Event Description
Join NC Synod ministry partner, PRC—Practical Resources for Churches, for The Gifts They Bring: How Children and the Gospels Can Shape Inclusive Ministry, a free workshop on Tuesday, August 13 at 2 p.m., led by ELCA Pastor Amy Linderman Allen, Associate Professor of New Testament at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis. We will explore familiar Gospel stories together envisioning afresh the experience of childhood in Jesus’ world and what those experiences might mean for children and families in ministry today. We will reconsider the age and relationship of well-known and lesser-known Bible characters, and read each of these stories in conversation with experiences of real children in the church today, bringing into focus the varied gifts that children bring in a practice of inclusive ministry. These gifts include participation, proclamation, advocacy, listening, sharing, and partnership. Participants will grow more attuned to recognize the gifts that we each bring—children and adults—as essential members working together as one community in the body of Christ and so to share in the gift of Christ together.