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For the first time ever, we are offering the general session talks and “Box”
resources which include registrants favorite books, best practices, set designs and much more on DVD.

You can order it HERE for $149. plus shipping.

The great folks at Provident Music and Essential Records are partnering with cre:ate to give away  CD’s to the first 20 responders here.

Leeland’s “Love Is On The Move” due out August 25 does not disappoint. We love it here at cre:ate and highly recommend it.

There is a great chance that Leeland will be back with his band (We have only had Leeland solo with his family previously) to help us celebrate our 10th anniversary this year.

Please tell everyone about this incredible new CD and also about the cre:ate Worship/Arts Thinktank.

A big thanks to Laurie & Roxanne at Provident for making this promo happen.

The first 20 people to leave contact info here win a FREE CD. We will e-mail you for your mailing address.

We are excited to announce that we will utilize the same worship team throughout the week this year for the first time in our ten year history!

Matt Maher who wrote “Your Grace Is Enough” (and has rocked Randy’s world with his upcoming release of “Alive Again”)  and  EMI-CMG writer and Worship Leader Audrey Assad (who also rocked Randy’s world with her upcoming single “Winter Snow”) will team to create unique and authentic worship times each morning.

More on this exciting development later. Please click their names for websites and follow them on Twitter at: @mattmahermusic and @audreyassad

You may choose to pay either a deposit or full registration

cre:ate 2010 Single Registration Deposit $299.

(After Nov.1) $399.

cre:ate 2010 Couples Registration
Deposit $399.

(After Nov.1) $499.

cre:ate 2010 Single Full Registration $699.

(After Nov.1) $799.

cre:ate 2010 Couples Full Registration $899.

(After Nov.1) $999.

**Please note: All Registrations payments are completely non-refundable after Dec. 1, 2008.
** If you pre-paid your $100. deposit previous to July 30, you automatically qualify for early registration prices.

** IMPORTANT!! After payment, press the “Return to Seeker Solutions” button to complete form and registration!

Click To Download cre:ate schedule 2009

It will be great to have Michael leading worship at cre:ate this year. Those of you who were with us at our very first conference eight years ago will remember that he surprised us with a quick visit. This will be his first time to lead worship at our conference. It will be a very special evening!

EMI just let us know that Fee and his full band will be with us for an evening of worship.

Also, Comedian Ken Davis, who moved us to tears last year with his powerful challenge and talk, will be back for a time of laughter and comedy. 

We will not have an official cre:ate hotel this year. Many of you have asked for less expensive alternatives than the Marriott, so we are recommending the following three hotels. Of course, you are welcome to stay anywhere you wish.

Country Inn and Suites: The best Franklin has to offer at the lowest price point, around $100 a night. Free WIFI, clean, comfortable beds and a great location. Let them know you are with recreate and they will give you a good rate.

Aloft: Brand new artsy hotel in a great location with WIFI. A little pricier but very nice!

Courtyard Marriott: Also great location, brand new, luxury but a good price. Would be probably around $160 a night. Highly recommended.

Ian will be facilitating a conversation at cre:ate ‘09 about liturgy, Eucharist and the human quest for coherence. As part of the discussion Ian will also be integrating musings about the life of St Francis of Assisi and how this pre-modern saint can breathe life into the postmodern Church.

BIO

An ordained Anglican priest, spiritual director, author and songwriter, Ian Morgan Cron is the founding pastor of Trinity Church in Greenwich, Conn., a non-denominational faith community known for its commitment to social justice as well as to communicating the Christian story through the arts.

Cron is a native of Greenwich and a graduate of Bowdoin College in Maine, where he earned bachelor’s degrees in English and Romance languages and also met his wife Anne. He earned a master’s in counseling at Denver Seminary and received a master in divinity from New York Theological Seminary. Ian is presently enrolled in a doctoral program at Fordham University (The Jesuit University of New York) focusing on contemplative spirituality.

After 13 years of ministry, Cron became uncomfortable with the evangelical church’s growing identification with conservative politics, its resistance to engaging in generative conversation with people of differing theological and social viewpoints, its movement away from classical spiritual practices and worship, and its often facile answers to life’s deepest questions.

At the height of his spiritual crisis, he retreated to a friend’s home on the island of Bermuda with a loaned copy of GK Chesterton’s, St. Francis of Assisi, a classic that would restore meaning and inspiration in his ministry. To Cron, St. Francis was a Christian worth emulating, a religious genius who transcended the labels of conservative, or liberal (or any other label for that matter).

To introduce others to St. Francis, whom Cron has billed the “consummate postmodern saint,” he authored Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale (September 2007, NavPress). Part historical narrative, part fiction, Cron’s literary debut has received praise from a host of both Catholic and Protestant thinkers including Brian McLaren, Friar Richard Rohr, Tony Campolo, Makoto Fujimura, and Brennan Manning.

An accomplished songwriter in Nashville and New York City, he has two CDs of original work, “The Land of my Father’s,” produced by Grammy Award-nominated producer Rob Mathes and “Sacred Hunger,” produced by the Grammy Award-winning producer Phil Naish.

Cron is a spiritual director and retreat leader who particularly enjoys working with artists.

In his spare time he enjoys fly-fishing, running, traveling, and hiking in the mountains of Vermont. He resides in Old Greenwich with his wife and three children.