Mission Shaped Heritage: The Methodist Heritage Conference 2015
Cliff College, Derbyshire, 16 July – 18 July
DRAFT PROGRAMME
THURSDAY 16 JULY
10.00 Registration & Room allocation
COFFEE BREAK
11.15 Welcome – Sarah Friswell, Chair of the Methodist Heritage Committee
11.30 Opening President’s address – The Revd Steve Wild, President of the Methodist Conference
12.00 LUNCH (visitors to Epworth to eat first)
12.30 Option 1: Visit to Epworth Old Rectory /12.45 Option 2: “Heritage for Mission” academic papers
(see page 2)
6.00 DINNER
7.30 Keynote address: Heritage as Opportunity: Buildings for Community
The Rt Revd Colin Fletcher, Bishop of Dorchester
8.30 EVENING DEVOTIONS
FRIDAY 17 JULY
8.00 BREAKFAST followed by MORNING DEVOTIONS
9.10 Introduction to the day
9.15 Keynote address: Prof Terry Stevens, Stevens & Associates, Tourism & Marketing Consultants
10.00 Parallel workshops/seminars (see page 2)
10.45 COFFEE BREAK
Marketplace – exhibition of projects & services PLUS
Community Archives – how to get your story online (demo & have a go)
11.45 Vice-President’s address - Dr Jill Barber, Vice-President of the Methodist Conference
12.30 LUNCH
The contribution of collecting to mission 1.15 The Methodist Modern Art Collection: past, present and future – Sarah Middleton, Trustee, MMAC
2.00
Judy Faraday, Manager Heritage Services, John Lewis Partnership Heritage Centre
2.45 COFFEE BREAK
Two transatlantic perspectives 3.00 Asbury 200: how the West was won for Methodism – and some resulting opportunities in 2016 –
The Revd Sam McBratney
3.45 TEA/COFFEE BREAK
4.15 Home thoughts from abroad: an American Methodist perspective on UK heritage and mission –
Revd Dr John Byers
5.00 BREAK
5.15 HOLY COMMUNION led by The Revd Steve Wild
6.00 DINNER
7.00 After dinner entertainment: Comedian Terry Virgo
8.0
EVENING DEVOTIONS
SATURDAY 18 JULY
8.00 BREAKFAST followed by MORNING DEVOTIONS
9.10 Introduction to the day
The view from the outside 9.15
Keynote address – speaker TBC
10.00 Interfaith perspective – speaker TBC
10.45 COFFEE BREAK
11.15 Parallel workshops/seminars (see page 2)
12.00 PLENARY: Closing remarks – Sarah Friswell
PRAYERS - The Revd Steve Wild
12.30 LUNCH
1.30 Optional visit to Eyam (see page 2) (Please note this visit will be subject to a small additional charge
payable at the Conference depending on numbers).
1|P age
Mission Shaped Heritage: The Methodist Heritage Conference 2015
Cliff College, Derbyshire, 16 July – 18 July
WORKSHOPS/SEMINARS etc.
THURSDAY 16 JULY
OPTION 1
12.30
Travel to Epworth Old Rectory. On bus presentation on working in partnership The Revd David Leese, Epworth Old Rectory, Sarah Braisdell, Methodist Women in Britain
researcher
2.30 – 3.30
Tour of Epworth Old Rectory
OR
Visit Epworth town and St Andrew’s Church: a case study of HLF funding experience
(group in 2 sets)
3.30 -4.30
BREAK AND GROUPS TO SWAP LOCATIONS
4.00 – 5.00
Repeat tours
5.00
Travel back to Cliff College
OPTION 2
12.45 – 6.00
3.45 – 4.15
Meet for academic papers: “Heritage for Mission” - Introduction by The Revd Dr Stephen Skuce,
Dir of Scholarship, Research & Innovation
TEA/COFFEE BREAK
FRIDAY 17 JULY
10.00 – 10.45 Parallel workshops/seminars:
Workshop/Seminar 1:
Marketing your church to visitors –
Prof Terry Stevens, Stevens & Associates, Tourism & Marketing Consultants
Workshop/Seminar 2:
What do we do with that? (An introduction to significance assessment for church objects)Emma Chaplin, Consultant, Heritage and Museum Services
Workshop/Seminar 3:
The truth is out there: How to research and write your church’s history –
The Revd Dr David Hart, Chair of the Archives Records Advisory Group
SATURDAY 18 JULY
11.15 – 12.00 Parallel workshops/seminars:
Workshop/Seminar 5:
Telling our story: making how we talk to our visitors part of our mission –
Speaker TBC
Workshop/Seminar 6:
Representing history: innovative interpretation – Louise Hampson, Christianity and Culture
Workshop/Seminar 7:
Where do we go from here?
Reflections on the conference and an introduction to the Methodist Heritage strategy 2014-19 –
Sarah Friswell, Chair of the Methodist Heritage Committee
1.30 Optional visit to Eyam: mission and parish church heritage and well-dressing.
(Please note this visit will be subject to a small additional charge payable at the Conference depending on
numbers).
2|P age