1965

• Model Building:  5th City
• “Common Worship”, Joseph Mathews, May
• “Selma”, May

Summer 1965

“In the summer of 1965, fifty students came to 5th City for six weeks as a study and work group in the community. We were the audience for the comprehensive curriculum as it was being developed by the Ecumenical Institute; and we were the work force for the beginning of the 5th City Community Development project. We did work days on many properties in the neighborhood as well as recruiting children for the preschool to start in the fall. This gathering was the first experiment in bringing outside people into the community for the summer, and it became the model for many years.”  As told by Marilyn Oyler in 2018

Summer ’65 Brochure, Terry Loomis and David Scott

• “Corporateness”, Joseph Mathews, October

1966

Summer 1966: Beyond Protest

June 26 – August 7  –  Six Weeks

“In the summer of 1966, summer participants were in three groups of approximately 50 each: clergy, teachers and students. The teachers focused on imaginal education as well as methods of working together to create a revolution in the schools. We developed curriculum for our subject areas and mostly fell in love with the idea of having a team to work with, doing important work in the civil rights movement. Several of us returned in the fall to teach in the neighborhood public schools. For me, it was my first year as a high school math teacher at John Marshall High School. Marshall had 5000 students just as my home town in Pipestone, MN had 5000 residents. It was a time of much learning for all of us. We created a teachers cadre, composed of elementary, middle and high school teachers (maybe 15). We met regularly – often daily – to compare notes and develop new ideas for curriculum. We created “image explosions” to offer alternative personal understandings. They followed the formula of our basic understandings in our religious courses: All of life is good, my life is received, the past is approved, the future is open, and what it means to be the church is to serve the world. This five-part rhythm became the basis for offering transformative images for children at all age levels. The cadre worked with youth in the neighborhood and continued to develop the spiral curriculum, the life triangles and the first imaginal education course for educators.”  As told by Marilyn Oyler in 2018

More on Summer ’66 HERE

Council I Manifesto, Strategies and Tactics, August

• “Laboratory for Tomorrow’s Church”, Together Magazine, March
• “You Can Help Bend History”, Chicago Magazine, Autumn
• “ Church Renewal”, Joseph Mathews
• “E.I.” Great Plains Observer, October
• “Letter to Laymen”, compilation of 1966 letters

Presidium, December 5-7

1967

Summer 1967

• Declaration of the Spirit Movement of the People of God Century Twenty
• Fifth City Instructions, George West
• Model for Ecumenical Parish, David McCleskey
• UR Images Introduction, Joseph Slicker

1968

Summer 1968: Beyond Accomplishment

Two 3-week sessions:  June 30-July 21 and July 28-August 18

• New Social Vehicle Report at Order Council,  8/1/68, 1968
• Permeation and Dissemination, JWM,  1968
• Construct of the Movement, The,   1968
• Council III, 1968, misc. documents,   1968
• Education Matrix – Summer ’68,   1968