Professional Leaders Conference 2010

September 27-29, 2010

Bishop Lane Retreat Center, Rockford, IL

The NIS Professional Leaders Conference is the key yearly opportunity for leaders to experience collegiality and connect with what is going on in our Synod. All NIS professional leaders (rostered leaders, seminary students, and paid professional congregational leaders) and their spouses are encouraged to come and share in this opportunity.

Bishop Lane Retreat Center, located at 7708 East McGregor Road in Rockford, is hidden away in the midst of 90 beautifully wooded acres and landscaped yard. It’s not unusual to see deer and other wildlife as you enjoy a walk along the lovely pond or through the quiet woods and the outdoor Stations of the Cross. Find out more at http://blrc.dpsrfd.org.

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Presenters

briehlSusan Briehl, a Lutheran pastor since 1981, has served as Director of Holden Village, a Lutheran center for renewal in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington State, campus pastor at Pacific Lutheran University, and pastor of Our Saviour's Lutheran in Bellingham, WA. Currently, she is a member of the Indiana-Kentucky Synod (ELCA), called to her work with the Valparaiso Project on the Education and Formation of People of Faith. She serves as the Distinguished Professor of the Art of Ministry at Wartburg Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa, where she teaches when they need her. Susan's work includes a devotional book for families with children, Come Lord Jesus: Devotions for the Home (Augsburg Fortress, 1996), two chapters co-authored with her daughters in Way to Live: Christian Practices for Teens (Upper Room, 2002), and, with Marty Haugen, Turn My Heart: A Sacred Journey from Brokenness to Healing (GIA, 2003), a resource for those who are suffering. On Our Way: Christian Practices for Your Whole Life, a book for young adults and edited by Susan and Dorothy Bass, will be published in January 2010. Holden Prayer Around the Cross, with Tom Witt, is forthcoming from Augsburg.

Her hymn texts include: "Holy God," "Bread of Life from Heaven," “By Your Hand," and “Once we Sang and Danced.” Susan and Marty Haugen have written Santo: A Bilingual Communion Rite (GIA 2002) and Unfailing Light: An Evening Setting for Holy Communion (GIA, 2004).

Susan lives in Spokane with her husband, Martin Wells, where their daughters, Mary Emily, who is working with the Maryknoll Missioners in Bolivia, and Magdalena, a middle school teacher in Kansas City, MO, sometimes visit.

 

haugenMarty Haugen is a liturgical composer, workshop presenter, performing and recording artist & author from Eagan, Minnesota.  He and his wife, Linda, have two children with good partners and a recent grandson.  Currently Marty serves as composer-in-residence at Mayflower United Church of Christ in Minneapolis and serves occasionally as adjunct instructor at United Theological Seminary in New Brighton, Minnesota. For the past 25 years, Marty has presented hundreds of workshops and concerts across North and Central America, Europe, Asia and the Pacific Rim.  He has over 35 recordings and more than 400 separate printed editions available through GIA Publications. A number of his published songs, including "Shepherd Me, O God," "Gather Us In" and "All Are Welcome" are well-known to many religious denominations. He has a number of published mass settings for Roman Catholic communities, including Mass of Creation, and several communion settings for Lutheran congregations, including Unfailing Light (with Pastor Susan Briehl) and Now the Feast and Celebration, as well as a communion setting for the new Evangelical Worship Book (ELW-Augsburg Fortress). Marty has served as an editor or consultant to a number of GIA hymnals and has been a contributor to hymnals or supplements for many denominational groups including the ELCA and ELCIC (Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and Canada), the United Methodist Church, the Mennonite Brethren, the United Church of Christ, the United Church of Canada,  the Church of England, the Church of Scotland, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and Roman Catholic groups in Great Britain, Canada, Ireland and Australia.

Registration Information

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Conference Fees

Registration is not finalized until payment is received. If registering online, please send check ASAP. Refunds are not be available after Sept. 15.

Limited rooms are available at Bishop Lane. Those willing to share a room will pay a reduced fee.

 

Registration for residents (program, meals, & housing)

$175 per person (through September 8)

$200 per person (after September 8)

 

Registration for commuters (program & meals)

$135 per person (through September 8)

$160 per person (after September 8)

 

Single-Day Registration (program & meals)

$100 per person (through September 8)

$125 per person (after September 8)

 

  • half-price for retired prof. leaders & seminarians

  • Deduct $10 for 2 in a room

  • Deduct $20 for 3 in a room

 

Schedule

Monday, September 27

9:00-10:45 am Registration

10:45 am Worship

12:00 noon Dinner
(Bishop dines with leaders new to the Synod)

1:00-2:30 pm Main Presentation

2:30-5:45 pm Free time

4:40-5:40 pm Volunteer musician rehearsal

5:45 pm Supper

7:00-8:30 pm Main Presentation

8:40 pm Vespers
Snacks and fellowship before and after Vespers

Tuesday, September 28

8:10 am Breakfast

9:00 am Worship

10:00-11:50 am Main Presentation

12:00 noon Dinner (Bishop dines with retired leaders)

1:00-2:30 pm Time with Bishop Wollersheim

2:30-3:20 pm Spouse Gathering

2:30-5:45 pm Free time

5:45 pm Supper

7:00-8:30 pm Main Presentation

8:40 pm Vespers
Dessert and fellowship before and after Vespers

Wednesday, September 29

8:10 am Breakfast 9:00-10:30 am Main Presentation

10:45 am Worship

12:00 noon Dinner & Depart
(Bishop dines with spouses)

Previous Professional Leaders Conferences

2009 - Congregational Mission and Evangelism

  • Presenters Richard Bliese and David Cherwien

2008 - Proclamation in the Time of Change

  • Presenters - Craig Satterlee and Larry Peterson

2007 - The Rapture Exposed: The Message of Hope in Revelation

  • Presenters - Barbara Rossing and Bread for the Journey

2006 - Vital Worship in the 21st Century

  • Presenters Robert A Rimbo and Lorraine Brugh

2005 - The Continuing Reformation: Spirituality for Leaders

  • Presenters Matthew Fox and Tom Witt & Mary Preus

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