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Your resource for support in lay ministry, mission, and leadership. |
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| The General Conference now requires that all Local Lay Speakers take a REFRESHER course at least once every three years or ... a minimum of 4 hours credit of a NYAC approved1 advanced Lay Speaker Workshop(s). | |
| This is a new requirement in the GBOD, and consequently, it will require new training materials and course development. | |
| We expect to see new materials to become available to us to design course content and obtain/train leaders starting in April or May - and plan to offer refresher courses in the spring and fall. Please continue to monitor this web site and the Basic and Advanced Pages for course schedules. | |
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CERTIFIED LAY SPEAKERS are required to take at least 1 full credit2 (10 hours) of Advance Class Workshops every three years ... we encourage you, however, to attend any of the annual training events that will help to make you more effective in your ministry, mission, and leadership. |
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| CERTIFIED LAY MINISTERS : This is a response to the practice of assigning laypersons to local churches — a practice that is already in place now has disciplinary support .... a page will be added to this web site at a future date. | |
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Workshops in the Conference: |
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1 Lay Speakers may attend, and receive credit, at the classes and workshops that are approved by the NY conference committee on lay speaking. |
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WORKSHOP CREDIT: One, four-hour classroom refresher (LOCAL) and one, full-credit (CERTIFIED) every three years is the minimal classroom requirement. We suggest , however, that to be effective, Lay Speakers continue their education and enhancing their skills by attending a variety of workshops that are offered around the district each year. 2FULL or PARTIAL CREDIT: Since an approved advance workshop must have at least ten hours of classroom instruction, some classes are worth a full-day-credit ... and some are worth partial-day-credit (partial credit classes require attendance at more than one event during a rolling 3-year period). RECORD KEEPING: Please keep record of the conference-approved workshops that you attend and include them on your Annual Lay Speaker Report. |
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| Welcome NYAC Lay Speakers! All believers are called to ministry - This site has been established to communicate opportunities for you to obtain training, coaching, and practice - so that you may be more effective in personal ministry, mission, and leadership. | |
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WEB SITES OF INTEREST TO LAY SPEAKERS: |
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| Lectionary | http://www.gbod.org/worship/lectionary/ |
| UMC Hymn Selection Assistance | http://www.hymnsite.com |
| Cokes bury (books, videos, workbooks, CDs and more) | http://www.cokesbury.com/ |
| FIND A UMC (anywhere) - by Zip Code | http://www.unitedmethodist.com/heart5.htm |
| Youth Ministries (Jesse Lee, Ridgefield UMC) | Jesse Lee Youth |
| Young People's Ministries | http://www.gbod.org/youngpeople/ |
| Youth and Young Adult Leaders | Youth and Young Adult Leaders |
| Youth Worship Resource | Top
Ten List of Worship Keys for Kids
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| Methodists : | What We Believe |
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Methodist History: |
History of the Church |
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Glossary of Terms: |
Glossary |
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Why we sing what we sing: |
GBOD | Worship |
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NYAC New York Annual Conference (resource center) |
www.nyac.com |
| Find a Church | UMC.org : Find-A-Church |
| InfoServe - information service of the UMC | http://archives.umc.org/interior.asp?ptid=16&mid=1244 |
| General Board of Ministries | http://gbgm-umc.org/home_page/index.cfm |
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Archives and History |
www.gcah.org |
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Board of Discipleship |
www.gbod.org |
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Children’s Resources |
www.gbod.org/children |
| Conference LIST OF USEFUL WEB SITES: | http://www.nyac.com/WebSiteAddresses.pdf |
| Ginghamsburg UMC (seeker service) | Ginghamsburg Church |
Safe
Sanctuaries
(Books, DVDs) |
Cokesbury |
| EVENTS: | |
| NYAC Annual Conference Calendar | New York Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church - Conference Center Calendar |
| Ocean Grove Annual Camp Meeting (Methodist event) | Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Week |
| NOBS (Story Telling) | Network of Biblical Storytellers (NOBS) Home Page |
| Walk to Emmaus | Upper Room | Emmaus |
| Wellspring | New Page 1 |
| UMCOR | http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/ |
| Habitat for Humanity (Bridgeport FF County) | Habitat for Humanity of Coastal Fairfield County (HFHCFC) |
| Please email me with web sites that might be of interest to all | nylays@gbgmchurches.gbgm-umc.org |
