Jeremy Meyers Sessions 1-5

Jeremy Meyers  (Augsburg College)
 
Session 1: Hearing the Call to the Public Square
Swedish theologian, Gustaf Wingren said a congregation’s call is the need of the neighbor who is knocking at its door at that moment. How do we become communities of faith deeply engaged in listening to our neighbor not only as an act of service but as as our primary method of faith formation & discipleship? Saturday’s session will lay out some hands-on ways of leading your congregation into the public square as a method of forming faith while serving your community. But before we jump in, it would be good to spend some time on Friday digging into the theological claims and the biblical narratives that compel us to form faith in the public square as well as theories from education and the social sciences that inform this movement.
 

 Sessions 2-5: Going Public 
So, how can my church engage our community in new and meaningful ways? This session will build off all the previous theological and theoretical sessions and offer a way forward with a handful of practices
and exercises to empower your congregation to express its faith in public ways with your youth. We’ve figured out the service project (sort of) but now let’s start talking innovatively and creatively about community asset mapping, public art, and public rituals.