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DeKalb Spring Lay Academy

Location: Rock Falls United Methodist Church, 210 Fourth Ave., Rock Falls, IL

Dates: March 2 & 9, 2019

Time: 9am - 2:30 pm

Online Registration

Registration from January 21 to February 25
Cost: $30 by Saturday, February 25/$35 after the 25th
includes snacks, lunch, and instructors honorariums for both days.

No refunds made after 2/25/19 Youth 12—17 are Free

Basic Course:

  • Lay Servant Ministries - Led by Virginia Sheets
    Book: Lay Servant Ministries by Sandy Zeigler Jackson and Brian Jackson


Advanced Courses:

  • Polity, Practice, and Mission of the UM Church - Led by Rev. Marilyn Nolan
    Book: Polity, Practice, and the Mission of the UMC by Thomas Edward Frank
  • Go Preach - led by CLM Jim Miller 
    Book: Go Preach by John P. Gilbert – only Amazon
  • Dancing with Words - Led by Rev. John Meyers
    Book: Dancing with Words by Ray Buckley


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Sponsored by DeKalb District Committee on Lay Servant Ministry

For more information contact: Rev. John Meyers, Lay Academy Chair
 815.252.8233 / jpmeyers2003@yahoo.com

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