Eastern North Dakota Synod

Annual Synod Events

Fall Professional Leadership Conference

Attendance at the annual Synod Professional Leadership Conference is expected of all rostered leaders. Costs are to be paid by the local congregation. Congregations are urged to also pay spouse’s expense.

Intersection of Luther, Bonhoeffer, & Mission

September 9-11, 2012

Fair Hills Resort (external link) - Detroit Lakes, MN

Theme and Speakers | Schedule | Fees | Registration

2012 Theme and Featured Speaker

Download Brochure (download .pdf file)

Photo - Craig L. Nessan Dr. Craig Nessan, Academic Dean of Wartburg Seminary, will be our guest presenter (read bio (external link)). Craig's book, Shalom Church: The Body of Christ as Ministering Community, will be featured and will emphasize the intersection of Luther’s Two Kingdoms, Bonhoeffer, and Mission.

From Augsburg Fortress:

While many manuals advise clergy and congregants on tactics for church survival or thriving, few address the deepest identity, shape, and imperatives of the church in its identity in Christ and the tradition of discipling that stems from his life, work, death, and resurrection.

As compelling as it is clear, Craig Nessan's important new work retrieves biblical metaphors of the body of Christ and, following Dietrich Bonhoeffer, sees church today as "Christ existing as community." To theological-probing Nessan then adds contextual analysis and describes the four chief imperatives that mark Christ's presence in the world today: peacemaking, justice-making, care for creation, and engagement with the other. He then unfolds the real-life implications of this paradigm of Christian community for local church structure, strategies for partnering, public witness, and interreligious engagement.
more (external link)

Shalom Church is available at Melberg Christian Book & Gift (1-800-284-1553); the Resource Center will also have Nessan books for check out. You may read more about Craig, his writings, and/or purchase his book(s) at Augsburg Fortress. (external link)

Dr. Nessan will introduce a special guest, Dr. Renate Wind, a Bonhoeffer scholar and Professor of Bible and Theology at the Protestant Technical University at Nuremburg, Germany. Renate Wind has composed a well-researched and searching biography of Dorothee Soelle (1929–2003), who became one of the most prolific and widely read theologians of the postwar period. To read more about Dr. Wind and her latest book, Dorothee Soelle Mystic and Rebel: The Biography, visit Ausburg Fortress...

2012 Schedule

New this year: The 2012 annual Fall Professional Leadership Conference at Fair Hills will be held Sunday, September 9, beginning with an hors d’oeuvres evening buffet and continue through Tuesday, September 11, with noon lunch.

Sunday, September 9

3:00 pm Registration opens
4:30 pm Deans’ Meeting
5:30-7:15 pm Gathering, Social Time with Hors d’oeuvres
7:30 pm Bishop’s Time
8:30 pm Compline

Monday, September 10

7:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Worship with Holy Communion - Bishop Rindy, preaching
10:00 am Break
10:30 am Presentation - Dr. Nessan
12:00 noon Lunch
1:00 pm Free Time
5:30 pm Evening Dinner
6:45 pm Presentation - Dr. Nessan and Dr. Wind
9:00 pm Worship Around the Cross

Tuesday, September 11

7:30 am Breakfast
9:00 am Bishop’s Teaching Time
10:15 am Break
10:30 am Presentation - Dr. Nessan
11:30 am Service of the Word - Dr. Nessan, preaching
12:00 noon Lunch and departure

*Free Time Options:
Conference Meetings. Board of Pensions visits, EaND Synod Resource Center, Melberg’s Christian Book & Gift, conversation, reading, golf, sailing, tennis, naps,
shopping, walking, swimming, and more.

Fees

Resort and Lodging Fees

Lodging fees are payable to Fair Hills Resort (external link) on arrival. Costs are based on double occupancy. Daily rates include meals, lodging, meeting rooms, coffee breaks, golf at guest course, tennis, and sailing. If you make a reservation for the entire conference, you will be expected to pay lodging costs for the entire conference (unless you have been called away for an emergency).

Lodging reservations are handled through Fair Hills. Please complete the Lodging Registration Card (download .pdf file) and mail it to Fair Hills prior to September 4. If you have lodging inquiries or any last minute changes in your reservation, contact Fair Hills at (218) 532-2222 or 800-323-2849. You will be assigned a roommate. If your spouse is planning to attend, please indicate that on the reservation card. Reservations will be canceled after 7 pm Saturday unless you call Fair Hills prior to that time.

All fees include a 15% service charge and 6.5% Minnesota state tax.

Lodging Fees:
(includes meals)

Adults: $99 per adult per night or $202 per adult for the entire session
Children (ages 6-12): $43 per night
Children (ages 1-5): $26 per night
Infants: Free

Commuter Meal Fees:

Breakfast: $12 per person
Lunch: $16 per person
Dinner: $18 per person

Other Services:

Cribs available upon request
Child care is available for $7/hour but not available during meal hours
Pets are not allowed

Conference Program Fees

$75 per active rostered person or lay minister

Program fees for active rostered persons and lay ministers are payable to the EaND Synod via the registration below. Program costs do not apply to non-rostered spouses, retired pastors, or interns.

Registration

Registration Deadline: September 4, 2012

$75 Registration Program Fee for active rostered persons and lay ministers are payable to EaND Synod.
Program costs do not apply to non-rostered spouses, retired pastors, or interns.

Return the Program Registration Form (download .pdf file) with appropriate fee payable:
Eastern North Dakota Synod
1703 32nd Avenue South
Fargo, ND 58103