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Seminary to Host Fall AIDS Conference in the JCA

Dr. Paul Metzger and his teaching assistant, Matt Farlow, work to involve the seminary and college with Living Plus Hope, this fall's New Wine, New Wineskins on-campus conference. --Benjamin Tertin, photo

Dr. Tony Campolo will be the keynote speaker at this year's first New Wine, New Wineskins conference. The conference, Living Plus Hope, will deal with the issues surrounding AIDS and the human immunodeficiency virus. Speakers will address the church's role in ministering to those who have the virus.

Registration begins at 6 p.m., Oct. 27, in the Joseph C. Aldrich Student Center. Admission for students will be $3 for either Friday or Saturday, or $5 for the entire weekend.

The conference will open Friday, at 7 p.m., with guest speaker Dr. Tony Campolo. Dr. Campolo, Professor Emeritus at Eastern University, is the honorary chair of REACH Ministry, based in Tacoma, Wash.

REACH works with children who have the acquired immune deficiency syndrome caused by HIV.

Dr. Campolo was the spiritual counselor to President Bill Clinton and has appeared on nationally televised programs such as "Politically Incorrect" and "Nightline."

Other conference speakers include Dr. Todd Korthuis, the director of the HIV program at Oregon Health and Science University; and Multnomah Biblical Seminary professor Dr. Paul Metzger, director of New Wine, New Wineskins.

Stugo president Michael Myers said: "Students need to attend the conference because the No.1 biggest struggle for us is the dividing wall between our heads and our hearts. Living Plus Hope will show us ways to live out 'loving our neighbors.'"

Dr. Metzger and Dr. Brad Harper, MBC theology professor, contacted Myers last spring to request his help in publicizing the event to college students.

"New Wine, New Wineskins is housed in the seminary, but it serves all of MBC," Dr. Metzger said.

Dr. Metzger established New Wine, New Wineskins in 2000 as a way to engage and interact with cultural issues that the church fails to address. Issues such as homosexuality, poverty and racism have all been past conference topics.

New Wine, New Wineskins puts on two conferences a year, one during each semester. This year's spring conference, The Least of These, will deal with racial reconciliation.

Dr. John Perkins, founder of the Spencer Perkins Center for Reconciliation and Youth Development, is included among '07 spring conference speakers. In 1970, police officers took Dr. Perkins, a civil rights movement leader, into custody and bound him to a chair.

They beat him for his role in helping his fellow African-Americans register to vote. This will be Dr. Perkin's second speaking engagement at a New Wine, New Wineskins conference.

New Wine, New Wineskins also hosts a New Wine and Cheese Party at 10 a.m. every other Wednesday in Room 113 of Travis-Lovitt Hall. Seminary student Andreas Lunden, who organizes the meeting, said all students are welcome to attend, ask questions and get plugged in.

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