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Summer Session 2020

Register for Summer School
BKSM's summer session provides you with a variety of continuing education opportunities, whether you are ordained, a current seminarian, or a lay leader. These offerings are not part of the regular schedule of courses offered at BKSM, and they vary from year to year.

While it is our intention to offer these classes face-to-face, we will continue to watch COVID-19 developments carefully as the summer draws closer, and we will let you know if the entire class must be moved to Zoom-based instruction. However,  you may register to participate via Zoom at any time.

The cost for summer courses is $100. Breakfast and lunch are on your own, though drinks (coffee, tea, soft drinks, water) are provided throughout the day.  If you wish to stay at Upton Hall, the charge is an extra $40.

Unless special arrangements are made through Dean Don Compier, all classes are audited classes with no grades, though your participation will be noted on a transcript.  For the richest classroom experience, students are highly encouraged to prepare for face-to-face instruction by completing all assigned reading ahead of time.


Leadership Reboot
 Saturday, May 30 & Saturday, June 6
9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon


Special Note:   The registration deadline for this class is Saturday, May 9 in order to have time to obtain and read course materials prior to face-to-face instruction. Due to the nature of the classroom experience, this course is limited to 12 participants.
 
This seminar is ideal for all pastoral leaders – ordained and unordained, official and unofficial, veteran pastors and those in the initial stages of preparation, Parish Ministry Associate students and those simply interested in leadership – who value a confidential and caring context in which to:
  • understand more clearly the distinction between technical and adaptive challenges and changes
  • want to explore and make progress on a current or looming challenge or dilemma;
  • learn about their appropriate role in conflict
  • address how, in this time of dramatic change, we as leaders remain attentive to the voices of those around us while listening even more closely to God’s call to us.
 Our experience will be our classroom.  Please read the previous sentence again.  This classroom is designed as a safe, supportive environment, and, as is true in much of life, students will benefit to the degree that they invest themselves in the learning process. Where do you face a difficult challenge, where do you feel stuck and you want to make progress? Dealing with this dilemma will be at the hard of the seminar.

About Your Instructor
  • The Rev. Roger Gustafson is bishop emeritus of the Central States Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.  Prior to serving as bishop, he was a co-pastor of Advent Lutheran Church, Olathe.  He earned his Master of Divinity degree with honors from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in Berkeley, California, and his Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota.  He has served as dean of the Kansas City-area ELCA churches, and chaired the Church Planters missions team in the Kansas City area.  He recently received certification as an ELCA coach.


Engaging in Meaningful Conversation Amid Disagreement
Saturday, July 18 (moved from June 20)
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., with an hour for lunch (on your own)


In this highly polarized and contentious time, we find it increasingly difficult to have meaningful conversation with people with whom we disagree, be it in our families, among our friends and co-workers, or within our church circles.  How do we better navigate such conversations as followers of Jesus? This course, back by popular demand, offers a variety of perspectives and approaches, grounded in both theology and interpersonal communications.

Your InstructorThe Rev.  Arthur Rathbun has been an ordained priest for 57 years. He holds a BS in Psychology from Penn State, an MDiv from General Theological School, and an MS in Counseling from Kansas State University. He has had advance training from Menningers and other places in self regulation training. Fr. Art worked  30 years at the  Kansas State University counseling center, where he did some conflict resolution work. He also taught a large number of classes at K-State. In addition to serving as vicar of many small church and as a college chaplain, Fr. Art. was  dean of Christ Cathedral, Salina. He has been a colloquium facilitator for third-year students on the priest track at Bishop Kemper School for Ministry for the past nine years.
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Stress Management for Clergy and Lay Leaders
Saturday, July 25, 2020
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., with an hour for lunch (on your own)

 Being a leader in any organization can be stressful. Leadership in the church has unique stressors that can make it more stressful than leadership in other organizations. Church leaders need to be a non-anxious presence, which in many cases is not easy to do. Managing stress can be helpful in accomplishing this. Learning to manage stress can be very beneficial for church leaders, both for themselves and for the churches they serve. This course is designed to help church leaders identify the effects of stress on mind, body and spirit and how it can be managed in positive ways.
 
About Your Instructor
  • The Rev.  Arthur Rathbun has been an ordained priest for 57 years. He holds a BS in Psychology from Penn State, an MDiv from General Theological School, and an MS in Counseling from Kansas State University. Fr. Art has taught Stress Management at K-State for 25 year and has lectured widely on this topic around the country.  Additionally, he has had advance training from Menningers and other places in self-regulation training. Fr. Art worked for 30 years at the Kansas State University Counseling Center. In addition to serving as vicar of many small church and as a college chaplain, Fr. Art was the dean of Christ Cathedral, Salina. He has been a colloquium facilitator for third-year students on the priest track at Bishop Kemper School for Ministry for the past nine years.
Register for Summer School
Address for Tuition Payments/Donations:
The Very Rev. Don Compier, BKSM Dean
410 SE Independence Ave.

Lee’s Summit, MO 64063
Physical Address:
Bishop Kemper School for Ministry

701 SW 8th Avenue
Topeka, KS 66603

The Bishop Kemper School for Ministry is a collaborative venture of the Episcopal Dioceses of Kansas, West Missouri, Nebraska and Western Kansas.
BKSM also partners with the Central States Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
BKSM offers classes and programs to educate people for church leadership in both lay and ordained vocations.