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The next General Assembly will be held November 10-12, 2009, in Minneapolis, Minn., in the Doubletree Hotel, Minneapolis-Park Place. Plans for the assembly will be posted here as they develop. Information about the most recent Assembly November 11-13, 2008 in Denver, Colo., can be found here. Dr. Margaret Aymer slated as keynote speaker
Dr. Aymer is an ordained minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA), serving within the Presbytery of Greater Atlanta. She is the author of First Pure, Then Peaceable: Frederick Douglass; Darkness and the Epistle of James, and various academic and liturgical articles and resources including the upcoming 2011 Horizons Bible Study, tentatively titled Confessing the Beatitudes. She also serves as the Chair of the Board of AIDS Alliance for Faith and Health, an Atlanta-based non-profit helping those infected with and affected by HIV to thrive. Dr. Aymer is married to Dr. Laurent M. R. G. Oget of France, a software engineer.
Dr. Charles Amjad-Ali is General Assembly bible leader
He has lectured at Princeton, Notre Dame, St. Thomas and Temple Universities and at Union Theological and Princeton seminaries. Dr. Amjad-Ali has also served on faculties in South Africa, Sweden, England, Germany, Austria, Japan, the Philippines and his native Pakistan. He has earned a bachelor of arts degree from Oxford and Karachi Universities, an M.Div. degree and Ph.D. degree in theology and political theory from Princeton Theological Seminary; and a post-doctoral certificate in Islamic law and history from Columbia. His numerous publications include Islamaphobia (2006), Liberation Ethics (1985) and Passion for Change (1989) as well as two books with Christine Amjad-Ali, And the Spirit Gives Life (1993) and History of the Shariah Act (1991).
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The General Assembly of the
National Council of Churches and Church World Service meets annually (or as
often as determined by the NCC Governing Board and CWS Board of Directors).
The Constitution of the General Assembly, adopted in November 2009,
describes the gathering as "a community of Christian communions who, in
response to the gospel as revealed in the Scriptures, confess Jesus Christ,
the incarnate Word of God, as Savior and Lord. These communions covenant
with one another to manifest ever more fully the unity of the Church.
Relying upon the transforming power of the Holy Spirit, these communions
come together as the General Assembly in common mission, serving in all
creation to the glory of God."
Rev.
Dr. Margaret Aymer, is Associate Professor of New Testament and
Chair of Biblical Studies at the Interdenominational Theological
Center in Atlanta, will be the keynote speaker at the General
Assembly and will also address the Women's Luncheon. 
The
Rev. Dr. Charles Amjad-Ali is the Matrin Luther King, Jr., Professor
for Justice and Christian Community and Director of Islamic Studies
at Luther Seminary in Minneapolis. Before being appointed to the
chair he served as visiting professor of Christian mission and
social justice at the seminary. 
