Season’s Greetings!
Can you believe that it is December? Advent is finally here and before you know it, the holidays will be upon us. But before that, there will be additional church services to prepare for and attend, holiday parties, shopping, and baking holiday desserts. We hope that you will take a moment for yourself, whether it is working through one of our meditations or starting a self-guided Bible Study. We have resources below that can help keep the season bright.
- Bible Studies
- “Casting the Pageant: Meeting the Characters of Christmas” with the Rev. Dr. Allen Hilton. He discusses the stories behind the cast from the Christmas story here.
- “INCARNATION — Fleshing Out the Bible’s Christmas Stories” with the Rev. Dr. Allen Hilton. The gospels provide different stories about Jesus’ incarnation and birth. Prepare for Advent by exploring this Bible Study via videos or podcast here.
- Gospel of Luke Bible Study -The Lectionary focuses on the Gospel of Luke this month. We have a free, self-guided Bible Study on Luke, both for adults and youth.
- Meditations – YMI Quest for the Spirit introduces youth to the ancient spiritual disciplines, which includes meditations. We have a variety of meditations that youth can do to help through the stress of the holidays. Go here.
From the YMI Director: I am a do-er
Dear youth ministry friends,
This statement will come as a surprise to exactly no one who knows me:
I am a do-er.
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1 Corinthians in the First and 21st Centuries Bible Study with the Rev. Dr. Allen Hilton We’ve reached a moment in history when the world needs Jesus-followers to be ONE Body. As social ties fray and break around politics and other divisive forces, as loneliness becomes epidemic, we do well to hear and heed the apostle Paul’s prescriptions for the divided Corinthian church. Among Paul’s letters, 1 Corinthians gives us the clearest picture of daily life in a first-century church. |
Soul Care: Practices for Clergy/Lay Leaders with Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell In this course, you will try out several practices that have been tested and shown to improve the health and well-being of clergy. You will also learn about a curriculum for church personnel committees that can improve communication, trust, and open-hearted reflection among lay leaders, for the betterment of the church. |
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Overturning your ‘Immunity to Change’ with Dr. Robert Kegan “Immunity to Change” is a novel approach to personal improvement– now being deployed all over the world–which surfaces and engages those aspects of a person’s underlying mindset that prevent them from bringing about the very changes they most want to make. This free workshop will provide participants a fast-moving opportunity to try on this approach for themselves, conducted by one of its creators, Harvard professor Robert Kegan. Come with a Personal Improvement Goal you most want to work on in mind! |
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Berkeley Divinity School Berkeley has announced the third iteration of its Leader’s Way certificate program on spiritual renewal and innovation. The program is designed with Episcopal clergy in mind and is open to all church leaders, lay and ordained, irrespective of denomination. The next cohort will gather June 23–27 in the renovated Berkeley Center. |
Beyond Crisis: Crafting a Proactive Communication Blueprint This four-session course offers a strategic and theological consideration of communications, as well as practical standards, tools, and resources for church leaders to implement a strategic communications plan. |
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