The Missional Church: Ministry "Outside the Box"
Keith Boyer

This workshop will compare two models of mission—attractional and missional—from the point of view that the two can co-exist as complementary in a healthy congregation. The workshop will affirm the importance of hospitality and high quality programs and ministries, but it will focus on how congregations can become partners with Christ in his ongoing mission in the world. What would it look like for your congregation to move “outside the box” of the traditional “bring them in” form of outreach and develop a missional ministry as co-workers with God in a pluralistic society?

Presbyterian Today
John Congram

Is there anything worth preserving in Presbyterianism today? Or is it an archaic, out-of-date religious sect that has outlived its usefulness? Was Bob Reed right when he suggested that “Presbyterianism is a series of meetings occasionally interrupted by a worship service?” What are the things in our tradition we should jettison, and are there things we should fight to preserve even if they are not popular in this modern age? These are some of the questions we will wrestle with in this workshop, and then we'll come up with strategies to implement our answers.

Worship: Welcoming, Worthy and Wise

Christine O'Reilly

Participants will explore the basics of Reformed worhip and look at how we can worship God with passion and purpose. You will take away practical ideas for enriching worship in your church, rural or urban, traditional and/or contemporary, with music, prayer and Scripture.

Faith Basics

Stephen Farris

[This workshop description will be posted by September.]

Roles and Responsibilities of Ruling Elders

Marilyn Repchuck

Learn how to be the best ruling elder you can be, and explore the role of the ruling elder within the Presbyterian Church in Canada, its congregations and its courts.

PAW 2012 pamphlet and printable registration form available here. You will need the free program Adobe Reader—download it here.