Event Mission:

Through education, service, partnership, and advocacy, The Center equips congregations in Baltimore and beyond to transform neighborhoods by engaging in the justice and reconciliation of Jesus Christ. In 2009, a group of teaching and ruling elders in the Presbytery

of Baltimore began to dream of an urban mission center that would partner visiting church groups with local congregations to work in neighborhoods. In 2011, The Center was founded with the Rev. Kate Foster Connors as director. A newly renovated 40-bed dormitory facility in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of midtown Baltimore hosts groups seeking overnight lodging or daytime meeting space, and it regularly welcomes youth and adult groups from across the U.S. for urban immersion mission experiences that will prepare them to get involved in justice making in their own communities. Find out more about The Center’s work at www.thecenterbaltimore.org.

Event Music: William N. Heard, a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, is the founding director of Friends of Jesus, an interdenominational, intergenerational ensemble of singers who perform various genres of sacred music. He serves as the minister of liturgy and music and family life at the historic Kaighn Avenue Baptist Church in Camden, NJ. He has produced three albums of African American music and is working on an urban gospel project, “Love Like This!”

Where: Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel

700 Aliceanna Street Baltimore, MD 21202 (800) 228-9290 marriott.com/hotels/travel/bwiwf

Room Rates for the Annual Event $139 [single or double] $159 [triple]

$179 [quadruple] Rates apply from three days before the Annual Event to three days after it. Room rates are subject to applicable state and local taxes (currently 15.5%, subject to change). Hotel reservations can be made now at apcenet.org.

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Do not fear, or be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? You are my witnesses!Is there any god besides me? There is no other rock; I know not one.

—Isaiah 44:8In a time of fear and confusion, God is calling us to act in faith, to bear witness to God’s unfolding kingdom.

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Fear Not: Embodying the Wisdom Embedded in African American Sacred RhetoricA day-long event on Tuesday, February 3, led by Katie Geneva Cannon, professor of Christian ethics at Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, VA. The first African American woman to be ordained as a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church, she was the recipient of the American Academy of Religion’s Excellence in Teaching award in 2011.

• CCE Certification Course: “Religious Education Theory and Practice” with Cindy Kissel-Ito

• POAMN Certification Course: “Spiritual Formation in Older Adult Ministry” with Henry Simmons

• PYWA Winter Symposium

• Advocacy learning day in Washington, DC, with PC(USA) Office of Public Witness

• Local tourism and spiritual pilgrimage opportunities

Watch for more information coming soon!

Pre-event Options

Keynote Speakers

Pre-event Leader

Brian Blount,esteemed preacher,

New Testament scholar, author, and president of Union Presbyterian

Seminary in Richmond, VA

Carol Howard Merritt, noted speaker,

award-winning author of Tribal Church and

Reframing Hope, and co-host of God Complex

Radio podcast

Katie Geneva Cannon,well-known scholar,

lecturer, author, editor, and the Annie Scales

Rogers Professor of Christian Ethics at Union Presbyterian Seminary

2015 APCE Annual Event in Baltimore, MDFebruary 4–7, Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel