Name: Elizabeth Welliver Age: 25 Relationship to the Collective (or the event): Young Adult Volunteer, part-time worker for the Collective, Attended Citizen: An American Lyric – Book Discussion: April 15, 2018 Describe the event in three sentences or less: A spirit-filled discussion of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric. The group was intergenerational, interracial, and…
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Name: Audrey Burnett Age: 33 Relationship to the Collective (or the event): Student Worker for the 787 Collective; Attended Christians Dreaming Dreams with Dreamers at the Texas Capitol: April 9, 2018 Describe the event in three sentences or less: This was a public performance/protest that took place in our state capitol as a way to…
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Name: Travis Fitzgold Age: 33 Relationship to the Collective (or the event): First English Lutheran Church, 36 Days/36 Ways Challenge, 2018 Describe the event in three sentences or less: I decided to walk up and down Guadalupe St. (“the drag”) in Austin, holding a sign that said, “Free Prayers/Oraciones Gratis”. My goal was to evoke…
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Name: Doug Harrison: Age: 46 Relationship to the Collective (or the event): A member of St David’s Episcopal Church 787 team, and lead artist for this event: The RSVP I: How will you respond? Describe the event in three sentences or less: After weeks of sending cryptic teaserinvitations (an even a questionnaire), we hosted a threshold-themed…
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The work of the 787 Collective feels hard to quantify in some respects, and can be difficult to pin down. We encourage churches. We study creativity, and try to find new and genuine ways to practice it in our lives and our churches. We care about young adults and want to understand their lives through…
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The 787 Collective invites churches in discernment to submit a portfolio considering their own congregational narrative, the discernment undertaken to consider if their church is called towards work with twentysomethings, and any other audio or visual material that they would like to submit that helps the Collective learn more about who their congregation is and…
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