CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
The conference starts on Sunday afternoon, June 1st, at 3:00 PM and ends on Wednesday, June 4th, at 2:00 PM. See the entire (provisional) program below.
SUNDAY, JUNE 1, SINGELKERK, AMSTERDAM & MENNORODE, ELSPEET
TIME |
PROGRAM |
15.00 |
Jubilee service 500 years of Anabaptism with Merlyn Hyde Riley (General Secretary Jamaica Baptist Union) at the Singelkerk, Amsterdam |
19.00 |
Dinner at Conference Center “Mennorode”, Elspeet |
20.30 |
Introduction to the Conference and Evening Prayer |
MONDAY, JUNE 2, MENNORODE, ELSPEET
TIME |
PROGRAM |
7.00 |
Breakfast |
8.30 |
Morning prayer |
9.00 |
Biblestudy by Helen Paynter (Tutor in Biblical Studies at Bristol Baptist College, United Kingdom) |
9.30 |
Plenary session 1: Radical? With Sarah Augustine (Executive Director and co-founder of the Coalition to Dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery) |
10.30 |
Coffeebreak |
11.30 |
Workshops & seminars |
12.30 |
Break |
13.00 |
Lunch |
14.30 |
Plenary session 2: Renewal? With Betty Ruth Lozano (Columbia) |
15.30 |
Break |
16.30 |
Workshops & seminars |
17.30 |
Break |
18.00 |
Dinner |
20.00 |
Interactive review of the day and evening prayer |
21.00 |
Drinks and talks |
TUESDAY, JUNE 3, MENNORODE, ELSPEET & VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT, AMSTERDAM
TIME |
PROGRAM |
7.00 |
Breakfast |
8.30 |
Morning prayer |
9.00 |
Biblestudy by Eh Tar Gay (President of Myanmar Institute of Theology in Yangon, Myanmar and Professor of New Testament Studies) |
9.30 |
Plenary session 3: Witnessing? With Siaka Traoré (Burkina Faso) |
10.30 |
Coffeebreak |
11.00 |
Workshops & seminars |
13.30 |
Amsterdam walk(s) |
15.30 |
Symposium at the Faculty for Religion and Theology of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, with Willie James Jennings (USA) |
17.30 |
Dinner |
19.00 |
Martin Luther King Lecture by Willie James Jennings |
21.00 |
Drinks and talks |
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, MENNORODE, ELSPEET
TIME |
PROGRAM |
7.30 |
Breakfast |
9.00 |
Morning prayer |
9.30 |
Biblestudy by Nindyo Sasonko (Indonesia, currently Theologian in Residence at Manhattan Mennonite Fellowship in New York City, USA) |
10.00 |
Plenary session 4: Hope? With Gabriel Stephen (Nigeria/Norway) |
11.00 |
Coffeebreak |
11.30 |
Workshops & seminars |
12.30 |
Break |
13.00 |
Lunch |
14.00 |
Departure |