~ The Arizona~California District of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran
Synod ~
~ Serving the states of Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, New Mexico, and
West Texas ~
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Seminars offered by the District Board for Parish Services:
Evangelism Commission Seminar:The Evangelism seminar will focus on the topic "Connecting the community to Christ." This workshop will look at the importance of creating a community awareness within the congregation, and a community awareness of the congregation within the community. Topics covered will be: "Why don't they come?"; "Evaluating where we are"; "Creating an identity"; and "The dangers of a 'social gospel'". Special Ministries SeminarNo seminar is scheduled to be presented at the convention this year. Parish Schools SeminarThe Parish Schools seminar will focus on the topic "Data-Driven Instruction" Further details will be added as they become available. Worship Commission Seminar
Later this summer, the
WELS Commission on Worship will release
Christian Worship: Supplement as a worship resource to complement
our current hymnal. The supplement will offer new services, devotions,
psalm settings, hymns, and other resources that will offer useful variety
for worship in one place. The district worship committee’s workshop at this
convention will provide a preview of the supplement’s resources and
suggestions for ways that Christian
Worship: Supplement can enhance Lutheran worship.
Adult DiscipleshipNo seminar is scheduled to be presented at the convention this year. Youth Discipleship
Creating Youth-full Churches Dr. Joel Nelson, Administrator-WELS CYD
This sectional title’s play on words with the word
“youth-full” focuses on an
important reality: congregations that succeed at engaging their younger, more
youthful members in ministry are congregations that are more youth-full.
They have more children, teens, and young adults attending and active. As
members of the Body of Christ, Christian youth help to make the church
complete. Their God-given gifts, abilities, and insights are important, not
only because these children, teens, and young adults are the church of
tomorrow, but also because they are the church of today. They can be valuable
partners in the church’s ministry. This
sectional will get participants talking about the need in WELS to
engage youth in the ministry of the church in more direct ways.
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