One hour workshops/papers on Tuesday 14-15
Steve Weisz (USA)
Role Conflicts and Role Expectations for College Chaplains
Tuesday 14-15, Room LS B3109
About Leader: Steve has been in chaplaincy 33 years- 27 in a small church related college and seven in a large university.
About Workshop: I will be presenting data on this subject which I obtained for my doctoral dissertation. I will distribute a list of all of the expectations I could gather from students and chaplains about what roles they expect chaplains to play
Geoff Boyce (AUS)
A Multifaith Chaplaincy -Work In Progress: a discussion about outcomes from 10 years of cultural change at Flinders University
Tuesday 14-15, Room LS B3110
About Leader: Geoff Boyce is Coordinating Chaplain at Flinders University of South Australia, appointed by the Uniting Church in Australia in 1997. Formally he was a secondary school teacher in state schools in South Australia, initially in Science and then Social Sciences. He is married to Sandy and they have three adult children. Geoff is President of the Tertiary Campus Ministry Association in Australia.
About Workshop: This workshop explores implications of evolving from an individualistic to a cooperative, colleagial model of chaplaincy by first sharing the story of ten years of experimentation in re-inventing chaplaincy in response to changing landscapes in youth and university culture.
Intending participants are encouraged to look at www.flinders.edu.au/oasi
Rev. Kristin Stoneking & Hugh Muldoon (USA)
Intentional Student Residential Communities, Earth-Based and Multifaith: Two Models from the USA
Tuesday 14-15, Room LS B3111
About Leaders: Rev. Kristin Stoneking is Director of the Cal Aggie Christian Association in Davis, California. As a past president of the National Campus Ministry Association (USA), she has lectured at the Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California, and consulted widely with denominational bodies, educational institutions and non profit boards on campus and young adult ministry.
Hugh Muldoon is Director of University Christian Ministries at the Interfaith Center at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. With over fifteen years in higher education with Roman Catholic and liberal Protestant campus ministries, Hugh works on social justice priorities with students and faculty from a perspective of progressive Christianity.
About Workshop: The Cal Aggie Christian Association at the University of California, Davis, will open a 38 bed Multifaith Living Community in September 2008 designed to facilitate significant connections between students of diverse faiths. Starting from the belief that the world?s religions have common values that allow relationship and pursuit of common goals, the community will feature weekly organic, vegetarian meals; green features such as full photovoltaics and 2 shared electric vehicles; service projects and trips; and access to a range of spiritual mentors. The workshop will give insight into the building of the facility and community, and explore the theological and scriptural support for doing this kind of ministry out of the Christian tradition.
Gaia House is a proposed residential center incorporating sustainable architecture and lifestyling. Designed for 150 beds in a LEED Platinum building, the facility offers university students and faculty a learning laboratory for earth-comaptible construction and faith-based ecological living. Programming highlights earth-body-community friendly cooking and eating experiences, leadership training in non-violent intercultural-interfaith-international communications, and seminar plus experiential sessions on the relationships between major social-economic-political issues and spiritual values. A brief overview of the project will be followed by a discussion of the dilemmas facing the development of such an innovative and ambitious project.
Paul V. Sorrentino (USA)
Religious Pluralism: What do College Students Want and Implications for Multifaith Involvement
Tuesday 14-15, Room LS B3117
About Leader: I have been in campus ministry for 27 years, the last eight as Director of Religious Life at Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts where I also advise the Multifaith Council and Christian Fellowship. I hold a B.A. (U. of Rhode Island.), M.A. (U. Chicago), M.Div. (Bethel Seminary of the East) and D.Min. (Princeton Seminary). I am a member of the National Association of College and University Chaplains (NACUC) executive board.
About Workshop: How can we serve a multifaith community in a way that is respectful of different traditions and meaningful to the various faith adherents? A key element often missing in seeking to address this concern is what do religiously involved students think about coming together with people of other faiths? I will discuss key findings of my D. Min. research on this topic with Amherst College students and the difference this should make for chaplaincy work.
Revd Dr Stuart Jennings (UK)
Local faith communities and the University
Tuesday 14-15, Room LS B4113
About Leader: Stuart Jennings is a full-time Christian Chaplain serving both the Universities of Warwick and Coventry. He is a Trustee of the Coventry Multi-Faith Forum and previously served for 9 years with the Leicester Council of Faiths.
About Workshop: Across many of our cities in Europe, migration has led to the establishment of various local faith communities. These contain a wealth of information, support, experience and cultural awareness that can and should be used by the university in supporting its students (both home and international). This paper/orkshop explores how one such scheme is being developed at Warwick and Coventry universities in the UK
Jan Fuller (USA)
Mystical mavericks: Models for those who need (but don't necessarily want) to lead
Tuesday 14-15 Room LS B4115
About Leader: Jan Fuller is the Chaplain at Hollins University in Roanoke, VA USA where she has served for 21 years. She is a native of Beirut, Lebanon.
About Workshop: Based on the lives and witness of several medieval women mystics, this paper will examine leadership characteristics that describe a leader under less than ideal circumstances. How does one proceed when the church does not recognize one's leadership, when there are no precedents, when the leader is not wanted or even trained, or when there is nobody to lead? Models will include Hildegard of Bingen, Julian of Norwich, and several others.
Carlos T. Mendez, Jr. (PH)
Chaplaincy in the Episcopal Church In The Philippines: In The Light of Hope, Visions and Challenges Of a Struggling Nation
Tuesday 14-15, Room LS B4116
Historical Backgrounder: A brief and general presentation of Philippine historical contexts or settings; the coming, vision and strategies of the Episcopal Church in the United State in the Philippines; highlighting some impacts, values and ill-effects from the perspectives of a Chaplain
Current Situation: Brief and broad current situation of the Episcopal Schools, Colleges and Universities in the Philippines; sharing hopes, visions and some specific area of concerns, challenges and recommendations
Prayers and solidarity: Sharing of prayers, support, cooperation and gratitud
Püski Dániel (HUN)
Protestant student ministries in the Carpathian basin since 1989
Tuesday 14-15, Room RH B3113
About Leader: Püski Dániel has been working in reformed student ministry since 2006 in Debrecen, Hungary. He received education in environmental geography (M.Sc) and theology (M.Div) in Debrecen and in Princeton, NJ, USA (ThM). He is currently working on his PhD dissertation in systematic theology in Debrecen.
He is interested in youth ministry, church growth and systematic theology. He is organizing church camps for university students and special education for youth leaders. He is married and father of one.
About Workshop: During the communist period (1945-1989) student ministry was prohibited for churches in the Eastern Part of Europe. After the 'Falling of the Wall' Protestant student congregations were re-established in the Carpathian Basin and in Central Europe as well. Without any experience the renewal could be only occasional and local. In the second part of the last decade the Churches started supporting these ministries and since the turn of the century in almost every bigger state-owned universities at least part-time positions were created. These positions are maintained and supported only by the churches but most of the universities are open for cooperation.
Nowadays about 10 Calvinist Reformed and 5 Lutheran student congregation are working in Hungary and in the Hungarian speaking parts of Romania, Ukraine and Slovakia and there are new proposals to establish new ministries in new cities. In the sturdent congregations were are also experiencing that students are changing (globalization, internet, media) and we are interested in finding new ways to reach them.
Atte Airaksinen (FIN)
Chaplaincy in the World Skills competition
Tuesday 14-15, Room RH B4114
About Leader: Rev. Atte Airaksinen works both as the chaplain for the vocational institutions in the Turku area and as the chaplain for the Turku University of Applied Sciences. He has been the chaplain for the Finnish team in the World Skills competition twice, in 2005 Helsinki, Finland and 2007 Shizuoka, Japan.
About Workshop: What does it mean to work as a chaplain with a team and for a team training for the World Skills competition? Every other year hundreds of young people around the world take part in the World Skills competitions to see who is the best waiter, car mechanic,carpenter etc. in the world.
They represent the best of their peers drawn from regional and national skill competitions held currently in 49 countries/regions.
Teachers from the vocational field of education work as trainers, juries, delegates and team leaders in the competition. As chaplains it is our duty to interact with these people. Why not then to do it in the WorldSkills competitions as well?
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