Adult Formation

Resources for the Spiritual Journey

For more information about our adult formation opportunities, contact The Rev. Aaron Jenkyn.

EXPLORING LOSS

An informal peer-to-peer group of St. John’s Parishioners that discusses the death of a person in one's life and the ensuing loss experience. Contact: Anne McSally

READING BETWEEN THE LINES

Using a resource entitled Reading Between the Lines, we'll use one text from the Sunday lectionary and examine the story as found in the Bible. Next, we see how the story is happening in the world around us, and then look at how the story is an event in our own lives. Contact: Diane Harvey

OUTSIDE THE BOX

“God’s love refuses to be kept in a box."

This is Bishop Rob Hirschfeld's and Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s vision of our “Being the Beloved Community."

Outside the Box is a ministry with the vision of spreading God’s love outside the “boxes” of our own ideas and our buildings, and reaching out into our community by offering a platform for new voices, perspectives, stories, and ideas. In this way we hope to expand the knowledge of issues outside the normal church experience and to break out of any echo chambers we create within our own communities. Contact: Susan Lassen

To accomplish this the group has invited speakers with all kinds of topics and points of view, including:

• Chikumbuso – Zambia

• Circles of Support - NYC

• Cross Roads House - Portsmouth

• Gather - Portsmouth

• Hope on Haven Hill - Rochester/Somersworth

• Immigration and Asylum support - Portsmouth/Dover

• Ondjiva Project - Angola/Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire

• Reparations - Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire

• PFAS Silent Spring Institute - Newton, MA

• I Got Bridged – Portsmouth, NH.