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11 / 13
Start: 10:00 am
End: 2:00 pm
Do you need help with Advent/Christmas worship this year? Do you want some fresh resources for the season? Are you looking for something that will deepen your congregation’s worship? If so, this workshop is designed for you.
We will look at liturgy (prayer, litanies, poetry, story, reader’s theatre), sermons, rituals and children’s messages for use in Advent and Christmas worship, and we will learn how to use them effectively. The resources presented work well in either traditional or contemporary worship settings. People of all ages and theological positions respond powerfully to them.
You will go home with simple tools that will deepen your congregation’s experience of Advent and Christmas, and with a packet of resources ready to use this year in your church. About our workshop leader: Rev. Janice Springer is an ordained pastor in the United Church of Christ. She has served local churches for 27 years, including 11 years as pastor of Phoenix Community Church in Kalamazoo. She is currently Minister of Spiritual Formation at University Congregational Church in Missoula, Montana. She also leads retreats, workshops and continuing education for seminaries, denominational judicatories, and local churches. Her book on worship will be published this year by Resource Publications, Inc. Janice’s areas of passion and expertise include worship, spiritual formation, and faith communities. She lives in Grinnell, Iowa and Frenchtown, Montana. You can learn more about her by visiting her at www.janicespringer.com.
The cost for this workshop is $30 and includes refreshments, lunch and resources. The workshop will be from 10:00 – 2:30 p.m. at Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ, 125 S. Pennsylvania, Lansing, MI 48912 Register before November 1, 2008 Please be sure to make note of any special dietary needs when your register.
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11 / 15
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm
The 2008 Truman A. Morrison Memorial Lecture Series presents Rev. Dr. Melanie Morrison on November 15, 2008 from 7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at Edgewood United Church 469 N. Hagadorn, East Lansing, MI 48823 Registration for this event is not necessary. Donations will be accepted at the door.
Topic: Restoring Hope: The Sacred Work of Confronting Racism When: November 15, 2008 ~ 7:00 p.m. Where: Edgewood United Church, 469 N. Hagadorn Rd., East Lansing, MI 48823 Free and open to the public/donations accepted at the door Dr. Melanie S. Morrison is director of Allies for Change (www.alliesforchange.org), an organization providing anti-oppression education, training, and resources. She serves as consultant and advisor to the United Church of Christ’s Sacred Conversation on Race – a national initiative launched in April 2008. She is the author of three books, including The Grace of Coming Home: Spirituality, Sexuality, and the Struggle for Justice and has been a keynote speaker at national and regional conferences addressing issues of racial justice.
Dr. Morrison will also be preaching at Edgewood United Church on Sunday, November 16 at 10:00 a.m. Her sermon is entitled The Life You Save May Be Your Own: The Sacred Work of Confronting Racism. All are welcome. The Truman A. Morrison Memorial Lecture Series is a program of Edgewood United Church that brings outstanding scholars to Mid-Michigan who are noted for their commitment to social justice.
About Rev. Morrison: Melanie S. Morrison is founder and Executive Director of Allies for Change. She is a seasoned anti-oppression educator, activist, author, and spiritual director with 20 years experience designing and facilitating transformational group process. Melanie is passionate about working with individuals and organizations to better understand the connections between systemic oppressions and to nurture collaborative action and authentic relationship across differences such as race, age, gender, abilities, and sexual orientation. She believes it is possible to grow ever more aware of the depth and complexity of injustice without surrendering our capacity for compassion, joy, and hope.
Prior to founding Allies for Change, Melanie served as Executive Director of The Leaven Center, a retreat and study center in Lyons, Michigan dedicated to nurturing the relationship between spirituality and social justice. In that capacity she worked with facilitators and presenters who offered more than 200 workshops, seminars, and trainings attended by 3,000 people working in social change movements. She has designed and led numerous programs addressing multiple oppressions and the connection between spirituality and social justice. In 1994, she co-founded Doing Our Own Work. an intensive anti-racism program for white people, and has co-facilitated this program for fourteen consecutive years.
Melanie has been a keynote speaker at national and regional conferences addressing issues of racial and sexual justice. She is the author of three books including The Grace of Coming Home: Spirituality, Sexuality, and the Struggle for Justice (Pilgrim Press,1995). She has written 45 articles for American and Dutch magazines including The Other Side, Journal of Current Social Issues, IFOR Report, Hervormd Nederland, and The Witness.
As a United Church of Christ pastor, she served three congregations; two in Michigan and one in the Netherlands. Melanie has been doing spiritual direction for 17 years and is a graduate of the Spiritual Directors Internship Program at St. Francis Retreat Center in DeWitt, Michigan. She serves as adjunct faculty at Chicago Theological Seminary.
Melanie graduated with a Masters of Divinity from Yale Divinity School (1978) and received her Ph.D. from the University of Groningen in The Netherlands (1998). She lives in Lyons, Michigan with her life partner, April Allison.
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Upcoming events
- Adventure on the Border with Borderlinks(19 days)
- Jesus Seminar(80 days)
- Michigan Youth Gathering(101 days)
- Camp Talahi Open House(110 days)
- Michigan Conference VISION Choir Tour to Germany(128 days)
- Young Adult Weekend Camp - June 5-7, 2009(150 days)
- Dean's Weekend June 12-13, 2009(157 days)
- Counselor in Training Program June 21-26, 2009(166 days)
- Mini Camp June 28 - July 1, 2009(173 days)
- Adventure Camp(180 days)