**Currently participating in the Courage & Renewal Facilitator Preparation Program
Kara Scroggins (she/her) is a United Methodist pastor, currently serving the beautiful community of North Bethesda UMC in Bethesda, MD. The aspect of her work as a pastor that most brings her alive is accompanying people and communities at sacred thresholds, from coming of age or coming out, to aging or dying. Kara took a sabbatical in 2023, with a focus on the Courage & Renewal Touchstone, “give and receive welcome.” She spent time volunteering with a relief organization on the US/Mexico Border, as well as local advocacy groups in DC, and later walked the Camino de Santiago in Spain. She continues to integrate learnings and wonderings from that time away into her writing, activism, and leadership.
Kara first encountered the writings of Parker Palmer as a college student, and attended a Courage & Renewal retreat not long after. This retreat drew her into deep conversation, both with her own soul, and with a rich and life-giving community of other participants. The practices and principles of Courage & Renewal have profoundly shaped who she is; many of her own practices, approaches, and ways of listening and leading can be traced back to what she learned in those early retreats. She has continued the journey in the years since, and is grateful to be able to offer her own facilitation gifts as part of future circles.
Originally from Washington, DC, Kara lived in North Carolina and Connecticut before moving back to her hometown, where she now lives with her spouse and their puppy/chaos muppet, Max. She is a lucky aunt to several of her friends’ children and works hard to live up to the name they have given her, “Adventure Kara.” She loves running/biking/swimming very long distances at her own pace and has still not conceded that it’s maybe time to stop running her age in miles every birthday. Kara is enthusiastic about ice cream, board games, and saving scraps of materials that might be useful in a craft project one day.
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