Lifelong Learning

At Newport, we love learning! If you do, too, please join us for our weekly adult classes at 11:30 a.m. on Sundays, after coffee hour.

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We’re not afraid to address tough subjects, including Navigating Disagreements, Exploring Truth and Reconciliation, Repairing Historic Harms to Black and Indigenous Christians, Identity and Interfaith Relationships, Evangelism vs. Evangelicalism, St. Patrick, and Ignatian Spiritual Exercises. We welcome your voice and perspective to these enlightening and challenging discussions!

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February 2026:

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One Parish One Prisoner (OPOP)

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2/1    Re-entry and Resurrection    Austin Rehbein

2/8    Addiction and Connection    Betty and Damon Meyer

2/15    Stones to Re-entry                Bill and Kim Iverson

2/22    Wrap Up on OPOP Series    Pastor Kelly

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January 2026

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End of Life Planning, led by Pastor Kelly

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Some reference materials (8 page .docx): 

• End of Life Planning Resources

• Decision-making Worksheet

• Terms

• Recommended documents to have in place

• Common hymns and scriptures for funerals

• Memorial Planning Worksheet

• Funeral Outline

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As always, if you have questions or would like more information, you are welcome to reach out to Pastor Kelly.
 

Some reference books:

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande.

 

The Good Funeral: Death, Grief, and the Community of Care, by Thomas G.

Long and Thomas Lynch.

 

Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying Paperback, by Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley.

 

Making Faithful Decisions at the End of Life, by Nancy J. Duff.

 

Grief: Contemporary Theory and the Practice of Ministry, by Melissa M. Kelley.

 

On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families, by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.