Miller Summer Youth Institute at Pittsburgh Seminary

It was a great fellowship group this year!

Juneteenth recognizes and commemorates the striving toward freedom and equality for all Americans. It is a powerful reminder that some systems of injustice and inequality have marred our shared life together, but justice shall indeed be a hallmark of this nation and of God’s communion with us. We at Pittsburgh Seminary recognize the lasting impacts of injustice in social and economic limitations on many in this country and commemorate Juneteenth as an opportunity to renew our commitments to justice as a theological imperative and freedom as the truth of the reign of Jesus Christ.

Many contemporary congregations face unprecedented challenges of decline, disinterest, and even suspicion while also maintaining unique resources and capacities for faithful community life and social impact. As a result, The Black Mountain School of Theology & Community (BMSTC) and the Miller Summer Youth Institute (SYI) at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (PTS) will host the Intergenerational Leadership Conference on the PTS campus June 12-15, 2024

The conference begins in a collective and multigenerational analysis by participants of the challenges and possibilities of the present. Our primary focus will be to provide leaders with distinct tools, practices, and a visionary imagination for new forms of congregational life based on deep listening skills drawn from community organizing, corporate discernment rooted in historical theology and organizing, and a commitment to substantive action that can dynamically enliven the identities of contemporary congregations. For more information or to register, visit https://www.pts.edu/ILC2024

High school students: Join us for an enriching five-day gathering at Presbyterian College, Clinton, S.C., where rising high school juniors and seniors will come together to explore their callings and gifts for leadership in the church. Learn more at https://www.pts.edu/syi-at-presbyterian-college.

Do you know that the Seminary offers a summer undergrad fellowship through our Miller Summer Youth Institute at Pittsburgh Seminary? This six-week living-learning fellowship program will take place June 3-July 12, 2024 on the Seminary's campus.

The fellowship cohort will work with a team of experts from congregations, non-profits, and from across higher education. Cohort fellows will also participate in experiential learning at Garfield Community Farm, our community partner for the summer. Students will have ample opportunity to engage in theologically formative activities intersecting with questions of vocational discernment, spiritual practice, and community development.

Interested, or know an undergrad who might be? Learn more and apply at https://www.pts.edu/syi-undergraduate-fellowship.

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Since the beginning of June, the Miller Summer Youth Institute (SYI) has hosted their living-learning fellowship program on the PTS campus. This year’s cohort of undergraduate summer fellowship students from around the country, engaged in the topic, “Listening to the Land: Cultivating Hope through Spiritual Practice and Theological Reflection in a Time of Crisis.” Each week, SYI Director Tanner Capps and a rotation of nonprofit leaders, academics, and practitioners facilitated classroom co-learning, and was reinforced and expanded by experiential learning at the public classroom of Garfield Community Farm, led by alum and permaculture specialist, John Creasy ’06. The students also had ample opportunities to explore Pittsburgh and its neighborhoods, get to know PTS staff at weekly cookouts, and form community as a cohort. PTS grads Steffan Johnson ’23 and Simeon Rodgers ’23, and current PTS student Emil Cowser served as Seminary curriculum coordinators. Learn more about SYI at https://www.pts.edu/SYI. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=706394058167015&set=a.706398861499868

Since the beginning of June, the Miller Summer Youth Institute (SYI) has hosted their living-learning fellowship program on the PTS campus. This year’s cohort of undergraduate summer fellowship students from around the country, engaged in the topic, “Listening to the Land: Cultivating Hope through Spiritual Practice and Theological Reflection in a Time of Crisis.”

Who is God calling you to be? What is God calling you to do?

We invite undergraduates to apply by April 10 for Miller Summer Youth Institute’s six-week living-learning fellowship program, taking place on the PTS campus June 1-July 14, 2023.

The fellowship cohort will work with experts from congregations, non-profits, and from across higher education on the program theme, "Listening to the Land: Cultivating Hope through Spiritual Practice and Theological Reflection in a Time of Crisis." Learn more at https://www.pts.edu/syi-undergraduate-fellowship

Who is God calling you to be? What is God calling you to do?

We invite undergraduates to apply for Miller Summer Youth Institute’s six-week living-learning fellowship program, taking place on the PTS campus June 1-July 14, 2023.

The fellowship cohort will work with experts from congregations, non-profits, and from across higher education on the program theme, "Listening to the Land: Cultivating Hope through Spiritual Practice and Theological Reflection in a Time of Crisis." Learn more at https://www.pts.edu/syi-undergraduate-fellowship

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