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Formation

PURPOSE:

To form disciples of Jesus, we engage the work of lifelong Christian formation because we believe God calls us to join in God’s transformative work in the world, manifesting the beloved community through a deeper spiritual connection to all of God’s creation.

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DIOCESAN GOALS & STRATEGIES:

The purpose listed above is an invitation to the creativity and ingenuity of our churches to help us accomplish our priority objective. We do, however, have diocesan-wide goals set to help guide the work. Your gifts are needed, whether to achieve the diocesan goals or to show us additional ways to fulfill our purpose.

Download the in-depth summary of goals and resources (Coming Soon)


Goal 1: To form disciples who understand the biblical and moral imperatives for seeking racial, environmental and social justice.

Strategies:

  • Expand Dismantling Racism training opportunities and next steps by offering to youth, youth leaders, vestries, committees, commissions, chartered committees and vocational discernment
  • Plan and implement Racial Justice Pilgrimage 2022 or 2023 with scholarship funds to help people with access to the trip
  • Resource congregations with special attention to Black and Hispanic congregations with curricula and programs
  • Invest in translators and dual language curriculum writers to ensure quality of formation offerings that speak to specific cultural aspects
  • Continue to support the LGBTQIA+ community through programs of education, understanding and communication for youth, parents and ministry leaders.

Goal 2: To offer lifelong and multigenerational formation to support discipleship throughout the diocese

Strategies:

  • Offer health and wholeness programs such as Stewardship of the Self-Wellness, modeling norms for self-care, and programs for resilience in children, loving your neighbor and addressing the ongoing impacts/trauma due to the pandemic and racism
  • Provide training for ministry by inviting people into diocesan leadership roles for events (resourcing and “staffing” an Acolyte Festival, Ministry Fair, etc. Leverage budget line item to enrich and develop youth ministry at the local level
  • Engage lay leaders in vocational discernment and support for ministry by offering ongoing programs, webinars and covenant groups for formation across ages and ministries
  • Acknowledge specific life stages by offering classes (Parenting Classes, End of Life) designed to ministry to and with groups like LGBTQIA+ Parenting/ Youth Mental Health First Aid (expand to adult and teen offerings)
  • Increase focus and offerings on spiritual practices and vocational discernment as a way to broaden capacity of discernment for all baptized

Goal 3: To equip disciples who understand the biblical and moral imperatives of creation care and provide resources to enable disciple advocacy

Strategies:

  • Promote programs from the Chartered Committee on Environmental Ministry and utilize programs in all formation areas and collaborate to broaden reach
  • Incorporate creation care and environmental justice into all confirmation classes.
  • Incorporation of creation care and environmental stewardship at all children’s and youth diocesan events – Genesis Youth Event Rotation

Goal 4: To prepare Christian disciples to understand and appreciate other faith traditions while strengthening our own faith journey

Strategies:

  • Include interfaith conversation in diocesan youth and adult confirmation offerings
  • Offer workshops at Bishops’ Ball focused on interfaith conversations and sharing
  • Include interfaith conversations in youth and adult confirmation classes
  • Offer interfaith pilgrimage for youth, families and adults and continue interfaith and ecumenical conversation


WATCH:

Shared at the Special Convention on March 5, 2022, this video provides an overview of what we're trying to accomplish with the priority along with stories of work already happening.



GET STARTED:

  • Take first steps to implementing formation into daily life; pray the Daily Office or read the daily scripture (offered on diocesan social media channels: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram)
  • Enroll in anti-racism training, such as Dismantling Racism or Sacred Ground


GO DEEPER:

  • Become a facilitator for Dismantling Racism or Sacred Ground


RESOURCES:

  • Book of Common Prayer
  • Daily Office | Daily Readings | Daily Devotions
  • Gospel-Based Discipleship


BE INSPIRED:

  • Picnic Blankets, Porch Drop-Offs and Costumes (Disciple, Fall 2021)
  • VIDEO: Symbols and Signs of Hope in a Season of Waiting
  • VIDEO: Breath of Life - Whose Breath, Whose Life? ( Part 1, Part 2)
  • VIDEO: I Know My Redeemer Liveth ( Part 1, Part 2)
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The Rt. Rev. Jennifer Brooke-Davidson
Assistant Bishop
Jenny Beaumont
Missioner for Adult and Life-long Formation
919-600-5299 
Lisa Aycock
Lead Youth Missioner
919-600-5308 
Leah Dail
Assistant Youth Missioner
919-600-5309 

The Rt. Rev. Jennifer Brooke-Davidson

Assistant Bishop

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.

Lisa Aycock

Lead Youth Missioner
919-600-5308 |

As of January 1, 2019, Lisa Aycock is the lead youth missioner in the Diocese of North Carolina.

She and her husbad, Ricky, have four kids, three granddaughters, two dogs and a flock of chickens. In her free time, Lisa enjoys gardening, photography, and spending time outdoors and at the beach.

Leah Dail

Assistant Youth Missioner
919-600-5309 |

Leah Dail is a native North Carolinian, born and raised in Raleigh. She majored in English and American Studies at UNC-Chapel Hill and stayed there to work at the NC Jaycee Burn Center. She is married to Rick Schertz and they have four children and two dogs. After a 15-year career at home with her kids, she was the youth minister at St. Paul’s, Cary, for the past six years. She enjoys reading, gardening, and playing games with her family.

Leah is based out of the Raleigh office.

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