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Aurora District Training Event

Location: Naperville: Grace, 300 Gartner Road, Naperville, IL 60540

Saturday, January 25, 2020, 8:30am - 3:00pm

Aurora District Training Event

A Day of Learning, Workshops, and Conversation for Pastors and Lay Leaders

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Come for a day of learning, conversation, and reflection. Children and Youth Session available for an additional cost of $10. 

Register online

Patti Cash, Director of Communications at Hinsdale UMC, will offer website consulting sessions at different times during the day.  Sessions are limited to 11 churches and you must pre-register for your 15-minute consultation by clicking this link:  https://www.signupgenius.com/go/508094AACAC29A6F58-aurora1

SPECIAL OFFERING:  Our offering will support North Central College Campus Ministry: The Albright-Wesley Fund. This fund provides resources for programming supporting the United Methodist Church and our ministries at North Central College, including The New Beginnings Summer VBS Team, trips to national and regional events like Imagine What’s Next, interfaith work through Interfaith Youth Core, and sponsoring on-campus speakers like Shane Claiborne, Cornel West, and Bishop Sally Dyck. 

WORKSHOPS:

Workshop 1:  Working Against Racism

Workshop 2:  Using Adaptive Leadership to Revitalize Your Church

Workshop 3:  Blursed Church: Young Adults and Institutional Religion

 AGENDA:

8:30am - Registration and fellowship

9:00am - Worship

9:45am -   Heart Math

10:30am - Workshop 1

11:45pm - Lunch

12:15pm -  Workshop 2

1:30pm - Workshop 3

2:45pm - Closing 

3:00pm - Traveling mercies

Childcare (upon request) in Children and Youth Session for and additional cost of $10.  

 

 

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