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6th Biennial National Consultation on Urban Ministry
09 - 11 July 2008 |
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The Biennial Consultation on Urban Ministry, hosted by the Institute for Urban Ministry, has become an important meeting place for people who are deeply committed to their cities. They generally care enough to ask tough questions, to invest themselves completely, but never seeing themselves as ‘saviours of the city’. You will find activists, compassionate people, managers, leaders, innovators and students along with newly challenged urban workers.
Our theme for this year is . Hope is stimulated and created through imagination: seeing and hearing stories of what we thought of as impossible (even unimaginable). Stories of hope become lifelines to tired workers that often run out of ideas. It saves us from becoming lifeless welfare agents caught up in referrals and red tape. It sends us back to our home cities to imagine and to live hope, until our churches and neighbourhoods too become places of hope.
Imagination and hope are not fictive or escapist. They are the vehicles into God’s future intended for us! |
