Mission and Power Trialogue

The Canadian Churches Forum for Global Ministries annually hosts an "International Visitor" providing Majority World voices to the Canadian Church. In 2009 there were three International Visitors representing voices from the Global South, Canadian First Nations, and Canada.

Rev. Dr. Elizabeth S. Tapia A Filipina theologian and Director of the Drew University and Theological School Center for Christianities in Global Contexts		Bishop Mark L. MacDonald The Anglican Church of Canada's first National Indigenous Bishop		Rev. Dr. Russell Daye A Canadian theologian and United Church of Canada Minister who has also served as UCC International Personnel in Fiji

The International Visitors were gifted as speakers to the Canadian Theological Students Conference which is co-sponsored by the Canadian Theological Students Association and The Churches Council on Theological Education in Canada. Over the course of the conference, held in February of 2009, each of the three "keynotes" was a combination of a short lecture by one of the International Visitors, conversation between all three, and dialogue with the audience.

The transcripts of these three "keynotes" can be downloaded (in Adobe Reader^* PDF-file format) using the following links:

Trialogue Session 1  [February 16, 2009]:

• Bishop Mark MacDonald Keynote Lecture 74kB
  Trialogue Conversation / Audience Responses 76kB
  Audience Questions 90kB
  

Trialogue Session 2  [February 17, 2009]:

• Rev. Dr. Russell Daye Keynote Lecture 74kB
  Trialogue Conversation / Audience Responses 82kB
  Audience Questions 80kB
  

Trialogue Session 3  [February 19, 2009]:

• Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Tapia Keynote Lecture 177kB
  Audience Responses and Questions (Small Groups) 50kB
  Trialogue Responses and Closing Prayer (plus Biographies) 123kB
  

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