Aligning You, Again, to God's Movement in your Life and Leadership Work

Autumn falls around us,  
   
   the day gives more dim than light 

          We turn to one another for comfort 

          We draw down to the earth for cover 

          We turn our selves to the light like the leaves on the maple drawing red 
               from the dark and cool nights 

And yet, we know 

     The light of song 

     The light of company 

     The light of silence 

And we proclaim,  

whether we can see it or not, 

This day is full of all the Light that ever was light – 


 

Dear One, 


As you draw in the energy and clarity needed for leadership in the coming winter and seasons of Advent and Christmas, I want to also draw your attention to offerings to restore you in the new year:
 

Alignment

Renewing Leadership is an event that can meet you in your desire to connect again with your core purpose, your vocation, and to again align with God’s movement in your life and work. This is an event for active ministry personnel. Holy Ground: Seeding the Soil of Wild Church is an opportunity for you to experience Wild Church and develop capacity to engage in land-based spiritual experiences where you live. These two retreats are being held in-person at Loon Lake Retreat Centre in Maple Ridge. They are back-to-back – maybe you’d like to come for one and stay for both!  Register now:

We have promoted the opportunity for deepened learning, allyship, and active reconciliation by offering a 50% discount for kinShift’s workshop series Elements of Truth: Before Reconciliation. The feedback on these sessions has been very, very positive. Please use our discount code on the kinShift EventBrite registration page.  

  • 50% off Discount Code: SHIFT50

What’s Next? These weekly conversations continue engaging the themes and topics related to integrating online and in-person experiences in your community of faith. Check out the next few topics and invite key leaders in your community to join in.
  

In the Works

  • For Church Boards: Developing your Capacity for Discernment and Spiritual Leadership - with highly regarded writer, spiritual director, and congregational consultant Susan Beaumont. This will be an in-depth workshop over several months. Details and registration coming soon.

  • For everyone: Second Annual Festival of Biblical Storytelling! April 22- 24, 2022. Save the Date!

Our Survey

And warm thanks to those of you who have contributed to the Now and Future Reflection survey that we have open - it's about LeaderShift's ministry and presence in your life and leadership. If you haven’t shared your thoughts with us yet, please do here. We value your input.
 

In gratitude  

Allison 

Now and Future Reflection: Our LeaderShift Survey

The sumac and the burning bush 

 are burning now,  

together with our lungs crisp from frost and freeze, 

and the Aurora of the midnight sky! doesn’t it also burn! 

and you - 

what part of you flares now before surrender 

to harvest and to winter and 

to hope 

poem and image copyright Allison Rennie

Dear Friends,

Along with the following invitations to join in learning, in retreat, in mutual exploration over the coming few months, LeaderShift is in a period of harvest and reflection. We are harvesting the learning, the stories, and the questions that arise now in the 20th month of pandemic shaped ministry and leadership.  

Please take some time to review the programs and conversations listed here and respond to our questionnaire. Your responses contribute to our capacity to stay aligned with emerging leadership needs, questions, gaps, and yearning. 

Thank you for presence in all the places you are called these Spirit-filled darkening days.   

Faithfully,

Allison

Director

Renewing Leadership - calling to you

Hello, dear one
 
How are you these days, all these days aof on again off again uncertainties? I'm thinking of you, of us all in leadership in the church. We're doing so much, is it too much or not enough?  

Are shoots of green pushing up underfoot? Is the Light finding you? 
 
I really want you to know about Renewing Leadership because - yes, it is an excellent event with excellent leaders, and because I believe in and value the process and learning it invites, so deeply.  

I participated in this program last fall when our sister organization Leader Wise offered it. I know that some of you are asking yourself questions arising out of the experience of this upside-down year - questions about your call and your essential gifts for ministry. Renewing Leadership offered me a place to re connect with some parts of that essential identity that had been getting lost, a time of professional reflection and faithful vulnerability. Leader Wise agreed to offer this event in partnership with us – and I am so pleased to offer this for you.  

So this is a very direct invitation - hopefully cutting through the stacks of digital invitations around you on every side - to consider being part of Renewing Leadership this spring.  
 
What might be the best part of my note is -- do you want to talk on the phone? I'm here! I can tell you more about the program details, and co-leaders Deborah and Okokokon, listen with you to see if it might be a fit for you in the season of Easter. Send me an email. Let’s have a conversation. 

Blessings, blessings, blessings 

Allison 

 

Renewing Leadership, for Ministry Personnel
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Renewing Leadership, for Ministry Personnel

Due to Omicron, is course is postponed. Stay tuned for future dates.

Location: Loon Lake Retreat Centre

  • Renewing Leadership is for Ministry Personnel in the Pacific Mountain and Chinook Winds Regional Councils only.

  • Monday January 17 - Wednesday January 19, 2022

  • Space is limited to 18.

  • $650. Meals & Accommodation are included. Registrations are fully refundable if cancellation becomes necessary due to either COVID-19 or travel restrictions.

  • A Travel Pool is available to participants travelling from over 100km to Maple Ridge

Note: LeaderShift supports all Province of BC/ Centre for Disease Control COVID guidelines and protocols. We recognize the geography of COVID and communicable diseases is changing and changeable. Closer to the time of this event, we will share the COVID safety protocols and requirements for this in-person time together.

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