*SPECIAL EVENT!* Navigating Landscapes of Faith - This Coming Monday!

 

Hello LeaderSHIFT Friends,

I would love you to join me in just a few days, if you're able to!

The Very Rev. Gary Paterson will be in conversation with 2018 McGeachy scholar and author Janet Gear this coming Monday - and this remarkable event could not come at a better time, when so many of us are asking the very question: what are we called to do?

I think you've done some work with Janet in the past, or engaged with her book or research. For me, revisiting familiar topics and sitting in community do so offers something new and different and remarkable every time I say yes to the opportunity. I know that if you can make it, listening to and talking with Gary and Janet will be rich with blessings for you! I'm excited for our LeaderSHIFT network to be connected with the United Church of Canada Foundation with this event, too. 

If you're not able to attend yourself, would you please share this post today (because, Monday) to a colleague who you feel may be interested? The event is free, and the invitation is warm and wide.

Let me know if you decide to come so that I can look for you on Monday night! Register here.

Blessings,
Michelle

Navigating Landscapes of Faith: Diving Deep with Rev. Janet Gear
Hosted by The Very Rev. Dr. Gary Paterson


Monday November 6, 2023
6:30 - 8:00pm
Oakridge United Church Sanctuary
305 41 AVE W, Vancouver, BC V5Y 2S5

 

We are extremely excited to celebrate ‘Undivided Love’ at two in-person book launches with Author, Janet Gear!

Click to save the PDF Book Launch Flyer.

If you are in Vancouver on Tuesday September 13, or Victoria on Thursday September 15, you are warmly invited to Janet Gear’s book launch & author reading!

Navigating Landscapes of Living Faith

a by-line, a spiritual practice, an Invitation

Join Janet Gear to celebrate the release of her refreshing and empowering book, ‘Undivided Love Navigating Landscapes of Living Faith’.

Hear passages read by Janet, engage in discussion, and (re)discover gifts from the Theological Banquet video series - an accessible, inspiring resource that helps us to foster language, identity, and understanding within our multi-dimensional, United Church communities!

 

Your Hosts

Broad View United Church in the Cadboro Bay neighbourhood of Greater Victoria and St Andrew’s-Wesley United Church in downtown Vancouver are each hosting a book launch for ‘Undivided Love’! Join them!

Whether attending on Tuesday September 13 at St. Andrew’s-Wesley or Thursday September 15 at Broad View United, you can expect a comfortable, informal setting with wheel chair access, a reading from by Janet Gear, light refreshments and engaging conversation!

We love these words from Janet’s publisher, Friesen Press:

Undivided Love is a book about faith: how it is expressed and what it communicates. Janet Gear offers readers a sympathetic way to interpret the belief-inspired actions of those around them without assuming homogeneous understandings of God, the church, and our place in the world. Recognizing the pastoral and strategic challenges provoked by conflicting understandings of what the church is for, Gear guides leaders in the artistry of handling shadows and strengths coexisting across five streams of lived faith: evangelical, ecclesial, missional, ecumenical, and spiritual.

Ultimately, Undivided Love empowers congregations to navigate the terrain of theological diversity shared by their community of faith, to nurture its various longings and receive its unique gifts, and to ultimately address the deeper question: What are we called to do?

 

Supporting United Church Author, Janet Gear

If you’re not able to attend one of the in-person book launches and want a copy of ‘Undivided Love’, you can get your hands on Janet’s book at one of the links below:

Signed copies of Janet Gear’s Undivided Love are available now - from LeaderSHIFT!

Get your hands on Janet Gear's book 'Undivided Love' - now available! Plus we're extremely excited to be celebrating this book's launch with two in-person evenings with Janet Gear!

Come to one of our book launch parties - this September 13 in Vancouver and September 15 in Victoria. All are welcome.

“Undivided Love is a book about faith: how it is expressed and what it communicates. Janet Gear offers readers a sympathetic way to interpret the belief-inspired actions of those around them without assuming homogenous understandings of God, the church, and our place in the world. … Ultimately, Undivided Love empowers congregations to navigate the terrain of theological diversity.. nurture various longings … receive its unique gifts, and to ultimately address the deeper question: What are we called to do?”

Friesen Press 2022

Signed Copies are Available from LeaderSHIFT!

Affirm and articulate the lived faith of those in your community; Deepen an appreciation of theological difference within a community of faith; Build capacity for theological interpretation of community life - with the Theological Banquet.

Wondering about the Theological Banquet?

‘Undivided Love’ accompanies the Theological Banquet resources that Janet has developed for United Church congregations. The Theological Banquet is an engaging workshop series that LeaderSHIFT is extremely proud to have been supporting for over 10 years.

The materials offered in the Theological Banquet provides a language and a lens for us to talk about the various ways our faith is lived out in our churches, lives, and the world. Bring the Theological Banquet to your community of faith here.