Three Basic Questions for Pastoral Spirituality
Have you ever felt like the proverbial plumber whose sink was always
backing up or the mechanic whose car won’t start? In the pastoral
process of assisting your congregation in its spiritual nurture,
do you find yourself becoming increasingly malnourished?
This year’s conference will focus on the spiritual life of
the pastor and how to keep it vital and growing. Speaker Delmer Chilton
will guide us in asking three vital questions:
- What Should I Wear? The private life of a public person
- Yes or No? Creating time for daily prayer
- Stop or Go? Sabbath keeping and personal retreats
Conference Leader
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| Delmer Chilton |
ESR welcomes Delmer Chilton as the keynote speaker for this year’s
conference. Delmer is Coordinator of Spiritual Formation Ministries
at the Hinton Rural Life Center in Hayesville, NC. He holds a D.
Min. in spiritual direction from the Graduate Theological Foundation
and is an ordained Lutheran minister who has served pastorates in
North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia.
In the spring of 2002, Delmer accepted his present position with
the Hinton Rural Life Center. He works primarily with clergy of small
membership churches, providing continuing education focused on the
minister’s own spiritual formation and pastoral development.
In 2003 he helped create (and now directs) the First Parish Project,
a Lilly funded program for beginning clergy. He also consults with
local congregations on issues of visioning and planning and conflict
management.
For relaxation, Dr. Chilton enjoys baseball, basketball, books,
and good food. In music, his taste ranges from alternative country
to southern rock to the “Killer Bs”: Bach, Brahms, and
Beethoven.
Links
Hinton Rural Life Center
Hinton Homiletics Blog |
SCHEDULE
| Monday,
September 26th |
| 8:30-9:00
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Breakfast |
| 9:00-11:00
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Question I: What
Should I Wear? The Private Life of a Public Person |
| 11:00-11:20
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Break |
| 11:20
- Noon |
Worship |
| 12:00
- 1:00 |
Lunch and free time |
| 1:00
- 3:00 |
Question II: Yes
or No? Creating Time for Daily Prayer |
| 3:00
- 3:20 |
Break |
| 3:20
- 5:30 |
Workshops (Each workshop
will be offered twice, with a ten minute break in between) |
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Spiritual Practices
for the Pastor:
name TBA |
|
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How to Take a Personal
Retreat:
Rev. Phillip Dorrell |
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Spiritual Direction
as Pastoral Ministry:
Rev. Susan Roads |
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Personality Type and
Spirituality:
Fr. John Jorden |
| 5:30
– 6:30 |
Dinner |
| Tuesday,
September 27th |
| 8:30
- 9:00 |
Breakfast |
| 9:30
-11:00 |
Question III: Stop
or Go? Sabbath Keeping and Personal Retreats |
| 11:00
- 11:20 |
Break |
| 11:20
- 1:00 |
Common Meal |
| 1:00 |
Adjourn |
REGISTRATION
 You
can download the brochure with a registration form in PDF format here.
Print the brochure, fill out the form, and send it with your check
to the address given.
Click here to download the free Acrobat Reader to read the PDF.
DIRECTIONS
TO REACH ESR:
Approach Richmond via Interstate
70, exiting at Williamsburg Pike (Exit 149-A). Follow Williamsburg
Pike south, merging after about a mile into Northwest 5th Street.
Follow Northwest 5th Street to U.S. 40 (National Road West). Turn
right and prepare to turn left one block later, at College Avenue.
Turn left (south) on College Avenue. The ESR Center (stone building)
sits on the corner.
Lodging
We offer the following suggestions
for lodging while attending the conference.
Quaker Hill Conference
Center
10 Quaker Hill Drive
Richmond, IN 47374
765-962-5741
Lees Inn & Suites
6030 National Road East
Richmond, IN 47374
765-966-6559 or
800-733-5337
Philip W. Smith Bed
& Breakfast
2039 East Main Street
Richmond, IN 47374
765-966-8972 or
800-966-8972
Or visit: www.waynet.org/lodging
EARLHAM SCHOOL
OF RELIGION
228 College Avenue
Richmond, Indiana 47374
Questions?
Call 1-800-432-1377 or 765-983-1423
cummiri@earlham.edu
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