We’re excited to announce that registration for Browncroft’s 2025 Spiritual Formation Conference is now open. We hope you will join us on Saturday, March 29th for this interactive morning of teaching, learning, and fellowship. No matter your age or where you are in your faith, this event offers something for everyone. Please take a few moments to read these extended invitations from our Adult Ministries Director, Peter Englert, and Kids Director, Stephanie Meunier. We look forward to seeing you there!
-Carissa Gray, Communications Coordinator
Peter Englert, Adult Ministries Director:
So often when we talk about spiritual formation, it seems to illicit a desire to read our Bible, pray, serve, and practice other spiritual disciplines. If we’re honest, many of us are still trying to connect the dots of how Jesus and these practices meet us in our homes, jobs, relationships, families, neighborhoods, and the other facets of life.
Our Spiritual Formation Conference will focus on “An Invitation to Wholeness – Applying the Way of Jesus to Everyday Life”. When we talk about “wholeness”, we are referring to how Jesus invites us to experience life in our bodies, minds, and souls. The gospel gives a clear invitation to experience life-change in Jesus in every area of our lives.
Our keynote is speaker for the day will be Dr. Rebecca Letterman, who is a coach, consultant, professor, and author. She wrote the book Being Like Jesus as a Body. Following the keynote session, you will be able to pick through a wide array and variety of workshops dealing with topics such as emotional wholeness, sexual wholeness, relational wholeness, and so much more.
The gospel gives a clear invitation to experience life-change in Jesus in every facet of our lives.
Doors will open at 8:00am, with the event officially starting at 8:30. More details are still to come, but here is the schedule for the day, including the different workshops to choose from:
- 8:00 – 8:30am – Registrants arrive and check in
- 8:30 – 9:15am – Keynote Speaker – Dr. Rebecca Letterman, Embodiment Consulting Services
- 9:25-10:10am – Breakout #1
- Parenting for Wholeness – Gerald Coleman, Campus Pastor of Roberts Wesleyan University
- Emotional Wholeness – Sarah Ockrin, Joy Full Living Services
- Rule of Life – Gage Hunt, Gage Hunt Creative
- Walking with Others Towards Wholeness – John Iamaio, Discipleship Pastor at Browncroft Community Church
- 10:20-11:05am – Breakout #2
- Sexual Wholeness – Louis Colon, Pastor of Heart & Soul Community Church
- Workaholism and Sabbath – Peter Englert, Adult Ministries Director at Browncroft Community Church
- Developing a Heart for the Next Generation – Trisha Smith, Sr. Director of Family Ministry at Browncroft Community Church
- Spiritual Health in the Age of Technological Anxiety – Rich Christman, Communications Director at Browncroft Community Church
- 11:15am -12:00pm – Breakout #3
- Parent Session with Family Ministry – Stephanie Meunier, Kids Director at Browncroft Community Church
- Praying, A Shared Life with God – Kelly Fasoldt, Outreach Director at Browncroft Community Church
- Theological Understanding of the Body – Rob Cattalani, Senior Pastor of Browncroft Community Church
After the breakout sessions, we will enjoy a time of fellowship over lunch (provided) and wrap up around 1:00pm. We are glad to invite the Browncroft Students (6th-12th grade) to join the adults at any of the above workshops.
And now, our Kids Director, Stephanie Meunier, shares about a wonderful opportunity for Browncroft Kids (K-5th grade)! We will be offering childcare for Pre-K and younger.
Stephanie Meunier, Kids Director:
Hey, Browncroft Kids! Family Ministry is so excited to join the Spiritual Formation Conference team by offering a Kids experience focused on worry. We will talk about how God meets in our worry to give us wholeness. Why should we work on worry? Well, it is important to learn how to manage our emotions. Managing worry is not about ignoring our emotions or making them go away – it’s more about having a plan of what to do with those emotions, even before they show up. Learning to manage your worry is like having a superpower! I hope you guys will join us as we learn what God says about worry and what tools we can use to work through it.
Parents, there will be a main session and two breakout sessions for your kids, and then you are invited to join us for a family session before lunch. The breakout sessions will be hosted by our Kids Coordinator, Alex Welker, and Robyn Englert, LCSW-R. I am excited to host the main session as we start the morning off, as well as the family session where we will end our morning with some discussion questions.
Below is the complete schedule for the Kids Experience:
- 8:00-8:45am- Check in, register, play time
- 8:45-9:10am- Main Session: Stephanie Meunier – Worship song, schedule overview, expectations, prayer
- 9:10-9:20am- Break
- 9:20-10:00am- Breakout 1: Alex Welker – What is worry?
- 10:00am- Snack time
- 10:20 -11:00am- Breakout 2: Robyn Englert – How can we respond to worry?
- 11:00 -11:10am – Transition to whole group Family Session with parents
- 11:10 -11:50am- Family Session: Stephanie Meunier – Parents come to hear about what their kids learned (discussion questions, reviewing one activity from each breakout)
- 12:00 – 1:00pm – Lunch
I can’t wait to see you and your kids for the Spiritual Formation Conference on Saturday, March 29th. You can register right now at the button below!
