Conferences Category
Missions Emphasis Week
This week is Missions Emphasis Week–one of my favorite weeks of the school year, without a doubt!
Similar to the Neal Conference, guest speakers are invited and the goal is to encourage the student body and locals to think about the advancement of God’s kingdom around the world.
Here’s a glimpse of the schedule:
Monday
-Roger and Abi Lowther, [...]
Published on Nov 16, 2008 at 9:27 pm.
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Neal Conference 2008
This year’s theme for the Neal Conference on True Spirituality is “How God Shapes a Kindom Conscience”. The guest speaker is Rev. John Smed, who served seven years as Denominational Church Planting Coordinator for the PCA. He moved to Vancouver to start Grace Vancouver Church in 1999. The guest musician this year is Fernado Ortega. [...]
Published on Sep 15, 2008 at 4:06 pm.
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RUF Winter Conference
This past weekend, I had the privilege of spending time with 28 other Covenant students (and hundreds of students from other universities) at Fall Creek Falls. Fall Creek Falls state park is located in Pikeville, TN and is the home of one of the highest waterfalls east of the Rocky Mountains.
Published on Feb 26, 2008 at 2:58 pm.
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Marriage, Family, and Community Conference
I’m soo excited Dr. Paul Tripp is speaking here at Covenant! I love his books! He’s also a very engaging speaker. As I mentioned in one of my previous entries, Dr. Tripp is speaking at Covenant for the Marriage, Family, and Community Conference. Today, in our first session, he announced to us that “the biggest problem [...]
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Published on Feb 18, 2008 at 9:00 pm.
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Faith and International Development Conference
This conference was held at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. The theme was Sustainability: Fruit that Lasts.
40-some Covenant students and a of couple Lee students drove up to Michigan this past weekend for this conference. It was an amazing conference and the Calvin students were very hospitable. I think one of my favorite aspects of this conference [...]
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Published on Feb 3, 2008 at 2:33 pm.
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MTW Conference
I haven’t really had the chance to sit down and reflect upon the Mission to the World Conference until now. The conference was pretty fast paced and overwhelming. I took notes like crazy and ended up skipping one session just to sit in my room by myself to think and pray. It was not only [...]
Published on Nov 24, 2007 at 11:59 pm.
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Neal Conference
The big highlight of this week at Covenant is the Neal Conference. This event is annual and people come from all around the local area/US to be part of it (if I’m not mistaken). This year’s musician was Phil Wickham and the featuring speaker was Mindy Belz (editor of World magazine). Our keynote speaker this year [...]
Published on Sep 20, 2007 at 1:41 pm.
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