2010 West Coast Conference Agenda
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Friday
- Registration 10:00am
- Conference Workshops (3 hours each): 2:00pm
- William Young: “Is God Really That Good?”
Emceed by Donilee McGinnis, Miss Oregon 2006 7:00pm - Post Talk Reception, Book Signing, Sponsors and Women and Work Display 8:30pm
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Saturday
- Opening Praise, Welcome, Introductions, A Look at Where We Are Going Today! 8:00am
- Keynote Presentation: “Letting Faith Transform You and Your Work” 9:00am
- First Series of Break-Out Sessions 10:00am
- Walkabout Displays and Lunch 11:00am
- Round Robin Panel Discussion: “Faith Issues At Work!” 12:30pm
- Open Mike: Time to discuss what’s on your mind. Includes time to visit Walkabout Displays 1:25pm
- Second Series of Breakout Sessions 3:00pm
- Keynote Wrap-Up: “Accepting the Challenge of Faith Transformation - For you and your work!” 4:30pm
- Where To Go From Here! 5:20pm
- Closing praise and Time on the Town! 6:15pm
Conference registration includes the Friday afternoon workshops, the Saturday program; and your ticket for William Young’s presentation. Additional tickets for Young’s presentation are available on-line. PURCHASE TICKETS!
- “Letting Faith Transform You and Your Work”
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People often say, “I am already a Christian at work. What’s different about what you are trying to say with this conference?” That’s a legitimate question. In a nutshell we are going to encourage participants to use Christ’s love and guidance in and through their work to bring hope, justice, equity, and dignity back into the workplace - and ultimately to the whole world. This is done through our faith, actions, and decisions while fulfilling our various job responsibilities. This is also when we will better begin to discover, serve, worship and co-operate with God wherever we are and in whatever we are confronting in today’s tough social and economic challenges.
- Keynote Speaker: Carolyn Schoenborn
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Carolyn Schoenborn will challenge people to look at how they view God and His call to let their faith be transformational in today’s work environments. This is not a talk on witnessing or being a good Christian at work. It is about changing our mental models of how we understand the Christian faith and its role in bringing hope, justice, equity and dignity to our places of work. As our faith relationship with Jesus creates us anew, it allows us to meet, worship, and co-operate with God in whole new ways in and through our places of work.
Round Robin Panel
Spokespersons from front line workforce, management, business owner and legal representation will respond to our keynote presentation and especially discuss the realities related to faith and spirituality issues in today’s work environment.Carolyn presently serves as the Executive Director of Life Journey Ministries, the sponsor of this conference. Her career is in performance management in the semi-conductor industry. She has been a private consultant in organizational management as well as a life coach. In addition to being a pastor’s wife, mother and grandmother, she has worked as a volunteer in poverty ridden communities. Carolyn holds masters degrees in both ministry and organizational management.
Friday Workshops
- “Environmentalism: The New Spirituality?” - Charles J. Kunert, Ph.D.
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This workshop will explore the implications of the environmental movement to our traditional understandings of Christianity. How should this affect the manner in which we view environmentalism? How does this information influence the way in which we view church? Are their lessons to be learned for outreach? All of these ideas and more will be explored.
Charles J. Kunert, Ph.D. (U. of Oregon, ‘85) currently serves as Dean of the College of Theology, Arts, & Sciences at Concordia University, Portland, Oregon. A molecular biologist by profession, he is Professor of Biology and still teaches in the areas of genetics, molecular biology, and evolution. He is the founder of Concordia’s Environmental Science program and the author of several scientific articles and science textbooks, and is currently authoring a work on the intersection of faith and science in the area of understanding our biological origins.
- Finding Meaning in the Face of Fear and Uncertainty - Bruce Strade, STM, LMFT
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This workshop is designed to help the unemployed, underemployed, or unenthusiastically employed, connect with an internal process that helps clarify what is important, what it is you are wanting, where it is you wish to go and how you choose to get there. It validates where you are in this journey and trusts your capacity to get what you want with the help of God.
Bruce Strade is currently the Executive Director of Northwest Parish Nurse Ministries. Prior to his current position, he served as Executive Director of Lutheran Family Service of Oregon and SW Washington after filling several area directorships and working as a family counselor. He has also taught New Testament, Counseling, Psychology, Latin and Greek and was Dean of Student Services at Concordia College in Portland, OR. He is an ordained minister of the LCMS, a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and presenter at conferences and retreats.
- Seeing Christ in the Workplace! - Professor and Pastor Phil Brandt
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“Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God” (I John 4:2 (ESV))
This workshop will seek to explore the embodiment of Christ in human form, both as something to be confessed and as something which radically changes the way the human being sees the world in which we work, play, and worship. The participant will be led to see the world and the whole of life as something holy because Christ has run the human race.
Professor and Pastor Phillip Brandt teaches New Testament Theology and the History of Theology at Concordia, Portland. He has conducted Pastoral conferences throughout the Northwest region and in Asia. Since 2007 he has been the convener of Sunday’s Sermon a preaching resource for the Licensed Deacons of the LCMS. He has over 13 years of parish ministry experience. He is presently working on his PhD at St. Andrews University, St. Andrews Scotland.
Break-Out Session Information
- Balancing Work and Personal Life - Mark Linnemann, Owner, Golf Team Products, Inc.
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How do you have a full career or run your own business without sacrificing your family and personal life in exchange. Mark Linnemann will share some personal anecdotes and strategies he has used and observed over the past 3 decades as an hourly employee, a graduate student, a financial services professional and now as a business owner.
Mark Linnemann has spent the last three decades of his life experiencing the joy and challenges of work in a variety of settings. He lives in Beaverton, Oregon with his wife Lois, daughter Lauren and sons Andrew and Aaron.
- Ethical Dilemmas in Our Fields of Work - Facilitated by Jim & Judy Redder, Horizon Airlines
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Today’s work environment with production slow-downs, staff reductions, and re-structuring has created additional dilemmas for today’s management personnel. During these events, middle management is often caught between the decision-makers and the front-line employees creating emotions and reactions that require enhanced management skill sets based in human understanding, patience, and respect. Together we will identify what ethical dilemmas may look like, share our experiences, and explore solutions through open discussions.
Judy received a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership. She is currently employed as the Manager of Curriculum Reporting at Clackamas Community College. Judy is also a licensed Radiology Technician. Jim received a Bachelor’s Degree in Zoology. He is also a licensed pilot and a licensed Aircraft Maintenance Technician. Jim is currently employed as the Director of Airworthiness at Horizon Air.
- How Do You Witness in the Workplace… Without Being Offensive - Judy Waetjen, Owner, A NEW SEASON - a Women’s Clothing Consignment Boutique
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Using the gifts you have been given, learn to communicate sincerely and honestly. Through role play explore ways to establish rapport as you listen with your heart. Your interest and demeanor will have them asking the questions. In all of this, dependence on the power of the Holy Spirit is a prerequisite.
Judy Waetjen, Graduate of Valparaiso University, Speech & Drama major, Business minor, Pastor’s wife, mother of 3, grandmother of 4, 18 years as Real Estate agent, 9 years as a Bed & Breakfast owner, presently owner of A NEW SEASON-a Women’s Clothing Consignment Boutique.
- How to Start a Business Facilitated by Joy Durham, Co-owner of Sisters Coffee
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Joy has a heart to mentor business women in their marketplace ministries. Come prepared to share your hopes and dreams, whether you are just starting a business or have been in business many years.
Joy Durham and her husband Winfield, are owners of Sisters Coffee Co, in beautiful Sisters Oregon. Established in 1989, they have co-labored, and raised three children in the business (literally). Since then Joy’s administrative gifting have been a vital part of the growth and continued success. Recently, Joy founded Fields of Joy Ministries which is a non-profit organization that helps women and children who are caught up in the sex slave industry.
- Legal Aspects Related to Faith in the Workplace Facilitated by Dan Lorenz, Attorney at Law, Daniel C. Lorenz Law Firm
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What’s appropriate? What can a person say and do from a legal perspective regarding faith practices in the workplace?
- Preaching to the Workplace - Professor and Pastor Phil Brandt
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Many of the metaphors which occupy our biblical texts are taken from the workplace of the first century. New Testament authors were deeply concerned to connect the content of their message to the world in which their readers worked. This workshop, especially designed for pastors and church workers, will seek to “unpack” a number of these metaphors and help the preacher breathe new life into their preaching and teaching ministry by revitalizing old metaphor and searching for new ways to express the Good News for the working man or woman.
Professor and Pastor Phillip Brandt teaches New Testament Theology and the History of Theology at Concordia, Portland. He has conducted Pastoral conferences throughout the Northwest region and in Asia. Since 2007 he has been the convener of Sunday’s Sermon a preaching resource for the Licensed Deacons of the LCMS. He has over 13 years of parish ministry experience. He is presently working on his PhD at St. Andrews University, St. Andrews Scotland.
- Profits versus People - Surviving the Battle! Facilitated by Kathleen Whiteside-Langdon - Co-Owner of Performance International
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As a leader in a company how do you do what is necessary from a company perspective, while still affirming the worth of the employee?
Kathleen Whiteside-Langdon worked ten years as a hospital executive and fifteen more as a management consultant. She and her husband, Danny Langdon, are the founders and lead consultants in Performance International, which provides services to companies and non-profits around the world that are going through great change–cultural, technological or strategic.
- Work Through the Eyes of Different Generations Facilitated by Deb Weaver, Horizon Air
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Explore and better understand the 4 generations that are currently in the American workplace. What generation are you? What generations do you work with? Explore your work ethics and values. Understand the age generations. Allow yourself to see your leaders, staff member and co-workers in a new way.
Deb Weaver. Middle management in Horizon Air’s Maintenance Division has been Deb’s career for over 27 years. She is an avid dog lover, owner of Another Wag, a pet sitting business, and a marathon walker.
“Walk-About” Information
Share Your Work in a Walk-About Conference Exhibit
Display your business, products and ministries to people attending this exciting conference focused on re-framing participants’ attitudes and understanding of work so they realize that ANYTHING God puts people into IS a ministry!
Prices:
Display Booth (Includes Table at the Walkabout and one Full Conference Registration):
Non-Profit Business............................$125.00
For-Profit Business.............................$150.00
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