2021 Convention

White Christians: Present and Accounted for in Love

• Douglas Morgan, Author, Change Agents
• Teresa Reeves, Associate Dean, Seventh-day Theological Seminary
• David Swanson, Author, Rediscipling the White Church
• Hosts: Carmella Monk Crawford, Editor, Message Magazine and Nicholas Miller, PARL Director, Lake Union Conference

Sponsor: Message Magazine

8:45-10:00 p.m. EDT

Vespers

• Renita Weems, Ray of Hope Ministries 

Sponsor: NAD Ministerial

10:00-10:00 p.m. EDT

Afterglow

Lucille Byard Symposium

Systemic Racism’s Unseen Wounds

• Diane Wallace Booker – Chief Strategy Officer, U.S. Dream Academy
• Dr. Jaime Kowlessar, Senior Pastor, City Temple Seventh-day Adventist Church, Dallas, Tex.
• Dr. Marissa Leslie – System Medical Director of Psychiatry for Adventist HealthCare and Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry for Georgetown University School of Medicine
• Marilyn Lynk – Executive Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Adventist HealthCare
• Zack Ritter – Associate Dean of Students, Cal State Dominguez Hills

Sponsor: Adventist HealthCare

11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. EDT

Worship Service

• Pastor Debleaire Snell, First Seventh-day Adventist Church

Sponsor: Office for Regional Conference Ministry

3:00-4:15 p.m. EDT

Misogyny and the Believers’ Responsibility to Our Sisters

• Elder Dana Edmond, Executive Director, Office for Regional Conference Ministry
• Carolyn Forrest, Associate Secretary and Director of Human Resources, North American Division
• Lola Moore Johnston, Lead Pastor, Restoration Praise Center
• Josh Pierre, Associate General Counsel, General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
• Jennifer Schwirzer, Founder, Project Safe Church

Hosts: Cryston Josiah, Vice President for Administration, Central States

Conference of Seventh-day Adventists and Melissa Reid, Associate Director, NAD PARL

Sponsor: Office for Regional Conference Ministry

4:30-5:45 p.m. EDT

Liberty and Justice for All

• Robert P. Ericksen, Author, Theologians Under Hitler
• Bettina Krause, Editor, Liberty Magazine

Sponsor: Liberty Magazine

6:00-7:15 p.m.

Generation Z and Millennials: Invisible, Isolated, or Included?

• Timothy Gillespie, Lead Pastor, Crosswalk Church
• Claudia Allen, Activist, Author, Preacher
• Justin Khoe, Founder, That Christan Vlogger
• Marcus Larivaux, Pastor, Allon Chapel Seventh-day Adventist Church, Lincoln, NE
• Minister Ronnie Vanderhorst, Co-Founder, Prepare Our Youth
• Melissa Preddie, Entrepreneur and Mother

Sponsor: Adventist HealthCare

7:30-8:30 p.m. EDT

Pastor Mark Finely

Assistant to the General Conference

Sponsor: NAD PARL

8:30-9:00 p.m. EDT

Afterglow