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Join Powell House in the first of three skills workshops co-sponsored by Quaker Leadership Center. This workshop explores how a local worshipping community and an individual Friend might respond together to a call to public ministry. What is a call and what is necessary to be accountable and supported in it?
Co-facilitated by Andy Stanton-Henry and Windy Cooler. Andy is a writer and Quaker minister living in East Tennessee with his spouse Ashlyn, ten laying hens, and three dogs. Andy serves as Associate Director of the Quaker Leadership Center and co-pastors Lost Creek Friends Church with Ashlyn. He is a graduate of Barclay College and Earlham School of Religion. Andy carries a concern for rural ministry, leading him to publish his book Recovering Abundance: Twelve Practices for Small-Town Leaders.
Windy Cooler is a member of Sandy Spring Meeting in Baltimore Yearly Meeting. She describes herself as a practical theologian, public minister, good Quaker pirate, and cultural worker. Windy has been an embraced public minister since 2018, traveling widely among Friends with a concern for communities in crisis and Quaker family life. She is a current doctoral candidate at Lancaster Theological Seminary and holds a master of divinity from Earlham School of Religion. You can read her series on public ministry, written for FGC, here: https://www.fgcquaker.org/category/news/public-ministry/
Future sessions:
October 18: Accountability for Public Ministry
November 21: Eldering a Public Minister