Reconciling Works

Building an Inclusive Church (BIC) training helps you design and implement a journey for your faith community to publicly and intentionally welcome people of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and gender expressions, and incorporate a commitment to the work of racial equity. Building an Inclusive Church equips you with ways to create dialogue, deepening relationships throughout your faith community rather than sparking debate and division.

The Building an Inclusive Church (BIC) Toolkit and BIC Training are complementary resources, to be used side by side in your journey of welcome. The training itself is designed to expand on the tools in the BIC Toolkit to best support the team of leaders who hope to guide your faith community.

Hosting an In-Person Training

If your community would like to host a training here is some helpful information:
- Training takes place over a Friday evening (6-8:30 pm) and the following Saturday (10-4:00 pm).
- Registration is $125 per person.
- To schedule an in-person training please contact Aubrey Thonvold at aubreyt@reconcilingworks.org.

Attending an Online Training

- Online trainings are held on Saturday mornings (11:00 AM - 3:30 PM CT).
- Online trainings are 4.5 hours long and held via Zoom in real-time.
- Registration is $75 - $25 per person and closes at noon the Thursday prior to the training.
- If you are hoping to join as a group to attend the training, all in attendance must be registered by noon the Thursday prior to the training.
- Zoom links and training details will be emailed once registration closes (be sure to check your spam folder).