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Your Community is Calling: Practical Steps to Cultivating a Mixed Ecology in Your Context

Are you feeling as if your congregation is stuck, disconnected, or unsure how to engage the community around you?

Many ministry leaders are sensing a quiet pull toward something more relational, responsive, and Spirit-led—but aren’t sure where to start.

What you’ll gain:

A clear understanding of the “mixed ecology” and why it matters
Expanded imagination for what church can look like in your context
Tools to identify overlooked neighbors and emerging leaders
A deeper sense of freedom and clarity in your call
Concrete steps to begin exploring a mixed ecology in your setting

In this members-only workshop with the Rev. Dr. Dwight Zscheile, Your Community is Calling: Practical Steps to Cultivating a Mixed Ecology in Your Context, you’ll learn how to take that first faithful step.

Together, we’ll explore what a “mixed ecology” of church really is, and why it’s vital for reaching neighbors who might never feel comfortable walking through the doors of a traditional church. You’ll learn how to identify emerging leaders in your ministry, discern where God is already at work, and take concrete steps to nurture fresh expressions of church alongside inherited forms.

Join us to be grounded in practical tools and spiritual imagination for faithful leadership!

Event Details

July 24, 2025
12:00 pm

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1:30 pm CT

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The Rev. Dr. Dwight Zscheile
Vice President of Innovation and Professor of Congregational Mission and Leadership

The Rev. Dr. Dwight Zscheile is vice president of innovation and professor of congregational mission and leadership at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.

He is the author of Embracing the Mixed Ecology (with Blair Pogue, Seabury Books, 2025), Leading Faithful Innovation: Following God into a Hopeful Future (with Michael Binder and Tessa Pinkstaff, Fortress, 2023), Participating in God’s Mission: A Theological Missiology for the U.S. (with Craig Van Gelder, Eerdmans, 2018), The Agile Church: Spirit-Led Innovation in an Uncertain Age (Morehouse Publishing, 2014), People of the Way: Renewing Episcopal Identity (Morehouse Publishing, 2012) and The Missional Church in Perspective: Mapping Trends and Shaping the Conversation (with Craig Van Gelder, Baker Academic, 2011) and editor of Cultivating Sent Communities: Missional Spiritual Formation (Eerdmans, 2012).

A graduate of Stanford University (BA), Yale University (MDiv) and Luther Seminary (PhD, Congregational Mission and Leadership), Dwight previously served congregations in Minnesota, Virginia and Connecticut. Dwight’s experience growing up in a secular home in California has shaped his commitment to helping the church cultivate Christian community with neighbors in today’s changing world.

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