presentation for school faculties called “The Admonition of the Lord” (focused
on discipline or correctional guidance).
Enthusiasm around New Church education also happens by gathering
people together in various groupings to talk about the use and its applications.
These open house sessions are examples. We also hope to sponsor an Ed
Council session in the next couple of years. The more gatherings, the more
reason there will be for fresh research and pertinent conversation about the
use itself.
Focusing on #2, General Church Education continues to generate a steady
stream of high-quality materials for use in homes and Sunday Schools, plus
updated curricula for use in schools. Our primary strategy for improving access
to this growing library of resources is a significantly updated web-presence.
Sites to date would be classified as “information” sites, helping people know
where our schools are, or a little about what New Church education is, or how
to obtain some of our materials.
We hope to add a comprehensive “tool” feature to our new site, allowing
people to find what they are looking for efficiently in our substantial library
of resources. We are well into the design phase, working with a local website
company. Money for this work has come from donations, and from capital
dollars allocated toward the Vineyard portion of the newchurch.org refresh
project. We are actively raising additional money to complete the project.
Item #3 has a two-fold focus. The first is to improve our Teacher Career
System, with more robust offerings for teacher professional development.
Rebekah Russell has been hired to assist Scott Daum in this work. She has
been devoting part of her time to General Church education work from
Glenview where she has lived, and joined our staff full time in March.
It was a privilege to share some of these ideas with the people gathered at
these open house sessions, and to respond to their questions. We also welcome
responses from readers who wish to know more about our efforts. Please feel
free to contact us at any time at [email protected].
visit to india
Rt. Rev. Peter M. Buss Jr.
Teresa and I experienced a new area of the Church at the end of October 2015.
We traveled to India to participate in a two-day New Church seminar – the
sixth of its kind in that country.
The Rev. Peter Devassy is our one General Church pastor there. He invited
me to present on the internal sense of the days of creation. The Rev. Göran
Appelgren, also in attendance, joined me in a different session to answer
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