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ADVENT 2011
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Sign up for a series of five-minute daily reflections on Health and Wellness 

Advent Reflections  

Advent is a busy season--particularly for church leaders. That is why CREDO has prepared a series of five-minute reflections called A Window on Wellness to help you start your day with a reminder of your own CREDO journey toward wellness. 

 

Prepared by CREDO faculty members and advisors, the reflections focus on the four areas of wellness explored in a CREDO conference. Each day, receive a reflection -- in text and audio -- highlighting a different aspect of wellness.  

 

The Sunday reflection sets the theme for the week, with daily reflections for journaling, prayer, or just time out.

 

It's an Audio Advent Calendar, too.  

These reflections touch what's at the heart of CREDO and the Advent journey: Watchfulness, Openness, Transformation.   

 

The series begins Sunday, November 27, with Spiritual Wellness by Lowell Grisham. The weeks followed will be Health and Wellness with Jackie Cameron, Financial Wellness with Celeste Ventura, and Vocational Wellness with Brad Agry. 

 

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Strength for the Journey:
Resiliency and Relationships 

   

During the past two years, CREDO Institute, Inc. has facilitated a number of initiatives for the four reorganizing dioceses--Pittsburgh, Fort Worth, San Joaquin, and Quincy--under the program called Strength for the Journey. A series of eight-day conferences for clergy and lay leadership as well as diocesan conferences and workshops (download a 2010 report HERE).   

SFJ in San Joaquin
San Joaquin Conference

 

This fall, the Strength for the Journey program has provided retreats for the clergy of the dioceses of Fort Worth and San Joaquin and for clergy spouses in the Diocese of Pittsburgh. The themes of the conferences were similar, offering opportunities for finding quiet in the midst of noisy lives; for building relationships within the diocesan communities, which now include members who have joined during the rebuilding process; for focusing on personal wellness and resiliency in stressful times; and for continuing the journey together.  

CREDO faculty members Bob Stice and Chris Moore provided leadership for the clergy retreats, and Bob was the leader of the clergy spouse retreat. The journey toward wellness continues.

 

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CREDO Blogs refresh themes of your CREDO Conference   


CREDO wellness blogs CREDO hosts a spectrum of Health and Wellness Blogs that highlight and focus on the four component areas of a CREDO conference: Spiritual, Vocational, Financial, and physical and emotional Health.  

 

Faculty member and CREDO Blogger Sam Portaro reflected recently on the month of November.

 

"The month of November is bracketed on one end with the commemorations of All Saints and All the Faithful Departed, and on the other end with Thanksgiving. Grief and gratitude, loss and abundance. The proximity of these images and themes challenges, and inspires." Read Practicing Thanks, and participate in the CREDO Spiritual Blog VENI. Sam also reminds us that it's no mystery why Christians and Jews "worship at tables and that food occupies a central place in our rituals." Sharing meals is good for what ails us. Read Medicine.  

 

In October, vocational faculty member and CREDO Blogger Matthew Stockard returned from a sabbatical leave--and imparts some advice on both the pace of life and work during a sabbatical and how to go about reentry.

 

See Transforming Work and join a conversation on church vocation.  

 

All the CREDO Blogs can be accessed  

through the CREDO website, also. 

 

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Just back from your fall CREDO Conference? 

Join the CREDO FACEBOOK PAGE 

   

Engage the people and the themes of your CREDO conference at the new Facebook Page for conference participants.

 

My CREDO Conference is the linchpin in CREDO's social media reunions. Reconnect with people, post photographs from your conference, and then explore ways to rekindle your CREDO conference experience. 

 

Just come to My CREDO Conference and LIKE (join) the page. Then, when you see resources of interest just circulate them throughout your own social media network.  

 

It's the sociable thing to do.....

 

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