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Prairie South Fall Lay Academy

Location: Ottawa First UMC, 100 West Jefferson Street, Ottawa, Ill

Ps Fall 2022 Lay Academy

Ottawa First UMC

100 West Jefferson Street, Ottawa, Ill

Registration is $40.00

Youth participants are invited to register at no cost as long as they are accompanied by an adult participant who has registered and paid the registration cost.

Online registration

Class Options (Choose 1)

  • New Course: Ministry With the Forgotten (Dementia through a Spiritual Lens) by former bishop, Kenneth L. Carder. This book is written through Kenneth's experiences as he cared for his wife who had dementia.
    Book: Ministry with the Forgotten: Dementia through a Spiritual Lens by Bishop Kenneth L. Carder
    Instructor: Janet Becker
  • Embracing Personal Prayer: Margie Burger truly makes the wonderful mystery of prayer an enchanting journey toward a life of personal prayer. This course is an alternate required course that can be used instead of Leading Public Prayer.
    Book: Lord, Teach Us to Pray: A Study to Personal Prayer by Margie Burger
    Instructor: Nancy Burnett
  • Planning Worship: This course builds on the required Leading worship course and is grounded in principles and practices of worship planning. The book is by Marcia McFee, a talented and innovative worship planner.
    Book: The Worship Workshop by Marcia McFee
    Instructor: TBD
  • Lay Servant Ministries - Basic Course : This is a required course, so those who have not taken it or those who are interested in starting into Lay Academy are invited to take this course.
    Book: Lay Servant Ministries - Basic Course Participant's Book (DR626) by Sandy Zeigler Jackson and Brian Jackson
    Instructor: Dennis Yocum

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