Seven Challenges in Multicultural, Multi-congregational Worship
Worshiping regularly with a congregation culturally dissimilar from yours is challenging but worth it. Understanding these challenges can also help you change worship to better include different cultural groups within your church.
July 6, 2018
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7 min read
Multicultural Congregations Meet for Combined Worship Services
Three church groups started out as separate congregations sharing one building. Now regularly-scheduled joint worship helps them see themselves as members of one body in Christ.
July 6, 2018
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7 min read
Christina Edmondson on Church Multicultural Accessibility Committees
John 17 records Jesus’ prayer for unity “so that the world may know that you have sent me and loved them.” It is a powerful witness when churches model unity within diversity. This witness requires intention and prayer.
July 2, 2018
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7 min read
Matthew D. Kim on Preaching with Cultural Intelligence
Preachers who interpret scripture without paying attention to cultural, ethnic, and other differences in their congregation miss out on opportunities to build bridges to their listeners’ lives.
June 29, 2018
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6 min read
Christina Edmondson on Doctrine and Multicultural Hospitality
To become more multicultural, congregations must help members discern differences between biblical doctrines and cultural biases.
June 29, 2018
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5 min read
Anne Emile Zaki on Preaching and Teaching in Today’s Egypt
After becoming a seminary professor in Egypt in 2013, Anne Zaki discovered two things about preaching that she hadn’t learned in the North American context.
June 15, 2018
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7 min read
Becoming a Reconciling Community
In this workshop, we focused on what it looks like for a church to be committed to racial reconciliation for the long haul and offered five foundational practices for becoming a reconciling community.
May 15, 2018
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62 min listen
Let the Times Declare!: Socio-demographic Shifts and the Future of Young People in the North American Church
What are the times proclaiming? What are the demographic shifts clamoring for our ministries?
May 11, 2018
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57 min listen
Stories of Indigenous Life
Join Cheryl Bear as she leads a vesper service at the 2018 Symposium on Worship.
May 1, 2018
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21 min video
Quédate con nosotros/Abide with Us
A bilingual vesper service at the 2018 Worship Symposium. Led by Carlos Colón, María Monteiro, María Cornou, and Mariachi Ágape.
April 25, 2018
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54 min video
Songs of the Refugees
Songs and prayers of the refugees, a vesper service led by Jaewoo Kim and Proskuneo held at Worship Symposium 2018.
April 25, 2018
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45 min video
Mutuality in Worship: Sharing Our Stories and Gifts
This workshop focused on practical ways to involve people's stories, songs, and gifts in our corporate worship times—all with the goal of unity in diversity.
April 13, 2018
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57 min listen
