Schedule

FRIDAY

May 17th

4:30 pm - Check-In

5:00 pm - Welcome - Sanctuary (Facebook Live):

* Practicing Solidarity
* Remembering our Resistance History

6:15 pm - Dinner: Intentional Community Building - Fellowship Hall

7:00 pm - Group Discussions:

* What’s going on around the connection?
* Your spiritual, emotional, and experiential journey in the wake of GC19.
* Your movement hopes and dreams for going forward.

8:00 pm - Closing Devotions

SATURDAY

MAY 18th

8:30 am - Check-In and Continental Breakfast

8:45 am - Gathering Music

9:00 am - Welcome - Sanctuary

* Land Acknowledgement (Tobacco Ceremony with Marcus Briggs-Cloud)
* Orientation and Introductions
* Centering and Vision Exercise

9:30 am - Plenary Panel “Moving Our Movement Forward” (Facebook Live)

* Our Panel

11:30 am - Lunch: Caucuses Gather

1:00 pm - Work Groups - Session One: Collaborative Formation of our Ideas

In the wake of the passage of the Traditional plan, how can United Methodists who affirm LGBTQIA+ lives shape the future of the church in a manner that does not continue to replicate racist, sexist, classist, and colonialist structures?

* Track 1: Resisting from within
* Track 2: Movement in-between through in/out hybrid approach
* Track 3: Birthing wholly/holy new connection

2:15 pm - Break

2:30 pm - Session Two: Harvesting and Honing

* Track 1: Resisting from within
* Track 2: Movement in-between through in/out hybrid approach
* Track 3: Birthing wholly/holy new connection

3:45 pm - Plenary: Moving Forward - Sanctuary

* Proclaiming our non-negotiable theology and strategies
* Making commitments to carry the work forward

4:30 pm - Closing Worship (Facebook Live)