Overview
We’re so glad you’re here!
Welcome to the Public Life Fellowship! We are so excited to get to know you better, your stories, your aspirations, and where the Lord is leading you in this season. Through teaching, mentoring, a peer community, and spiritual practices, we aim to better equip you to navigate the public aspects of your vocations with faithfulness.
The Public Life Fellowship is an intensive learning community focused on the intersection of faith and public life. Our goal at the end of these nine months is that you will have a community of individuals who are walking alongside you in their various vocations and that you will have a clear sense of what it looks like to pursue the way of Jesus in public life.
Program Overview
We are designing the Fellow experience toward your specific needs and opportunities while also providing meaningful intersections with your peers, mentors and program team members within our limited time together.
The in-person gatherings in Virginia and Colorado will be intensive and fully scheduled. You will leave the in-person gatherings with fresh insights and ideas, practical frameworks and tools, and new relationships. While our time together is full, we have intentionally built in time for personal and collective reflection. Our hope is that you will come out of each gathering with synthesized insights and action items to put learnings into practice upon your return home.
Schedule
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 at 4:00 EST On Zoom:
In this one-hour virtual kickoff event to meet the 2024 Public Life Fellowship class, Fellows will:
Meet your cohort and program team members
Be introduced to the Public Life Fellowship program taking place over the next year
Middleburg, Virginia:
Monday, March 3 — Friday, March 7, 2025
Our first retreat that gathers fellows, mentors & PLF program team together to examine spiritual formation as a foundation for civic renewal and personal leadership & growth.
Fellows will:
Share with and get to know your cohort and program team members
Meet with mentors in small format sessions, and also one-on-one
Participate in informal meals, hikes, & shared spiritual practices together
Colorado:
Sunday, June 8 - Thursday, June 12, 2025
Fellows and a new group of mentors will convene at Glen Eyrie in Colorado Springs, Colorado, to take the conversation to the next level of depth and workshop their own ideas.
Fellows will:
Present their idea for a Christian contribution to civic life
Meet with a new group of mentors in small format sessions, and also one-on-one
Participate in informal meals, hikes, & shared spiritual practices together
Washington DC:
Friday, October 17 - Tuesday, October 21, 2025
Our final program gathering followed by participation in our inaugural “For the Good of the Public” summit.
Fellows will:
Reflect and close the program with their cohort and program team
Have a Christian contribution to share with the broader public