Changing the Conversation: Restoring Compassion, Courage, and Connection

Ken Shuman
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What a year we are experiencing! It does not take much awareness to recognize the tone and the impact of the public conversation that is going on around us. Pandemic anxiety, racial tension, political clashes, uncertainty about the future…all of this plus the normal tensions and struggles of life! Yes, it is a lot.

More than ever, we are convinced that Faithwalking can be a vital part of helping people stay calm, engaged, and living on mission in their communities. We continue to hear from Faithwalking participants how grateful they are during this time for the tools they have learned during the process.

What keeps the vital mission of Faithwalking alive? While there are many important parts to the answer, funding is essential. To that end, we are launching our annual funding campaign: Changing the Conversation: Restoring Compassion, Courage, and Connection.

We are extending to you an important opportunity to ensure the critical mission of Faithwalking continues for years to come. Our goal is to raise $35,000 by the end of 2020 as well as commitments from 120 monthly donors (giving $15, $25, or $55 per month) to put us in a strong position heading into the new year.

Your support is crucial; Faithwalking cannot exist without you. You can help us by: supporting Faithwalking financially  and participating in our wonderings as we explore what it looks like to change the ongoing conversation.

Your support will allow us to continue to create and maintain spaces for alternative conversations such as those happening in our Faithwalking podcast and our Spaces for Wholeness groups and to continue to offer classes for those exploring how to be fully human and fully alive while on mission for God.

We hope you are able to grant yourself some compassion and grace in these troubling times, and we look forward to your participation with us.

Please consider supporting Faithwalking through:

Giving. Help us reach our financial goal this year. We are praying and hoping for:

$35,000 by the end of 2020 in one-time donations, plus

– 60 monthly donors of $15 per month

– 40 monthly donors of $25 per month

– 20 monthly donors of $55 per month

Would you consider becoming a monthly donor according to your capacity?

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Pledge or contact us to arrange your giving

 

60 monthly donors of $15 per month

4 Donors 60 Donors

40 monthly donors of $25 per month

25 Donors 40 Donors

20 monthly donors of $55 per month

1 Donors 20 Donors

One-time donations for a total of $35,000

$37,501 $35,000

 

Would you consider becoming a monthly donor according to your capacity?

Donate

Pledge or contact us to arrange your giving

Praying. Help us by committing to pray for us weekly.

We need discernment, wisdom, and provision of human and financial resources to make Faithwalking possible and accessible. Join our intercessor team.

Promoting. Help us promote the work of Faithwalking: like and share our posts, and post about our work.

There are several ways people can learn about Faithwalking at no cost. Help us promote:

The Faithwalking podcast

Spaces for Wholeness groups

The Faithwalking Facebook page

Please also help us promote our

Faithwalking Foundations modules and Ongoing Education offerings

 

On the journey with you,

Ken, Angela, and Marcos

 

Emails and resources sent during the 2020 Online Campaign

  1. Launching email (11/5): Changing the Conversation: Restoring Compassion, Courage, and Connection
  2. Week 2 (11/12): How do we change the current conversation?
  3. Week 3 (11/19): Restoring compassion to the current conversation
  4. Week 4 (11/26): “Gratitude creates abundance.” – Ann Voskamp – Thanksgiving Day
  5. Week 5 (12/03): Restoring courage. It takes courage to hope. It takes courage to rejoice.
  6. Week 6 (12/10): Restoring connection. Having a vision for how you want to show up in conversations really matters.
  7. Week 7 (12/17): How do we keep the alternative conversation going?
  8. Week 8 (12/24): Light the Christmas candles! Our 2020 Christmas meditation.
  9. Week 9 (12/31 – Final week): We are ready to have 2020 in our rearview mirror!

 

Why Faithwalking?

We believe that God’s intended design is for wholeness in individuals, communities, and the world. We believe that God’s hope is for shalom to be present, which includes peace, unity, completeness, wholeness, and well-being for everyone and in everyone. God’s hope is for the Kingdom to come on earth as it is in heaven.

We live in a world of brokenness: People are chronically anxious and reactive, internally conflicted, frequently unloving, and regularly unconcerned about the common good. Many Christians are inconsistent in following the way of Jesus.

Our Mission

To make wholeness possible for individuals, communities, and the world.

We do this through a process of spiritual formation where people are equipped with tools to gain freedom from wounds of their past, grow in emotional maturity, and live lives of purpose on mission with God, so that they increasingly follow the way of Jesus by serving the poor, the marginalized, and those in need, working for the common good, and restoring individuals, social systems, communities, and nations to God’s intended design.

Our Vision

Our vision is for Faithwalking to be accessible to every person in the world so that participants become agents of wholeness in their own context.

Recent episodes from this series

How do we be angry and sin not?

In this episode Ken Shuman and a group of Faithwalkers reflect on anger. How do we be angry and sin not? The focused scripture is from James 1:20, Ephesians 4:31, Proverbs 29:11, and John 2. This conversation was recorded in July of 2023.

Christian Certainty: How do we love each other during differences to a watching world?

In this episode Tammy DeRuyter and a group of Faithwalkers reflect on Christian certainty. How do we love each other during differences to a watching world? The focused scripture is from Luke 1 - 4. This conversation was recorded in July of 2023.

Jesus calls Levi and Eats with Sinners

In this episode Ken Shuman and a group of Faithwalkers reflect on the story of when Jesus calls Levi and eats with sinners. When you come to scripture are you curious? The focused scripture is from Mark 2:13-17. This conversation was recorded in July of 2023.

Free forgiveness for everyone?

In this episode Ken Shuman and a group of Faithwalkers reflect on forgiveness. Could it be that part of the kingdom message is to announce free forgiveness to everyone? The focused scripture is from Mark 2. This conversation was recorded in June of 2023.

When We Interpret Scripture We Must Start with Jesus

In this episode Ken Shuman reflects on how when we interpret scripture, we must start with Jesus. If this were the only thing I believed about Jesus, what would it be? The focused scripture is from Mark 2. This recording was in June of 2023.