{"id":38414,"date":"2018-05-16T15:18:16","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T19:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=38414"},"modified":"2018-05-21T13:56:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T17:56:50","slug":"baseball-coach-adam-posey-begins-faith-formation-discussion-at-annual-spring-conference-meet-students-where-they-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/baseball-coach-adam-posey-begins-faith-formation-discussion-at-annual-spring-conference-meet-students-where-they-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball coach Adam Posey begins faith formation discussion at spring conference: &#8216;Meet students where they are&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most folks in the audience at Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s April 10 spring faculty-staff conference left the first morning assembly with a much better idea of how assistant <a href=\"http:\/\/emuroyals.com\/sports\/bsb\/index\">baseball<\/a> coach <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/faculty-staff\/?show=azp2776\">Adam Posey<\/a> works with his pitchers during bullpen sessions.<\/p>\n<p>A straight talker with an evangelical flair that betrays his Southern Baptist roots, Posey shared some eye-opening strengths and weaknesses related to his own experience as a student at EMU, and urged the gathered community to answer the call to \u201cmeet students where they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He ended with four practical questions related to faith formation \u2014 picture Posey saying \u201cGo get \u2018em,\u201d as we all trot to the mound \u2014 that participants carried with them throughout the day\u2019s panel sessions, presentations and worship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><em>Recognize and build on your strengths as related to faith formation. Evaluate and understand your weaknesses. Ask how you can more effectively merge your calling with your work. And finally, how can you better mentor young people to lives of faith?<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38420\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38420\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/05\/baseball-coach-adam-posey-begins-faith-formation-discussion-at-annual-spring-conference-meet-students-where-they-are\/20180510-faculty-staff-conference-015-1000px\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38420\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38420\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Faculty-Staff-Conference-015-1000px-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Faculty-Staff-Conference-015-1000px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Faculty-Staff-Conference-015-1000px-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Faculty-Staff-Conference-015-1000px.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Discussion during &#8220;Fostering Faith Formation at EMU.&#8221; (Photo by Andrew Strack)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>EMU\u2019s faculty-staff conferences are community gatherings at the beginning and end of the academic year. This spring\u2019s event focused on \u201cfostering faith among students but also among ourselves,\u201d said Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/faculty-staff\/?show=me437\">Marti Eads<\/a>, who chaired the planning committee with Campus Pastor <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/faculty-staff\/all-name?show=bb329\">Brian Martin Burkholder<\/a>. \u201cI hope you leave the day fed and hungry for more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Titled \u201cJourney Companions: Fostering Faith Formation at EMU,\u201d the theme enabled discussions and development of an objective in <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/president\/strategic-plan\">EMU\u2019s strategic plan<\/a>: to nurture spiritual growth and enhance formational engagement among faculty, staff and students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUndergraduate students in our faith mentoring survey a few years ago expressed eagerness to hear more from faculty and staff about their personal faith journeys and how they navigated doubt, challenge and opportunity,\u201d said Burkholder. \u201cThis conference gives us a chance to hear from each other about how we\u2019re doing that in our work on campus and how we might expand opportunities for fellowship and relationship-building into new places and spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>More from Coach Posey<\/strong><\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38423\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/05\/baseball-coach-adam-posey-begins-faith-formation-discussion-at-annual-spring-conference-meet-students-where-they-are\/20180510-faculty-staff-conference-023-1000px\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38423\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38423\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Faculty-Staff-Conference-023-1000px-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Faculty-Staff-Conference-023-1000px-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Faculty-Staff-Conference-023-1000px.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Posey &#8217;15, assistant baseball coach, speaks during an afternoon panel session.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At a time when EMU\u2019s student population is more diverse than ever \u2013 and that diversity includes culture, religion, race, ethnicity and political beliefs \u2013 Posey pointed out that being open and hospitable to different perspectives is very much a part of faith formation. It was deep relationships with a small number of influential faculty and staff that aided his own spiritual and intellectual development, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Posey talked about the challenges of coming to EMU from Poquoson, a mostly white, upper middle-class community among the many military bases in the Hampton Roads area. A <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/vaca\/\">communications major<\/a>, he said the first person he met outside of the baseball coaching staff was Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/faculty-staff\/?show=holsoppj\">Jerry Holsopple<\/a>, an experience \u201cwhich really should have counted as my cross-cultural,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven among the baseball team, I heard in those first few months perspectives that differed from mine, and that was a culture shock for me, away from home for the first time, away from my girlfriend, trying to figure out some of the things that come with being at EMU,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>What helped him become more comfortable and get through \u201ca rocky first couple of years\u201d was a tight relationship with head coach Jason Stuhlmiller (then a high school special education teacher and now area director for Fellowship of Christian Athletes) and connections with faculty members Holsopple and <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/faculty-staff\/?show=dd983\">Deanna Durham<\/a> \u2014 all mentors who got to know him \u201con my level, on my playing field, in my arena.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38421\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38421\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/05\/baseball-coach-adam-posey-begins-faith-formation-discussion-at-annual-spring-conference-meet-students-where-they-are\/20180510-faculty-staff-conference-010-1000px\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38421\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38421\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Faculty-Staff-Conference-010-1000px-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Faculty-Staff-Conference-010-1000px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Faculty-Staff-Conference-010-1000px-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Faculty-Staff-Conference-010-1000px.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coaches Roger Mast (soccer), Kevin Griffin (women&#8217;s basketball), Carrie Bert (women&#8217;s volleyball) and Adam Posey (baseball) share about their engagement with students related to faith formation. (Photo by Andrew Strack)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Though he came primarily with an identity and purpose tied to his athletic experience, Posey said that changed over the years, and now he\u2019s grateful that he chose to stay and \u201cnot miss out on experiences that have been really important to who I am today.\u201d There are plenty of students today, ones he coaches and others he knows, who have had a similar difficulty adjusting to the EMU community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether you agree with why that student is here at EMU or not, you have four years to build a relationship with that person and talk to them about things you\u2019re passionate about, whether it\u2019s peacebuilding or social justice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>One beauty of these opportunities is how they remind us of what matters: in the midst of a losing streak, Posey said a player reached out to him to talk about how God was calling him but he felt unworthy. \u201cI want to give my life over to Christ, but how do I reconcile that?\u201d\u00a0 he asked.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38419\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/05\/baseball-coach-adam-posey-begins-faith-formation-discussion-at-annual-spring-conference-meet-students-where-they-are\/20180510-fac-staff-conference-8\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38419\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-38419 size-medium\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Fac-Staff-Conference-8-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Fac-Staff-Conference-8-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Fac-Staff-Conference-8-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Fac-Staff-Conference-8-1024x670.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharing stories of formation, faithful presence and student engagement are, from left, Gabriel Kreider, campus missionary from Divine Unity Community Church; Miriam Hill, facilities management; Judy Hiett, nursing faculty; and Trina Trotter Nussbaum, associate director of the Center for Interfaith Engagement and panel facilitator. (Photo by Jon Styer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s easy to get lost in our jobs and lost in what we\u2019re doing and not remember why we\u2019re here,\u201d Posey said. \u201cBut we have to keep that in perspective. I would venture to say that we\u2019re all here at EMU because we hope to impact young people in a way that contributes to the rest of their life.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Bringing imagination to course design<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In his keynote address via Zoom, <a href=\"https:\/\/calvin.edu\/directory\/people\/david-i-smith\">David Smith<\/a>, professor of education and director of the Kuyers Institute for Christian Teaching and Learning at Calvin College, challenged faculty to have imagination about their course designs. He told the story of different workers on a construction site, one of whom said he was cutting a stone block and the other which said he was building a cathedral: \u201cWhat do my students think is happening when they sit in my classroom? What is it they think they are doing?\u201d he asked, and, \u201cWhat do we think we are teaching in our subject area? What does it contribute to the world? To the Kingdom of God?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He recounted a call from a former student excited at having lent a willing ear to a German-speaking train rider after remembering what Smith had taught in German class, that the purpose of learning a language is less to speak it than it is to listen.<\/p>\n<p>Pedagogical norms, he said, are simply how things are done in any given era, according to prevailing social norms. These norms often separate course content matter from reality\u2019s ambiguities that merit curiosity and practicable empathy.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>\u2018Examining assumptions\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>After the annual recognition luncheon, five break-out sessions were offered on a variety of topics, including workshops on spiritual practices for mentors, exploring spirituality types in mentoring.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_38422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38422\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/05\/baseball-coach-adam-posey-begins-faith-formation-discussion-at-annual-spring-conference-meet-students-where-they-are\/20180510-faculty-staff-conference-012-1000px\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38422\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38422\" src=\"\/\/emu.edu\/now\/is\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Faculty-Staff-Conference-012-1000px-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Faculty-Staff-Conference-012-1000px-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Faculty-Staff-Conference-012-1000px-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2018\/05\/20180510-Faculty-Staff-Conference-012-1000px.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Ann Hershberger, seasoned cross-cultural leader, makes a point in the cross-cultural session. Interim director Don Clymer, professor emeritus, is to the right.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Panel discussions offered insights into faith formation in various programs, including the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding and athletics.<\/p>\n<p>Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/faculty-staff\/?show=hershbea\">Ann Hershberger<\/a> and interim director <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/faculty-staff\/?show=drc972\">Don Clymer<\/a> invited shared insights into making faith connections for and with students on travelling on EMU&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/crosscultural\/\">required cross-cultural trips<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we are forced out of our routines, we have to rethink many things and examine our assumptions,\u201d Clymer said. That makes for many opportunities to plant seeds, Hershberger added.<\/p>\n<p>Their own and session participants\u2019 stories bore that out: the student whose host mother prayed for her hemoglobin deficiency, which then was resolved to a degree that without a blood transfusion is medically impossible; the group that found cohesion in protectively encircling a sick classmate who had become ill on a crowded street; the homesick and tired group that, by recounting how they had experienced the presence of God in the last three days, turned their \u201cmumbling and grumbling to singing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group also gathered ideas for trip leaders to further prepare for and build on faith building experiences, cultivating groups in which students have starkly different faith understandings, and establishing shared resources and activities that have proven effective.<\/p>\n<p>A final 45-minute gathering, hosted by Burkholder and Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/faculty-staff\/?show=jrm2249\">Johonna Turner<\/a>, invited reflection and sharing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Christopher Clymer Kurtz contributed to this article.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most folks in the audience at Eastern Mennonite University\u2019s April 10 spring faculty-staff conference left the first morning assembly with a much better idea of how assistant baseball coach Adam <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2018\/baseball-coach-adam-posey-begins-faith-formation-discussion-at-annual-spring-conference-meet-students-where-they-are\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Baseball coach Adam Posey begins faith formation discussion at spring conference: &#8216;Meet students where they are&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5176,5185,12503,5861,17562,8845,5642,5593],"tags":[14754,7923,5809,6778,6795,9858,6012,16985,6085],"feature":[17427,17426,17241,17422],"class_list":["post-38414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baseball","category-campus-ministries","category-cjp","category-conferences-and-events","category-digest","category-emu-at-lancaster","category-faculty-and-staff","category-intercultural","tag-adam-posey","tag-ann-hershberger","tag-brian-martin-burkholder","tag-deanna-durham","tag-diversity","tag-don-clymer","tag-jerry-holsopple","tag-johonna-turner","tag-marti-eads","feature-emu-home-page-feature","feature-myemu-feature","feature-news-feature","feature-news-landing-page-main-feature"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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