Dancing with Words
(Thursday Evenings 4/28/2022, 5/5/2022, 5/12/2022, 5/19/2022, 5/26/2022) Available by Zoom Only
This Advanced Lay Servant course focuses on the ministry of the Lay Servant who regularly or occasionallypractices public speaking
Story telling is a learned skill; for many, however, the only story telling instruction they ever receive is in reading a good book.
This course helps the Lay Servant explore what constitutes a good story, discover storytelling styles, learn the techniques of effective
storytelling,and practice creating stories from their own experiences.
Dancing with Words: Storytelling as Legacy, Culture, and Faith by Ray Buckley - ISBN: 9780881774078
Amazon - https://smile.amazon.com/Dancing-Words-Storytelling-Legacy-Culture/dp/0881774073/
Cokesbury - https://www.cokesbury.com/9780881774078-Dancing-With-Words
Walmart - https://www.walmart.com/ip/Dancing-with-Words-Storytelling-as-Legacy-Culture-and-Faith-9780881774078/25945261
Upper Room - https://bookstore.upperroom.org/Products/DR407/dancing-with-words.aspx
Valore Books - https://www.valorebooks.com/textbooks/dancing-with-words-storytelling-as-legacy-culture-and-faith/9780881774078
Living Our Beliefs
(Thursday Evenings 4/21/2022, 4/28/2022, 5/5/2022, 5/12/2022, 5/19/2022) Available by Zoom Only
This Advanced Lay Servant course focuses on reclaiming the balance of John Wesley's wisdom between cultivating Christian life and
our witness. While keeping alive Wesley's emphasis on experiencing the grace and forgiving love of God, Lay Servants also have a
vital role maintaining our witness to holiness and discipleship that Wesley assigned to instruction in Christian beliefs and participation in
spiritual disciplines. "Living Our Beliefs" is an essential and required Advanced Course for every Certified Lay Servant in the
Peninsula-Delaware Conference of The United Methodist Church.
In addition to the course text, Living Our Beliefs: The United Methodist Way, the instructor asks each participant to bring their Bible,
a United Methodist Hymnal, and if possible, a copy of the Book of Worship and The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church.
Amazon - https://smile.amazon.com/Living-Our-Beliefs-United-Methodist/dp/0881775711/
Barnes & Noble - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/living-our-beliefs-kenneth-l-carder/1112647957
Cokesbury - https://www.cokesbury.com/Living-Our-Beliefs
Upper Room - https://bookstore.upperroom.org/Products/DR571/living-our-beliefs.aspx
Social Principles
(Thursday Evenings 4/28/2022, 5/5/2022, 5/12/2022, 5/19/2022, 5/26/2022) Available by Zoom Only
This Advanced Lay Servant course is designed to help the Lay Servant examine their own theology and ethics as related to
Social Principles such as restorative practices and trauma-informed education as related to the school-to-prison pipeline; women's issues
and the social principles; environmental justice and climate change; holistic health issues and the social principles; and ministry to the formerly
incarcerated as reflected in the social principles. This specific course begins on April 28th and runs through May 26th on the Zoom platform,
Thursday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30 PM.
Participants must download the Revised Social Principles of The United Methodist Church (Draft 2020) and obtain a Social Principles
(United Methodist booklet) prior to the initial session (April 28, 2022)-see the links below:
2020 Draft - https://www.umcjustice.org/documents/124
UM Booklet:
Amazon - https://smile.amazon.com/Social-Principles-United-Methodist-2017-2020-ebook/dp/B071HBRQNT/ref=sr_1_3
Barnes & Nobles - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/social-principles-of-the-united-methodist-church-2017-2020-united-methodist-church/1136884574
Bookshop - https://bookshop.org/books/social-principles-of-the-united-methodist-church-2017-2020/9781501835773
Christian Books - https://www.christianbook.com/social-principles-united-methodist-church-ebook/9781501835780/pd/92408EB
Cokesbury - https://www.cokesbury.com/Social-Principles-of-The-United-Methodist-Church-2017-2020
The Sacraments
(Sunday Afternoons 4/24/2022, 5/1/2022, 5/8/2022, 5/15/2022, 5/22/2022) Available by Zoom Only
This Advanced Lay Servant course is designed to help the Lay Servant examine and deepen their experience of Holy Communion,
baptism, confirmation, and reaffirmation of baptism, through the wide-ranging study of scripture, church history, United Methodist
theology and the practices of the sacraments.
United Methodists and the Sacraments by Gayle C Felton - ISBN: 9780687492152
Amazon - https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0687492157
Barnes & Noble - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/united-methodists-and-the-sacraments-gayle-carlton-felton/1101825930
Bookshop - https://bookshop.org/books/united-methodists-and-the-sacraments/9780687492152
Christian Books - https://www.christianbook.com/united-methodists-and-the-sacraments/gayle-felton/9780687492152/pd/92151
Cokesbury - https://www.cokesbury.com/United-Methodists-and-the-Sacraments
Walmart - https://www.walmart.com/ip/United-Methodists-and-the-Sacraments-Paperback-9780687492152/6106722
Teaching Biblical Faith: Leading Small Group Bible Studies
(Thursday Evenings 4/28/2022, 5/5/2022, 5/12/2022, 5/19/2022, 5/26/2022) Available by Zoom Only
This Advanced Lay Servant course is designed to help the Lay Servant teach Biblical faith, the by applying the tools for biblical study
to explore scripture, perform historical studies of scripture texts, experience praying the scriptures, and practice teaching in small
groups of supportive colleagues.
Amazon - https://smile.amazon.com/Teaching-Biblical-Faith-Leading-Studies/dp/1630884308/
Barnes & Noble - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/teaching-biblical-faith-jack-l-seymour/1120135529
Bookshop - https://bookshop.org/books/teaching-biblical-faith-leading-small-group-bible-studies/9781630884307
Christian Books - https://www.christianbook.com/teaching-biblical-leading-group-bible-studies/jack-seymour/9781630884307/pd/884300
Cokesbury - https://www.cokesbury.com/Teaching-Biblical-Faith
Walmart - https://www.walmart.com/ip/Teaching-Biblical-Faith-Leading-Small-Group-Bible-Studies-Paperback-9781630884307/42078962