She developed and piloted The Sunday Supper project for families of teens at St. David’s, Austin. It uses face-to-face meetings and a website to guide the creation liturgical space and the practice of family devotions at home, around meals.
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Multicultural Ministry
She completed an immersion in the Moab Valley Multicultural Center in Utah and shared best practices for Hispanic ministry with the seminary community.
Evangelism Through Intentional Communities
She completed a summer internship internship at Good Earth Farm, an intentional Episcopal farming community in Ohio. She led eleven classes on evangelism for the friars; she interviewed the friars and sixteen visitors to the farm to inform a “consultant’s report,” which will be the basis for the friars’ campus outreach ministry; finally, she prepared … Read More »
Exploring Emergent Communities
He visited three emergent communities to learn their stories and their systems, offered a workshop at the Seminarian Leadership Conference and at BDS, and led reading course at BDS.
Distance Learning in Alaska
She traveled to Alaska to develop and implement training for lay leaders of three Alaskan villages; the ongoing support was provided online.
Youth Ministry in Navajoland
They spent the summer at Good Shepherd Mission in the Diocese of Navajoland, where they created a self-sustaining youth program.
MDG’s in Appalachia
She developed a curriculum using the MDG’s as the linkage to Appalachian issues of hunger, health care and illiteracy. She offered it in the parish setting in the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.
Resources for Ministry with Human Trafficking Victims
She researched national resources for survivors of human trafficking, and developed prototype materials to empower parishes for ministry with these victims.
Practicing Prayer, Imagining New Life
She held a series of meetings of Spanish and English speakers for prayer, study, and reflection on the Psalms and rural life. She revised/developed a curriculum for rural churches to follow the model she developed.
Developing a Theology of Environmental Reconciliation
He developed a profound and comprehensive theory of the orientation, language, practices and community required to bring a reconciliatory Christology to the work of ecological salvation. Subsequent grant work extended this theory into a network that became Church of the Woods, for which he won the Morgan Directors’ Award in 2014.