JOURNEY IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THE AWARD OF THE SPE (sustaining pastoral excellence) GRANT FROM THE LILLY ENDOWMENT!
The original Journey Group Initiative which concluded in November of 2007 has been awarded a sustainability grant. Details of the new grant intitiative, program design and application process will be available online soon.
Journey_Group_InitiativeJourney, Western Theological Seminary's Center for the Church's Learning, has initiated a pilot set of six Journey Groups. A Journey Group consists of from five to seven pastors (or similar pastoral agents) who commit themselves to a three-year, shared learning path in some particular field of ministerial identity and practice. The program is founded on three fundamental convictions:
- Learning happens with peers.
- Learning unfolds on a path.
- Congregations and pastors learn together.
Journey has applied for another Sustaining Pastoral Excellence Grant to form other Journey Groups. More information will be coming when we learn the results of our application process.
