The three day experience has been designed and created exclusively for Church Planters, Pastors, Volunteer Lay Pastors, Church Planting Core and Launch Teams, and Conference and Union Leaders currently involved in church planting or planning to plant between now and 2022. The benefits of attending include: practical teaching on how to plant a church, from some of our best church planters in North America, networking opportunities, and experiential learning with other practitioners who are traveling the same journey, and in-depth, direct information on funding for church planting in North America.  Click on the picture above or HERE to find out more and register.  

The Elder's Engage weekend was attended by over 80 leaders and members from all over the Northern California Conference - we praise God for that!  At the end of the last meeting, it was clear that more resources were desired and more online trainings were needed.  Look for future meetings to be promoted soon!
For those who attended (or who watched the archived presentations online HERE), you can access the slides for the presentations below.
Greg Howell: Practical Pendulums of Adventism (the file is too large to post here, please fill out the form on the "Contact Us" page or email the Coordinator at murray.miller@nccsda.com. 
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Dan Serns: Our Most Important "Job"
Presentation 1

As of February 26, a YouTube page was created with its first uploaded video: Preaching with PURPOSE session 1.  More videos and links to other trainings are now also posted under "Playlists".  For Volunteer Lay Pastors you can view a playlist just for you HERE, or get videos on the TEAMS proficiency areas HERE.  For Church planters, there is a playlist with lots of videos HERE, and for Pastor-Coaches I have put a playlist on the YouTube channel just for you here. 
Feel free to check out the channel and let me know what you think.  To utilize the YouTube channel for Volunteer Pastor or Volunteer Lay Pastor education/continuing education hours, please click on the "More" tab and select "Online Learning".  
Click on the picture below to access the channel or go to: ​Ministry TEAMS Resources - YouTube

The course materials can be obtained by contacting the VLP Coordinator at murray.miller@nccsda.com or by filling out the form on the "Contact Us" page of this website.  A Zoom link will then be sent to those who have registered.  Here is the introduction contained in the course materials:
Impetus for the Course
To obey Christ’s command to take the gospel to the world (Matthew 28:18-20),
the Northern California Conference needs more workers. Jesus’ words are still true today
that “the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few” (Luke 10:2 NIV).
To fulfill the mission of Christ and reach new communities for God, the Northern California Conference needs more part-time and volunteer leaders who can preach, do the work of evangelism, administrate and care for the membership of local churches. These proficiency areas are covered with the TEAMS acronym with each letter standing for an area of training (T – Teaching/Preaching; E – Evangelism/Engagement; A – Administration; M – Member care; and S – Spirituality of the leader).  This particular course has been designed to begin meeting the need for more lay training.  A more in-depth training course is available for those wishing to pursue being a Volunteer Lay Pastor (VLP).  Please feel free to contact your Pastor to express your interest in further trainings to pursue VLP ministry.  More resources on preaching, and other areas of ministry, are available online at this web link: https://www.ministryteams.org/teams-resources.html.
 
Purpose and Overview of this Course
Purpose: To provide basic proficiency in preaching concepts and a tangible process that can be repeated weekly, monthly or periodically when developing sermons for a local church’s worship service.
 
            Overview of sessions[1]:

1. Getting Started / Studying the Text
2. Drafting the Outline
3. Choosing Illustrations/Revising the Outline

 
Suggested Additional Reading:
Bresee, W. Floyd (1997). Successful Lay Preaching. Silver Spring, MD: The Ministerial Association of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists.
 
Robinson, Haddon W. (2001). Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages, 2nd Edition. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic.
 
Wibberding, James Richard (2006). Learn to Preach Before Next Weekend. Telford, PA: Big Fish Publishing, In
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[1] These sessions were developed through personal experience and by adapting materials produced by the North American Division that were accessed at this website: www.ifollowdiscipleship.org.