She worked in the public school system, at first with middle-school students with special needs, and after her certification, as a teacher of high-school English. Time at home to raise children, Emily began a career in the field of education. Prior to that, she lived in northwestern Connecticut, where she and her husband Bruce raised three children, three goats, and one dog.Īfter graduating from Wesleyan University in 1985, Emily worked first in banking, and then in the advertising and insurance industries. Leon is currently writing a book on spiritual growth and radical forgiveness in the presence of racial violence and social distress.Įmily has lived in Thetford, Vermont for six years. One of his greatest teachers was Samori Marksman Dunkley, the wisest Yellow Labrador Retriever in the history of the world. Leon is an artist, a musician, a songwriter and an avid dog lover. Using the arts, he teaches the skills of emotional maturity, compassionate reasoning and personal independence. For many years, he has held classes, led workshops and organized successful, week long conferences. Leon has been working with youth and young adults for the last twenty-five years. He now serves as the settled minister at North Chapel, for the North Universalist Chapel Society. Paul, Minnesota, in Silver Spring, Maryland and since 2017, in Woodstock, Vermont. Since 2008, he has served churches in St. Leon entered seminary in 2005, attending the Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, California. His studies included the traditional drumming of Ghana and the Republic of Zaire, the Kora tradition of Senegal, the Gamelan traditions of Java and Bali in Indonesia, the Jazz tradition throughout the Americas and, most recently, North American Bluegrass and Country Blues. He taught at Brooklyn College and at Duke University. in Ethnomusicology/Musicology from the University of Pittsburgh ten years later. Ministry is a second career for him as he used to be a professor of music.Ī graduate of Tufts University in 1987, Leon earned his Ph.D. Leon Dunkley lives in East Barnard VT and ministers to the North Universalist Chapel Society in Woodstock, VT. You will be known by your group and encouraged to grow and step out in faith to be used by Him wherever the Lord has you.Rev. Small groups then are more than friend groups, they are places of transformation and empowerment for the purpose of ministry. Jesus does not desire for us to have 'holy huddles' simply for our benefit and care but instead invites us to community rooted on serving one another and using the gifts He has given us for the sake of building one another up and reaching the world through us. Small groups are gender-specific and geared towards multiplication. To do this, we are committed to discipleship communities that are rooted in growing in prayer, worship, Word, and seeking to proclaim the Gospel in our community through our lives.

We strive to be a community of young men and women who are BOLD in their faith, RESOLUTE in our identity in Christ, AUTHENTIC in community, VIRTUOUS in our character, and ENGAGED in mission in our world. We want the same here at BRAVE Young Adults.

Jesus modeled a discipleship culture that was much deeper than just friendship and led to young men and women experiencing life transformation in and through them in their communities.

Helping young adults become BRAVE disciples.īRAVE Young Adults gathers at the Englewood campus each Tuesday at 6:00pm with the goal of being a community of disciples who are seeking to make disciples.

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