Serving the Church
The 2016 Bible Faculty Summit is complete.
The participants are thankful to Larry Oats and the staff of Maranatha Baptist University (especially the women who supplied bedding and towels!) for their generous welcome.
The papers were of a consistently high quality; the discussion and fellowship were genuinely edifying; the coffee was plentiful.
The 2017 Summit is planned to be held at Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary. Date to be determined.
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Maranatha Baptist University is looking forward to the 2016 Bible Faculty Summit on Maranatha’s campus. The Summit will begin Tuesday, July 26, at 5:00 pm with dinner in the Dining Commons, followed by our opening sessions. The Summit will conclude on Thursday after lunch.
Presentations are as follows:
Maranatha is a little over an hour from the Milwaukee airport and about one hour from the Madison airport. We are about 2½ hours from the Chicago airport. We will provide pickup and drop-off service for Milwaukee or Madison. Directions can be found here.
Meals will be provided in the Maranatha dining commons. Housing will be provided in an UN-airconditioned dorm (sorry ☹—we’re in the north and don’t need AC during the school year, so pray for a cool week). If you are driving, it would help MBU if you brought your own sheets, blankets, towels, pillow, etc. If you are flying, we will provide these items for you, unless you want to bring your own. Beds are typical dorm bunk beds, but we won’t make anyone sleep in the upper bunk! If you want more luxurious housing, feel free to make reservations at our local Holiday Inn or Super8. Those are the only two recommended motels in Watertown (for more information on local accommodations click here).
Note: due to a mix-up, we’re asking all participants to re-register for the Summit. Please click here to register, even if you have already done so. Early registration will help us with preparations on our end. If you have any questions, please email me, use the website’s contact form, or call me through the Maranatha switchboard at 920.261.9300.
Larry Oats
Maranatha Baptist Seminary
Maranatha Baptist University in Watertown, Wisconsin, will be hosting the Bible Faculty Summit on July 26-28, 2016. Start and stop times will be nailed down when we see how many are coming and how many papers are being presented. Tentative plans are to start Tuesday afternoon or evening on July 26 (but definitely with supper) and end with a lunch on Thursday, July 28.
Please register below if you plan to attend and/or read a paper:
As we near the end of May, we are approaching a sufficient number of paper topics submitted to move forward. If you are still thinking about proposing a paper, I need to hear from you by May 29th. If there is a surplus of submissions, the committee will select the final papers to be presented.
Please ensure that you register for the conference by the end of May so that we may make appropriate plans here in Minnesota for the gathering.