DATES
Fridays during Lent, 12:30-1:30 PST via Zoom
March 7 – begins after Ash Wednesday
March 14
March 21
March 28
April 4
April 11 – completed prior to Holy Week
BOOK OPTIONS
Choose from the following list of books and read/discuss with a small group. Please email your book selection to Erika at info@selahcenter.org so we can keep track of group sizes.
Here This Flesh by Cole Arthur Riley
Turning Over Tables – A Lenten Call for Disrupting Power by Kathy Escobar
How to Fight Racism by Jemar Tisby
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
STRUCTURE
- Introduction
- Centering Prayer (10 min)
- Explore one of the prompts as a large group
- Meet in the same breakout group each week
- Closing Prayer
Mary will lead the first and last session in the large group. The other sessions will be in small groups of 4-5.
COMMITMENT
- Attend every week (grace given for sickness)
- Willingness and vulnerability to engage in conversation and centering prayer during online time
- Explore and respond to the prompts given in the book
- Purchase the book on your own
COST
The suggested donation to Selah is $60. No obligation.
FACILITATOR
Dr. Mary Pandiani, D.Min, serves as Selah’s Executive Director, leading the community and organization into future possibilities. Mary has served in various capacities for Selah, including as a founding board member, seminar/group leader, and co-facilitator for Selah’s extended programs, Living From The Heart and Way of the Heart. Mary is a spiritual director and coach, co-facilitator for a spiritual direction training program, and advisor for doctoral students. Mary received her Doctorate of Ministry at Portland Seminary, and her work focuses on a posture of contemplative living across the seasons of life. Her foundation starts with a love for the God who wants to be known and a desire to help others to pause-notice-listen-respond in ways that lead to a deeper understanding of God’s divine invitation. With the support of her husband Bill, Mary serves Selah while also enjoying her family of four adult daughters and their families. Mary lives in Gig Harbor WA where she knows the value of beauty in creation and the gift of community.