What’s Happening in the UCC
Rebranded webinar series will ‘Nurture the Soul’ starting May 4
by Maic D'Agostino | published on Apr 27, 2023
A popular webinar series that accompanied the wider United Church of Christ through the COVID-19 pandemic is getting a refresh.
Starting Thursday, May 4, the new weekly series, “Nurture the Soul,” will begin programming. It will replace the regular “Thursdays for the Soul” webinars.
“The series remains grounded in embodied discipleship, education and formation around issues and practices important to the UCC, but accessible during and outside the regular gathering time,” said the Rev. Tracy Howe, Faith, Education, Innovation and Formation (Faith INFO) team leader. “The name change carries over the foundations of the webinar series but invites more flexibility and possibility around engaging this dynamic resource.”
Each Thursday from 3:30-4:30 p.m. ET, “Nurture the Soul” will feature hosts from the Faith INFO team, as well as folks from across Justice and Local Church Ministries.
Its first episode, “Sacred Reckonings,” is a conversation between Associate General Minister the Rev. Traci Blackmon and the Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, a UCC pastor who has worked for 35 years as an activist, trainer and theologian. These two UCC powerhouses will discuss “white settler-colonizer churches doing the work of reparations,” according to the event description.
Following the opening May 4 webinar, Howe will host a three-part series on local church security.
Deeper engagement
“Nurture the Soul” combines the legacies of weekly webinars that, beginning in 2020, fed UCC hearts and spirits.
“Faith INFO launched two different regular gathering times for the whole church at the start of the COVID pandemic, ‘Tuesdays for Nurture’ and ‘Thursdays for the Soul,’” said Howe. “These provided critical, regular virtual spaces for gathering, education, spiritual formation and journeying together in what was unprecedented.
“Over the last three years, the webinar space has changed as it responded to feedback and the ongoing needs of our local churches and greater de-nomination. We have learned that this space continues to provide a regular time of gathering, but has also come to be a recognized and widely used resource outside of that regular time slot, with most people accessing the content asynchronously through our YouTube channel.”
Click below to read the complete article:
https://www.ucc.org/rebranded-webinar-series-will-nurture-the-soul-starting-may-4/
[Check out the UCC’s YouTube channel using the link below.]
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNHiM8rZs0qsluznI0XV9ag?embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ucc.org%2F&feature=emb_ch_name_ex
[Check out the trailer for new Nurture the Soul webinar.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvjIsLpPKJ8
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