Christmount Week
August 4 - 8, 2008

Schedule:

Monday afternoon – registration
 6:00                Dinner
 7:15                Orientation
 7:30                Vespers, Stephanie Paulsell preaching
 8:30                Fellowship time 

Tuesday
 8:00                Breakfast
 9:30                Singing, devotions
10:00               Lecture, Kay Northcutt
11:00               Break
11:15               Getting to Know You and group photo
12:30               Lunch
Afternoon free
6:00                Supper
7:30                Vespers, Stephanie Paulsell
 8:30                Fellowship 

Wednesday
 8:00                Breakfast
 9:30                Singing, devotions
10:00               Lecture, Stephanie Paulsell
11:00               Break
11:15               Time with Keynoter
12:30               Lunch
Afternoon Free
 6:00                Supper
 7:30                Vespers, Kay Northcutt
 8:30                Break
 8:45                Talent Sharing 

Thursday
 8:00                Breakfast
 9:30                Singing, devotions
10:00               Lecture, Kay Northcutt
11:00               Break
11:15               Time with Keynoter
12:30               Lunch
Afternoon Free
6:00                Supper
 7:30                Vespers, Stephanie Paulsell
 8:30                Break
 8:45                Concert, “A Rose Among Thorns” 

Friday
 8:00                Closing Communion, Kay Northcutt
 8:45                Breakfast and departure

 Christmount Week is an annual event which brings some of the best lecturers and preachers for a week of deeper exploration of faith and meaningful worship.

Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings, there will be worship. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (morning and night) will feature longer lectures.

Wednesday night, there will be time for talent sharing after evening vespers.

The event begins with supper at 6:00 on Monday evening.

Each day, in addition to these lectures and worship services will be free time for exploring western NC and relaxing at Christmount, as well as special events each evening.

Stephanie Paulsell joined the faculty of Harvard Divinity School in 2001 as Lecturer on Ministry and was associate dean for ministry studies from 2003 to 2005, then she was appointed Houghton Professor of the Practice of Ministry Studies. For the 2007-08 academic year, she is also associate dean for faculty and curricular affairs. Before coming to Harvard, she served as director of ministry studies and Senior Lecturer in Religion and Literature at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is the author of Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice and co-editor of The Scope of Our Art: The Vocation of the Theological Teacher. Stephanie earned the BA from Greensboro College and MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. She is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). 

Kay Northcutt is Assistant Professor of Preaching and Worship at Phillips Theological Seminary, where her primary teaching interests are in homiletics and worship.  She is an accomplished pianist and much sought-after preacher and retreat leader. A recipient of three Associated Church Press writing awards, she has published Praying by Heart:  Prayers for Personal Devotion and Public Worship and a number of articles including, among others, "August in Her Breast:  Prayer as Embodiment," in Setting the Table: Women in Theological Conversation, "If You Seek Abundant Life Embrace Death," Disciple, "The Best Way to Pray is to Stop," Disciple (May 1997), and "Ahoy! A Holy Glimpse," Criterion (Autumn 1992).  She received her BM from Northwestern University, MM from the University of Oklahoma, M.Div. from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and D. Min. from the Aquinas Institute. Kay is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

Music Leaders

Renae and Jamie Brame

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