Upcoming Events – August 2013
Bishop Lindsey Davis will be speaking in Estes Chapel
on the Wilmore Campus at 11am on Oct 29, 2013
Chapel is immediately followed by a talk-back session with Bishop
Bishop Davis is the Bishop of the Kentucky Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Prior to serving the Kentucky Annual Conference, he served as Bishop of the North Georgia Area for twelve years. Bishop Davis has also served on the following: General Council on Ministries (1996-2000); as a Director of the General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM), and President of the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) (2000-2004); and on the General Council of Finance and Administration (GCFA) from 2004-2012, where he was the President from 2008-2012. He was a founding member of Path 1, our denominational new church planting emphasis, where he served on the board from 2004-2012. Currently he serves as the chair of the Audit Committee of the General Board of Global Ministries (GBGM), as the Vice President of Emory University Board of Trustees, and a member of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center Board of Emory University.
Kingdom Conference
“Upon this Rock: Church Planting & Missional Community in the 21st Century”
November 5-7, 2013
*Free Event*
Conference Speakers: Bishop Graham Cray, Archbishops’ Missioner and Team Leader of Fresh Expressions. Before serving in this capacity, he was the Bishop of Maidstone and the Bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury, the principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge, a Church of England Theological College, and the vicar of St. Michael-le-Belfrey, York.
Bishop Sundo Kim, Rev. Dr. Sundo Kim pastored Kwanglim Methodist Church in Seoul, South Korea for 30 years. Under his guidance and leadership, the church grew to be the largest Methodist church in the world. Bishop Kim joined the Board of Trustees at Asbury Seminary in 1996. In 2005, Asbury Seminary dedicated the Bishop Sundo Kim Chair of Evangelism and Practical Theology.
Bioethics for Life and Ministry
“To strengthen clergy and other caregivers for ministry with those facing aging, death and dying, disability and birth technology issues”
February 4-6, 2014
Asbury Seminary Kentucky Campus
Keynote speaker: Dr. John Kilner Franklin, Forman Chair of Ethics, Professor of Bioethics and Contemporary Culture, and the Director of the Bioethics Program at Trinity International University
Additional speakers include: Dr. James Thobaben, Dr. Christine Pohl, Dr. Anne Gatobu, Dr. Beverly Johnson-Miller, Dr. Craig Keener, professors at Asbury Theological Seminary
Special guest speaker: Dr. Jim Holsinger, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Wethington Endowed Chair in the Health Sciences; Professor of Health Services Management and Preventive Medicine Pre-Registration Information: asbury.to/register | 888.5BEESON