Rocky Mountain Conference Approved Lay Servant Courses

The Basic Course is the introduction to lay ministry and is the required course for becoming a Certified Lay Servant/Speaker/CLM. This course is also available in Spanish.

An approved refresher course must be completed once in every three years in order to maintain Lay Servant/Speaker status. The following courses are from the 2017 LAY MINISTRY Equipping Resources Catalogs.

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·  *Rediscovering Our Spiritual Gifts

·  Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts

·  *United Methodist Heritage—Living Our United Methodist Beliefs

·  Devotional Life in the Wesleyan Tradition (also available in Spanish)

·  *Growing Spiritually Through Daily Disciplines

·  *Life Together in the UM Connection (Polity, Practice and the Mission of the UM Church OR The Method of our Mission)

·  Transforming Evangelism

·  Accountable Discipleship (also available in Spanish)

·  Class Leaders: Recovering a Tradition

·  *Your Ministry of Leading Worship 101

·  Leading Worship: Worshiping with United Methodists

·  The Worship Workshop: Creative Ways to Design Worship Together

·  *Come to the Table (Communion)

·  *Come to the Waters (baptism)

·  *Multimedia Technology in Worship for the Church

·  Leading in Prayer (Let the Whole Church Say Amen!)

·  *Leading Public Prayer (Let the Whole Church Say Amen!)

·  Lay Pastoral Care Giving

·  Aging and Ministry in the 21st Century—Older Adult Ministries

·  Dancing With Words (storytelling)

·  *Bible Storytelling I

·  *Bible Storytelling II

·  You Can Preach!

·  From your Heart to Theirs: Delivering an Effective Sermon

·  A Mission Journey: A Handbook for Volunteers

·  Justice in Everyday Life (A Look at the Social Principles of the UMC)

·  Spiritual Gifts–Each One a Minister

·  Leading in Stewardship—Afire with God

·  Biblical Interpretation: A Roadmap (Bible Study)

·  Start Here (teaching adults)

·  Lay Servants Lead in Conflict Resolution

·  Concepts in Leadership course

·  United Methodism 101

·  Opening Ourselves to Grace

·  Pentecost Journey

·  Music - Singing a New Song, United Methodist Style

·  Leading Bible Study

·  Lay Servants Lead in Conflict Resolution

·  Leading Missional Small Groups

·  Called to Preach

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Alternative Advanced Courses

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·  Mission U

·  Quadrennial Training Event on Adaptive Leadership

·  Lay Witness Mission (only available through Aldersgate Renewal Ministries)

·  Understanding Men’s Ministry (offered through UMM)

·  Five Day Academy for Spiritual Formation

·  Aldersgate Renewal Ministries

·  SOULfeast

·  Disciple Bible Study

·  Stephen Ministry Training

·  Walk to Emmaus, School of Missions (Instructor)

·  Christian Believer

·  Companions in Christ

·  Course at an accredited UM School of Theology

·  Any shorter term Disciple Study “Invitation to….” Course

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*Available as online courses.

Other online courses are available at www.beadisciple.com.

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