We regularly offer workshops as part of a conversation designed for leaders who want to cultivate faith communities for the sake of their city and the most vulnerable. We hope that these workshops help leaders work towards creating cities of peace for all people – that is our mission at Street Psalms.

All of the workshops are open to all who wish to join us.

About the Workshops

Each year, we host five different workshops connected to one of the five chapters in our primary text, See.Do.Be.Free. While you can complete the workshops in as little as one year, the kind of conversation we have in mind gets worked out in community, over time, and always in context. All of these workshops are designed for those who are embedded within a local community where they can work out the implications of the conversations over the long haul. We hope to jump start a conversation with your leadership team who will become your primary learning community.

In the first workshop, Missioned Into Being, we trace the origins of the church or ekklesia that Jesus called forth with these words: “As the father sent me so I send you.” Throughout the field guide and the workshops we refer to this gathering as a Community in Mission. What’s on offer here is a practical ecclesiology. This vision of the church forms the basis of all that follows. The remaining workshops focus on the various tasks necessary to activate and sustain such a community.

The second workshop, called the Incarnational Hermeneutic, focuses on the interpretive task of a Community in Mission. We explore Jesus’ way of interpreting reality – his way of seeing God, reading Scripture and making sense of life itself – especially with those who have suffered. We often refer to this as “doing theology from below.” It reveals the Good News of God’s solidarity with the scapegoated victims of history.

The third workshop, called Incarnational Method, focuses on the formational task of a Community in Mission. We consider Jesus’s highly relational method of formation known as induction.

The fourth workshop, called Incarnational Design, focuses on the creational task of a community in mission and our call to participate in the ongoing act of creation. Here we consider two chief technologies:  the technology of sacrifice and the technology of mercy – two very different ways of participating in creation.

The final workshop, called Incarnational Framework, focuses on the evaluative task of a Community in Mission. We consider the underlying questions regarding Jesus’s way of seeing, doing and being, and how it frees us to love and serve. Leaders will be able to use a validated diagnostic tool to assess their own work.