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2025 District Lay Servant Training Schedule

Website for the Mission Rivers District of the Virginia Conference of the United Methodist Church

2025 District Lay Servant Training Schedule

DATES: 2/26, 3/5, 3/12, and 3/19 from 6:30pm – 8:30pm

This course will explore the special gifts of theology, witness, and organization that The United Methodist Church brings to the church universal, how we got where we are today, and how our distinctive emphases are still needed in the 21st-century church. This is a required course in the lay speaker track of study.

Link to sign up: bit.ly/4jLJh0H

DATES: 3/3, 3/10, 3/17 and 3/24 from 6:30pm -8:30 pm

This course offers a scriptural understanding of spiritual gifts as always given “for the common good.” By helping participants identify and link their gifts, abilities, and sense of calling, laity will learn the powerful connection between spiritual gifts and vocational discernment in the context of the mission of their local church. This is a required course in the lay speaker track of study.

Link to sign up: https://bit.ly/4gk9dgL

DATES: 3/31, 4/7, 4/14 from 6:30pm – 9:00pm

This course helps participants discover the power of rest through practices that create spiritual wholeness. Beyond toxic cultures and “idols” of busyness, distraction, and consumption at the root of so much of our anxiety and disease,

Link to sign up: Coming Soon

Leading Worship

Called to Preach

Justice in Everyday Life

Leading Bible Study

Leading Public Prayer

UNITED METHODIST HERITAGE: Living our United Methodist Beliefs

UNITED METHODIST POLITY: Life Together in the United Methodist Connection

Fall In Person DATES: October 4th 8am – 4pm

Classes to be Offered:

BASIC

Accountable Discipleship

In Ministry with the Forgotten

Called to Preach

Details will be published in the newsletter, on the web page and through Facebook. Any other questions, email MRDlayservants@vaumc.org