2017 Conference
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16 - SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18 2017
Making It Plain: Reimagining Expository Preaching
““ How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard?
And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?””
2017 Preachers
Fri AM Preacher & PM Lecturer
Rev. Cokiesha Bailey Robinson
Cross Spring Ministries
Houston, TX
Thurs PM • Preacher
Dr. Maurice Watson
Metropolitan Baptist Church
Washington, DC
Conference Host & Fri AM Lecturer
Dr. Jerry M. Carter, Jr.
Calvary Baptist Church
Morristown, NJ
Fri PM Lecturer
Dr. Yolanda Pierce
Howard Divinity School
Washington, DC
Fri PM Preacher & Sat AM Lecturer
Rev. Jeffrey A.Johnson, Sr.
Eastern Star Church
Indianapolis, IN
Conference Schedule
5 p.m. – Registration (3rd Floor Educational Wing)
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. – Dinner (Fellowship Hall)
9 a.m. – Registration (3rd Floor Educational Wing @ Calvary) – Friday ONLY $150 payable onsite
Continental Breakfast
(Fellowship Hall)
10 a.m. –Morning Worship
(Sanctuary) – Rev. Cokiesha Bailey Robinson
10: 45 a.m. - Break
(Fellowship Hall)
11:00 a.m. – Morning Plenary (Sanctuary) – Reflections on Narrative Exposition – Dr. Jerry M. Carter, Jr.
12:30 p.m. – Lunch (Regency Room)
1:30 p.m. – Concurrent Workshops Session 1
(Plaza Ballroom)
A. Structuring the Sermon
B. Effective Integration of Illustrations, Images & Metaphors
C. Mining for Meaning
3:15 p.m. – Afternoon Plenary 1 (Regency Room) – How We Hear – Dr. Yolanda Pierce
4:15 p.m. – Afternoon Plenary 2 (Regency Room) – E.K. Bailey’s Influence on Expository
Preaching – Rev. Cokiesha Bailey Robinson
5:00 p.m. Transition to Calvary (10 Martin Luther King Avenue, Morristown)
5:30 – 6:30 p.m. – Dinner (Fellowship Hall)/Saturday Registration (3rd Floor) - $100 payable onsite
7 p.m. – Worship (Rev. Jeffrey A. Johnson, Sr.)
9 a.m. – 10th Anniversary Tea & Toast (Regency Room)
10:00 a.m. - Plenary (Regency Room) – A. Louis Patterson’s Influence on Expository Preaching – Rev. Jeffrey A. Johnson, Sr.
11:00 a.m. - Concurrent Workshops Session 2
(Plaza Ballroom)
D. Structuring the Sermon
E. Effective Integration of Illustrations, Images & Metaphors
D. Mining for Meaning
Ticket Rates
2017 Sponsors
