Fred Ruppel
Treasurer Emeritus, St. Andrew’s Anglican Church
Professor Emeritus of Economics, Eastern Kentucky University

Reading just 15-20 minutes a day can get you through the Bible in a year. Let’s do it! But let’s not do it alone – get others in your church to join you. Come to this workshop to learn about alternative Bible reading plans and programs and get some input on what works and what doesn’t. Let’s have a Bible-reading group in every ADOTS parish!

Victoria Schwartz & Heather Goodbread

• How to begin: Establishing a rhythm that works
• Choosing a Bible and books and materials for devotions.
• Including children of different ages: What works for the whole family
• Prayer as a response to Scripture reading.
• A fresh way to approach Scripture memorization
• Incorporating the liturgy/BCP and celebrating the liturgical year

Executive Director of New Wineskins Missionary Network and ACNA Provincial Leader of the Global Mission Initiative

Let’s face it: many churches find it hard to do local, domestic, and international missions well at the same time. They struggle to choose whom to partner with and how to financially support it all. Often, we serve our local communities in “outreaches” that meet physical needs but don’t know how to lead people to Jesus and integrate them as disciples into our church family.  Also, many churches send short-term mission teams out or develop global partnerships, but don’t know how to make sure those relationships don’t become unhealthy dependencies. We’ll tackle many of these questions and your own in this workshop designed to help the local church take the gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth both locally and globally in biblical and sustainable ways!

The Very Rev. Chris Findley
Rector, St. Patrick’s Anglican Church
Dean, Nashville Deanery (ADOTS)

In the Fundamental Declarations of the Province, we read, “We receive the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion of 1571, taken in their literal and grammatical sense, as expressing the Anglican response to certain doctrinal issues controverted at that time, and as expressing fundamental principles of authentic Anglican belief.” (2019 Book of Common Prayer, p 767).  If this is the case, why are the Articles so neglected?  What might be the benefits for the Church in rediscovering this crucial part of our Anglican heritage?. J.I. Packer notes, “Facing and dialoguing with the Thirty-nine Articles will help Anglicans both the re-learn and re-apply some basic biblical truths with which authentic Anglican identity is bound up.” (Packer, The Thirty-Nine Articles: Their Place and Use Today, Latimer Press, 2006, 23)  This session will briefly introduce the history of the Articles, their theological significance, and their importance as one of the primary formularies of Anglican faith and practice. We will also explore some practical ways to study the articles in the local parish. 

The Rev. Chris Royer, PhD
Executive Director, Anglican Frontier Missions

Sacraments, Liturgy, & Prayer Book tradition need not be foreign incursions of Western preference when sharing the gospel with Muslims next door and around the globe, but supra-cultural, contextualizable tools in the evangelism and discipleship of believers from Muslim (and Hindu, Buddhist, and tribal) backgrounds. Come and learn more!