QUICK LINKS

COMPETENCY AREAS

CLICK HERE for Training Schedule

CLICK HERE for Financial Aid form

CLICK HERE for list of Competencies & Examining Chaplains

Be sure to get in touch with the Chaplain for each area BEFORE you begin to work on the assignments, and be sure to stay in touch as you complete your work.

•  Scripture Readings

• Homiletics Competencies (Including links to Handout #1: Resources;  Handout #2: Developing Your Sermon; and Handout #3: Structuring Your Sermon)

• Training Schedule

• Worship Schedule (from Dcn. Geri Nelson)

• Ten Surefire Ways to Lose a Congregation (Fr. Peter Ingeman)

• Sermon: St. Luke's Feast Day (Dcn. Geri Nelson)

• David Schlafer's Preaching Notebook (this supplementary material, which was used at a preaching conference at Honey Creek, is included with permission from Fr. Schlafer. It is not a replacement for the assigned  book Your Way with God's Word.)

• Kindling Points for Sacred Fire

• Finding Your Way with God's Word

• Radical ReCreation! Preaching Work as Spirit Play

• Spirit-ed Conversation in Covenant Community

• Preaching Grace on Special Occasions

• Human Awareness Competencies

• Human Awareness Weekend Schedule

• Human Awareness Worship Schedule

• Brochure (Clicking on this link will call up a dialog box that will ask you whether you want to open or save the file. You will need to have Microsoft Publisher on your computer to open and print the brochure.)

Pictures from the Feb. 20-21 Training Session

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Some of the attendees at the Deacon School for Ministry meeting on Feb. 29-March 2 2008 gather outside the chapel at Honey Creek.

 

Congratulations to those who completed DSM training units!

Certificate recipients in Deacons and Diakonia are

Wiletta McGowan, George Scott, Ri Lamb, and Becky Rowell; and

in Homiletics, Janet Robinson.

 

The Deacon School for Ministry meeting Oct. 10, 2007

 

Pictures from the Deacon School for Ministry meeting at Honey Creek, Dec. 1-3

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