Formation Updates!

Cultivating friendships, deepening deliberate discipleship, building bridges of inter-connection

Doing Discipleship Differently

Co-creating ecosystems of engagement for deliberate discipleship

Co-creando ecosistemas de participación estratégica para el discipulado intencional

Living and learning into the shape of Jesus’s life…together

Viviendo y aprendiendo según la forma de la vida de Jesús…juntos

Building bridges of warm and meaningful relationships across our diocese

Construyendo puentes de relaciones cálidas y significativas en toda nuestra diócesis

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Formation Pro Tip

Don’t send out email blasts asking for warm bodies to show up and volunteer. Instead…

  • Shift your language from “volunteer” to “baptized minister and participant in our community”
  • Make a specific request from a specific person
  • Tell them why you think they would be a good fit for what you need. What gifts, skills, and talents to they bring to the table?
  • Invite them into a micro-formation by asking them to pray about it and discern before they give you an answer

Spotlight On…

Formation Leadership Summit: Exploring the Spiritual Imagination

November 19-21, 2026 at Camp Allen

Space is limited!!

Stewardship Resources

Advent Resources


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Join the upcoming Info Sessions

Online Oct. 22, 4pm CST

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Inter-Generational Prayer Partners: Where Kids and Elders Connect

Oración Meditativa/Contemplativa Semanal

Comienza el miércoles 30 de septiembre, en línea a las 6:30 p. m. EST

Weekly Contemplative Prayer

Begins Monday, September 21, Online at 6:30pm EST

Exploring the Incarnation Method of Prayer

Self-Guided Course, Online

Hip-Hop Musica Divina

Begins Thursday, September 24, Online at 7:30pm EST

New Video Series on the Sacraments!

Signos y gracia: Una introducción a los Sacramentos

Lectors Guide and Commentary Resources

Morning Prayer

Oración Matutina del Día


Formation News and Updates

Connection. Dialogue. Practice.

This time, we are excited to welcome Kathy Culmer to visit with us about stewardship and storytelling.

We meet the first Thursday of every month to gather and get updates on formation opportunities, share what’s working and what’s not, get new ideas for formation, and meet with other formation leaders (lay and clergy) from around the diocese!

(Offered in English and Spanish)

First Thursday of each month, 12-1pm CST

Esta vez, nos entusiasma dar la bienvenida a Kathy Culmer para conversar con nosotros sobre la corresponsabilidad (mayordomia) y el arte de contar historias.

Nos reunimos el primer jueves de cada mes para compartir novedades sobre las oportunidades de formación, conversar sobre lo que está dando fruto —y los desafíos que enfrentamos— en cada contexto, descubrir nuevas ideas para la formación y encontrarnos con otras personas que ejercen el liderazgo en la formación cristiana, tanto laicas como del clero, de toda la diócesis.

(Ofrecido en inglés y español)

Primer jueves de cada mes, 12-1 p.m. CST


Pathways of Vocation Initiative

Together, we are bridging the gap between being knowledgeable “about” our faith and becoming skillful faith practitioners.

We are all Christian practitioners of the good news, and our churches are communities of practice where we all attempt to live and learn into the shape of Jesus’s life and teachings together. We are Living and Learning Communities of faith practice, which we express both inside and outside of the church walls.

Juntos, estamos cerrando la brecha entre conocer nuestra fe y desarrollar las habilidades necesarias para vivirla y practicarla plenamente.

Todos somos personas cristianas que practicamos la Buena Nueva, y nuestras iglesias son comunidades de práctica donde, juntos, procuramos vivir y aprender a conformar nuestra vida según el ejemplo y las enseñanzas de Jesús. Somos comunidades vivas de fe, aprendizaje y práctica, y esa forma de vivir la fe la expresamos tanto dentro como fuera de los muros de la iglesia.

One way to engage in this formational work within the church is through Lay Licensed Ministry and Lay Micro-Certification. To find out more about Pathways of Vocation and Licensed Ministry, please visit our website for all the details you will need!

Una manera de participar en este proceso de formación dentro de la Iglesia es a través de los Ministerios con Licencia y las Microcertificaciones para el Ministerios Laicos. Para obtener más información sobre los Caminos de Vocación y los Ministerios con Licencia, visite nuestro sitio web, donde encontrará todos los detalles que necesita.


Faith & Deliberation Initiative

How can we love our neighbors if we don’t know how to get to know our neighbors?

How do we transform our churches into Living and Learning Communities as we live and learn into the shape of Jesus’s life and teachings…together?

It is time to become bridgebuilders and peacemakers within our churches and within our communities. Hubs of dialogue, deliberation, and discipleship.

Becoming a peacemaker is one goal of Jesus’s discipleship, and the Faith & Deliberation Initiative explores ways to live our this part of Jesus’s discipleship path.

¿Cómo podemos amar a nuestro prójimo si no sabemos cómo acercarnos a él y conocerlo?

¿Cómo transformamos nuestras iglesias en Comunidades Vivas de Aprendizaje, mientras juntos aprendemos y damos forma a nuestra vida según la vida y las enseñanzas de Jesús?

Ha llegado el momento de convertirnos en personas que tienden puentes y construyen la paz, tanto en nuestras iglesias como en nuestras comunidades: comunidades que sean centros de diálogo, discernimiento y discipulado.

Llegar a ser personas que construyen la paz es una de las metas del discipulado de Jesús, y la Iniciativa de Fe y Deliberación explora maneras de vivir este aspecto del camino del discipulado al que Jesús nos llama.


Noteworthy Formation Posts


Noteworthy Podcasts


This episode of We Belong to Each Other features Dr. Tony Baker. Tony is professor of systematic theology at Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, TX. He is also Formation Leader and Theologian in Residence at St. Julian of Norwich Episcopal Church in Austin. In this episode, he shares with us his bridgebuilding insights into theological education and lifelong formation within the church, and we are deeply grateful for his wisdom into formation leadership..

Artwork by Angela Hider, EDOT Senior Graphic and Creative Designer

Editing by Daniel Villarreal, EDOT Webmaster, Videographer, and Social Media Coordinator

Songwriting and Music by Kelley McRae, EDOT Area Missioner


Resources and more…

Serve at Happening

Happening #189

Nov 20-22, 2026

Formation Certificate: Iona School

Formación certificado: Escuela Iona

Formation Micro-Grant

Microbeca de formación

Faith & Deliberation

Fe y deliberación

Continuing Ed Grant (Clergy)

Continuing Ed Grant (Lay)


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