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Course
Calling: Where Context and Prayer Meet
~3 Hours
In this Calling: Where Context and Prayer Meet course, explore how your social location prepared or prevented you from living into your God-given talents.
Mary Ellen Azada
About This Course
When we know ourselves well, we are better able to know God and hear God’s calling upon our lives. But it’s hard to see the factors that have shaped us. They are so close and familiar that they can be invisible. In this Calling: Where Context and Prayer Meet course, we’ll help you see your social location and how it has prepared or prevented you from living into your God-given talents and skills. And you’ll engage in spiritual practices that can provide a sharper sense of God’s invitation to serve in your specific context. By bringing your whole self and context before the Lord, you may be surprised at what God is calling you to do in this season.
Learning Outcomes
- Define social location and catalogue your various social locations
- Assess how your social locations have affected your understanding of vocation
- Explore and practice centering prayer, journaling, and lectio divina as tools for discerning your call
Created in partnership with Careers & Personal Development and FULLER Equip.
- Spiritual Formation & Vocation or Calling
- Vocation & Calling
1. Introduction
Vocation and Location
2. How to Begin
3. Understanding Your Location
4. Reflecting On Your Location
Vocation and Spiritual Formation
5. Why Spiritual Formation Matters In Vocation
6. The Practices of Centering Prayer & Journaling
7. The Practice of Lectio Divina
Conclusion
8. Next Steps
Your Instructor
Mary Ellen Azada
Executive Director of Fuller Careers and Personal Development
Mary Ellen Azada, an ordained PC(USA) pastor, has responded to God’s call in a variety of forms—from mission pastor, church planter, executive director and co-founder of a nonprofit organization, and school counselor. Formerly, she was the executive director of Fuller Careers and Personal Development. She has a Masters of Education in Counseling and MDiv with an emphasis in spirituality.
