Seminar

Programme:

9 AM: Reading the Audience. Studies in Theological Education. Assoc. professor of Congregational Mission and Leadership, Dr. Mary Sue D. Dreier, Luther Seminary, St. Pauls, Minnesota, USA

10 AM: Building adaptive missional Leadership Capacity for Congregations. Lessons learned in a transforming Southern Africa. Dr.Frederick Marais, Ekklesia, Ecumenical Centre for Leadership Development and Congregational Studies, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa

11 AM. AM: Questions and Discussion on the two presentations

12 AM: Lunch

1: PM: Theological Education and Congregational Development in Pomerania. Professor für Praktische Theologie, Michael Herbst, Institut für Erforschung von Evangelisation und Gemeindeentwicklung, Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, Germany

2 PM: Inspiration from the Emerging Church Movement for the Training of Leaders in Protestant Churches in the Netherlands. Ph.D. student Robert Doornenbal. Free University of Amsterdam, Holland

3 PM: Questions and Discussion on the two presentations

4 PM: The future of Congregational Studies in Theological Education

General discussion with the four lecturers of the day opened by principal Mogens Lindhardt Danish Church Institute for Pastoral Education and senior pastor Kaj Bollmann, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark

Arranged Section for Practical Theology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Contact: Assoc. Professor Hans Raun Iversen (hri@teol.ku.dk)