Meeting for Learning (Second Hour) Programs in May and mid-June
Ministry and Counsel Committee will resume leading Meeting’s effort, begun in early 2020 and put on hold due to Covid, to explore and discern how we can better serve and care for members of our community through pastoral care. Your input and consideration are needed. Please plan to participate in the upcoming in-person or Zoom Meeting-for-Learning series on pastoral care. If you have questions, please contact Carol Moschandreas and Joan Schneider, who are overseeing the series.
On four Sundays in May, we will be discussing pastoral care at EFM and hearing persons from three other congregations share how pastoral care is envisioned and practiced in their communities. On June 12, we hope to come to a sense of the Meeting about how better to understand and shape ways we can more lovingly and effectively minister to one another.
We, you and I, are the clergy of EFM. We hope that by engaging individually and collectively in this process, through the program series and onward, we will enhance our understanding of this ministry and better serve one another.
The series is outlined below.
DISCERNING HOW BETTER TO SERVE ONE ANOTHER AT EFM THROUGH PASTORAL CARE
May 1: Our recent experiences, observations, and assessments of pastoral care at EFM. Connecting our prior understandings and sentiments held during the 2020 discussions with the path going forward in these programs.
May 8: Janice Domanik of Lake Forest Meeting
May 22: Phyllis Nickel of Lake Street Church
May 29: Julia Joehl of St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church
June 12: Where would we like to go from here?