For the Common Good: Discovering and Using Your Spiritual Gifts

Westwood UMC 130 Short Street, Goldsboro, North Carolina

The Capital district LSM team is pleased to present this spiritual gifts course, open to all UMC laity. This course reminds us that the Holy Spirit gives each Christian one or more spiritual gifts to be used for the common good. It guides readers to discover their own particular gifts and learn to use their gifts to serve others.

$25

2024 Day of Discovery for Certified Lay Ministry

The North Carolina Conference Lay Servant Ministries team will sponsor an information session on Certified Lay Ministry (CLM) at the North Carolina Conference building in Garner.

Loving People and Planet in God’s Name 

Elon First UMC 1630 Westbrok Avenue, Elon, North Carolina

The Corridor district LSM team is pleased to present this course on climate justice, open to all UMC laity. This course empowers lay participants to engage local churches in creation care and environmental justice. Lay participants will see this work as the appropriate response of disciples of Jesus Christ to the realities of climate change. Using the new revised second edition of Climate Justice: A Call to Hope and Action, this course helps communities grow deeper in their faith through the caring creation of practical and context-specific spiritual practices that mitigate the effects of reckless human consumption.

$25

From Your Heart to Theirs: Delivering an Effective Sermon

Ocean View UMC 8400 E Oak Island Dr, Oak Island, North Carolina

The Harbor district LSM team is pleased to present this preaching course, open to all UMC laity. This course will expand upon basic public speaking and the foundations necessary for preparing an engaging sermon. Included are various types of sermons – from exegetical to topical to children’s sermons – as well as how to find a story, use the hymnal, and how to move from communication on paper to beyond the paper.

$15 – $25
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