The Organizing Committee is hard at work identifying both topics and facilitators to expand upon the gifts of our keynote and plenary speakers.  Three areas have emerged along with specific topics within those areas.

Liturgy and Music

• Interactive Preaching
• Multicultural and Multi-Lingual Worship
• 20 & 30 Somethings and the Emerging Church
• Vital Worship in Small Congregations
• Evangelical Lutheran Worship for non-Lutherans
• ‘When it’s not in the Book’:  Developing Liturgical Rites
• Liturgy and the ‘Praise Band’
• Teaching & Leading Music by Heart
• Music & the Prayer of Taize
• Music & the Prayer of Iona

Action

• Contemporary Technologies & the Church
• Church in the World
• Local Pilgrimages
• Labyrinth Ministry for Church and World
• ‘Spiritual but not Religious’
• Greening Congregations
• Taking Care of the Neighbourhood
• Urban Street Minsitry
• Community Food Ministries

Prayer

• The Meditation Project
• Spiritual Practices Linking Head, Heart and Hands

Once the workshops are fully established, conference registrants will be contacted to make their workshop selections.