Connections are made slowly,
sometimes they grow underground.
You cannot tell always by looking what is happening.
- Marge Piercy, The Seven of Pentacles
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Friends,
Our ground is still frozen here, but everything softens into another spring, into another Lent and the Easter it prepares.
Maybe you have crocus that are this tall, and maybe you have snow that is this deep. But we know that as we melt into this new season everything that will leave us astonished is already alive underground.
And maybe some small, good work has been growing slowly beneath the freezes of the last two years.
And maybe slowly we will breathe into the signs of a renewed community and faith strengthened by a time of below ground.
What we hope just may grow if we tend it.
LeaderShift is watching the signs of emergence and the faith leadership required as we let our shoulders down into 2022 and all the promise it holds. Next week we launch the Decision making to Discernment series with Susan Beaumont (fully registered) for a year of growth for congregational board leaders. What's Next? Conversations and Theological Banquet resources continue to be available.
Here's more of what LeaderShift offers as nourishment for you, links for connecting are below.
Blessings,
Allison
LeaderShift Director
18 February, 2022
Lent 2022
LeaderShift is preparing a place for congregational leaders of all kinds to nourish your soul in contemplative worship.
April 22-24
Festival of Telling - for people who love the Word to come together - to listen and tell, to hone their skills at sharing By Heart, from the Heart.
Ongoing
We are amplifying the work of those offering powerful training for allies in Truth, and Reconciliation. kinSHIFT helps settlers cultivate relationships with Indigenous peoples and place.
