DRAFT PROGRAMME

(Unless otherwise stated all meals and events take place in the Clayton Hotel)

Thursday 7th June 2018

  • 14:00 – 16:30Arrivals at own hotels
  • 16:30 – 17:30 Registrationin Clayton Hotel –Staffed by Wanda and Heidi
  • 17:30Welcome Drinks Reception - Complementary
  • 18:00Opening Celebration Dinner – with guests. Welcome speeches
  • After dinner entertainment – Methodist Junior Singers

Harpist

Closing devotions

Friday 8th June 2018 – through . . . WORSHIP

  • 06:30 +Breakfast in own hotel
  • 08:00 – 09:00Prayer Rooms open:
  • SDG theme
  • Another with Cross and candle – for contemplative prayer
  • One for directed prayer with leader. Greetje Van Der Veer
  • Pyjama Prayers to be in bags.

Registration desk to be open for day visitors - Wanda and Heidi

Tea & Coffee available outside main conference room
  • 09:00 – 12:15‘Exploring worship through the Psalms’ with Val Mullally, Wendy Johnston & Melanie Johnston

Tea & Coffee 11:00 - 11:30 – Market Place open

Buffet Lunch served from 12:30 – Market Place open

  • 14:00 – 15:30Workshops on Worship. (2 rooms upstairs. 3 in Olympic room)
Tea & Coffee 15:30 - 16:00 – Market Place open
  • 16:00 – 17:00‘Proclaiming Our Faith’ – sharing in groups. Paper available to help guide thinking
  • Free Time & Market Place open 17:00 – 18:30

Dinner 18:30

  • 20:00 – 21:00Area Meetings: Europe Area upstairs. B&I in Olympic room.
  • 21:15 - 21:30 Evening Devotions – Lidia Ribet President & Lilla Lakatos Vice President, Europe Continental Area

Saturday 9th June 2018 – through . . . RELATIONSHIPS

  • 06:30 +Breakfast in own hotel
  • 08:00 – 09:00SDG Prayer Room open
Tea & Coffee available outside main conference room
  • 09:00 – 09:30 ‘Singing Our Faith’ with Melanie Johnston
  • 09:30 – 11:00Bible Study – Interactive (Part 1) with Gillian Kingston,

Vice-President World Methodist Council

Tea & Coffee 11:00 - 11:30 – Market Place open

  • 11:30 – 12:30Bible Study (Part 2) ‘Proclaiming Our Faith’ more directed

Buffet Lunch served from 12:30

Free Time & Market Place open 13:30 – 18:30

  • 13:30 – 18:00Optional Excursions - Day passes from hotel for Fitness Suite and Pool
Dinner 18:30
  • 20:00 – 21:00 ‘Sans Frontière!’ – Cultural evening with a difference. A fun evening. HKS and Lilla to compère. Wear National costumes if possible
  • 21:15 – 21:30Evening Devotions – Carolyn Lawrence, Area Vice President –Europe, Britain& Ireland

Sunday 10th June 2018 – through . . . SOCIAL ACTION

  • 06:30 +Breakfast in own hotel
  • 09:00 – 09:30Prayer Rooms open. One leader TBA

Tea & Coffee available outside main conference room

  • 09:30 - 10:00 Worship - ‘Chosen People’ –
  • 10:00 – 10:30Helen Kim Memorial Scholars’ Update
  • 10:30 – 11:00World Officers Update –

Tea & Coffee 11:00 - 11:30 – Market place open

  • 11:30 - 12:45 Reflections on SDG’s – Matilda Johnson,

World Vice-President WFM&UCW

Buffet Lunch served from 13:00
  • 14:30 – 16:00Workshops on Sustainable Development Goals.

i) Quality Education – Carolyn Lawrence

ii) No Poverty – Greetje Van Der Veer

iii) Peace and Justice – Ligia

iv) Gender Equality – Rachel Allison

v) Reduced inequalities – Susan Meister

Groups remain in 5 separate rooms and speakers rove around taking 15 minutes each. A host in each room will introduce speaker.

Tea & Coffee 16:00 - 16:30

  • 16:30 – 17:30‘Proclaiming Our Faith’ – sharing in groups – opportunity to

confirm new friends. This will be further explained.

Free Time & Market Place open 17:30 – 18:30

Dinner 18:30
  • 20:00 – 21:00Closing worship with Holy Communion –

Preacher, Alison Judd, World President WFM&UCW

Offering

  • 21:00 – 21:15Closing thanks.

Phyllis Watters

Seminar Secretary