Seminar Offerings

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Church By Size Seminars
These five exciting seminars, designed and led by Doug Anderson, will help pastors and lay teams understand the unique and important ministry that their church size offers.  The seminars offer a unique view of each size church using a systems perspective to understand the issues and transition points.  Based on those observations, participants are then given practical models, principles, and options for effectively dealing with important issues and opportunities.  Making that ministry effective and dynamic is the purpose of each seminar.  These seminars will be particularly helpful for pastors newly appointed to a church, but even those with experience will find the principles, insights and models invaluable for their ministry.  Evaluations from participants have been very positive, with most experiencing numerical growth and exciting, effective ministry of new outreach, caring systems and increased level of volunteers.

Church Development Seminars (sponsored by the North Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church)
This series of seminars focuses on various aspects of church development, including issues for new church starts, renewing and revitalizing older churches, and starting new congregations.

Interim Ministry Seminars
These seminars are geared toward ministry professionals who have been or will be in an interim role, whether just as a transition or in situations with conflict.

The Stewardship Academy
This systematic approach to stewardship is a thorough training in leading churches in healthy and Biblical approaches to the use of money and finances by two gifted, insightful, and nationally recognized and experienced leaders.  This transforming process includes a broad range of information, ideas, resources, and models of stewardship, with participants getting assignments to work on between sessions to enhance and reinforce learnings as applied to their current ministry setting.

The Race to Reach Out
This seminar is designed to help pastors and lay teams understand the unique and important ministry of hospitality and assimilation of newcomers and connecting people to the church.

Academy for Ministry Excellence
This new probationers curriculum is presented in a six-retreat format over a period of three years.  This series is meant to be sponsored by individual annual conferences to assist in the training and development of new pastors and the laity that support them.

Other Seminars
The Bishop Rueben Job Center offers a variety of seminars and workshops that cover a broad range of issues facing churches today and their leaders.  These seminars address topics in a way that encourages understanding and relationship-building as a means to solve problems, create growth, and manage change.