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Watch a brief video that captures the learning and enthusiasm at Symposium 2015.
Watch video
A Practical Guide to Making Changes That Make a Difference.
This vesper service features the inspiring prayers, songs, and readings from the African American worship tradition past and present.
Plenary session delivered by Calvin Seerveld.
A slideshow of images from the 2015 conference
Join this conversation between Eric Sarwar, a Presbyterian pastor from Pakistan, and Emily Brink, Worship Institute staff member, about how Pakistani worship practices can bless and inform the Christian church in North America.
Este taller explorará maneras de revitalizar su predicación.
Is Christian worship for the believer or the skeptic? Is its purpose edification or evangelism? Should worship have depth and substance or should it be accessible to those who know little or nothing about the faith?
Plenary session delivered by Dorothy Bass.
This workshop features candid, wide-ranging discussions about the most important themes that worshiping communities may need to address in the next 10 years.
How do children worship best? How can worship help young people through the teen years? What practices of worship resonate most with adults and elderly people?
How can we, as musicians and lay and ordained ministers, cultivate our bodies as active instruments of God?
The Table is a dominant image for Christ followers gathering together to worship him. It communicates friendship, commitment, and intimacy. The church is in need of leaders who will work towards seeing every tribe and tongue present, reconciled, and celebrating diversity at the Table of corporate worship.
