2012 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2012
| 12:00 PM - 5:30 PM | Hands-On Participatory Pre-conference Sessions | CHE Introductory Seminar The use of Art Therapy in the Healing of At-Risk Children | Terry Dalrymple Doris Arrington | ||
| 5:30-6:00 PM | Break | ||||
| 6:00-7:15 PM | Dinner and Special Musical Guest | Evan Wickham | Travis | ||
| 7:20-8:00 PM | PLENARY 1 | The Church and Shalom This plenary session seeks to equip the conference participant with a theological framework for how the local church is called to be a transforming agent of mission in their community. This Plenary Sessionwill specifically challenge mission pastors and other church leaders to see the critical role of healing mission in the local church, specifically in regards to health missions. Key question – How does the church transform identity and equip its members? | Gil Odendaal | No CME | Travis |
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
| 8:00-8:05 AM | WELCOME | Isaac Voss | Travis | ||
| 8:05-8:20 AM | Worship, | Travis | |||
| 8:30-9:15 AM | PLENARY 2 | Theological Perspective on Shalom as Health This plenary session provides the conference attendee with a theological framework for understanding health as shalom. This session will form a foundational background for the other sessions during the conference. This session will be an adapted version of chapter three from, Walking with the Poor (Myers 2011) + Christian Witness and Shalom The purpose of this session is to equip the conference participant with a framework for understanding Christian witness in the context of health missions. | Bryant Myers | No CME | Travis |
| 9:20-10:05 AM | PLENARY 3 | Whole-Person Care The purpose of this plenary session is to equip the conference participant with a biblical framework for whole-person care, specifically in regards to transforming marred identity, vocation and relationships. | Dan Fountain | No CME | Travis |
| 10:05-10:20 AM | Break | Travis | |||
| 10:20-11:05 AM | PLENARY 4 | Practices of Lament The purpose of this plenary session is to equip the conference attender with a practical, biblical framework and specific strategies for processing the suffering and grief which is persistently experienced as a health worker. Key Question – How do the themes of identity, vocation and key relationships inform the practices of lament? | Erin Dufault-Hunter | No CME | Travis |
| 11:10 AM-12:00 PM | PANEL DISCUSSION | Panel Discussion What is primary motivation for the church to become involved with health care? Have there been successful models? What has not worked? How is the Holy Spirit moving today in the area of health ministry and missions? | Bryant Myers
Other guests | No CME | Travis |
| 12:00-2:00 PM | Lunch and Exhibitors | ||||
| 2:00-3:00 PM | WORKSHOP 1a | THE CHURCH: | T | No CME | |
| 2:00-3:00 PM | WORKSHOP 1b | KINGDOM OF GOD, HEALTH AND SHALOM: Prayer in the Workplace | Katy White | No CME | |
| 2:00-3:00 PM | WORKSHOP 1c | THE HEALTH MOVEMENT: The Lay Health Movement This workshop will provide a evidence-based profile of the Mississippi Lay Health Provider program within the shalom framework. How does the Mississippi Lay Health Provider program facilitate transformed identity and vocation within a relational-shalom framework? | Grace Tazelaar | CME/CEU | |
| 3:00-3:15 PM | Break | ||||
| 3:15-4:15 PM | WORKSHOP 2a | THE CHURCH: The Korean American Health Mission Movement | Chisoo Choi | No CME | |
| 3:15-4:15 PM | WORKSHOP 2b | KINGDOM OF GOD, HEALTH AND SHALOM: Forgiveness | David Levy, MD | No CME | |
| 3:15-4:15 PM | WORKSHOP 2c | THE HEALTH MOVEMENT: Best Practices in Short-term Medical Missions This workshop provides a framework for short-term Health Missions programs. How does the proposed framework for standards of excellence in short-term health missions facilitate transformed senders, goers and host-receivers in the target community? | Michael Soderling | ||
| 4:15-4:30 PM | Break | ||||
| 4:30-5:30 PM | HOT-TOPIC DEBATE | THE CHURCH: The church should be the community dispensary for health and healing? [Pro/Con]
| Pro: Gil Odendaal Con: Bob Arrington | ||
| 4:30-5:30 PM | BRIEF PRESENTATIONS SESSION | ||||
| 4:30-5:30 PM | HOT-TOPIC DEBATE | THE HEALTH MOVEMENT: North American churches should actively promote short term medical mission trips [Pro/Con]
| Pro: Con: |
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2012
| 8:00-8:05 AM | Welcome | Peter Yorgin | Travis | ||
| 8:05-8:30 AM | Worship, Devotion and Prayer | Travis | |||
| 8:30-8:45 AM | Break | ||||
| 8:45-9:45 AM | WORKSHOP 3a | THE CHURCH: Mental health
| Anna Wong McDonald | CME/CEU | |
| 8:45-9:45 AM | WORKSHOP 3b | KINGDOM OF GOD, HEALTH AND SHALOM: At Risk Children The purpose of this workshop session is to provide a survey of the health concerns in the field of children at risk and to specifically consider certain strategies of response. Key Questions – What are the key health, identity, vocational and relationship issues for these children? What are the best models for effective health ministry? | Dave Scott | CME | |
| 8:45-9:45 AM | WORKSHOP 3c | THE HEALTH MOVEMENT: Incarnational Ministry with Urban Poor This workshop session will outline the unique challenges for health workersof North American urban missions. How does the shalom framework inform the urban healthcare specifically in regards to transforming identity, vocation and the key relationships? | Rick Donlon Katy White | No CME | |
| 9:45-10:00 AM | Break | ||||
| 10:00-11:00 AM | INTEREST SECTION/CASE PRESENTATION | THE CHURCH: Pastors and Students | No CME | ||
| 10:00-11:00 AM | INTEREST SECTION/CASE PRESENTATION | KINGDOM OF GOD, HEALTH AND SHALOM: Urban Health Ministries | Rick Donlon | CME/CEU | |
| 10:00-11:00 AM | INTEREST SECTION/CASE PRESENTATION | HEALTH MOVEMENT: International Goers, Senders and Host Receivers | Moderator: Peter Yorgin Michael Soderling MD | CME/CEU | |
| 11:00 AM-1:30 PM | Lunch and Exhibitors | ||||
| 1:30-2:30 PM | WORKSHOP 4a | THE CHURCH: Relationships, Burn-out and Sustainability To explore the connections of chronic stress for health workers and to provide a practical framework and some strategies for responding. Recommended resources include Margin (Swenson 2004) Sally Schwer Canning’s article on “Grit and Grace” (Schwer Canning 2009). | Cynthia Erickson Ashley Wilkins PhD. | CME/CEU | |
| 1:30-2:30 PM | WORKSHOP 4b | KINGDOM OF GOD, HEALTH AND SHALOM: HIV/AIDS This workshop will introduce the conference attender to the reality of HIV/AIDS in Africa and to articulate a response. | Emmanuel Katongole, Ph.D. | CME/CEU | |
| 1:30-2:30 PM | WORKSHOP 4c | HEALTH MOVEMENT: Church-based health, education and screening This workshop sesssion will review the current activities of the church in the community health education and screening realms including health fairs and an one-on-one educational sessions. This session will focus on evidence-based best practices. | Arnie Gorske | CME/CEU | |
| 2:30-2:45 PM | Break | ||||
| 2:45-3:45 PM | WORKSHOP 5a | THE CHURCH: Healing prayer | Mark Dahle | No CME/CEU | |
| 2:45-3:45 PM | WORKSHOP 5b | KINGDOM OF GOD, HEALTH AND SHALOM: End of life care
| Erin Dufault-Hunter | ||
| 2:45-3:45 PM | WORKSHOP 5c | HEALTH MOVEMENT: Nursing Best Practices | Greg Seager | CME/CEU | |
| 3:45-4:00 PM | Break | ||||
| 4:05-4:50 PM | PLENARY 5 | Spiritual Integration with Patients in a Clinical Setting | Michael McLaughlin | Travis | |
| 4:55-5:40 PM | PLENARY 6 | TBD | Rick Donlon | Travis | |
| 5:40-6:00 PM | Call to committment | ||||
| 6:00 PM | Close |
pdf version of Saturday schedule
Revised 5/15/2012