An Invitation From Bishop Ken
2025 Gathering SCHEDULE
Please note, this year the Gathering will be held from Tuesday to Thursday. For a Google Map to the church, nearby airport and hotel blocks, click HERE.
Live Streaming available on DRM YouTube Channel
Tuesday, Feb 4
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm — Registration
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm — Plenary 1
3:30 pm – 4:00 pm — Connection Time
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm — Break for Dinner Out (on your own or meet in the foyer to join a group – Restaurant Map)
6:00 pm — Clergy Vest (Upstairs Youth Room)
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm — Opening Eucharist
Wednesday, Feb 5
8:00 am – 8:40 am — Light Breakfast
8:00 am – 12:00 pm — Clergy Wives Retreat
8:45 am – 9:15 am — Morning Prayer
9:15 am – 10:15 am — Plenary 2
10:15 am – 10:30 am — Coffee Break (Foyer)
10:30 am – 12:00 pm — Synod Meeting
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm — Lunch
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm — Session 1 Workshops
Building Resilience & Preventing Burnout (Laura Lanser)
Buoyed by Prayer: Contemplative Forms of Engaging God
Marriage and Ministry: Friends or Enemies? (Carson Leith)
Navigating Sacrificial Service Without Losing Ourselves (Scott Shaum)
Soaking Prayer Space (DRM Prayer Ministers)
2:30 pm – 3:30 pm — Session 2 Workshops
A Vision for Pastor Theologians (Chris Bruno & Theology Workgroup)
Church Polity [Rectors and the Vestry/Parish Council] (Ben Fischer)
Church Size Dynamics
Five Biblical Concepts for Addressing Racism (Donald Nwankwo, Chris Stroup)
Safeguarding in our Churches (Hope Brians, DRM Chancellor, Anna Holsteen)
Walking with Others through Sexual Addiction (Jonathan Fant, Dave Abels)
3:30 pm – 6:00 pm — Free Time
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm — Evening Dinner Event (Phantom Canyon, 2 E Pikes Peak Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80903)
Thursday, Feb 6
8:00 am – 8:40 am — Light Breakfast
8:00 am – 9:00 am — Targeted Meetings
Church Planting (Billy Waters)
Deacon Gathering (Sarah Anderson)
Exploring Ordination in the DRM (Matt Burnett)
Partnering with your Rector in Youth & Children’s Ministry (Kyle Stanton)
Worship Arts (David Norris, Jonathan Fant, Alli Coffey)
9:15 am – 9:45 am — Morning Prayer
9:45 am – 10:45 am — Plenary 3
10:45 am – 11:00 am — Coffee Break (Foyer)
11:00 am – 12:30 pm — Closing Eucharist and Time of Prayer
12:30 pm –1:30 pm — Lunch, Eat in or Grab a Boxed Lunch
LODGING: Reserved rooms at discounted rates at nearby hotels: Reserve by Jan 5, 2025
DELEGATES: All Clergy are delegates. All lay delegates need to be reported to the diocese by Jan 20, 2025 in order to vote at the Synod.
All delegates need to register by Jan 20, 2025.
Rectors will have received a separate email about how to inform the diocese of your church’s lay delegates for the Synod.
PRE-GATHERING PRAYER & PRAISE SERVICE:
All are invited to this service for the Gathering – Monday, Feb 3, 6:30 at Holy Trinity Anglican Church. This is for those in town early, open to everyone (13990 Gleneagle Dr; Colorado Springs, CO 80921).