5:00 p.m. - Concert - Jonesmen Quartet, Glen Haven Baptist Choir, and a Local Praise Team

6:00 p.m. - Dinner in the Dining Hall

7:00 p.m. - Worship Service in the Tabernacle - Dr. Fred Craddock, preaching

Sunday, September 9, 2007

11:00 a.m. - Worship Service in the Tabernacle - Dr. Fred Craddock, preaching

12:00 p.m. - Lunch in the Dining Hall or Take-out - the best of Vietnamese and American food

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Dr. Fred Craddock Dr. Fred B. Craddock is Bandy Distinguished Professor of Preaching and New Testament, Emeritus, in the Candler School of Theology. He went to Emory from the Graduate Seminary of Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma where he held the chair of Darbeth Distinguished Professor of Preaching and New Testament. Dr. Craddock joined the Phillips University department of religion faculty in 1961, moving to the seminary in 1965 where he taught until 1979.

Dr. Craddock received the Bachelor of Arts degree from Johnston Bible College, Knoxville, Tennessee in 1950, the Bachelor of Divinity from Phillips in 1953 and the Ph.D in New Testament from Vanderbilt in 1964. He has done post-doctoral study at Tübingen, Germany, and at Yale.

An ordained minister of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Dr. Craddock has served pastorates in Tennessee and Oklahoma. In addition, Dr. Craddock has served on the General Board and Administrative Committee of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), on the Commission on Theology of the Council on Christian Unity, and has chaired the Commission on Ministry for the Christian Church in Georgia. He presently is serving on the Task Force on Ministry for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Dr. Craddock is a member of the Association of Disciples for Theological Discussion, the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Biblical Literature, and the Society for New Testament Studies. He has served on the Editorial Board of Quarterly Review and on the Advisory Board of Interpretation. Dr. Craddock is the founding pastor of Cherry Log Christian Church and the present director of The Craddock Center, a program for serving the needs of people of Southern Appalachia.

In addition to preaching and teaching widely at church assemblies and ministers' conferences, Dr. Craddock has served as guest professor at other seminaries. He has delivered the Lyman Beecher Lectures at Yale, the Scott Lectures at Claremont School of Theology, the Adams Lectures at Southeastern Baptist Seminary, the Schaff Lectures at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, the Cole Lectures at Vanderbilt, the Westervelt Lectures at Austin Presbyterian Seminary, the Mullins Lectures at Southern Seminary, the Earl Lectures at Pacific School of Religion, and the Mullins Lectures at Southern Baptist Seminary. He was selected by Newsweek as one of the 12 most effective preachers in the English speaking world.

Dr. Craddock has written a number of books, including The Pre-Existence of Christ (1968), As One Without Authority (1971, rev. 1974 and 1979), Overhearing the Gospel (1978), The Gospels (1981), commentaries on John (1982), Philippians (1984), Luke, Preaching (1985), First and Second Peter and Jude, Preaching (1985), The Craddock Stories, Listening to the Word: Studies in Honor of Fred Craddock. In addition, he has prepared with Lee Keck the Pentecost 3, Series B volume of the Proclamation series; with Ernest Saunders the Epiphany volume; with Carl Holladay, John Hayes, and Gene Tucker, the three volume series, Preaching Through the Christian Year, Year A, Year B, Year C, and he has provided the "Commentary on the Gospel of Luke" in Harper's One-Volume Commentary (1988). Dr. Craddock has also contributed a number of articles to various journals. Most recently he has co-authored with Eugene Boring The People's New Testament Commentary.

A native of Humboldt, Tennessee, Dr. Craddock is married to the former Nettie Lee Dungan. They have a daughter and a son.