Friday, 1-2:30 pm
Presenters
Garwood Anderson, Nashotah House Theological Seminary, WI
Rev. Ryan Pollock, Assisting Evangelist - Diocese of Dallas, Curate for Young Adults - St. Matthew's Cathedral, Dallas, TX

Workshop Description
“The Millennials” are perhaps the most written-about generation in human history, at least in part because their ways of identifying what matters to them and how they decide to invest their time and energy are so different than the generations that have come before.

Where young adult ministry for the last 40 years focused on a departure from tradition and shying away from inter-generational dialogue, against all odds, Millennials are filling churches and chapels from New York to California not for the rock bands or fresh expressions meant to attract them, but for the quiet experience of centuries-old Compline chanted by candlelight and old-fashioned pot-luck dinners. Searching for authenticity, and longing to truly belong, the older ideas of ministries to young adults and their young families need to shift to meet these desires in the hearts of Millennials. 

Hear from an evangelist to young adults and an experienced leader in seminary education as they discuss the roles of tradition, spiritual formation (not just information), and the search for depth as a framework to understand what young adults and their young families are seeking in a parish family, and share ideas for how parishes of any size can welcome this next generation of leaders through authenticity and being really present to one another.

Friday, 1-2:30 pm
Presenters
Kathy Vanden Boogaard, Northern Michigan
Arlene Gordanier
Brad Nedeau
Deb Nedeau

Workshop Description
We will be sharing information about the UTO grant initiative written and being implemented in partnership with the Great Lakes Peace Center called Walking Together: Finding Common Ground Through Racial Reconciliation. This is a project that focuses on discussions of our Church history, Listening and Learning sessions with Native American community members, and building positive relationships with our indigenous communities, including developing a traveling exhibit that tells the truth about our Church and dream for a Beloved Community. We will also be sharing a variety of resources that are being utilized to help us build bridges with our Native American neighbors on and off reservations throughout the Upper Peninsula.

Presenter:  Spencer Pugh, St Anne, West Chester, OH
Spencer Pugh is the chair of the Commission on Ministry for the Diocese of Southern Ohio. He is a life-long Episcopalian and currently a member of St. Anne, West Chester, OH.  His other activities include Licensed Lay Preacher and Stephen Minister.  His day job is leading research and development for a specialty chemical company in Cincinnati OH.

Workshop Description
Over the past four years, the Commission on Ministry (CoM) of the Diocese of Southern Ohio (DSO) has developed an approach to fulfill our canonical obligation to support discernment for lay people.   Our journey started with reading and reflection to develop our guiding principles.  We then used structured brainstorming to help clarify our objectives.  Finally, we employed a novel planning technique known as “back-casting” to resolve some internal barriers and to create an action plan.   The culmination has been the development of three separate approaches that support discernment for laity – and to-date the DSO CoM has tried out two of these three approaches.   In this presentation we will share details of our journey and our results – including a diocesan lay discernment workshop entitled “Listening to our Lives” conducted this past fall that had 24 participants.   We will also give participants some hands-on experience with the “back-casting” planning technique.

Saturday, 3-4:30 pm
Presenters
Adrienne Dillon has been a member of the Diocese of Missouri Commission on Dismantling Racism since 2005 and was an alternate deputy to General Convention in 2018.
Tony Corey joined the Episcopal Church and St Timothy's Church (near St Louis, MO) in 2012. He is an active member of the Diocese of Missouri's long standing Commission on Dismantling Racism and founded St Timothy's Ministry of Racial Reconciliation.

Workshop Description
The Diocese of Missouri would like to share resources for understanding and confronting institutional racism. We will give participants an opportunity to experience interactive exercises and reflections from our two-day training as well as activities from congregational events. We will also discuss how to build anti-racism program at the diocesan or congregational level.

Saturday, 10:30 am - 12 noon
Presenters
Sean Meade
Tom Adamson

Workshop Description
Churches of 60 or larger could have 2-3 adult musicians thrilled to play during church services and or events. Taking those 2-3 adults and having them mentor youth Musicians and creating ensembles and or a Wind Ensemble with Strings to help improve the music options during services and events at the church. The larger the church the higher the odds you will have and be able to sustain a wind ensemble at your church. Things to do to entice the youth and adults to stay in the group.

Saturday, 10:30 am - 12 noon
Presenters:
The Rev. Nurya Love Parish is co-founder and Executive Director of Plainsong Farm and rector of Holy Spirit Episcopal Church in Belmont. She was a member of the Episcopal Church’s Advisory Council for the Stewardship of Creation (2015-2018) and served on the legislative committee for Care of Creation at General Convention 2018. 

​Isak Davis, Andrew Johnson, and Jimmy Pickett are the pilot cohort of fellows for the Young Adult Fellowship at Plainsong Farm. Each of them is spending the summer immersed at the intersection of discipleship and the care of Creation.

Workshop Description
At Plainsong Farm, we're developing programs and processes that grow disciples and tend Creation at the same time. We're sure we aren't alone - others throughout our province are engaged in similar efforts. Come to learn more about our ministries (including the heirloom wheat program we received from Honoré Farm and Mill which now provides communion bread to multiple churches). Come and reflect on Scripture and how our journey as disciples means engaging the hard truths of climate change. Come, remember your baptism, and begin again as a servant of Christ through whom all things were made. This workshop includes a presentation about the ministries of Plainsong Farm, sharing of your own stories of care of Creation, and regional networking for mutual learning and support.

Presenter:  Tamara Plummer, Episcopal Relief & Development

Workshop Description
Episcopal Relief & Development is a faith based relief and development organization that works together with communities through its Episcopal and Anglican partners to create lasting change. We work with communities across the globe as they utilize their gifts to respond to human need. This workshop will demonstrate practical resources for this asset based approach to ministry so that you can work with you church and neighbors to live into the dream God has for your community.  (Join in one or both of these workshops.)

#17 - Part 1:
In Part 1, we will specifically look at the basics of Asset Based Community Development and how it fits into the work of Episcopal Relief & Development. This section will provide you with practical tools that you can use to implement new ministries and grow ministries that reflect the dreams of your congregation and community.

#18 - Part 2. 
Building on our conversations and work in Part 1 this section will link the work of ministry and congregational development with disaster preparedness, response and resilience. During our first section, we covered the basics of ABCD. In this second part, we will get even more practical by connecting this asset based approach to our work in the US Disaster Program, where we use this methodology to support communities as they recover from, prepare for and respond to disasters.

Bio of the presenter:
Tamara Plummer is a Program Officer for Asset Recognition in the US Disaster Program at Episcopal Relief & Development. She has worked on The Episcopal Asset Map for the past three years by supporting dioceses as they implement this transformative project for The Episcopal Church. Tamara is a life long Episcopalian skilled and trained in facilitation, program planning, and leadership development. 

Friday, 1-2:30 pm
Presenter:  Sally O'Brien

Workshop Description
Participate in exercises to hone your skills in leadership of small groups and the development of new leaders. A smorgasbord of approaches to quell the conflict, facilitate group decision making, and release your power to unleash the power of new leaders.

Friday, 3-4:30 pm
Presenter:  Sally O'Brien

Workshop Description
Share your knowledge and learn from your colleagues.
1. Share your thoughts and experience about strategies for diocesan decision making about
worship community support, intervention, and transformation.
 
2. Share your best hands-on processes to help congregations
• hear the call and the will to transform
• partner with others for impact
• connect to their neighborhood
• move from unsustainable to sustainable
You are invited to bring presentation materials that describe your process or key learnings.