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EMA booking open – seminar details released
The 2010 Evangelical Ministry Assembly is booking fast! We're about 75% full which means if you want to come, you need to book soon. We're really pleased with the way the programme is shaping up and can now release details of seminar leaders (in some cases each leader will be joined by one or two others).
Connecting with….atheists
This increasingly important topic will be dealt with by David Robertson. David is the minister of St Peter's Dundee (McCheyne's church) and also leads up Solas – the Centre for Public Christianity in Scotland. He has written movingly on McCheyne – and more recently has written the excellent little volume The Dawkins Letters.
Connecting with….women
Carrie Sandom is Associate Minister for women at St John's Tunbridge Wells and until recently was at Christchurch Mayfair. Carrie helps lead the PT Cornhill women's stream and leads our Women in Ministry conference. She will address issues related to communicating with women. Is this something that men even need to worry about? Doesn't preaching cross every barrier? Or are we naive to think that our preaching must be targeted. Carrie will help us through these questions.
Connecting with….kids
Trevor Pearce is the youth worker at All Souls Langham Place and he helps lead the FIEC Contagious youth event. Trevor will help us through the minefield that is communicating with young people. Do we need to be hip to reach the young? Or can we simply ignore the issues that connecting with kids raise? Can children sit through a sermon for example? If so, how can we help them do it well?
Connecting with….muslim people
Increasingly, many of our cities and towns have a large muslim presence. Do we ignore it? How do we engage without comprising the gospel? Is a vision to reach muslim people just pie-in-the-sky. To lead this seminar we welcome two experienced men who are working amongst muslim people in Oxford and East London. We hope you will understand that we will not release their names here.
To book on the EMA please visit the microsite. Other main session speakers are Liam Goligher, Vaughan Roberts, Tim Keller and David F Wells.