The One Project Gathering in Seattle is Fully Booked
January 28, 2016: The One Project announced last week that the 2016 gathering in Seattle, scheduled for February 14 and 15 is fully booked. If you do not have a reservation, you will not be able to get in. Hundreds of Adventists from across North America and overseas will be joining a series of Bible studies from the Gospels on the week of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection.
The speakers include Dr. William Johnsson, the retired Bible scholar and former editor of the Adventist Review; Pastor Tara VinCross, director of the Adventist urban training and church planting ministry in Philadelphia; Pastor Karl Haffner, senior pastor of the Kettering (Ohio) Adventist Church; Pastor Raewyn Hankins, senior pastor of the Victorville (California) Adventist Church; and Pastor Matt Gamble, senior pastor of The Haven congregation in Elms Haven, California.
The Bible studies will work through all of the stories included in the New Testament record of Passion Week and focus on the application of these stories to the lives of believers in today’s world. There will be time for prayer and small group discussions around tables, as well as a concert by I Cantori choral group from Walla Walla University on Sunday evening.
Other speakers will include Bible scholars Dr. Zane Yi from the School of Religion at Loma Linda University and Dr. Paul Dybdahl from the School of Theology at Walla Walla University, and Pastor Iki Taimi from Genesis Church and the Gardena Community Adventist Church in California, Pastor Ofa Langi from the North Cascades Adventist Church in Burlington (Washington), Pastor Alex Bryan from the Walla Walla University Church, and Pastor Jennifer Scott, an Adventist minister currently directing children’s ministries for First United Methodist Church in Dallas. Also among the speakers will be Brandy Kirstein, a mother of young children and wife of Chaplain Brennan Kirstein at Southern Adventist University; Emily Poole, a writer and photographer who works for the alumni and advancement office at Walla Walla University; Macy McVay, a staff member for the School of Theology at Walla Walla University; Pastor Dilys Brooks, director of the Center for Women Clergy at Loma Linda University; and Chaplain Tim Gillespie, a liaison with religious leaders in the community for Loma Linda University and a chaplain at Azusa Pacific University, another Christian institution in southern California.
There will be child care for children up through three years of age at the gathering as well as special programs for children and youth. TOP Kids will provide activities for ages 4 through 12 and Generation One will provide discussion groups for ages 13 through 17.
In addition, an additional conference is scheduled for all day Tuesday, February 16. It will focus on conversation among leaders from around the world for a hopeful, faithful, constructive, creative and prophetic future for the Adventist Church. Separate registration may still be available for this event at The One Project web site.
What a wonderful and rich blessing this will be to all those attending. Will there be any recordings. This group gives me much hope for spiritual renewal in the church and an emphasis on Christ and what He has done for us.
Spiritual formation, contemplative prayer, emergent church movement and women’s ordination rebellion come to mind when the One Project comes to town. The speakers themselves are a dead giveaway. The fact that so many Adventists flock to these events shows the grave extent of the spiritual blindness found in our Church.
Well said, Trevor.
Maranatha
Spiritual blindness causes women to be seen an inferior in the church. It infects a large portion of the church today. There is only one prescription: Jesus and his apostles recognized women as men’s equal. Why would God stoop to give the greatest of all responsibilities to a young woman in Palestine if she were unequal to that awesome gift given her?
When will more SDA leaders/members see the irony of excitement, enthusiasm, pep talk outreach promotion all to get new members who will then end up being poor blind, naked Laodiceans whose righteousness is as filthy rags , who are not good no not one.
We all recognize that a certain personality profile in our Church holds that in these End Times, sadness of countenance is the one and only demeanor acceptable to the Most High.
The concern about the redeemed having apparently too much fun on the borders of Canaan seems to have awesome staying power. I don’t want to be critical of those prone to this paradigm of thought, only to mention that this is typical behavior of some solid Adventists who literally believe that God wants us to wail and cry full time for the abominations and sins of the Elect.
In my experience, the closer we come to Jesus, the more unworthy we appear, and paradoxically the greater the joy we feel for the incomprehensible grace of the One who is leading us to glorified victory. It kind-of makes it hard not to cry “Hallelujah”. Perhaps the Solomons on this site can give me some help curbing our exuberance in Christ, for clearly it is un-Adventist in certain quarters to seem upbeat, when manifestations of joy can so easily be confused with lack of proper shock at the depraved performance of God’s professed people. How can we coexist without stumbling over one another’s blocks?
Perhaps as the Writer of Ecclesiastes expounds, “There is a time for everything.” There’s nothing wrong with showing emotion in the Lord, and we may not always sing the same song, together at the same time, though we worship the same God from our yearning hearts, focused on the coming King.
This will be my third One Project and I know there will be a blessing. I know not the things of which Trevor speaks. Nothing evil about getting together and talking about Jesus. Jesus. All.
“…Bible studies from the gospels on the week of Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection.” Warmed over Des Ford is what is being served. Morethan fifteen years ago Dr.Ford conducted a “Bible School” entitled “Jesus and the Last Days” in Auburn, CA. It was an in depth study of the Passion week in harmony with EGW’s counsel to spend a thoughtful hour daily, in contemplation of the closing scenes of Christ’s life.
It’s probably available on the GNU website. There won’t be a single presenter at this conference who could hold a candle to Dr. Ford in terms of eloquence and spiritual knowledge but if SDA must wait fifteen years and go outside to hear the same message Dr.Ford began offering in the U.S. ~ 40 year sago, better late than never.