Believe Out Loud Power Summit

Resources from the Believe Out Loud Power Summit

• Randal Miller speaks at the Believe Out Loud Power Summit
• To see videos, photos and more highlights from Day 2 of the Believe Out Loud Power Summit, click here.
• Click here to see videos, photos and more highlights from Day 1 of the Believe Out Loud Power Summit
• Are You Scandalized - Sermon by Rev. Troy Plummer (pdf)
• From Mercy to Justice - A Plenary Address by Rev. Debra Peevey
• O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing - Sermon by Rev. Rebecca Voelkel (pdf)
• Believe Out Loud Power Summit story on WESH TV

Sponsored by:

in partnership with:
Affirm United/S’affirmer Ensemble, Association of Welcoming and Affirming Baptists, Brethren Mennonite Council for LGBT Interests, Gay and Lesbian Affirming Disciples Alliance, Gay Christian Network, Integrity USA, Lutherans Concerned/North America, More Light Presbyterians, Reconciling Ministries Network, Room For All, UCC Coalition for LGBT Concerns, Welcoming Community Network

The Believe Out Loud Power Summer offers advanced concrete skills-building for leaders in the pro-LGBT Welcoming Church Movement in key areas of organizing & movement-building.

CHOOSE BETWEEN FOUR TRACKS:

Leadership and Board Development

• Recruitment and expanding leadership (including across lines of difference such as race)
• Building and executing practical plans
• Targeting particular populations - Who? Why? How? Best ways?
• Driving teams towards a shared goal

External Communications

• Media and messaging
• Recruitment/targeting particular populations - Who? Why? How? Best Way?

Campaigns - Church & Secular

• Potential roles for mobilized faith folk, including maintaining identity as church in secular campaigns
• Invitation/recruitment and expanding leadership (including across lines of difference such as race)
• Moving from mercy to justice; Jesus & Justice

Barriers, Resistance, and Conflict

• Change Graph
• Implications Wheel
• M. Scott Peck's theory on Pseudo-Community, Chaos, Emptiness, Community

Running across all of the different tracks will be through-lines including: scriptural affirmation, a look at race, bisexual and transgender inclusion, cultural power and political power, and our different identities as individuals, how we are connected to our local church, a part of our denomination, and our relationship to the larger pro-LGBT Welcoming Church Movement.

CAUCUSES

• Worship and the Arts
• Race
• Bisexual
• Transgender
• Advanced Scripture

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE (SUBJECT TO CHANGE)

REGISTRATION

You must register in advance. There is no cost to attend. However, you are responsible to pay for your own travel, lodging, and meals.

• Registration Here for the Believe Out Loud Power Summit

TRAVEL

If traveling by air, fly into Orlando International Airport (MCO).

Information on shuttles between the airport and the hotel are listed below:

SHUTTLE SERVICE BETWEEN THE AIRPORT AND THE HOTEL

The hotel recommends that we use Mears Transportation. When you arrive, find the Mears booth on Level 1 (one floor below baggage claim). The booth is open from 7:30am - midnight, but the service is available 24 hours a day. You should pay for a round trip fare at that point, as it is cheaper than two one-ways. Tell them you are going to the DoubleTree on International Drive (which is in their Zone 3).

MearsTransportation.com
407.839.1570

Round trip fares:

• Adults $29
• Children (age 4-11) $23
• Children (age 0-3) free

To return to the airport, you will have to call them at least 24 hours ahead of time to make your reservation.

DRIVING DIRECTIONS

If you are driving to Orlando, there is free parking at the hotel.

Directions from Interstate 4 East from Orlando

Take I-4 West to Exit 72-Beachline Expressway (which is also known as 528).
Then take the International Drive / Sea World exit (Exit 1).
Go through the light. The Doubletree Resort Orlando - International Drive is on the left.

Directions from Interstate 4 West from Tampa

Take I-4 East to Exit 72-Beachline Expressway (which is also known as 528).
Then take the International Drive / Sea World exit (Exit 1).
Go through the light. The Doubletree Resort Orlando - International Drive is on the left.

Directions from the Orlando International Airport (MCO):

Take the Beachline Expressway west to the International Drive / SeaWorld exit. Turn left (south on International Drive).
The Doubletree Resort Orlando - International Drive is on the right, at the next traffic light.

LODGING

Doubletree Resort Orlando - International Drive
(near Universal Studios and SeaWorld)
10100 International Drive Orlando, FL 32821
http://www.doubletreeorlandoidrive.com/

You are responsible to make your own reservations. We are now past the deadline of September 8 to guarantee the $119 rate. However, as long as the hotel has rooms available, you will get that rate. So hurry and reserve NOW! To do so, follow this link:

• Make your reservations online here.

MEALS

You will have two options.

• The hotel is offering a meal plan - eight meals for $157.
• Or there are a number of restaurants both at the hotel and within walking distance.