10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.  Registration for registered delegates who will be given name tags

 

2:00 p.m.  Opening Protocol and Roll Call of the Nations

 

We want to encourage the delegates from all nations that are gathered to come wearing traditional dress and if possible displaying musical instruments from their nation to enter the Convention Centre in procession during Gathering Songs by Broken Walls Band.

 

Local Welcome to Treaty No. 1 Territory

 

Opening Prayer

 

2:30 p.m.  MC Wally McKay, Grand Chief Emeritus of the Nishnawbe Aski Nation and Chief Organizer of the 1995 Sacred Assembly will introduce the following presenters:

 

Grand National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations Cindy Woodhouse-Nepinak

 

Chief Samuel Knott of the Red Sucker Lake First Nation, original home of Elijah Harper and his father Pastor Alan B. Harper

 

Honouring Elijah Harper's Family

 

3:30 p.m.  Keynote addresses 

 

Keynote address on Indigenous Biblical Spirituality

 

Keynote address on Indigenous Traditional Spirituality

 

Summary by Chairman Wally McKay

 

4:30 to 5:00 p.m.  Break for Supper (on your own)

 

7:00 p.m.  Broken Walls Worship Concert

 

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8:00 a.m.  Full Buffet Breakfast served for registered delegates

 

9:00 a.m.  Opening Prayer and Songs

 

9:30 a.m.  Presentation on Reconciliation (1/2 hour) followed by dialogue

 

10:15 a.m.  Coffee Break

 

10:30 a.m.  Presentation on churches and treaties (1/2 hour)

 

11:00 a.m.  Dialogue among delegates

 

12:00 noon  Classic Lunch Buffet for registered delegates

 

1:00 p.m.  Interlude music and introduction of Video Documentary of 1995 Sacred Assembly

 

2:00 p.m.  Afternoon sessions and discussions TBA

 

5:00 p.m.  Break for supper (on your own)

 

7:00 p.m.  Songs of worship and prayer  -- Relational time

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7:00 a.m.  Full Breakfast Buffet for registered delegates

 

8:00 a.m.  Morning worship service

 

9:30 a.m.  Coffee Break

 

10:00 a.m.  Four monitors who have monitored discussions from previous day will present and get feedback on follow-up action for local chiefs, band council members and spiritual leaders in the communities to follow-up on Elijah Harper's vision as they return home, keeping in mind the statement in Elijah Harper's Reconciliation Proclamation that "we share an understanding that while change must take place at all levels of society, it must be rooted most firmly in the communities..."

 

Closing Ceremony and Song

 

2:00 p.m.  Departure to our homes with intention to carry Elijah Harper's Vision forward in our own communities and beyond...