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53 Weeks of Abundant Gratitude
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GRATITUDE
As part of our expressions of gratitude, we are focusing on one segment of the Iliff community each month. In October, we are appreciating our faculty.
Faculty
EVENTS
Come Worship at The Land
Friday, October 16
9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. - Meet at Iliff
Iliff alumna, Rev. Stephanie Price, has been appointed to The Land, a 9.7 acre space in Aurora, where a faith community will build an outdoor amphitheater, edible labyrinth, and greenhouse cathedral for the emotionally heavy and spiritually hungry. The community will place an important emphasis on food and justice.
Please, wear boots or sneakers and bring a brown bag for lunch.
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ctober 16 - Sc
hedule from Iliff to The Land
9:30 a.m. - Hope United Methodist Bus - Picking up participants at Iliff
10:15 a.m. - Arrival at The Land
10:10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. - Welcome, Exploration, Communion and Planting Vision Prayer Walk/Lunch
12:00 p.m. - Return to Iliff
12:30 p.m. - Drop off at Iliff
October 25 - 4:30 - 7 p.m. - Wash Park Grille
1096 S. Gaylord | Denver, 80209
Join us for a gathering to reconnect and have fun with your fellow alumni. We will be discussing topics for the Open Space sessions
of the upcoming Iliff Renewal conference Jan. 31-Feb. 2, where
you can discuss relevant topics of interest to you and your ministry.
Cost ($10/person) will include pizza and hors d'oeuvres.
A cash bar will be available.
SAVE THE DATES
January 31, February 1, and February 2
Iliff Renewal is a conference designed to provide space to renew the individual, theology, the academy, the nation and the world. It will feature nationally renown speakers, a ground-breaking film, a jazz reception with refreshments, and a luncheon celebrating Iliff. Don't miss speakers Heather Jarvis, J.D., student loan expert; Dr. Robin Meyers, progressive Christian pastor, best-selling author, professor and preacher; and Roxane White, former chief of staff and executive director of Denver Human Service to Mayor John Hickenlooper, continuing into his first term as governor of Colorado. Several sessions of the conference will be using the Open Space Concept - allowing you to discuss relevant topics to you and your ministry.
Cost for the 3-day conference: Early Bird (until December 15) - $95 - Late Registration (after December 15) - $135; and Current Iliff Student - $25. Many details TBD. Online registration will open soon.
ALUMNI STORIES
by Rev. Stephanie Price, MDIV '07, The Land UMC
"...the decision to attend to the health of one's habitat and
food chain is a spiritual choice."
-Barbara Kingsolver, The Essential Agrarian Reader
As a person of faith, I trust in the presence of divine possibility within each collision of institutional crisis and societal need. While the decline of organized religion in the midst of an overwhelming need for global advocacy for peace and justice can easily be seen as a double negative, I chose to experience their sum as a serendipitous pre-dug hole awaiting the arrival of hands prepared to plant new seeds. If the mission of the church is some version of creating disciples for the transformation of the world then shouldn't it be the visibility and vocalization of societal injustices that functions as the template for the shape of the church in each moment?
The Land is a seed planted at the corner of "Empty Pew Place" and "Feed My Sheep Street." The Land is not a traditional church. It's quite literally a field covered with wildflowers and prairie grasses.
Read more.
by Jerry Herships, MDIV '07
Spiritual Entrepreneur
Founder Afterhours Denver
I was working on some grant paperwork this year and ended up having to add up my time spent
"working with the poor and homeless
." When we crunched the numbers it came out to just over 1,000 hours. I think back to what I know now regarding the poor and food insecurity and the homeless compared to then. A few things stick out.
I never took the time to realize how good I've got it.
Almost within arms
' reach I have three kinds of pasta, two kinds of crackers, and at least five beverage options. I become a bit of a jerk if we run out of Diet Coke. We have food in the freezer because we aren
't IN THE MOOD for that food right now
...so we
'll freeze it till we ARE in the mood to eat it.
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Contact: Caran Ware Joseph, Donor and Alumni Relations Director
cwarejoseph@iliff.edu, 303-765-3111
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World Food Day Observance
Ministering from The Land
