Register for the Sunday evening family programs here.
Please fill out the form below to register for the 2012 Mullin Forum with Dr. Kenda Creasy Dean. Payment options and book reservation information will appear after the form has been submitted.
2012 Mullin Forum guest Kenda Creasy Dean published Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church in 2010.
Copies of Almost Christian are available at the forum for a discount ($15) by filling out the registration form above, and to members by contacting Debby Foster at dfoster@fpcgreensboro.org, or 478-4702.
An interview with Christian Smith and Kenda Dean about Almost Christian. Listen Here.
Checking out of church: Are young people giving up on God? Read More
"Third Tuesday Conversations" interview with Dr. Dean. Listen Here.
It's the only academic book I've read that nearly brought me to tears. Almost Christian: What the Faith of Our Teenagers Is Telling the American Church is at once a complex and emotional story. Its contents are often hard to grasp, but when you do get them, they grab you hard — as if you’re in the grip of a mighty wrestler’s headlock.
Almost Christian is not for readers mildly interested in why our youth as a whole do not profess a strong Christian faith. It is for those who are seeking how to understand and reach our children with an authentic and active Christianity that they can embrace and call their own...
Read the entire book review here.
»Book review by Association of Christian Schools International
»Blogger Fragments of Varro reviews "Almost Christian"
2012 Mullin Forum
This year's Mullin Preaching and Teaching Forum on Feb. 12 and 13 is proud to welcome Kenda Creasy Dean, Professor of Youth, Church and Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she works closely with the Institute for Youth Ministry. She is also the author of several books including OMG: A Youth Ministry Handbook; Youth, Religion and Globalization; Practicing Passion; Starting Right; and The Godbearing Life. Visit Kenda's website to read more about her.
Church School - Kenda will speak to parents and congregation at 9:30 a.m. in the Garrison Room (Smith 201).
10:30 Services - (Sanctuary and Rejoice! in Mullin Life Center) Kenda will preach on "Whatever it Takes" based on Acts 20:7-12. (No 8:45 a.m. service.)
Evening Program -
5:30-6 p.m. - Pizza dinner with Kenda and families in Kids Disciple Club (grades 3-5) and Presbyterian Youth Connection (middle and high school) in Mullin Life Center.
6-7:30 p.m. - Q & A with parents. KDC and PYC leave for their programs. Child care available for younger children with reservations by Feb. 6.
Register for the evening program here.
Mullin Forum for pastors, teachers and other church leaders:
8:30 a.m. - Registration begins in Virginia Gilmer Room (Smith 208).
9-11:30 a.m. - Sessions will meet in the front half of Mullin Life Center.
11:45 a.m. - Fellowship lunch will be available to workshop participants with registration.
Parking is available on Greene Street and in the Greene Street parking lot. There is additional parking on Fisher Avenue.
Enter the Smith Building from Greene Street. The registration room will be on your right.
Directions to First Presbyterian Church
Kenda Dean is an ordained United Methodist pastor in the Baltimore-Washington Annual Conference and Professor of Youth, Church and Culture at Princeton Theological Seminary, where she works closely with the Institute for Youth Ministry.
A graduate of Miami University (Ohio) and Wesley Theological Seminary, Kenda served as a pastor in suburban Washington, D.C., and campus minister at the University of Maryland-College Park before earning her doctorate in practical theology/Christian education from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1997. She and her husband Kevin are the ridiculously proud parents of Brendan, a senior in college, and Shannon, a senior in high school.
The Joe and Betty Mullin Forum was established by the Session of First Presbyterian Church to honor the former minister of this church and his wife as a place where church leaders can rest and rediscover their gifts and rejoice in the God who gave them.
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