Tackling the Tough Issues

Adult Forum will kick off the 2009-2010 adult education program on September 13, after the 10 a.m. service. All are invited to come to this series, which is entitled “Tackling the Tough Issues.” Adult spiritual formation at St. Peter’s seeks to raise the deeper questions concerning how our faith touches upon the issues of today. We examine how we respond to these issues as individuals, as a community, and as a society in the light of Jesus’ teachings.

In view of the economic recession and its ramifications throughout society, we will begin the program year by taking a look at our own personal experience of money as we were growing up. We will examine how the economic situation affects everyone – people in church, friends and family, the poor, the homeless. The emotional and spiritual pain ripples through every level of our society, often hitting all too close to home. We will ask ourselves do we see this economic moment as a moral and spiritual crisis as well? How are we living differently? What virtues and practical resources are we drawing on? Where are we looking for leadership in our own lives?

Watch the service leaflets for more information as we get closer to September 13. Child care is provided for our youngest kids during Adult Forum and the Younger and Older Elementary classes will be in session. So please plan to come to Adult Forum. Lend your voice to the conversation as we tackle the tough issues.