Key Details

Monday June 17th at 10 am - Thursday June 20th at 3 pm

Commuter rate - $375 (lunch lunch Tues-Thu, supper Mon-Wed

3 Night Shared - $590 accommodation Mon-Wed nights, all meals from Mon lunch - Thu lunch

4 Night Single - $675 accommodation Mon-Wed nights, all meals from Mon lunch - Thu lunch

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MAY 31st!

Comments from past Starting Well participants:

"...it offers a safe place to be nourished, valued and challenged. It contains practical information and valuable opportunities for sharing what works and what doesn't."

"...important for new ministers to share and be recipients of each other's wisdom, stop being 'in charge' and learn, open self for rest..."

"Good to get together with colleagues and to have facilitators who have experience in ministry and wisdom to share."

"...realize that you're not alone..."

STARTING WELL 2013 MARITIMES

Monday, June 17th at 10 am - Thursday, June 20th at 3 pm, 2013

at Tatamagouche Centre, 259 Loop Route 6, RR#3 Tatamagouche, NS B0K 1V0

Facilitated by The Rev. Carolyn McAvoy and The Rev. Dr. Russell Daye

Starting Well offers new clergy, diaconal ministers and designated lay ministers opportunities to reflect on their context and practice of ministry in an affirming environment.

Come and participate in small and large group discussions and seminars, personal reflection, worship, and examination of case studies prepared by participants from their current ministries.

Join us and build supportive relationships, experience a cumulative learning community and be rejuvenated!

We are going to focus in 2013 on Reading the Context for Ministry.

This event is open to those ordained or commissioned in the last 3 years and to those who participated in Starting Well for the first time in 2011 or later.

Maritime Leadership Team

Russ Daye has been a United Church minister for 22 years. He has served churches in Quebec, outport Newfoundland, and downtown Halifax and was overseas personnel in Fiji, where he worked on a national reconciliation program. In 2002 Russ received a Ph.D. in Comparative Religion from Concordia University for his research on South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. He has taught at theological colleges in Montreal, Halifax, and Fiji, and is a consultant with the United Church’s EDGE network (assisting faith communities with transformation and revitalization). One of his passions is reconciliation with aboriginal peoples. Another is time in nature – hiking, paddling, or camping in the mountains or desert. Much of his fun these days happens with his sons, Sam and Will, who are aspiring soccer players and accomplished mischief makers.

Carolyn McAvoy is a minister of The Presbyterian Church in Canada. Her ministry has always involved an element of healing and crisis situations, in recent years as an Interim Minister. She has served in 2 settled pastoral charges, and is in her 7th interim (Erindale Mississauga). Carolyn also serves as a business consultant, using such instruments as Myers Briggs and Emotional Intelligence to help people with self-awareness and self-management. In her work, Carolyn often looks at the various patterns within an organization and the roles that individuals play within it.

The centre is sponsored by Emmanuel College, Knox College and denominational staff of The Presbyterian Church in Canada and The United Church of Canada, with the generous support of the Beatty Ryckman Trust.