Organization of the LOMED 501c3
This 501c3 will not be created until late in 2025. The organization will eventually build a full-time staff of educational developers (see SEDS Specifications). Throughout 2024-25, script creation and A/V media development will be carried out under the auspices of the umbrella organization, Friends of Old St. Michael’s, Trenton.
An independent ‘child’ of St. Michael’s, the LOMED Center (taking its name from the Hebrew word, ‘to learn’) has as its mission the development of the Appetite/Skill/Knowledge (ASK) model of educational delivery.
The long-term goal in creating an educational outreach center is to develop new approaches to recreational education. In conjunction with the Turning Point Discover Center being built adjacent to the church on North Broad Street by the Smith Family Foundation, the institute devoted to recreational education will serve a broader community-building mission of the church. (LOMED – A museum outreach for K-12)
Beginning with the development and reading of 1st-person narratives posted on QR-code “buttons” throughout St. Michael’s site, this will be broadened to include the training of history and science docents in re-enactment theater. It will also support the St.Michael’s Players in the church’s neighborhood outreach mission through the bookstore and cafe.
LOMED would be poised to serve as the R&D hub developing new venues for person-to-person interactions in the face of the all-pervasive take-over of social media– part of the church’s endeavor to counteract the impacts of technology and media in the erosion of family and community life.
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