For the past four and a half years, Grace and St John’s Episcopal Church and Christ the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, located about a mile from each other in Hamden, have been collaborating in a wide variety of ways—sharing, to one extent or another, worship, prayer, study, outreach, hospitality, music and garden projects. In this workshop, we will discuss how the two parishes initiated and have nurtured their relationship. As well, we will help attendees consider how their communities might move in a similar direction.
Facilitators: The Reverend Bob Bergner is the Rector of Grace and St John’s Church in Hamden, home of the Dinner for a Dollar and Swords to Plowshares ministries among other innovative church programs. Bob is also a lecturer at Yale Divinity School where he leads a practicum seminar for second year MDiv students fulfilling their parish internship requirements. As a musician, dancer and educator, he is an active member of the Greater New Haven performing arts community, working with dance and theater students at Educational Center for the Arts, New Haven Ballet, Choate Rosemary Hall and Neighborhood Music School. Bob is a relentless cyclist and a general outdoor athletics enthusiast.
Born in 1985, The Reverend Joshua N. Sullivan grew up in small towns along the Connecticut River valley. Formed first as an artist and musician living in New York City, through these he discerned God’s call to the ministry of word and sacrament in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He was trained at the Rhode Island School of Design and has earned theological degrees from Yale Divinity School and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music as well as United Lutheran Seminary. Pastor Josh has been serving at Christ the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Hamden, CT since 2021.
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Session Two (12:30–2 PM)
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April 29
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