Lay Servant Training- Spring 2023
Saturday, April 29, 8:30am-4:30pm
Sunday, April 30, 1:30pm-6:00pm
PLEASE NOTE: MULTIPLE LOCATIONS
- Cornerstone UMC- 2697 Heckle Blvd, Rock Hill
- Trinity UMC- 22 E Liberty St, York
Attendance of all sessions is required for course credit.
Registration Fee: $20 (Course Books will need to be ordered by participants. Please see details below.)
Registration deadline is April 15, 2023.
REGISTRATION LINK: https://www.umcsc.org/rockhillonlineregistration/
Contact: Lynne Tyner, Lay Servant Ministries Director, kassgrandma16@gmail.com, 803-517-6596
Jerry Newlon, Associate Director, jnewlonjr@gmail.com, 803-370-0965
Classes Offered (Please note: These classes are location specific)
Cornerstone UMC, Rock Hill
Basic Course- Lay Servant Ministries: Kristin Gommer
Participants are encouraged to discover and employ personal spiritual gifts as God intended and to consider the importance of exercising servant leadership, developing future leaders, remaining rooted in consistent spiritual practices, and being part of a group that holds members accountable in their discipleship.
Leading Prayer: Rev. Nellie Cloninger
Prayer is something we learn. It is something that can be taught. This may challenge some of your assumptions, test some of your preconceived ideas, stretch your thinking and enrich your prayer life. It is an opportunity to grow in the discipline.
Spiritual Gifts: Monica Tilley
Understanding spiritual gifts and how the church can use them to fulfill its mission and ministry.
Soul Reset: Tony Jackson
How can leaders nurture their own souls during seasons of chaos, anxiety and distress? Help to discover and lead others into the spiritual power of self-care through the means of grace.
Trinity UMC, York
Basic Course- Lay Servant Ministries: Al Quarles
Participants are encouraged to discover and employ personal spiritual gifts as God intended and to consider the importance of exercising servant leadership, developing future leaders, remaining rooted in consistent spiritual practices, and being part of a group that holds members accountable in their discipleship.
Heritage: Ted and Athena Cathcart
This will explore the special gifts of theology, witness, and the organization that the Methodist Church brings to the church universal, how we got where we are today and how our distinctive emphasis is still needed today.
Polity: Rev. Steve Holler
This course gives participants an overview of the structure and organization of the Methodist Church.
Leading Worship: Ken Spaulding and Joan Powell
This course focuses on the ministry of the lay servant who either regularly or occasionally leads a group or congregation in worship.
Course Books (In alphabetical order, Need to be ordered by participant)
Course – Basic Course- Lay Servant Ministries
Participant: Lay Servant Ministries, Participant’s Book (Basic Course) by Sandy Zeigler Jackson and Brian Jackson Participant’s Book – Paperback – March 13, 2013 (also available on Kindle)
ISBN-10: 0881776262
ISBN-13: 978-0881776263
Course – Heritage
Participant: Living Our Beliefs: The United Methodist Way by Kenneth L. Carder – Paperback – October 1, 2009
ISBN-10: 0881775711
ISBN-13: 978-0881775716
Course – Leading Prayer
Participant: Let All the People Say Amen by Laurence Hull Stookey – Paperback
ISBN-13 : 978-0-687-09077-8
Course – Leading Worship
Participant: Worshiping with United Methodists by Hoyt L. Hickman– Paperback – March 1, 2007
ISBN-10: 0687335264
ISBN-13: 978-0687335268
Course – Polity
Participant: Polity, Practice and the Mission of the United Methodist Church by Thomas E. Frank– Paperback – April 1, 2006
ISBN-10: 0687335310
ISBN-13: 978-0687335312
Course – Soul Reset
Participant: Soul Reset by Junius B. Dotson– Paperback – September 1, 2019
ISBN-10: 0835818969
ISBN-13: 978-0835818964
Course – Spiritual Gifts
Participant: Serving from the Heart Revised Participants Workbook by Carol Cartmill and Yvonne Gentile – Paperback – May 1, 2011
ISBN-10: 1426735995
ISBN-13: 978-1426735998
