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Registration Form United Methodist Church Hutchinson District Registration Deadline: February 27, 2015 Lay Servant Ministries School Name ______

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Class choice: (you must have completed Basic class before you can register for one of the Advanced classes. Attendance at all sessions is required for certification.)

___ Basic ___ Afire with God -Advanced class Our mission: To nurture, equip, and transform leaders in the ___ From Your Heart to Theirs -Advanced class United Methodist Church

Special Diet Needs/Allergies ______

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The course fee is $75 and covers: housing, meals on Saturday and books. Housing will be two per room and is dormitory style (includes bedding & towels). Upon receipt of your registration, you will be sent information regarding the location of Heartland Center for Spirituality in Great Bend and housing arrangements. Checks will not be cashed until after the lay speaking courses.

Mail Registration form and check to: Phyllis Stoppel PO Box 459 Moundridge, KS 67107

Make checks payable to: Great Plains Conference Contact Phyllis Stoppel for further information at Lay Servant Ministries School Schedule [email protected] or call at 620-345=8290 Friday evening March 13 – Sat. March 14, 2015 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Lay Servant Basic Course Friday Night Teachers: Becky Gillette & Phyllis Stoppel 5:00 pm check in (no meal served) Certified Lay Servants 6:00 pm Worship & Instructions 6:30 pm Sessions begin In Lay Servant Ministries: Lend to help individuals discern and respond 9:30 pm Devotional to God's particular call on their lives. They encourage each person to recognize and employ his or her spiritual gifts for the Church to become what God intended it to be. This course invites participants to consider Saturday the importance of exercising servant leadership, developing future 7:15 am Worship & Prayer leaders, remaining rooted in consistent spiritual practices, and being part of a group that holds members accountable in discipleship. 7:45 am Breakfast 8:30 am Sessions begin Afire with God: Stewardship 10:00 – 10:30 Break Teacher: Lee Sankey 10:30 – Noon – Sessions Kansas Area United Methodist Foundation Noon – 1:00 Lunch “Stewardship is a dirty word in most self-respecting mainline churches 1:00 – 3:00 – Sessions these days. It conjures up images of the annual struggle to “meet the 3:00 – 3:30 Break budget” or fears of eternal damnation if there’s not tithing. So why talk 5:45 pm Dinner about stewardship? What if stewardship means something far different from, sonething broader and deeper than, hair-raising techniques or 6:30 pm Worship & Closing frustrating approaches? What if stewardship is a way we can live out the gospel positively afire with God?”-----Betty Schwarzentraub, author of Location “Afire with God” The Lay Ministries School will be held at: Heartland Center for Spirituality From Your Heart to Theirs: Preaching 3600 Broadway, Great Bend, KS Teacher: Rev. Jane Voelkel Halstead UMC

Moving beyond the basics of public speaking and the foundations necessary for preparing an engaging sermon, this course also includes types of sermons--from exegetical to topical to children’s sermons--as well as how to find a story, use the hymnal, and how to move from This Event is being hosted by the Hutchinson District. communication on paper to beyond the paper.