Upcoming Workshops
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Upcoming Training Courses from BeADisciple.com:
IFD100 How to Provide Your Workshop Online -- Sept 16-27, 2013 -- $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.
One live meeting time is set for the second Tuesday of the session at 10 am Central Time. The session is not mandatory and will be recorded for you to view if you cannot attend.
Access to all BeADisciple.com courses begins at noon Central Time of the publicized start day. You will receive an email containing web location and login information that morning, so please be sure to add the email address BeADisciple@sckans.edu to your list of approved senders. If you have questions about how online workshops work, please check our FAQ's page.
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How to Become a BeADisciple Online Small-group Facilitator -- Self-paced training -- $25
This is a training to certify BeADisciple Small-group Facilitators to lead small groups of participants through already developed courses. This is intended to help congregations add an "Online Educational Wing" as a Congregational Partner.
Small Group Facilitators will be able to take groups of 8 to 18 through a wide variety of online studies developed by the Upper Room and the Wesley Ministry Network at Wesley Seminary and other content providers. Studies are available for the Advent and Lenten season, as well as short term Bible studies and other areas of interest to growing Christians.
The training course is being offered in a self-paced format to meet the demands for the training. Participants will move through the training materials at their own pace with pauses to interact with Lisa, the IFD Assistant Director. The course will begin upon enrollment (evening enrollment will be processed the next working day). It will take approximately 5-6 hours to work through the materials.
Upon becoming a certified facilitator with BeADisciple the facilitator may organize and offer classes at their convenience and/or support classes scheduled at BeADisciple. While each participant will need to enroll and pay the related fee, the facilitator is not required to purchase any materials nor pay any fee for any of the online classes they lead.
You will receive an email containing web location and login information upon enrollment during business hours, so please be sure to add the email address BeADisciple@sckans.edu to your list of approved senders. If you have questions about how online workshops work, please check our FAQ's page.
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How to Become a Disciple Online Facilitator -- Self-paced training -- $50
Do you have persons in your congregation who are missing out on DISCIPLE because of their schedules? Do you have some whose travel keeps them from committing to a weekly class meeting? Do you have some who might like to take DISCIPLE with others who have a similar life experience? How about the appeal of participating in a serious, transformational Bible experience with other Christians from around the world?
The Institute for Discipleship is providing an opportunity for Christian leaders to participate in DISCIPLE Bible Study -- online!
In this workshop, DISCIPLE Bible Study facilitators will learn how to facilitate this amazing, life-transforming 34-week walk through the Bible in an online format using one of the top educational online software packages available. Used primarily for college online course curriculum, BeADisciple.com offers this software for use for online workshops and other educational opportunities to nurture and enrich Christian leaders, lay and clergy, for effective living and ministry.
What better way to nurture and enrich Christian leaders, and to make disciples of Jesus Christ, than through DISCIPLE Bible Study?!
The training course is now being offered in a self-paced format to meet the demands for the training. Participants will move through the training materials at their own pace with pauses to interact with Lisa, the IFD Assistant Director. The cost is $50. The course will begin upon enrollment (evening enrollment will be processed the next working day). It will take approximately 10 hours to work through the materials. After training is complete, facilitators may use the Disciple Online software materials to lead a group of participants through the 34-week study.
Requirements: High speed internet access, a Disciple Bible Study student manual, a DBS facilitator's guide (Teachers Helps), a microphone and earphones or headset, and an adventurous spirit and desire to lead others to study the Bible in a new way!
To learn more about Disciple Online, please visit www.BeADisciple.com/discipleonline.
You will receive an email containing web location and login information upon enrollment during business hours, so please be sure to add the email address BeADisciple@sckans.edu to your list of approved senders. If you have questions about how online workshops work, please check our FAQ's page.
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How to Become a Youth Disciple Online Facilitator -- Self-paced training -- $50
In this workshop, DISCIPLE Bible Study facilitators and youthworkers will learn how to facilitate this amazing, life-transforming walk through the Bible for YOUTH in an online format using one of the top educational online software packages available.
In August 2012, BeADisciple.com will be the host site for Youth Disciple Online which is a joint ministry of the Institute for Discipleship (IFD) and the Center for Youth Ministry Excellence (CYMX). It will be provided for $35 per youth (includes digital manual) and is designed to help high school students learn and love the scriptures. This interactive small group experience is a great way to walk through the Bible over the course of a school year together.
The training course is now being offered in a self-paced format to meet the demands for the training. Participants will move through the training materials at their own pace with pauses to interact with Lisa, the IFD Assistant Director. The cost is $50. The course will begin upon enrollment (evening enrollment will be processed the next working day). It will take approximately 6-8 hours to work through the materials. After training is complete, facilitators may use the Youth Disciple Online software materials to lead a group of participants through the 32-week study (also includes an introductory and a closing assignment.)
To learn more about Youth Disciple Online, please visit http://beadisciple.com/youthdiscipleonline
Enrollment is open now. You will receive an email containing web location and login information upon enrollment during business hours, so please be sure to add the email address BeADisciple@sckans.edu to your list of approved senders. If you have questions about how online workshops work, please check our FAQ's page.
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Upcoming Courses from IFD-certified Instructors:
Active Learning for Today's Children -- September 9-20, 2013 -- $50
In this interactive two week Children's Teacher Training Workshop offered by Pamela Deck, you will learn practical ways to prepare for and teach today's children in this multisensory, fast paced world. Children will be able to experience and retain the Good News and grow in their faith journey.
This course is for both new and experienced Sunday School and Children's Ministry teachers who want a fresh approach and support from other teachers as we learn with each other. We will explore: choosing and using curriculum, planning lessons, positive classroom management and nonstressful environment, how children learn and remember applying brain research, multi-sensory learning methods, the importance of reflection time, and evaluating lessons. Through your assignments, you'll engage with the material, your instructor, and fellow participants at a deeper level than lecture alone-and the time of day you learn is flexible! Pamela looks forward to journeying with you in your teaching ministry!
This course will gain 1 CEU upon successful completion.
Access to all BeADisciple.com courses begins at noon Central Time of the publicized start day. You will receive an email containing web location and login information that morning, so please be sure to add the email address BeADisciple@sckans.edu to your list of approved senders. If you have questions about how online workshops work, please check our FAQ's page.
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Becoming an Even Better Sunday School or Small-group Teacher -- Sept 9-20, 2013 -- $50
In this interactive two week workshop, you will learn to teach more effectively so that your participants retain and apply Christian teaching to their lives. Whether you work with children, youth, or adults, you will discover practical information based on current scientific and educational methodology. We will explore who am I as a teacher, who are my students, ways to build caring community, hospitable space, and ideas for making scripture come alive. Through your assignments, you'll engage with the material, your instructor Pamela Deck, and fellow participants at a deeper level than lecture alone-and the time of day you learn is flexible. Pamela looks forward to journeying with you in your teaching ministry!
This course will gain 1 CEU upon successful completion.
Access to all BeADisciple.com courses begins at noon Central Time of the publicized start day. You will receive an email containing web location and login information that morning, so please be sure to add the email address BeADisciple@sckans.edu to your list of approved senders. If you have questions about how online workshops work, please check our FAQ's page.
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Come to the Waters -- April 22 to May 6, 2013 -- $55
This course has been approved by the General Board of Discipleship as an advanced course in Lay Servant Ministries.
Deepen your congregation's experience of baptism, confirmation and reaffirmation of baptism through this wide-ranging study of By Water and the Spirit, Scripture, Church history and United Methodist theology and practice of the sacrament. This course will reference, but go beyond, the official United Methodist teaching document on baptism. The class considers preparation of adults for baptism and the unique challenges of the digital age.
Participants will need a Bible and a U.M. Hymnal; other materials will be downloaded. Class members should be prepared for daily reading, reflection and online discussion. This study is guaranteed to deepen your experience of baptism, providing resources and ideas for all, both laypeople and clergy, who plan and lead worship or teach confirmation or new member classes.
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Access to all BeADisciple.com courses begins at noon Central Time of the publicized start day. You will receive an email containing web location and login information that morning, so please be sure to add the email address BeADisciple@sckans.edu to your list of approved senders. If you have questions about how online workshops work, please check our FAQ's page.
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Disciple Making 101 - July 8 to August 12, 2013 -- $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.
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 prevenient as well as sanctifying grace to develop Christians into better disciples and then disciple makers. By answering inductive questions about their own spiritual life experience and their local church context on the discussion board, participants will develop a detailed plan for making disciples customized for their own life and context.
This online workshop is based on Dr. David Kueker's 2008 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 in January, July, and September each year.
Access to all BeADisciple.com courses begins at noon Central Time of the publicized start day. You will receive an email containing web location and login information that morning, so please be sure to add the email address BeADisciple@sckans.edu to your list of approved senders. If you have questions about how online workshops work, please check our FAQ's page.
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The Non-Anxious Leader: Family Systems Basics -- July 15-24, 2013 -- $99
Anxious times and anxious institutions require non-anxious leaders. Effective leadership depends on being able to separate your personal anxieties from the issues that affect your church or organization. Based on Edwin’s Friedman’s seminal work, Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue, this course will provide you with a basic understanding of how to begin the journey toward becoming an effective, non-anxious leader. Learn why understanding your own family of origin is the key to effective leadership, what you can do to grow in this capacity and the most important characteristic of effective leaders.
Led by Pecometh Camp & Retreat Ministries Executive Director, Jack Shitama, this course is comprised of a series of brief recorded presentations that can be viewed at your convenience on specific days. Interaction with the intructor and other students is facilitated through online discussion threads. In addition, there will be three online discussions on the following dates/times:
Tuesday, July 16, 2013, 4:00pm-5:00pm EDT |
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These sessions will be recorded for students who are unable to participate. Live participation or viewing of recorded sessions is required for CEU credit. This course offers one (1) CEU.
Access to all BeADisciple.com courses begins at noon Central Time of the publicized start day. You will receive an email containing web location and login information that morning, so please be sure to add the email address BeADisciple@sckans.edu to your list of approved senders. If you have questions about how online workshops work, please check our FAQ's page.
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Three Day Intensive Safe Sanctuary Training for Workers with Children and Youth -- April 11-13 -- $35
This is a three-day (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday) online workshop for workers with children and youth in congregations that already have a Safe Sanctuary policy. This would include Sunday School teachers, youth group leaders, nursery volunteers, Christian education staff, van drivers, children and youth choir directors… in short, anyone who works with children and youth in any capacity!
A small church might send all their workers with children and youth to a workshop rather than holding their own training. Or there might be one or two workers with children and youth who can’t attend their church’s training. Each participant will need a computer and internet connection – dial up, cable, DSL, etc. – and an email address. You also need to provide the Workshop Leader, Beth Perry, with a copy of your Safe Sanctuary policy at least three days before the workshop begins.
Because this is an INTENSIVE workshop, you will need to be involved on the site every day to receive a completion certificate. Plan on reading 2-3 documents, posting a response to 1-2 questions, and posting responses to at least two other participants every day. Plan on spending a minimum of one hour a day. Participants will learn why you should follow your church’s Safe Sanctuary policy, what the policy includes generally and specifically, and how to apply it to your ministry. This Intensive Workshop provides you with the information in a fast, concise way.
You’ll have access to the website 24 hours a day and be able to work at a time most convenient for you. There will be two daily readings and 1-2 daily discussion question. You will be required to post a response to the question/s and to at least two other participants daily.
Access to all BeADisciple.com courses begins at noon Central Time of the publicized start day. You will receive an email containing web location and login information that morning, so please be sure to add the email address BeADisciple@sckans.edu to your list of approved senders. If you have questions about how online workshops work, please check our FAQ's page.
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Uncensored Prayer: The Spiritual Practice of Wrestling with God - July 29 to Aug 30, 2013 - $69
This course is about the spiritual practice of discussing everything with God, risking honesty to gain intimacy through loving, trusting conversations. It's wrestling through anger, faith, pain, hope about every aspect of our lives. No topic, language, or feeling is unholy. It will cover how to know you're hearing from God and explores a variety of ways to pray. This course is an opportunity to discover for yourself the redemptive freedom that comes from being totally honest with yourself and the One who loves you best. As you practice stepping out of your comfort zone, you will begin to experience confidence in speaking freely with God in ways that are uniquely yours.
The instructor, Joy Wilson, is the author of Uncensored Prayer: The Spiritual Practice of Wrestling With God. Prior to starting the workshop, participants need to order this text.
Click here to read a testimonial about this course.
Access to all BeADisciple.com courses begins at noon Central Time of the publicized start day. You will receive an email containing web location and login information that morning, so please be sure to add the email address BeADisciple@sckans.edu to your list of approved senders. If you have questions about how online workshops work, please check our FAQ's page.
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Writing/Editing Your Safe Sanctuary Policy Five Day Intensive Workshop -- July 15-19, 2013 -- $50
This five-day intensive workshop is for congregations that don’t have a policy or whose policy is outdated, needs revised, doesn’t meet the needs of current ministries, etc. Participants will learn why congregations should have an up-to-date Safe Sanctuary policy, what the policy includes generally and specifically, how to get a policy written and approved, and how to implement it.
Because this is an INTENSIVE workshop, participants will need to be involved on the site every day to receive a completion certificate. Plan on reading two documents, posting a response to one question, and posting responses to at least two other participants every day. Plan on spending a minimum of an hour a day. You will not be expected to fully write or edit your policy during these five days but you can get feedback from the workshop leader by sending her your completed policy.
Access to all BeADisciple.com courses begins at noon Central Time of the publicized start day. You will receive an email containing web location and login information that morning, so please be sure to add the email address BeADisciple@sckans.edu to your list of approved senders. If you have questions about how online workshops work, please check our FAQ's page.
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Youth Ministry 101 -- September 16-27, 2013 -- $45.00
Youth Ministry 101 offers the basics of youth ministry covering topics such as: the role of the youth minister, youth culture, administration, Christian education with youth, volunteers, games, and more. The instructor Todd Vick brings his 12 plus years of experience to this workshop to guide participants into a learning experience that will enhance the way ministry to and with youth is accomplished. The workshop is designed for new youth ministers with little to no experience but anyone can participate. You will be given the tools to build a youth ministry that will last and learn to protect against burn out - information that is critical for interns, volunteers and veterans alike. Limited to 20 participants and taught by Todd Vick. |
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Access to all BeADisciple.com courses begins at noon Central Time of the publicized start day. You will receive an email containing web location and login information that morning, so please be sure to add the email address BeADisciple@sckans.edu to your list of approved senders. If you have questions about how online workshops work, please check our FAQ's page.
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Youth Ministry 102: Beyond the Basics -- April 22 to May 3, 2013 -- $45.00
Youth Ministry 102 Beyond The Basics will help you build a youth ministry that will be effective and sustainable. Topics covered will include: control and vision documents, fundraising, parent and family ministry, theological youth ministry, worship, and much more. The course is designed for youth ministers at all experience levels from vetrans to rookies. In this workshop you will be given the tools to build a solid youth ministry that will be effective at making disciples as well as sustainable from year to year. Limited to 20 participants and taught by Todd Vick. |
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Access to all BeADisciple.com courses begins at noon Central Time of the publicized start day. You will receive an email containing web location and login information that morning, so please be sure to add the email address BeADisciple@sckans.edu to your list of approved senders. If you have questions about how online workshops work, please check our FAQ's page.
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