“People and their leaders will come from all over to see what’s going on. The leaders will confer with one another: ‘Shouldn’t we try to get in on this? Get in on God’s blessings? Pray to God-of-the-Angel-Armies? What’s keeping us? Let’s go!” -Zechariah 8:20-21, MSG
Click the button below to sign up or ask a question about this group. Our hope is you would be able to make most if not all the 8 sessions. We know unexpected things come up. That’s okay, but the more you participate the more your spirit will benefit from this practice with others.
Meet Your Facilitators:
Rachel Hebert
Rachel has helped lead and engaged in campus ministry off and on since 2011, and has recently moved to Delaware to embark on a new position as the campus minister for the PEACE Center (Presbyterian Episcopalian Alliance for Campus Engagement) at the University of Delaware. When she’s off the clock, Rachel enjoys cooking, exploring their new home on the East Coast with her husband James, and taking naps with and cuddling with their two cats, Meg and Beth. Peterson House is glad to have Rachel helping to co-facilitate another group. She brings a wonderful sensitivity to the text and a heart to help others honor that space however the Spirit is moving for them.
JohnRogers
John is the director of Peterson House. He previously served as campus pastor at University Presbyterian Church in Chapel Hill, NC. John Also served as the campus chaplain at McCallie School in Chattanooga, TN and as the pastor at Center Presbyterian Church in Tellico Plains, TN. John Lives in Carrboro, NC with his family. It is a joy of his to help create small groups for a wide range of people to sit in Scripture with others in unhurried delight. John is not sure if anyone really understands what he is doing in ministry these days, but simply, he is helping people have a deep and meaningful experience with the text on its own terms. He hopes your work brings you as much satisfaction Peterson House does for him.
Our Hope
For This Small Group
What we hold right now seems heavy and so we return to prophets for encouragement. We need words of truth that will remind us that we are equipped for a time like, well, any time. We turn our attention to 8 texts to sit with them slowly, deliberately, attentively, with one another, and see how the Spirit wants to lead. The texts we will reflect on are not in the genre of judgment, rather, they are words of encouragement and hope.
Over 8 sessions we will look at the prophetic word spoken over Israel at a time of their late exilic period, mostly when they have returned to the land after exile. It is a mess. It is not what they expected or the picture painted so romantically by their ancestors who loved it so.
Each session there will be a short pericope as a lectio from one of the prophets below. This is not a study of these books, rather, we borrow from the Ignatian practices to sit with a morsel of it an have it read over us several times, sit with it in a quiet space, and share how it is the Spirit is stirring. We would love to hear what the Spirit is stirring in you.
The textual flow for this series will be:
Ezekiel 3
Isaiah 56
Isaiah 60
Isaiah 66
Joel 2
Haggai 1
Zechariah 7
Ezra 1