Chronological Schedule

May 2013

May 2 - 5 / Immersion Weekend Experience: An Invitation to a Deeper Spiritual Life / A Spiritual Formation Required Course / Mary Lynn Callahan and PTS Faculty

May 6 - 20 / Where to Belong If Anywhere / Susan Kendall

June 2013

June 9 -12 / Spiritual and Emotional Growth throughout Life: Insights from the Ministry of Fred Rogers / Summer Leadership Conference  / Amy Hollingsworth, Steven Tuell, and Martha Robbins

June 10 / Mr. Rogers and the Spirituality of Children / A Spirituality and Psychology Elective / Amy Hollingsworth and other presenters

June 23 - 28 / Eastern Christian Spirituality / A Spiritual Formation Elective / John P. Burgess 

September 2013

September / Start of the 2013-2015 Cohort of Commissioned Ruling Elders

September 22 - 27 / Seeing with the Eyes of Faith: Visual Art as an Entry to Prayer / A Spiritual Formation Elective / Kristine Haig

September 23 - 24 / The W. Don McClure Lectures in World Mission and Evangelism / Vinoth Ramachandra

September 28 / 30th Annual Teacher Training Workshop / A Church Educators' Certification Elective / B. DeNeice Welch

October 2013

October 3 - 4 / Finishing with Vitality: A Seminar for Pastors / David C. Rich

October 7 - 11 / Training for Interim Ministers (Basic Unit, Part I)

October 21 - 25 / Religious Education Theory and Practice / A Church Educators' Certification Elective / Joyce MacKichan Walker

November 2013

November 6 - 7 / Growing into Tomorrow....Today: A Retirement Planning Seminar / A Service of the Board of Pensions

A Look Ahead:

Anticipated offerings are listed below. These details are subject to change.

2014

January 12 - 17 / Monastic Wisdom and Practice for Non-Monks / A  Spiritual Formation Elective / Bonnie Thurston

March  (Exact Date TBD) / Israel Pilgrimage / A Spiritual Formation Pilgrimage / Deedra Rich

March 18 / Journey Inward, Journey Outward / A Workshop for Church Educators

March 20 - 23 / Celtic Christianity / A Spiritual Formation Elective / Rebecca and Ronald Cole-Turner

March 25 - 26 / The Schaff Lectures / Ellen F. Davis

March 31 - April 4 / Training for Interim Ministers (Basic Unit, Part II)

April 7 - 11 / A Church Educators' Certification Elective

May 1 / The Albright-Deering Lectures in Methodist Studies / Andrew S. Park

May 2 / The J. Hubert Henderson Conference on Church and Ministry

May 15 - 18 / Immersion Weekend Experience / A Spiritual Formation Required Course / Mary Lynn Callahan

June 8 - 11 / Summer Leadership Conference / Tony Campolo, Angela Hancock, and others

June 22 - 27 / Old Testament Spirituality / A Spiritual Formation Elective / Jerome Creach

September 21 - 26 / Bringing Spirituality into Church and Life / A Spiritual Formation Elective / N. Graham Standish

September 27 / 31st Annual Teacher Training Workshop

September 29 - 30 / The W. Don McClure Lectures in World Mission and Evangelism 

2015

January 6 - 11 / The Ignatian Spiritual Exercises and Christian Discipleship / A Spiritual Formation Elective / Martha A. Robbins

March 19 - 22 / A Spiritual Formation Elective

April 23 / The Albright-Deering Lectures in Methodist Studies

April 24 / The J. Hubert Henderson Conference on Church and Ministry

Exact Date TBD / Domestic Pilgrimage (North America) / A Spiritual Formation Pilgrimage

June 21 -26 / A Spiritual Formation Elective

September 20 - 25 / A Spiritual Formation Elective