On Sunday, January 15 at 5 p.m. Dr. Paul Louis Metzger 
has been invited to give the keynote speech at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Worship and Awards Service hosted by Albina Ministerial Alliance.
The event is held at Allen Temple CME Church, which is located at 4236 NE 8th in Portland. 
Paul will be remembering Dr. King’s values and speaking to how we can carry those values forward.
The event is open to the public.
Richard Twiss and Kathleen Tom will speak tonight at 7 p.m., Tuesday January 10 at McMenamins Kennedy School Gymnasium as part of the “Race Talks: Opportunities for Dialogue” series.
Richard’s talk is titled, “The Experience of Native Americans in Oregon Today”
Doors open at 6 p.m. and the event starts at 7 p.m. It is free and open to all ages.
Kennedy School McMenamins is located at 5736 N.E. 33rd Avenue, Portland, 97211, and can be reached at 503- 249-3983
The event is in lieu of this month’s John 17:23 Network.
For more information, visit the website:
McMenamins- Race Talks Info- Richard Twiss Jan 10
The Table: A forum on fatherlessness was a conference Nov. 22 hosted by The Institute for the Theology of Culture: New Wine, New Wineskins at Multnomah Biblical Seminary of Multnomah University and Greater Life Church in San Francisco. 
Pastors, ministers, theologians, congregants, and community leaders gathered at the San Francisco church for the day long event to discuss fatherless, gang violence, families, community, the church, and the nation.
Dr. Paul Louis Metzger writes about how the theme emerged: “Some African American pastors in San Francisco shared with me how the African American Christian community is often excluded from a vital place at the table of fellowship with other Christian leaders in the Bay Area. One Chinese American pastor in the area responded to their statement by saying that “We Chinese have not been invited to the table either, so we simply made our own table.” These diverse leaders were saying to me that there is not sufficient intentionality toward the development of community involving equality and solidarity in ministry among people of diverse ethnic backgrounds.”
Be sure to attend the fall 2011 New Wine, New Wineskins conference Saturday, Nov. 5 at Imago Dei Portland 
featuring Quentin Schultze as Keynote speaker.
Quentin Schultze is the Arthur H. DeKruyter Chair and a Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. A prolific author and speaker, Quentin sees human communication as “an act of faith;” he is also a leading voice on media and its place in service to Christian worship and mission.
At the day long conference, attendees will muse on how social media and technology “help foster or hinder authentic communion with the Triune God and community with the church and culture at large.”
Some of the subjects to be addressed include: “the ‘fourth wall’ which separates leader from participant, forcing us to rethink our models of worship relative to technology. We will ask whether the church’s use of technology seeks simply to improve consumer cultural idolatry (mere entertainment) or if it causes us to enter into the Triune God’s presence corporately. We will examine the double-edged sword of technology and social media, which enables churches to establish satellite campuses – a practice whose theological impact is bound up with our implementation. Further, we will examine how technology impacts our relationships, our authenticity, and our capacity for intimacy.”
Besides Quentin, New Wine leaders Dr. Paul Louis Metzger, who is the director, Dr. Brad Harper, the associate director, and Dr. Robert Redman, the dean of Multnomah Biblical Seminary, will speak on the topic of communication and the church.
The conference runs from 8:30am – 4 p.m. at Imago Dei Community, located at 1302 SE Ankeny Street in Portland. Registration is available here. General admission tickets are $20. Student tickets are $5 with student body card. For more information, email newwine@multnomah.edu.
For more info visit: New Wineskins Website
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