live & learn

Up-to-the-minute programming and registration: AustinSeminary.edu/EBW

Explore your life’s purpose through the lens of Christian spirituality, while considering how your past and present are calling your future into form. Within a multigenerational learning community, Voyagers will move toward integration of soul and role in their life and livelihoods. This course is for anyone seeking to explore within a community God’s present call on their lives.

Schedule: Seven Sunday Zoom sessions on April 25, May 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30, and June 6, from 4:00-6:00 p.m. (CT) One virtual retreat, Friday, May 21, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

(CT) & Saturday, May 22, self-guided. Cost: $30-$85-$115—pay what you can

After a year of discovering how to create disciples in a virtual world, how do you move forward to imagine and plan for the next year? Join this four-week intensive course, and together we will imagine the possibilities for teaching and learning for all ages and walk through a detailed planning process that you can apply in your own context. The course includes asynchronous content on our digital learning platform and a weekly 90-minute gathering with course facilitators, Hannah Graham and Tania Schramm. This course is intended for certified Christian educators and lay Christian formation leaders and is limited to 20 participants.

Group Meeting Dates: June 7, 14, 21, and 28, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. (CT); Cost: $100

A more just future begins with our children. As ministers, educators, and parents we shape how kids think, feel, and behave toward others. This e-course was developed by Professor Carolyn B. Helsel and Y. Joy Harris-Smith, two mothers and educators, one white, one Black. It will equip you to talk to children of all ages about the topics of race, gender, class, religion, political affiliation, ability, nationality, and sexual orientation. It is a book of hope grounded in the vision of God’s beloved community. The e-course is a companion to their book, The ABCs of Diversity: Helping Kids (and Ourselves!) Embrace Our Differences. Cost: $25

Being a leader in ministry is a noble service and it can be rewarding, but it can also be hard. Leaders often lose energy over time and burn out. This can hurt them and the congregations they serve. We want to help leaders stay alive in their ministries, for their own sakes and for the sake of the church. This grant is for the renewal and refreshment of leaders of Latinx churches—to be used in the way each congregation’s leaders believe will serve them best. We hope leaders will prayerfully use their imaginations to discover what it is that they need. Grant period: July 1, 2021-July 1, 2022; Applications due: May 14, 2021. For more information, contact Mónica Tornoé at mtornoe@austinseminary.edu or 512-404-4832.

$10,000 grants to self-directed pastoral cohorts

AustinSeminary.edu/CPL

– And Now What? cohort