Here is the anticipated schedule for the 2009 SACEM Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, March 6-8. The conference will be held Harrington Center on the Columbia Theological Seminary campus.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

 11:00 am   Registration Open at the Harrington Center

 12:30 pm   Lunch at the Columbia Seminary Refectory

  1:30 pm   New Director’s Orientation begins 

  2:00 pm   SACEM Board meets

The 2009 Annual Conference for the Society for the Advancement of Continuing Education for Ministry will be held March 6-9 at Columbia Theological Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia. The leadership for the conference, which will address the theme of Crafting Continuing Education: Identity and Intentionality, will be Russ Moxley, Ron Cervero, and Kim Long.

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The purpose of SACEM is to strengthen the practice of continuing education for ministry. One of the ways we do this is through our annual conference. Next year's SACEM conference will be held March 6-8, 2009, in Atlanta on the campus of Columbia Theological Seminary. The theme for the conference will focus on strengthening the practice of continuing education for ministry in times of change. The 2009 conference will strive to continue the opportunities we have enjoyed in the past for conversations, networking and resource sharing, worship, and presentations and workshop opportunities. 

Recognizing that we are on the threshold of moving into the next wave of cultural transition, Chris Hammon and Vicki Hollon of the Wayne E. Oates Institute will present a workshop on Minsitry in the New World Matrix: Challenges and Opportunities for Lifelong Learning Providers during the 2008 SACEM Annual Conference. This workshop not only talks about what is happening in today’s congregations, but why it is happening. More significantly, the workshop seeks to address the challenges and the opportunities that that this latest wave of cultural transitions presents for providers of lifelong learning for ministry programs.