abandoned: worship as life seminar press release
- Filed under: church, emerging church, emerging culture, leadership, planning, postmodern, sacred space, worship
- Date: Aug 7,2008
Via mobap.edu:
MBU presents second annual free Worship Arts conference
August 1, 2008
Nationally known emerging church leader Dan Kimball is set to headline Missouri Baptist University’s second annual Worship Arts conference Sept. 27.
The conference, called “Abandoned: Worship as Life,” is a free event aimed at providing worship leaders quality workshops and the opportunity to network with colleagues in the worship industry. The event is specifically designed for students and worship leaders seeking to learn how to better engage congregations in an authentic, highly contextual style of worship.
“I believe that Dan Kimball is a modern-day ‘prophet,’ acutely examining how the church, corporate worship, and culture intersect at the point of theory and practice,” said Brad Andrews, MBU worship arts coordinator and planner of the event. “For many, he is charting an imaginative path, sending ripples of renewal to all within the worship spectrum. But perhaps his most important contribution to the worship landscape is the sense of missional urgency he is creating for those in evangelicalism.”
In addition to Kimball, the seminar will feature other local worship arts professionals; reveal practical ways to better lead or transition congregations in an authentic worship that engages cultural mediums; include an inspirational time of worship; and will offer an invaluable time of networking among fellow worship leaders.
The event will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
About the headliner:
Kimball is a pastor, author and leading voice in the Emerging Church movement. He is the author of several books including They Like Jesus But Not The Church, The Emerging Church and Emerging Worship. He is on staff at Vintage Faith Church, a missional church planted in 2004 in Santa Cruz, CA. He speaks extensively around the country on emerging church, worship and culture issues. He is adjunct faculty at George Fox Evangelical Seminary and is married to Becky, has two daughters and drives a rusty 1966 Ford Mustang. His blog is www.dankimball.com
The Third Coast University Tour – featuring The Afters, Matt Maher, and Matthew Paul Turner – will close out the seminar. The concert is set to begin at 7 p.m. The cost for the concert for attendees of the seminar is $15.
For more information or to register for the seminar, go to www.mobap.edu/events or call Brad Andrews at (314) 744-5365. To buy tickets to the Third Coast University Tour concert, go to mobaptickets.com or call the MBU Box Office at (314) 392-2345.

















