Plan to join others from around the diocese and, this year, sister and brother Lutherans as well, for the annual diocesan Spring Learning Event on Saturday, March 3, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (138 Tremont Street) in Boston.
The Spring Learning Event will introduce participants to exceptional speakers and some of the latest thinking around trends and ideas. This year we are pleased to be partnering with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and its Office of Global Missions to host a "Glocal Mission Gathering."
God's work in mission always propels us to encounter the neighbor, particularly in the stranger. This gathering will help equip participants for God's work in today's global and local realities and their "glocal" intersections, with keynotes by the Rev. Sunitha Mortha, Director, ELCA Mission Formation and Relationships, and the Rev. David Copley, Mission Personnel Director, Episcopal Church Center.
What is mission? Who is the neighbor? Let's answer these questions together for our migrating and immigrating world. Come, join some of the most relevant mission conversations around the realities of the world we live in today.
Get a team together from your congregation: wardens and vestry members, mission teams, organist/choir directors, teachers, youth leaders and anyone who is asking questions about what it means to reach out as a church community locally, nationally and abroad. There will be opportunities for breakout sessions, networking and reflection. Some vestries use this event as a vestry retreat.
A significant part of the event will be time for skill-building workshops. These in-depth workshops help team members build capacity for work and service within one specific area of mission. Skill-building workshops include:
Cross-Generational Engagement
Growing a Missional Congregation
Mission 101
Music and Mission
Radical Hospitality
Short-Term Mission
Each team member attends only one skill-building workshop, so by gathering a team, you are able to get the most out of the event by sharing information from each of the skill-building workshops when you return home.
For advance preparation and to enrich the shared experience at the Spring Learning Event, the annual "Epiphany Papers" series is available here as a study resource.
For information contact Amy Cook, Resource Center, at acook [at] diomass [dot] org or 617-482-4826, ext. 645.
