Is your Sunday School hour for children and families thriving or dying? How involved and enthusiastic are your children and families about your regular worship services? During COVID, we took the opportunity for change to begin a new program that would reach more...
Interact with members of APCE’s Strategic Planning Task Force and Implementation Team who have created new strategies and a new structure with the goal of ensuring that APCE remains vibrant, relevant and useful into the future. Discover how this new plan will...
This workshop is designed to explore this and other important questions by demystifying A.I., exploring both its practical uses and the ethical considerations it brings to our faith communities. You’ll learn about generative A.I. programs like ChatGPT, understand...
Working and living in Beloved community requires engaging theological discussion, creativity, collaboration, and vulnerability. Church workers are often asked to lead ministries which deftly navigate the intersections of culture, politics, and faith formation. Dr....
For many congregations, the “traditional” Sunday school of our childhoods is a thing of the past. Today, churches are doing Sunday School in a myriad of different ways and the choices can be overwhelming! In this workshop, we’ll look at current Sunday school trends...
What does it look like to be a helpful, loving presence with children and families whose lives are marked by serious illness, death, and other significant losses? This workshop will explore ways to accompany families living through their highest levels of pain and...
Calvary Episcopal Church in downtown Memphis is now into its 102nd year of offering its Lenten Preaching Series to the community and world. The series has attracted internationally acclaimed preachers, poets, writers, and scholars including Marcus Borg, Barbara Brown...
Memphis was the site of one of the longest running and most consequential church kneel-in campaigns of the 1960s. From March 1964 to January 1965 racially mixed groups of young people attempted unsuccessfully to enter Second Presbyterian Church for worship. Resistance...
Together, we will name those places and spaces where our congregations experience stress, anxiety, or trauma that impedes creating community and being fully present. By using trauma informed practices to create transformative contexts, we can help our congregations...
Student ministry is not limited to discipleship and relational time spent with students. At a time of life when students assert independence from parental figures in their lives (for good developmental purposes), there is great value in cultivating supportive and...
