SCHEDULE OF SESSIONS

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All worship and plenary sessions in bold are open to all day visitors who have pre-booked

Sunday 12th August
12:00 on	Arrival and registration at Christ Church	Junior Common Room
17:30	Welcome reception	Tom Quad
18:30	Dinner	Dining Hall
20:00	Plenary Session 1 Presiding: M Douglas Meeks Keynote Lecturer: William H. Willimon, Bishop , North Alabama Conference, United Methodist Church “What if Wesley was Right?”	Wesley Memorial
21:30	Closing prayers	Wesley Memorial
Monday 13th August
07:00	Morning Worship (Europe)	St Colomba’s
07:45-08:15	Breakfast	Dining Hall
09:00	Plenary Session 2 Presiding: Tim Macquiban Lecturer: Professor Marjorie Suchocki, Professor emerita, Claremont School of Theology “Christian Perfection: A Wesleyan/Process Perspective on Ecclesiology” Respondent: Clive Marsh Secretary of the Faith & Order Committee, Methodist Church of Great Britain	Wesley Memorial
10:45	Coffee	Wesley Memorial / Junior Common Room
11:15-12:45	Working Groups (1)
13:00	Lunch	Dining Hall
14:00	Institute Photograph	outside Christ Church library
Free time
16:00	Tea	Junior Common Room
16:30-18:30	Working Groups (2)
19:00	Dinner	Dining Hall
20:15	Plenary Session 3 Report of Pre-Institute Two-Thirds World Conference Convener: Richard Rogers Professor of New Testament Leonard Theological College, India	Wesley Memorial
21:30	Evening Prayers (Europe)	Wesley Memorial
Tuesday 14th August — Charles Wesley Day
07:00	Morning Worship (North America)	St Colomba’s
07:45-08:15	Breakfast	Dining Hall
09:00	Plenary Session 4 Presiding: M. Douglas Meeks Lecturer: Dr. Tim Macquiban Principal, Sarum College, Salisbury, England “‘Work on Earth and Rest in Heaven’: A Theology of Vocation In the Writings of Charles Wesley” Respondent: Amy Oden Professor of the History of Christianity, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC	Wesley Memorial
10:45	Coffee	Wesley Memorial / Junior Common Room
11:15-12:45	Working Groups (3) NOTE: visitors for Charles Wesley Society meeting Attend open meeting of Working Group on Wesley Studies meeting at Wesley Memorial
13:00	Lunch	Dining Hall
14:00	(Optional guided walk) “Charles Wesley’s Oxford”	depart from Christ Church
Free time
16:00	Tea	Junior Common Room
16:30-18:30	Working Groups (4) NOTE: visitors for Charles Wesley Society meeting Attend “Charles Wesley Studies Today” forum
18:45	Dinner (note changed time)	Dining Hall
20:15	Plenary Session 5 Presentation Dr. S T Kimbrough Producer: ST Kimbrough Jr. “Charles Wesley at 300: A Musical Celebration”	Wesley Memorial
Wednesday 15th August
07:00	Morning Worship (Africa)	St Colomba’s
07:45-08:15	Breakfast	Dining Hall
09:00	Plenary Session 6 Lecturer: Ivan Abrahams, Bishop, Methodist Church of South Africa “A Different World is Possible: Positioning the Church in the 21st Century” Respondent: Gillian Kingston President, Irish Council of Churches	Wesley Memorial
10:45	Coffee	Wesley Memorial / Junior Common Room
11:15-12:45	Working Groups (5)
13:00	Lunch	Dining Hall
Free time
14:00	Outgoing Institute Committee
16:00	Tea	Junior Common Room
16:30-18:30	Working Groups (6)
19:00-20:15	Dinner	Dining Hall
Free time
21:30	Holy Communion Presiding: Mary Ann Moman Associate General Secretary, GBHEM Preacher: David Cooper Superintendent Minister, Oxford Circuit	Cathedral
Thursday 16th August
07:00	Morning Worship (Latin America)	St Colomba’s
07:45-08:15	Breakfast	Dining Hall
09:00	Plenary Session 7 Presiding: Mercy Oduyoye Lecturer: Paulo Ayres Mattos Bishop emeritus, Methodist Church of Brazil “‘The World is my Parish - Is It?’ Wesleyan Ecclesio-Missiological Considerations from a Contemporary Latin American Perspective” [The Dow and Marjorie Kirkpatrick Lecture] Respondent: Young-Ho Chun Professor of Systematic Theology Saint Paul School of Theology, Kansas City, MO
10:45	Coffee	Wesley Memorial / Junior Common Room
11:15	Working groups (7)
13:00	Lunch	Dining Hall
Free time
16:00	Tea	Junior Common Room
16:30-18:30	Working Groups (8)
19:00	Dinner	Dining Hall
20:00	Launch of Epworth Review	Wesley Memorial
20:15	Plenary Session 8 Discussion: The Church and the Future of Theological Education Speaker: Ken Howcroft Co-ordinating Secretary For Conference and Communication, British Methodist Church Respondent: Mary Ann Moman, Associate General Secretary, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, United Methodist Church	Wesley Memorial
21:30	Evening Prayers (The Caribbean)	Wesley Memorial
Friday, 17th August
07:00	Morning Worship (Asia)	St Colomba’s
07:45-08:15	Breakfast	Dining Hall
09:00	Plenary Session 9 Presiding: Colin Smith Professor Lung-kwong Lo President of the Methodist Church, Hong Kong Respondent: Nancy R. Bowen Associate Professor of Old Testament Earlham School of Religion	Wesley Memorial
10:45	Coffee	Wesley Memorial / Junior Common Room
11:15-12:45	Working Groups (9)
13:00	Lunch	Dining Hall
Free time
16:00	Tea	Junior Common Room
16:30-18:30	Working Groups (10)
19:00	Dinner	Dining Hall
20:15	Plenary Session 10 Debate on the Character and Future of the Oikumene “What Should the Church of the Wesleyan Tradition Contribute to the Future of the Oikoumene?” Presenters: William J. Abraham Albert C. Outler Professor of Theology Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX Néstor O. Míguez Professor of New Testament ISEDET University Institute, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Wesley Memorial
21:30	Evening Prayers (Asia)	Wesley Memorial
Saturday 18th August
07:00	Morning Worship (Australia & New Zealand)	St Colomba’s
07:45-08:15	Breakfast	Dining Hall
09:00	Plenary Session 11 Presiding: Randy L. Maddox “Vocation and Human Dignity” Lecturer: Robin Lovin Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University “Vocation and Human Dignity” Respondent: Amy Laura Hall Associate Professor of Theological Ethics Duke Divinity School, Duke University	Wesley Memorial
10:45	Coffee	Wesley Memorial / Junior Common Room
11:15-12:45	Working Groups (11)
13:00	Lunch	Dining Hall
Free time
19:00	Dinner (optional)	Dining Hall
Sunday 19th August
09:00-09:30	Breakfast (note change of time)	Dining Hall
10:30	Covenant Service at Wesley Memorial Church; Presiding Minister: Rev. George Mulrain President, Methodist Church in the Caribbean and the Americas Preacher: Hope Morgan Ward Bishop, Mississippi Conference, United Methodist Church “Radiant and Intermingled” Matthew 5:14–16
13:00	Lunch	Dining Hall
Free time
19:00	Dinner	Dining Hall
20:30	Cultural Evening	Wesley Memorial
Monday 20th August
07:00	Morning Worship (The Pacific)	St Colomba’s
07:45-08:15	Breakfast	Dining Hall
09:00-10:45	Working Groups (12)
10:45	Coffee	Wesley Memorial / Junior Common Room
11:00	New Institute Committee meets
13:00	Lunch	Dining Hall
14:00-15:30	Working Groups (13) – summing up session
15:30	Tea	Junior Common Room
16:00-17:30	Plenary Session 12 Concluding Discussion Presiding: Brian Beck Discussants: Dennis C. Dickerson Professor of History, Vanderbilt University Walter Klaiber Bishop (retired), German Central Conference, United Methodist Church Mercy Oduyoye Former Deputy Secretary General of the World Council of Churches	Wesley Memorial
	Working Group conveners meet
19:00	Banquet	Dining Hall
Tuesday 21nd August
No morning worship – rooms need to be cleared by 9-00am
07:45-08:15	Breakfast	Dining Hall
	Departures