The Center for Lifelong Learning at Columbia Theological Seminary has announced the 2023 grant recipients of the ReKindle Congregational Development Program.
reKindle projects, such as a summer food delivery program, should support a congregation’s capacity to enhance its vitality.
Faith Presbyterian Church of Blue Ridge, Georgia, received a first-year reKindle grant in 2021 from the Center for Lifelong Learning at Columbia Theological Seminary. Their grant project, titled “Nourishing Hope in Our Beloved Community,” was a joint effort with the Jewish Community of Blue Ridge. Faith Presbyterian applied for a second-year grant and was one […]
Columbia Theological Seminary recently received a grant of $969,528 from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help establish the “reKindle: Congregational Development in a Post COVID-19 Era” program through its Center for Lifelong Learning. The reKindle Impact Grant will help realize the goal of the Thriving Congregation initiative by helping congregations focus on an identified need and chosen priority for ministry and congregational vitality. The […]
Director of Lifelong Learning Sarah Erickson has been one of many contributors helping to provide practical, post-graduate opportunities to educate and nurture the Church.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 2, 2020- Columbia Theological Seminary has received a grant of $969,528 from Lilly Endowment Inc. to help establish the “reKindle: Congregational Development in a Post COVID-19 Era” program through its Center for Lifelong Learning. The program is funded through Lilly Endowment’s Thriving Congregations Initiative. The aim of the national initiative is to strengthen Christian congregations so […]
NOTE: Columbia seminary’s Center for Lifelong Learning has launched its Lilly-funded Thriving Congregations program, “reKindle: A Congregational Development Initiative.” Selected congregations will be awarded grants of up to $15,000 to execute a thriving congregation initiative in their ministry context. Applications are due by April 30, 2021. For details click HERE. The “Rekindle: Congregational Development […]
NOTE: Columbia seminary’s Center for Lifelong Learning has launched its Lilly-funded Thriving Congregations program, “reKindle: A Congregational Development Initiative.” Selected congregations will be awarded grants of up to $15,000 to execute a thriving congregation initiative in their ministry context. Applications are due by April 30, 2021. For details click HERE. We surveyed and interviewed […]
It was sometime in the early 2000s that I was searching the interwebs for some ministry ideas and I ran across this thing called S3, a grant offered by the Center for Lifelong Learning at Columbia Theological Seminary. Being on the West Coast, I barely even knew where this was, but it was money for […]
After serving two long-term pastorates over 37 years, I spent my next nine years as an Interim minister serving in four churches. In those interim positions I came to realize something I had missed seeing in my long-term pastorates – all churches and ministers are in transition all the time. Actually, no matter how settled […]
