2003 Seminar on Zion

What is Authentic Community?

17-19 January 2003

At the

Harvest Hills Community Center

194 Oak Hill Cluster, Independence, Missouri

Featured Speakers:

Peter Judd, a member of the First Presidency of the Community of Christ.

Linda Booth, a member of the Quorum of Twelve of the Community of Christ.

Don Compier, Provost for the new Seminary at Graceland University, Independence, Missouri, campus and previously served nine years on the faculty of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Don is very interested in issues of human rights and of racial and ethnic diversity.

Matt Frizzell,Assistant pastor at the Highlands Community of Christ congregation in North Kansas City. His interest in Zion comes from his personal testimony of Christ, and the Restoration Movement.

Randall Pratt, lawyer, Community of Christ, Independence, Missouri.

David Howlett, a member of the independent Restoration branches movement, student of Latter Day Saint history, and currently working on his Masters in History at UMKC.

Graceland University Winter Term Students.

Waldo (Restoration) School Students.

Purposes of this seminar:

  • To clarify the vision and values of Zionic community and move toward commitment.
  • To enable the spiritual, intellectual, practical and economic dimensions to join in the pursuit of just community.
  • To explore how the contributions of

all ages may be enhanced and celebrated.

  • To work for understanding, respect and reconciliation between different Christian, Restoration and religious groups.

 

Visionaries of all ages have longed for social renewal. Restoration scriptures affirm humankind's dream of living out God's intent on Earth. In an unjust world where people feel isolated, let us gather and consider the nature of intentional community in the Christian tradition. Together, let us seek the best of our experience, the fruits of rational thinking, and our highest spiritual natures as we reinterpret Zion for our time.

Schedule:

Friday evening, 17 January

7:00 p.m. The Authenticity of the Zionic Dream- Speaker: Matt Frizzell, questions by Linda Booth, Peter Judd and Don Compier

Saturday, 18 January

8:00 a.m. Breakfast

8:30 Opening Worship

9:00 a.m. Dialogue on Dimensions of Authentic Community Randall Pratt: facilitator

10 minute presentations: Peter Judd- Discipleship for authentic community; Linda Booth- Relationships in authentic community;

Don Compier- Diversity within authentic community. Questions by Matt Frizzell, David Howlett, followed by other participants

12:00 Lunch

1:15 p.m. Presentations: Different Communal Traditions- Winter Term Students in small groups.

5:00 Progressive Dinner- in community homes. Time to chat

Sunday, 19 January

9:30 a.m. Worship: Testimonies by Don Compier and Peter Judd. Speaker: Linda Booth, Dan Jeffers in charge

10:45 Adult Class- Development of the Little Blue River Project - Randall Pratt

The first Seminar on Zion was held in 1957 at Camp Doniphan, Missouri. The next year a second seminar was held at the Lamoni Reunion in Iowa. A third gathering, in 1968 in Independence, Missouri, culminated in the founding of Harvest Hills Community in 1970. This important tradition has been extended through seminars the last four years.

 

2003 Seminar on Zion

$15 Registration Fee: (includes all Saturday meals)

Students, $10.00 each $

Children Free

Send your name, address, etc., along with a check to:

Harvest Hills Office

201 Oak Hill Cluster, Independence, MO 64057

(816) 228-1400

Please make check payable to: Harvest Hills Association.

Thank you for your registration.

A Tradition of Community

The Restoration Movement began in 1830 at a time of communitarian idealism in the United States, a nation inspired by John Winthrop’s vision in 1630. Winthrop believed the early English colonies were to be the New Jerusalem, a City on a Hill. Sidney Rigdon, Joseph Smith’s close associate, formerly established a community dedicated to living with all things in common. The early Restoration tried living communally with consecration of economic surplus in Kirtland, Ohio, and Independence and Far West, Missouri. In Nauvoo, Illinois, the Saints gathered to live together and to build a city. The Community of Christ (Reorganization) was cautious about gathering. In 1870 the Order of Enoch helped create Lamoni, Iowa, as such an expression of economic idealism. The dream of community was reborn there in 1910 and in 1920 at Independence. Social and economic experiments continued in the 20th century, keeping the dream of the idea of Zion alive in our time. From this tradition, Harvest Hills was established in 1970, as an intentional Christian community in the Zionic tradition.

For more information about the 2003 Seminar on Zion contact: Harvest Hills Office, 201 Oak Hill Cluster, Independence, Missouri 64057 (816) 228-1400, e-mail: ronromig@sunflower.org.

Directions to Harvest Hills- take I-70 to Blue Springs, Missouri, Exit 20 and go north 3 miles via 7 Highway to Harvest Hills Drive and Oak Hill. Entrance sign on the left. Check our web page for the latest seminar info: www.HarvestHills.info