Illinois South Conference
presents

Day of Discipleship

Shaking Up Worship

You may pick two workshops from 7 possible. Lunch is included with the individual registration fee of $30 (early-bird). You will not find a better deal than this for lunch, a message from a keynote speaker, Rev. Dr. Christopher Grundy, professor at Eden Seminary, musician and composer, and the information you will gather at two workshops. Creating meaningful worship will help to build a bright future for all churches and the spirit of the parishoners.

  Keynote Speaker:

  Rev. Dr. Christopher Grundy

CHRISTOPHER GRUNDY has become a leader in the movement to forge a new musical genre: progressive Christian worship music. For many emergent and progressive Christians, it’s a breath of fresh air.  New, evocative images, emerging theologies, inclusive and expansive language, and musical styles that draw upon folk, alt rock, R&B, and a cappella chant. 

For the last two decades Christopher has been writing and playing for national, regional, and local church events, as well as at colleges, coffee houses, and benefit concerts. In that time he has developed a particular kind of thoughtful, spiritual folk, adding a few other musical styles along the way.  

 The music consists of sturdy, straightforward melodies that you could stand on if you needed to get something off the top shelf. With that music, however, comes a carefully crafted style of lyric that is both clear and reaching – an ongoing exploration of both the details of life and the deeper possibilities below the surface.  Over time, Christopher’s musical work has become more closely woven together with his work as a liturgical scholar and professor of preaching and worship at Eden Theological Seminary