Intensive Care Courses 2022
Sign up for an Intensive Care Course when you register for Extravaganza 2022
Interested in going deeper in an area of interest? Consider attending one of the Intensive Care Courses prior to the Extravaganza.
Courses run Thursday, February 10, from 1:00-5:30pm and Friday, February 11, 8:30am-4:00pm.
The cost is $160 per person.
If you've already registered and would like to add an ICC to your Extravaganza experience, email registrar@elcaymnet.org.
JUSTmove: Tools for Interculturality and Anti-RacismJoe Davis and David Scherer A grace-based training program that equips leaders with tools and resources to facilitate transformative action in interculturality and anti-racism. In this engaging workshop, Joe Davis and David Scherer provide embodied practices that help us get unstuck from the paralysis of fear and shame to take the next faithful move toward God’s beloved community. More > | Using Hybrid Ministry to Re-Imagine Your MinistryAlso available as Online ICCRev. Dave Daubert The church was thrust into new territory when the pandemic pressed us out of church sanctuaries and classrooms and onto the internet. Yet the digital world proved to be not only a way to wait out the pandemic, but also a new place to explore and do new ministry and in new ways. Many have found that the tools that were introduced and the skills that were learned during this time offered new opportunities for mission and ministry. More > | How to Lead a Group at the ELCA Youth GatheringRev. Jen Collins and Ray Hopkins The ELCA Youth Gathering is an awesome and transformative faith formation experience for young people. How can you prepare to lead your group well at this event? Between the excitement of the main stage experiences, exploring vocational calls and gifts to serve and spending a day in service learning, it can be overwhelming for the group leader. This training will give tips and best practices from veteran leaders as well as what to expect at the ELCA Youth Gathering. More > |
JUSTmove: Tools for Interculturality and Anti-Racism
by Joe Davis and David Scherer
A grace-based training program that equips leaders with tools and resources to facilitate transformative action in interculturality and anti-racism. In this engaging workshop, Joe Davis and David Scherer provide embodied practices that help us get unstuck from the paralysis of fear and shame to take the next faithful move toward God’s beloved community. Included in this workshop will be research-based frameworks, poetry, music, scripture, movement, conversation, storytelling, and much more. Everyone is welcome to join us, no matter where you are on the journey!
Joe Davis and David Scherer are artists and educators who have over 30 years of shared experience between them in helping individuals and organizations create a more just and equitable world. They are both national performing artists, Qualified Administrators of the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI), and are co-creators of JUSTmove: Antiracism Education through the Arts.
Using Hybrid Ministry to Re-Imagine Your Ministry
by Rev. Dave Daubert
The church was thrust into new territory when the pandemic pressed us out of church sanctuaries and classrooms and onto the internet. Yet the digital world proved to be not only a way to wait out the pandemic, but also a new place to explore and do new ministry and in new ways. Many have found that the tools that were introduced and the skills that were learned during this time offered new opportunities for mission and ministry. The return to buildings as the pandemic waned is not a return to the old normal, but a opportunity to move forward and to create and design a new normal – one with both on-site and in person ministry as well as online ministry in the digital world (you don’t have to be wealthy to do some really great stuff!).
In this workshop we will explore the interactions between on-the-ground and online ministry. How do leaders navigate the decisions that impact how to lead worship, develop groups, cultivate community and relationships that are the heart of good ministry? In these sessions we will explore the things that are best done in person, see where online work offers new and exciting possibilities, and look at the interactions needed to maintain and connect ministry in both a physical and digital space (hybrid ministry). We’ll also check out the technology options for a range of budgets so you can get what you need to do the best work you can within the financial realities in your setting.
Rev. Dave Daubert, co-author with Richard Jorgensen of Becoming a Hybrid Church, is a well-known author, coach, and consultant. His work across the U.S. and Canada on hybrid church ministry has led to workshops for several synods, the ELCA Conference of Bishops and ecumenical partners in Canada. Also a parish pastor, Dave’s teaching is also practical and connected to real life situations. He is also the author of Living Lutheran, Lutheran Trump Cards and The Invitational Christian. He serves at Zion Lutheran Church in Elgin, IL – a call he shares with his wife, Deacon Marlene Daubert.
How to LEAD A GROUP AT THE ELCA YOuth Gathering
by Rev. Jen Collins and Ray Hopkins
The ELCA Youth Gathering is an awesome and transformative faith formation experience for young people. How can you prepare to lead your group well at this event? Between the excitement of the main stage experiences, exploring vocational calls and gifts to serve and spending a day in service learning, it can be overwhelming for the group leader. This training will give tips and best practices from veteran leaders as well as what to expect at the ELCA Youth Gathering.
Included with the price of this ICC is a tour of Gathering sites. In the registration form, ICC participants should indicate their intention of participating in the Gathering Tour provided on Saturday, February 12, 1:15-3:45pm. The tour will not take place during the ICC Course learning time. Unfortunately, no partial refunds can be offered for those not available for the tour on Saturday.
Rev. Jen Collins serves as a Pastor in the Saint Paul Area Synod just outside of Minneapolis. Jen uses she/her pronouns. She has been a Minnesota resident for the past 12 years, having grown up in the southwest in Albuquerque. Jen has worked in children, youth and family for more than 14 years, served as a Gathering Synod Coordinator last cycle and currently is active leading racial equity work.
Ray Hopkins is a youth director in the Philadelphia Synod and has been working with children, youth, and families for more than 18 years. Ray uses he/his pronouns. Ray grew up in the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod all of his life, growing up in an active youth program as a teen and working to serve in a ministry he feels called to serve.