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"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive."
--Howard Thurman

Congregational Training

TEACHING TOPICS OFFERED

Tom and Donna offer courses or seminars to congregations that are usually on Sunday mornings during Church School and usually are series. Some may only be one-time sessions and some can be as long as eight sessions. If you are interested in having either teach in your setting just contact the BPI office.

Topics offered by Donna Strachan-Ledbetter:

• Conscious Aging
• Seeking Stillness, Living Life: The Spiritual Opportunities of Stress
• Discerning Your Spiritual Gifts and Talents
• Adolescence: In-Between the Times
• When There’s No Time Left for You: A Series for Women Who Are Moms
• Divorce: Journey of Pain and Hope
• Forgiveness
• Hope Revisited: The Journey of Grief
• God Images and Women
• Holiday Depression: Behind the Scenes of the Glitz and Glitter
• Men and Women: Honoring the Differences
• Myth and Ritual: The Myths We Live By
• Sabbath Time: Self-Care for Clergy
• Women’s Relationship with Self, Other and the Divine: A Sacred Journey
• Chaos and Serenity: Embracing, Feeling, Surrendering and Accepting
• A Sojourn to the Sea, A Sojourn to the Self
• Self-Care: A Focus on Stress and Time Management
• Couples and Conflict

Topics offered by Tom Ledbetter:

• Images of God: “The God We Never Knew,” a study of Marcus Borg’s The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith.
• How, Then, Shall We Live?: Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives, a study of Wayne Muller’s book.
• Becoming Adult, Becoming Christian: A study of James Fowler’s book
• Transforming Our Hurts Into Spiritual Gain: A study of Legacy of the Heart:The Spiritual Advantages of a Painful Childhood by Wayne Muller
• A Quest for the Historical Jesus: A Study of works of Marcus Borg and Walter Wink
• An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Call to Mystery, Intimacy, and Freedom
• A Bride Married to Amazement: The Heroic Journey
• The Heart of Christianity: A study of Marcus Borg’s book
• Thriving Through Crisis: Turn Tragedy and Trauma Into Growth and Change-A study of the book by Bill O’Hanlon