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Kindling Faith: United and Ignited - A Forum for LGBTQIA+ Ministry Leaders, Affirming Worshippers, and Community Partners

April 15, 2023

United & Ignited - A Forum for LGBTQIA+ Ministry Leaders, Affirming Worshippers, and Community Partners
Gettysburg campus
8:30AM - 4:30PM

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Region 8 invites you to join us for a day of LGBTQIA+ Equipping for Affirming and Inclusion work within congregation and community with participation by representatives from regional community partner organizations. This day of interactive learning, discussion, and resource is also highly suitable and welcoming to lay leaders and congregational teams. Newly revised for 2023, this training includes updated best practice vocabulary for healthy discussions, history of both LGBTQIA+ progress and historical trauma within the church, where to find the most up-to-date resources and how congregations have used them in successful growth and vitality movement, help to have challenging conversations even through resistance, and practical next steps for active allyship including discernment on becoming a Reconciling in Christ congregation or living into your RiC designation.

Sponsored by Kindling Faith and the Lower Susquehanna Synod, ELCA

Event contact

Martin Otto-Zimmann
mzimmann@uls.edu