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Collaborative Paths to Gender Equity Agenda

Agenda

Tuesday April 1, 2025
Arrival/ registration

12:30 PM Check in at Peachtree Road UMC

1:00 PM Opening Welcome/Worship

1:30 PM Commission on the Status and Role of Women Herstory: Who we are and how to organize an AC-COSROW

  Small group conversation

2:15 PM Break

2:30 PM Connecting with one another
Rev. Stephanie York Arnold, General Secretary, General Commission on the Status and Role of Women
Ratification of Paragraph 4, Article IV, Ballot #2

3:45 PM Leadership Development Workshops
  Amplifying Our Voices: Rev. Enger Mutete, Senior Director,
Programs and Education, General Commission on Religion and Race

Conflict Resolution: Rev. Katrena King, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategist, Louisiana Conference

Strategic Planning: Deaconess Celeste Eubanks, Director, Center for Christian Leadership,
Emory University, Candler School of Theology
 
5:30 PM Dinner, worship and keynote address by Bishop Delores J. Williamston, Resident Bishop, Louisiana Conference

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 
Breakfast at the hotel

8:30 AM Morning Devotion 

9:00 AM Leadership Development Workshops continued
Amplifying Our Voices: Rev. Enger Mutete, Senior Director,
Programs and Education, General Commission on Religion and Race

Conflict Resolution: Rev. Katrena King, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategist, Louisiana Conference

Strategic Planning: Deaconess Celeste Eubanks, Director, Center for Christian Leadership,
Emory University, Candler School of Theology

10:30 AM Break

10:45 AM   Panel discussion with AC-COSROW chairpersons

11:30 AM “Embodied Flourishing: Collective Paths to Well-Being and Gender Equity”: Rev. Dorlimar Lebran Malave, WesPath Benefits and Investments

12:30 PM Lunch

1:30PM “Coffee Chat”

2:30 PM Break

3:00 PM Strategizing roundtable discussions focusing on COSROWs next steps as it relates to legislation, new curriculum, etc.

4:00 PM Develop AC- COSROW plan

5:00 PM Dinner

6:00 PM Closing remarks

Thursday, April 3, 2025 
Breakfast at the hotel

8:30 AM Morning Devotion

9:00 AM Paragraph 4, Article IV Ballot #2, Rev. April Casperson

10:00 AM Embodied Flourishing, Rev. Dorlimar Lebron Malave

10:30 AM Special Presentation 

11:00 AM Finalize Action Plans and Next Steps
Closing Worship
Evaluation

12:00 PM        Snacks/Departure

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