Date & Location
The conference will be held at Church of All Nations (CAN), 4301 Benjamin St. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55421, from Friday Oct 9 at 1:00pm to Sunday Oct 11 at 1:00pm. Meals provided throughout. The schedule includes Sunday morning service focused on the conference theme at participating churches in the Twin Cities. Details will be provided during the conference.
Registration
The conference fee is sliding scale based on annual income. It includes 3 meals: Friday dinner, Saturday lunch and dinner, and instructional materials. Those of Native heritage (e.g. Native American, First Nation) are invited to attend as honored guests at no cost.
| Annual income $50,000+ and/or sponsored by an organization | $200 |
| Annual income $35,000-$50,000 | $175 |
| Annual income $20,000-$35,000 | $125 |
| Annual income $20,000 and below | $100 |
| Friday afternoon “Sacred Sites Tour” | add $25 |
| Friday afternoon “Dream of Wild Health Tour” | add $25 |
Please register here. Participants can mail check or money order to CAN (payable to “Church of All Nations”) at 4301 Benjamin St. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55421, or can pay on-line (with an additional administrative fee charged by the site)
Pre-Conference Tour Options (Friday Afternoon 1:00-5:30PM, extra $25 fee):
Option 1: Sacred Sites Tour
Pastor Jim Bear Jacobs will lead a “Sacred Sites Tour” Friday at 1:00pm, when the group will carpool from Church of All Nations. This tour features local American Indian sacred sites from the Dakota perspective, including Pilot Knob Hill, a traditional Dakota burial ground, and Fort Snelling State Park, the site of a Dakota creation narrative at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, and also the site where 1,700 Dakota elders, women and children were held in brutal conditions in the winter of 1862-1863 before deportation. This local history and geography will help frame our conference conversations.
Option 2: Dream of Wild Health
There will also be a tour of Dream of Wild Health, a 10-acre Native owned, Native grown organic farm in Hugo, leaving CAN at 1:00pm. The tour will be led by Frank Haney, Ojibwe, their Outreach and Education Farmer. The mission of Dream of Wild Health is to restore health and well-being in the Native community by recovering knowledge of and access to healthy Indigenous foods, medicines and life ways “Surrounded by plants and medicines grown from the seeds of our ancestors, our dream is to help American Indian people reclaim their physical, spiritual, and mental health. We teach the old ways of growing food and living healthy lives.” Learn more at dreamofwildhealth.org.
5 Comments
kristin green · September 5, 2015 at 9:12 pm
People who are coming to town for the conference could also stay at Mennonite your way homes. Mennonite your way is an affordable bed and breakfast type home situation. There is a directory online. I am part of this directory and so are other people from my congregation. It is $10 a night per person.
Marcia Foutch · September 25, 2015 at 1:25 pm
I cannot find any schedule of events for the conference- Can you please let me know where I can find that?
Jin Soo Kim · September 28, 2015 at 4:29 pm
We just uploaded this information a few days ago. Please check the main conference page.
Sarah Northrup · September 25, 2015 at 4:08 pm
Is it possible to come just for the afternoon and evening plenary? If so, what should we pay per plenary? I am interested in attending, but due to time restrictions I’m unable to attend all day Saturday the 10th.
Jin Soo Kim · September 28, 2015 at 4:29 pm
Sarah. You can contact conference@cando.org for this question.