The document provides information about the 167th Regional Assembly of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in North Carolina to be held on April 18, 2015 at Hillyer Memorial Christian Church in Raleigh. It includes a registration form requesting name, address, phone, email, church, and lunch selection. The schedule lists the times for registration, worship, lectures, workshops, business session and adjournment. The document also provides biographies of the lecturers, details on the workshop presenter, and notes on parking for the event.

1. Name:
Address:
Phone: ( )
Email:
Church:
So that we may be better prepared, please check which lunch
time slot you plan to eat. See schedule.
⃞ Lunch 1 (this is for those NOT attending the CWF/Disciple Women’s Luncheon)
⃞ Lunch 2 (this is for those that DO want to attend the CWF/Disciple Women’s Luncheon)
Make checks payable & return form to:
Christian Church in N.C., PO Box 1568, Wilson, NC 27894
167th Regional Assembly
of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in North Carolina
Hillyer Memorial Christian Church, Raleigh NC
April 18, 2015
Registration $30 (includes lunch)
Deadline April 10th
Please print and use one name per form.

2. 167th Regional Assembly
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in North Carolina
Hillyer Memorial Christian Church, 718 Hillsborough Street
Raleigh, North Carolina
April 18, 2015
Schedule
8:00am Registration Opens
9:00am Opening Worship
9:45am Plenary Session 1 Purcell Lecture by John R. Levison ‘This Church Rocks’
11:00am Break
11:30am Lunch 1 (for those NOT attending the CWF/Disciple Women’s Luncheon)
11:30am Workshop for Lunch 2 attendees Christopher Smith
12:30pm Lunch 2 (CWF/Disciple Women’s Luncheon)
12:30pm Workshop for Lunch 1 attendees Christopher Smith
1:30pm Plenary Session 2 Sprinkle Lecture Presented by Lance Pape
2:45pm Break
3:00pm Business Session
3:45pm Closing Worship
4:15pm Adjourn
Purcell & Sprinkle Barton College Annual Lectures
The E. G. Purcell, Jr. Bible Conference lecture was established in honor of the Rev. Purcell
following his retirement from Barton College (ACC).
Thedford Sprinkle and Woodrow Sprinkle were members of Salem Fork CC, Dobson and this
lecture was established by Dr. Steve Sprinkle in their memory.
These lectures are sponsored by Barton College and offer to the church opportunities to learn
the latest biblical scholarship and ways to use this knowledge for spreading the good news.
Plenary Session 1 E. G. Purcell, Jr., Bible Conference Lecture
John R. (Jack) Levison is the William Joseph Ambrose Power Professor of Biblical Hebrew
and Old Testament Interpretation at Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist Univer-
sity, Dallas, TX. He earned a Ph.D. from Duke University and graduated from Cambridge
University and Wheaton College. He has authored nine books.
Plenary Session 2 Thedford G. and Woodrow W. Sprinkle Lecture
Lance Pape is the Granville and Erline Walker Assistant Professor of Homiletics at TCU, Brite
Divinity School, Fort Worth, TX. He is a graduate of the Institute for Christian Studies

3. Parking
Note there will be signs out to direct you to parking areas.
On street parking is available on Hillsborough Street on the opposite
side of the church as well as on Boylan Avenue and St. Mary’s Street.
Dirt parking lot behind gas station at the corner of Hillsborough Street
and Boylan Avenue.
Office building beside Hillyer Memorial Christian Church.
Junior League Building across from Hillyer Memorial Christian Church.
(now Austin Graduate School of Theology), and graduated Yale Divinity School. His
Ph.D. is from Emory University. He is an ordained minister, having served congrega-
tions in Texas, Alabama and New York and has authored a book from Baylor University
Press.
Workshop
Christopher “Chris” Smith will present a workshop based on the book he co-authored
with John Pattison: Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus.
Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove says about Slow Church: The authors’ “central metaphor of
the welcome table echoes the God Movement from first-century Eucharists down to the
twentieth-century lunch counters. I love the way Chris and John pay attention to what
God is up to beyond the church and in ways that build up the church…. And I’m just
tickled by the delight of two amateurs in the truest sense--regular folk whose passion in-
spires them to reach far and wide for resources to guide a conversation about what it
means to live faithfully in the way of Jesus….But what I love most about Slow Church is
the way this book talks about faith--and invites us to talk about it--with attention to the
Word made flesh.