The Academy for Missional Preaching
A unique and free opportunity for homiletic continuing education
Summer 2009 and 2010
For ordained PC(USA) Pastors in the Alaska-Northwest, Pacific, Southern California and Hawaii, Southwest, and Rocky Mountains Synods.
In a retreat setting near the Pacific ocean in southern California, on Puget Sound in Seattle, or adjacent to the Rocky Mountains near Denver, you can be one of 25 chosen to study with homileticians and missional experts in a two-year, all-expenses-paid academy that will:
- give you a better understanding of what it means to be missional
- explore what it means to be missional in your context
- help you proclaim God’s good news through the Bible in such a way that you invite people to come join us along the Way of Christ rather than just urging people to join Club Church
- open your preaching up to the Spirit’s transformation of your church
- help your church become more missional in its orientation
- offer preaching feedback designed to improve your preaching
- provide time and space for your renewal in worship, personal contemplation and Christian fellowship
- and help you preach in a way that is attractive to the unchurched and churched alike without compromising the gospel
This is a two-year commitment for five days each year. We will meet in the summer of 2009, submit sermons to one another for comment over the Web in the intervening year and then reconvene in the summer of 2010.
Rarely do preachers get helpful preaching feedback once they leave seminary, and few homiletic continuing education events offer hands-on preaching coaching. This is part of what makes this academy unique.
Admission will be by application to the Office of Theology and Worship with recommendations from your presbytery and/or synod executives.
All expenses paid
All expenses will be paid thanks to the generous foresight of our ancestors in the faith who left funds for the promulgation of the gospel in the five western synods.
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