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Blessing of the Animals

October 8

Come Grow with Us 2023

Bob Rea presents check to members of

St. Vincent de Paul

 

OPPORTUNITIES TO GROW IN FAITH AND LEADERSHIP
 

Throughout the coming Fall season, Episcopalians across the Diocese of Southern Ohio are invited out to our camp and conference center to grow in discipleship, spiritual formation, and connection to one another.

Please read below for information about our offerings ahead in this coming season and join us out on the farm for study, prayer, and play together!

Questions about these offerings?

Contact Jerusalem Greer, co-executive director of Procter Center, at jgreer@proctercenter.org or by calling 740-490-6025.
 

 
 

AGRARIAN MINISTRY CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
 

INFO SESSION:

September 4, 7 pm

 

EIGHT-SESSION COURSE:

January-May 2025

The Agrarian Ministry Certificate will be a new, hybrid program with the Stevenson School of Ministry and the Procter Center. Its purpose is to prepare church leaders to teach, lead, and inspire their faith communities to steward the land in a way that is faithful to our call as disciples of Jesus.

Brian Sellers Petersen of the Faithful Agrarian and Jerusalem Greer of the Procter Center, co-founders of the Good News Garden Movement, will convene the certificate program.

This certificate combines online convenings, a directed final project, and an in-person retreat at the Procter Center. Learn more.

An informational session will be held on September 4 at 7 pm Eastern. Register online.
 

 
 

FARM TO FOREST: A CREATION CARE LEADER RETREAT
 

September 3-5, 2024
 

Join guest mentor the Rev. Pamela Dolan, author of Contemplative Gardening, agrarian minister Jerusalem Greer, and creation care leaders Meghan Suttman, the Rev. Craig Foster, the Rev. Catherine Duffy, and others for this unique immersive learning experience focused on connecting Creation Care Ministry with formation practices.

Whether you are attending to continue education, expanding your current creation care ministry, or simply exploring what it would take to start a formation-based creation care ministry in your context, this retreat is for you!

Learn more and register here.
 

 
 

HARVEST FESTIVAL & SEASON OF CREATION CELEBRATION

October 5, 2-5 pm

 

Come celebrate the Season of Creation with a good old-fashioned harvest festival! The day will include a $5 Chili Fundraiser, live music, porch pickin’ with Procter band alumni, fall produce picking, farm tours, face painting, and a fall craft show with local vendors selling their one-of-a-kind goods! We will end the day with a Season of Creation worship celebration.

 

Carpooling with a group from your congregation? Let us know so we can plan for your attendance! Email camp@proctercenter.org.

 

Want to be a craft show vendor? We would love to have you! Complete our online application today after viewing our event terms and conditions. Thank you!
 

 
 

BAKE PRAY REST: A CAMP FOR FORMATION LEADERS
 

October 22-24, 2024

Noon Arrival, Noon Departure
 

This "camp" retreat is for all formation leaders - lay and clergy- who would like to connect with other leaders, learn and share about formation resources and best practices, and

 

who would love a time of rest and restoration at Procter. Author, baker, and retreat leader Kendall Vanderslice, along with Procter's Co-Executive Director, Jerusalem Greer, will lead this camp-retreat, which will include the embodied spiritual practice of bread making. Kendall will also host a workshop on using the Bake with the Bible curriculum (free to DSO parishes), and Jerusalem will host conversations about reimagining formation programs and gatherings in a time of great change for the Church. Additionally, "campers" will have opportunities to rest and play together in true Camp Procter style.

 

Rates are all inclusive, space is limited:

DSO Formation Leader - FREE

NON-DSO Rate: - $350 per person

 

Register and learn more.
 

 
 

LOCATION
 

All in-person sessions will take place at the Procter Center.

 

Procter Center

11235 St. Rt. 38 SE

London, OH 43140

proctercenter.org

 

 
 

 

ABOUT THE PROCTER CENTER
 

As a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio, Procter's mission as a farm, camp, and retreat center, is to embody and teach creation care, spiritual growth, hospitality, and belonging as we foster a beloved community. The center rests on 60 beautiful acres of a 1,200+ acre site in predominately agricultural Madison County, Ohio, conveniently located between Columbus and Cincinnati. Procter is a welcoming and affirming Episcopal Camp and Conference Center.
 

LEARN MORE
 

Diocese of Southern Ohio | 412 Sycamore St. | Cincinnati, OH 45202 US
 

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