In this lively conversation be prepared to be challenged as some fundamentals and foundational aspects of church may be different than what we are practicing. That our church to be the church of Jesus Christ that we must shift from programs to partnership from charity to ch and from if we believe this stuff, we have to change. How a BioJanet Wolf has worked as a poverty rights organizer, United Methodist pastor withurban and rural congregations, college and seminary professor, communitymediator, and learner, teacher, animator with think tanks and circles inside prisons.She continues to focus on public theology, transformative justice and nonviolentdirect action organizing to disrupt and dismantle the cradle to prison pipelinethrough leadership by and partnership with those who are now or have been caged.She is a member of the Coordinating Committee of the National Council of Eldersand on the Board of the James Lawson Institute for the Research and Study ofNonviolent Movements. She is the author of Practicing Resurrection: The Gospel of Mark and Radical Discipleship. Janet and her husband, Bill Haley, have 5 sonsand 7 grandchildren.