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Trellis: A Two-Week Listening Journey

“If a vine doesn’t have a trellis, it will die. And if your life with Jesus doesn’t have some kind of structure to facilitate health and growth, it will wither away…The point of a trellis isn’t to make the vines stand up straight in neat rows, but rather to attain a rich, deep glass of wine.”

— John Mark Comer, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry

REGISTER FOR THE CALLING OF HOPE (June 9-22)

Overview

For most of us, the past several years have been filled with intense disruption, disorientation, perhaps anxiety and despair. You may find your “typical” patterns of work, home, and relational life still upended, with no sense of what the future will look like. Yet here, in the disruption, we are given an incredible opportunity to re-orient ourselves towards creating new structures for holistic flourishing. As we ask ourselves, “Who are we becoming?”, this guided two-week journey is intentionally designed to:

  • understand how the Trinity is intimately involved in the gospel (and our lives),
  • practice stillness to deepen the inner life of faith, and
  • experience the importance of community in hearing and responding to God’s voice.

Guided Structure includes:

  • One Facilitated Group Session (on the first Sunday, 7:30-9p EST) – Stimulating theological training paired with small group discussion and guided orientation to the weeks ahead.
  • Weekly Guided Listening Times (3x/wk, 25″ each) – attend live at 12:20p EST M/W/F or listen to recording at personal set times.
  • Daily Individual Scripture Meditation + Exercise Pages (on own in Listening Book, 10-15″)

COST: $30 (regular) / $25 (Founders and monthly supporters)

[All Trellis offerings are virtual and accessible from wherever you are.]

Components

Drawing upon the breadth of historic Christian practices and experiences, the following components are integrally woven together to shape the two-week journey:

Upcoming Dates

SELF-GUIDED TRELLIS SESSIONS ALSO AVAILABLE

Daily Pages + Scripture Meditation

An innovative “Listening Book” facilitates hearing God in the midst of hectic days, incorporating a variety of spiritual practices and ancient styles of prayer adapted for daily integration.

Spiritual Companion Conversation

Inviting the Spirit to speak into our life through the voice of others requires intentionality. We’ve designed a tested structure to enhance listening and processing in partnership with another.

Guided Listening

A novel time of communal listening, three twenty-minute midday pauses punctuate each week, providing space for the Spirit to expand your imagination and draw you deeper into His abiding presence.

Facilitated Sessions

Each Trellis experience begins with a vibrant hour of stimulating theological training paired with small group discussion and rich guided orientation to new spiritual practices for the week ahead.

Next (Live) Trellis:

THE CALLING OF HOPE (Jun 9 – 22, 2024)


We have a God who is familiar with darkness. Imagine, before the divine fiat, “Let there be light,” God was in the darkness of what was formless and empty. Perhaps the Bible starts off this way because God wants His people to know that He is no stranger to the darkness found in this world. He wants us to know that He speaks into that darkness to create light and life. What a profound hope Genesis 1 would have been for God’s people in exile–to know that their God is no stranger to darkness and is able to create beauty and wonder out of it.

The journey of hope begins with the experience of darkness that we all face living in a broken world and the recognition that things are not the way they are supposed to be. What we do next is critical because it reflects whose voice we believe. Hope is a calling as much as our work is a calling. But for many of us, this active sense of hope is a foreign concept. In fact, at best, hope operates more like wishful thinking than an act of trust and obedience. From a biblical perspective, hope arises from hearing the substance and tone of God’s voice exhorting us to listen to Him more than we listen to others.

Throughout the two-week experience, you will be introduced to a variety of prayer forms, learning to walk conversationally with God, recognizing His voice in your life.  Trellis will guide you to integrate life-giving spiritual practices into everyday rhythms, transforming and renewing our sense of calling.  Enter into this season with a new structure that provides the space and a community for hearing God’s voice and knowing who He reveals Himself to be in the midst of your everyday routines, leading to holistic vitality.

The TRELLIS structure includes:

  • 1 Intro Session: Sun evening, 7:45-9p EST. (Online experience for theological introduction and time in listening quads.)
  • 6 Communal Guided Listening Sessions: every Mon, Wed, Fri 12:20-12:45p EST, over the course of the two weeks. (Attend live or listen to the 25-min recordings at personal set times.)
  • Daily Scripture Meditation and Exercise Pages: Individually in your Listening Book. (Participants are provided with a digital PDF or can order their own physical copy online via Amazon.)

REGISTER TODAY! ($30)

Testimonials

Hear what others have to say…

“This program was extremely helpful in creating structured discipline for my days, weeks and months. It provided a process for me to hear God and understand some of the things he was actively doing in my life. I found the experience extremely rewarding and beneficial for my spiritual growth and will be continuing the program for as long as it is available.”

Marketing Executive

“Best $$ ever spent! Loved this experience and the real change that I saw in my life and how I encountered the Holy Spirit.”

EDUCATOR

“This [season] has certainly presented a unique opportunity for self reflection and re-orienting our lives. I think we’ve all craved greater purpose and structure in our daily lives. This listening journey helped me to stay grounded, focus on the big picture, and deepen my relationship with God.”

LAWYER