When the keynote makes a personalized video just for us: YEAH!

Dear All,

We think you've heard the buzz around LeaderShift and Chinook Winds Regional Council's Ministry Support Working Group getting together to (finally!) bring Matt Miofsky to our neck of the internet --- but incase you haven't, or you haven't got around to registering yet, here's the news: Originally to take place in-person, in Calgary and Vancouver March 2020 when COVID changed everything, 'Let Go: Leaning into the Future without Fear - with Matt Miofsky' is happening next month!

You are so warmly invited - by the partnership team, and Matt himself. Register NOW, Register here!

Faithfully,
The LeaderShift Team, with Chinook Winds Regional Council Staff

A taste of faith and relationship, bringing you close to Spirit, as Spirit comes close to you

Today marks the beginning of Terra Madre, an international initiative of the Slow Food movement, a season of celebration of the earth, the foods, the practices, and the soil of our places on the planet.  

As we come to the end of the season of Creation liturgically, I encourage you to continue to give thanks for Terra Madre and all that comes from and returns to her.  

In the coming season may our offering from LeaderShift be a taste of faith and relationship that brings you close to Spirit as Spirit comes close to you.   

 Happy and blessed Thanksgiving

Psalm for Terra Madre 

Taste and see that God is good. 
Ps 34:8 

My small knife slips  
between  
the green yellow skin  
and the firm white flesh  
of the winter pear, the Anjou - 

Everything comes back to You - 
all lettuce spinach kale potato  
all apple pear plum and cherry 
every almond walnut onion 
each tomato. basil leaf and  
garlic clove. 
everything of You. 

Cool sweet juice drips to the counter - O, 
Does your mouth swim in anticipation?. 

cilantro. peach. 
avocado, mango, wild  
spring  
Salmon, and the virgin 
olive oil 
and Salt. and  
Water. Everything begins in You. 

Would we hurt You less 

if we tasted more? 

 What if you, too, 

still  

would slowly taste? And see. 

Allison Rennie Oct 8, 2020 

Price drop!, intel links, and a prayer to start this very day of yours. Amen.

Dear Ones, 
take a moment for prayer?
 

Our Mother, who is in heaven and within us,
we call upon your names.

Your wisdom come, your will be done, in all the spaces in which you dwell.

Give us each day sustenance and perseverance.

Remind us of our limits as we give grace to the limits of others.
Separate us from the temptation of the empire, but deliver us into your community.

For you are the dwelling place within us,
the empowerment around us,
and the celebration among us,
now and forever.

Amen.

Grace Cathedral, Womanist Lord's Prayer
Beyoncé Mass

This newsletter links you places that you'll want to visit (all here on our website):

Price drop (and refund to those already registered) in the soon-starting Nourishing the Soul of the Preacher small group sessions, with Janice MacLean of the Prayer Bench. 

Respond to the call to Break the Silence, and sign up for one of two workshops with anti-racism educator Angela Ma Brown (especially if you're within the cis/ hetero/ male expression of being human; these workshops have been more attended by women and those who identify as LGBTQ+. If you're male-identifying who appreciated a past Break the Silence workshop, we invite you to intentionally encourage colleagues and friends to attend too.).

Space remains in (the free) Reboot Your Worship with Dr Marcia McFee. 

And starting Monday September 21st, online registration will be open for the coming LeaderShift  opportunities for growth, learning, transformation and community: The Fall Slate (you can re-visit the Fall Slate announcement in our last newlsetter here). Specifically, be ready to register for:

• "21 Things You Didn't Know About the Indian Act" book study and author engagement with Bob Joseph, 

• the returning series "Faith Leaders for Such a Time as This" and

• a new series "Developing Online Small Group Leadership Skills" with Rev Rhian Walker

Our team knows that inboxes are packed with emails, especially in these C-19 days of working, schooling, worshiping and socializing in the digital realm. We've made the intentional choice to keep our emails to you brief, and as a tool - linking you to the places where more information sits ready for you. If it's not quite enough intel for you, just ask for the details you're missing. We're here to connect, and happy to hear from you.

Faithfully,
The LeaderShift Team

Tressa Brotsky - communications
Rob Crosby-Shearer - LeaderShift Church Plant Project
Allison Rennie - director
Rhian Walker - program staff
Brenda Wolff - administrative assistance

Kootenay Faith Fest is just around the corner, and because we're not wrangling numbers for accommodations and meal counts, registration remains open for a few more days! If you're from a United Church that's the only one in your town, this event is for you -- Keynote Speaker Dave Csinos is talking directly to you and your community of faith about what it means to be a place where faith is formed, in your town? where intergenerational relationships reach beyond church walls? where community programs and initiatives are linked to church leadership and members? Also, Virtual Games Night with your UCC friends across the Regional Council? Can't beat that! Register now.