Journey Groups
Lent Journey Groups
To Register
1. Go to our online Calendar
2. Click the “Open Registrations” button.
3. Find desired Journey Group on the list and click to select it.
5. Click “Click here to register”
4. Click “Register as a Guest” and fill out the form with your name and email address.
Care for Creation: A Journey in Ecology, Theology, and Spiritual Practices
This journey group will increase our daily environmental awareness by examining its connection to Franciscan spirituality. We will engage in spirited conversation, touching on contemporary science and concepts of theology that find their roots in the Bible and the life of St. Francis of Assisi. More than an academic study, we will also engage the right brain and seek to open our hearts with group/individual responses of creativity, reflection, and spiritual practices. Finally, we will share practical ways in which to live more mindfully on Earth, our island home.
Leaders: Bob Davis and Carolyn Cornell
Dates: Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m., February 29 – April 4
(does not meet March 14)
Meal and Child Care Available
Ascetical Fitness: The Spirituality of Diet and Exercise
We will explore and engage the spirituality involved in the discipline of diet and exercise as an ascetical practice. Through scripture study, discussion, film and daily exercise participants, will develop tools and methods of engaging fitness through the eyes of faith development. Senior Seminarian and fitness enthusiast (not a trained professional) will help lead the discussion. Members should expect to make a commitment to an intentional diet and exercise plan as a spiritual practice for the Lenten Season.
Leader: Sean Steele
Dates: Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m, February 29 – March 28
(does not meet March 14)
Meal and Child Care Available
Flesh, Bone, Wood
Authors Julian Chilcott-Monk and Goeffrey Rowell provide daily conversations with people on the periphery of the Passion. We will walk through the daily readings and hear the imaginative thoughts of Pontius Pilate, John the Beloved, Mary the mother of the Christ, and others. This will be a journey into the spiritual discipline of imaginative contemplation.
Leader: Lori Gainer
Dates: Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m, February 29 – April 4
(does not meet March 14)
Meal and Child Care Available
Learning to Let Go: Cultivating Loving Kindness and Forgiveness
This class will offer practical meditation practices that cultivate one’s ability to offer forgiveness to self and others and to live from an inner quality of loving kindness (known in Buddhism as “Metta”). Using one’s breath as a focus and one’s heart as the center, these tools, known to all spiritual traditions, assist us, if used consistently, in letting go of judgment and separation, and in coming ever closer to living from a space of compassion and peace.
Leader: Irit Umani
Dates: Sundays, 6:30-8 p.m, February 26 - March 25
Optional readings: A Path with Heart, by Jack Kornfield
Living Buddha, Living Christ, by Thich Nhat Hanh
Meal and Child Care Available
A Place at the Table: 40 Days of Solidarity with the Poor
In a culture built on consumption, especially of food, it is easy to forget about the poor that Jesus cared so much about. Over the 40 days of Lent, this group will engage in a passionate journey of radical faith, personal action, solidarity with the poor, and extravagant grace. The emphasis of this study is on engaging with local & global realities such as poverty and hunger—“why there is suffering in the midst of our excess”— encouraging group members to examine our different appetites for things beyond food.
Leaders: Minerva Camarena Skeith, Bob Carlton
Dates: Sundays, 10:30-11:45 a.m., February 26 - March 25
Book: A Place at the Table, by Chris Seay
Meal and Child Care Available
The Christian Hope of Holy Week
We read in our Prayer Book that the Christian Hope is “to live with confidence in newness and fullness of life.” So what gets in the way of that? What do we add to our selves and what do we need to shed of our false selves to live genuinely in this Hope? Our Journey Group will study Jesus in his full humanity as revealed in the events of Holy Week (from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday) and explore more deeply our true selves as we “await the coming of Christ in glory” that is Easter.
Leader: Peter Techmanski
Dates: Tuesdays, 6:30-8 p.m, February 28 – April 3
(does not meet March 13)
“Zero Waste Lent Challenge”
(a trashy spiritual practice)
The EPA estimated that in 2010, Americans generated about 250 million tons of trash. If we are called to reveal God’s Kingdom through our virtuous character, then what kind of kingdom are we revealing for our children and children’s children when we’ve landfilled it with trash? I invite you to join me in the spiritual practice of zero waste. On this journey we will learn creative ways to live trash-free and we will keep “junk journals” - all leading up to the challenge of being waste-free for an entire week.
Leader: James Franklin
Dates: Sundays, 4-5 p.m., February 26 – April 1,
(does not meet March 11)
The Wisdom of the Enneagram
The Enneagram maps out 9 fundamental personality types of human nature and their complex interrelationships. It is a development of modern psychology that has roots in spiritual wisdom from many different ancient traditions. What can be very helpful as we go throughout life is the Enneagram’s ability to show us our personality’s potential, not just “how we are”. Join us to explore the nine types, and see if this might be a tool for our own spiritual growth.
Leader: Rebecca Hall
Dates: Thursdays, 6:30-8 p.m, February 23, March 1, March 22, March 29.
Book: Wisdom of the Enneagram, by Don Riso and Russ Hudson
Young Men’s Journey Group
Join David Boyd, rector of St. David’s, for a Journey Group for young men on Sunday mornings. The focus of these sessions will be on the journey of faith and the intersection of our life of faith and our daily lives. We define young men loosely as those being somewhere between 25 and 45+ years.
Leader: The Rev. David Boyd
Dates: Sundays, 10:25-11:05, a.m., February 26 – April 1
(does not meet March 11)
Child Care Available
“Wonderful Are Your Works”
Recognizing and Responding to God’s Movement in Our Lives
In order to get better at recognizing and responding to what God is doing in our own lives, we will explore several texts (both those found in the Bible as well as from more recently written pieces) that capture a variety of responses to God’s movement in the world.
Leader: Amy Moehnke
Dates: Sundays, 6:30-8 p.m, February 26-April 1
(does not meet March 11)
Meal and Child Care Available
JOURNEY GROUP YOUTH EDITION
Youth Journey Group: Let’s Get Dirty
In the first youth journey group ever! We will be exploring the topic of ecology and the impact we have on the environment. We will explore the connections and responsibilities we have to earth as priest of creation, starting with our own carbon footprint. All participants will have an opportunity to get dirty through games, growing, and sharing. This group will be offered at two different times.
Leader: The Rev. Billy Tweedie
Dates: Sundays, 4-5:30 p.m., February 26-April 1
(Does not meet March 11)
Wednesdays, 6:30-8 p.m., February 29-April 4th
(Does not meet March 14)
