Topics to be discussed include:
- Members of Kentucky Council of Churches’ Creation Care committee will discuss “Environmental Privilege.”
- Dr. Charisse Gillette, president of Lexington Theological Seminary, will lead the workshop “Working to Remove Systemic Privilege.”
- A workshop discussing our 2018 theme “A House Divided” will be led by representatives from the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange. They will share some of the divides they witness in our society today and ways to work to bridge those divides.
- Dr. Emily Askew, Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Lexington Theological Seminary, will discuss “Immigration Privilege.”
- “The Effects of Economic Privilege on Health” will be led by Tom Walton, retired director of Population Health at KentuckyOne Health.
- Thursday Evening Worship Preacher is the Rev. Traci Blackmon, the Acting Executive Minister of Justice & Witness Ministries of The United Church of Christ and Senior Pastor of Christ the King United Church of Christ in Florissant, MO. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from Birmingham – Southern College (1985), and a Master of Divinity degree from Eden Theological Seminary (2009). She will preach Oct. 19, 7 pm.
Betty Hibler and Gail Wolford are Union Church’s delegates, but all are welcome to attend.
Assembly events are all at Jeffersontown Christian Church, Lousiville:
Schedule here: http://www.kycouncilofchurches.org/annual-assembly
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