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This workshop will be offered twice to offer the most scheduling flexibility for attendees. Attendees do not need to attend both sessions.
Workshop(s) are listed in Eastern Standard Time (EST).
Calling is not just about what you do. It’s about who you are.
What if being a person of faith and someone who works or enjoys the creative arts is more about WHO YOU ARE and HOW you create than WHAT you make?
Often people of faith who also enjoy the arts are in a no-win situation. They’re serious about their work, committed in their faith – but feeling disjointed and disconnected. In this series, we’ll consider how to integrate the many pieces of you through the three-fold way of calling.
And find clarity, confidence, and freedom to truly become who we were created to be, make what we were created to make and do what we were created to do.
Rev. Lisa Cole Smith is the founding pastor of Convergence: A Creative Community of Faith in Alexandria, VA. She received her BFA in Drama from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA and worked as a professional actor for many years before attending seminary and seeking a way to merge her calling as an artist and a person of faith. Lisa received her MTS degree from the John Leland Seminary in Arlington, VA. She’s taught classes at the John Leland Seminary, Wesley Theological Seminary, and Virginia Theological Seminary on the subjects of worship, theology and arts. She is also the host of the Be. Make. Do. soul|makers podcast, equiping artists to serve as prophetic critics and imaginative visionaries in the world.
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Visit the soul|makers website.
This workshop will be offered twice to offer the most scheduling flexibility for attendees. Attendees do not need to attend both sessions.
Workshop(s) are listed in Eastern Standard Time (EST).
The Center for Congregations is funded by Lilly Endowment, Inc. and is a supporting organization of the Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.