Pacific Mountain Region

Learning Circles: Worship
2020-04-29 10:00 - 11:15 (America/Vancouver)
Gather for this time of inquiry hosted by Rev. Karen Verveda, focused on the practice of worship. With a small cohort of ministry personnel leading worship during physical distancing, you will have an opportunity to reflect on what you are collectively noticing, learning, bumping into, and celebrating.
This is a time to wonder together about the experience of worship, and not directly about technical tools and online platforms.

Learning Circles: Pastoral Care
2020-04-29 10:00 - 11:15
Gather for this time of inquiry hosted by Rev. Wade Lifton focused on the practice of pastoral care. With a small cohort of ministry personnel attending to pastoral care needs at a time when this care is being extended at the end of a phone or a screen – or via those allowed into health care settings.

* Postponed (COVID-19) * Leadershift: Mental Health First Aid - Vancouver
2020-04-29 08:00 - 2020-04-30 17:00 | Epiphany Chapel – VST, 6030 Chancellor Blvd, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1E7, Canada
This event has been postponed as we all work together, faithfully and generously, to flatten the curve of COVID-19 in our Regional Council, and across Canada. Please check with the event organizer for specifics. For ways of being together, while being physically apart, you’re warmly invited to online worship with many communities of faith across the region. See the listings here.: https://pacificmountain.ca/creative-ways-to-worship-at-a-distance/ Blessings, PMRC Staff
Full details about this important 2-day training course, course facilitators, course start and end times, and accreditation are on the LeaderShift website: Mental Health First Aid Training

Learning Circles: Worship
2020-04-24 10:00 - 11:15
Gather for this time of inquiry hosted by Rev. Beth Hayward, focused on the practice of worship. With a small cohort of ministry personnel leading worship during physical distancing, you will have an opportunity to reflect on what you are collectively noticing, learning, bumping into, and celebrating.
This is a time to wonder together about the experience of worship, and not directly about technical tools and online platforms.

Q & A: Zoom for meetings
2020-04-24 10:00 - 11:00, 2020-04-17 10:00 - 11:00
You’ve taken a workshop or two, you’ve hosted a few online meetings of the board or study group and now you’ve got some questions! Join Allison for a Q & A based on those experiences.

Want to host small group gatherings online?
2020-04-24 10:00 - 11:00, 2020-04-17 10:00 - 11:00
Want to host small group gatherings online? – this is the workshop for you to develop your capacity in calling, leading and hosting gatherings of small groups. Study groups, board or governance meetings, coffee times!

Want to participate in a Zoom gathering?
2020-04-23 19:00 - 20:00, 2020-04-22 10:00 - 11:00, 2020-04-16 19:00 - 20:00
Have you received an invitation to a ‘Zoom’ gathering and not feeling confident about how to participate? Coffee time? Board membership? Here’s the chance to develop your capacity to participate in online video gatherings. This workshop is for you want to join in and you aren’t responsible for calling or leading the meeting online.

Want to lead live worship from your living room?
2020-04-23 13:30 - 15:00, 2020-04-20 10:00 - 11:30, 2020-04-16 13:30 - 15:00
Want to worship live online – from home? – If you alone are responsible for leading live worship from your living room – no extra staff, no specialized video equipment beyond your laptop – this is the workshop for you to develop your capacity to host quality live worship experiences from your home.

Learning Circles: Worship
2020-04-23 13:30 - 14:45
Gather for this time of inquiry hosted by Rev. Rob Shearer, focused on the practice of worship. With a small cohort of ministry personnel leading worship during physical distancing, you will have an opportunity to reflect on what you are collectively noticing, learning, bumping into, and celebrating.
This is a time to wonder together about the experience of worship, and not directly about technical tools and online platforms.

Want to develop quality, pre-recorded worship?
2020-04-23 10:00 - 11:30, 2020-04-22 13:30 - 15:00, 2020-04-16 10:00 - 11:30
Want to develop your capacity to create pre-recorded worship experiences? – this is the workshop for you to hone your capacity to record quality worship experience to share with your community of faith and beyond!

Q & A: Security online
2020-04-22 19:00 - 20:00
Have questions about security of online platforms? Join Allan for a Q and A about steps you can consider to maintain online security – for Zoom, Facebook, and other online tools your community of faith may be using.

Q & A: Learning to livestream
2020-04-22 19:00 - 20:00, 2020-04-15 19:00 - 20:00
You have taken a workshop, and you’ve already offered some type of live stream content for the community of faith.  Now you really have questions! Bring those questions to a Q & A hosted by Bob.

Want to lead live worship from an empty sanctuary?
2020-04-22 13:30 - 15:00
Want to worship live online – from an empty sanctuary? If you are part of a team of leaders who are offering worship from your sanctuary, and the space feels very empty – this is the workshop for you to deepen your capacity to host quality live worship in a new way from a familiar location.

Online Townhall Conference, with Treena and Jay
2020-04-22 13:00 - 14:30
Our next Online Townhall Conference is scheduled for Wednesday April 22nd, from 1 – 2:30 pm. Here is the link to the April 22nd Zoom call: https://united-church.zoom.us/j/497880582?pwd=[REDACTED]
Please note that this Townhall is 1pm Pacific Daylight Time.
Over the next while, Pacific Mountain Regional Council Executive Minister, Treena Duncan is hosting online Townhall Conferences via Zoom, with President Rev Jay Olson, for all PMRC folk who would like to join for connection with executive leadership, prayer and conversations, with time to ask the questions you have. Join join the Townhall Conference, click on the link (you can join by audio only). If it’s your first Zoom experience, the Zoom link will prompt you to download the App for accessing the meeting.

* Postponed (COVID-19) * Leadershift: Mental Health First Aid - Kimberley
2020-04-22 - 2020-04-23 | Kimberley United Church, 10 Boundary Street, Kimberly, BC, Canada

Learning Circles: Pastoral Care
2020-04-21 19:00 - 20:15
Gather for this time of inquiry hosted by Rev Wade Lifton focused on the practice of pastoral care. With a small cohort of ministry personnel attending to pastoral care needs at a time when this care is being extended at the end of a phone or a screen – or via those allowed into health care settings.

STEWARDSHIP BUZZ! 6 Steps to Take Right Now!
2020-04-21 10:30 - 12:00
This dedicated online time together will be packed with amazing information about how to inspire your people about Stewardship. You will learn the difference between “fund raising” and “stewardship” and how to define actual stewardship from scarcity culture.
We will share modern ways to connect with our people in the pew and beyond.
You will experience resources as tools you can approach and use easily.
Arthur Ashe said… Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. Let’s do that together!
Join me! I am excited to be on our way to the abundance that is waiting for our communities of faith.
Join Jane Harding for a four-session, ‘hands on’ discussion about Whole Life Stewardship that will take us into the next decade, and find out what those 6 steps are. Stewardship Buzz Online Engagement Session is a practical, faith-filled opportunity to learn from the experts as well as each other and to stack up those ‘A-ha’ moments in your favour!

Learning Circles: Worship
2020-04-21 10:00 - 11:15
Gather for this time of inquiry hosted by Rev Beth Hayward, focused on the practice of worship. With a small cohort of ministry personnel leading worship during physical distancing, you will have an opportunity to reflect on what you are collectively noticing, learning, bumping into, and celebrating.
This is a time to wonder together about the experience of worship, and not directly about technical tools and online platforms.

* Postponed (COVID-19) * Leadershift: Mental Health First Aid - Nelson
2020-04-20 - 2020-04-21 | Nelson United Church, 602 Silica Street, Nelson, BC, V1L 4N1, Canada

Learning Circles: What helps you plan, what are you discovering - online worship
2020-04-17 13:30 - 15:00
What helps you plan for online worship? What are you discovering about preparation for this kind of ministry? Join a small group of United Church leaders to reflect on what ministry is like in these online days.

Christ of the Celts: The Healing of Creation Online Engagement Sessions Book Study
2020-04-16 18:30 - 20:00
In this book, J Philip Newell offers us a reflection of the “forgotten” Jesus, the Christ of the ancient Celtic tradition. Newell connects the Celtic tradition with our more conventional Christian beliefs, giving a vision of concern for healing creation and the environment – for the presence of the sacred in nature and in our more than human family.
As an ever-unfolding mystery of life rather than a one-time event, Newell’s Celtic Christ is interwoven with the Creation – they share the same center, the same Heartbeat. Newell explores the idea that salvation as a sense of our oneness with the universe – a salvation that comes from the well-being of the whole rather than the welfare of the individual.
Join Rev. LeAnn Blackert for an eight-session online, book-based conversation inspired by JP Newell’s introduction to Jesus, Christ of the Ancient Celts in his book “Christ of the Celts: The Healing of Creation”.
