Adult Formation

Resources for the Spiritual Journey

For more information about adult formation opportunities, contact The Rev. Anne Williamson.

EXPLORING LOSS

An informal peer-to-peer group that discusses the death of a person in one's life and the ensuing loss experience. Contact: Anne McSally

READING BETWEEN THE LINES

Using a resource entitled Reading Between the Lines, we'll use one text from the Sunday lectionary and examine the story as found in the Bible. Next, we see how the story is happening in the world around us, and then look at how the story is an event in our own lives. Contact: Diane Harvey

OUTSIDE THE BOX

“God’s love refuses to be kept in a box." This is Bishop Rob Hirschfield's and Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s vision of our “being the Beloved Community." Outside the Box is a ministry with the vision of spreading God’s love 'outside the box' of our own ideas, our buildings, and out into our community by offering a platform for new voices, perspectives, stories, and ideas. In this way we hope to expand the knowledge of issues outside the normal church experience and to break out of any echo chambers we create within our own communities. To accomplish this the group has invited speakers with all kinds of topics and points of view, such as: Chikumbuza – Zambia, Circles of Support - NYC, CrossRoads House - Portsmouth, Gather - Portsmouth, Hope on Haven Hill - Rochester/Somersworth, Immigration and Asylum support - Portsmouth/Dover, Ondjiva Project - Angola/Diocese of New Hampshire, Reparations - Diocese of New Hampshire, PFAS - Silent Spring Institute - Newton, MA, and I Got Bridged – Portsmouth, NH.