390 S Prospect St
Burlington, VT 05401
USA
The World is hurting; Christian Communities are divided; and many feel lost in a sea of humanism and secularism. This is the time when we need to come together in prayer.
The Vermont Ecumenical Council will hold a Prayer Service in observance of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity at 3pm on January 21st at the Catholic Center at the University of Vermont, co-hosted by Cooperative Campus Ministries – the ecumenical Protestant chaplaincy at UVM. The Rev. Dr. John Armstrong, Chicago-based Minister of the Reformed Church in America and scholar of the Reformation, will be the featured preacher. The Catholic Center at UVM is at 390 S. Prospect St., Burlington, VT; a reception will follow the service. Dr. Armstrong will be in Vermont Jan. 21-23 as guest of the Vermont Ecumenical Council; during his visit he will meet with regional groups of Christian leaders, participate in classes at area academic institutions, and be the keynoter at a public forum about the Reformation on Tuesday evening Jan. 23, 7:00 pm, at St. Michael’s College.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Dr. John H. Armstrong is an ordained minister of Word and Sacrament in the Reformed Church in America (RCA). He founded and became the first president of the ACT3 Network (Advancing the Christian Tradition in the Third Millennium) in 1991; see https://act3network.com. ACTS3 is currently in the process of becoming an intentional ecumenical community designed for the healing of the North American church. He is the author/editor of fourteen books, including his newest book, Costly Love: The Way to True Unity for All the Followers of Jesus (New City Press, 2017). He serves as senior adviser to the Christian History Institute and has helped to produce several documentaries on church history and renewal, including most recently This Changed Everything! in commemoration of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation; see https://www.thischangedeverything.com. He was a keynote speaker at the 2017 National Workshop on Christian Unity in Minneapolis, MN in May 2017; see http://nwcu.org, and on Facebook “National Workshop on Christian Unity.” John is married to his wife Anita (1970) and has lived in suburban Chicago since 1969. He is the father of two adult married children and the grandfather of two girls and two boys.