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Recorded: January 26 (Don Schultz) - Available On Demand
Webinar: Beyond the Basics: Long Range Stewardship Planning
This webinar discusses long-range stewardship planning. Topics to be covered include specific stewardship ministry practices that provide God’s people with more in-depth opportunities to grow as stewards and how the stewardship ministry of a congregation can assist individuals in the process of growing in faith & generosity.
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Recorded: February 23 (Joy Skjestad) - Available on Demand
Webinar: Outreach Isn't Optional: Why Community Ministry is Essential to Your Congregation's Future
This webinar is designed to help you understand why community ministry is essential to the very future of your congregation and how to go about getting more involved in it.
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Recorded: March 2 (Joy Skjestad) - Available on Demand
Webinar: Meet the Neighbors: Ten Easy Ways to Discover the Community Around Your Church
This one-hour web seminar provides 10 easy steps for church-staff or lay-leaders to use to begin building lasting relationships in your community.
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Recorded: March 9 (Joy Skjestad) - Available on Demand
Webinar: Designing Your Community Ministry Program: Seven Creative Models
Learn about creative models for community ministry, from mobilizing volunteers to developing a full-fledged program or nonprofit on-site at your church (and a number of options in-between).
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March 9-11 (Ed White) - EVENT COMPLETED
Disciple Making Communities: Moving from Maintenance to Mission
Marywood Center for Spirituality, Jacksonville, FL
Tuition Cost: $449 ($499 nonmembers)
Room & Board: Single - $226, Double - $171, Commuter - $105
Join Alban consultant Ed White in this practical exploration of what it means for mainline churches to move out of the “membership business” and into the “disciple making business”.
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Recorded: March 16 (Joy Skjestad) - Available on Demand
Webinar: Out of the Pew, Into the Community - Getting Church Members Engaged in Community Ministry
This webinar features practical steps to getting your church members out of the building and down the street, based on the unique needs and interests of your congregation.
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March 16-18 (Dan Hotchkiss) - EVENT COMPLETED
Board Leadership and Congregational Governance
Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center, Lake Junaluska, NC
Tuition Cost: $449 ($499 for nonmembers)
Room & Board: Single - $203, Double - $155, Commuter - $94
This seminar will help congregations move beyond frustrating and ineffective management of boards, clergy and staff.
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April 13 (Joy Skjegstad) - EVENT COMPLETED
Workshop - New Ways to Fund Your Church's Ministries
Palmer School of Theology, Philadelphia, PA
Tuition Cost: $50 Full Day; $35 Morning or Afternoon Session Only (to register)
This is a one day workshop that will give an overview of winning grant strategies for ministries and tips on starting a nonprofit at your church.
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April 27-29 (Susan Beaumont) - EVENT COMPLETED
Building Staff Collegiality
Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center, Lake Junaluska, NC
Tuition Cost: $449 ($499 for nonmembers)
Room & Board: Single - $245, Double - $181, Commuter - $94
Participants in this highly effective seminar will examine the characteristics of a healthy team, learn how a staff progresses through stages of team development, and identify where groups tend to get stuck. You’ll be introduced to 30 markers of healthy staff team culture, specific approaches to managing team conflict, building accountability into team performance, and crafting effective staff meetings.
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May 4-6 (Larry Peers) - EVENT COMPLETED
Clergy Wellness: How to Balance Ministry and Life
Techny Towers Retreat Center, Techny, IL
Tuition Cost: $399 ($449 for nonmembers)
Room & Board: Single - $221, Double - $191, Commuter - $111
You will leave this workshop able to identify the current strengths and liabilities you bring to your ministry and thus with a clearer sense of yourself both professionally and personally. You, and your congregation, and your family and friends will be glad you decided to take care of yourself like this.
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Recorded: May 18 (Dominic Perri) - Available On Demand
Webinar: Feed My Sheep: Ministering Effectively to Generations in Your Parish
2:00 pm Eastern Time
This webinar focuses on the two younger generations in the U.S. (Generation X and Millennials) – how to understand them, what they are seeking from communities of faith and strategies for attracting and effectively ministering to them.
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May 19-20 (Alice Mann) - EVENT COMPLETED
Raising the Roof
Techny Towers Retreat Center, Techny, IL
Tuition Cost: $399 ($449 for nonmembers)
Room & Board: Single - $190, Double - $160, Commuter - $84
Join Alban senior-consultant Alice Mann, author of Raising the Roof: The Pastoral-to-Program Size Transition, to learn how to leaders in mid-size congregations can identify transition dynamics, address obstacles to growth, and lead a process of discernment about the congregation’s calling in relation to size and numerical growth.
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May 24-27 (Diana Butler Bass) - EVENT COMPLETED
Emerging Patterns in 21st Century Worship
Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center, Lake Junaluska, NC
Tuition Cost: $225 ($275 for nonmembers)
Room & Board: Single - $390, Double - $258, Commuter - $115
This four-day event will explore contemporary movements and patterns of spirituality emerging in Protestant worship and will offer participants an opportunity to enter into holy conversation with worship leaders and ministry colleagues.
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Recorded: June 8 (Susan Beaumont) - Available On Demand
Webinar: Setting Performance Expectations for Your Staff
1:00 p.m. Eastern Time
This webinar will help supervisors to think about the nature of employment relationships in the church and how to establish meaningful performance expectations for employees.
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Recorded: June 15 (Susan Beaumont) - Available On Demand
Webinar: Building and Delivering Effective Staff Feedback
1:00 p.m. Eastern Time
We’ll examine the ways that employees sometimes deflect or sidetrack feedback and show you some helpful ways to keep your message on point.
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July 27-29 (Larry Peers) - EVENT COMPLETED
The Power of Story to Transform Your Leadership
Holy Family Passionist Retreat Center, West Hartford, CT
Tuition Cost: $399 ($449 for nonmembers)
Room & Board: Single - $203, Double - $203, Commuter - $25
This seminar connects the contemporary uses of narrative for personal and organizational change to the various ways that we use story and can do narrative work as leaders in faith communities.
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Recorded: August 26 (Carol Howard Merritt) - Available On Demand
Free Webinar: Reframing Hope - Meet Carol Howard Merritt
1:00 p.m. Eastern Time
FREE opportunity to meet Alban author Carol Howard Merritt and hear her discuss her new book, Reframing Hope: Vital Ministry in a New Generation. |
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September 14 (Alice Mann)
Webinar: "We Can't Keep Going Like This?" - Reframing a Crisis of Viability as a Chance for Change
2:00 p.m. Eastern Time
This webinar series helps lay leaders, board members, and pastors to determine what they should do when "crunch time" comes. In this first webinar participants learn about "naming and claiming the crunch" in adaptive ways.
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September 21 (Alice Mann)
Webinar: "What Choices Do We Have?" - Evaluating the Options in a Time of Transition
2:00 p.m. Eastern Time
This webinar series helps lay leaders, board members, and pastors to determine what they should do when "crunch time" comes. In this second webinar participants learn about "Defining and Evaluating Options in the Crunch."
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September 23 (Carol Howard Merritt)
Webinar: Reframing Hope - Ministry in a New Generation
1:00 p.m. Eastern Time
From her vantage point as an under-40 pastor, Carol Howard Merritt, author of Tribal Church: Ministering to the Missing Generation, explores what ministry in, with, and by a new generation might look like.
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September 28-30 (Susan Beaumont)
Stepping Up to Supervision
Simpsonwood Conference and Retreat Center, Norcross, GA
Tuition Cost: $499 ($549 for nonmembers)
Room & Board: Single - $308, Double - $228, Commuter - $55
No one ever taught me how to do this! This is the common cry of the pastoral leader who steps into a supervisory role for the first time.
Supervising the work of others requires learning new skill sets that are consistent with the role of pastor, but not innately known, and seldom learned during professional formation. Participants in this seminar will learn the basics of managing and leading the work of other staff team members.
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September 29 (Alice Mann)
Webinar: "Let's Not Go It Alone" - Merger and Cluster Approaches
2:00 p.m. Eastern Time
This webinar series helps lay leaders, board members, and pastors to determine what they should do when "crunch time" comes. In this third webinar participants learn about "Considering a Merger or Cluster Approach."
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October 5-7 (Larry Peers)
Finishing Strong, Ending Well
Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center, Lake Junaluska, NC
Tuition Cost: $399 ($449 for nonmembers)
Room & Board: Single - $281, Double - $193, Commuter - $94
You owe it to yourself and to your congregation to approach retirement in a deliberately thoughtful and meaningful way. Take advantage of this opportunity to envision the “third age” of your personal and professional growth as you approach retirement.
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October 12 (Bradford Agry)
Webinar: Networking Secrets: The Informational Interview
12:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Whether you are in transition or looking to build future contacts, informational interview skills will give you the leading edge in connecting with people with the potential to point you to new employment opportunities. Potential employers, too, can benefit from understanding how these interviews often lead to exactly the person you are seeking.
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October 19 (Bradford Agry)
Webinar: Effective Resumes: Writing And Reading Winners
12:00 p.m. Eastern Time
The webinar will leave job-seekers with skills to develop an effective resume, and employers who read them with a clearer idea of what to look for and what a job-seeker is communicating.
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October19-21 (Ed White)
New Vision for the Long Pastorate
Palisades Retret Center, Federal Way, WA
Tuition Cost: $499 ($549 for nonmembers)
Room & Board: Single - $319, Double - $275, Commuter - $159
Come and join others who like you are in the midst of, or facing the prospects of, an extended pastorate. You will have the opportunity to test several proven theories and instruments within the context of your own personal and congregational insights; to review your prospects for growth through either staying in or leaving your pastorate; to examine the support systems needed for a vital longer pastorate, including the critical role of the spouse and family; begin the process of outlining your personal and professional goals for upcoming years.
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October 26 (Bradford Agry)
Webinar: Interviewing Like A Pro – An Employer's And Candidate's Guide
12:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Whether you are a church looking to hire a staff member or an individual interviewing for the job, you need to know what makes for a successful interview.
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November 16-18 (Larry Peers)
Breakthroughs: Getting Congregations from Stuck to Thriving
Franciscan Renewal Center, Scottsdale, AZ
Tuition Cost: $399 ($449 for nonmembers)
Room & Board: Single - $273, Double - $143, Commuter - $25
In this seminar, we will explore some of the common patterns and dynamics that keep leaders and congregations “stuck” or unable to sustain the necessary changes for their breakthroughs in becoming vital centers for spiritual growth and for ministry in their communities.
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November 20 (Chuck Olsen)
The Wisdom of the Seasons: Advent Stories in Preaching and Worship
1:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Led by Chuck Olsen and based on his latest Alban book, The Wisdom of the Seasons, this webinar will offer practical how to suggestions on integrating congregational narratives with the church year. Discover how ordinary stories bring us into the timeless wisdom of the rhythms of the seasons -- with a seasonal focus on Advent stories in preaching and worship.
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