Horizons Fellows

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HORIZONS FELLOWS: VOCATIONAL DISCERNMENT THROUGH RELATIONAL DISCIPLESHIP

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
— Annie Dillard

Horizons Fellows explore vocational discernment through relational discipleship, guided by mentors from varied careers, with a focus on developing a theologically rich understanding of personal calling to be pursued in all arenas of work and life.

Through a fall retreat, monthly discussions as a cohort of Fellows, individual meetings with mentors, and large group lectures and workshops, we guide them to sense the horizon where the limitless sky and the concrete earth meet.

  • Up to 12 Horizons Fellows are paired with community mentors for monthly meetings

  • Reading: A Sacred Voice Is Calling: Personal Vocation and Social Conscience, by John Neafsey. Other recommended books include: Leading Lives that Matter: What we should be and who we should be, ed. by Dorothy Bass and Mark Schwen, Let your Life Speak by Parker Palmer, Vintage Saints & Sinners by Karen Wright Marsh, and various articles and essays.

  • Fall Retreat at Swift Run Farm to share personal faith journeys with one another.

  • Monthly discussions as a group facilitated by Christy Yates to explore key themes and questions around Faith & Calling.

  • Fall Semester | Where am I called from? – experiencing the love and grace of God through sharing our stories, considering various views of calling through constraints, vocation and longing and issues of race and privilege. 

  • Spring Semester | Where am I called to? – loving our neighbors through place, loving our neighbors through deep difference and pluralism, and loving our neighbors in hope.

  • Participation in other events offered through Theological Horizons and our partners

2024-25 Horizons Fellows

Anna Deatherage (Mentor: Jaclyn Cline)
Annelise Wolfe (Mentor: Emili Hays)
Ava Flory (Mentor: Danielle Hill)
Ben Benson (Mentor: Greg Gelburd)
Elisabeth Doty (Mentor: Kristin Sancken)
Ellie Joye (Mentor: Holly Slon)
Lauren Metters (Mentor: Laura Brown)
Maddie Mislock (Mentor: Jane Grizzle)
Nykera Wallup (Mentor: Kristen Bell)
Sophia Hanway (Mentor: Sarah Davis)
Walker Hill (Mentor: Mary Brissett)
Walker Wright (Mentor: Ben Webb)

Participation in the Fellows is by application each spring.

To learn more, email Christy Yates at christy@theologicalhorizons.org