Churches, Denominations and Religions: Embracing the Spirit: Innovation Grant Dates for 2021, EDGE-y Conversations, and more! 🎄

Thursday, December 24, 2020

Embracing the Spirit: Innovation Grant Dates for 2021, EDGE-y Conversations, and more! 🎄

Merry Christmas!

Happy holidays to you and your loved ones!

May you find peace, hope, joy, and love during these last few weeks of the year.

However you are celebrating this year, please be safe.

Merry Christmas,

EDGE

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EDGE-y Conversations in January

January 12 at 1:00 p.m. EST: Emmaus Community’s Journey as a New Ministry
January 18 at 1:00 p.m. EST: Mass Hysterical and the story of taking a leap of faith
January 25 at 1:00 p.m. EST: Racial Justice in your Community of Faith
February 1 at 1:00 p.m. EST: Naramata’s Story of Transformation
February 8 at 1:00 p.m. EST: Lumsden Beach Camp Thinking Differently
February 15 at 1:00 p.m. EST: Herowork Ready to Grow Radical Renovations

See the whole schedule of events here.

[Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash]

Sustainability Cohort

We need to understand that sustainability is more than just financial sustainability, and that this is about transforming into an adaptive organization that is empowered to start saying ‘yes, and’ to new leadership and experimentation. Attend this six-session workshop to connect with others and wrestle through the reflection questions together. Find out more.

RSVP to Carla@edge-ucc.ca prior to the January 14 start date; we will be sending out information in early 2021.

2021 Innovation Grants

Innovation Grants are all about catalyzing ideas that are just sprouting in your community of faith. This could mean the fledgling idea has started to be experimented with or the idea itself is in its infancy. We want to support communities of faith that are willing to stick their necks out and take a leap of faith!

Innovation Grants are up to $5,000 in funding and the due dates for 2021 are:

January 15
April 15
July 15
October 15

Book a conversation with our team, starting January 4. Learn more about Innovation Grants here.

Want to see some ideas of past grant recipients? Check out this map of ideas from the last few years.

[Photo by Frederick Medina on Unsplash]

Embracing the Spirit is a learning network and innovation fund. It offers funding and support for innovation ideas hatched out of faith communities and communities in ministry. Some of the stories and best practices that are happening throughout The United Church of Canada are shared in this newsletter.

If you have an idea that you want to launch, reach out and tell us about it! Proposal deadlines are quarterly, and due on the 15th of the month: January, April, July and October. Find out more.