Pastoral Care & Issues of Race & Privilege with Ellen Deacon, Chestnut Hill Meeting
This workshop will explore the impact of white privilege and institutional racism on Friends from a pastoral care perspective with an emphasis on ways these societal influences inhibit the growth of a diverse meeting community.
Nurturing The Gifts of the Spirit
with George Schaefer, PYM Care & Aging Coordinator
This workshop will explore the role of pastoral care in nurturing the vitality of meeting through the discernment of gifts. It will look at practical ways to understand our differing journeys with the goal of helping Friends to grow in the Spirit.
Faithfulness in the Face of Controversy
with Erik Pedersen, Schuylkill Meeting
This workshop will explore how a meeting might face controversial issues such as same sex marriage, abortion and even cutting down a beloved old tree while remaining to its call to inclusiveness and unity.
Clearness for Marriage
with Ruth Peterson, Abington Meeting
This workshop will explore the way a meeting extends its loving care to those wishes to be wed under the care of the meeting through clearness for the couple and care attention to the meeting for worship for marriage.
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