General Information

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Airport Shuttle | Continuing Education | Meals | Conferencing Housing | Refund Polilcy | Internet


Airport Shuttle
Guests arriving by air to the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport can sign up for the conference shuttle with their registration. Fees are $30 per person each way. You will choose a specific shuttle time when you register, but you can reschedule to a different time if your plans change.

Continuing Education
Contact hours will be documented for those who request continuing education credit at the hospitality table. Your signed attendance form must be turned in each day by 4:30 p.m. at the hospitality desk.

Meals
Conference registration includes lunch in Stav Hall on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The campus housing option also includes breakfast Tuesday through Friday, and dinner on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. If you are not purchasing the housing option, you can pay cash at Stav Hall or dine in the Cage coffee shop. A variety of Northfield dining choices will be listed in the handbook. Please visit this link for a list of restaurants in Northfield.


Conference Housing
Campus residence halls offer a convenient and inexpensive option for your conference housing. Choose between single or shared rooms in an air-conditioned residence hall. When air-conditioned rooms have filled, housing will be in a non air-conditioned residence hall, so bring your fan. You will be notified if air-conditioned rooms are full when your registration is received. Rooms have one or two single beds and shared bathrooms. Bedding and a towel are provided.

Blocks of rooms have been reserved until June 20 at local motels for conference guests who wish to make their own arrangements. After this date, rooms will be released, but the conference rate will still hold if space is available. Mention the St. Olaf Conference on Worship, Theology and the Arts when making your reservations.

• Country Inn: $70 for up to four people on weekdays;
  $85 on weekends. Call 507-645-2286.
• AmericInn: $69.90 for up to four people on weekdays.
  Call 507-645-7761 from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m., Mon.–Fri.
  or call 800-634-3444.
• Super 8: $66.59 Sun.–Th. for up to four people.
  Call 507-663-0371.
  

 

Refund Policy
Written cancellations received prior to July 1 will receive a refund, less a $50 administrative fee. No refunds will be given after July 1. Participant substitutions are accepted, but you must contact registration staff before the conference: 800-726-6523, summer@stolaf.edu.

Internet Connection
Wireless internet connection is available throughout most buildings on campus. If you hit a "dead spot," please try another location in the building. The computers in Buntrock Commons Fireside Room are available for your use with a password that can be obtained from the Hospitality Desk.

For a printable version (.pdf) of the general information for the 2008 conference, click here.

 

 

Mary Albing

Tuesday and Wednesday

Mary Albing taught homiletics for two years at Luther Seminary. She has published a number of parish education materials for the ELCA and the book Called Into Ministry. She is a pastor of the ELCA, ordained for word and sacrament ministry in 1988. She has served parishes in eastern North Dakota and Minneapolis, and as a chaplain and Clinical Pastoral Education Supervisory candidate at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. Mary currently serves Lutheran Church of Christ the Redeemer in southwest Minneapolis, a congregation devoted to worship and social justice. Visit her church web site at lccronpenn.org.

Randy Engle

Thursday and Friday

Randall Engle is the Pastor of the North Hills Christian Reformed Church of Troy, Michigan. After graduating from Calvin College and Seminary, he was the first-ever ordained minister of Music in the Christian Reformed Church, a position he held at the Calvary Christian Reformed Church of Bloomington, MN. After moving to Michigan he received a Ph.D. from Oxford where he researched the organ controversy in the Netherlands during the Reformation. His current project is a book entitled Sound Theology, an examination of protestant conceptions of sound, and how sound (instrumental, choral, spoken) could best be used, or not used, in worship. Engle is President-elect of the Choristers Guild. Visit his church web site at northhillscrc.org.