When You Work for the Church

last updated August 26, 2024

My course on dreams and dreaming was well received when it was first offered in Fall 2023, and I’ve been invited to teach it again for Fall 2024. For an updated course description, please see my more recent post on Dreams and Dreaming—in Scripture and in Our Lives Today. To register and/or to check out other Fall offerings, please see Canadian Mennonite University, Xplore program.

Below is the title, course description, and my instructor bio for the first version of this course, Fall 2023.

Are You Living Your Dream? Or Longing for a New One?

Course Description: In our rapidly changing world and with the challenge of changing personal circumstances, what life do we dream of and how can we live it wisely and well? In Scripture God promises to pour out the Spirit, and “your young will see visions, Your elders will dream dreams” (Acts 2:17, cf. Joel 2:28). What might this mean for our dreaming today?

This course will explore dreams and dreaming in Scripture, good dreams/bad dreams/broken dreams/God-given dreams, letting go of a dream, making room for a new one, learning to dream again, and living it out. Each session will include time for reflection, prayer, sharing, and discussion. May we all continue dreaming, and live into hope one day and one moment at a time.

Instructor: April Yamasaki is a pastor and the author of Four Gifts, Sacred Pauses, and other books on Christian living. She currently serves as resident author with a liturgical worship community, edits a daily devotional magazine, continues to write online and in print, and is a frequent guest speaker. In these and other ways, she is living her childhood dream of being a writer. At the same time, with the sudden death of her husband last year and in other circumstances of life, she is well acquainted with delayed, disappointing, and broken dreams.