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October 4, 2006
2007 CPSP Plenary Announcement
The 2007 CPSP Plenary will meet March 28-March 31 in Raleigh, North Carolina. We will be at the Holiday Inn Brownstone in the Raleigh downtown area. This is a prime location in the heart of Raleigh adjacent to North Carolina State University. It's five minutes from the downtown business center and includes Art Museums, art galleries and the BTI Center for Performing Arts. The Cameron Village Shopping Center considered Raleigh's finest is two blocks from the hotel. The southeast premier entertainment and sports center featuring superstar performances is only four miles away. The airport is located twelve miles away and it is the Raleigh/Durham International Airport.
The room rate for this conference is $79 for a standard room. The address of Holiday Inn Brownstone is 1707 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, North Carolina 27605. You can call toll-free (800) 331-7919. You can call locally at (919) 828-0811. You can fax at (919) 834-0904 and view their website at http://www.brownstonehotel.com/. The Brownstone completed a $4 million renovation in 2002. It has a 190 newly appointed guest rooms. It has junior and executive suites. It has non-smoking floors and high-speed Internet access. All rooms have fresh-air balconies.
On March 29th, which is a Thursday, Dr. John Kenny, who is the dean of Virginia Union Seminary, an African-American seminary in Richmond, Virginia, will be our speaker. Dr. Kenny has been the dean at Virginia Union for many years and is an African-American Baptist pastor in Richmond, Virginia. At the banquet on the 29th, Dr. Estaban Montilla will speak to us concerning counseling and supervising Latinos. We look forward to hearing his sharings since he is well versed in this arena. On Friday morning, Dr. Carol Schweitzer, professor of Pastoral Care at Union Theological Seminary, will be sharing with us concerning her most recent book publication.
Scheduled in this event are our small groups where we will be consultant with each other. We remind everyone that we need to bring some case presentations or personal events of our lives that need consultation. Finally, if you desire to do a two hour pre-conference workshop between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m., e-mail John Edgerton by November 1, 2006.
George Hankins Hull, Director of Pastoral Care & Clinical Pastoral Education at the UAMS Medical Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, will be the scholarship chairperson for this event.
-John Edgerton, 2007 CPSP Plenary Coordinator
Posted by Perry Miller, Editor at October 4, 2006 11:54 PM