Celebrating Our Embodied Vocations: Meeting Jesus in Our Encounters with Disability

May 4, 9:30am

Online

Presenter: Dr. Diana Ventura

This online retreat will be a virtual space of healing reflection, prayer, and guided meditations. Participants will be invited to explore how to meet Jesus in the everyday challenges of living with a disability. Through a series of meditations and online activities based on biblical passages and other spiritual narratives of people with disabilities, participants will be led to an encounter with Jesus, disability and vulnerability to nurture renewed compassion and love.

Learn more and register for Celebrating Our Embodied Vocations

May 22, 7pm

Online

A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy by Nathan Thrall

Join members of the Social Justice Commission for a single discussion of this powerful book on Wednesday May 22nd at 7 PM EST via Zoom.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Economist, Time, The New Republic, and the Financial Times.

Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem that unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day.

Register here

• 04/28/24 - St. Stephen's, Pittsfield
• 05/05/24 - St. Paul's, Gardner
• 05/19/24 - St. John's, Athol
• 05/26/24 - Christ Church, Rochdale
• 06/02/24 - St. Mark's, Leominster
• 06/09/24 - Good Shepherd, Oxford
• 06/16/24 - Christ the King-Epiphany, Wilbraham
• 09/08/24 - St. John's, Northampton
• 09/22/24 - Church of the Nativity, Northborough
• 09/29/24 - Christ Church Cathedral, Springfield

To attend the next meeting, email creationjusticeepisma@gmail.com to confirm and to get the Zoom link.

Learn more about the Creation Care Justice Network here

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On the third Thursday of most months’ participants will have the opportunity to hear from people at the forefront of Christian Formation. Each session includes time for questions and conversation as we learn from each other new ways of sharing our faith. Below is the information for our 3rd year of speakers."

May 16, 7pm ET

Re-invigorating Acolyte Ministries through Gamification, Storytelling, and Community Building - Kelsey Aebi

Jun. 20, 7pm ET

Using Children's Literature in Children's Ministry - Elizabeth Christie

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