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Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference and UMC Mobilization

Reckoning with Power: 
Destroying Caste and Restoring Community

"For the Kingdom of God depends not on talk but on power."
I Corinthians 4:20 (NIV)

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Book: Ministry with Prisoners and Families: The Way Forward

Conference Details

February 6-10, 2012
The Drake Hotel
Chicago, IL

**Please note the venue has changed.**

  • February 6-9: SDPC Reckoning With Power: Destroying Caste and Restoring Community
  • February 9-10: UMC Mobilization to End Mass Incarceration

For more information: Contact Bill Mefford, Director, Office of Civil and Human Rights at the General Board of Church & Society, (202) 488-5657; or Laura Markle Downton, Criminal Justice Grassroots Coordinator, General Board of Church and Society, (202) 495-2956.

Workshops

  • Back-to-Black, For Such a Time As This: Activating the Moral Agenda in Public Policy
  • Catch the Fire: Preaching to Empower Faithful Action
  • Combating the Issues of Mass Incarceration
  • Creating Communion: Ecumenical Interfaith Mobilization
  • Global Missions in the 21st Century: Why and How
  • God Made Dirt: The Power of Green for Community Restoration & Empowerment
  • In Whose Image? Reckoning with the Power of Social and Mass Media
  • Not Then, But Now: Emergency Preparedness!
  • Organizing Pastoral Teams for Congregational Development and Prophetic Witness
  • Our Choice: The Power of Healthy Bodies, Faithful Spirits and Sound Minds
  • Reclaiming the Power of the Vote
  • Silence, Shame, and Sex: The Power of Honest Dialogue
  • Sisters of the Rock: Ministering in the Clearing
  • The Power of Arts and Culture as Forms of Resistance and Empowerment
  • Tweens, Teens and Faith: Raising a New Generation of Prophets

Speakers Include:

  • Rev. Dr. Emilie Townes
  • Michelle Alexander, Esq.
  • Rev. Dr. Delman Coates
  • Rev. Dr. Raquel Sinclair
  • Rev. Dr. Mack King Carter
  • Kirk Clay
  • Rev. Dr. Drew Smith
  • Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD
  • Rev. Dr. Angelique Walker Smith
  • Rev. Dr. Robina Winbush
  • Rev. Dr. Lance Watson
  • Terry Mason, MD
  • Tony Burroughs
  • Stephanie Crumpton
  • Rev. Eustacia Moffett Marshall
  • Rev. Dr. Robert Burkins
  • Rev. Dr. Forrest Harris, Sr.
  • Rev. Dr. Valerie Bridgeman
  • Rev. Vanessa Monroe