Join leader Patience Robbins as she guides you through the use of lectio divina, walking meditation, the practice of gratitude, and intercessory prayers. Would you like to open more fully to God in your daily life? Do you wish to develop or deepen a consistent spiritual practice? Are you looking to connect with authentic spiritual …
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Unshaken Kingdom: Disruption, Transformation and the Accessible Church
The challenges of the past few years now present an opportunity… Join New Leaf Network, Christian Horizons, and the Alliance Canada for a one-day conference tuning into and celebrating God’s work in the midst of disruption. We will hear from people with disabilities, pastors, theologians and each other about becoming more accessible and welcoming spaces …
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Black Women’s Radical Self-Love (Mini) Virtual Retreat Series Fall 2022
Details & Online Registration Program information Although we live in incredibly challenging times—and as black women we continue to be some of the people experiencing the greatest challenges in our world—we are not powerless. We can help change the world by changing how we feel about ourselves. Remembering our own self-worth is one of the …
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Dementia and Spirituality: Loss, Love, and Navigating Change Together
With Jane Kuepfer, RP, PhD, MDiv, Schlegel Specialist in Spirituality and Aging with the Schlegel-UW Research Institute for Aging and Conrad Grebel University College. Kuepfer is a spiritual director, an ordained minister, a registered psychotherapist, and serves as a spiritual care provider in a retirement home, alongside her teaching and research roles. Within 10 years …
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Connecting with Self and Others After Adversity
With Carolyn Klassen, a Winnipeg therapist and speaker at Wired for Connection. Her many years of providing therapy provide her with a wealth of knowledge about people—including topics like grief, pain, anxiety, depression, joy, and grace that are not easily or often spoken about in polite company. She has a master’s degree in therapy, is …
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Cultivating Sanctuary: A conversation on preventing and responding to Sexual Misconduct by Church Leaders
Disclosures of sexual misconduct and sexual abuse by church leaders, particularly in evangelical circles, are rising. Each new report makes it devastatingly clear that we, the body of Christ, have a problem we must confront and resolve in order to better protect members and respond well to sexual misconduct. When sexual misconduct by a church …
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If You’re Happy and You Know It… A Gratitude Retreat
True happiness is an internal job. It’s a conscious choice to focus on the positive and free ourselves from negative thinking. Follow your heart to a weekend at Mount Carmel and take yourself on a life journey to nourish, embrace and celebrate all that you are. Learn how to strengthen your foundation of happiness, and …
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ReNew 2023–“It Is Well” – Honouring Singleness and Marriage
Rev. Dr Lina Toth (Assistant Principal and Lecturer in Practical Theology at the Scottish Baptist College, UK and Senior Research Fellow at the IBTS Centre, The Netherlands) will offer three presentations, addressing the church’s convictions about singleness, marriage, and weddings. The two-day conference will also offer pastoral renewal through Bible studies, worship, workshops, congregational stories, meals, …
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WISE WOMEN’S WORK
OVERVIEW I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row, and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. …
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Creating Safe & Affirming Spaces for Transgender Children
A hybrid (in person & online) community event for teachers, counselors, chaplains, faith leaders & families This program is designed to create safe and affirming spaces for transgender or gender expansive children at home, school and faith communities. These are the 3 places children need to be affirming if they are to thrive. These are also …
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