Embracing Personal Prayer
The Gateway district Lay Servant Ministries team presents the advanced course Embracing Personal Prayer with Effie McGill…
March 22, 2025 @ 8:00 am – 4:30 pm
$15
About the Course:
Prayer is a relationship with God that grows and matures over time. Burger’s study combines scriptural teaching and personal testimony that will help you overcome obstacles to intimacy with God. Appropriate for individuals and small groups, this resource features practical suggestions and honest testimony from a pilgrim who desires to walk with God.
Learners will:
- Examine their own prayer lives;
- Explore lessons from the prayer life of Jesus;
- Learn deeper approaches to personal prayer;
- Embrace the promise of intimacy with God.
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All participants are expected to read Lord, Teach Us to Pray: A Study of Personal Prayer, by Margie Burger, prior to the course.
For questions about the course, please contact Josey Snyder at josey.snyder@nccumc.org.
About the Presenter
Effie McGill is a certified lay speaker, certified lay minister, deaconess, and life-long member of Galilee UMC in Laurinburg, NC. Effie serves as the Gateway district director of Lay Servant Ministries. Her ministry is communications coordinator at Galilee UMC; she also serves as volunteer communications, media, and technology at Partners in Ministry in Laurinburg, NC. Effie and her husband, Larry, have a son, daughter-in-love, daughter, son-in-love, and seven granddaughters.