St. Olaf Conference on Worship, Theology and the Arts

July 19 – 23, 2010

"The News and The Good News"

The theme of the 2010 St. Olaf Conference on Worship, Theology and the Arts (CWTA) is "The News and The Good News." We will explore how media and the arts further (or hinder) the church's work.

Pastors, church musicians, artists and lay leaders from all denominations and any size congregation participate in CWTA. They experience and apply the concepts introduced at the conference through conference sessions and worship services. These daily services refresh and inspire those who are leaders in their home congregations. The services use the lectionary for specific Sundays in the upcoming church year, serving as an inspiring model to use in participants' home churches.

As a community of learners, the conference faculty and the participants foster spiritual renewal and affirm vocation. Participants develop personal and professional networks to call upon for support, expertise and counsel.

Registration brochures will be mailed in early January 2010. If you have been a conference participant during the past six years, you will automatically be on the mailing list. To request a brochure, contact the Church Relations Office at the phone number on the left or e-mail the office. Online registration will begin in early January 2010.

As information on faculty members, topics and titles become available, this web site will be updated.

Worship services are open to the public in Boe Memorial Chapel: 1:30 p.m. on Monday; 8:15 a.m. on Tue., Wed. and Thurs; and 10:45 a.m. on Friday.

The Choir Connection
July 19 – 23, 2010

Youth and teen singers, rising grades 4th through 12th, are invited to participate in the Choir Connection, a weeklong program of song, music education, Bible study and recreation. Kenney Potter will conduct the Teen Choir and Heather Williams Potter will conduct the Youth Choir.

 

A College of the Church

As a college of the church, St. Olaf seeks not only to develop its own students in mind, body and spirit, but also to support in vital ways the church at large in its mission of bearing witness to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

The Conference on Worship, Theology and the Arts grows out of this larger sense of the college’s mission, offering spiritual nurture and professional growth for persons engaged in congregational ministry, especially those who lead and enable worship. The conference provides a supportive forum for enhancing theological understanding and pastoral skills in worship, church music and the arts.