Montreat Conference Center is pleased to welcome the Rev. Dr. Brian McLaren as the guest speaker on Sunday, August 15, the final Sunday of Montreat’s acclaimed summer worship series. Author of numerous books, including A Generous Orthodoxy and The Secret Message of Jesus, Dr. McLaren is also well-known as a speaker, pastor, and networker among innovative Christian leaders, thinkers, and activists. He holds BA and MA degrees in English from the University of Maryland and was awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree (honoris causa) from Carey Theological Seminary in Vancouver, BC, Canada.From 1978 to 1986, Dr. McLaren taught college English. In 1982, he helped form Cedar Ridge Community Church, a nondenominational church in the Baltimore-Washington area and left higher education in 1986 to serve as the church’s founding pastor. During a tenure there that lasted until 2006, Cedar Ridge earned a reputation as a leader among emerging missional congregations.
A popular conference speaker (he was the keynote speaker for “Church Unbound” this past week at Montreat Conference Center and will return in January to keynote the 2011 College Conference) and frequent guest lecturer, Dr. McLaren’s public speaking covers a broad range of topics, from Biblical studies and global mission to spiritual formation, ecology, and social justice. His sermon on Sunday is titled “Joining in God’s Saving Mission.” Worship begins at 10:30 AM in Montreat Conference Center’s Anderson Auditorium. Child care is available for children six months through completed kindergarten at the Updike Child Care Center on Texas Road. Worship is followed by lunch in Assembly Inn’s historic Galax Dining Room.
The Sunday Summer Worship Series at Montreat Conference Center is offered as a gift from the conference center to the gathered worshiping community each year. In appreciation of all the hard work that has gone into this summer’s series, a special thank you is extended to the Rev. Dr. Dean Thompson, summer Theologian-in-Residence; the Rev. Margaret LaMotte Torrence, summer Liturgy Writer; Porter Stokes and Ron Davis, summer Music Directors; and the Summer Worship Task Force: Pete Peery, Margaret Rada, Anne Rogers, George Ramsey, David Quattlebaum, Leslie Dibble, Lauren Mathews, Bill Straughan, and Merri Alexander.
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