ACP 2011 to meet in Chicago

Mark your calendar for the joint convention of the Associated Church Press and the Canadian Church Press in Chicago. This year’s bigger-and better-and-more-affordable-than-usual conference features not only compelling keynote speakers and outstanding workshops but also a great location in one of North America’s most interesting and diverse cities. Register now for the ACP/CCP Convention, April 27 to April 29, 2011. And don’t forget to book your rooms at an amazing $99 rate at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, one block off the “Magnificent Mile” in downtown Chicago.

If you please come to Chicago, you can look forward to thought-provoking keynote speeches from Eboo Patel, the prominent Muslim and interfaith leader and founder of the Interfaith Youth Core; David Kilgour, one of the longest-serving Canadian Members of Parliament, now retired but still active in human rights and international and interfaith concerns; and Jean Bethke Elshtain, one of the United States’ foremost public intellectuals and a professor of social and political ethics at the University of Chicago’s Divinity School. Our main ecumenical worship service on April 28 in Chicago’s St. James Episcopal Cathedral will be led by Rev. Otis Moss III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ, Chicago, named recently by The African American Pulpit Journal as one of the “20 to watch” ministers who will shape the future of the African American church.

Chicago also offers a wealth of outstanding professional resources for publishing, and several of our workshop presenters this year hail from one of the United States’ leading journalism schools, the Medill School for Journalism at Northwestern University, as well as from the city’s most prominent print, broadcast, and online media outlets. We are offering four full tracks of workshops: editorial, marketing, design, and web.

As usual, one of the best parts of our conventions is the networking you’ll be able to do with a broad diversity of colleagues from all parts of the United States and Canada, from all different kinds of churches and denominations, from all types of print and online publications, and from all kinds of personal, political, ethnic, andracial backgrounds.

And to top it all off, because of our slightly shortened program and our pooled resources, registration for the Chicago convention will be at significantly lower registration rates than usual for the ACP (this year only $270 vs. $345 in recent years) and an unprecedentedly low hotel rate at a prime location. Register today and join us! Consider bringing more of your staff to this particularly strong convention, and invite your friends and colleagues at other church publications to … “please come to Chicago. We can change the world, rearrange the world!”

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