{"id":24349,"date":"2024-09-11T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T05:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=24349"},"modified":"2024-09-12T17:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T17:43:09","slug":"urban-ministry-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2024\/urban-ministry-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Upcoming urban ministry course takes place in Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Janet Ober Lambert<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The upcoming urban ministry course offered by a partnership of Bethany Theological Seminary, the Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership, and the Church of the Brethren Discipleship and Leadership Formation department, is titled \u201cA Place of Refuge: Ministry in the Urban Context.\u201d It takes place on Jan. 7-15, 2025, in Atlanta, Ga.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Academy students and ministers taking the course for continuing education credit need to register by Nov. 1. Bethany Seminary students have a few additional weeks to get their registrations in. Register and find a link to the course brochure at <a href=\"https:\/\/bethanyseminary.edu\/brethren-academy\/brethren-academy-course-listings\">https:\/\/bethanyseminary.edu\/brethren-academy\/brethren-academy-course-listings<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>A Place of Refuge: <\/strong><br><strong>Ministry in the Urban Context<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This travel seminar is open to graduate students, Brethren Academy students, and those seeking continuing education credit and personal enrichment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/09\/urbanministrycourse-600px.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24350\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The full course brochure can be downloaded from <a href=\"https:\/\/bethanyseminary.edu\/brethren-academy\/brethren-academy-course-listings\">https:\/\/bethanyseminary.edu\/brethren-academy\/brethren-academy-course-listings<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All students will encounter questions unique to urban ministry in one of the most impoverished neighborhoods of Atlanta. Designed to be an immersion experience, this course will be both hands-on and reflective as students explore a variety of styles and strategies for addressing the complex issues of ministry in large urban contexts. The focus will be on ministries of care dedicated to the goals Jesus outlined in Matthew 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instructors are Josh Brockway, director of Spiritual Formation for the Church of the Brethren; Dan Poole, assistant professor for Ministry Formation at Bethany; and Margaret Elwell, assistant professor of Peace Studies at Bethany and director of Bethany BOLD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The course brochure provides details and course registration information for Academy and continuing education students. Those seeking graduate credit may contact Bethany Theological Seminary at 800-788-8822.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8212; Janet Ober Lambert is director of the Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find more Church of the Brethren news:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/cds-volunteers-support-kerrville\/\">CDS volunteers support \u2018Faith and Fellowship\u2019 memorial event in Kerrville<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/pastors-ordained-in-south-sudan\/\">Pastors ordained for Church of the Brethren ministry in South Sudan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/speakers-for-nyc-2026\/\">The speakers for National Youth Conference 2026<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/brethren-and-the-declaration\/\">Brethren and the Declaration of Independence: Denise Kettering-Lane presents an equipping session<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/god-of-grace-and-god-of-glory\/\">\u2018God of grace and God of glory\u2019: A call to worship<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming urban ministry course offered by a partnership of Bethany Theological Seminary, the Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership, and the Church of the Brethren Discipleship and Leadership Formation department, is titled \u201cA Place of Refuge: Ministry in the Urban Context.\u201d It takes place on Jan. 7-15, 2025, in Atlanta, Ga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1703],"tags":[3105,27,28,2171,2610,900,1561,3106],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-24349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-atlanta","tag-bethany-theological-seminary","tag-brethren-academy-for-ministerial-leadership","tag-course","tag-discipleship-and-leadership-formation","tag-joshua-brockway","tag-office-of-ministry","tag-urban-ministry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24349"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24354,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24349\/revisions\/24354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24349"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=24349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}