| Easum-Bandy
bring tour to four Florida churches
Tom Bandy and Bill Easum explore the questions
every church must ask about Christian mission, lifestyle,
spirituality, faith and witness.
The Easum-Bandy Tour 2002 will be Feb. 19 at
Tampa’s Hyde Park United Methodist Church, Feb. 20 at Grace United
Methodist Church in Ft. Myers, Feb. 21 at Orlando’s Conway United
Methodist Church and Feb. 22 at Gainesville’s Trinity United
Methodist Church. Each workshop is 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Bill Easum will help attendees understand how
the mission church of tomorrow is light, salt and leaven to the
spiritually yearning, institutionally alienated public (the new “gentiles”)
of the 21st century. Tom Bandy will help identify glimmers of the
future from the pre-modern world.
The cost for the event is $89 per person up to
15 days before the event and $114 thereafter. Pastors bringing five
additional registrants from the same church can register themselves
for free. For more information, contact Easum, Bandy and Associates at
361-749-5364 or http://www.easumbandy.com,
or go to http://www.flumc.org
and click on the link there.
Sermon site offers expanded selection
The Sermon Listening Exchange, a Web site
offering tapes of sermons for purchase, is expanding its selection of
sermons to include more pastors from across the Florida Conference and
several world-renowned preachers.
The Rev. Dr. Will Willimon, chaplain at Duke
University and one of Baylor University’s 12 most effective
preachers in the English-speaking world, has contributed several
sermons. The Exchange has also increased its collection of sermons by
missionary E. Stanley Jones.
Nine new Florida Conference pastors are now
contributing to the Exchange, including Bishop Timothy W. Whitaker,
present and former district superintendents and pastors of some of
Florida’s fastest-growing churches. The Rev. Warren Langer, pastor
of Orlando’s Sanlando United Methodist Church, has given a series
called “Confronting the Controversies,” which includes discussions
on the death penalty, prayer in public schools, abortion,
homosexuality and other topics.
Sermons are $2 each, with a minimum of six
sermons per order. Sermons can be ordered in multiples of three tapes,
with a sermon on each side of the tape.
The Web site address is http://www.sermonlisteningexchange.org.
Seminar teaches igniting your ministry
The “Igniting Your Ministry” seminar, March
7-8 at St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Orlando, will teach
local church leaders key principles for reaching newcomers and
building a congregation that continually renews itself.
The event is presented by United Methodist
Communications and the General Board of Discipleship.
The seminar includes three plenary sessions, a
two-hour workshop and four hours of training in one of six specialized
tracks. Specialized tracks include creating new faith communities,
breaking growth barriers of 100 or 200 people in worship, developing a
long-term vision, creating discipleship systems, sharpening welcoming
skills and others.
The cost is $145 per person and does not include
meals or lodging. Churches sending three or more people may register
for $125 per person. The deadline is Feb. 10; registration is limited
to 400 people. For more information, contact Craig K. Miller, General
Board of Discipleship, at 1-877-899-2780, extension 7081, or cmiller@gbod.org,
or Barbara Nissen, United Methodist Communications, at bnissen@umcom.umc.org
or 1-888-278-4862.
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