Tassel Collective

One more week until this dynamic workshop!! Sign up for your spot! If you have any questions about the workshop, or trauma and ministry specifically, leave us a comment 👇🏽See you there!!

Trauma + Ministry | Tassel Collective Seminaries have not offered training in trauma, though most of ministry is walking with people through trauma. Dr. Nathan White, US Army Chaplain and ordained Anglican priest, will help us begin to get our hands on some really vital tools surrounding ministry and trauma.

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Schedule
Wednesday, February 23
7:15 – 8:00 p.m. Keynote: Esau McCaulley - A Biblical View on Diversity (Cathedral)

Thursday, February 24 - SGH
8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Networking Breakfast (Optional)
10:30 – 11:15 a.m. Chapel: Esau McCaulley
11:45 – 12:45 p.m. Lunch: Mark Soderquist (Board Chair, Westlawn Youth Network) and Jennifer King Soderquist
1:15 – 2:30 p.m. Women in Leadership (Session 1) - Speaker: Lena Crouso
2:45 – 4:00 p.m. Women in Leadership (Session 2) - Panel Presentation
4:15 – 5:00 p.m. Panel Q&A Session hosted by ResLife
7:00 – 9:00 p.m. International Food Festival

Friday, February 25 - SGH
8:00 – 8:45 a.m. Networking Breakfast (Optional)
9:00 – 10:15 a.m. Immigration (Session 1) - Speaker: Rondell Treviño
10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Immigration (Session 2) - Panel Presentation
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Lunch/Closing Session: Andrea Scott (Provost at George Fox University)

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Seminaries have historically not offered training in trauma, though most of ministry is walking with people through trauma. Nathan White, Ph. D, US Army Reserve Chaplain, Purple Heart Recipient, and pastor of almost 15 years, will help us begin to get our hands on some really vital tools surrounding ministry and trauma.

Saturday, February 26 from 12-3 CST on Zoom. Grab your ticket and bring a friend! This is going to be highly impactful for you and your community!

https://lizzweaver.wixsite.com/tasselcollective/event-details/trauma-ministry

We are so excited to be offering the Be The Bridge 101: Work Through Whiteness Class this year! This is an interest based class so sign up, and once we have a group we will reach out to you to find the best time to meet!

https://lizzweaver.wixsite.com/tasselcollective/event-details/be-the-bridge-101

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I wanted to introduce our other teacher for this Fall’s class Women in the Church, Shannon Barrowcliff! She works in CPG selling to Walmart. A transplant from sunny California, you can find her training for her next half marathon or facilitating an elaborate game night with friends. She and her husband, Mark, are passionate about youth ministry and have two fur babies, Edmund and Murphy.

As she prepares for Women in the Church, she hopes “people learn to question and wrestle with their own beliefs. Not to necessarily change their stance but to have a firmer understanding of what and why they believe what they do.”

We are so excited to start the dive with Shannon on Sunday, September 12 at 4:30!

This is a 7 week class that will go over the 5 most quoted passages from Paul’s letters about women in the church. We will look at how the original audience might have understood these instructions, as well as how the passages have been interpreted throughout the Christian faith.

You can find the week-by-week itinerary on our website when you sign up! Please commit to our time together, the content will build on itself to an extent. If you can only make a few weeks, please come as you are able!

We do not pretend to be scholars or any kind of authority on this topic. We simply want to wholeheartedly examine Scripture together.

ANNOUNCEMENT! Our first class is back up and running!! In lieu of Unpacking the Debate we will be offering a similar class Women in the Church!

It will be a 7 week class (September-October) taught by Shannon Barrowcliff and Lizz Weaver on Sunday’s.

Sign up on our website to join us in-person and virtually! If you have already signed up, check your email for more details!

This is Tassel Collective: to bridge the gap between having spiritual gifts and being empowered to use them. Sometimes that means exercising them, sometimes it’s digging deep into studying what the Spirit’s true intentions are. A lot of times it feels like we need years and years of experience in ministry for an entry level role in the church or even as a volunteer. And for a vast portion of the church women and minorities don’t have opportunities to sharpen our gifts in an educated way because of specific interpretations of Scripture, socioeconomic biases and doctrine created around them.

At Tassel we look at all interpretations that adhere to the Nicene Creed and want to understand how we got to each Biblical stance. We welcome wrestling. We gladly encourage all denominations and expressions of the Divine to participate and engage. This is a safe space to come to the Text with your full feelings, doubts and hurts. We do not have any other agenda other than to study the Scriptures together in a mutually respectful way.

Some of us aren’t willing to sit and let our Spirit-led gifts waste away any longer. Some of us want to study the Word without biases. We all want the fullness of the Spirit here on earth. We want to be faithful with what God has given us. And for those who would like to join me, there is Tassel Collective.

We are SO EXCITED to announce that our classes will be available to take online!! So, whether you are in Seattle or Chattanooga, Providence or Phoenix, or anywhere in between …COME ON!

It came to my attention I never actually introduced myself on here. Hiii, I’m Lizz Weaver. Born and bred in Wichita, Kansas. I transferred down to NWA in college, swore I was going to leave ASAP and I’ve now lived here for 10 years! I married a Pittsburgh Yinzer, I have two precious Native babies with him, and our Great Dane is everyone’s emotional support. In my pre-mom life I have been a graphic/product designer, administrative assistant, musical theater enthusiast, and painter. I’ve always loved writing, always loved Jesus and the Word, and always felt a little off-beat.

Four years ago I realized I had given up looking for ways to be used in the way They created and filled me. Since then, I’ve put in every effort to not only look for, but say “yes” to opportunities that use my gifts even if they felt out of my league. I ended up creating a lot of my own opportunities because there weren’t many people looking for entry level women to lead, pastor, or teach Scripture. My friends were finding the same to be true for them. So, I decided I would create a space for us. *gestures widely*

Some unforeseen bumps have occurred and we need to postpone Unpacking the Debate for a few weeks. We appreciate your prayers during this time. Be sure to sign up to get updates!

Peter had Moses on repeat

First up! Unpacking the Debate: Gender in the Church.

This is this class’s 4th rendition, and let me tell you, if the first one changed my life this one is going to be amazing! Sign up on our website to reserve your spot!

This is an 8 week study. June 13th- August 15th (with a 2 week break). Sunday’s from 4-6pm at Harvest Fayetteville.

Tassel Collective updated their business hours.