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Thursday, March 10, 2004

11:00 AM - 7 PM Registration

1:00 PM Opening Session
“Increase Kindness: How and Why, Part 1”
- Dr. James R. Kok

1:45 General Session
“The Art of Helping”
- Lauren Littauer Briggs

2:45 Table Talk

3:15 Workshops

 
  1. “Dying With Diversity — Grief Cross-Culturally” - Bill Hoy
  2. “When Things Won't Get Any Better ” - Lauren Littauer Briggs
  3. “Building a Safe Marriage: Making Sense of your Differences” - Dr. Archibald and Kathleen Hart
  4. “Soul Care with Jesus” - Dr. Bill Gaultiere

4:15 Panel: Care and Kindness Questions - Dr. James Kok, Moderator

5:30 Dinner

6:30 General Session

7:00 Plenary Speaker
“Hope Givers: Understanding how to Grow, Heal and be an Encourager in your Relationships” - Dr. Archibald and Kathleen Hart

8:00 Closing

Friday, March 11, 2004

8:00 Continental Breakfast

8:30 General Session

9:00 Plenary Speaker
“Being a Blessing to the Blended ” - Sandra McMullen Hayhurst

10:00 Table Talk

  10:45 Workshops
 
  1. “How to Begin a Care Ministry for your Church” - Bev Michielson
  2. “Visiting the Sick: Practical Ways to Give Care, Comfort and Courage” - Leah Stout
  3. “Guiding a Child Through Grief” - Sharon Marshall
  4. “Identifying Barriers to Expressing Care and Kindness” - Rhonda McCloud
  5. “Don't Panic: You're the Boss!” - Dr. Debbie Hutchinson

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Plenary Speaker
“Bearing One Another's Burdens: the Spiritual Imperatives of Caring”
- Margaret Cottle, M.D.

2:00 Break

2:15 Panel Discussions
“Retirement Issues”
- Rev John Coulombe, Moderator

3:15 Break

3:30 Workshops

 
  1. “Practical Care and Kindness ” - Dr. James Kok
  2. “When Someone has Bipolar Disorder ” - Rev. Dr. Jim Stout
  3. “Emotional First Aid” - Freddie Charles
  4. “The Church and Post-abortive Women” - Traci Hildebrant
  5. “Aging with Grace” - Sandra McMullen Hayhurst

4:30 Open Forum
“Care and Kindness in Africa”
- Bill and Harriet Bierling

6:30 Care and Kindness Banquet (included) and Entertainment

“Gentleness”
- Dr. Robert H. Schuller

Saturday, March 12, 2004“Care-iffic Saturday”

7:30 Communion Service

7:30 Continental Breakfast

8:15 General Session

8:30 Plenary Speakers
“Caring for Creation: We are Stewards of this Planet ”
- Dr. Juan Carlos Ortiz

“Increase Kindness: How and Why, Part 2”
- Dr. James R. Kok

9:45 Break

10:00 Plenary Session
“Creating a Culture of Caregiving”
- Marcia Potter

11:00 Table Talk

11:30 Workshops

 
  1.  “The Gift of Forgiveness” - Dr. Vicki Orr
  2. “SOS for ADHD ” - Carolyn Harmes
  3. “Parenting Skills for Troubled Teens” - Eric Evenhuis
  4. “Someone has Alzheimers: How to be Present” - Dr. Jan Pfeffer
  5. “Grief after Suicide” - Bill Hoy

12:30 Lunch (included)

1:15 General Session

1:30 Plenary Speaker
“The Secret of Transforming Power”
- Dr. Siang-Yang Tan

2:30 Plenary Speaker
“The Game of Life and How to Play It”
- Art Linkletter

3:30 Final Session
“Taking Care and Kindness Home”
- Dr. James Kok