DON’T MISS SUNDAY’S SESSION ON JONATHAN EDWARDS

In addition to the outstanding sessions that will be presented by our nationally known speakers, there are many others you won’t want to miss, including Special Session, S-401 on Sunday, 29 April 2007 sponsored by the Descendants of the Founders of Ancient Windsor.

In 1733, a religious revival began in Northampton, Massachusetts and was followed in 1739-1740 by the Great Awakening. During this time, Jonathan Edwards, a Connecticut native – father of twelve, preacher, scholar, missionary, and President of Princeton University -- preached his most famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.” Rev. Söderberg will begin the session with a short introduction to Jonathan Edwards and this very famous sermon and then deliver the sermon in period costume.

Reverend Söderberg is a native New Englander, born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He graduated Triton Regional High School in Byfield, Massachusetts in 1980 and was a drummer/songwriter for the next sixteen years. During this time, he was also employed by the United States Postal Service, ending up as a postmaster in Salisbury, Massachusetts. In 1997, he answered the call to pastoral ministry and entered seminary. He graduated from the Congregational Foundation for Theological Studies; American Christian College and Seminary with a bachelor's degree (Magna Cum Laude) in Religious Studies; and Bangor Theological Seminary where he received his Master of Divinity degree. He served the Congregational Christian Council of Maine on the State Youth Ministries Committee 1998-2000; as a Summer Youth Camp Co-Director 1999, 2000, 2001, 2006; and as Vice Moderator 2004-2005. He has also served on the Nominating Committee of the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches 2001-2003. After a nine year pastorate in Maine, on December 4, 2005 he was installed as the 17th Senior Minister of South Congregational Church, Hartford, Connecticut.