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2024-2025 calendar.

Note: this calendar is tentative

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Module 1

     September 22

          Mentor planning/training

     September 23

          Preaching slam

     September 23-25

          In-person gathering in Des Moines

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Module 2

     October 9

          All-cohort Zoom meeting

          Speaker: Julie Smith, Lutheran Congregations in Mission with Christ

          Topic: Preaching the Law

     October 15

          Guide check-in with individual fellows

     Week of October 20

          Small group Zoom meetings

     October 29

          Congregational sermon feedback

          Sermon whisperers feedback on lament psalms

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Module 3

     November 13

          All-cohort Zoom meeting

          Speaker: Hans Wiersma, Augsburg University

          Topic: Bondage of the Will

     November 12

         Guide check-in with individual fellows

     Week of November 17

          Small group Zoom meetings

     Week of November 24

          Congregational sermon feedback          

          Sermon whisperers feedback on trust psalms

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Module 4

     December 4

          All-cohort Zoom meeting

          Speaker: Kristin Wiersma, Focus Consulting MSP

          Topic: Complexity Science as a Way to Understand Preaching

     December 10

        Guide check-in with individual fellows

     Week of December 15

          Small group Zoom meetings

     Week of December 24

          No sermon feedback

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January 2025

     January 14

         Congregational sermon feedback

          Sermon whisperers feedback on imprecatory psalms

     January 20-21

          In-person gathering in Corona del Mar, California​

          Speaker: David Zahl, Mockingbird Ministries

              Topic: Every Encounter Is a Preaching Opportunity

          Speaker: Jacob Smith, Calvary-St. George's Parish, New York

              Topic: The Care and Feeding of the Preacher

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Module 5

     February 5

          All-cohort Zoom meeting

          Topic: Picking the brain of the Preacher in Residence

     Week of February 9

          Small group Zoom meetings

     Week of February 16

          Guide check-in with individual fellows

     February 26

          All-cohort Zoom meeting

          Speaker: Dr. Johanna Hartelius, University of Texas at Austin

          Topic: The rhetoric of preaching

          Note: Sermon feedback and all-cohort Zoom meeting are switched due to Ash Wednesday

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Module 6

     Week of March 2

          Congregational sermon feedback

          Sermon whisperers feedback on ascent psalms

     Week of March 9

          Small group Zoom meetings

     Week of March 16

          Guide check-in with individual fellows

     Week of March 23

          Congregational sermon feedback

          Sermon whisperers feedback on royal psalms

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Module 7

     March 26

          All-cohort Zoom meeting     

     Week of April 6

          Small group Zoom meetings

     April 13-19

          Holy Week: no Project activities

     April 20

          Deliver the goods: it's Easter Sunday indeed!

     Week of April 20

          Guide check-in with individual fellows

     Week of April 27

          Congregational sermon feedback

          Sermon whisperers feedback on covenant and salvation history psalms

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Module 8

     May 1

          Applications for 2025-2026 cohort open

     May 1-3

          Mockingbird New York City event*

     May 7

          All-cohort Zoom meeting

     Week of May 11

          Small group Zoom meetings

     Week of May 18

          Guide check-in with individual fellows

     Week of May 27

          Congregational sermon feedback

          Sermon whisperers sermon feedback on praise psalms

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June 2025

     June 9-11

          In-person celebration gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia

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*Partner event separate from Iowa Preachers Project activities

The Iowa Preachers Project at Grand View University gratefully partners with Mockingbird and with generous funding from the Compelling Preaching Initiative of Lilly Endowment, Inc.

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