Good Soil Evangelism and Discipleship

Upcoming Seminar Dates

Oct 24–25, 2012

Good Soil Basic

ABWE Training Center
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Good Soil for Children’s Ministries

Upcoming Seminar Dates

Moving Beyond Lecture

Becoming a Creative Facilitator of Interactive Training

Are you…

• Frustrated with the lack of audience involvement in your presentations?
• Desperately in need to stop or minimize lecturing but are not sure what to do differently?
• Longing for a process to help you design and deliver memorable presentations and training sessions?

In this seminar you will…

Trainers: Dave & Sue Arch

Dave and Sue Arch graduated from Grace University (formerly Grace College of the Bible). In 1974 Dave received the Bachelor of Arts with a major in Pastoral Ministries and was ordained by the Baptist General Conference in 1976.

He was a church-planting pastor early in his ministry and later became a house church pastor. In every role, his ministries have consistently utilized his gift of teaching.

Dave and Sue both have extensive experience as professional trainers, having served major corporate and educational clients throughout the United States.

• Discover a six-step process for designing presentations and training sessions that consistently engage participants.
  1. Step One:
     Mind Map Learn a quick and easy visual method for determining the content needed for your training/teaching sessions.
  2. Step Two:
     Define Objectives Decide what you want participants to know, be able to do, and to feel, as a result of your training/teaching.
  3. Step Three:
     Prioritize Content Differentiate between the content that participants really “need to know” and that which is only “nice to know.” Also, determine what content you should tell them “where to go” to find, if needed.
  4. Step Four:
     Outline Content Based upon the visual “mind map,” organize the teaching content into an outline form.
  5. Step Five:
     Chunk Content Based upon three outline, organize the teaching content into CPR “chunks” (bite-size segments) that can be taught in about 20 minutes. Each chunk includes some (1) new content and time to (2) process that content. A (3) review activity should occur after two or three chunks (40-60 minutes period).
  6. Step Six:
     Insert Activities Explore 37 alternatives to lecture that will add options to your presentational toolkit.
• Practice your new-found skills in a safe environment with feedback designed to accelerate application of what you learn.
• Observe the seminar facilitators model many engaging instructional methods and educational best practices in a fast-paced, highly interactive learning environment.

Upcoming Seminar Dates

Oct 22–23, 2012

Moving Beyond Lecture

ABWE Training Center
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Methods of Bible Study

Methods of Bible study is an 8 day course taught in the ABWE training facility that will give students confidence and skills required to understand and apply any genre of Scripture.  The students will gain a discipleship tool for use in any context.  This is a hands-on course with individual and group activities including plenty of personal interaction with the instructors.

The course includes 55 hours of instruction and activities over the 8 day schedule.

Upcoming Seminar Dates

Sep 24–Oct 3, 2012

Methods of Bible Study

ABWE Training Center
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Trainer Certification Workshop

Certification: Participants who successfully complete and fulfill the requirements for this workshop will be certified to teach the Good Soil Basic Seminar and use the materials that have been created for that seminar.

Pre-requisite:  Participants in this Trainer Certification workshop must have a good current working knowledge of the content of the basic Good Soil Basic Seminar.  For example, if you participated in a Basic Seminar months or years previous to this Trainers seminar, we strongly suggest that you attend the Basic Seminar that immediately precedes this Trainer Certification Workshop in order to review the basic Good Soil concepts and procedures.

This seminar will equip and certify participants to lead Good Soil E&D seminars through the following activities:

• Self-evaluate your current level of readiness to train others in Good Soil E&D.
• Develop and deliver a presentation for convincing other believers of the value of participating in a Good Soil Basic Seminar.
• Adapt the Good Soil Basic Seminar to a variety of time-constrained settings.
• Review the content of the Good Soil Basic Seminar and identify the issues that would be the greatest challenges for you, as a trainer.
• Practice (in front of and with the group of other trainees) an assigned section of the Good Soil Basic Seminar.
• Practice adapting various typical classroom settings for optimum interactive Good Soil training.

General Seminar Structure

Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4
Good Soil E&D Learn to use the Good Soil evangelism and discipleship scale, the worldview onion peeling model, how to use The Story of Hope and The Way to Joy (and other similar resources) and much more.		Good Soil E&D Trainer Certification Learn and become certified, to lead basic Good Soil E&D seminars and gain access to all of the necessary documents and files needed to present the seminar.	Bible Storytelling Learn how to tell Bible stories effectively so that you can… Use Bible stories to reach children and adults too. Use Bible stories to reach postmodern AND tribal people. Enhance your preaching and Bible teaching.

Upcoming Seminar Dates

Oct 26, 2012

Trainer Certification Seminar

ABWE Training Center
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Bible Storytelling

Using Bible Stories in Evangelism and Discipleship

Learn how to…
Tell stories effectively
Use Bible stories in multiple settings to reach

• Adults
• Children
• Post-Moderns
• Tribal Peoples

Use Interactive Learning techniques and improve your preaching with stories.

Meet the Trainer

Rev. Michael Forestieri

Since 1989, Michael has demonstrated his passion for communicating Biblical principles through the performing arts in various states as well as overseas.  His desire is to see believers and unbelievers draw closer to the Father’s nurturing heart through Jesus Christ.

Although active at his home church, the Lord has positioned Michael as a market-place minister through the art of storytelling.  Michael reaches thousands of adults, children, and youth in schools and libraries, yearly.  Approved with arts councils in DE, MD, and VA, he also is a founding member of the nationwide Christian Storytelling Network.  For several years, he has presented marriage enrichment seminars for the Healthy Marriage Initiative of Cecil County, MD.

General Seminar Structure

Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4
Good Soil E&D Learn to use the Good Soil evangelism and discipleship scale, the worldview onion peeling model, how to use The Story of Hope and The Way to Joy (and other similar resources) and much more.		Good Soil E&D Trainer Certification Learn and become certified, to lead basic Good Soil E&D seminars and gain access to all of the necessary documents and files needed to present the seminar.	Bible Storytelling Learn how to tell Bible stories effectively so that you can… Use Bible stories to reach children and adults too. Use Bible stories to reach postmodern AND tribal people. Enhance your preaching and Bible teaching.

Upcoming Seminar Dates

The Roots of Faith

The Roots of Faith is more than a Bible survey. It is a study of God’s progressive revelation of major theological concepts, especially those theological truths that are closely related to mankind’s spiritual needs and God’s plan of salvation.

Interactive and Engaging

In The Roots of Faith courses you will learn…

• The basic content of the Old and New Testaments.
• The chronology of 100 major Bible events—how the Bible progressively unfolds from Genesis to Revelation.
• The geographic locations where major Bible events occurred.
• Plus, you will learn how to teach The Roots of Faith to others, even those from non-Christian worldview cultures whose thinking may still be infected by pagan beliefs and practices.

The Roots of Faith - Old Testament

• Unfolds the story of a perfect world that became cursed by sin and the promises of a Jewish King who would become the Savior of the world.
• 50 event-lessons, from Genesis to the end of the Old Testament.
• 40 hours of in-class instruction.

The Roots of Faith - New Testament

• Unpacks the fullfillment of Old Testament hopes and promises, based upon the life and death of Jesus Christ, culminating in a perfectly restored new heavens and earth.
• 50 event-lessons, from the intertestament period through the book of Revelation.
• 40 hours of in-class instruction.

Upcoming Seminar Dates

Jun 11–15, 2012

The Roots of Faith (OT)

ABWE Training Center
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Jun 18–22, 2012

The Roots of Faith (NT)

ABWE Training Center
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Basic Missional Theology

Basic Missional Theology provides the student with an understanding of the doctrinal truths of the Word of God in a challenging learning environment.   The basic text explores the categories of systematic theology, and introduces some of the doctrinal problems and issues that are faced by believers who serve Jesus Christ where worldviews collide.  Examples from many different cultures abound, illustrating the various ways in which worldview, culture, and human problems influence the development of theology around the world.

Rather than a restatement of the material tackled by the textbook, the classroom portion of the course engages the students in discussions and activities that foster clear thinking about the teachings of the Scriptures, and that encourage the development of critical skills for understanding and influencing healthy theological development within and across cultures.

BMT includes 44 hours of in-class instruction over the space of two weeks (Monday through Friday).  The student is expected to read the appropriate section of the textbook before the class (and that includes reading the Prolegomena unit, which will be supplied to the student early enough to allow preparation for Monday).

Upcoming Seminar Dates

May 28–Jun 1, 2012

Basic Missional Theology (Part 2)

ABWE Training Center
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