EFM: Education for Ministry

EFM: Education for Ministry

Tuesdays, 6:30–9 p.m.

Fertile ground to grow your faith

The Education for Ministry (EfM) program is now accepting new students for the 2021-2022 year. EfM at the Cathedral meets on Tuesdays from 6:30 to 9 p.m. starting September 7, 2021. This fall we will resume meeting in person and will meet in the Mellinger Room in the Latham Building. Due to strong interest, a second group is now being opened. It will be a morning group that meets at 9:30 to noon. The day of the week will be determined by the group once the class has made.

Like the mustard seed, we need fertile soil to grow. EfM is the fertile soil and we are the mustard seeds. Learning about the Old and New testaments, church history, and discovering theology is the light shining on the soil, warming it so the seed will sprout.

Bringing the light of what we learn to share in an intimate group setting each week allows for insights and growth — new affirmations and understandings — that can sustain and support us in our lives as Christians living day-to-day in the world.

EfM was developed by the School of Theology of the University of the South to introduce lay persons to theology their clergy studied. We meet in small groups on the parish level. The seminar group is the nucleus of the EFM program. A group consists of six to twelve participants and a trained mentor meeting weekly over the course of a nine-month academic year. The course content includes Old Testament, New Testament, church history, and theology.

For information on tuition, registration, or about EfM in general contact Lucy Wagner at [email protected].