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TUESDAYS @ SEEKERS

Beginning June 20, 8 weeks (to Aug 15)

7pm....Brownbag supper at 2025

7:30-9pm....Discussion

facilitated by Marjory Bankson and/or Jeanne Marcus

 

Seekers is clearly in an important time of intergenerational and geographical change. In such periods of great change, it’s sometimes good to get back to the basics -- and to name the parts of our lives that we’ve experienced as most essential.  So the School of Christian Living invites the entire community to join us this summer in a series of informal discussions about  the essence Seekers Church.

 

We’ll also be trying to name those understandings that we have found are most important for persons wanting to become fully integrated into Seekers, and to take their part in the shared leadership of the community.

We’ll look for guidance in all of this in some of Seekers’ written materials, in our own stories and experiences, and in whatever new visions and leadings each of us may bring to the discussions.

 

For  those of us who have been at Seekers for many years, these sessions can be times to re-visit and re-think our current practices and understandings,  recalling why these paths were chosen, and asking whether and how the continue to serve our deeper purposes.

 

For those of us who have been here for shorter times,  these sessions can help answer those pesky questions about why certain things are required or why things get done the way they do.

For all of us, there may be many things about the structures of our lives together that we’d like to talk about honestly in a group of other Seekers.

The call of Seekers Church includes “The Seekers community sees itself called into Christ’s ministry of deliverance from bondage to freedom in every personal and corporate expression.” 

You are welcome to come once
or come often as you are able.

 

June 20:  Part of being fully engaged in Seekers is knowing your way around the Biblical story; and preparation for becoming a Steward, Seekers has  traditionally required taking classes in both Hebrew Testament and New Testament.   How does the Biblical story  inform the life of Seekers?  What personal sense do Seekers make out of working with Scripture?  Who is Jesus for us? How is Christ present now?

 

June 27:  Seekers as a gift-evoking and call-evoking community.

 

July 11:  Spiritual disciplines, old and new.  Prayer/reflection time.  Money.  Food. Bodywork.  Simplicity.  Abundance.  Getting the “musculature” for living our call in the world.

July 18:  Spiritual direction/ spiritual accountability.  More/different than spiritual reports  in mission group?  What are different ways of seeing this?  How do we recognize and nurture gifts for spiritual direction?

July 25:    Mission Groups. “For us, a mission group carries the seeds of the destiny of humankind. The future depends on what happens in the group and whether it is faithful to Christ.”  Mission group vs. other kinds of groups.  How do mission groups keep growing?  What kind of sharing and leadership do we need?

 

August 6:   Relationship in Seekers Church.  Learning the unwritten rules, finding your place.  Conflict resolution.  How do we work with “messy” community? 

 

August 8:  Authority within Seekers Church: “One of the reasons Seekers can welcome diversity and encourage informality within the community without losing the core of our identity and our sense of direction is the strength of the process for formally becoming a Steward of Seekers.”   Revisiting Servant Leadership.

August 15: Membership  in Seekers.  How do we help with learning the “unwritten rules”?  Getting “into gear”?  Claiming our belonging here?

If you live in the Washington DC area and you wish to sign up for the classes, or have other questions concerning the classes, please Write us.

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