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Intergenerational Worship: Changing our Assumptions, Mending our Practices
The Center for Leadership Excellence presents a webinar with Nelson Cowan…
January 8 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am
About the Webinar
Children are fully capable of leading in worship, yet it often takes intentional effort from adults to nurture their gifts. If you’re hoping to examine your assumptions about intergenerational worship or to gather new practices for your ministry, we hope you’ll join us. In this webinar, you’ll think more critically about your church’s worship practices, engage recent research, and learn from congregations across the country who are doing this well.
P.S. If the word “children” made you wonder whether this applies to your work, this webinar was designed precisely with you in mind.
Who Should Come
- Children and youth ministry leaders
- Pastors and laity who want to find new and innovative ways to include kids and youth in worship
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About the Presenter
Rev. Nelson Cowan, PhD, is a liturgical theologian, worship leader, and ordained elder in The United Methodist Church. He serves as Director of the Center for Worship and the Arts at Samford University, where he leads research, resource development, and programmatic initiatives that support the intersection of worship, theology, the arts, and young people. He holds degrees from the University of North Florida (BA), Wesley Theological Seminary (MDiv), and Boston University (PhD in Liturgical Studies). Dr. Cowan is the author of Let the Children Lead (2025) and Worship Any Time or Place (2024), both published by Abingdon Press. His current research engages contemporary praise and worship, the theology of play, and the lived experiences of young people in public Christian worship.
He teaches in the areas of worship, church music, and the history of Christianity, and holds contingent faculty appointments at Emory University and Drew University. He is an active participant in the American Academy of Religion, Societas Liturgica, and the North American Academy of Liturgy, where he convenes the Contemporary & Alternative Worship Seminar. He is married to the Rev. Samantha Cowan, also an ordained pastor, and together they are raising one daughter.