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Monday | Oct 7

Installation Exhibitor Registration

7:00 am – 2:00 pm
Exhibit Hall – Riverwalk


Breakfast and Opening Plenary Session

7:30 am – 8:45 am
Sheraton Chicago Ballroom IV – VII


Registration Desk Open

7:30 am – 4:30 pm
Ballroom Promenade


 

Sessions 1 – 10

9:00 am – 10:00 am


Break

10:00 am – 10:30 am


Session 11 – 20

10:30 am – 11:30 am


Lunch Break

11:30 am – 1:00 pm


Session 21 – 30

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm


Early Afternoon Meet and Greet with Exhibitors

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Exhibit Hall – Riverwalk


Session 31 – 40

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm


Concelebrated Liturgy

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm
Sheraton Chicago Ballroom IV – VII


Reception with Exhibitors

5:30 pm – 6:45 pm
Exhibit Hall – Riverwalk

ICSC Prayer (Spanish)

Padre Celestial,

Nos reunimos en tu nombre
para agradecerte por
los infinitos dones
que nos ofreces;
por tu Hijo,
quien nos revela
tu infinito amor y bondad;
por la presencia de nuestra Madre
María, la primera Cristiana Corresponsable
En decirte “si” con un corazón abierto.

Por los maestros, predicadores y profetas
quienes han venido hoy
a abrir nuestros corazones y a enseñarnos
como compartir nuestros dones
en un servicio amoroso.

Ayúdanos a usar el tiempo que no has dado
como un momento de gracia especial,
para que juntos podamos
obtener una mayor conciencia
del modelo que tu Hijo
nos ha mandado a seguir.

Enséñanos a vivir,
no para nosotros mismos,
sino como discípulos misioneros
corresponsables de tu iglesia,
en Jesucristo tu Hijo
que vive y reina
contigo y el Espíritu Santo
un único Dios por siempre y para siempre.
Amén

Kay King

Kay King is the older adults program coordinator and community educator at NAMI Minnesota (the National Alliance on Mental Illness of Minnesota) and has worked for NAMI 10 years. Kay teaches about 4,000 professionals, family members and people managing a mental illness each year in classes ranging from one to eight hours. She has a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Minnesota.

Kay is the former executive director of a retirement community in the Twin Cities that offers both independent and assisted living services. She managed a home health care agency. She also was a hotel and resort manager with over 25 years of hospitality industry experience nationally and internationally.

Kay is a family educator who teaches NAMI’s “Family-to-Family” 12-week education course and she is a mental health first aid and youth mental health first aid instructor.

Kay is a family member whose grandmother, mother, sister and niece (four generations) lived/lives with a mental illness.

Aaron Carpenter

Aaron Carpenter is the director of the Office of Worship for the Diocese of St. Cloud. He has served as the director of worship at St. Joseph the Worker in Maple Grove, Minnesota, for the last 20 years. He also serves as the artistic director for Land of Lakes Choirboys in Elk River. He has worked with the choir for 15 years. Originally from LeMars, Iowa, he earned a bachelor’s degree in music with a vocal performance emphasis from St. John’s University in Collegeville. He and his wife, Maria, have three children Noah, Isabella and Emma.

Kelli Schmitt Kester

Kelli Schmitt Kester attended the College of Saint Benedict and graduated from Saint John’s School of Theology and Seminary in 2009.

She has worked in human services as an advocate for people who are homeless on the Iron Range as well as at St. Stephen’s Human Services and the Tubman Family Alliance. After working for 18 years coordinating faith formation for children and youth in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, she shifted to working with people who are elderly at St. Therese Care Center in New Hope, Minnesota.
A piece of Kelli’s heart resides in Chimbote, Peru, where she has traveled many times for the ministry of encounter. She holds the tenets of dismantling racism, liberation theology, and Vatican II close to her heart and strives to share these values to increase peace and social justice in our world.
Kelli is married and the mother of two adult children.

July 29

Silver Star = I have been Catholic all my life.
(Quiz Me!)

Gold Star = I converted to Catholicism as an adult.
(Ask me what I converted from.)

Green Star = I’m not Catholic, but I’m here!
(Ask me about my thoughts on Café!)

*Ask people about what the Church means to them. Ask if they’ve ever encountered the person of Jesus. Ask them to share that story. Last night! Time to get real!

July 22

Silver Star = I live in Central Houston
(Traffic? What’s that?)

Gold Star = I live in North Houston
(Wasn’t 45/290 awful?)

Blue Star = I live on West / Southwest side of Houston
(I hate the I-10 or 59/69!)

Red Star = I live on East /Southeast side of Houston
(There’s no traffic in Space!)

Green Star = I drove more than 90 minutes (not including traffic) to get here!

*Ask people what parish they go to? What’s their favorite bar/pub in their area? Where’s the best local coffee place?

(HFF) The Kerygma Within the Context of the Hispanic Family (presented in Spanish)

(HFF) Hispanic Faith Formation
8:30 am – 9:45 am

Cosmas & Damian: Room 300

Mary Ann Wiesinger has worked at the diocesan level for 10 years, serving directors of religious education and RCIA leaders, helping develop and sustain catechist certification programs, directing schools of formation, and working in evangelization. At every level, her interest in raising leaders and disciples has been at the forefront. Raised in El Paso, Texas, Mary Ann is bilingual and bi-cultural. Throughout her career, she has worked hard to provide the same level of excellence in both English and Spanish formation programs. She enjoys teaching in both languages and finds mentoring catechetical/pastoral ministers especially fulfilling. Mary Ann has given talks at diocesan catechetical in-services, parishes, and various apostolates and collaborated with Ascension Press and the Augustine Institute on instructional projects.