Two one-week conferences designed for lay people focused on developing mission-oriented ministries that implement Gospel values in creative faith-based initiatives.
June 14-18:
SOCIAL JUSTICE, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT,
ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS, & SERVICE
June 21-25:
EDUCATION, HEALTHCARE & COUNSELING, AND
SPIRITUALITY/SPIRITUAL DIRECTION
This conference serves to:
- Provide participants with the vision and tools to become ministry entrepreneurs, blending imagination, talent, and experience with faith and the commitment to serve the Reign of God by serving others in practical mission-oriented ministries.
- Participants will discover basic skills: how to create not for profit corporations, recruit volunteers, write grants, develop donors. They will learn from the best practices of people who have initiated schools that serve the poor, hospice ministries, urban gardens, worker-rights organizations, and centers for spiritual care.
- Participants can find out how to become a certified healthcare chaplain or pastoral counselor, how to become a spiritual director, how to organize communities for advocacy and social justice, how to develop multi-parish, ecumenical, and interfaith collaborations.
This is the inaugural Ministry Futures Institute, beginning a national and international network of the People of God in service to the Reign of God.
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Sponsored by Loyola University of Chicago's Institute of Pastoral Studies: 312/915-7400 www.luc.edu/ips/.
The conferences take place at Loyola’s Water Tower Campus, 820 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611