Unleashing the Power - Virtual Workshops
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Emily Provance, who travels in the ministry full-time for Friends, is coordinating a new "Unleashing the Power" series of virtual workshops on topics for Quaker meetings and churches across North America:
- Community ministries (shelters, tutoring programs, food pantries, etc.)
- Having grounded conversations across differences
- Conflict within congregations
- Gifts and leadings and how these can guide nominations and service in the Meeting
- Small congregations
- Children’s ministries
- How congregations can be supportive of parents
- Hybrid worship communities and the implications of this beyond worship
- Faithful closure for congregations reaching the natural end of their life cycle
Each virtual workshop is a stand-alone gathering—you can participate in any or all sessions, as you choose. They will be held
Monthly, weekdays for 90 minutes starting at
4:00 PM Pacific = 5:00 PM Mountain
Each session costs $10.
Click here to learn more and to register.
Emily expects each virtual gathering will be “a really divergent group coming together from yearly meetings including the full theological spectrum—conservative to liberal.” The series is sponsored by Friends United Meeting (FUM), a denominational organization that itself is a divergent group, with member yearly meetings ranging from conservative to liberal, in North America, the Caribbean, East Africa, and the Middle East.
Emily will be moderating each session, although each one will have a different facilitator. “What’s exciting to me,” Emily explained, “is that each gathering is part spirit formation and part skill building. It’s nurturing in the ministry in the context of our own congregation.”
from Eric Muhr, Sierra Cascades Yearly Meeting of Friends