All Minsters Workshop

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The 2011 workshop was well received by 42 participants. Photo Highlight Link.

Workshop for all active licensed and ordained PSWD ministers.

The "All Ministers Workshop" is being held at the Franciscan Renewal Center in Scottsdale, Arizona. At this workshop, we have set times for spiritual practices and worship experiences which will give you an opportunity to develop a deeper relationship with Jesus Christ. Also, we will have a concise educational seminar to help in your understanding and practice of ministry through the Psalms. Plus there will be ample free time for you to engage with the other ministers of PSWD in fun fellowship activities (structured and unstructured) to build up the unity of PSWD.

So strongly are we committed to your ministry that this workshop (housing, wonderful meals, and leadership) will be provided to all ministers for a minimal registration fee of $25. Transportation will be available to and from the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. Scholarships for transportation to this event are also available until February 24. Please contact PSWD Ministry Chair John Jackson at 818-636-8098 or PastorJJJ@Gmail.com for more information or transportation scholarships. It is our hope that all Brethren ministers in the PSWD will attend this blessed, spiritual, and educational event.

Attendance is limited to 50 participants so register soon.

This workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to examine ministry in this age of anxiety in light of the poetry of the Bible. We will look at the theories of Edwin Friedmann on anxiety. We will also read a selection of Hebrew poems from the Psalms. Together we will discover how the issues of power and vulnerability contribute to our ministry contexts.

Dr. Stephen Breck Reid joined the faculty of George W. Truett Theological Seminary in the fall of 2008. Previously he served as Academic Dean and Professor of Old Testament at Bethany Theological Seminary in Richmond, Indiana. He joined the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary faculty in 1990, after serving almost ten years as associate professor of Hebrew Scriptures and Biblical Theology at Pacific School of Religion. He began his teaching career at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta Georgia.   Dr. Reid is a member of the Society of Biblical Literature and the Catholic Biblical Association. He is the author or editor of such books as, Experience and Traditions: A Primer in Black Biblical Hermeneutics (Abingdon 1991), Listening In: A Multicultural Reading of the Psalms (Abingdon, 1997), Prophets and Paradigms: Essays in Honor of Gene M. Tucker (Sheffield Academic Press, 1996) and Psalms and Practice: Worship, Virtue and Authority (Liturgical Press, 2001). He and his wife Kathy have authored Uncovering Racism (Brethren Press, 2000). He has also written numerous papers and publications on a wide variety of subjects, for among others the Brethren Encyclopedia, New Harper Bible Dictionary and the Eerdman's Bible Dictionary. He wrote the annotation for the section on Daniel for the Discipleship Bible and Psalms for the People's Bible as well as articles for Feasting on the Word. Dr. Reid is ordained in the Church of the Brethren. He was interim pastor at the Fremont Church of the Brethren in Fremont California and Saint Paul Cumberland Presbyterian Church in south Austin. He has served on the Bethany Seminary board of trustees. He served as associate pastor at Austin Mennonite Church.

Dr. Stephen Breck Reid

Rev. Kathy Reid began July 2, 2009 as the Executive Director of the Family Abuse Center in Waco, Texas, leaving her position as Associate General Secretary for the Church of the Brethren, a small Anabaptist denomination, headquartered in Elgin, Illinois. Kathy came to her position as Associate General Secretary after spending nearly six years as the Executive Director of the Association of Brethren Caregivers (ABC). This organization merged into the larger denominational structure September 2008.   Before her calling to the Church of the Brethren denominational offices, Kathy worked in Austin, Texas. For twelve years, she was founding pastor of Austin Mennonite Church. From 1997 until 2004, she was Executive Director of the Texas Homeless Network, a non-profit organization that built homeless coalitions across the state, provided resources and technical skills to non-profit organizations that served the homeless. Kathy is the author of several books including Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: A Religious Education Curriculum for Children Ages 5 – 8 and Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: A Religious Education Curriculum for Children Ages 9 – 12. Kathy has twenty years experience training congregations, pastors and individuals around issues of child protection. Kathy was ordained in the Church of the Brethren in 1988 and in the Mennonite Church USA in 1990. Her husband teaches at George Truett Seminary, Baylor University.

Rev. Kathy Reid