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  • 2019 Lancaster Theological Seminary DMin Symposium

    Monday, April 1, 2019

    Symposium presentations will be offered concurrently across four sessions. Attendees will have the option of attending one of three presentations during each session.

    Schedule of Events
    Time Event Location
     8:30 a.m.  Gathering and Snacks  Hafer Center
     9:00 a.m.  Morning Prayer  Hafer Center
     9:30-10:30 a.m.   Presentations - Session 1  
       Kathy Harvey Nelson  L206
       "Connectional Spirituality: Small Church Pastors and the Future of the Church"
       Garrett Bugg  L204
       "What Cannot Be Forgotten: Moral Injury and Pastoral Practice"
       Tracy Brown  Library Learning Commons
       "How Christian Practices are Used by Laypeople to Attract Others to the Christian Faith"
     10:45-11:45 a.m.  Presentations - Session 2
       Jonette Gay  L206
       "Faith Decisions: Order or Novelty"
       Holly Wildhack  L204
       "Dignity Therapy as a Pastoral Care Intervention: Exploring the Family Jewels"
       Dan Lundquist  Library Learning Commons
       "Bi-vocational Ministry: What Works from the Perspective of Bi-vocational Ministers and Their Congregants"
     12:00-12:45 p.m.  Lunch  Hafer Center
     1:00-2:00 p.m.  Presentations - Session 3
       Gene Gordon  L206
       "Addressing the Wounds of Racism Through the Lens of Moral Injury:
    A Qualitative Study Drawing on Black Liberation and Womanist Theology"
       David Popham  L204
       "Clergy Incarnate: Embodied Metaphors as Gateways to the Ideological Commitments of Ministers"
       Nick Bufano  Library Learning Commons
       "'Come Away By Yourself and Rest Awhile': Retreat as a Model of Self-Care for United Methodist Clergy"
     2:15-3:15 p.m.  Presentations - Session 4  
       Kate Morse  L206
       "From Anguish to Enrichment Redefining Three 18th and 19th Century Utopian Communities’ Response to Suffering: An Application for the 21st Century"
       Linwood Smith  L204
       "The Role of Clergy in Promoting Health and Wellness in the West-Mainline and Philadelphia Districts of the Philadelphia Annual Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Church"
       Gary Filson  Library Learning Commons
       "Gone Fishing: Marketing Faith to Millennials in the Postmodern Era"

    Sessions will also be available to attendees via Zoom.

    Presentation Details for Current DMin Students and Guests

    • Presenters are listed alphabetically below
    • Expand the presenter's section to find:
      • Link to join Zoom session and recording (when available)
      • Supporting documents provided by presenter (if applicable)
      • Online evaluation form (made available at the time of presentation)

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    Nick Bufano

    • Nick Bufano

      'Come Away By Yourself and Rest Awhile': Retreat as a Model of Self-Care for United Methodist Clergy

      Time: 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on April 1, 2019

      Location: Library Building, Learning Commons

      Abstract

      This project seeks to demonstrate the critical need for improved self-care for clergy. Using Biblical texts, as well as current books, literature in journals, and first-hand experiences, the project presents examples of clergy whose self-care process is in crises, as well as models of clergy who engage in proper self-care. I then propose the spiritual discipline of retreat as a pathway to improving, and in fact revitalizing areas of deficit for clergy. The retreat is built upon my initial research, and other research about creating and leading effective retreats. It is also designed using specific responses to a survey given to twenty-five United Methodist Clergy in the Baltimore-Washington Conference of The United Methodist Church. In that survey, clergy identified their previous retreat experiences, and also their desired elements in a retreat that they might want to attend. The end result of this project is a demonstrated need for improved self-care, and a four-day retreat designed to offer healing and a beginning step for those clergy who desire to improve their self-care.

      •  Recording - Presentation starts at 3:12 mark

         
         
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