Will Campbell To Keynote
Synod Communications Seminar

Legendary author, speaker, preacher and civil rights advocate Will Campbell is the keynote speaker for the Synod Communications Seminar this year. Scheduled for April 28-30, 2004, the seminar will be held at Brentwood Suites in Brentwood, Tennessee. Campbell is scheduled to speak at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 29, in the hotel meeting room. He is the author of Brother to a Dragonfly, chosen by the New York Times as an outstanding book in 1977. Other distinctive and popular books by Campbell are Forty Acres and a Goat and The Glad River.

A worship service on Thursday morning, April 29, at 9:30 will be led by K.C. Ptomey, senior pastor at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Nashville. His sermon topic will be related to the theme of the seminar, which is “How We Use Words to Communicate.”

There will be workshops on Thursday offering instruction on digital cameras and web page design.

Two outstanding panel presentations are planned on opening day, Wednesday, April 28. At three o’clock, a panel of communicators from Presbyterian colleges in the Synod will bring timely information about the outstanding institutions in our midst. At 7:00 that evening, an expert panel of public relations executives will discuss ways we use words to inform and inspire.

The final offering on Friday morning will be a presentation by Jim Kitchens, senior pastor at Second Presbyterian Church in Nashville, on “Communicating in a Post-modern Church”, which is based on a book he has written for the Alban Institute.

A group dinner and a reception for authors are on the schedule.

To ask questions or to request a brochure, contact the Synod office at 615-261-4008 or email jhines3@mindspring.com.

The registration form at the bottom of this page should be returned to the Synod office by April 12.