For Professionals & Volunteers working with Children, Youth & Family Ministry
This 90-minute Zoom workshop, led by Rev. Emily Carson, Assistant to the Bishop & Director for Evangelical Mission in the Southeastern Minnesota Synod, is designed for volunteers and professionals engaged in faith formation and ministry with children, youth, and families.

Participants will explore their own relationship to power, boundaries, and authority, gaining insights into how these dynamics shape their leadership. Beyond personal reflection, the workshop will also equip leaders to actively foster wise boundary-setting skills in the young people they serve. Through discussion and practical strategies, attendees will be empowered to nurture healthy, trust-filled ministry spaces.

Date: Tuesday, May 6th
Time: 6:00-7:30pm
Where: Zoom (link will be sent to you)
Cost: $10 donation for Global Refuge (formally LIRS)
This is a ELCA Region 3 event.
Participants will register through the NEMN Synod to receive the Zoom link. We ask for a $10 donation, which we will give to Global Refuge, given their increased need and recognizing that much of their work impacts refugee children, youth, and families.

Click here to register.

If you are a rostered minister this training does not fulfill the SW MN Synod’s bylaws (S14.25.01. and S14.47.01.): “Within twelve months of assuming office all rostered ministers of under call shall demonstrate completion of at least six contact hours of continuing education in the prevention of sexual boundary violations.”

The SW MN Synod synod council created a continuing resolution encouraging all of our rostered leaders to have continued work on appropriate boundaries of all kinds, but especially sexual boundaries, every three years. Click here for the upcoming Ethics and Boundaries Training for Ministers happening May 8th.