The Attentive Life: Discerning God’s Presence in All Things

Sunday, February 27, 2011
9:45 a.m. Adult Sunday School
“Paying Attention”

11:00 a.m. Worship
“God Is Paying Attention: Are You?”
(Text: Exodus 3:1–14; 2 Peter 1:19)

Monday, February 28, 2011
10:00 a.m. – Clergy Gathering and Lunch. Lunch will be provided.
“The Attentive Life—and the Attentive Leader”

All events will be held at First Presbyterian Church and are open to the public.

Ford is an author, social activist, leader, communicator, and mentor, and is president of Leighton Ford Ministries. He has spoken face to face to millions of people in 37 countries on every continent of the world and served from 1955 until 1985 as Associate Evangelist and later Vice President of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. For many years Dr. Ford was featured as the alternate speaker to Billy Graham on the Hour of decision broadcast and his own daily TV and radio spots in the United States, Canada, and Australia.

Dr. Ford was recipient of the 1990 Two Hungers Award which recognized his contributions to addressing the physical and spiritual hungers of people around the world. In 1985 he was selected as Clergyman of the Year by Religious Heritage of America and as Presbyterian Preacher of the Year by the National Presbyterian Center. TIME Magazine singled him out as being “among the most influential preachers of an active gospel.”

Dr. Ford is Honorary Life Chairman of the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization, having served from 1976 to 1992 as chairman of this international body of Christian leaders. He currently serves as a board member for World Vision U. S., the Duke University Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

Dr. Ford is also author and co-author of numerous books. His newest book, The Attentive Life, Discerning God’s Presence in All Things, was published in May 2008. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife, Jean. Their children are a married daughter, Deborah, a son in business, Kevin and their older son, Sandy, who died after heart surgery in November 1981.

To sign up, please fill out the form below or contact the church office at (919) 682-5511. For directions, click here.

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The McPherson Lectureship is dedicated to enriching the faith and life of the First Presbyterian Church and the Durham community. Former lecturers have been: John Kuykendall (1999), J. Barrie Shepherd (2001), Beverly Gaventa (2002), Tom Long (2003), Joanna Adams (2004), Charles Kimball (2005), Nicholas Wolterstorff (2006), Joseph L. Roberts, Jr. (2007), Richard A. Lischer (2008), Stephen A. Hayner (2009), and Barbara Brown Taylor (2010). The Lectureship is made possible through an endowment given by the McPherson family in memory of Dr. and Mrs. S.D. McPherson, Sr., and Dr. S.D. McPherson, Jr.