re:create - Annual Thinktank For Arts & Worship Leaders From Around The World

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Purchase The cre:ate 2009 DVD & Resources

For the first time ever, we are offering the general session talks and "Box" resources which include registrants favorite books, best practices, set designs and much more on DVD.

You can order it HERE for $149. plus shipping.

cre:ate 2009 Schedule (Subject To Change)

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Michael W. Smith Will Lead An Intimate Acoustic Worship Set At cre:ate '09

It will be great to have Michael leading worship at cre:ate this year. Those of you who were with us at our very first conference eight years ago will remember that he surprised us with a quick visit. This will be his first time to lead worship at our conference. It will be a very special evening!

Steve Fee with a full band & Ken Davis join the growing roster at cre:ate 2009

 EMI just let us know that Fee and his full band will be with us for an evening of worship.

Also, Comedian Ken Davis, who moved us to tears last year with his powerful challenge and talk, will be back for a time of laughter and comedy. 

cre:ate '09 Hotel Recommendations

We will not have an official cre:ate hotel this year. Many of you have asked for less expensive alternatives than the Marriott, so we are recommending the following three hotels. Of course, you are welcome to stay anywhere you wish.

Country Inn and Suites: The best Franklin has to offer at the lowest price point, around $100 a night. Free WIFI, clean, comfortable beds and a great location. Let them know you are with recreate and they will give you a good rate.

Aloft: Brand new artsy hotel in a great location with WIFI. A little pricier but very nice!

Courtyard Marriott: Also great location, brand new, luxury but a good price. Would be probably around $160 a night. Highly recommended.

Ian Morgan Cron - Author of "Chasing Francis" to facilitate at cre:ate '09

Ian will be facilitating a conversation at cre:ate '09 about liturgy, Eucharist and the human quest for coherence. As part of the discussion Ian will also be integrating musings about the life of St Francis of Assisi and how this pre-modern saint can breathe life into the postmodern Church.

BIO

An ordained Anglican priest, spiritual director, author and songwriter, Ian Morgan Cron is the founding pastor of Trinity Church in Greenwich, Conn., a non-denominational faith community known for its commitment to social justice as well as to communicating the Christian story through the arts.

Cron is a native of Greenwich and a graduate of Bowdoin College in Maine, where he earned bachelor’s degrees in English and Romance languages and also met his wife Anne. He earned a master’s in counseling at Denver Seminary and received a master in divinity from New York Theological Seminary. Ian is presently enrolled in a doctoral program at Fordham University (The Jesuit University of New York) focusing on contemplative spirituality.

After 13 years of ministry, Cron became uncomfortable with the evangelical church’s growing identification with conservative politics, its resistance to engaging in generative conversation with people of differing theological and social viewpoints, its movement away from classical spiritual practices and worship, and its often facile answers to life’s deepest questions.  

At the height of his spiritual crisis, he retreated to a friend’s home on the island of Bermuda with a loaned copy of GK Chesterton’s, St. Francis of Assisi, a classic that would restore meaning and inspiration in his ministry. To Cron, St. Francis was a Christian worth emulating, a religious genius who transcended the labels of conservative, or liberal (or any other label for that matter). 

To introduce others to St. Francis, whom Cron has billed the “consummate postmodern saint,” he authored Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim's Tale (September 2007, NavPress). Part historical narrative, part fiction, Cron’s literary debut has received praise from a host of both Catholic and Protestant thinkers including Brian McLaren, Friar Richard Rohr, Tony Campolo, Makoto Fujimura, and Brennan Manning.

An accomplished songwriter in Nashville and New York City, he has two CDs of original work, “The Land of my Father’s,” produced by Grammy Award-nominated producer Rob Mathes and “Sacred Hunger,” produced by the Grammy Award-winning producer Phil Naish.

Cron is a spiritual director and retreat leader who particularly enjoys working with artists.

In his spare time he enjoys fly-fishing, running, traveling, and hiking in the mountains of Vermont. He resides in Old Greenwich with his wife and three children.

Anne Jackson - Author - "Mad Church Disease" Will Be at cre:ate '09

 Bio - Anne Jackson serves on staff at Cross Point Church in Nashville, Tennessee. Her articles have been published in a variety of print and online magazines, and her blog, FlowerDust is ranked as one of the top blogs in Christian Leadership with hundreds of thousands of pageviews a month. She is an advocate for Compassion International, a down-to-earth communicator, and an all around dreamer. Anne has an unwavering passion to see the Church grow, thrive, and fulfill its purpose.

MCD - Growing up the daughter of a pastor, Anne Jackson experienced firsthand the conflict, stress, and struggle church leaders often face. She vowed her life in ministry would be different.

Yet, years later, as a church leader, she was hospitalized because stress began wreaking havoc on her body. After being released from the hospital, an associate pastor asked her, "Does working at this church interfere with your communion with Christ?" The question was paramount in turning her life
around.

Thinking she wasn't alone, Anne developed a website that allowed church leaders to share their struggles. Within a few days, she was flooded with over a thousand responses from people pouring out their stories of burnout.

Using anecdotal parallels between Mad Cow Disease and leadership trends in the church, she writes not only to help us realize what church leaders are facing, but also to provide practical and positive treatment plans.

Mad Church Disease is a lively, informative, and potentially life-saving resource for anyone in ministry (vocational or volunteer) who would like to understand, prevent, or treat the epidemic of burnout in church culture.

Order Mad Church Disease HERE

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