2008 Schedule at a Glance

Monday | Tuesday–Thursday | Friday

Monday
10:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Handbell Auditions

11 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Registration, Buntrock Commons Crossroads

1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Opening Worship Service, Boe Memorial Chapel
Hymn Festival: John Ferguson and Bruce Benson

3 – 4 p.m.
Keynote Address, Urness Recital Hall

4:15 – 5:30 p.m.
Adult Mixed Choir Rehearsal
Adult Women's Choir Rehearsal
Handbell Choir Auditions (con't)

5:45 – 6:45 p.m.
Handbell Choir Rehearsals

5 – 6:30 p.m.
Dinner

5:45 – 6:15 p.m.
Handbell Choir A Rehearsal

6:15 – 6:45
Handbell Choir B Rehearsal

7 – 8 p.m.
Plenary Session, Urness Recital Hall

8:45 – 10 p.m.
Exhibit Hall Reception with Refreshments
Buntrock Commons, The Pause

8:30 – 9 p.m.
Compline

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Tuesday - Thursday
7 – 8:45 a.m.
Breakfast

8:15 – 9:15 a.m.
Worship Service, Boe Memorial Chapel

9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
In-Depth Seminars

11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday
Exhibit Hall Open

11:30 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, closed Friday
Exhibit Hall Open

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Lunch

12:45 – 1:45 p.m.
Adult Mixed Choir Rehearsal
Adult Women's Choir Rehearsal

2 – 4:15 p.m.
Special Interest Session

4:30 – 5:30 p.m.
Choral Reading Session

5 – 6:30 p.m.
Dinner

7 – 8 p.m.
Plenary Session

8:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday: Evening Worship
Wednesday:
"Organs: Insanity and Madness"
Followed by the ever-popular ice cream social

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Friday
7 – 8:45 a.m.
Breakfast

8:15 – 10:10 a.m.
In-Depth Seminars

10:45 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Closing Worship Service

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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.