Designed for Vestry leaders, Shaped by Faith Teams and congregations, and clergy.  Attendance and membership numbers give us some good information about our congregations, but they’re not the whole story. Faith Development in Community offers a lens to help us see all the different ways people are engaging with and being fed by what our …
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This three-week learning module will be taught by Sharon Ely Pearson Tuesday nights at 7 PM: December 7: Getting familiar with the Bible December 14: The Arc of our salvation story December 21: Starting a Bible study group   Recommended texts: a study Bible (NRSV preferred), The Dream of God by Verna Dozier, The Prayer …
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Lancaster Theological Seminary and the Stevenson School for Ministry offer an Anglican Studies certificate program at the Seminary as a collaborative venture to prepare students for service in the Episcopal Church. The program supports a variety of Episcopal ministries ranging from priesthood and the diaconate to pastoral care, educational and lay ministries. The Certificate in …
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Curriculum – Deacon Track Fulfilling all the requirements of the Stevenson School for a certificate does not guarantee your ordination.  Your Bishop and your Commission on Ministry will make final determinations.  However, our curriculum leading to a certificate is an ideal way to prepare you for this ministry. To apply for this certification track, please …
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For a comprehensive list of the competencies developed in our Priest Track curriculum, click here. Curriculum – Priest Track One of the special gifts of the Stevenson School is its ability to support you in the path towards priesthood without assuming that you are going to leave full-time employment or relocate to a traditional seminary.  …
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Interested In Exploring Lay Ministries? All Christians are called to love and serve others.  For some that takes the form of ordained ministry as an Episcopal Priest or as an Episcopal Deacon.  For others there are a variety of ministries of the people in our dioceses, our parishes, or our communities.  However, there are a …
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Listen. Learn. Experiment. Connect. Applications and expressions of interest are welcomed for our missional leadership learning cohort, called The Connectors FOUR. Deadline is midnight Dec. 12th. *Do you sense that God is nudging you to try something new?  *To reach out to people who might never come to Sunday morning worship?  *To be the hands, …
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A ZOOM Symposium sponsored by the Diocesan Environment Network, Diocese of Nova Scotia and PEI – The DEN. Join us on Thursday, November 18th, 7:00 PM, as we gather to hear our first speaker, Bishop  Sandra. Green Cent$ is about people, liturgical practices, building and site management. It is for all church people – those …
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Preaching After the Storm Preachers, we are confronting a collective trauma and we have yet to realize fully its global, national, ecclesial, and individual effects. There’s no going back to life before the storm. So what does our preaching need to be and do going forward? If COVID-19 has taught us anything homiletically, it’s that …
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Taught by Professor John Gibaut, this is a course offered by Zoom in conjunction with Huron College.