CSNY Fall 2008 Conference on Urban Ministry
"Moving Faith: Global Christianity/ New York Christianity"

Saturday, November 8, 2008 (9:00 am – 4:30 pm)
New Song Community Church (New York City)

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Speakers

Ruth Padilla DeBorst – Theologian and church leader, she is president of the Latin American Theological, director of IFES's Spanish-speaking publishing house Ediciones Certeza Unida, and team leader of Christian Reformed World Mission's work in El Salvador. Ruth is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at Boston University School of Theology.

Manuel Vásquez – A professor of religion at the University of Florida, Manuel's most most recent publications include Globalizing the Sacred: Religion Across the Americas (Rutgers University Press, 2003), which he co-authored with Marie Friedmann Marquardt, and Immigrant Faiths: Transforming Religious Life in America (AltaMira 2005), a co-edited study.

Andrew F. Walls – Founder of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, University of Edinburgh and Centre for the Study of African and Asian Christianity, Liverpool Hope University, UK, he is the author or numerous works including The Cross-Cultural Process in Christian History.

Amos Yong – Professor of systematic theology at Regent University School of Ministry, he is the author of numerous works, including Hospitality and the Other: Pentecost, Christian Practices, and the Neighbor and The Spirit Poured out on All Flesh: Pentecostalism and the Possibility of Global Theology.