2/2 to 2/5/2009 - Feed the Fire: Healing and Transforming Ministry for a Post-Modern Age

   Bruce and Kate Epperly

Thur 6:30 dinner thru Mon lunch
$445

We believe that pastors in this swiftly moving post-modern age are called to be personally, professionally “fired up” - spiritually and theologically “aglow” - with creativity and power.  We have found that when we take time to feed the fires of personal and professional vitality through life transforming spiritual practices combined with theological and liturgical innovation, our ministries can be transformed. Through these transformed and transforming ministries, we can powerfully respond to God’s call to be partners in healing our world. 

Workshop participants will discover personal and professional renewal and transformation through sharing new and imaginative visions of God’s call for our time and experiencing a variety of holistic practices of spiritual contemplation and theological affirmation, as well as personal and global healing rituals involving the integration of body, mind and spirit.

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Bruce Epperly is a process-relational theologian, reiki teacher, pastor, and author.  Professor of Practical Theology and Director of Continuing Education at Lancaster Theological Seminary and also co-pastor (with Kate) of Disciples United Community Church in Lancaster, PA, Bruce is the author of fifteen books on spirituality, theology, healing and wholeness including God's Touch: Faith, Wholeness, and the Healing Miracles of Jesus; Healing Worship: Purpose and Practice; and Holy Adventure: Forty One Days of Audacious Livig; and three books with Kate Epperly: Reiki Healing Touch and the Way of Jesus; Feed the Fire: Avoiding Clergy Burnout and Four Seasons of Ministry: Gathering A Harvest of Righteousness.

Kate Epperly is a pastor, holistic spiritual director, reiki teacher and author. In her holistic spiritual direction practice she draws on her experience as a pastoral counselor (Member, AAPC, retired) and a massage therapist (Member, AMTA). Kate serves with Bruce as co-pastor of a small, progressive, open and affirming “emerging worship” congregation in Lancaster, PA (www.ducc.us).  Kate and Bruce have shared together in ministry and marriage for 30 years.

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