Dates will be in early 2026 (Dates will be finalized in early December if you’d like to sign up to participate.)

If you’re interested in knowing more about this ‘exclusive’ opportunity to journey together with me and a few others in my first transforming community contemplative retreat series as I plan, you can let me know by completing this form below. Whenever I send out information about this, I will include you (BCC:).

December 13, 2025, 8am-3pmCDT via Zoom. “During this online retreat, we are invited to come in preparation to receive the quiet and contemplative space our spirits are deeply craving.” Led by Lauren Morton. Cost $30.

See flyer link for details!

Nov 13-15, Austin, TX Come Belong is a continuing education opportunity for clergy and congregational leaders to learn about hospitality from local practitioners in the hospitality industry.

Throughout the three days, we will engage in immersive experiences learning from business owners and then engage with one another to think about how these experiences and best practices can inform how our congregations embrace hospitality.

Every Sunday *8-9pm CDT online via GoogleMeet (no download required). Spend time in community with others as we review a selected passage of Scripture together, thoughtfully sharing what comes out for us, Lectio Divina style. Video (3 min) inside of myself explaining this opportunity.

Applications due by September 15, 2025 for the 2026-2027 cohort.

Now a 18 month intentional mentoring program with a seasoned Baptist minister and a group of peers for Baptist women who have served in their current area of ministry for less than three years and are ministering in churches, chaplaincy, non-profit work, and other “outside-the-box” ministry settings. The most recent Baptist Women In Ministry (BWIM) cohort represented “5 ministry contexts including chaplaincy, congregational ministry, missionary, higher education, and nonprofits. This cohort’s participants are part of 8 different Baptist denominations, and represent 12 states.” Personally, I am grateful to have been a part of the 2021-2023 BWIM Mentoring Cohort in which my small group nurtured my soul as a woman in ministry over our 2 years of meeting together.

The Fall 2025 session starts the week of Sep 22nd and ends the week of Dec 15th, via Zoom. Apply to join today! I’ve personally been a part of 2 different ‘CPE’ groups with Evolving Enneagram since meeting Rev Nhien Vuong in person for a class in Dallas in early 2024. I appreciate her work and recommend you to check out her materials and give this a try for a season. I’m still participating myself now – ongoing since ‘CPE’ Spring 2024!

“CPE groups are facilitated practice and support groups for those with basic knowledge of the Enneagram who seek to cultivate a discipline of contemplative practice in a compassionate, non-dogmatic, Enneagram-literate community.” “Our mantra is “come as you are” and experience how this authenticity and bravery supports you in experiencing greater inner peace, wholeness, and belonging.” Inter-spiritual, international cohorts, applied enneagram wisdom, size & format details, themes all under “Details” below.

Learn the multiracial history of our country that you may have missed growing up and now school teachers are not supposed to teach. Full Communion Sacred Ground is an online-hosted, 11-part series built around a powerful online curriculum of documentary films and readings that focus on Indigenous, Black, Latino, and Asian/Pacific American histories as they intersect with European American histories, and the stories of our families. Join Episcopalians, Lutherans, Moravians, and others to learn how race continues to shape our nation and how we might respond in faith, lament, and action.

PREVIEW SESSIONS – 2 options on Monday August 11th: 12:30-1:30CDT or 6-7pmCDT. Zoom link is below. Come to get hear about this opportunity and get all your questions answered. Registration closes August 18th. See schedule below.

Apply to be accepted into the 6 month cohort by the deadline, August 1st. Details about my 2024 Cohort experience and link to apply below! (Missed the deadline? Put it on your calendar to check back next year!)

Open to women, references required, travel to retreat not included, minus the in-person retreat experience (which I found most helpful to get really connected to the rest of the cohort) – the rest of the gatherings are online!

Simple Presence is offered 365 days/year. This practice is open to all.  See below for the link and join when it’s time.

This is how I’ve seen it done these past 2 weeks I have joined – At the appointed start time (see below) there is a presenter who gives a 2-3 minute devotion/ reading/ poem/ song etc. Then immediately all participants go right into 20 minutes of shared silence. At the end of the 20 minutes, that day’s presenter will come back on and re-read a statement from what they shared and that’s it! People unmute to voice a ‘thank-you’ and then you go on your way! Qigong is a gentle body movement practice that you can choose to follow along on those days that it is provided right after Simple Presence. Check it out! I’ve found both to be helpful to me, which is why I am sharing it here with you (with permission).

Time: Simple Presence 6:30am CDT/ 7:30 am ET daily / Qigong 7:55 am M/W/F/Sat (following Simple Presence on this same link.)

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Join us for an interfaith prayer vigil on the eve of the first hearing of our historic lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security’s rescission of the sensitive locations memo. The vigil will take place on Thursday, April 3rd, at 5:30pm CDT (virtual or in-person) at National City Christian Church in Washington, DC. Together, we will gather in solidarity, lifting prayers for justice, compassion, and the protection of immigrant communities. All are welcome to stand with us in this moment of faith and resolve.

Join us for a 5-session book club on The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You by Dina Nayeri. This is a perfect book to explore during Lent because it can encourage us to think more deeply about the experience of refugees. We’ll explore this book together and see what we can learn about gratitude as a way to receive the stories and experiences of others. While reading the text prior to the meeting will enhance your experience, it is not required. You’re also welcome to attend all 5 sessions or just the ones when you’re available or where a topic interests you. UTO and EMM are excited to partner together this Lent to provide a multi-faceted program to help people of all ages consider ways we experience and provide welcome that we are grateful for. Tuesday, March 11 at Noon Eastern: Part One: Escape Tuesday, March 18 at Noon Eastern: Part Two: Camp Tuesday, March 25 at Noon Eastern: Part 3: Asylum Tuesday, April 1 at Noon Eastern: Part 4: Assimilation Tuesday, April 8 at Noon Eastern: Part 5: Cultural Repatriation

Wednesday’s in March 2025 – 11:00pm to 11:45pm CDT Virtual & In-person. Sojourners and the Washington Interfaith Staff Community (WISC) are co-organizing a series of faithful witness vigils at the Capitol every Wednesday in March at 12 noon, which started on March 5. These multi-faith vigils will call on Congress to exercise greater moral courage in upholding its Article 1 powers and preventing executive overreach. Register below today to join us either in-person or virtually. Together we can provide a faithful witness by speaking truth to power about this mounting crisis, what is at stake, the people and communities who are already being harmed – and what we can do to make a difference! Meetup – 10:30 AM EST: Join us outside the United Methodist Building at 100 Maryland Ave NE, Washington, DC 20002 and we’ll walk over together to the nearby vigil site. Vigil – Noon until 11:45 PM: Upper Senate Park – Area 2, Bounded by Constitution Ave NW/NE and Delaware Ave NE, Washington, DC 20001

Live in Texas?? Online training on Thursday, March 6^th, at 2 PM via Zoom for those registered to come to Austin on 12 March for H.A.D. (9:30am-4pm). Each legislative session (every 2 years), THN unites advocates from across the state to educate lawmakers on policies that make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring. Join over 100 advocates in speaking directly with legislators about real solutions to homelessness, from expanding affordable housing to strengthening crisis response systems. This is our chance to show the strength of our community, share stories, and influence policies that create lasting change. ****WHY DO I CARE ABOUT THIS? Our church, Impact Temple Church, opens as a warming shelter on nights when it drops below a certain windchill factor. This is wonderful but it’s not enough. Come and learn. Come and share your experience. For me, people we care about who are a part of our church are impacted by homelessness and I want to do what I can to help address these systems. Join me and we can learn and grow together!

Application deadline 3 March 2025. Zoom date 21 Jan for info! I RECOMMEND this intensive learning experience about our nation’s religious liberty foundation, the importance of advocacy, and the fellowship of the BJCFellows community- to name just a few of the reasons why I encourage others to apply to the BJC Fellows cohort. Also, Christian Nationalism is growing. Learn more about what it is, its impact and influence in our nation today from those who are in different contexts than you.

Application deadline extended to 22 Feb 2025! Zoom dates to learn more posted in details. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS EXPERIENCE!

29 January 2025, 11am CDT online Zoom. This special session is designed for those who identify as Black, Indigenous, or People of Color and wish to connect with fellow BIPOC spiritual directors and companions.

Friday’s starting 24 January 2025, 5:30- 6:30pm CDT online Zoom (free), weekly one chapter a week.* Sign up via the survey – details inside! (Adjusted from only 6 weeks to one chapter a week to meet the needs of our group. We are enjoying this discussion on the book of Amos and our fellowship together each week.

Donation-based, virtual gatherings, invites participants to explore themes like solidarity, joy, self-care, and affinity while equipping them to show up powerfully in the face of systemic oppression. (Various topics and dates : Sacred pause on inauguration day, race origins, trans people, womanist practices, survivors of abuse, inner bias, LGBTQ+ couples/families.) See details.

First Wednesday of each month, 2pmCDT (1 hour) — Zoom

starting week of 13 Jan 2025, 12 week cohort, Virtual

Friday’s starting 8 November 2024, 5:30- 6:30pm CDT online Zoom (free), weekly