Let the (Neurodiverse and Neurotypical) Children Come

This workshop is an invitation to explore how your congregation can welcome neurodivergent children and support their families. You will learn about neurodiversity and gain awareness of how the needs of neurodiverse and neurotypical children differ in congregational...

Wrestling with New Understandings of Child Development

Over the last two decades, new research methods have enabled child development experts to reconsider their assumptions about how children grow and learn. They’ve discovered that many of the universal stage theories we’ve taken for granted underestimate the...

Visio Divina in Community

Sometimes our souls hunger for nurture in solitude. But often we are nurtured in our lives of faith in community. Come prepare your heart, mind and soul with an interactive art experience. Visio Divina is a spiritual practice of sacred seeing. It invites us to see...

A Telos for Diverse Worship

“A Telos for Diverse Worship” explores the concept of telos, or purpose, within the context of diverse worship practices. It delves into the idea that worship serves as a means of expressing and embodying the ultimate purpose or goal of the Christian...

Family Worship: A Recipe for Sunday Morning

Is your Sunday School hour for children and families thriving or dying? How involved and enthusiastic are your children and families about your regular worship services? During COVID, we took the opportunity for change to begin a new program that would reach more...

What’s Stirring in the Soul of APCE?

Interact with members of APCE’s Strategic Planning Task Force and Implementation Team who have created new strategies and a new structure with the goal of ensuring that APCE remains vibrant, relevant and useful into the future. Discover how this new plan will...

A.I, Faith, & You: Understanding and Using A.I. as a Tool in Ministry

This workshop is designed to explore this and other important questions by demystifying A.I., exploring both its practical uses and the ethical considerations it brings to our faith communities. You’ll learn about generative A.I. programs like ChatGPT, understand...