Discerning a Public Ministry

A Skills Workshop with Quaker Leadership Center

ONLINE AT POWELL HOUSE
SEPTEMBER 19TH, 2024
7:00PM - 9:00PM EASTERN

Join Powell House in the first of three skills workshops co-sponsored by Quaker Leadership Center. This workshop explores how a local worshipping community and an individual Friend might respond together to a call to public ministry. What is a call and what is necessary to be accountable and supported in it?

Co-facilitated by Andy Stanton-Henry and Windy Cooler on Thursday, September 19th at 7pm to 9pm Eastern

Andy Stanton-Henry is a writer and Quaker minister living in East Tennessee with his spouse Ashlyn, ten laying hens, and three dogs. Andy serves as Associate Director of the Quaker Leadership Center and co-pastors Lost Creek Friends Church with Ashlyn. He is a graduate of Barclay College and Earlham School of Religion. Andy carries a concern for rural ministry, leading him to publish his book Recovering Abundance: Twelve Practices for Small-Town Leaders. 

Windy Cooler is a member of Sandy Spring Meeting in Baltimore Yearly Meeting. She describes herself as a practical theologian, public minister, good Quaker pirate, and cultural worker. Windy has been an embraced public minister since 2018, traveling widely among Friends with a concern for communities in crisis and Quaker family life. She was co-editor of Friends Journal’s News section (2018-23); the Pendle Hill 2020 Cadbury Scholar, a 2022-23 fellow of the interfaith NGO Odyssey Impact, and a current doctoral candidate at Lancaster Theological Seminary.

She has served as the convener of Ben Lomond Quaker Center and Powell House's Testimonies to Mercy, a seven-part traveling retreat series on the future of Quakerism featuring nine public ministers; and Life and Power, an international discernment project on abuse. She holds a master of divinity from Earlham School of Religion. You can read her series on public ministry, written for FGC, here: https://www.fgcquaker.org/category/news/public-ministry/