Invitation Registration and contact How to get to Seltjarnarnes Iceland

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1 Invitation Porvoo Communion Pastoral Conference 2014 is hosted by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland and will be held in a town of Seltjarnarnes close to the City of Reykjavík. Conference dates are from Thursday 4th of September until Tuesday 9th of September. The theme of this year s conference is Theology and the Environment. Participants are appointed by their national churches and/or associations of clergy. The participants, or the ones sending them, pay the travel to and from Reykjavík (flight + bus trip from the Airport to Reykjavík and from Reykjavík to the Airport). We also ask for a contribution of 250 towards the conference fee. Rooms (accommodation in individual houses), travel during the conference and all the meals are included in this. Registration and contact Please confirm your attandance, not later than 1 August to the Revd Bjarni Thor Bjarnason. srbjarni@seltjarnarneskirkja.is Telephone: (mobile) (home) (office). How to get to Seltjarnarnes Iceland Seltjarnarnes is a neigboring town of Reykjavík. There is a flybus leaving Keflavík Airport after every flight. The bus goes to Reykjavík Bus terminal. The trip takes about 50 minutes. All the particapants will be picked up from the Bus terminal and taken to the Church of Seltjarnarnes.

2 The 20th Porvoo Communion Pastoral Conference Theology and the Environment Seltjarnarnes, Iceland

3 4-9 September 2014 The 20th Porvoo Communion Pastoral Conference Seltjarnarnes - Iceland 4-9 September 2014 Thursday 4 September Through afternoon Arrive 16:00 Coffie 17:30 Eucharist at Seltjarnarneskirkja (The Church of Seltjarnarnes) 19:00 Welcome and dinner (host: The Mayor of Seltjarnarnes Town) at the Church Hall of Seltjarnarneskirkja 21:00 Presentation: The Town and Council of Seltjarnarnes 21:45 Hosts come to pick up participants Friday 5 September 08:30 Eucharist at Seltjarnarneskirkja 09:45 Lecture: Environmental issues in Iceland the big picture. 11:00 Coffie Elva Rakel Jónsdóttir. M.Sc. Team Leader at The Environment Agency of Iceland 11:15 Lecture: Greenhouse Effect and Climate Changes. Halldór Björnsson. Ph.D. Icelandic Meteorological Office 12:45 Lunch (host: The British Ambassador, Mr. Stuart Gill) 14:00 The Church House presentation 15:30 The House of Parliament guided tour

4 17:00 The Cathedral of Reykavík The Dean of the Cathedral 19:00 Dinner (host: The Bishop of Iceland, the Very Revd Agnes Sigurdardottir 21:00 Evening Prayer Saturday 6 September 08:30 Eucharist at Seltjarnarneskirkja 09:45 Lecture: The Ambivalence of Nature in the Religous Culture of Iceland 11:00 Coffie The Revd Gunnar Kristjánsson. Dr. theol. Rural Dean of the Kjalarnes Deanery 11:15 Lecture: The Green Cross, Ecology and Christology. The Revd Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir. Ph.D. Vicar of the parish of Grafarholt Reykjavík. 12:45 Lunch (host: The Minister of the interior, Mrs Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir) 14:15 Lecture: You have made him master of all that you have made. Ecology, Imago Dei and some Old Testament Psalms. Gunnlaugur A. Jónsson. Dr. theol. Professor in Old Testament in the Faculty of Theology and Religious studies at the University of Iceland. 15:30 Coffie 17:00 Vicars pick up participants Sunday 7 September 09:30 Vicars pick up participants 11:00 Mass in parishes

5 Afternoon Free time 19:00 Dinner in the Church Hall 21:00 Evening prayers Monday 8 September 08:30 Eucharist at Seltjarnarneskirkja 09:45 Lecture: Climate Changes in Theology. Alternative Notions of God in Christian Ecofeminist Theology! 11:00 Coffie Solveig Anna Bóasdóttir. Dr. theol. Associate professor in theological ethics in the Faculty of theology and religous studies at the University of Iceland. 11:15 Coach trip to Gullfoss (The Golden Waterfall) and Geysir (the geysers) Packed Lunch 14:30 Skálholt - Skálholt Cathedral The Suffrigan Bishop of Skálholt: The Right Revd Kristján Valur Ingólfsson 16:00 Coffie at Skálholt 16:30 Reflections, evaluations, forward planning at Skálholt 19:30 Dinner at the Church Hall of Seltjarnarneskirkja. 21:30 Evening prayers Tuesday 9 September Departures for Keflavík flights

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