2020
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to correspond with the 2020 Conference theme: BEYOND BARRIERS, PEOPLE MOVE
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para corresponder con el tema de la Conferencia 2020: MÁS ALLÁ DE LAS BARRERAS, EL PUEBLO SE MUEVE
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2020 THEME SONG
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CANCIÓN LEMA DE 2020
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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE MATERIALS
Materials from Dr. Luis Rivera Pagan
Toward a Theology of Migration (complete)
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MATERIALES DE LA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL
Materiales del Dr. Luis Rivera Pagan
Hacia una teología de migración (completo)
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Transcripts
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Transcripciones
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Responses
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Respuestas
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Other Videos
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Otros Videos
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Devotional for August 29
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Devocional de 29 de agosto
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2020 Regions
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Regiones de 2020
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Hands that Move (song)
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Manos que se muevan (canción)
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REGIONAL CONFERENCE MATERIALS
Materials from Dr. Luis Rivera Pagan
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MATERIALES DE LAS CONFERENCIAS REGIONALES
Materiales del Dr. Luis Rivera Pagan
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Videos
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Videos
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The Prophetic Voice & Spirituality
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La Voz Profética y la Espiritualidad
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The Prophetic Voice & Human Liberation
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La Voz Profética y la Liberación Humana
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The Prophetic Voice & the Search for Peace
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La Voz Profética y la Búsqueda de la Paz
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Regional Devotionals
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Devocionales Regionales
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RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH
Children (5-11) / Youth (12-17)
Click here for more information about the children’s sessions, leadership and activities.
Click here for more information about the youth sessions, leadership and activities.
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RECURSOS PARA NIÑOS/AS Y ADOLESCENTES
Niños y niñas (5-11) / Adolescentes (12-17)
Haga clic aquí para obtener más información sobre las sesiones, el liderazgo y las actividades de los niños/as.
Haga clic aquí para obtener más información sobre las sesiones, el liderazgo y las actividades de los adolescentes.
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Song
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2014
to correspond with the 2014 Summer Conference theme: ONE CREATION
LITANIES:
A Litany For the Sea and All its Creatures
We give you thanks, oh LORD, for you are good.
Because your love endures forever!
We give you thanks, God of gods.
For your love endures forever!
You alone made all great wonders,
For your love endures forever!
A Litany for Healing
Leader:
To bring new life to the land
To restore the waters
To refresh the air
Response: We join with the earth and with each other.
A Litany of Hope
We have gathered this day, O God, as your people, as members of your Church.
We join together to worship and praise you, our Creator,
and we join in lifting our prayers for the Earth.
With the prophets and the psalmists,
we have the courage to speak to you of our despair and our fear.
Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress,
my soul is in tumult, my heart is wrung within me. (Lamentations 1:20)
PRAYERS:
Prayers of Penitence
Deacon: Lord of all,
we thank you for our universe with its infinite fascination,
for our world with all its wonder.
For our countryside with all its beauty
for life itself in all its incredible variety.
Loving Lord
All: hear our prayer.
Prayers of Intercession
Reader 1: Genesis 2:8-9: “Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground - trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food.”
Gaelic Prayer
May the blessing of light be on you, light without and light within. May the blessed Sunlight shine on you and warm your heart until it glows, so that a stranger may come and be warmed by it, and also a friend. May the light shine out of the two eyes of you like a candle set in two windows of a house, bidding the wanderer to come in out of the storm.
Prayer by St. Patrick
At Tara today in this fateful hour
I place all heaven with its power,
And the sun with its brightness,
And the snow with its whiteness,
And fire with all the strength it hath,
And lightning with its rapid wrath,
And the winds with their swiftness along their path,
And the sea with its deepness,
And the rocks with their steepness
And the Earth with its starkness;
All these I place
By God's almighty help and grace,
Between myself and the powers of Darkness.
Excerpt from If Darwin Prayed
by Bruce Sanguin
Presider: We open to the possibility of peace,
starting with ourselves.
We commit to being vulnerable.
with one other person this day.
All: Yes, we open to the possibility of peace.
Music Prayer
Thank you for the music all around us.
Each morning we hear it from the moment we open our ears;
the low notes of wind around the eaves
the whoosh of water as it comes from the tap
the glug glug as it drains
the throaty whistle of the boiling kettle
the metallic tap of the spoon against the cup
the jazz percussion of our feet on the steps.
SERMONS:
How Would Your Life Change if a Mountain was Your Neighbor?
by Anita Peebles
Preached on Fri, Oct 25, 2014
Nashville Regional Festival of Young Preachers
In late January 2012, I found myself in a little tiny car driving up Black Mountain. Black Mountain is in southeastern Kentucky on the border with Virginia, and is known for its black bears, cougars, and coal. It is also the highest peak in Kentucky. As I drove up that mountain, the January fog got thicker and thicker, and I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to see anything but clouds at the peak. Up and up and up I drove, around breakneck bends with no guardrail on the side. Up and up and up I drove, until I rounded the last bend and pulled over into a gravel parking area.
What I saw when I stepped out of the car made me weep.
OTHER:
Renewing the Covenant
by Victoria Furio
July 18, 2014
When we see the water, that most sacred of elements, disappear from rivers and streams
When we hear the wind howl in yet another massive storm
We will know the future is here.
For many, that future is now, whether it be India, Australia, the Philippines, or the Mid-West, repeatedly ravaged by floods of biblical proportions; or relentless drought creating deserts in Africa, famine in Somalia, and fears of a new Dust Bowl in California and the Southwest. As a warming earth melts Himalayan glaciers, the water of life will cease to trickle into the great Asian rivers from the Ganges to the Yangtze. Where will 1.5 billion people flee to in their desperation?