishop Bouman is a published author of a number of scholarly articles, books, curricula and devotionals, and is currently serving as editorial associate and columnist for Lutheran Partners and Lutheran Forum magazines.

He is married to the former Janet Luce, and they have three grown children. Janet is director of a Lutheran Family and Community Services office in White Plains. They reside in New City, Rockland County.

Sally Morgenthaler is a nationally known worship consultant, author and speaker. Founder of Sacramentis.com, Morgenthaler envisions moving worship beyond presentation to an interactive, sacred experience involving all the arts. She is also president of Digital Glass Productions, a new genre of worship videos for the Emerging Church.

Her first book, Worship Evangelism: Inviting Unbelievers Into the Presence of God (Zondervan, 1998), jumpstarted nationwide explorations into worship as witness and has become a touchstone for worship-driven ministry to postmoderns. Morgenthaler writes the Worship and Popular Culture columns for both Worship Leader and Rev magazines.

As a worship leader, Morgenthaler cut her teeth on missional worship ministry in the 1980s and 90s. Since the late 90s, she has worked as the on-site worship design consultant for Pathways Church (a twenty-something congregation in the urban Denver area) and as adjunct professor of worship at both Denver Seminary and Covenant Bible College. Morgenthaler lives in her native state of Colorado, close to her two children, Peder and Anna Claire.