Life Giving Practices, Redeemer/Leaven Project

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Practices that bring life in Redeemer/Leaven community:

1.    Using the organizing cycle to invite, welcome and deepen people’s engagement in the community.  The organizing cycle is a rhythm of relational work depicted as a cycle:

Listening

Building Relationships

Discernment

Evaluating                                                                           Planning

Reflecting

                                             Acting

                                             Negotiating

2.    Prayer/Reflection Circles invite people to share their stories in a safe space with 4-20 others.  The goal is not to fix anyone, but to listen deeply, offer reflections related to our own experience, and to pray with words and laying on of hands for those who desire it. 

3.    Offering a variety of classes and gatherings oriented toward the community but including church members, ie over the past 6 years we have co-led groups with a Buddhist colleague focusing on “Engaged Spirituality,” how each of our traditions engages the world for good.  Currently we are focused on connecting spirituality and the ecological crisis and just completed a class on Journey of the Universe by Brian Swimme and Mary Evelyn Tucker which drew 14 people, half of whom were from the community at large and half from Redeemer/Leaven.

Terry Allen Moe