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April: Journey Through the Psalms

April 10 - June 5 Online 1.5 CEUs

This course is based on the widely-used book Journey through the Psalms, and features video lessons by its author, Dr. Denise Dombkowski Hopkins, Professor of Hebrew Bible at Wesley Theological Seminary. Through the course of 8 weekly sessions, the course provides a vehicle to bring the Psalms to life for prayer and worship in the local church and helps participants learn to approach God with the honesty and emotional intensity of the ancient psalmists.

Twelve Secrets for a Top-Notch Church Website

April 10 - May 5 Online 1.0 CEUs

This course is designed for clergy and lay persons who want their websites to be destination sites for both internal and external audiences. Before you can reach these two audiences, though, you need a clear roadmap that identifies where you want to arrive as well as warning of road bumps along the way. These 12 tricks, techniques, and time savers will reap huge rewards for making your church website useful as well as being attractive to persons visiting the site.

Planning for the Church Emergency

April 17 - May 10 Online 1.0 CEUs

In this three-week course, we’ll review three major emergencies that your church might encounter, and how you can respond to each of them. We’ll cover fire & evacuation; medical emergencies; and an intruder or active shooter. Then you will work on emergency preparedness plans for your church. Each plan will be customized to each church.

Doing Ministry in Innovative Ways: Casting our nets on the right side of the boat

April 20 Online 0.1 CEUs

As the nation continues to navigate through various disruptions, it’s critical that we are willing to do ministry in uncertain, uncommon and unconformable manner. If you expect to experience amazing things in your ministry, Dr. Michael Bowie dares you to begin making shifts. During this session, our leader will share steps and ideas about how we can lead our congregations to cast nets on the other side of the boat, creating enthusiasm and ministry in ways unimagined before.

Hope and Justice for Creation

April 24 - May 6 Online 1.0 CEUs

This course provides facts, inspiration, and practical help in leveraging small personal and congregational steps to enable bigger leaps in living lightly on the earth for the sake of loving God and loving our neighbors, doing no harm, doing good, and staying in love with God.

Preaching a Children’s Sermon

April 24 May 5 Online 0.5 CEUs instructor Elaine Short, CLM has been preaching children’s sermons for 42 years and can help you to be more comfortable writing and delivering a sermon to the children in your church. This course will last 2 weeks and will introduce several approaches to writing a children’s sermon.

May:

Before and After the ‘I Do’s’

May 1– June 3 Online 1.0 CEUs

This course is for clergy who will be doing premarital counseling for couples that include first responders, active military, veterans and their significant others. Information and discussions will cover relationships, communication, finances, and post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD).

An Effective Approach to Cooperative Parishes

May 2 Online 0.1 CEUs

Kay Kotan and Jason Stanley offer a roadmap for discernment and implementation for congregations to cooperate strategically and creatively to make a bigger Kingdom impact. They will show that the powerful impact of intentional regional ministry represented in the cooperative parish model is so much more than just operating as a charge for the clergy appointment-making purposes.

Leading in Uncharted Territory w/Todd Bolsinger

May 19-20 0.5 CEUs Bristol, TN

For the better part of a generation, the church has faced a rapidly changing world, one that has pushed the church out of the center of the culture to the margins. Then COVID-19 happened, and the disruption to church as we knew it accelerated. Join us for a workshop on learning to lead all over again in a totally disrupted environment. Tod Bolsinger, author of Canoeing the Mountains and Tempered Resilience, will serve as our guide into the uncharted territory.

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