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    How Is It With Your Soul (Director Guide): Director's Guide for Use With This Day
    How Is It With Your Soul (Director Guide): Director's Guide for Use With This Day
    How Is It With Your Soul (Director Guide): Director's Guide for Use With This Day
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    How Is It With Your Soul (Director Guide): Director's Guide for Use With This Day

    By Denise Stringer

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    How Is It With Your Soul? is a complete, stand-alone session guide for use by pastors and directors of Wesleyan Class Meeting groups to train Class Leaders. The ten training sessions are designed to create group support among the Class Leaders and also strengthen the relationship between the pastor or director and the Class Leaders they oversee. Dr. Denise Stringer, author of How Is It With Your Soul?, developed the Director's Guide for use in providing a training seminar for Class Leaders while in the process of training Class Leaders in her own congregation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAbingdon Press
    Release dateDec 1, 2010
    ISBN9781426738326
    How Is It With Your Soul (Director Guide): Director's Guide for Use With This Day
    Author

    Denise Stringer

    Denise Stringer graduated from Princeton with a concentration in New Testament and Christian Education. She holds degrees in pastoral care and counseling. Currently she serves a local United Methodist Church in New York. Dr. Stringer is the author of Paul and the Romans, The Kingdom Sayings of Jesus, FaithQuestions: What About the Rapture, and has written for Adult Bible Studies.  Her most recent publication is How Is It With Your Soul, a companion piece for class leaders and program directors to be used with This Day.

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      How Is It With Your Soul (Director Guide) - Denise Stringer

      How Is It

      With Your

      Soul?

      Director's Guide for Use With

      This Day

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      Denise L. Stringer

      ABINGDON PRESS / Nashville

      HOW IS IT WITH YOUR SOUL? DIRECTOR'S GUIDE FOR USE WITH THIS DAY

      Copyright ©2004 by Abingdon Press

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted by the 1976 Copyright Act or in writing from the publisher. Requests for permission can be addressed to Abingdon Press, P.O. Box 801, 201 Eighth Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37202-0801, or e-mailed to permissions@abingdonpress.com.

      This book is printed on acid-free paper.

      ISBN 0-687-00143-9

      All Scripture quotations are taken from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright © 1989, by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      The first prayer in Appendix 3 is from Service of Word and Table I © 1972, 1980, 1985, 1989 The United Methodist Publishing House. Used by permission.

      Text in Appendix 5 is from The Book of Discipline (Nashville: United Methodist Publishing House, 2000).

      Purchasers of this book may reproduce pages 42, 43, and 44 for use within their own local church provided the copyright notice and credit line which appears on those pages also appears on all copies.

      04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13—10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      Contents

      Introduction to the Director's Guide

      1. The Qualifications of the Director or Minister in Charge

      Duties of the Director

      Functions of the Band Meetings

      Responsibilities of Class Leaders in Training

      2. Anticipating Challenges

      3. Session Plans for Training Class Leaders

      4. Band Meetings

      The Session Plan for a Band Meeting

      Appendix 1: Schedule of Assignments for Class Leaders in Training

      Appendix 2: Christian Greetings

      Appendix 3: Prayers for Illumination

      Appendix 4: Dismissals With Blessing

      Appendix 5: The General Rules

      Appendix 6: Questions for the Reflection of the Band of Class Leaders

      Appendix 7: Annual Self-evaluation for Directors and Class Leaders

      Appendix 8: Sample Class Covenant

      Appendix 9: Monthly Report Form for Class Leaders

      Appendix 10: Queries Used by the Original Bands

      Appendix 11: Commissioning Service for Directors and Class Leaders

      Appendix 12: Visual Aids for Use in Session IV, Part I and Session IV, Part II

      Appendix 13: Prayer for Class Leaders

      Appendix 14: Class Leaders' Prayers

      Glossary

      Introduction to the Director's Guide

      Class Leaders must be trained, supervised, and nurtured if their work is to thrive. In order to provide this oversight, the minister in charge or director of the Class Meeting system, whether lay or ordained, organizes up to a dozen Class Leaders into a band. The membership of the band may include persons serving as Class Leaders in other local churches within a cluster of Methodist congregations or within the district. The minister in charge (pastor or director of Class Leaders) organizes a training course and conducts the class sessions. The work of the band of Class Leaders includes mutual accountability for progress in discipleship, oversight of the Class Meeting system, mutual edification, continuing education, and planning.

      The Director's Guide has been designed for use by the director of Class Leaders, who may be a pastor or designated layperson, as a companion to How Is It With Your Soul? Class Leader's Manual for Use With This Day. It contains background information, study session plans for a ten-hour course, instructions for ongoing supervision and continuing education, as well as appended resources for distribution among Class Leaders. A glossary of terms that appear in italics within both the primary textbook and this manual makes both books useful as reference works to be consulted over the life span of the Class Meeting system.

      The session plans for ten hours of leadership training have been designed for use in three formats. The preferred format is a ten-week course with between sixty and ninety minutes dedicated to leadership development. This allows participants ample preparation time for each portion of the study and provides them with direct experience of the Wesleyan Class Meeting. The alternatives are to use the material in a weekend retreat setting or in a five-session course in which each session consists of two hours of contact time.

      If the director chooses to use the ten-week format, attempt to arrange for ninety-minute sessions. By doing so, class members can spend ample time with the study material as well as twenty minutes in a reflection with prayer. The format of a

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