The Diocese of Kansas welcomed the Rev. Dr. Sam Wells for the 2024 Tocher Lecture on May 15-16 at St. Michael and All Angels, Mission. The event included with the St. Martin’s Voices choral ensemble from Vicar Sam’s parish, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London under the leadership of Dr. Andrew Earis.
Funded through the generosity of the Diocese of Kansas’ Tocher Fund for Clergy Education and the St. Michael and All Angels Foundation, this is a formation event was for the clergy, musicians, and other lay leaders of parishes and institutions in the six Bishop Kemper School for Ministry partner dioceses: Kansas, Western Kansas, Nebraska, West Missouri, Missouri and Iowa.
Focusing on themes of evangelism, community and parish development and the Church’s role in God’s future, Sam Wells and his musicians gathered 130 participants for seminars and worship. This was an exciting formation endeavor for the BKSM dioceses outside the classes and programs offered directly by the School.
Event Documents
Sam Wells’ Talks
Other Documents
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The Being With Course is an invitation to invest in becoming the type of person who knows how to be with yourself, others, the world around us and through this to be with God. It is an invitation to discover faith in the context of discovering friendship.
The course tries to do what it says on the package. The heart of this course is that Being With is what God is all about so we’ve designed a course that should feel like that.
The course is run over 10 sessions, either online or in person covering topics like essence, story, community, suffering and hope. Each session holds space to hear the large and small stories that have made up your life and for you to listen to those of others, it then puts our stories in the context of a talk based in thinking from other cultures and times.
There is no judgementalism, no wrong answers and no proscribed path for you. Truth is only found as we learn how to be with.
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