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Greetings!
Post-Conference engagement
At every CREDO conference, participants hear faculty members say that CREDO is more than an eight-day experience. As CREDO Institute Inc. prepares to develop resources and faculty teams for new types of conferences, CREDO is definitely practicing what it preaches. In 2012, CREDO will offer five-day conferences with a deeper focus on either Spiritual or Vocational work.
For the participants, also, CREDO is more than an eight-day conference experience. CREDO underscores that reality by offering post-conference resources as a good way to extend the CREDO experience and to continue many of the engagements and conversations that just get started during a conference.
Can you relate? Check out the CREDO Blogs--where CREDO faculty members invite you into conversation about Health, Vocation, Spirituality, and Finance.
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Strength for the Journey:
Robust turnout in Quincy
for Training Day
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Strength for the Journey, an important CREDO wellness resource in the four reorganizing dioceses, continues through 2011. Building on a 2010 series of wellness conferences in Pittsburgh, Fort Worth, San Joaquin, and Quincy and following two eight-day CREDO conferences for lay leaders and one for clergy, CREDO held the first-ever diocesan ministry training day in the Diocese of Quincy on May 14. One hundred and eighty workshop participants turned out for training in 10 congregation-based ministries; "Not bad for a diocese with nine worshiping congregations," noted the Strength for the Journey project manager and CREDO faculty member, the Ven. Richard Cluett. Cluett said workshop leaders in a variety of ministry areas came from within the Diocese of Quincy and the neighborly Province V dioceses of Chicago, Indianapolis, Springfield, and Milwaukee. Provisional Bishop John Buchanan welcomed participants to the conference. He was preacher and celebrant at the Eucharist and also led a workshop with Cluett. "The leadership from the dioceses in the Province showed their commitment to the Diocese of Quincy," said Cluett. ______________________
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CREDO Blogs
Continuing the CREDO Conference experience in Conversation with Faculty
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 For those who return home after a CREDO Conference and wonder how to keep the experience alive, we now have a place for you to turn. CREDO introduces a spectrum of Health and Wellness Blogs that highlight and focus on the four component areas of a CREDO conference: Spiritual, Vocational, Financial, and Health.
This month Faculty Member Sam Portaro points out in the CREDO Spiritual Blog VENI that Jesus often colored outside the lines and "Sometimes lines need to be crossed." Vocation faculty member Matthew Stockard offers a series of blogs this month. Today he launches Reentry, and three practices he employs to smooth the transition from one meeting to another, or home. Next Monday, he asks whether new technology makes it easier or more difficult to be "present" to one another in community. On June 13, he invites CREDO faculty leader Brian Taylor to reflect on Small Church Vocations--not so much "in" them as "of" them. Consider joining these conversations by subscribing to the vocation blog he shares with Brad Agry. Finance faculty member Celeste Ventura questions if our financial lives are factors beyond our control, or whether we are shaped and formed by the attitudes toward money and generosity that others have given to us. Join a conversation The Legacy of Pentecost, and share the messages you were given that impact your understanding of money. Aileen Loranger, health faculty member, notes that one in four American adults live with a diagnosable, treatable mental health condition, and frequently it is a family member, friend, or work associate who recognizes a concern. She reflects on this dilemma in this month's CREDO Blog Vitality. You can subscribe to any CREDO Blog and receive them when they are published.
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A Guide to Spiritual Practice
Book and podcast series
 Now available in a travel-size volume, Strength for the Journey: A Guide to Spiritual Practice can be ordered directly from Church Publishing.
Following an introduction by Brian Taylor, fellow CREDO faculty member Renée Miller looks at events and activities of everyday life and discover routes to spiritual practice and deeper, daily spirituality through 20 short reflections.
A great volume for study groups on Spiritual Practice!
 During Pentecost, CREDO will be posting podcasts of each chapter, read by Renée Miller. You can subscribe to this weekly series by adding Spiritual Practice Readings to your CREDO publication profile HERE.
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