Workshops 2016GIFTS??? WHAT DO I BRING TO THE CHURCH? (Dr. Ansel Augustine)In this workshop, the participants will explore their gifts and look at how to use them to serve the church.

FINDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF MINISTRY LEADERS: HOW TO MINISTER WITH YOUTH (Dr. Ansel Augustine)In this workshop, the participants will look at the challenges that face the church in ministering to today’s youth and look at how we are called to meet these challenges as people of faith so that we can raise up the next generation of leaders.

Discipleship Costs. Are you Willing? Rebuilding a vibrant Black Catholic Church (Sr. Anita Baird)This workshop will explore the challenges facing the black Catholic community nationwide. How did we get here and what are the challenges that we must confront in rebuilding strong, vibrant discipleship communities that are rich centers of worship and transformable agents for social justice in our communities?

WALK TOGETHER, CHILDREN: THE PROPHETIC SONG OF THEA BOWMAN (Rev. Dr. Joseph A. Brown, SJ) Presentation will carry the theme of her theme in the 1989 address to our situation today. “We come to our Church fully functioning” is repeated over and over. What are the implications for how we utilize our baptismal identity to create a church that is inclusive and truly Black and authentically Catholic? Have we fallen into stereotypical behaviors as Black Catholics? Have we forsaken the fullness of our spiritual legacy as Catholic Blacks? Using the witness of Sr. Dr. Thea Bowman, we will explore her final testimony: “If we work together, pray and stand together, we can create a new heaven and ease life for each other.”

WORKING ON A BUILDING: SANKOFA AS THE FOUNDATION FOR (Rev. Dr. Joseph A. Brown, SJ) Starting with a close reading of the aesthetic and cultural concept of “Sankofa”, we will reflect on how “returning to our past” means more than a quick visit. Immersion in the themes of Black Sacred Song, we will explore how drawing deeply from the wells dug by our ancestors may renew our prophetic worship today.

SWEET, SWEET SPIRIT: A CONVERSATION WITH BISHOP CHERI AND FR. BROWN ON THEIR LITURGICAL SOURCEBOOK (Rev. Dr. Joseph A. Brown, SJ) In the ten years since the publication (2006) of Sweet, Sweet Spirit: Prayer Services from the Black Catholic Church, a formal discussion on the structure of the collection, with special attention paid on how more such collections should be established. It would be appropriate for participants to be familiar with the book.

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Reclaiming Our Black Catholic Liturgical Recourses (Dr. Kim Harris)Many of the precious resources that we need for liturgical planning, leading, evaluation and research remain functionally out of print or generally inaccessible i.e., What We Have Seen and Heard, In Spirit and Truth, Plenty Good Room, etc. Come add your voice and ideas to the planning of a new sourcebook publication with Dr. Kim Harris. How will we help present and future Black Catholics know and appreciate our heritage as we build toward our future?

Individual and Group Coaching for Cantors and Lectors (Dr. Kim Harris)You are invited to sign up for a 20-30 coaching/mentoring session with Dr. Kim. Bring a piece that you are working on. Our goal is to encourage effective song-leadership and proclamation to better serve the needs of our liturgical communities.

Applying Other Instruments to the Mass Experience (Charlton Singleton)While most churches are blessed to have a piano or organ as their main musical instrument, there are other instruments that can be used to participate in your Mass or Worship experience. Whatever you play trumpet, trombone, clarinet, saxophone, French horn, violin…there is a place for your talent in the music liturgy. This workshop will identify common hymns and mass settings that you can perform as a wind and/or string musician.

Thea Bowman: Black Lives Matter, the Role of a Black Catholic Community in this Movement (Kevin Winstead)How does a Black Catholic faith community protect and nurture our children so they are not treated as refugees within the Catholic Church or in this Country? What does it mean to be authentically Black and truly Catholic in this environment of protest and unrest?

Righteous Witness: Creating a community in a time of discontent or Waking up an activist, angry, and a Black Catholic (Kevin Winstead) What organizations and sociological strategies should we use to ensure we are supporting change both within Catholic structures and in Black Communities? What can we do as individuals and as a Black Catholic collective?

Way we are in the communion line is the way we should be in the world (DeKarlos Blackmon)

Leadership meeting people where they are (DeKarlos Blackmon)

Deacon and wives: We are made for service (Fr. David Jones)

You can have this whole world, but get me a pastor? Who is the pastor? (Fr. David Jones)

Can I get a witness? Adults calling for youth testimony (Fr. R. Tony Ricard) How do we help youth stand up for their faith?

Brothers’ Keeper: Helping each other carry our cross (Fr. R. Tony Ricard)

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Black Youth Fully Functional: Raising this generation of youth raising youth (Fr. Daniel Green)Examination of conscience: How committed to prayer are we caring for others? (Fr. Daniel Green)

Developing a Beloved Community (Deacon Arthur Miller)

National Black Catholic Marriage and Family Symposium (Andrew and Terri Lyke)

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