LAY SERVANT MINISTRIES ADVANCED COURSE: UM HERITAGE LIVING OUR UNITED METHODIST BELIEFS (Spring 2025)

LAY SERVANT MINISTRIES ADVANCED COURSE: UM HERITAGE LIVING OUR UNITED METHODIST BELIEFS
Mondays, February 10, 24, March 3, 17, 24, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM California (PST/PDT)*
Mondays, February 10, 24, March 3, 2025, 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM Hawaii (HST) & Monday, March 17, 24, 2025, 3:30 PM – 5:30 PM Hawaii (HST)*
or Tuesdays, February 11, 25, March 4, 2025, 12:30 PM – 2:30 PM Guam (ChST) & Tuesdays, March 18, 25, 2025, 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM Guam (ChST)*
Zoom Online Platform

*Note that Daylight Savings Time begins in California on Sunday, March 9, 2025.

Cost & Deadlines: $15.00 and you must provide your own book (see below). Please note the deadline to register is Sunday, February 9, 2025. The class size will max at 30 participants and registration will close if that number is reached before the registration deadline.

REGISTER AT THIS LINK

About the Class:

• Living Our Beliefs: 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.
• The instructor is Rev. Elizabeth Davidson. She is the Executive Director of Faith In Women, an organization working to change the conversation about reproductive health, rights, and justice in Mississippi. Rev. Davidson is a Jackson, Mississippi native and ordained deacon in the California-Pacific Conference of The United Methodist Church. Holding dual degrees in social work and ministry, she is passionate about inviting people of faith to live out their spiritual values in the world through the pursuit of justice in their communities. Elizabeth also loves to eat well (usually thanks to her husband, Geoff), travel, exercise her creativity through art and writing, spend quality time with loved ones, and nap with her dogs, Mulligan and Migo, and her cat, Hamilton.
• Attendance is required at all sessions for credit.
• All those seeking certification as a Certified Lay Servant or Certified Lay Speaker, and those needing continuing education for Certified Lay Servant status, are invited to attend. The BASIC class and one Advanced Class is required to successfully apply for Certified Lay Servant status.
  • About Certified Lay Servant (CLS) status: After you take the Basic Lay Servant Class, you have 3 years to take an advanced class to qualify you as a Certified Lay Servant. If you want to continue on to being a Certified Lay Speaker, you will need to take the following six advanced classes: Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts, UM Heritage, UM Polity, a Preaching class, a Prayer class, and a Worship class. For more information about Lay Servant Ministries, click here.
• Provide your own book: Living Our Beliefs: The United Methodist Way by Kenneth L. Carder (Amazon, Cokesbury, Upper Room)
• Technical requirements for Zoom participants: To participate in Zoom  meetings, participants must have a reliable Internet connection, and a  laptop, tablet, or smartphone device that can download and install the  Zoom app. A web or phone camera and a microphone are highly recommended,  although some users may call in via phone if a mic is not available. 
• Zoom information is included in your confirmation email and submission message.

For more information about this course, contact Cathy Wilson in Connectional Ministries at cwilson@calpacumc.org.