AAPC Southeast Region Newsletter December 2015 The SE Region is Buzzing! Read on to find out what all the buzz is about. Work is beginning on the many projects we approved at Kanuga, including facilitating more continuing education, webbased learning, and chapter formation; new creative ideas continue to emerge! More than ever, we feel the strength of our connections to one another, and we are inspired and curious about how we will shape and serve the world around us. In the coming weeks and months we will be in regular communication with you as our work and life together unfold. In this newsletter, you’ll find Robert Cooke's invitation to theological reflection, John Eddinger’s update on the current status of AAPC certification, and a few photos from Andrew Gee along the way. Thank you for reading, and thank you for being a part of the AAPC Southeast Region! Russell Siler Jones, Chair Kathryn Summers, ViceChair
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AAPC Southeast Region Newsletter
December 2015
The SE Region is Buzzing! Read on to find out what all the buzz is about.
Work is beginning on the many projects we approved at Kanuga, including facilitating more continuing education, webbased learning, and chapter formation; new creative ideas continue to emerge! More than ever, we feel the strength of our connections to one another, and we are inspired and curious about how we will shape and serve the world around us. In the coming weeks and months we will be in regular communication with you as our work and life together unfold.
In this newsletter, you’ll find Robert Cooke's invitation to theological reflection, John Eddinger’s update on the current status of AAPC certification, and a few photos from Andrew Gee along the way.
Thank you for reading, and thank you for being a part of the AAPC Southeast Region!
Russell Siler Jones, Chair Kathryn Summers, ViceChair
An Invitation To Do What We Do Best... by Robert Cooke, Chair of Theological and Social Concerns
On the Friday we met at Kanuga, I found myself trying to fold a fitted sheet with its round corners.
The sheet refused to fit neatly into my agenda!!! It was impossible to make it square…aargh!!!!
Eventually I gave up, laughed at myself, and headed for Hendersonville.
Being at the SE Regional Meeting was a similar, wonderfully frustrating experience. There were so
many emotional moments that my capacity to fold the experience neatly was overwhelmed. I wish
the conversations we shared during the business sessions, walking on the grounds, the marvelous
seminars and plenaries, and “Pickin’ and Grinnin’” could go on and on.
Maybe the conversations can and should continue. Perhaps we can engage as a region in theological
reflection for more than one weekend per year! In the spirit of opening ongoing community
conversation, I invite you to share with me and the Region your theological ponderings on any aspect
of this year’s meeting. You may even be published, in the newsletter or on the website!
There is much to reflect upon: the process of revisioning the Southeast Region, the hope and grief we
feel, what it means to be connected to each other as professionals and as chosen family. Or you
might choose to reflect on Dr. Atkinson’s presentations: “What does it mean to call people to
repentance (to lay down their weapons)? How do we do that as pastoral clinicians? What does it
mean to be embodied in the ways Atkinson described, that our emotions/bodies are so foundational
to our choice/free-will — where is spirit in that understanding?
So, what touched you about the experience of being at Kanuga, or perhaps not being there? Would
you share it with the Southeast Region? Please send your notes, essays, pictures, songs, drawings,