Regular registration: $85/adult and $30/child ($230 family cap)
Early Registration ENDS JAN 15: $60/adult and $30/child ($180 family cap)
WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO:
TONY CAMPOLO is a speaker who leaves an impression. Every person we have talked to who has heard him speak cites it as a faith-distilling moment. Tony speaks all over the country, all over the world, and this February he will be in Idaho. Tony is professor emeritus of sociology at Eastern University, a former faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania, and the founder and president of the Evangelical Association for the Promotion of Education. He has written more than 35 books. He is one of the founders of the Red Letter Christian movement and blogs regularly at his website, RedLetterChristians.org, and can also be found on both Facebook and Twitter.
Tony Campolo will speak Friday evening.
SUSAN BRIEHL is a Lutheran pastor called by the Indiana-Kentucky Synod to serve the greater church as a teacher, writer, and liturgist. Previously she served with her husband Martin Wells as Executive Director of Holden Village, as campus pastor at Pacific Lutheran University, and as pastor of Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Bellingham, WA. She has taught preaching and parish worship at Wartburg Seminary. She has written numerous hymns, worship songs, liturgical texts, and books, including On Our Way: Christian Practices for Living a Whole Life, edited with Dorothy Bass (Upper Room), Holden Prayer around the Cross: A Guide to the Liturgy, with Tom Witt (Augsburg), and, with Marty Haugen, Turn My Heart: A Sacred Journey; Unfailing Light: An Evening Setting of Holy Communion; and Santo: A Bilingual Setting (GIA). She lives in Spokane, WA.
Pastor Susan Briehl will speak Saturday afternoon and present workshops.
MARTY HAUGEN is a long-time and well known liturgical composer. He is also a workshop presenter, performing and recording artist & author from Eagan, Minnesota. For the past 30 years, Marty has presented workshops and concerts across North and Central America, Europe, Asia and the Pacific Rim. He has over 40 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 several published mass settings for Roman Catholic communities, including Mass of Creation, and several liturgical settings for Lutheran congregations, including Holden Evening Prayer, 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 Haugen will be with us throughout the weekend for prayer services, workshops, and liturgies.
DAVID LOSE is well known to many area pastors as author of an popular preaching blog. He is the President of The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. Before returning to his alma mater, Lose taught on the faculty of Luther Seminary (St. Paul, MN) for fourteen years. While there, he also served a term as Academic Dean, was the founding director of the Center for Biblical Preaching, and led the creative team that developed WorkingPreacher.org. Author of Preaching at the Crossroads (2013) and the popular Making Sense series of books and resources from Augsburg Fortress, Lose has also written for the Huffington Post, Patheos, and The Christian Century. You can find his daily bible devotions and other writings and reflections on connecting faith to daily life at “…In the Meantime” (www.davidlose.net). Lose speaks throughout the US and abroad on preaching, leadership, Christian faith in a postmodern world, and biblical imagination.. David Lose will speak Saturday morning, give workshops, and preach at Sunday worship.
MIA CROSTHWAITE is a local speaker with a powerful voice. She has been speaking, writing and teaching about living a life modeled on Christ for almost twenty years. She wrote, Go and Do Likewise, Catholic Social Teaching in Action, published by Twenty Third Publications and served many years in ministry in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boise. She has spoken locally and nationally, including events all over Idaho along with the LA Religious Education Congress, National Catholic Catechetical Leaders conference, and others. She holds a Master in Pastoral Studies from Loyola University New Orleans and is currently working on a Master of Divinity from Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN. Mia is a candidate for ordained ministry in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and is the founding director of the Idaho Discipleship Conference. Mia Crosthwaite will speak Sunday morning.
