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Adult Formation

Formation doesn't stop once a Christian ages out of Sunday school, vacation Bible school or youth group. A wealth of resources are available for adults looking to deepen their biblical knowledge, learn a new spiritual discipline, or find some comfort and inspiration. We've collected a handful of our favorites below.

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SACRED GROUND FACILITATORS TRAINING

REGISTER

Who:

  • People who have taken Sacred Ground and want to gain skills and support around facilitating Sacred Ground
  • Experienced Facilitators who want to gain more insight and best practices

What:

  • Three 90 minute sessions
  • Opportunity to share the framework of Sacred Ground, share discussion questions and themes for each week, integrate “tools” to help participants move to action, integrate spiritual practices to ground the work in our faith and life

When:

  • Check back later!

SACRED GROUND DIOCESAN GROUP

REGISTER

Have you wanted to offer Sacred Ground for your church but wanted to experience it first? This is your chance to experience the program. With this program, we want to equip facilitators to begin groups in the fall.

Who:

  • People who have not taken Sacred Ground and may want to facilitate
  • People who want to explore their faith and racial justice

What:

  • 10 biweekly, 90-minute sessions
  • Readings, two core books, and film and spiritual practices
    The two core books for the class are "Waking Up White” by Debby Irving and "Jesus and the Disinherited" by Howard Thurman. If you need the Diocese to order these books for you, please tell us which books you need in the registration form.

When:

  • Check back later!

EDUCATION FOR MINISTRY (EfM)

Education for Ministry is a four-year theological education program which familiarizes individuals with the foundation of the Christian faith and teaches them how to interpret and express that faith in daily life. EfM groups exits throughout the Diocese and usually meet in churches. Most new groups come together each fall, but a few groups begin in January.

For more information, please e-mail Marcia Moore, EfM Coordinator for the Diocese of North Carolina.

Find an EfM group near you.


BIBLE STUDIES WITH BISHOP SAM

Browse the collection of Bishop Sam's monthly Bible studies with special guests. (And follow us on Facebook so you can watch future installments live!)

FEAST DAY VIDEOS

Browse the collection of Bishop Sam's meditations on feast days.

VIDEO CURRICULA

The online media library of the Short Courses for Adult Christian Formation, created by the former School of Ministry, has been moved to a new platform. Nine programs, comprised of more than 35 individual videos varying in length from 5 minutes to 25 minutes, are available. All include facilitators' guides for leading discussions of each program.

GO SPEAK: RECONCILIATION EDITION

Go Speak reconciliation edition logoGo Speak is a program introduced in this diocese in 2014. The people who have participated in Go Speak have found it to be valuable, not only because they told their own stories, but because they heard others’ stories of faith. This is evangelism at its best!

Knowing the power of this process, and recognizing our church’s priority to engage in acts of racial reconciliation, a second deck of cards—Go Speak: Reconciliation Edition—was created in response to requests from across the Diocese. Using these cards will help us to speak out of our own experiences as we respond to our Christian call “to act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with our God.” (Micah 6:8)

Learn more about Go Speak and download a deck.

SoM vibrant faith logoVIBRANT FAITH

Vibrant Faith is an organization with a team of passionate, ecumenical ministry leaders on a mission to explore the changing landscape of faith formation in the hearts of people today. Vibrant Faith provides resources in several different areas: action research, training, and digital strategy.

BUILDING FAITH

Building Faith is a free website that offers practical resources for ministry with children, youth, and adults. You’ll find articles, advice, reviews, features, and resources for Christian formation with people of all ages. They are here to serve you, as you make and form disciples of Jesus Christ.

Building Faith is a resource of the Center for the Ministry of Teaching (CMT) at Virginia Theological Seminary.

FORMA

FORMA logoForma is an association and dynamic community of Christian educators, formation professionals, and their institutional partners that celebrates and upholds the diverse ministries of Christian formation across the Episcopal Church. You can join and participate in this network for idea-sharing with Episcopal Christian educators and formation personnel across all ministries of the Church, including children, youth, young adults, adults, chaplaincies, camp and conference centers, resources centers, seminaries, publishers, and more.

LIVING COMPASS

Living Compass logo

Living Compass grounded in Scripture and the tradition of the Church, is a faith-based wellness ministry that provides resources, coaching, education, training, and support to individuals, families, and congregations as they seek to live the abundant life God intends for them.

CURSILLO

Cursillo in the Diocese of NC is an Episcopal movement under the direction of our Bishop. The goal of Cursillo is "to change the world, to remake the world in Christ and to restore all things to Christ," beginning with our own environments. (Notice the deliberate parallel with the Catechism statements on the purpose of ‘the church’ on pages 1012-1013 in BCP.) The Three-Day Weekend introduces the strategy of Cursillo – a structure or a backbone for Christian life in every environment. The Fourth Day represents the ways that we continue to support each other in living that Christian life and it consists of Group Reunion (small group), Ultreya (an area wide gathering), Spiritual Direction, and Communities in Action. These things are the heart of the movement.

Typically, a person attends a weekend first and then joins a small group but many people first join a small group. The weekend itself is usually held at a local church to keep costs low. The weekend is full of both instruction, inspiration, and fun!

Learn more and find upcoming events:

  • National Cursillo USA
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Jenny Beaumont
Missioner for Adult and Life-long Formation
919-600-5299 

    Jenny Beaumont

    Missioner for Adult and Life-long Formation
    919-600-5299 |

    Jenny Beaumont is a cradle-born Episcopalian who has lived in the Diocese of North Carolina for most of her adult life.

    Jenny is a race and reconciliation leader and a national trainer for Education on Ministry through University of the South. She was the lead author of These Are Our Bodies: Talking Faith at Church and Home and co-author of These Are Our Bodies: Talking Faith at Church and Home: Foundation Book, all while running a learning center created to meet the needs of families and students with specific and expert support in learning.

    Reimagining Christian formation for a 21st-century context is a focus and passion for Jenny. She uses both traditional in-person gatherings as well as online models to expand offerings and networks across our diverse diocese. Jenny collaborates in efforts, strategies and approaches in adult learning, emphasizing our mission priorities.

    Jenny works closely with the diocesan youth missioners and other diocesan staff, the Chartered Commission for Lifelong Christian Formation, the Racial Justice and Reconciliation Committee, the Commission for the Diaconate and the Diocesan Council department for Christian formation, all of whom work together to continue to build relationships and cooperative efforts with formation leaders across the diocese and the wider Church.

    Jenny is a Deep Living Spiritual Life Coach, certified in the Enneagram and is currently working towards her a Masters in Religious Studies from UNC-Charlotte. She lives in Charlotte with her spouse, Michael, and her three grown children. Jenny loves to read just about anything and to have her hands in the dirt—weeding, planting and sowing seeds.

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