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Online learning, webinars, podcasts & resources for you and your congregation
Online learning, webinars, podcasts & resources for you and your congregation
Encountering Jesus Together: Digital Advent Retreat
Led by Deacon Marsha Roscoe & Rev. Richard Jorgensen
December 7, 2020 from 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Releasing Our Resiliency/Sparking our Imagination
Led by Rev. Dr. Gina Campbell
January 9, 2021 from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Register in advance for this webinar
In response to the anxiety of these times, Rev. Dr. Gina Campbell will bring her considerable skills back to the Stevenson School for “Releasing our Resiliency/Sparking our Imagination,” a webinar offered at no charge to all clergy, lay leaders, students, and friends of the school, courtesy of the Episcopal Diocese of Central Pennsylvania. This time of “calming the body and angering the soul” will help us all reflect on restorative leadership practices for these times of high-anxiety. Join us from 10 am to noon on Saturday, January 9. Learn more here.
Liberation Theology: Building the world we dream about growing as reconcilers, healers, and justice-bearers.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM beginning November 10.
Taught by Dr. Joshua Davis from the Diocese of Alabama.
This ten-week online course offers tools to build relationships and hear the voice of those who are suffering. This course is designed to integrate and apply theology to our current times of disorientation—while normal life is interrupted, new opportunities have also emerged for us to engage social structures and work for a society where all are recognized as made in God’s image.
Repairing the Breach in Society and Institutions
Classes begin in 2021
The Reverend Dr. Gayle Fisher-Stewart, founder of the Center for the Study of Faith in Justice at Calvary-DC, who now serves as Interim Rector at St. Luke’s Episcopal where she continues her work of reconciliation, will offer a five-week online module on eliminating Racism.
Your spiritual health and wellbeing are of the utmost importance to us. As the impact of our Covid 19 continues during this time of unprecedented change, the SSFM Dean, Associate Dean and Advisory Board are as passionate as ever to keep everyone connected.
Recorded Webinars and Podcast Resources to Support your Ministries
Living Evangelism during a time of Pandemic
How do we continue to make the most of every opportunity for evangelism in our new hybrid on-line and off-line world? Discover the interplay between discipleship and evangelism as a movement within the institutional church, the role of community and our need for belonging, and how God is leading us beyond our imaginations to create new ways to equip the church to go into our neighborhoods and join others in the Jesus Movement in this 10-week experience. Two church leaders, The Rev. Sr. Ingrid Andersen, and The Rev. Matthew Best will be our guides for deepening and strengthening practices of evangelism.
Practicing Forward with Rev. Gina Campbell
In these recorded webinars, learn more about and how to apply family and church Bowen Theory and leadership concepts in your ministries.
A special thank you to the Diocese of Central PA and The Roanridge Trust Fund for the funding and grant that permits us to offer the webinars and podcasts as leadership formation opportunities.
Learning opportunities
Practicing Forward with Rev. Gina Campbell
Podcasts with Marsha Roscoe, Breathing in Christ
Shaped by Faith Lectionary
Grow in faith and strengthen your ministry through Bishop-supported Certificate programs:
Children | Youth | Young Adult
The Stevenson School for Ministry believes that discernment is deeply important for spiritual growth. Through discernment, we explore the range of vocations (diakonia, priesthood, lay ministry) in which we as the Body of Christ can engage. Discernment helps us learn to articulate the places where God is active in our lives through a process of listening, reflecting, and responding in circles of community. And, actively engaging in discernment helps us to identify our gifts for ministry while discovering new learning opportunities to serve God and our neighbor.
The Stevenson School for Ministry is dedicated to the lifelong learning and discernment processes of all Episcopalians in the Diocese of Central Pennsylvania and beyond. We seek to make theological education available to all, because we believe it to be essential to furthering the mission and ministry of the Church.
Each 10-week vocational course and five week vocational course is designed and taught by one or more of our faculty who have a history of significant experience in teaching and academic achievement as well as involvement with the local church.
Fall, Winter and Spring terms begin and end with face to face residential retreats, however during the 2020-2021 academic year we will replace the residential retreats with Webinars. All current students and faculty are invited to gather to engage in worship, learning and community building.
These webinar retreats also feature a special theme and keynote speaker. Students during these sessions are invited to engage in a topic that is essential to their theological, spiritual and faith formation growth.
Our learning platform, Populi allows students all access to online resources, lessons and the ability to enter into discussion threads as well as post assignments. Through zoom sessions students and faculty participate in weekly course discussions with didactic teaching and peer learning. The Stevenson School for Ministry learning environment makes a theological education possible for those who need flexibility in their schedules due to careers, families, and more.
Our courses use a threefold approach to leadership development. Students in our diaconate, lay, and priesthood programs can expect to grow in the following qualities of leadership:
The Stevenson School for Ministry affirms a commitment to equality of opportunity for all individuals and does not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, color, race, creed, national origin, religion, marital status, citizenship status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression preference, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other classification protected by law in admissions, financial aid, educational programs, housing and services, or in employment practices. Beyond the policy of non-discrimination, the SSFM acts affirmatively to attain a more balanced representation of under-represented racial and ethnic minorities in order to add valuable diversity to the life of the school.
