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MILLIGAN COLLEGE, TN (Oct. 13, 2003) — An annual forum representing a church movement several million people strong is convening on the Milligan and Emmanuel School of Religion campuses this week.
The “Restoration Forum” represents those churches and organizations who share a common heritage in what is often called “The Restoration Movement.” This nineteenth-century unity and restitution effort by Barton W. Stone and Thomas and Alexander Campbell spawned several distinct religious groups: the Churches of Christ, the Christian Churches, and the Disciples of Christ.
Throughout their history, Milligan College and Emmanuel School of Religion have both maintained an active relationship to the Restoration Movement and a commitment to the restoration of New Testament Christianity.
Participants and featured speakers at this week’s forum include ministers, faculty and church leaders from throughout the United States. The theme for this year’s forum is “Christ is all…Christ in all.”
The forum began Sunday night, Oct. 12, with a praise and communion service at First Christian Church, Johnson City, and continues Monday, Oct. 13, with sessions at Emmanuel School of Religion. Tuesday’s sessions will be at Milligan College. The forum will conclude Tuesday morning, Oct. 14, with a joint convocation session with the Milligan College student body, featuring keynote speaker Steve Carpenter, minister at Countryside Christian Church in Midlothian, Va.
Other special features include the signing of a Prayer Covenant, inducting four new people into the forum’s Honor Roll of Unity, and the closing Agape Feast directed by Dennis Randall, minister of 43rd Street Church of Christ in Bradenton, Fla.
A complete schedule is listed below or is available online athttp://www.esr.edu/News/2003RestorationForum.htm.
A list of Christian churches and churches of Christ in the Tri-Cities region is available online athttp://www.milligan.edu/church/localchurchdirectory.htm.
For a brief history of the Restoration Movement, visithttp://worldconv.home.comcast.net/storyofourmovement.htm.