Coffee with Patrick: 100 conversations, one healed future

Dear Friends, 

This fall I step into the presidency of Auburn, and before I do much else, I want to listen. 

I am setting out on a listening tour: 100 one-on-one conversations over coffee with the people who make Auburn's mission real. Partners, alumni, elders, and friends. I want to hear your story, your work, and your hopes for what a 200-year-old seminary can be for the generations ahead. 

If you would like to host in your city, gather a few friends, or simply meet for a virtual cup, I would be honored. Reach out and let's find a time. 

And if you'd like to read where my heart is as I begin, my new book Pedagogy of the Ancestors is out now from Westminster John Knox Press. It is about mentoring and teaching the generations who follow us, which is, in the end, what this whole tour is about.

Nobody gets there alone. 

With gratitude, 

Patrick 

Rev. Patrick B. Reyes, Ph.D., Auburn Theological Seminary