You’re invited to attend the virtual Training Course in Community Organizing for Transformational Ministry offered by Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminar, January 19-23, 2020. Register here, view info PDF.

Community Organizing for Transformational Ministry is co-led by a team of four including Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Dr. Ray Pickett, Deacon Kelly Marciales, Director of the ELCA Organizing for Mission Network, and Mary Lim-Lampe, Director of Genesis, a community organizing affiliate in Oakland.

It is an innovative model that incorporates theological and biblical reflection, and attention to beauty and art as well as training in more traditional arts of community organizing (power analysis, organizing cycle, self-interest, and of course more).  

The course/training is for graduate students as well as practitioners of community organizing and leaders of faith communities.

Community Organizing for Transformative Ministry

Learn practices for building faith communities that are agents of the Spirit’s liberating work within the faith community and in the broader world. 

• Where: This is an online event

• What: This five-day formation event equips people to use arts of community organizing to revitalize and reimagine communities of faith as agents of the Spirit’s liberating work in our lives and in the world. This class is designed to engage leaders in the work of spiritual and social transformation through practices that cultivate the Beloved Community.

• When: 9am Tuesday, January 19 2021 -2pm Saturday, January 23 2021 

• Objective: This class will cover the basic tools and practices of spiritually grounded community organizing from a biblical and theological perspective. The course will deal with practical skill-building in how to engage the public mission of the church to work for peace and justice in the world.

Led by 

• Dr. Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Dr. Ray Pickett (Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary)

• Sister Kelly Marciales (Organizing for Mission Network)

• Mary Lim-Lampe (Genesis, an affiliate of the Gamaliel Network)

Cost: $300 includes tuition for the five day course. 
Register here.