Upcoming Workshops

IFD100 How to Provide Your Workshop Online -- July 13-24 and August 10-21, 2009 --$100

This is a two-week workshop designed to familiarize participants with the mission of the Institute for Discipleship and BeADisciple.com, the basics of planning and teaching online workshops, and the basics of the use of Blackboard software. Participants will complete a series of exercises. In the first week, you will use the software as a student in order to give you familiarity with the perspective of the "students" in online workshops. You will also begin to think about a potential workshop you might want to offer online. In the second week you will be given a workshop site of your own to administer as if you were leading a workshop. Many participants who come into the How To workshop with ideas end up developing much of their actual workshop in the second week. Once you have completed the How To workshop, you will be certified to offer your own workshop through the Institute for Discipleship and BeADisciple.com.

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Disciple Making 101 - September 21 - October 26, 2009 -- $20

What is the simplest system one can use to make disciples and mature them spiritually to the point where they can make their own disciples?

A flood of new ideas and methods in evangelism has made us skeptical. The innovation that is needed in churches today is far more elementary yet entirely sufficient: Jesus is Lord.

How can we overcome resistance to this innovation?

This workshop offers a specific, step by step plan of spiritual formation based on the discipleship systems of the world's largest and fastest growing churches.

Participants will learn practical spiritual disciplines based on the Great Commission that operate in pre-venient as well as sanctifying grace to develop Christians into better disciples and then disciple makers.

This online workshop is based on Dr. David Kueker's 2007 Doctor of Ministry project on evangelism, church growth and organizational change at Fuller Theological Seminary (www.disciplewalk.com).

This seven session course at an introductory rate is a great way to try out online learning at BeADisciple.com.

Participation limited to 18. It will be offered Sept 21 to Oct 26, 2009.

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What's Your Talent?: Experiential immersion into the stewardship parables of Jesus -- $15

In preparation for summers of service, college students and young adults in the Mission Intern, Transforming Leaders, and other programs will gather for this class introducing them to biblical practices of multiplication-based stewardship. Through online discussions, live video presentations, and a final “kingdom assignment” interns will live out the Parable of the Talents, and other stewardship stories.

This workshop is offered by Carl Gladstone, UM Deacon in the Detroit Annual Conference and leader of the Young Leaders Inititative.

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Leading Worship 101 for Lay People -- August 31 to Sept 25 -- $50 ($40 if two or more from same church enroll together)

Do you read Scripture or lead the people in prayers on Sunday morning? Would you like to sharpen your skills for the way you communicate at the lectern?

Leading Worship 101 will focus on basic worship leadership skills for lay persons (“liturgists” or “lay readers”) who assist the pastor in Christian worship. If you currently help lead worship in your congregation or would like to prepare for such leadership, this course is for you. Particular emphasis will be given basic skills: understanding your role in relation to other leaders and the congregation, reading Scripture, leading prayer, distribution of the elements at the Lord’s Supper, and basic do’s and don’ts of effective worship leadership. Deacons, elders/presbyters, and lay worship leader coordinators are also welcome, particularly with an eye to doing local training and providing support to lay readers/assisting ministers in their local church settings.

This workshop will be offered by instructor Dan Benedict. It will run from August 31 to September 25, 2009. A $10 discount applies when two or more people from the same congregation enroll together.

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Multi-media Technology in Worship for the Church Vounteer 101 -- $75 -- September 9 - 22, 2009

The use of multi-media technology in worship is growing at an exponential rate. Congregations of all sizes are acknowledging the gift of media technology; however very few have access to formal training.

Rev. John Zimmerman brings his 20+ years of pastoral ministry and his gift of implementing multi-media technology in worship to this seminar. Students will be introduced to the hardware and software in worship technology and discover their ability to plan, create and implement technology in a worship setting. The workshop will also help the student learn about worship itself and the role of technology in design, appropriateness and excellence. Special consideration will be given to budget and a low-cost approach to technology implementation. This workshop is designed for the church volunteer or pastor who would classify themselves as “beginners” in Multi-media experience.

The course content will include:

- Intro to Worship Theory
- Vision-casting, resources, structure
- Budget
- Projectors, computers, sound
- Multi Media graphic resources
- Worship presentation software

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