Looking for ways to reach out to your neighbor and offer radical hospitality?
This gathering is for you!
As members of a local church we know that our communities need us, and we need them. Still, it can be hard to connect to new people, or even to find them. This workshop is a chance to explore what your congregation has to offer to the community, and how to let the community know who you are.
Ideal for outreach committees, missions groups, and church leadership teams, this gathering will help you to explore new ways to create a traditional sense of belonging and consider how worship, education and formation, and outreach programs can show radical hospitality. Participants will leave with specific ideas they can implement to engage in mission and evangelism that communicates love and welcome to their immediate neighbors. Ideally, two or more members of a faith community will participate together.
Using large group discussion, personal reflection, and small group work, this workshop addresses these topics:
Participants will develop an idea for a new outreach project or an expansion of an existing project early in the workshop. They will leave with a specific plan for how to engage the rest of the congregation in this work and how to begin their new approach.
On her blog, Writing on the Side, The Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Mae Magill shares that her "fancy-pants name" comes with her "fancy-pants MDiv from Episcopal Divinity School ('02), the authority bestowed on her by ordination with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and her scholarly DMin coming any year now from Brite Divinity School--wait! I finished May '17." More often she is known simply as "Liz," which is her "everyday connection to neighbors and friends, street folk and colleagues, family and foreigners." Liz offers a wealth of wisdom (check out her workshop list) linking Elizabeth and Liz - academia, priesthood and ordinary life with the "persistent insistence that there is something divine in the intersection of world events, local communities, and personal life."
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We have attempted to keep the cost for this offering low and have received grants from the UCC BROWN GRANT and THE EPISCOPAL PROVINCE OF NEW ENGLAND to cover program fees (Please use the discount codes UCC_CLERGY, UCC_LAITY, PROV1_CLERGY, or PROV1_LAITY). Still, our goal is to eliminate obstacles to participation. If you or your community can help offset costs for someone else to participate, please consider a donation. If you need help, please contact Julie Lytle, executive.director@province1.org, about the potential for a partial scholarship.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS February 8, 2019.
Participation is limited; there are 30 spaces.
Sign Up Now!!
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This is a collaboration of The Episcopal Province of New England (Province I) and the UCC TA1 conference of CT, RI, MA.To learn more abouth the annual gathering and other resources from The Episcopal Province of New England (Province I), see the website here or contact Julie Lytle, executive.director@province1.org.