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4:00 pm Steering Committee Meeting
5:00 Registration Opens in Evans House
6:00 Supper
7:00 **Welcome
8:00 **Session #1 -- Keelin Anderson--Powering Our Work in the World
9:00 **Vespers -Steve
FRIDAY, April 5
8:00 Breakfast
8:30 **Worship/Announcements-Lissa
9:00 **Small Groups #1
10:30 Break
10:45 **Session #2 -- Anne Supplee--Poetry Beyond the Pews
12:00 pm Lunch
1:30 Free time: Yoga, massage, Reiki, etc. (You do need to pay for your own massages!)--Yoga in Conference room in Woodard Lodge
1:30 **Breakout session A--Holly White, What's up with the Chaplaincy Innovation Lab?
3:00 **Breakout session B--Marcia Nelson, Retirement
6:00 Supper
7:00 **Small groups #2
8:30 Vespers -Holly
SATURDAY, April 6
8:00 am Breakfast
8:30 Worship/Announcements
9:00 **Breakout Session C -Strategic Plan
10:30 **Small groups #3
12:00 pm Lunch & Career Conversations
2:00 **Session #3 -- Stephanie Crumley-Effinger--Nurturing Sustainable Lives in Ministry
4:30 **Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business
6:00 Supper
7:00 **Small Groups/Passing the Light #4
8:30 Wise and Otherwise Game (or other games, activities, etc) in Dining Room
9:00 Vespers
SUNDAY, April 7
8:00 am Breakfast
9:00 Closing You are invited to attend worship at one of the following Friends’ Meetings : Clear Creek Monthly Meeting (unprogrammed), West Richmond Friends Meeting (programmed), First Friends Meeting (programmed)
Friday's Session #2, with Anne Supplee
Part of seeking wisdom through words in the context of faith or spiritual practice is that it offers the opportunity to ask questions that live within the recesses of our minds but have not yet found space or opportunity to express themselves. Using poems, writing prompts and discussion, we'll explore queries and questions about how we ground our ministry in our Quaker faith and practice.
Stephanie aims to support Friends in considering together how to honor being embodied, relational, Spirit-connected people called to faithful and just stewardship of our gifts while living within healthy limits. Out of gathered worshipful silence she expects to offer reflections on her own practices for sustaining life in ministry and then invite the wisdom of those gathered by asking them to do the same.
Stephanie Crumley-Effinger is an active member and recorded minister of West Richmond Friends Meeting in Richmond, Indiana. She retired from paid work in June 2020 after 20 years of teaching students in ministry formation at Earlham School of Religion. Stephanie happily continues her calling to accompany people of varying ages in life and ministry, both in person and virtually. She enjoys reading novels, walking in the woods, and sitting down with a friend for a cup of tea (preferably accompanied by something delicious). She also enjoys visits with her adult children and relations near and far from her home in Richmond.