Welcome back to the Strategic Imagination Sandbox, hosted by Learning Forte! We return for part two of episode 2 as we reflect on Change and Expansive Hybridity as Our Collective Reality, with guest Jen James of NEXT Church and the CEO of Learning Forte, Stacy Williams-Duncan.
You might be wondering, what is Next Church?
Next Church is a network of leaders, church members, ruling elders, youth leaders, educators, pastors, seminarians and professors, across the Presbyterian Church, USA and beyond, who believe the Church of the future will be more relational, more diverse, more collaborative, more hopeful and more agile. We provide hopeful space for robust conversations about the theology, culture, and the practice of ministry support strong, faithful leadership in a time of adaptive change, and encourage collaboration and creativity across congregations and geographies. We are fostering a conversation about how to follow Christ in our particular day and age. We are a movement seeking to strengthen the relational fabric of the PCUSA. So that our congregations are strong and healthy enough to be sustained, effective, faithful, and a moral voice that is engaged in the transformation of our communities towards the common good.
Learn more: https://nextchurch.net/
Jen James (she/her) is the Program and Operations Director for NEXT Church where she coordinates and supports initiatives including the National Gathering, Cultivated Ministry, antiracism trainings, facilitation and coaching. She is a facilitator, trained coach, and Educator-at-Large working with congregations in the National Capital Presbytery and beyond to help church leaders vision, assess, and strategically transform ministries. She holds a Master of Divinity from Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. and will gladly tell you she went to seminary because she loves learning, not to be a pastor like everyone else!
When she’s not working in the church world, Jen is offering unsolicited political commentary, wrangling her twin boys, and conjuring up a new house project with her husband, who is a Methodist pastor.
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