 Thursday,
March 16, 2006
11:00 AM - 7 PM Registration
1:00 PM Opening Session
1:25 “What It Means That We Are Spiritual Beings”
- Dr. James Kok
1:45 General Session
“Wounded Healers: Servanthood and Suffering”
- Dr. Siang Yang Tan
2:45 Table Talk
3:00 Break
3:15 Workshops
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- “Speaking the Unspoken: Communicating Across Differences” - Wrise Booker
- “Visiting The Sick: Practical Ways to Give Care, Comfort and Courage”- Leah Stout
- “Caring for the Emotional Needs of the Gifted and Talented”- Connie Wax
- “So...I Have Gifts; Now What Do I Do?” - Judy Gustum
- “My Story, Your Story”- Ruth Vander Zee
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4:00 Break
4:15 Panel: “Disability Awareness Q&A Panel”
Kent Loftsgaard, Norm Coombs, Maureen Pratt, Glen Giffin
5:30 Dinner (included)
6:30 General Session
7:00 Plenary Speaker
“Grief and Caring for Those Who Grieve”
- Dr. Ken Haugk
8:00 Closing
Friday, March 17, 2006
8:00 Continental Breakfast (included)
8:30 General Session
9:00 Plenary Speaker
“Raising A Special-Needs Son —
An Unfinished Odyssey”
- Jack and Dottie Wiersma
10:00 Table Talk
10:30 Break
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10:45 Workshops |
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- “How to Create a Care Ministry” - Lydia Sarandan
- “Death and Dying” - Dr. Linda Bos
- “Peace in the Storm: Walking with God while Living with Chronic Pain and Illness”- Maureen Pratt
- “Personalities: Giving and Receiving Care” - Dr. Debbie Hutchinson
- “Ministry of Prayer” - Chip Whitman
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12:00 Lunch (included)
1:00 General Session
1:15 Plenary Speaker
“Living Fully in the Shadow of Death”
- Dr. Robert DeVries and Dr. Susan Zonnebelt-Smeenge
2:15 Break
2:30 Plenary Speaker
“Bipolar Disorder and Your Marriage: Surviving, Coping and Rebuilding”
- Dr. Jim and Rev. Leah Stout
3:30 Break
3:45 Workshops
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- “What Jesus Wants From Us” - Dr. James Kok
- “Serving Others in the Joy of Christ” - Dr. Bill Gaultiere
- “Caring for Those Who Grieve” - Dr. Robert DeVries and Dr. Susan Zonnebelt-Smeenge
- “How to Be a Powerfully Caring Leader” - Ken Haugk
- “How to More Effectively Help a Bipolar Loved One, and Still Maintain Your Own Health and Happiness” - Dr. Jim Stout
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4:45 Special Video Presentation
"The Beloved"
- Dr. Henri J.M. Nouwen
6:30 Care and Kindness Banquet (included) and
Entertainment
“A Time To Be Born”
- John McKinney
Saturday, March 18, 2006 “Care-iffic
Saturday”
7:30 Communion Service
7:30 Continental Breakfast (included)
8:15 General Session
“Increase Kindness: How and Why”
- Dr. James R. Kok
Audio recording
8:45“How Does One Care When a Daughter or Son Says, 'I'm gay'?”
- Dr. Mel Hugen
9:45 Break
10:00 Plenary Session
“How to Make a Difference”
- Terri Green
11:00 Table Talk
11:30 Workshops
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- “Delivering Healing and Growth for Adult Children of Alcoholics” - Roland Petit
- “Someone Has Alzheimers: How to be Present” - Dr. Jan Pfeffer
- “Kind People Have Boundaries, Too!” - Dr. Bill Gaultiere
- “The Stephen Series and the ChristCare Series: Providing Comprehensive Care” - Dr. Ken Haugk
- “Providing Comfort to Those Who Have Lost a Child” - Rick and Karen Hacker
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12:30 Lunch (included)
1:15 General Session
1:30 Plenary Speaker
“Getting Smart — Growing Older”
- Jane Glenn Haas
2:30 Break
2:45 Plenary Speaker
“Helping the Hurting without Hurting while Helping”
- Dr. Ken Haugk
3:45 Final Session
“Taking Care and Kindness Home”
- Judy Gustum
- Dr. James Kok
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