Christian Education Division of the Southwest Association works to empower Christian educators in the local church and serve as a resource for them. They provide support for youth ministry, adult education and children’s programming. They regularly sponsor an annual Rejoice and Refresh Retreat for Christian educators and a Confirmation Retreat in the fall for area confirmands.
Members of the Christian Education Division are elected for a three year term and may be elected for two terms.
Lois Rosko ( 12) is the Chairperson of the Christian Education Divison. In addition to Chairperson Lois Rosko, fellow members of the Christian Education Division are Delisa Buckingham-Tayler (11), Lisa Hart (11), Phil Haslanger (13), , Jeff Rabe (12),
CHRISTIAN EDUCATORS SPRING TRAINING
Date: March 24, 2012
Time: 9:00am – 3:30 pm Date:
Location: Middleton Commuity Church UCC
Cost: $30 per person, four or more from $25 per person if you have send a team from one church. We encourage you to send a team!
Register and Pay Online through the conference office
Workshops include:
Healthy Congregations respond to Anxiety and Change
The Self-differentiated Leader
Relationships in Healthy Congregations -
Forgiveness, truth-telling, connection and the difficult business of helping.
Spiritual Care of Healthy congregations
SOUTHWEST ASSOCIATION CONFIRMATION RETREAT
Plans for the Confirmation Retreat for the Southwest Association are in the works! Our potential theme is Let Just Roll. Lisa Hart is trained in the Justice Led (Leaders Engaging and Developing ) resources from the UCC Justice Witness Ministries. See www.ucc.org/justice/training for more details on that. It includes program ideas for Confirmation Retreats that would:
engage youth in discussion of justice issues in their life
connect youth with the role of justice in the UCC traditions
give youth a theological foundation for engaging in justice issues
Our plan is to provide a training session perhaps in early August for:
leaders who would like to help lead the confirmation retreat
church leaders-lay and clergy who would like to use these resources for the fall programming
Training and one resource per church is free although we may have to charge for meals and other expenses.
The snag is state wide teacher conventions are NOT being held, which means that none of the school districts we looked at had school off on the days we normally have the retreat.
Some have the Friday off so we could have a Friday-Saturday event or a Saturday Sunday Event or a One day event or two one-day events.
We can also explore if this is the best time of year or would a Jan or Feb event be better.
There are a couple of other fall options that Confirmation Classes can attend.
Elmhurst College has a Confirmation Day usually the first week end in Oct
Knock Knock see www.wcucc.org ministries/ Youth/Young Adults
Please give us your feedback: Lisa Hart lhart@wcucc.org Lois Rosko larosko@hotmail.com