Discovering Your Call: Dependable Strengths in Your Congregation
Oct. 24-26, 2007
Whitworth University

Discover your strengths, then learn to teach others!

The Weyerhaeuser Center for Christian Faith and Learning is excited to partner with Centered Life at Luther Seminary to bring this invaluable workshop to the Pacific Northwest. Luther seminary's Centered Life program is a leader in continuing education for clergy and laity, particularly in helping people to make connections between faith and vocation. The seminary has developed a national reputation in helping laity discover their sense of calling to ministry. The Weyerhaeuser Center for Christian Faith & Learning is dedicated to providing innovative programs designed to promote the renewal of clergy and laity. Both the Weyerhaeuser Center and Centered Life believe that strengthening and nurturing congregations on issues of faith and vocation is, and will continue to be, critical to the future of the church. We also believe that congregations will have an increasingly important role in helping people discover their call in the church and the world. One of the initiatives of Centered Life is the Discover Your Call: Dependable Strengths® in Your Congregation workshop.

Workshop Description:
Designed for all denominations, the Discover Your Call workshop uses the Dependable Strengths® process to invite people to reflect on positive experiences from their lives, tell their stories and discern together what God is calling them to be. Unlike most gifts identification processes, this workshop helps people see how God calls them to ministry in their homes, communities and workplaces, in addition to within their congregations. In this two-part, train-the-trainer course, you will learn how to lead Discover Your Call workshops in your own congregation. In Part I, you will run through the workshop as a participant. Here you will learn to identify your unique pattern of dependable strengths and reflect on your own callings in daily life. In Part II, you will learn how to plan for and teach Discover Your Call workshops for groups in your congregation. Come and learn more about yourself and how to teach others to identify their core abilities, talents and skills: their dependable strengths!

You will learn to:
* have a clearer sense of God's call in your daily life;
* make better choices and commitments at home, work, school, and church;
* teach others to uncover their own pattern of dependable strengths;
* plan and publicize workshops in your own congregation.

Workshop Leaders
Sally Peters, Centered Life manager, and Sara Fortin, training consultant. Both have been trained at the Center for Dependable Strengths at the University of Washington and have taught this workshop to hundreds of church leaders.

What others have said about the workshop:
"I learned to articulate and claim the strengths that are unique to me.and am now able to share these with others in all arenas of my life."

"I came away with a greater understanding of my call in the world."

Schedule:

Registration and fee: $250 (includes workshop, materials and lunches). Housing is not available on campus and must be arranged separately (see hotel recommendations below).

Register online at Discover Your Call. Or you may request that a registration form be mailed to you by calling:

Michelle Seefried
mpace@whitworth.edu
(509) 777-3275

Hotel Recommendations:

Quality Inn Oakwood
7919 N. Division Street
Spokane WA 99208
509.467.4900

Ramada Inn Suites at Northpointe
9601 N. Newport Highway
Spokane WA 99218
509.468.4201

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