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Join the nationwide online community of preachers
committed to speaking prophetically
on social justice issues!
- Learn from expert resources and creative thinking on major issues
- Share your best insights and ideas with other preachers and receive theirs
- Shorten your sermon preparation time while maximizing the outcome
Your preaching matters, not only to your congregation, but to the larger
society. Be part of a nationwide network working to make your sermons
matter even more. Each week preachers gather in an online process that:
- Enhances leadership skills
- Alleviates professional isolation
- Makes sermon preparation time more efficient and satisfying
- Allows sharing of great ideas and approaches
Gather Heart helps religious leaders help each other through its community
support process, Synanim. This unique technology leverages the speed
and strength of the internet with a warm, human approach.
Participants come together within a community of peers, working and
sharing
together. Leadership skills are enhanced through anonymous peer-to-peer
dialogue and through the authority of expert guidance. As a
participant, you get up-to-the-minute analysis, information, and
theological/biblical framing from leading theologians, biblical
scholars, preachers, and policy experts. The Synanim process enables
you to synthesize all this at remarkable speed.
Synanim is like a high-voltage brainstorming session. And in just four hours or less,
you get a draft text that can be polished into a personalized sermon,
newsletter article, or op-ed.
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Gather Heart is a program of
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Gather (Heb. Kah-vatz):
Join together, harvest, summon breath, assemble, glean, collect, congregate, rally, grow, deepen understanding, invite, attract.
We gather to "discern our collective responsibility for the present time
in our quest for the unity of love, power, and justice.... God is the
great gatherer.... It is a wonderful hope and vision -- that someday we
will create gathering places for all people because we know we are
already one people in the heart of God."
--Mary Donovan Turner, Old
Testament Words
Heart (Heb. Lev):
Soul, Spirit, core, fundamental, center of values, courage, depth, mercy, empathy, compassion, love, joy, good will.
"The
lodging place of wisdom.... The heart is the essence of who we are --
how we think and feel and carry out our living in relationship to God
and to the world."
--Mary Donovan Turner, Old Testament Words
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