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April Update - Forma Board of Directors
posted on Apr 27, 2017 From the Board of Directors By Jamie Martin-Currie: Last month the board participated in a visioning retreat in Wilmington, North Carolina. With a professional consultant, we rewrote our mission statement based on scripture, established cor...
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April Update - Jamie Martin Currie, Board President
posted on Apr 27, 2017 April 27, 2017 Update from the president By Jamie Martin-Currie April 20 - 22 nd , Bill Campbell and I attended the Missional Voices conference at VTS along with several Forma members including Andrea McKellar, Lisa Kimball, Sarah Stonesife...
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Certificate of Youth and Family Ministry and Children’s and Family Ministry 2017 Faculty
posted on Apr 6, 2017 We are very excited about our faculty this year. Randall Curtis and Vicki Garvey will be returning for their fourth year with the program and Meredith Scott, a former student, is returning for her 2nd year as a member of the faculty. This year ...
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Youth and now Children's Certificate programs!
posted on Apr 6, 2017 A new exciting year in the Certificate in Youth and Family Ministry and now Children and Family Ministry
by Randall Curtis.
Forma is now in its fourth year of the Certificate Program for Youth and Family Ministry, and we are very e...
Read MoreDevolution: The Dynamics of Power and Permission by The Rev. Dr. David T Gortner
posted on Jan 2, 2017 Devolution: The Dynamics of Power and Permission by The Rev. Dr. David T Gortner Jessie (we will call her), in her mid-thirties, was a newly ordained priest working in an urban parish as curate, and had taken responsibility for reshaping the...
Read More2017 Conference Workshop Descriptions
posted on Dec 6, 2016 We are pleased to announce our final list of Workshops for the 2017 conference in Garden Grove, CA. Register for the conference here: click to register Join the conversation on our conference Facebook page Workshop Block 1 - Thursday, ...
Read More2017 Conference Schedule
posted on Nov 15, 2016 2017 Forma Conference January 25-27 Wednesday 9:00AM - 4:00 PM Church Pension Group Pre-Conference Steps to Wellness 4:00 - 6:00 PM Registration 4:30 - 5:30 PM Reception in Honor of First Time Confer...
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Youth & Family Certificate - wonderful week of learning
posted on Oct 14, 2016 Wow, what an amazing week we had in Albuquerque, New Mexico during Forma's Youth and Family Ministry Certificate program! After spending weeks with my fellow students and our amazing instructors in our online environment, it was awesome to be ab...
Read More2016-2017 Liturgical Calendars
posted on Sep 26, 2016Jenifer Gamber, a past Forma board member, has graciously offered her Liturgical Calendars to the Forma community. These wonderful and easy to use calendars are free to everyone, so please share them openly with your congregation, friends, and mi...
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Okay, you're a youth minister. Now what?
posted on Aug 18, 2016 by Randall Curtis - You have started a new full-time or part time youth ministry position. There will be this day, after you have smiled and met everyone, where you sit at your desk and ask the question: "What am I gonna do?"
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