Join me for an evening workshop and the opportunity to think more deeply about how discernment and call can be more present in your life!

No matter what part of the world in which you and I have chosen to live, God calls each of us to something. The challenge—for both you and I and the groups we serve—is recognizing the call, discerning what it is we are called to do, and understanding how that call may often evolve over time into a lifelong work. That’s why I wrote When the Spirit Calls: Engaging the Challenges of Ministry and why I’d like you to read the book and join me in a 4-session workshop.

“Most centrally, this is a book about call and discernment, . . . inviting readers into a practice of honest openness that leads to clarity, interior freedom, and courage to embrace new and unexpected forms of ministry.”

Michael Birkel

Earlham School of Religion

“A bridge-building book written with the graciousness of spirit of classic Quaker writers, Thomas Kelly and Douglas Steere. This is destined to become a new Quaker classic with its depths of insight on call and discernment.”

Carole Dale Spencer

PORTLAND SEMINARY OF GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY

The book is intended to help anyone on the bench–religious ed teachers, social workers, farm workers, activists, community volunteers, college professors or retired line workers—to recognize the inner stirring and restlessness which marks a summons from God to carefully listen, and perhaps receive an invitation to undertake something new.

Come join me for an opportunity to think more deeply about how call and discernment can be present in your life. The workshop will include:

• 4 – 2-hour Zoom sessions
• Short reading and presentations by the author
• Group discussion
• Small group conversations
• Brief in-session writing exercises