Classes are free and open to all. We serve a light vegetarian dinner before the class, for which we request a $5 donation. We value the conversation and sense of community we share during the meal and clean-up and find it deepens our connection to the classes that follow. Dinner starts at 6:45 and classes begin at 7:30.
We generally offer two classes per term, some online and some in the building. You need not be a member of Seekers Church to participate.
READ & DISCUSS Call to Commitment by Elizabeth O’Connor
How Did Seekers and other CoS churches Begin?
What were the founding values?
Join this 3-week zoom class
July 8, 15 and 22 (7-8:30pm)
to READ & DISCUSS Call to Commitment by Elizabeth O’Connor
Leaders: Marta Brenden (newcomer with questions) & Fern Edwards (who experienced those days)
This book put Church of the Savior on the map in 1963. As an ecumenical church, open to all in a segregated city, the book describes a level of commitment that felt to some like a monastic order. Others saw it as radical and exclusive — but Call to Commitment brought inquiries from many people and several seminaries. We invite you to explore these and other questions with us:
· What did the “call to commitment” mean to early Church of the Saviour members?
· Why was the School for Christian Living so important?
· How did mission groups emerge?
Copies of the book, new and used, will be available at Seekers beginning June 29
To register: email mzbankson@aol.com
Summer Fun Book Group—”Twelve and One-Half Keys,” 6/17, 6/24 and 7/1
Summer Fun Book Group—”Twelve and One-Half Keys,” 6/17, 6/24 and 7/1
Led by Cynthia Dahlin
You are invited to an in-person School for Christian Growth class encouraging “summer reading”—fun, light, but leaving you with a feeling of shared joy. Edward Hays writes books in short parables, and I am asking you to buy or borrow his “Twelve and One-Half Keys” and only read it in short bites, stopping to note how the parables make you feel, what you think the parables mean, and what you think the metaphors are. Believe it or not, his easy-reading books changed my view of the Gospels so much more than many years of seminary.
We are going to try a daytime format for this class, so when you sign up please tell us if you CAN attend at either of these times:
(A) 12 noon brown-bag lunch and 1:00-2:30 class
(B) 5 PM class followed by a 6:30 brown bag supper.
(Please don’t just indicate your preferred time, but whether you can or cannot attend.)