{"id":2792,"date":"2023-11-10T13:51:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T19:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nourishing-vocation\/?page_id=2792"},"modified":"2023-12-13T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2023-12-13T19:44:45","slug":"about-nvc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nourishing-vocation\/about-nvc\/","title":{"rendered":"About NVC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nourishing-vocation\/files\/2023\/11\/NourishingVocation_Logo-Horizontal-01-FullColor.jpg?resize=1024%2C320&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2754\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Nourishing Vocation with Children seeks to enrich children\u2019s capacity to know, love, and serve God through child-attentive, arts-centric intergenerational worship and prayer practices. The program will equip congregations and their leaders with ideas, resources, and hands-on experiences that will help them integrate music, theater, movement, poetry, and visual arts into congregational worship and prayer, in ways that both center children and deepen engagement for the congregation as a whole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Select congregations will pilot newly developed projects during 2023-2024 and share their work at the St. Olaf College Conference on Worship, Theology, and the Arts, July 29 \u2013 31, 2024. Pilot projects will also be shared through outdoor ministry partnerships and at various church-based conferences. Congregational leaders will then work in cohorts to implement Nourishing Vocation with Children projects in their respective congregations, share and reflect on their experiences, and learn from each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nourishing Vocation with Children will also foster spiritual enrichment, teaching and learning, professional development, and a sense of shared vocation among participating St. Olaf faculty, staff, students, and alumni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The program is funded through Lilly Endowment\u2019s Nurturing Children Through Worship and Prayer Initiative. The aim of the national initiative is to support faith-based organizations as they help children grow in faith and deepen their relationships with God.<\/p>\n\n\n\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\tclass=\"site-section site-panel__image_overlay panel panel-image_overlay site-section__bg--default\"\n\t\t\tdata-depth=\"\"\n\t\t\tdata-js-panel=\"image-overlay\"\n\t\t>\n\t\n\t\t<div class=\"site-section__inner site-section__inner--no-padding\">\n\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t<div role=\"img\" aria-label=\"St-Olaf Skyline2\" style=\"background-image:url('https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wp.stolaf.edu\/nourishing-vocation\/files\/2023\/08\/St-Olaf-Skyline2.jpg?resize=512%2C342&#038;ssl=1');\" loading=\"lazy\"  class=\"site-section__bg-img site-section__bg-img--m-stack\"><\/div>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t@media all and ( min-width: 960px ) {\n\t\t\t#site-panel__image-overlay-69e156a5077cd {\n\t\t\t\theight: 500px;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t}\n\t<\/style>\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\n    \n\t<div id=\"site-panel__image-overlay-69e156a5077cd\" class=\"site-panel__img-overlay-wrap site-panel__img-overlay--no-ribbon horz-center vert-top\">\n\n\t\t<div class=\"site-panel__img-overlay-content\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"t-content t-content--light\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"site-section__title bold\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-depth=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-name=\"title\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-autop\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-livetext\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tLilly Endowment Inc.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"site-section__desc\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-depth=\"0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-name=\"content\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-autop\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-livetext\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Community development; education; religion. These are the three pillars that Lilly Endowment was built upon. Through community development, education and religion, Lilly Endowment keeps close the impact these pillars have on individuals, families, and the communities the organizations serve. Lilly Endowment seeks to aid these organizations with their three causes in mind through &#8220;providing funding, consulting and technical assistance, research and evaluation support, and connections to other organizations with relevant aims and experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/lutherancenter\/2023\/11\/lutheran-center-awarded-1-25m-grant-from-lilly-endowment-inc-on-nurturing-children-through-worship-and-prayer\/\" target=\"_blank\">St. Olaf awarded $1.25M grant from Lilly Endowments<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Nourishing Vocation with Children seeks to enrich children\u2019s capacity to know, love, and serve God through child-attentive, arts-centric intergenerational worship and prayer practices. 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