New Wineskins group offers scholarships to convocation
The Layman Online, April 25, 2005
The New Wineskins Initiative has begun offering scholarships for delegates to a national convocation considering a “bold new design” for the Presbyterian Church (USA).
The convocation, with the theme “Following Christ into the 21st Century,” will be held June 15-18 at Christ Presbyterian Church in Edina, Minn.
Organizers of the convocation said the scholarships are designed to help defray travel costs and will be provided to delegates who request financial assistance. More information is available by calling the New Wineskins Initiative at 888-754-9693 or writing the group at 7435 E. Oxford Ct., Wichita, Kan. 67226.
Delegates to the convocation will refine and vote on draft documents that propose new statements of faith essentials and ethical imperatives, as well as a revised constitution that calls for greater flexibility, a new approach to leadership development at the congregational level and a pared-down, adaptive service structure at the national level.
While the convocation will include preaching, prayer and worship, as well as an international flavor with guests and speakers from Presbyterian churches around the world, the focus will be on how evangelical Presbyterians respond to what task force leaders called “grave concerns about the health and effectiveness of our present organization” in theology, mission and structure.
More information about the convocation is available on a special convocation Web site.