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Spring 2023 Adult Christian Formation

ENCOUNTERING THE LIVING GOD: Our faith formation is often rooted in how we experience God. Our God is a generous God who wants to be known and who initiates encounters with us in a variety of ways. Our job as the church, the priesthood of all believers, is to help one another be alert to the places in which we may experience God through the neighbor, through beauty and creativity, by actively listening to one another in conversation, and through creation care.

ENCOUNTERING THE LIVING GOD: Our faith formation is often rooted in how we experience God. Our God is a generous God who wants to be known and who initiates encounters with us in a variety of ways. Our job as the church, the priesthood of all believers, is to help one another be alert to the places in which we may experience God through the neighbor, through beauty and creativity, by actively listening to one another in conversation, and through creation care.

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ADULT CHRISTIAN FORMATION<br />

All Saints' Episcopal Church<br />

SPRING <strong>2023</strong>


ENCOUNTERING THE LIVING GOD<br />

Our faith formation is often rooted in how we<br />

experience God. Our God is a generous God<br />

who wants to be known and who initiates<br />

encounters with us in a variety of ways. Our job<br />

as the church, the priesthood of all believers, is<br />

to help one another be alert to the places in<br />

which we may experience God and help one<br />

another recognize those experiences as<br />

encounters with the living God. This spring we<br />

will explore how we may encounter God<br />

through the neighbor, through beauty and<br />

creativity, by actively listening to one another<br />

in conversation, and through creation care.<br />

For more information about adult formation contact<br />

The Rev. Dr. Jennifer McBride.<br />

<strong>Adult</strong> <strong>Formation</strong><br />

at All Saints’ seeks to invite the Holy Spirit’s<br />

transformation in our lives, deepening our<br />

<strong>Christian</strong> faith for the sake of the world.<br />

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ADULT CHRISTIAN FORMATION<br />

SPRING <strong>2023</strong> CALENDAR<br />

Jesus on the Front Page<br />

Parenting with God<br />

Seeking Shalom<br />

Session One: Encountering God through Neighbor-<br />

Love<br />

A Journey from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to an All Saints'<br />

Pew<br />

The Spirituality of Black Churchwomen during the Civil Rights<br />

Movement<br />

Practicing Neighbor-Love: Refugee Ministries Reception<br />

What's God up to? What have we heard from one another?<br />

Session Two: Encountering God through Beauty &<br />

Creativity<br />

The Music of Lent<br />

African American Art as a Source of Meaning Making<br />

Intergenerational Singalong<br />

What's God up to? What have we heard from our neighbors?<br />

Session Three: Encountering God in Lent through<br />

Active Listening<br />

MAC Open House & Canned Food Drive<br />

<strong>Christian</strong>s in the Public Square: Practices for Finding<br />

Common Ground<br />

Being the <strong>Adult</strong>s Youth Want & Need<br />

Session Four: Encountering God through Creation Care<br />

Creation Care Theology<br />

Democracy in a Hotter Time<br />

Congregational Models for Ecological Justice<br />

What's God up to? How does God call us forward?<br />

Every Sunday<br />

Feb 12, Mar 12<br />

Apr 16, 23, 30, May 7<br />

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January 15<br />

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January 22<br />

January 29<br />

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February 12<br />

February 19<br />

February 26<br />

March 5<br />

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March 12<br />

March 19<br />

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March 26<br />

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April 23<br />

April 30<br />

May 7<br />

May 21<br />

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S U N D A Y S<br />

10:20 - 11:05 a.m.<br />

SESSION ONE:<br />

Encountering God through Neighbor-love<br />

January 8<br />

A JOURNEY FROM THE MONTGOMERY<br />

BUS BOYCOTT TO AN ALL SAINTS' PEW<br />

Ellis Hall<br />

When the vestry of their Montgomery,<br />

Alabama church voted in July 1959 that their<br />

parish would stay segregated, the main<br />

opponents were the rector and Moreland<br />

and Marjorie Smith. Who was this daring<br />

couple and how did they end up at All<br />

Saints’ in the 1960s? Join parishioner, Bob<br />

Miller, as he shines a legacy spotlight on this<br />

couple and brings to light a little-known<br />

story about the civil rights movement and its<br />

connection to this parish.<br />

January 15<br />

THE SPIRITUALITY OF BLACK<br />

CHURCHWOMEN DURING THE CIVIL<br />

RIGHTS MOVMENT<br />

Ellis Hall<br />

On this Martin Luther King, Jr. Sunday, join<br />

guest preacher-teacher and King scholar, Dr.<br />

AnneMarie Mingo, as she speaks with<br />

Natosaha Reid Rice about Black<br />

churchwomen's faith and courage during the<br />

civil rights movement. Drawing on oral<br />

histories she conducted at Ebenezer Baptist<br />

Church and other congregations around the<br />

South, Dr. Mingo offers powerful testimony<br />

to their moral imagination, as well as insight<br />

into how their vision might shape our own.<br />

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S U N D A Y S<br />

10:20 - 11:05 a.m.<br />

PRACTICING NEIGHBOR-LOVE:<br />

Refugee Ministries Reception<br />

Ellis Hall<br />

Help us welcome our four new families in<br />

Refugee Ministries from Senegal, Rwanda,<br />

Afghanistan and Burma/Myanmar. Get to<br />

know these families and learn how to help<br />

them acclimate to living in the United<br />

States. Establishing bonds of connection<br />

between All Saints' families and new arrivals<br />

can change the trajectory of a family's<br />

experience in the United States and offers<br />

us the gift of new friendship.<br />

WHAT'S GOD UP TO?<br />

What have we heard from one another?<br />

Ellis Hall<br />

Last fall, hundreds of parishioners took part<br />

in a series of listening exercises as we asked<br />

one another how we experience God in our<br />

daily lives and in our life as a church. Join<br />

fellow parishioners in Ellis Hall to hear what<br />

we have learned from that work.<br />

January 22<br />

January 29<br />

SESSION TWO:<br />

Encountering God through Beauty and Creativity<br />

THE MUSIC OF LENT<br />

Ellis Hall<br />

Join All Saints’ very own director of music,<br />

Kirk Rich, on a journey through some of the<br />

most beautiful service music this season has<br />

to offer. Get a preview of the compositions<br />

we will be hearing and singing on Ash<br />

Wednesday and during Lent as we reflect<br />

together on their biblical imagery and<br />

theological depth.<br />

February 12<br />

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S U N D A Y S<br />

10:20 - 11:05 a.m.<br />

February 19<br />

February 26<br />

AFRICAN AMERICAN ART AS A<br />

SOURCE OF MEANING MAKING<br />

Ellis Hall<br />

Join All Saints’ parishioner and art collector,<br />

Chuck Abney, as he guides us through the<br />

work of self-taught African American artists.<br />

As we learn how the practice of coded art<br />

forms has been a vehicle for Black freedom<br />

movements in the U.S., we will also reflect<br />

on the way that bringing art into our homes<br />

and sharing it with others can be a vehicle<br />

for meaning making, illuminating<br />

experiences near and far from us.<br />

INTERGENERATIONAL SINGALONG<br />

Ellis Hall<br />

Join critically acclaimed singer-songwriter<br />

and All Saints’ parishioner, Caroline Herring,<br />

as she leads us all — children, youth, and<br />

adults — in original music from her most<br />

recent album, Verse by Verse. Drawing<br />

directly from the texts of the Psalms and<br />

Gospels and placing them within haunting<br />

melodies designed to be sung in<br />

community, Caroline calls this project “an<br />

art offering to these times.”<br />

March 5<br />

WHAT'S GOD UP TO?<br />

What have we heard from our neighbors?<br />

Ellis Hall<br />

Following on from the listening work we did<br />

among one another, in the early part of this<br />

year we interviewed a number of our<br />

Midtown neighbors to learn how God is<br />

present in their lives. Hear what we have<br />

learned from our neighbors about the needs<br />

and desires the church might respond to in<br />

our place in the city.<br />

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S U N D A Y S<br />

10:20 - 11:05 a.m.<br />

SESSION THREE:<br />

Encountering God in Lent through Active Listening<br />

MAC OPEN HOUSE AND CANNED<br />

FOOD DRIVE<br />

Ellis Hall<br />

The Midtown Assistance Center has<br />

moved to the block! MAC’s mission is to<br />

prevent homelessness and hunger during<br />

periods of crisis by providing emergency<br />

assistance to low-income working<br />

Atlantans. This Sunday, parishioners are<br />

invited to view their new space at 613<br />

<strong>Spring</strong> Street in between services and<br />

learn more about their work. Throughout<br />

Lent, we are also invited to contribute to<br />

the MAC food pantry by placing canned<br />

goods in the large bins outside Ellis Hall.<br />

March 12<br />

CHRISTIANS IN THE PUBLIC SQUARE:<br />

Practices for Finding Common Ground<br />

Ellis Hall<br />

Might the civic contribution of ordinary<br />

Episcopalians lie less in the ideas we hold<br />

and more in the way we go about<br />

promoting our positions? Might we be<br />

called to play a role in transforming our<br />

political culture? Join Emory ethicist Ellen<br />

Ott Marshall as she offers concrete<br />

practices for finding common ground with<br />

those with whom we disagree.<br />

March 19<br />

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S U N D A Y S<br />

10:20 - 11:05 a.m.<br />

March 26<br />

BEING THE ADULTS YOUTH WANT<br />

AND NEED<br />

Ellis Hall<br />

Join Elizabeth Corrie, Emory Professor in<br />

the Practice of Youth Education and<br />

Peacebuilding, as she reflects on what it<br />

takes to be the adults youth want and need.<br />

With a panel of All Saints’ youth, Dr. Corrie<br />

will discuss data collected from young<br />

people across the city who talk about the<br />

unique ways churches might contribute to<br />

their lives.<br />

SESSION FOUR:<br />

Encountering God through Creation Care<br />

CREATION CARE THEOLOGY<br />

Ellis Hall<br />

On this Earth Day Sunday, join Codi Norred,<br />

Executive Director of Georgia Interfaith<br />

Power and Light, as he reflects with All<br />

Saints’ priests and a youth representative<br />

on the theology behind creation care and<br />

ecological justice.<br />

April 23<br />

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S U N D A Y S<br />

10:20 - 11:05 a.m.<br />

DEMOCRACY IN A HOTTER TIME<br />

Ellis Hall<br />

Join us for a conversation with David Orr,<br />

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of<br />

Environmental Studies and Politics at<br />

Oberlin College and former Agnes Scott<br />

professor. Dr. Orr will discuss the<br />

provocative claim that we can’t solve<br />

climate change without addressing threats<br />

to democracy, and we can’t solve<br />

democracy without addressing climate<br />

change. We will reflect together on how this<br />

groundbreaking framework may shape a<br />

<strong>Christian</strong> commitment to the common<br />

good.<br />

CONGREGATIONAL MODELS FOR<br />

ECOLOGICAL JUSTICE<br />

Ellis Hall<br />

Join Atlanta author, Jennifer Ayres, as she<br />

discusses insights from her most recent<br />

book Inhabitance: Ecological Religious<br />

Education. Drawing from her research on<br />

churches across the country, Dr. Ayres will<br />

share a variety of compelling models of<br />

congregational commitment to ecological<br />

justice. The conversation is sure to spark<br />

imagination about the kind of work that is<br />

possible for our faith community.<br />

WHAT'S GOD UP TO?<br />

How does God call us forward?<br />

Ellis Hall<br />

As we conclude this year of listening to the<br />

movement of God in our lives and in the<br />

lives of our neighbors, join Simon and the<br />

team that has been leading this listening<br />

work to hear how we discern God is calling<br />

us forward into the future of our ministries<br />

and life at All Saints'.<br />

April 30<br />

May 7<br />

May 21<br />

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S U N D A Y S<br />

10:20 - 11:05 a.m.<br />

Classes Happening Concurrently<br />

JESUS ON THE FRONT PAGE<br />

Every Sunday P 305/306<br />

Every Week<br />

Join this weekly discussion of the news of<br />

the day as we reflect on how we are called<br />

as <strong>Christian</strong>s to respond in the public<br />

arena, in our private lives, and in our<br />

prayers. For more information, contact<br />

Ethel Ware Carter.<br />

PARENTING WITH GOD<br />

Feb 12 & Mar 8<br />

February 12 & March 12 P 307<br />

Gather with Kathy Roberts, Director of<br />

Children’s Ministries, and parents of<br />

children at any stage or age to share<br />

wisdom, questions, and concerns about<br />

the incredible journey of parenthood.<br />

Learn how to weave faith into each<br />

developmental stage and into your family’s<br />

everyday life together.<br />

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S U N D A Y S<br />

10:20 - 11:05 a.m.<br />

SEEKING SHALOM<br />

April 16, 23, 30, May 7<br />

Ross Room/Zoom<br />

The Hebrew word, shalom, encapsulates God's<br />

dream for the world. Shalom describes a<br />

vision of creation redeemed and restored not<br />

just through individual faith but through the<br />

cultivation of flourishing communities, just<br />

societies, and the healing of our social fabric.<br />

Join Emory professor, Dr. Ryan Bonfiglio, for<br />

this four-part course that examines the Biblical<br />

concept of shalom and how it can transform<br />

the way we think about discipleship and the<br />

mission of the church today.<br />

April 16, 23, 30, May 7<br />

Learn how to register on the <strong>Adult</strong> <strong>Formation</strong> page<br />

of the All Saints' website.<br />

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