Love Revolution: Love God and Love Neighbor is a multi-year learning community that gathers both lay and rostered leaders in the Southeastern PA Synod of the ELCA to renew their sense of purpose and vocation by exploring the Baptismal Covenant and discovering the ways God’s love revolutionizes how we live in the world. After the pandemic, many congregations are struggling to find meaning and purpose as they attempt to replicate the institutional church. But the institutional church is broken and the only way forward is to help people understand the crucial role relationships play in helping form vibrant and vital communities of faith. Through this culture shift, participating congregations will be accompanied in relationships with coaches and mentors. Love Revolution will also offer learning opportunities for the whole synod in the fall and spring as we invite others outside the formal learning process to learn about cultivating vibrant communities of faith. Affirming the work of the Holy Spirit across our whole synod, we will discover how God has equipped and called us with unique gifts to serve and build the Beloved Kingdom. While the Baptismal Covenant is nothing new, our revolutionary approach is to teach leaders from a posture of cultural humility. Breaking from past colonialist influences, we will instead seek to evolve congregations into the church we are becoming – a servant church with growing and thriving congregations. After all, Philadelphia is all about Love and Revolution. Love is in our name and the American Revolution had its start right in Independence Hall. Love Revolution will help congregations in the Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod chart the course towards this new missional future.