Winter Workshop

Merry Christmas Everyone!! I hope you an yours had a very merry Christmas and are keeping warm in this cold burst we are experiencing. I saw in the Indy Star yesterday that it was warmer at the South Pole than in Indy. Brr!

We have good number of people signed up for the workshop already!! This is very exciting! I am looking forward to this very much as is the rest of board. I want to take this time to answer a few questions and explain a bit more of what is going to happen to clear a few things up.

The day will have 4 sessions broken up into about 45 min blocks to discuss various topics that are listed at the discussion tables. (to see topics click here.) These are just the topics and there will be no set format for discussion. Our vision for this is peer led, and to discuss what is important to you; think of this question: what do you do well and what do you need help with? The topics listed are the ones you and the APCL community wanted to discuss. I sent out a survey a few months ago and these 7 topics are the most requested. There will be extra space available for side conversations and any topic that may come up during the day.

We want this to be open and free flowing, led by those who are present at the workshop sharing ideas and collaborating on topics that are important to you. When you sign up you will receive an email to confirm your registration with a brief outline of the day and where to send your checks for payment.

We will have coffee and a morning spread of goodies when you arrive between 9:30 and 10am at St. Agnes. We will begin promptly at 10:00am to respect everyone's time. We will also have a lunch provided for you. The two greatest things in the world: coffee and food. The registration fee covers the cost of these items.

We ask that you sign up no later than January 12, 2018. This way we can make the final arrangements necessary to make this day as wonderful as possible.  Please email Zach or Chris if you read this after that date and still want to come. (click on names or go to the Contact Us on the website.)

Coffee and good conversation about the work we do for the Church in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, what more could you ask for?  I look forward to seeing you there.

If you have anymore questions, please leave them in the comments or email us apclindianapolis@gmail.com. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I wanted to take this time to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving.  During this time of year, I like to reflect on the meaning of the origins of the word “Eucharist" – in Greek, ευχαριστία, or in English- thanksgiving. Every time we gather around the altar and offer up the Body and Blood of our Lord and ourselves, we offer it up in thanksgiving to the one who created us and saved us from sin. I find this to be amazing every Sunday.  When I was younger, I always thought Thanksgiving was an amazing time of year. The leaves were yellow, red, and brown; they also needed to be raked up. We played football in the yard with our cousins. We ate turkey, my mom's sweet potato casserole, kielbasa and coffee bread from Malczewski's Catering. There were green beans and other healthy food like that, but I do not recall them with as much fondness. It brings to mind happy times with family which always included watching the Detroit Lions. At Thanksgiving everything felt right and p
Read more

Just Coffee

Christmas Morning I was at my parents house. I was the first one up so I started the pot of coffee; my fahter bought the Jingle Bell blend from Mystic Monk Coffee just for the occasion. As I stared out the window at the white snow that fell the night before it conjured up memories of my first cup of coffee: Folgers, black from the family coffee maker in the kitchen when I was in 6th grade and starting to help my father early Sunday mornings with CCD classes. I very rarely go for the creamer or sugar, I like my coffee nice and black. Why bother with the extra calories when I can just taste the bitterness anyway? I love coffee. When I am at my desk drinking my first cup of coffee at the office this week I discovered January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month and today January 11 is Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Here is some quick facts about Human Trafficking: Human trafficking   is the modern form of   slavery , with illegal smuggling and trading of people, for forced labor or s
Read more

Hello APCL Community!!

Hello friends. First let me introduce myself, my name is Zach and I am a pastoral and catechetical minster in the archdiocese of Indianapolis. I am on the leadership team of APCL, the wonderful professional organization for the pastoral and catechetical ministers for Arch Indy. I have been married for five years and we have one foster child at this time that we are hoping to adopt. I am starting this blog to help spread the APCL message and to create a forum for the all of us who are “co-workers in the vineyard” (USCCB) in Arch Indy to collaborate.  This collaboration will be a mixture of sharing ideas, struggles, and best practices. The Office of Catechesis offers a lot of cool resources and aid to us, but maybe we all are not able to make it to those events. This is a place where some of those events will be posted. This blog will expand from this starting point and I look forward to sharing and discussing these topics with you.            Why am I calling this blog Mystagogia? Mysta
Read more