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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