Woodbury Workshop 2010: Emerging Leadership for an Emerging World

1:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Contact: Jen Walker, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or 617-964-1100 ext. 316.

The leadership skills that once led to success in the church don’t insure much of anything any more, except perhaps exhaustion and burnout. Being a preacher, teacher, counselor, caregiver, administrator, program planner, Biblical scholar, historian, ethicist and theologian all rolled into one doesn’t do it either. There’s a new world emerging and a different kind of ministerial leadership is needed for that world.

This year’s Woodbury Workshop, featuring the innovative Christian leader Brian McLaren, will explore the new demands and dimensions of leadership in the church. It will help you develop a clearer understanding of the practices that are essential to effective and faithful leadership.

Schedule:

Thursday, February 4:

• 1:00 Registration begins
• 2:00 –  4:00 Opening Worship, followed by: Session 1: What’s Emerging? with Sarah Drummond and Jeff Jones
• 7:30 –  9:00 Session 2: Open Presentation by Brian McLaren (First Baptist Church in Newton)

Friday, February 5:

• 9:00   – 12:00 Morning Worship Session 3 with Brian McLaren
• 12:00 –  1:30   Free Time– Bookstore Open
• 1:30 –  2:30 Small group sessions
• 2:30   –  3:00 Break
• 3:00   –  4:30 Session 4 with Brian McLaren

The registration fee is $175 ($160 if payment is received before December 11, 2009). For a printable registration form and brochure, please click here. A continental breakfast and lunch on Friday are included in the registration fee.

Housing: We have reserved a limited number of rooms for workshop participants at the Walker Center, located a short drive from the Andover Newton campus. For further information or to make a room reservation, please contact Jen Walker at jwalker@ants.edu, or 617-964-1100 x316.

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Expert Brian McLaren speaks on church leadership

7:30 pm

Location: First Baptist Church in Newton, 848 Beacon St., Newton Centre, MA

Brian D. McLaren makes an Open Presentation on church leadership in this free program, to be held at the First Baptist Church, Newton Centre, at 848 Beacon St., a short walk from the Andover Newton campus. The event is open to the public as part of Andover Newton’s Woodbury Leadership Workshop 2010: Emerging Leadership for an Emerging World.

Brian McLaren is an author, speaker, pastor, and networker among innovative Christian leaders, thinkers, and activists. He is a frequent guest on television, radio, and news media programs and has also been covered in Time (where he was listed as one of American’s 25 most influential evangelicals), Christianity Today, Christian Century, The Washington Post, and many other print media. He is the author of numerous best-selling books, including New Kind of Christian, A Generous Orthodoxy, The Secret Message of Jesus, Everything Must Change, and Finding Our Way Again.

Spread the word: For a printable, color poster of this event, please click here.

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A Narrative of Life and Glory: Mahler’s “Resurrection” Symphony

8:00 am

Location: Meetinghouse Gallery

through April 11, 2010

This exhibition of Gloucester, MA, painter Gordon Goetemann features fifteen works inspired by the the German composer Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 in C minor, first performed in Berlin in 1895 and known as the “Resurrection” Symphony because it reflects the composer’s ideas about the afterlife. The exhibition is free and open to the public daily.

A free public opening reception with the artist will be held on February 9, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, concurrently with an opening reception for Icons of the Civil Rights Movement, on view in the Sarly Interfaith Unity Gallery in Wilson Chapel.

Goetemann first encountered Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony while completing an M.F.A. at the University of Iowa. The composition addresses themes which Goetemann believes are relevant in today’s culture: the quest to find freedom in the face of adversity; courage in the face of dislocation; and eternal life in the face of human decay. Inspired by Mahler’s work for much of his career, he has worked on his visual interpretation of the symphony in this series of paintings for more than five years.

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Andover Newton Multicultural Festival 2010

5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location: Meeting House

Please join us for the Andover Newton Multicultural Festival 2010. International food, music, and more! All are welcome.

A short video of last year’s festival:

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