The Rev. Aimee Moiso
Preaching Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Aimee Moiso is the Director of Ecumenical and Interfaith Ministries at Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA. She is an ordained pastor of the Presbyterian Church USA. Originally from Portland, Aimee is a graduate of Whitworth College (Spokane) and San Francisco Theological Seminary. She also did a Masters degree through the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Institute at Bossey and the University of Geneva. She served for several years as a staffer at Bread For The World. As a campus minister for interfaith activities, she fosters conversation and relationships among students of various Christian and other faith backgrounds.

Rev. Moiso is introduced by the Rev. Carlos Malave, Associate for Ecumenical Relations. The Presbyterian Church USA.

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The Rev. Dr. Cecil M. Robeck
Keynoter, Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Cecil M. Robeck, who has worked at Fuller Seminary since 1974, is Professor of Church History and Ecumenics and director of the David J. DuPlessis Center for Christian Spirituality. His recent historical research centers on the Azusa Street Mission and Revival and its African American pastor William Seymour. In 1999, he received a $90,000 grant from the John Randolf Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation to explore this topic and its impact on Los Angeles. His recent publications in the field of ecumenics have focused on the Holy Spirit, the Church, and potential contributions the Pentecostal Movement can make to the global Christian Movement.

For nearly 30 years, Robeck has also worked on ecumenical dialogue with the World Council of Churches, the Vatican, the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, and other groups. For the past 11 years, he has served on the Steering Committee of the Global Christian Forum. He is author of Prophecy at Carthage: Perpetua, Tertullian, and Cyprian (1992) and The Azusa Street Mission and Revival: The Birth of the Global Pentecostal Movement (2006), and co-editor of The Azusa Street Revival and Its Legacy (2006) and The Suffering Body: Responding to the Persecution of Christians (2006). For nine years, he was editor of Pneuma: The Journal of the Society for Pentecostal Studies. He is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God.

Dr. Mel Robeck is introduced by the Rev. Lydia Veliko, ecumenical officer of the United Church of Christ.

Read the Rev. Dr. Cecil M. Robeck's address, Common Witness: Evangelism in an Ecumenical Context—Celebrating Edinburgh 1910

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The Rev. Dr. Douglas Strong
Keynoter, Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Douglas Strong, Dean and Professor of the History of Christianity, holds a B.A. from Houghton College, a Master of Divinity and a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary. He came to the School of Theology of Seattle Pacific University in 2007 from Wesley Theological Seminary, in Washington, D.C., where he taught church history for 18 years and was also the associate dean for church relations.

Dr. Strong’s field of study is American religious history, particularly the history of 19th-century revivalism and social reform. He is a past president of the Wesleyan Theological Society, a co-convener of the History of Methodism Working Group of the Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies, and is on the Steering Committee of the Wesleyan Studies Group of the American Academy of Religion.

Since 1999, Dr. Strong has led students on numerous trips to Russia. He has taught four times at the Theological Seminary of the Russian Methodist Church and has also taught at two theological schools in Korea. He is committed to intercultural learning as essential for students preparing to live out their Christian vocation in a global society.

Dr. Strong is an ordained clergyman in the United Methodist Church and served for eight years as a pastor in East Brunswick, New Jersey. He is especially interested in reviving the Wesleyan practice of small-group accountable discipleship among today’s Christians.

Selected Publications: Reclaiming the Wesleyan Tradition: John Wesley’s Sermons for Today (Discipleship Resources, 2007); Perfectionist Politics: Abolitionism and the Religious Tensions of American Democracy (Syracuse, 1999); They Walked in the Spirit: Personal Faith and Social Action in America (Westminster John Knox, 1997); Readings in Christian Ethics: A Historical Sourcebook (Westminster John Knox, 1996).

Dr. Strong is introduced by Dr. David Cole, president of Eugene Bible College, Eugene, Oregon and chair of the CCT Evangelism Committee.

Read the Rev. Dr. Strong's address, Evangelism through the Centuries: Focusing on the Apostolic Church, the Church in Early America and the Contemporary Church

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Archbishop Wilton Gregory
Archbishop Wilton Gregory was born in Chicago and attended St. Mary of the Lake Seminary. While serving as bishop of the Diocese of Belleville, IL, he became president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. He was appointed Archbishop of Atlanta by Pope John Paul II in 2004. He serves as president of the Catholic family for Christian Churches Together in the USA.

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Dr. Samuel McKinney
Preaching Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Sam McKinney served as pastor of Seattle's Mount Zion Baptist Church from 1958 until his retirement in 1998. A civil rights leader as well as a minister, he did much to shape the conscience of Seattle. Born in Flint, Michigan, McKinney grew up listening to his father preach, watching him fight discrimination in Flint, and hearing national leaders such as Thurgood Marshall, Walter White, and A. Philip Randolph speak at his father’s church. He attended Morehouse College and went on to Colgate Rochester Divinity School where he later also earned a D.Min. degree. His book, Church Administration in the Black Perspective (co-authored with Floyd Massey) has gone through numerous printings.

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The Rev. Dr. Dwight Friesen
Dwight Friesen provided a two hour workshop at CCT’s Annual Meeting regarding the emergent church movement. The following link will take you to some follow up comments he made on his blog.

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