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Last Chance to Register for Convention 2021! #Tonight!
Please Note:
- All delegates must register for the Convention in order to attend the Business Meetings and Vote.
- Registration is required for all events except the worship services and Keynote Address.
- Please indicate which events you’d like to attend. This will not commit you to one event over another, but will give us an idea on how many virtual sandwiches to make!
- Mini Courses will run concurrently, so you will have to choose between any two that share a time slot.
Navigating the Rapids in the Stream of Providence
Join us online June 25th – 27th, 2021 for guest speakers, worship services, business meetings, mini courses, social gatherings, and more!
Convention Sign Ups End Tomorrow, 6/15
Take part in the 197th Annual Convention of the Swedenborgian Church of North America June 25-27, by signing up today!
Registration is free and you can take part in mini-courses, worship services and gatherings. Hear exciting guest speakers and learn more about this wonderful tradition.
Register here: https://convention2021.swedenborg.org/register/
Signups for Virtual Convention Open Until June 15, 2021
The theme of this year’s Annual Swedenborgian Convention is “Navigating the Rapids in the Stream of Providence”
Join us online June 25th – 27th, 2021 for guest speakers, worship services, business meetings, mini courses, social gatherings, and more!
See the Schedule of Events
See what you need to know as an attendee:
Learn how to register:
Sunday’s Virtual Convention Happenings
Sunday, June 28 — All times are Listed in Eastern Daylight Time
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+1:45 PM — Opening of Final Day by Rev. Jane Siebert with musical prelude by Bet Giddings
+2:00 PM — Mini-Course: Disability, Divinity & The Divine Human: Helen Keller’s Spiritual Legacy with Rev. Sage Cole, followed by live Q&A
+3:00 PM — Mini-Course: Finding Church Beyond the Walls: Reimagining Church in the Time of Covid with Rev. Anna Woofenden, followed by live Q&A
+4:00 PM — Mini-Course: The Harmonic One: Suggestions of Divine Plurality in the Bible and in Swedenborg with Dr. Rebecca Esterson, followed by live Q&A
+5:00 PM — Mini-Course: Near-Death Studies and Swedenborg’s Spiritual World with Rev. Dr. Jim Lawrence, followed by live Q&A
+7:00 PM — Closing Worship Service with Communion with Pastor Paul Deming, Rev. Kevin Baxter, Rev. Sage Cole, Rev. Youngmin Kim, and Rev. Shada Sullivan musical prelude and postlude by Angela Papierski and interlude by Karen Conger.
+Closing of Convention by Rev. Jane Siebert
Saturday’s Virtual Convention Events
Saturday, June 27 — All times are Listed in Eastern Daylight Time
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+12:00 PM — Black Lives Matter: A Call to Reflection, Prayer, and Action with Dr. Rebecca Esterson, Terrie Crenshaw, Rev. Gladys Wheaton, Rev. Shada Sullivan, and Rev. Anna Woofenden
+1:00 PM — Memorial Worship Service with Rev. Rachel Madjerac with musical prelude by Rev. Ken Turley
+2:00 PM — Keynote Presentation entitled For Heaven’s Sake by Rev. Dr. George F. Dole with an introduction from Rev. Dr. Jim Lawrence, followed by live Q&A
+3:00 PM — Mini-Course: Spiritual Cinema: Swedenborg at the Movies with Dr. Devin Zuber, followed by live Q&A
+4:00 PM — Mini-Course: The Death of God in T.S. Eliot; The Death of the Church in Swedenborg with Rev. Dr. David Fekete, followed by live Q&A
+5:00 PM — Mini-Course: Blessed are the Peacemakers: How You and Your Church Can Successfully Facilitate Political Dialogue in a Polarized Society with Rev. Rich Tafel, followed by live Q&A
+7:00 PM — Swedenborgian Church Youth League Worship Service followed by live Q&A with Youth Leader Kurt Fekete & the SCYL Officers
Tonight’s Virtual Convention Events
Friday, June 26 — All times are Listed in Eastern Daylight Time
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+7:00 PM — Welcome and Greetings to our first Virtual Convention by Rev. Jane Siebert with musical prelude by Pastor Paul Deming
+7:15 PM — Virtual Parade of Ministries – Part 1
+7:45 PM — President’s Report – Rev. Jane Siebert
+8:00 PM — Virtual Parade of Ministries – Part 2
+8:30 PM — Evening Musical Meditation with Pastor Christine Campbell
New Jerusalem Church from church records archived by Cincinnati Library
Convention Begins in Two Days
Now you can attend Convention no matter where in the world you are! Don’t miss out on important keynote speaker, Rev. Dr. George F. Dole, Seven mind-opening mini-courses, and a Multitude of soul-warming worship services. We are apart, but we can be together to learn, to grow and to regenerate in spirit! More info on this pdf. and at Swedenborg.org and Facebook. On FB, like and follow so that you will see when events are happening live.
Virtual Convention Begins This #Friday!
2020 Spiritual Vision–Transcending Time and Space, Annual Convention
Website for Event:
https://swedenborg.org/news/2020-spiritual-vision-transcending-time-and-space/
Facebook Link for Live Videos with comment options:
www.facebook.com/SwedenborgConvention/
Spiritual-Vision-Schedule of Events
including…
- Rev. Dr. George F. Dole, Keynote Speaker
- 7 Mini-Courses you can watch and comment on, or view later
- Worship Music and Services (Memorial, Communion and Youth)
- LINK TO FULL CLASS DESCRIPTIONS & BIOS
Meet our new ministers
Picture by Pete Toot
We are proud to welcome three new ministers to the larger Convention Church:
Congratulations to Revs. Roz Taylor, Dan Burchett, and Nancy Piorkowski, who were ordained at this year’s convention in Valparaiso, IN.
Rev. Taylor, from the Australian Church, will be taking a position with Convention.
Rev. Burchett serves at Wayfarer’s Chapel, and
Rev. Piorkowski is going into chaplaincy.
We welcome their voices, their passion and their service.
New Church of Montgomery, in Glendale 