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Pastoral Leaders Consider Conflict “Wrestling with the Angels: Conflict and Spirituality” drew 50 leaders to ABSW’s annual Pastoral Leadership Conference in January. Speed Leas, senior consultant for The Alban Institute and visiting professor of congregational leadership at the Pacific School of Religion, was the keynote speaker at the three-day event, held at San Damiano Retreat in Danville, Calif. The conference also included worship, with preaching by the Rev. Felicia Thomas, a Baptist minister on the staff of Middle Collegiate Church in New York. This was the third conference at San Damiano. The Rev. Jim Hopkins, a 1983 graduate of ABSW and senior pastor of Lakeshore Avenue Baptist Church in Oakland, has attended all three gatherings and found them helpful for his ministry. “It's good to be part of the community of colleagues,” he says. The 2005 Pastoral Leadership Conference will be held January 10-12, again at San Damiano. The theme is “Rediscovering Pastoral Care” and major leadership will be given by Dr. Archie Smith, professor of pastoral psychology and counseling at Pacific School of Religion, and Dr. Judy Yates Siker, ABSW assistant professor of New Testament. For further information, please contact Dr. Nancy Hall, ABSW director of continuing education, at 510-841-1905, ext. 232, or nhall@absw.edu. |
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