{"id":24668,"date":"2024-11-27T22:03:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T22:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/?p=24668"},"modified":"2024-11-27T22:04:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T22:04:53","slug":"icm-cafe-cohort-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2024\/icm-cafe-cohort-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"ICM Caf\u00e9 Cohort opportunity is announced by Intercultural Ministry"},"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\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Founa Augustin Badet<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ICM Caf\u00e9 Cohort offers monthly opportunities to participate in intercultural skills that we all can learn and share with our churches to be competent culturally, together. The first 15 people who are registered will contribute to building the schedule for the next six months, as we prepare to meet up face to face at the 2025 Annual Conference next July in Greensboro, N.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"209\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/11\/ICMCafeCohortInvite-600px.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24669\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Six Intercultural Skills we will attempt to work on: empathy, communication skills, openness, conflict management, solution orientation, and tolerance of differences. We will use Zoom video conferencing, or our cell phones, to be in 90-minute skill building online events with our colleagues. Join us using this link to register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ICM Caf\u00e9 Cohort registration: <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdfPVNN_zydlj-H2mIEYd0qtEXlcbJaABy12frvcSEBcGdE1w\/viewform\">https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdfPVNN_zydlj-H2mIEYd0qtEXlcbJaABy12frvcSEBcGdE1w\/viewform<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8212; Founa Augustin Badet directs the Church of the Brethren\u2019s Intercultural Ministries.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#MissionAndMinistryBoard #StrategicPlan #RacialJustice #LoveOurNeighbors #Discipleship #NewTestamentGiving<\/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\/faithx-wraps-up-summer-of-service\/\">FaithX wraps up summer of service<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/health-care-education-scholarships\/\">Health Care Education Scholarships are awarded to nine recipients<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/ddr-update-termination-of-tps\/\">Deportation Defense Response Team provides update as termination of TPS takes effect<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/ancillary-insurances-available-via-eder\/\">Ancillary insurances available to Brethren church workers in 2027<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2026\/germantown-hosts-training-program\/\">Germantown Church hosts new \u2018Building and Empowering Lay Leadership\u2019 training program<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ICM Caf\u00e9 Cohort offers monthly opportunities to participate in intercultural skills that we all can learn and share with our churches to be competent culturally, together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24672,"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":[2610,3167,1135,1304],"wf_post_folders":[],"class_list":["post-24668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-church-of-the-brethren-newsline","tag-discipleship-and-leadership-formation","tag-icm-cafe-cohort","tag-intercultural-ministries","tag-training"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24668","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=24668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24671,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24668\/revisions\/24671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24668"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=24668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}