Core Track

Street Psalms offers a Core Track that is free and open to anyone who wishes to participate. It will be most beneficial for those leading, or planning to lead, a local community in mission. All of the content is self-paced, and combines both synchronous and asynchronous opportunities. The Core Track may take 12-24 months or more to complete, depending on your capacity.

The curriculum of the Core Track also serves as a pre-requisite for both the Novitiate Track and Fellowship Track of the Street Psalms Seminary.

Register

There is no application to participate in the Core Track; to join the community, please complete this brief registration form. You can register at any time, and will self-report when you have completed the requirements.

Elements of the Core Track

Curriculum: We have developed a suite of resources ordered around five separate but highly interrelated areas that point toward how to pursue the common good of the city to which you belong. We suggest reading the corresponding chapter first, then attending the connected workshop, and then completing the online course for each topic area. These resources include:

• The See.Do.Be.Free. book, which is our primary text of the Incarnational Leadership Program at the Street Psalms Seminary.
• Five core workshops, which can be taken in any order and are offered annually live and online to connect the community to one another:
  • Becoming a Community in Mission: Outlines the kind of community Jesus breathed into existence – one that is capable of both individual and systemic transformation.
  • Incarnational Hermeneutic: Helps a community in mission read and interpret Scripture with Easter eyes, and engage reality with the “intelligence of the victim.”
  • Incarnational Model: Examine how Jesus inducted his disciples into their shared humanity, and what that means for the task of formation common to a community in mission.
  • Incarnational Design: A co-creative process that invites us to participate in the ongoing act of Creation, essential for a community in mission to be an agent of innovation in the world.
  • Incarnational Framework: We allow Jesus’ way of seeing, doing and being (and how it frees him to love and serve) to examine our own lives and the community in mission we serve.
• Five online courses, which are asynchronous and can be completed in any order. Set up an account to save your progress and keep track of your course completion.

Community Rhythms: Street Psalms offers ongoing rhythms, including daily prayer, weekly lectionary reflections, and a monthly Commons service. Our global community is an important part of the experience, and we highly encourage participation in any rhythms offered.

Contextualization: All of the elements of the tracks offered as part of the Incarnational Leadership Program are designed for those who are embedded within a local community where they can work out the implications of the conversation over the long haul. Street Psalms’ role is to jump start a conversation that gets worked out in the context of the participant. A community in mission in Nairobi operates differently from a community in mission in Manila or Denver. Those who are not embedded in a local community where they can work out the practical implications of this conversation over time will lack the main ingredient necessary to make the content come alive.