{"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\/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 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}]}}