Thursday, January 15, 2025 | 1:00pm ET

Hope: Growing and Maintaining Hope
in Uncertain Times

It's getting harder and harder to maintain hope in our world. As many of us grow more skeptical about the possibility of change, leaders in many spaces are compelled to continue to preach hope, to hold hope, to model hope. How do we do it? Is hope even practical? Join us as we explore the intersection of faith, hope, and justice, and dive into Hope Theory to learn together how to grow and foster hope in ourselves and in those we lead.

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About Heather Powers, RSW, MSW

Heather Powers is a Registered Social Worker, Family Therapist, and Organizational Consultant. She has worked in diverse non-profit spaces since 2009 including churches, para-church organizations, grass roots community programs, and large international development organizations. She currently has the pleasure of supporting non-profits in Canada and globally as they navigate growth and transition.

Thursday, February 12, 2025 | 1:00pm ET

Repairers of the Breech: Thriving at the intersection of theology, moral concern, and transformative justice.

Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel remarked after marching for freedom with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “I felt as though my feet were praying.” What does it mean to live our values on the streets? To stand in the breaches and busted places of our society, to rise up with the suffering and to cry out for justice? What it does it mean to live into the Biblical commandment to “Love Thy Neighbour”? How do we hold our discomfort in pursuit of a world redeemed? Rabbi Michael Adam Latz was a congregational rabbi for more than 20 years and served a congregation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, a short distance from where George Floyd was murdered by police officers in May 2020 and the heart of where the recent global uprising for racial justice and reckoning was born. In a moment where a Black man had the life choked out of him by a white police officer, we examine the moral responsibilities of people of faith to rise with the suffering and use our collective power for good.

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About Michael Lanz

Michael Adam Latz is a husband, dad, rabbi, spiritual care provider, and activist for social justice and healing. He currently serves as a Spiritual Care Practitioner at Sinai Health.

Previous Webinars

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  • Social Media

    A Window Into Your Church

    Helping your church reach the people who need you most by turning social media into a life-giving reflection of your mission, offering connection, community, and hope before they ever walk through your doors.

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  • Becoming Ourselves With AI

    A Conversation about change, faith, and possibility.

    Curt Hammond, Service Champion at FourSimpleWords.ca and co-founder of the +AI Mindset. Passionate about the positive impact AI can have on our faith communities, he brings warmth, clarity, and a relentless curiosity to this space. Together, we will explore questions of leadership, service, and calling in the age of AI, especially through the lens of “Who are we becoming?”

    Designed for faith and lay leaders, this session will create space to wrestle with new possibilities and stretch old hesitations. Come as you are, whether you are already experimenting or still deeply unsure.

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  • Intergenerational Ministry

    More Radical Than We Realize
    With Author and Speaker David Csinos

    In the midst of an awareness of growing diversity and declining church attendance, many congregations are considering shifting their worship and formation practices to better include people of all ages. Intergenerational ministry is more than just putting people of different generations in the same room. It is a call to reimagine the practices by which faith communities engage in worship and become formed as disciples of Jesus. In this webinar, we will consider theories and practices that help congregations bring the generations together, focusing especially on how leaders can implement gradual changes as they experiment with all-age ministry.

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  • Trauma-Informed Practice

    Fundamental Concepts for Complex Workplaces
    TEND Academy

    Supporting people with complex needs can be challenging. Providing responsive and compassionate service is only possible when we recognize the pervasive impact that trauma can have on a person’s life and the way they engage with the world. When we reframe our perspective from “what is wrong with you” to “what happened to you,” we help to create an atmosphere of safety, trust, and collaboration. 

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  • Putting the Puzzle Pieces of Transitional Ministry Together

    We start with the premise that all ministry is transitional. As pastors, we are called to be a part of bringing about the kingdom of God. As leaders, we are called to guide congregations and ministry systems with intentionality, seeking to be ever more faithful to God’s call to us in this particular time, in this particular place for this particular purpose. 

    This webinar outlines the fundamentals of intentional transitional ministry and invites participants into exploring more deeply what how the pieces fit together in our current context. 

    Key Learnings: 

    Understand the elements and movement of intentional transitional ministry; 
    Understand the systems challenges and anxiety in the midst of change; 
    Imagine the intentionality of leading through change.

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