Upcoming Classes and Events
March
Mental health Training
Saturday, March 16, 2024 | Community UMC, Columbia, MO
This event is a mental health training designed for NextGen leaders and volunteers. Together, this group will learn to navigate the mental health challenges Gen Z is facing and learn practical strategies for providing support. Participants will leave feeling equipped to face the mental health challenges that are encountered in ministry.
In-person participation is preferred, but virtual is an option.
April
Lunch & Learn
"technology and Mental Health"
Presenter: Mindy Grossman
Tues, Apr. 2 | 12-12:55p | Fellowship Hall
Bring your lunch and join us Tuesday, April 2, for our next Lunch & Learn. We will meet at noon in Fellowship Hall.
Mindy Grossman from Communities Healing Adolescent Depression and Suicide (CHADS) will be presenting “Technology and Mental Health”.
A Braver Way
Thurs, Apr. 11-Jun. 13 | 6 - 7:30p | Room 222
Date: Thursday, April 11 – June 13, 2024 (10 sessions)
Time: 6:00 to 7:30p
Location: Room 223 | Manchester UMC
Leader: Jill Krogen
Description: Don’t spend another election year hiding from friends and family with different opinions. Learn how to listen and be heard with “A Braver Way” podcast. Hosted by Monica Guzman, the podcast’s mission is to “help people who disagree get curious about each other with each other.”
This group will listen to the podcast as a group and then discuss.
May
Lunch & Learn
"Leading the Conversation on Alcohol and Drugs"
Presenter: Stacie Zellin
Tues, May 7 | 12-12:55p | Fellowship Hall
Bring your lunch and join us Tuesday, May 7, for our next Lunch & Learn. We will meet at noon in Fellowship Hall.
Stacie Zellin from Prevent + Ed will be presenting “Leading the Conversation on Alcohol and Drugs”.
lgbtq+ Inclusion and the umc
As part of a “Live in Love” sermon series, Pastor Andy Bryan delivered a compelling sermon laying out interpretations of the “clobber verses.” These are verses in the Bible that have been used to harm or “clobber” members of the LGBTQ+ community. The interpretations are rooted in Biblical scholarship, linguistic analysis, historical context, and other ancient sources.
Pastor Andy asked, “Knowing there is an interpretation of these verses that does harm to your neighbor, and knowing now that there is another interpretation of these verses that doesn’t do harm to your neighbor, why do you believe what you believe?”
Why do we believe what we believe? It is a provocative and necessary question. After Pastor Andy’s sermon people wanted to know more and to better understand the different interpretations. Using a resource created by Nick Mundwiller, and Pastor Andy’s sermon, Ali Fields drafted a summary of the interpretations. Click here to read the summary.
Eating disorder and disordered eating resources
Information and resources related to eating disorders and disordered eating
The Missouri Eating Disorders Association
Educational information as well as local treatment resources
Radical Self-Love for Everybody and Every Body
Social justice centered eating disorder and disordered eating recovery resources
Road to Recovered
One woman’s experience of letting go of a long-term eating disorder by healing from the inside out
Committed to Size Diversity in Health and HAES
Association for size diversity and health
Books
- Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation by Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant
- The Body is Not an Apology by Sonja Renee Taylor
- 8 Keys to Recovery From an Eating Disorder by Carolyn Costin and Gwen Schubert Grabb
- Hunger by Roxane Gay
- Intuitive Eating, 4th Edition: A Revolutionary Anti-Diet Approach by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
- How to Raise an Intuitive Eater: Raising the Next Generation with Food and Body Confidence by Sumner Brooks and Amee Severson
- Decolonizing Wellness by Dalia Kinsey
- Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness by Da’Shaun L. Harrison