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 coursesare from the 2017LAY 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.
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