Clergy on the Arlington and Alexandria Districts should plan to participate in a Summer Learning session.
District Superintendent Sarah Calvert, along with District Staff will facilitate conversation and reflection as clergy discuss the topic “What’s Next?”
Summer learning sessions are designed to offer are an opportunity for clergy to connect, experience new learning and brainstorm ways to apply that learning to their congregation and Community.
Please select the Summer Learning Session that works best for your schedule. When you register you will be asked to let us know what book from the Summer Book List you will have read in preparation for the meeting. (We encourage you to read more than one. We expect you to have completed the book you select at registration before you attend your Summer Learning Meeting.)
Group size will be limited to allow for good conversation.
After you register for your Summer Learning Session please tell us your top 5 StrengthsFinder strengths. (Details on this can be found below.)
Summer Book List
- Sacred Overlap: Learning to Live Faithfully in the Space In Between – JR Briggs
- Contextual Intelligence: Unlocking the Ancient Secret to Mission on the Front Lines – Michael A Beck and Leonard Sweet
- Being the Church in the Post Pandemic World – Kay Kotan
- The Innovative Church – Scott Cormode
- The Post Quarantine Church – Thom Rainer
- How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You Are Going: Leading in a Liminal Season – Susan Beaumont
- We Shall Be Changed: Questions for the Post-Pandemic Church – Mark D. W. Edington
- Making Space: Strategic Leadership for a Complex World — Dr. Wanda M. Austin
(Book links are from Amazon, but we encourage you to check the library or your local bookseller.)
Register
Please register for a Summer Learning Meeting by using the buttons below. Please only select one session.
Summer Learning
Group A
Thursday, July 8
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Summer Learning
Group B
Tuesday, July 13
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Summer Learning
Group C
Monday, July 19
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Summer Learning
Group D
Tuesday, July 20
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Summer Learning
Group E
Thursday, July 22
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Summer Learning
Group F
Monday, August 16
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Summer Learning
Group G
Wednesday, August 18
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Summer Learning
Group H
Thursday, August 19
2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Summer Learning
Group I
Monday, August 23
1:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Summer Learning
Group J
Tuesday, August 24
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
StrengthsFinder
*Arlington District Clergy completed their Strengths assessment in 2019 as part of their Summer Learning Meetings. If you completed your strengths assessment for those meetings or at any other time in the past 5 years, you can skip the assessment and simply Tell Us Your Strengths.
District Superintendent Sarah Calvert would like to know the top five strengths of each clergy person in the Alexandria and Arlington Districts based upon the StrengthsFinder2.0 assessment.
Please take the assessment and then return here and enter your top 5 strengths using the Tell Us Your Strengths form.
- You can take the assessment directly online here: https://store.gallup.com/p/en-us/10108/top-5-cliftonstrengths
- Or, you can purchase the book which includes a code to take the assessment: https://www.amazon.com/Strengthsfinder-2-0-Gallup-Rath-CliftonStrengths/dp/1595629157
