These conferences feature the Princeton Lectures on Youth, Church, and Culture. Participants will enjoy formal presentations, worship, casual discussion with faculty, extended seminars for in-depth study, electives for theological reflection on specialized subjects related to youth and ministry, and reflection with colleagues in mentor groups. Katherine Paterson, the 1998 recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, is the author of more than twenty-five books, including thirteen novels for young people. Marva J. Dawn is a theologian, an author, an educator with Christians Equipped for Ministry in Vancouver, Washington, and an adjunct professor of spiritual theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. This Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry is the Robert B. Munger Seminar in Youth Ministry, underwritten by an endowment given by the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, California, and by Mr. Munger's friends and colleagues.
Enrollment is limited.
She is founder and president of the National Parenting Association. She is currently a fellow at the Center for the Study of Values in Public Life at Harvard Divinity School , Harvard University. The conference willinclude a keynote presentation by Hewlett, a worship service, and various workshop offerings. The keynote presentation will focus on themes of advocacy for children and parents both within the church and within society. The workshops will offer approaches and resources for ministering to and with children of all ages.