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Reunion 2008 Schedule

2008 Convocation, Making Connections, Celebrating Missions, will be May 15.

The registration form will be available here.

Schedule 
8:30: Registration opens. Continental breakfast available. (registration tent)
9:30:

Opening session – main tent.

Welcome: President Nick Carter, Alum Board President John Reynolds
Introductions
Spirit of the Hill Award presentation
9:45- 10:30: Speaker and panels. International guests offer reflections (see bios)
10:30: Break
10:45: Workshops Part I   (see descriptions #1 - 4, various locations)
12:00: Alumni/ae Board Meeting and Lunch on the Quad
12:45-1:30: Conversations around tables led by faculty
1:45 - 3:00 Workshops Part II   (see descriptions #5 – 8, various locations)
3:15: Plenary (Wilson Chapel)
3:30: Closing Worship (Wilson Chapel)
4:00: Reception (Davis Hall)
5:30: Dinner (Main Tent)

    Workshops Part I

  1. Creating Fair Trade Outlets for Crafters in Guatemala  Rev. Frank ( ANTS ‘73) and Fran Irving connected with a friend who is director of Mayan Hands, a fair trade organization  working with groups of women who are indigenous weavers in the highlands of Guatemala. Money for scholarships and training projects is generated by selling the women’s crafts which includes stoles, baskets, tote bags, coffee, instruments and much more. Hear how supporting this project can energize people in your church.  www.mayantraditions.com

  2. Creating Partnerships with Churches in Zimbabwe  Rev. Kim McKerley (ANTS ‘96), Local Church Coordinator for Ukama/Partnership between the New Hampshire Conference United Church of Christ and the United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe helps link churches with common interests. Learn how your church’s mission program can benefit by a connection with members of African churches. www.ukama.net   and   www.nhucc.org 

  3. Creating Mission Trips and Urban Immersion for Teens  Carl McDonald (ANTS ‘98), Director of Boston Urban Outreach for City Mission Society and Peg Drisko-Johnson, Independent Consultant to Non-profit Community will share experiences. By identifying local and global mission opportunities in their own communities churches can learn to raise issues and provide support for church members called to serve others. City Mission Society provides emergency assistance to city residents, activities and intervention with teens, and advocacy for the incarcerated.  www.cmsboston.org  

  4. Seafarer’s Friend: Christian Hospitality, Infusing New Attitudes of Fellowship  Executive Director Rev. Loring Carpenter and Mission Director Rev. Dr. Nash Garabedian (ANTS grad ’80). Scriptures teach that hospitality to strangers is part of God’s call to every disciple. Learn how a mission opportunity to visitors from afar can build habits of outreach by providing for the spiritual, social, emotional and physical needs of seafarers from all over the world.  www.seafarersfriend.org   

    5. Workshops Part II

  5. How a Trip to Tanzania Turned into an All-Church Mission Rev. Peter Cook, Pastor of Plymouth       United Church of Christ Framingham, was invited by a parishioner to go to Africa. As a result the church developed a partnership with a non-profit organization, IDYCD, and take regular mission trips to build relationships and bring supplies and money to help build and repair orphanages in Iringa and Kilolo. They also work with the Lutheran Church to provide assistance to elementary schools in the village of Pommern.  www.plymouthchurchframingham.org  
  6. Daughters of Abraham: Women’s Interfaith Book Group  Founded in 2002 by Edie Howe an ANTS student and member of First Church, United Church of Christ, Cambridge, MA, there are now 10 groups in the Boston area and two in Washington, D.C. involving Jewish, Muslim, and Christian women for discussion and fellowship. Through shared food and conversation they create interfaith understanding and respect. Book group representatives Saadia Husain Baloch, Rona Fischman, and Anne Mansfield Minton (ANTS ‘95) will share their experience and provide plenty of time for questions and conversation. www.daughtersofabraham.info  
  7. Eyewitness Report on Kenya Today Atema Eclai, Program Director who is Kenyan and Charlie Clements, President and CEO of Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, will report on the emergency assessment mission they led in response to the recent post-election violence. Members of KENASVIT, UUSC’s primary partner in Kenya, are street vendors and informal traders who were at the epicenter of this crisis. www.uusc.org  
  8. Mission Trips to Dominican Republic and New Orleans. Rev. Shantia Wright-Gray coordinates with the First Haitian Missionary Baptist Church in the village of Laromana to assist Haitian workers in the cane fields by providing medical clinics, housing, and education. Residents of Laromana coordinate needs of volunteer work groups by providing translators, transportation, and housing. Wright-Gray also helps Mass Conference UCC to coordinate work teams going to New Orleans to help with re-construction and education working with partner church, Good Shepherd UCC Church, Meterie, LA.  www.laromana.org   

Guest Biographies

Rev. Huitung Chung
Huitung directs the Bridge and Dialogue program at the Tao Fong Shan Christian Center in Hong Kong, China. He is a graduate of Andover Newton and a member of the Jonathan Edwards Society. Huitung is finishing his study with Dr. Mark Heim for a PhD in the ANTS-Boston College joint doctoral program. He is a research associate at Chinese University of Hong Kong and an adjunct faculty member at Chung Chi College Divinity School. He was ordained as a preacher at Hong Kong Tsung Tsin Mission in 1994 and now serves as a pastoral consultant for that denomination. He is married and lives with his wife Sophia Lee and three children in Hong Kong, China.
Dr. Maung Maung Yin
Dr. Yin is currently the Academic Dean of the Myanmar Institute of Theology (MIT). He is a scholar in New Testament and Christain Ethics with four degrees, one of which is a DMin from Andover Newton. The Myanmar Institute of Tehology was founded in June 1927, on Seminary Hill, Insein. In 2003 MIT created the Judson Research Center whose primary purpose is to study the relations of Christianity to Theravada Buddhism, and to the primal religions of the ethnic peoples to bring about dialogue.