A Conversation with Carol Howard Merritt

A Conversation with Carol Howard Merritt, author of Tribal Church: Ministering to the Missing Generation and the upcoming Reframing Hope: Looking at Vital Ministry in a New Generation, will be held on February 19, 2010 from 6:00-8:00 pm and on February 20. 2010 from 9:30-11:30 am at 1^st United Methodist Church in Des Moines, Iowa (1001 Pleasant Street). A $10 registration fee for each conversation can be paid at the door before each event. These conversations are sponsored by First United Methodist Church in Des Moines; Martha Hill DiSilvestro, Central District Field Outreach Minister; and The Young Adult Ministries Office of the United Methodist Church in Iowa.

 

 

Carol Howard Merritt is a minister in her thirties, who has served congregations in Louisiana and Rhode Island. Currently, she is a pastor at Western Presbyterian Church, an innovative, intergenerational congregation in Washington, D.C. Western is the home of Miriam’s Kitchen, a feeding program that serves a hot, nutritious breakfast to over 200 homeless men and women every weekday morning. Carol has written for several magazines and journals, and is the award-winning author of Tribal Church: Ministering to the Missing Generation (The Alban Institute, 2007). Her next book, Reframing Hope: Vital Ministry in a New Generation will be out in February. She blogs at TribalChurch.org and co-hosts God Complex Radio, an Internet radio show with Bruce Reyes-Chow, the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA).

 

‘a conversation with...’ is an occasional conversation series focusing on the theological groundings of, and the practical implications for ministry with young adults.

 

For more information contact:

Eric Guy, Leadership Development Minister

Young Adult and Generational Ministry

The United Methodist Church in Iowa

eric.guy@iaumc.org     *     515.874.8944