7:00 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
General Assembly Breakfast – Group Meal $23.00 (Sheraton
Hotel)
Speaker: Ms. Odessa Woolfolk, founding president of the Birmingham
Civil Rights Institute. Ms. Woolfolk
will share her experiences of Birmingham in the 60’s and
the events that led to the establishment of the Birmingham Civil
Rights Institute. While honoring the work that has been done
and recognizing that there is much still to be done in the area
of civil rights, it is important to recognize that there have
been many positive changes in Birmingham, in Alabama, and throughout
the country. Commissioners and Advisory Delegates are automatically
admitted to this event. Others are invited to purchase tickets.
7:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship Golf Tournament $125.00
This Golf Scramble will be held at the Robert Trent Jones Golf
Trail, the Ridge Course. The cost includes lunch, prizes, a
half-price coupon and a future round at the trail and a goody
bag. The scramble is sponsored by Presbyterian Frontier Fellowship and proceeds will support the ministry of the organization.
Bus transportation to the course will leave from the assembly
shuttle stop at the convention center.
8:30 a.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Mission/Cultural Tour 1
Black Belt of Alabama $35.00
Samuel “Sambo” Mockbee, was a practicing architect
and Professor of Architecture at Auburn University who conceived
and founded the Rural Studio concept. He dedicated his life,
as a teacher and as an architect, to the goal of providing “shelter
for the soul.” His inspirational and authentic architecture
served to improve the lives of the most impoverished residents
of rural Alabama. In 1992, Mockbee set out with twelve students
for what was to be a one-year educational experiment. Over a
decade later, Newbern, Alabama has become the Rural Studio’s
base and throughout the area the studio has designed and built
simple but innovative structures made of inexpensive, mostly
salvaged or donated, and often curious materials such as beat-up
railroad ties, old bricks, donated lumber, hay bales, baled
corrugated cardboard, rubber tires worn thin, auto license plates
and road signs. The day will include lunch served in Greensboro.
Transportation departs from the convention center.
Accessibility Advisory: One of the stops,
the “Tire Chapel,” is not wheelchair accessible.
There will be some walking on an unpaved, grassy area.
8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Mission/Cultural Tour 2
A Church, A Mission and an Iron Man $17.00
This tour will take you to South Highland Presbyterian Church
(SHPC), a 118-year-old Gothic structure. The congregation can
claim four former moderators of the General Assembly and site
of the 1917 and 1957 General Assemblies of the PCUS. The South
Highland Center (housed at the church) is a mission of SHPC
serving senior adults with memory disorders. The program has
been touted by PC(USA) leadership as an international model
for this type of ministry. The tour will also include a visit
to Vulcan, a Birmingham icon. Vulcan is the world’s largest
cast iron statue and was made to exhibit at the 1904 World’s
Fair in St. Louis. The observation balcony affords excellent
views of the city and a museum tells the story. Transportation
departs from the convention center.
9:00 a.m. – Noon
Assembly Committee Meetings (Convention Center)
9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Mission/Cultural Tour 3
Birmingham: Dark Yesterdays to Brighter Todays $18.00
This tour includes the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, site
of the 1963 bombing which galvanized the Civil Rights Movement
and legislation, as well as the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute,
whose exhibits covering both the pre- and post-civil rights
and human rights. The tour will ride by Kelly Ingram Park where
many marches were born. Transportation departs from the convention
center.
11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Synod of Alaska-Northwest Luncheon (Convention Center)
Synod luncheon for AL-NW commissioners and staff.
Noon – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
Noon – 1:15 p.m.
Presbyterians For Renewal Lunch-time Briefings (Convention Center)
Presbyterians For Renewal offers updates and progress reports
on the work of the committees and the emerging issues for the
plenary sessions. Lunch will be provided for $10.00 per person.
Observers are welcome.
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Covenant Network Luncheon $28.00 (Sheraton Hotel)
Fifty years after the first clergywomen were ordained, McCormick
Seminary President Cynthia Campbell and other Covenant Network leaders reflect on our continuing vision of a church that embraces
the ministry of all believers, and our hopes for this General
Assembly.
1:00 p.m.
New Business Deadline
1:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Assembly Committee Meetings (Convention Center)
1:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Mission/Cultural Tour 4
Birmingham: Dark Yesterdays and Brighter Todays $18.00
This tour includes the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, site
of the 1963 bombing which galvanized the Civil Rights Movement
and legislation, as well as the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute,
whose exhibits covering both the pre- and post-civil rights
and human rights. The tour will ride by Kelly Ingram Park where
many marches were born. Transportation departs from the convention
center.
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
12-Step Meetings (AA, NA, OA, ALANON) (Convention Center)
Sponsored by Presbyterian Network on Alcohol and Other Drug
Abuse (PNAODA).
5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Dinner Break
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
National Black Presbyterian Caucus Dinner $25.00 (Sheraton Hotel)
Speaker: The Rev. Dr. McKinnley Washington.
5:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Association of Executive Presbyters Dinner (Sheraton Hotel)
All Executive Presbyters are invited to gather for conversation
and fellowship. For reservations, contact Cass Shaw at (518) 273- 4991
or cassshaw56@aol.com.
5:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.
MLP/TAMFS Hospitality Suite (Sheraton Hotel)
Hosted by More Light Presbyterians and That All May Freely Serve.
6:45 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.
Evening Worship (Concert Hall)
Preacher: Rick Ufford-Chase, Moderator of the 216th General
Assembly. Commissioning of mission co-workers.
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Assembly Committee Meetings (Convention Center)
8:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Covenant Network Open House (Sheraton Hotel)
Renew connections, put faces with names, and share ideas, conversation
and refreshments with Covenant Network board members and friends.
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