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Click here to purchase the on-demand webinar  – $29.95 (1-6 participants)   On-demand webinars can be viewed by registered participants at any convenient time and as many times as is helpful.
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Retirement can be an adventure: a path of fun and joy and engagement and meaning.

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Remember when we were children, and it seemed like Christmas would never come? Now we might feel like it comes way too often!

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Are you…

• Afraid to ask congregants to give more than once a year?
• Doubtful that community members will increase their financial commitments to support the operating budget?
• Wondering how to develop a 12-month stewardship ministry?

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Worship is the church’s essential and primary spiritual practice.  When worship works in us and among us we know it.  Something connects.  Something speaks powerfully within us.  A divine contact is made at the center of our lives. 

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True partnership begins with clear role boundaries, effective delegation and a constructive system of accountability. Alban author and consultant Dan Hotchkiss offers fresh perspective, language and practical steps to help a church to move beyond frustrating and ineffective management of boards, clergy and staff.

The webinar will help participants to:

• Keep the church’s mission at the center of its ministry.

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Advent is a journey from darkness to light. During this season we confront our need for God’s judgment and mercy and wait with eager and longing expectation for the coming of Jesus Christ who will make all things new. We hear the promise of salvation and the reconciliation of the whole world as we prepare to welcome the very incarnation of grace,

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Too often, our conversations have espoused cultural values about leadership and have forgotten the identity of Christian leaders as disciples of Jesus, as people who first are followers.

This webinar will offer new perspectives on leadership that is grounded in discipleship.  To understand ourselves as followers will deepen our awareness of the critical role we play between other followers and the One who calls and leads us all.

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The 221st GA: An Overview

Featuring Jack Haberer, Editor What issues will be capturing the headlines during and after the 221st General Assembly in Detroit on June 14-21? What topics will thrill and/or disappoint the folks in your church’s pews? From his vantage point as editor of the leading independent news magazine for Presbyterians, Jack Haberer will provide a measured, non-anxious summary of the major topics and the key proposals to be considered by the commissioners and delegates to the GA.

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