Engagement

Bible Study: To know what the Bible says and how it intersects with my life .

Care of the Earth: To honor the Creator by loving, nurturing, and stewarding his creation.

Confession and Self:Examination: To surrender my weaknesses and faults to the forgiving love of Christ and intentinally desire and embrace practices that lead to transformation.

Lectio Divina/ Devotional Reading: To prayerfully encounter and surrender to the living God through attending to Scripture.

Fixed-Hour Prayer: To stop my work and pray using consistent patterns of attending to God throughout the day..

Gratitude: To be sensitive to the Holy Spirit’s prompting to live with a grateful heart, cognizant of God’s work in my life and my abundant resources.

Holy Communion: To be nourished by Christ, tasting the sweet depths of redemption.

Iconography: To open myself to knowing God through the visual shorthand of icons, which portray the lives of biblical characters, events, and seasoned saints.

Intercessory Prayer: To turn my concerns and worries tinto rprayer; to enter God;s heart for the world and then pray from there .

Meditation: To more deeply gaze on God through the written Word and the created order.

Memorization: To carry the life:shaping words of God in me at all times and in all places.

Pilgrimage: To go on an outer journey that will lead me closer to God.

Practicing the Presence: To develop a continual openness and awareness of Christ’s presence living in me.

Prayer of Lament: To take my complaints, anger, sufferings, frustrations, and heartaches to God.

Prayer of Recollection: To rest in God, allowing him to calm and heal my fragmented and distracted self, letting go of distractions and recall my soul to its true center and identity in Christ .

Praying Scripture: To allow God to shape my prayer life through the words of Scripture.

Prayer Walking: To align myself, while walking in paticular places, with Christ and his intercession for the kingdom to come .

Service: To reflect the helping, caring, and sharing love of God in the world.

Solidarity in Jesus’ Sufferings: To be with Jesus in my pain an in his pain .

Spiritual Direction: To give caring attention to my relatonship with God, accomplanied by the prayerful prsence of someone who helps me listen well to God.

Stewardship: To live as a steward of God’s resources in all areas of life; to live out of the awareness that nothing I have is my own .

Truth Telling: To live an authentially truthful life that involves speaking in a way that does not exaggerate, minimize, deny, rationalize or manage the truth .

Visio Divina: To worship God in the beauty of created things.

Welcoming Prayer: To welcome Jesus into every part of my life, body, circumstances, and relationships and attach to his presence instead of my need to be secure, liked, and in control .

Witness: To reveal the life:changing love of Jesus to others .

Worship: To honor and adore the Trinity as the supreme treasure of life.