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Resources: Practical Training

Lifelong Learning

Lifelong Learning can include many things. In addition to traditional CEU credits, you might want to consider working with your diocese to developing a plan based on your gifts and strengths and how best to acquire any new skills you many need. Resources can be explored based on your plan, and the plan can alter as needed.

Mondays in May Seminar Series, from DOTAC ​
Perspectives on the Diakonia of All Believers
  • May 1: Deacon Darryl W. Stephens, PhD
  • May 8: Deaconess Norma Dollaga
  • May 15: Pästeur Parfait Ekoume
  • May 22: Man-Hei Yip, PhD
  • May 29: Deacon Mary Elizabeth Moore, PhD
Download the flyer. Details and contact. 

CALL online courses (Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership)
Open to all and designed so students can participate at their own pace. Each course is 7 weeks, each week a separate lesson. Continuing Education Units are offered at the rate of 2 CEUs per course. Members of AED receive a discounted rate.

Spring: April 10-May 29
The Prophets
What We Believe
Changing Church: Missional Practices
The Anglican Bible
The Diaconal Hermeneutic
Introduction to Liberation Theology
Church History: Reformation
The Sensual Gospel of John
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Course descriptions and registration.
​Fees: $245; $215 AED rate (For AED memberships paid by the individual, not diocese). 

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Deacons Talking on the Road to Emmaus
Free webinars
2nd Mondays, 8:00-9:00 pm ET
​Deacons share stories from their ministries, explore case studies, offer peer wisdom and feedback, and exchange mutual support. 
Details and upcoming talks. Scroll down to the image of Jesus and the disciples walking.

​Sign up to receive notices and registration for upcoming Deacons Talking webinars.
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Recordings of recent talks: 
  • Why did it take so long to get here, with Paul Nelson
  • Intersection of poverty and mental health challenges, with John Ray
  • ​Tiny Houses for People who are Homeless, with Connie Campbell Pearson
  • Diaconal Identity for the 21st century, with Lori Mills-Curran
  • The Sin of Racism and Becoming Beloved Community, with Ted Moore
  • Indigenous Ministries, with Tina Campbell
  • ​Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, with Jason Burns
  • Serving deacons & The Fund for the Diaconate, with Theresa Lewallen
  • Path Of Hope, with Leslie-Ann Drake
  • Ministry with those with Hearing Loss, with Gene Bourquin
  • Sanctuary Ministry, Emily Austin
  • The Power of WE: Partnerships & Collaborations, Fatima Yakubu-Madus
  • Growing a Shelter & Social Services During Pandemic, with Barb Weza
  • Church Planting, with Denise LaVetty
  • Family Systems, with Nancy Ford

Additional recordings available on the Video Archive and Vimeo. 
​Sponsored by Bexley Seabury Seminary and AED


Webinar series on the diaconate  - CEEP Network
  • The Word and the World: The Preaching Role of Vocational Deacons
  • ​Deacons and the Future of Expanding Ministry
  • Many Servants: Deacons Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
That deacon on YouTube
  • Diaconal Ordination Process: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, 2022
  • Retreat using MP3 players, 8/2017
  • Exorbitant rents leads to 21st Century Serfs, 5/2017
  • Women's March & Nature, 1/2017
  • The Diakonia Of All Believers Conference, 11/2016. W/Susanne Watson Epting
  • Ending a ministry, 10/2016​

  • Charter for Lifelong Christian Formation
  • Meaning Making from Experience: Five questions to help you reflect on an experience
  • Project Worksheet: Questions to help you identify goals of a learning project
  • Learning Project: Proposal and Contract
  • Workshop Outline: Developing skills & competence for ministry​​​
  • Lifelong Learning and Ministry, Deacons Phina Borgeson, John Willets, 2005
Post Ordination Formation, Canon III.7 Section 4 (f), Diocese of Maryland

Learning Institutions 
  • ChurchNext: Learning in scripture, liturgy, prayer, self-care, history & theology
  • Forma: A ministry of Episcopal Church Foundation and partnered with the Office for Formation Ministries 
  • Coursera: Learn from leading universities and companies
  • Lifelong Learning, at Virginia Theological Seminary
​Canadian Institutions
  • ​Thorneloe University
  • University of Waterloo
  • Athabasca University

Beyond Ourselves: What Deacons Teach Us
This issue of Pathways Magazine is devoted to Deacons. Diocese of Atlanta 2011.
Your membership in AED enables us to provide these and other valuable resources. Thank you.

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AED is a membership association of persons and dioceses within The Episcopal Church whose mission is to increase participation and involvement of all baptized persons in Christ's diaconal ministry, especially by promoting and supporting the diaconate.
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