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$ Resilience | Practicing Compassion in a World of Conflict (Upper Room)
September 29, 2023 All day
The Upper Room and Africa Upper Room Ministries are excited to offer a virtual event designed to equip us to live compassionately amid conflict. Change, confrontation, and division are all around us, making it easy to feel ungrounded and alone. The challenge of finding places to be heard and accepted is real.
In times like these, how are we to live fully and faithfully as followers of Jesus Christ? When our communities are in conflict, how do we find the support of sustaining relationships?
Many of us long for relationships that offer space wide enough to envision together what God’s creative and love-filled imagination might reveal for our own lives and those of our neighbors. The early followers of Jesus dreamed together of a new way even as they grieved losses, feared for their lives, and deeply disagreed with each other. Today, we are called to do the same. Practices of compassion open the space for resilient relationships—the kind of relationships that weather conflict and division with strength.
You’re invited to join The Upper Room and Africa Upper Room Ministries (AURM) for RESILIENCE | Practicing Compassion in a World of Conflict, on September 29-30, 2023. Our virtual event will include storytelling, time for personal reflection and conversation, guided spiritual practice, and worship. This gathering offers time for centering, interaction, and spiritual practices to help you cultivate relationships that endure even in the face of profound disagreement and division.
Speakers and workshop leaders include Bishop Purity Malinga, Nadiyka Gerbish, Ray Buckley, Christopher Carter, Rubén Ortiz, Jane Herring, Jerry Haas, Alma Cota de Yánez, Juliet Windvogel, and Piula Ala’ilima with worship led by Rev. Lydia Muñoz.
Early bird registration ends on August 1, 2023. All sessions will be recorded and available to registrants after the event.
$99
Early registration ends 8/1/23
