Spring 2025 Workshop

Spiritual Tools for Bi-Vocational Congregations Workshop

Doing Church in the Age of Low Energy

WHEN: Thursday, April 3 through Sunday, April 6, 2025

WHERE: Maritime Conference Center | Baltimore, MD

WHO SHOULD ATTEND: 3-5 members of your church’s leadership (minimum 3 attendees required); Diocesan Canons and Staff

COST: Your openness and enthusiasm for working together in new ways.

Doing Church in the Age of Low Energy

Many congregations feel the paradox of wanting to faithfully worship and follow Jesus in their lives and communities while embodying the reality of tired leadership. Exhaustion seems pervasive in leaders and parishioners alike.

This workshop introduces tools and practices based on spiritual direction techniques that help leadership teams find a sustainable path forward that is also spiritually nourishing. Far from giving you more work to do, we hope to equip you with techniques that help you do the work you are already doing while drawing closer to God and each other.

Interested in learning more?
Join us for one of two Q&A sessions in January!

Who should attend a Q&A session to learn more?

  • Lay leaders or clergy from any church currently being led or plans to be led by part-time clergy, lay leaders, non-stipendiary clergy, clergy with more than one church, or locally-formed clergy;
  • Any Canons or diocesan staff curious about the workshop.
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This workshop is generously funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc.,
and is part of our Thriving Bi-Vocational Congregations program at Iona Collaborative at Seminary of the Southwest.