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Glocal = Global + Local
Learning that to be in Mission is to be Active both Globally and Locally
While voting members and visitors at the 2012 NT-NL Mission Assembly are busy with their assembly schedule, you may want to just come for the day on Saturday to be a part of the Glocal Mission Gathering activities. Please do!! You will register separately as a "Glocal Participant" and pay a $35 registration fee to cover the costs of the Glocal program and box lunch. Tickets to the evening assembly banquet, if desired, are an additonal $25.
Learn about "Glocal" events -- watch the Glocal Video.
SPEND A DAY LEARNING TO BE GLOCAL IN FAITH AND ACTION
AND HEAR FROM
The Rev. Rafael Malpica-Padilla
ELCA Executive Director, Global Mission
As executive director for the Global Mission unit of the ELCA, Pastor Malpica-Padilla oversees the ELCA’s worldwide program, international disaster response, sustainable development and global advocacy. Pastor Malpica-Padilla has also served as bishop of the ELCA’s Caribbean Synod from 1987-1993 and as a parish pastor in Puerto Rico. Pastor Malpica-Padilla holds a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Puerto Rico (1977) and a Master of Divinity degree from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (1981). He has been awarded a Doctor of Divinity degree by Newberry College in South Carolina in 1989, the Academy of Ecumenical Indian Theology and Church Administration in India in 2006 and by Trinity Lutheran Seminary in 2010. Read an interview with Pr. Malpica-Padilla.
Sunitha Mortha
ELCA Director for Global Formation
Ordained through the Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church in India, Sunitha Mortha serves as Director for Mission Formation & Relationships for the ELCA. She has created programs and systems that have developed congregational capacities to critically explore worldviews, meta-narratives and cultures to motivate better practices of mission, globally and locally. She is committed to community-building, mobilizing, and providing safe environments for difficult, complex conversations. The Glocal Mission Gatherings and Accompaniment resources reflect her work.
The Rev. Kate Warn
Missionary-in-Residence, Sierra Leone
Kate is bringing to conclusion a three-year time of service among the people of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sierra Leone as NT-NL's Missionary-in-Residence. In that position Kate Warn has worked tirelessly to help improve the lives of the people (Sierra Leone is still listed as the poorest country on earth), to help expand the ELCSL, to develop worship resources for the church, to teach, preach and bring leadership to many projects involving women, children and the poor. Read Pastor Kate's blog.
God's work in mission always propels us to encounter the neighbor, particularly in the stranger. ELCA Glocal Mission Gatherings equip us for God's work in today's global and local realities as well as their "glocal" intersections. What is mission? Who is the neighbor? We will consider these questions together as they relate to our migrating and immigrating world. Come, join us for mission conversations around the realities of the world we live in today.
Accompaniment is relationships -- sharing, growing, serving together
Accompaniment is walking together in solidarity
Accompaniment is interdependence and mutuality
GLOCAL HIGHLIGHTS
GLOCAL SCHEDULE
CELEBRATE ELCA GLOBAL MISSION!
SATURDAY, APRIL 28
SPEAKERS: Rev. Rafael Malpica-Padilla will speak on the ELCA's practice of Global Accompaniment and also bring the ELCA Report. Sunitha Mortha will speak on Understanding Culture. Rev. Kate Warn will be available during the event and workshops to reflect on her time in Sierra Leone on our behalf.
WORSHIP: We will be enriched by the presence of several glocal musicians who will introduce us to the music of faithful people from around the globe.
GLOBAL MARKETPLACE & VILLAGE: Stroll through an area of the conference center where arts, crafts, foods and displays are available to you.
GLOCAL WORKSHOPS may include (full list will be available as you arrive for the day):
Cross-Generational Engagement Growing a Missional Congregation Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service Mission 101 Music and Mission On the Move: Conversation on Faith and Migration Radical Hospitality Short Term Mission Social Action Stewardship: Embracing the Gifts of Diversity
