The Threshold Arc
Four Liminal Spaces x Four Reflective Postures
The porch is a slow space to observe —there’s no hurry, no rushing.
Our keynotes and large gatherings are your opportunity to turn your attention to what’s around us.
The Reflective Posture:
We look together
The table is an invitation to engage with what’ve seen.
Panels, workshops, and good conversations with leaders who are actively engaged with formation, mission, and justice every day.
The Reflective Posture:
We ask together
The path is made by walking.
We're grateful for Twin Cities hosts who will welcome you into their work, share stories, answer questions and spark imagination for your context.
The Reflective Posture:
We walk together
Gardens are places to rest and tend to all you’ve encountered.
Quiet spaces for prayer, art, journaling, and a contemplation room that stays open all day —we offer these for you to process, grieve, and delight.
The Reflective Posture:
We tend together
Event Schedule
All times CST; More details TBA.
Thursday, April 15
10:30AM — Registration
Light Lunch
1:00PM — Porch Session
2:45PM — Table Session
Conversation Panels
5:00PM — Porch Session
Keynote
Friday, April 16
8:30AM — Porch Session
Panel
10:30AM — Table Sessions
Workshops
12:45PM — Women’s Luncheon
Free with Registration
3:00PM — Path Session
Off-Site Experiences
7:30PM — Porch Session
Keynote
Saturday, April 17
8:30AM — Garden Session
Contemplative Spaces
11:00AM — Porch Session
Closing Keynote
*Registration for Women’s Luncheon and Off-Site Experiences will open on the conference app in January
We’ll help you connect with other theological practitioners from across the country so you can find inspiration and leave empowered to do your very best work in your community. You can enjoy pre-conference options, multiple plenary sessions, tracks with workshops and forum panels, plus dedicated time for coffee, networking, and more.
About Awakenings 2027
APRIL 15—17, 2027 MINNEAPOLIS, MN
A gathering you move through, not a conference you navigate.
Four liminal spaces —or thresholds. One formation.
We could have built a schedule with keynotes, breakouts, networking. You'd choose sessions. You'd optimize. You'd leave with notebooks full and three new connections.
Instead, we're asking something else of you: Move with us.
We've designed a formation arc—a three-day journey that takes you from standing together (the Porch), to asking questions (the Table), to walking into the actual city (the Path), to letting it reshape you (the Garden).
We’ll move through this together.
That means you'll connect with new folks and hear new stories. You'll encounter practitioners whose work may be different from what you thought you understood, but will compel you all the same.
And you'll have space —real space— to process, to grieve, to wonder, while also being able to tend and cultivate the quiet, interior spaces of your own heart, too.
Gather with us.
We’ll be at Mill City Church in Northeast Minneapolis.
Location
685 13th Ave NE, Minneapolis, MN
Contact Us
connect@missioalliance.org