The George Mercer Jr. Memorial
School of Theology
May 16, 2015
Dear Friends,
Here at Mercer School of Theology we are looking ahead, "straining ahead" as Saint Paul would have it, with all our heart and mind.
Our website is being renewed and we hope to have that ready to go live within weeks.
We are planning programming for next year as well. Each of the workshops we sponsor - for Safe Church, Racism Awareness, for Vestries and Church Treasurers, Eucharistic Visitor training and more - will continue unabated. We also will continue to provide spiritual sustenance in tandem with our partners in the Long Island Faith Formation Team of our diocese - the youth & young adult ministry office, Camp DeWolfe, and Education for Ministry.
In addition, there are changes being made to our diocesan School for Ministry. We are beefing up our preparation for ordination both for vocational deacons and priests. More on this later.
Next year we hope to resource people from across the diocese (and beyond) with a series of half-day events (usually Saturdays) which will address some of the 'biggies' of church life:
* marriage and family issues,
* effective Christian education,
*youth and young adult ministry
*development and effective parish stewardship
* music and worship
. . . and more.
Each of these events will feature leaders prominent in knowledge and ability in the topic of the day.The goal is to energize you and to provide you new ways to think about and engage these areas of our life together.
And, since we find consistently that the viability of on-site courses of any length taking place at Mercer is consistently a problem, we will be offering hybrid and online courses in areas of theological and ecclesial interest. (A hybrid course features some meeting in-person and the remainder online).
Finally, our ongoing lecture series in spirituality (Being Human) and that in memory of Dean Robert Farrar Capon will continue. The first Capon Lecture will take place Next Thursday evening, May 21, with the Rev Canon "Tony" Lewis.
I hope this description provides some idea of who we are and what we are attempting here at Mercer School of Theology. As always, your comments and suggestions are welcome to jmcginty@dioceseli.org.
Sincerely,Dear Friends,
Here at Mercer School of Theology we are looking ahead, "straining ahead" as Saint Paul would have it, with all our heart and mind.
Our website is being renewed and we hope to have that ready to go live within weeks.
We are planning programming for next year as well. Each of the workshops we sponsor - for Safe Church, Racism Awareness, for Vestries and Church Treasurers, Eucharistic Visitor training and more - will continue unabated. We also will continue to provide spiritual sustenance in tandem with our partners in the Long Island Faith Formation Team of our diocese - the youth & young adult ministry office, Camp DeWolfe, and Education for Ministry.
In addition, there are changes being made to our diocesan School for Ministry. We are beefing up our preparation for ordination both for vocational deacons and priests. More on this later.
Next year we hope to resource people from across the diocese (and beyond) with a series of half-day events (usually Saturdays) which will address some of the 'biggies' of church life:
* marriage and family issues,
* effective Christian education,
*youth and young adult ministry
*development and effective parish stewardship
* music and worship
. . . and more.
Each of these events will feature leaders prominent in knowledge and ability in the topic of the day.The goal is to energize you and to provide you new ways to think about and engage these areas of our life together.
And, since we find consistently that the viability of on-site courses of any length taking place at Mercer is consistently a problem, we will be offering hybrid and online courses in areas of theological and ecclesial interest. (A hybrid course features some meeting in-person and the remainder online).
Finally, our ongoing lecture series in spirituality (Being Human) and that in memory of Dean Robert Farrar Capon will continue. The first Capon Lecture will take place Next Thursday evening, May 21, with the Rev Canon "Tony" Lewis.
I hope this description provides some idea of who we are and what we are attempting here at Mercer School of Theology. As always, your comments and suggestions are welcome to jmcginty@dioceseli.org.
John McGinty+
Canon for Formation
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