PADERI-Run With The Horses 3

RUN WITH THE HORSES III

FROM BROKENNESS TO WHOLENESS

15-18 JULY 2010 (Thursday-Sunday)

METHODIST CENTENNIAL CHEEFOO CENTRE,

BRINCHANG, CAMERON HIGHLANDS, PAHANG

Welcome to another PADERI “Run with the Horses” annual conference. This is the third in our series of conferences for pastors and Christian leaders in pastoral ministry. The theme calls us to seek the Lord as we reflect on pastoral development and renewal in Malaysia.

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS – PLENARY SESSIONS

FROM BROKENNESS TO WHOLENESS - Dr. Monty Barker

Because of sin and psychological brokenness, all of us carry baggage of some kind into our ministries. Many pastors and church leaders are unaware of, or unwilling to face up to their own insecurity, brokenness and weakness. Careful analysis of our human condition is needed to help us arrive at a proper self-understanding. This enables us to move towards healing and wholeness. In dealing with these issues, Dr Barker will seek to integrate psychological analysis with biblical and theological insights.

Dr Monty Barker will address the whole area of our psychological brokenness and how these become our baggage that we carry into our lives, marriages and ministries. Our concern is to provide pastors and lay leaders in the church opportunity to process our own upbringing, growing-up years, and subsequent life experiences! Dr Barker will speak over four sessions.

GOD’S FATHERHOOD AND THE HEALING OF BROKEN LIVES – Bishop Dr. Hwa Yung

The Bible expositions will focus on the Fatherhood of God in the Christian life. To know that I am God’s child, loved, forgiven and accepted, is the most important identity of a Christian in the New Testament. It is also key to healing and wholeness in the Christian life, precisely because it addresses critical issues such as our personal identity, insecurity, fear of rejection, confidence in prayer and spiritual authority. Rev. Hwa Yung will have two sessions with us.

PLENARY SPEAKERS’ PROFILES

DR. MONTY BARKER, MB, ChB; FRCP, FRCPsych; DPM

Emeritus Consultant Psychiatrist

Dr Monty Barker graduated in Medicine in 1960. He then specialised in Psychiatry. For over 40 years he combined treating patients, directing clinical services, teaching undergraduates and training post-graduates, as well as speaking to theological students and pastors. He has lectured in Britain, Europe, South Africa, the United States and India. His special interests have been enabling non-psychiatrists and those in medical, caring professions and pastors to identify and help those suffering from Depression, Stress and Burnout.

Dr Barker is married to Rosemary and they have two adult children and one grandson. He is now retired, and spends a portion of each year teaching and conducting seminars in seminaries and churches in India, where he has taught every year since 1989. He has visited Malaysia twice. He and his wife worship at Christ Church, Bristol.

BISHOP HWA YUNG

Hwa Yung is the Bishop of the Methodist Church in Malaysia. He has worked many years as a pastor and seminary teacher, served as the Principal of Seminari Theologi Malaysia (STM), and later was the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia, Trinity Theological College, Singapore. He is engaged in various ministries locally and internationally, and is a member of the Congress Management Committee for the 3^rd Lausanne Congress, Cape Town 2010. His wife, Bee Teik, trained as a doctor, now works as a writer and spiritual director. They have three adult children.

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