Catawba Clergy Network

08/26/2025

Registration is now open! Join us on October 2-3 for Clergy Days 2025. Enjoy two days of seminars, plenty of fellowship, and two exceptional keynote speakers. You can register at catawba.edu/clergydays

06/10/2025

We're getting excited about our two Clergy Days keynote speakers! In addition to their keynote addresses, Shane Claiborne and Jacqueline Bussie will each be leading workshops as a part of the 2025 Clergy Days program. Registration details will be available soon!

04/01/2025

Don't forget that today is the last day to register! Join us for a day of contemplation, fellowship, and worship! Register here: https://tinyurl.com/y329c5x3

03/18/2025

Registration is now open for our Spring Retreat on April 4! It will held from 9:00 AM-5:00 PM at the beautiful Center for the Environment on the campus of Catawba College, adjacent to the 189-acre Stanback Nature Preserve in Salisbury, NC. We’ve planned for rest, fellowship, workshops, mindfulness walks around the lake, and more. Afternoon workshops will talk about the challenges for clergy today, including financial concerns and bivocational ministry. There is something for everyone! Preregistration required at https://forms.gle/YqzjQGrN9k1YyweW6. Questions? Contact Anne Tambling at [email protected]

01/23/2025

Save the Date! Join us on Friday, April 4, 2025, for "Empower & Equip: A Day of Renewal". This transformative day will offer moments of rest and reflection, uplifting worship, meaningful fellowship, and inspiring workshops designed to help you thrive in your life and ministry. Stay tuned—more details coming soon!

01/06/2025

As we celebrate Epiphany today, we bring these words from Jan Robertson on the journeys we will all undertake in the year to come. Blessings to you in 2025!  https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18C763D3Br/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Happy Epiphany! I love this day of mystery and light, and how it invites us to remember that we find our way through the unknown by being willing to set out into it. This blessing is for you, for this day, with gratitude for your company on the path.

FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FAR TO TRAVEL
An Epiphany Blessing

If you could see
the journey whole
you might never
undertake it;
might never dare
the first step
that propels you
from the place
you have known
toward the place
you know not.

Call it
one of the mercies
of the road:
that we see it
only by stages
as it opens
before us,
as it comes into
our keeping
step by
single step.

There is nothing
for it
but to go
and by our going
take the vows
the pilgrim takes:

to be faithful to
the next step;
to rely on more
than the map;
to heed the signposts
of intuition and dream;
to follow the star
that only you
will recognize;

to keep an open eye
for the wonders that
attend the path;
to press on
beyond distractions
beyond fatigue
beyond what would
tempt you
from the way.

There are vows
that only you
will know;
the secret promises
for your particular path
and the new ones
you will need to make
when the road
is revealed
by turns
you could not
have foreseen.

Keep them, break them,
make them again:
each promise becomes
part of the path;
each choice creates
the road
that will take you
to the place
where at last
you will kneel

to offer the gift
most needed—
the gift that only you
can give—
before turning to go
home by
another way.

—Jan Richardson
from Circle of Grace: A Book of Blessings for the Seasons

Image: "The Wise Ones"
© Jan Richardson
janrichardsonimages.com

(P.S. If you haven’t seen the new retreat for Women’s Christmas, which some folks celebrate on Epiphany Day: https://sanctuaryofwomen.com/womenschristmas.html. You can download it as a PDF at no cost.)

01/02/2025

12/10/2024

What a gift to hear the powerful words of Cole Arthur Riley at Clergy Days 2024. Her words for Advent are a great reminder for us in the busyness of the Advent Season!