53rd Weekend 2010
May 28-30, Huron University College, London, Ontario
Register today to attend 53rd Weekend 2010! Registration deadline is May 14.
2010 theme speaker: Dr. Leonard Sweet - author, preacher, scholar, and ordained United Methodist minister
- "One of the church’s most important and provocative thinkers."
- “No church leader understands better how to navigate the seas of the 21st century.”
- “A writer of vast imagination, poise and charm.”
- “I can’t imagine a Christian leader in America who hasn’t read one or more of Leonard Sweet’s books.”
- “Some statistician-types will drown you in doom and gloom. Sweet’s message is uplifting, hopeful and relevant.”
These are but a sampling of responses to Leonard Sweet. In 2006 and 2007, Len was voted by his peers “One of the 50 Most Influential Christians in America” by ChurchReport Magazine.
Currently the E. Stanley Jones Professor of Evangelism at Drew University, Madison, NJ, Len has been Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Theological School at Drew University for five years. In 2001 Dr. Sweet was invited to be a Distinguished Visiting Professor at George Fox University, a school in Oregon affiliated with the Quaker tradition and the Wesleyan Methodist movement.
Involved in leadership positions in the United Methodist Church, Len has been chosen to speak at various conferences as well as the 1996 World Methodist Congress in Rio de Janeiro. He also serves as a consultant to many of America's denominational leaders and agencies.
Len has written dozens of books, including titles such as:
- Jesus Drives Me Crazy
- The Gospel According to Starbucks: Living with a Grande Passion
- Summoned to Lead
- New Life in the Spirit
In addition to writing books, Len has authored more than 200 articles and over 1200 published sermons. He is the primary contributor (along with his wife Karen Elizabeth Rennie) to the web-based preaching resource, sermons.com. For nine years he and his wife wrote Homiletics, which became under their watch the premier preaching resource in North America. In 2005 Len introduced the first open-source preaching resource on the Web, wikiletics.com.
Len is increasingly being asked to lecture around the world, and has spoken in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Brazil, England, Wales, South Africa, South Korea, Iceland, Scotland, and most recently, China, Indonesia, and Latvia.
Register today!