program booklet - International Baptist Convention

Let’s Talk About WorshipRoom MosaikGiles BlankenshipJoin this week's worship leader Giles Blankenship and members of his team for an intimate andcandid panel discussion on issues and ideas related to worship (including serving with a team,worship styles, resources, and the worship leader). As we entertain your questions, we will also lookto biblical models of worship to inspire and challenge us as worshipers and worship planners.Giles Blankenship is a singer/songwriter with a heart for the Church. His latestrelease is a collection of songs about hope. Giles also serves as the worshippastor at Snyder Memorial Baptist Church, Fayetteville, North Carolina.Giles loves his family, soccer, and coffee and enjoys ‘kicking back’ with a goodnovel. He has been leading worship since 1992 for camps, retreats andconferences before moving to Snyder Memorial in 2003. Giles and his wifeKelly have two children, Davis and Sophie.LATE MORNINGPracticing Joyful DisciplinesRoom InselJerry & Dee ShevelandWe all know that "rejoicing always" is God's will for us, but when the stresses of life press in, how dowe intentionally practice the discipline of joy? This seminar will help you learn and apply fivepractical ways you can live a more joyful life.Jerry Sheveland has served as the President of Converge Worldwide (BGC) since 2002. Prior tothat, he pastored several Converge Worldwide churches in Colorado,Minnesota and California. He earned a master’s degree in Divinity and adoctorate of ministry and has taught numerous courses at BethelTheological Seminary and Denver Seminary. He authored a book entitledContentment and a Bible study series entitled Fire & Reign and Salt &Light through the book of Acts. His most recent books he authored with hiswife Dee, entitled Come and Follow, an interactive study of the book ofMark, and Overcome: A Survival Guide for Spiritual Leaders. He has twochildren and four grandchildren.Dee Sheveland earned two Master’s degrees at Bethel Seminary, SanDiego, California, in theological studies and marriage & family therapy.She served in pastoral ministry at College Avenue Baptist Church, in San Diego, and at HopeCollege, in Holland, Michigan. She also worked as a licensed therapist in San Diego for severalchurches. She has published spiritual formation materials and devotionals for Words of Hope andhas co-authored Come & Follow, an interactive study through the Gospel of Mark and Overcome: ASurvival Guide for Spiritual Leaders with her husband Jerry.Is Jesus Obsolete?Room UnoDiscussing the Christian Worldview in the Secular, Modern WorldBruce BoeckelOur modern world is quickly unravelling, with social chaos and personal despair all around us. Theconfident answers of a godless modernity no longer work (if they ever did), and many non-Christianthinkers are now willing to admit as much. In fact, the Christian worldview is the only perspectivethat makes sense of our present modern predicament, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ is the onlysolution for the human person and human society, now as always. However, whereas we oncecould assume that non-Christians understood and even accepted basic items of the Christianworldview – such as the dignity of human life or the need for basic morality – that assumption no- 15 -