Events Approved for CEUs

Please note: CEUs approved by the CEU Approval Committee are recognized by the California-Nevada Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church. Others may or may not choose to recognize these same CEU's at their own discretion.

Note: The following sites have multiple possibilities for CEUs through conferences, workshops and webinars:

CEUs are available in the following seven categories:

INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCY (click on this link for more info. including ceu credits)

Work in this area equips pastors to step outside of their shoes, their culture, their way of being into another’s shoes, culture and way of being. These skills enable pastors to see through the eyes of another—how another lives, functions, and makes decisions while maintaining the ability to step back into one’s own way of functioning, making decisions, living, etc.

 

Requirement: .5 CEU per quadrenium for all active clergy

  • Cultural Competency For Clergy (this is being offered in a variety of locations) 
  • Reconciling Ministries Network Convocation
  • Corporate Engagement Trip to Israel and Palestine
  • Spanish Language Immersion
  • Cultural Competency for Clergy in Cross-cultural-Cross-racial Appointments
  • Intermediate Hebrew
  • Equipping for Ministry
  • Spanish Language Immersion trip to Costa Rica
  • Spanish Language Immersion trip to Guatemala
  • Diversity in Family Formation
  • Hymn Society
  • Spanish Town
  • NJAUMC Annual Meeting
  • Gathering of the Orders 2010
  • Where the Church Meets the Street: Radical Hospitality with the Homeless
  • Poverty Simulation
  • Leadership Seminar and Missions Convocation

SEXUAL ETHICS FOR CLERGY (click on this link for more info. including ceu credits)

Workshops/seminars in this area should include examining boundary issues between pastors and congregations, sexual harassment issues, dating, friendships, and gift giving.

Requirement: .5 CEU per quadrenium for all active clergy

  • Sacred Trust Boundaries Issues Training (this is being offered in a variety of locations) 
  • Reconciling Ministries Network Convocation/workshops
  • Over The Line
  • Sexual Ethics: Keeping Congregations Safe
  • Sexual Issues in Counseling

SPIRITUAL FORMATION (click on this link for more info. including ceu credits)

Work in this area should be focused on deepening the pastor’s spiritual life and relationship with God, i.e. learning spiritual disciplines, directed prayer retreats, etc. (Work with your own spiritual director will not fulfill this requirement).

Requirement: .5 CEU per quadrenium for all active clergy

  • Courage To Lead
  • The Benedictine Way
  • Catalyst West
  • Sister Spaces: Lives of the Heart
  • 15th Annual District Leadership Training Day
  • The Me I want to Be
  • We Are Refiner's Gold
  • Rhythms of Life (Nevada-Siera District Clergy Retreat)
  • Mystery in a Nutshsell: spiritual Leaders' Conference
  • Transformational Leadership Training for Pastors and Leaders (a variety of locations)
  • Visalia UMC Winter Men's Retreat
  • Transformational Leadership Consultation (a variety of locations)
  • God's Healing Gift
  • The Great Courses: Questions of Value
  • Los Altos UMC Women's Retreat "Be the Light"
  • Spiritual Directors International Leadership Institute
  • Creating Your Spiritual Legacy: The Mellow Approach
  • 5 Practices of Fruitful Living Workshop (at ACS 2010)
  • Reconciling Ministries Network Convocation/workshops
  • Holy Spirit Lead Us--Clergy Women's Retreat
  • Death, Humility, Radical Trust
  • Intro to Insight Meditation
  • The Enneagram: A Process of Spiritual Awakening
  • Before the Cradle, Beyond the Cross
  • 5 Practices of Fruitful Living
  • Shasta District Retreat 2009
  • Marcia McFee Worship Workshop
  • Filipino Bible Study
  • Evangelical Renewal Fellowship Retreat (September 14-16, 2010)
  • Friends of Jung: Eureka-Humboldt Extension Classes
  • Gathering of the Orders 2010
  • Where the Church Meets the Street: Radical Hospitality with the Homeless
  • Quadratos: The Foundational Seminar: Exploring the Gospels
  • Befriending Tension: The Road to Wholeness
  • Emotional Intelligence Human Relations
  • Leading Camp and Retreat Ministries into the Future
  • Bridging Healing and Spirituality
  • Interfaith Scholars Weekend: Saving Paradise
  • Leadership Seminar and Missions Convocation
  • Worship, Planning & Preaching

DISCIPLE MAKING (click on this link for more info. including ceu credits) 

Work in this area should include creating and developing disciple-growing systems with the local church that renew congregant’s faith in Jesus Christ and sends them into their communities in mission and ministry.

Requirement: 1 CEU per quadrenium for all active clergy

  • School Of Congregational Development
  • Catalyst West
  • 15th Annual District Leadership Training Day (Nevada-Sierra District)
  • Biennial Gathering UMCFA and UMCM
  • Transformational Leadership Training for Clergy and Leaders (a variety of locations)
  • Transformational Leadership Consultation (a variety of locations)
  • Simple Church Seminar
  • 5 Practices Workshop on DVD from the Nevada Sierra District Workshop
  • Refresh
  • Out of the Cocoon, Orders Retreat November 2009
  • Marcia McFee Worship Workshop
  • How to be an Effective Pastor (Evangelical Renewal Fellowship Retreat)
  • Visalia Men's Winter Retreat
  • Where is God When I'm Hurting...
  • Filipino Bible Study
  • Evangelism in the Small Rural Church: Letting God Grow Your Church
  • Clergy Call 2009: Moving From Acceptance to Advocacy
  • Fall Learning Event
  • Financial Peace University
  • UMC Path1 Coaches Forum: Eight Characteristics and Behaviors of Coaches for New Church Start Planters/Developers
  • Central Valley District Learning Event Congregational Revitalization
  • Where the Church Meets the Street: Radical Hospitality with the Homeless
  • COR Leadership Institute with Pre-Institute Day
  • Leading Camp and Retreat Ministries into the Future
  • Leadership Seminar and Missions Convocation
  • Worship, Planning & Preaching
  • Growing Healthy Churches

PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCY DEVELOPMENT (click on this link for more info. including ceu credits) 

Work in this area could include any aspect of ministry that the pastor (or others) deem necessary for increased competency, i.e. preaching, worship, pastoral care, Biblical studies, conflict management, training leaders, etc.

Requirement: 5.5 CEU per quadrenium for all active clergy are to be distributed among the three catagories of: Professional Competency Development, Career Assessment and Life Planning, and Self-care and Personal Growth. For 2009-2012 phase-in period, only 2 of these 5.5 CEUs are required.

  • Applying Family Systems In Leadership
  • Healing the Wounded Congregation with Karen McClintock (May 1, 2010)
  • Healthy Disclosure: Solving Communication Quandaries in Congregations with Karen McClintock (May 21, 2010)
  • Cultural Competency For Clergy (offered in many locations)
  • Leading Weddings
  • Courage To Lead
  • School Of Congregational Development
  •  Mendocino Workshop And Alturas Kiln
  • Musikgarden Training 
  • Catalyst West
  • Generational Diversity 
  • 15th Annual District Leadership Training Day (Nevada-Sierra District)
  • We Are Refiner's Gold
  • Depression Recovey
  • Bay Area Chinese Pastor's Retreat
  • When Faith Meets Reason
  • National JAUMCC Annual Meeting
  • Methodist History, Polity and Doctrine
  • Rhythms of Life (Nevada-Siera District Clergy Retreat)
  • Transformational Leadership Training for Clergy and Leaders (a variety of locations)
  • Transformational Leadership Consultation (a variety of locations)
  • Understanding Addiction; Support Recovery
  • Equipping for Ministry
  • The Great Courses: Questions of Value
  • Visions: New directions for Compassionate Care
  • Transition-Interim Ministry Training
  • Disney Institute Training
  • 5 Practices Workshop on DVD from the Nevada Sierra District Workshop
  • Corporate Engagement Trip to Israel and Palestine
  • Leadership Summit
  • Bridging the Gap
  • Reconciling Ministries Network Convocation/workshops
  • UM Discipline, HIstory and Polity
  • Holy Spirit Lead Us--Clergy Women's Retreat
  • The Challenges Facing Chinese UMC in teh 21st Century
  • The First Christmas: What the Gospels Teach About Jesus' Birth
  • Pride and Patience
  • Hymn Society
  • Evangelism in the Small Rural Church: Letting God Grow Your Church
  • Unlocking the Power of People
  • Clergy Call 2009: Moving from Acceptance to Advocacy
  • Death, Humility and Radical Trust
  • Diversity in Family Formation
  • How to be an Effective Pastor: (Evangelical Renewal Fellowship Retreat)
  • Be the Light: Los Altos UMC Women's Retreat
  • Wesley Pilgrimage
  • Before the Cradle, Beyond the Cross
  • Where is God When I'm Hurting....
  • Fall Learning Event
  • Mandated Child Abuse Reporting and Symptons of Child Abuse
  • Zephyr Point Handbell Choir 
  • Zephyr Point Choral Director
  • Marcia McFee Worship Workshop
  • Church Planting Workshop
  • Evangelical Renewal Fellowship Retreat (September 14-16, 2010)
  • The Dash between the Nitty and the Gritty
  • UMC Path1 Coaches Forum: Eight Characteristics and Behaviors of Coaches for New Church Start Planters/Developers
  • PICO 2010 National Leadership Training: Indepth reviewof theory and practice of faith-based community organizing
  • Central Valley District Learning Event Congregational Revitalization
  • Where the Church Meets the Street: Radical Hospitality with the Homeless
  • Quadratos: The Foundational Seminar: Exploring the Gospels
  • National Federation of Japanese American Clergy Caucus 2010
  • Seminr for new presidents in ATS institutions
  • Creativity Conference
  • Moon Lecture: Sister HelenPrejean
  • Los Gatos Worship Workshop with Marcia McFee
  • Emotional Intelligence Human Relations
  • COR Leadership Institute with Pre-Institute Day
  • Leading Camp and Retreat Ministries into the Future
  • Bridging Healing and Spirituality
  • Interfaith Scholars Weekend: Saving Paradise
  • Leadership Seminar and Missions Convocation
  • Worship, Planning & Preaching
  • Growing Healthy Churches
  • Unpacking the Power of Media
  • Poverty Simulation
  • Circuit Leader's Retreat: Call to Action

CAREER ASSESSMENT AND LIFE PLANNING (click on this link for more info. including ceu credits)

Work in this area focuses on the overall assessment of the pastor’s call into ministry; desire to remain in ministry, efficacy in ministry and possible exit strategies.

Requirement: 5.5 CEU per quadrenium for all active clergy are to be distributed among the three catagories of: Professional Competency Development, Career Assessment and Life Planning, and Self-care and Personal Growth. For 2009-2012 phase-in period, only 2 of these 5.5 CEUs are required.

  • Equipping for Ministry
  • Courage To Lead
  • School Of Congregational Development
  • Rhythms of Life (Nevada-Siera District Clergy Retreat)
  • Annual Animal Law Conference
  • Attorney Traininig for Service as Pro Tem
  • Women in Pain: 2nd Annual CME Conference
  • Clergy Benefits Academy 
  • Emotional Intelligence Human Relations

SELF-CARE AND PERSONAL GROWTH (click on this link for more info. including ceu credits)

Work in this area should focus on helping the pastor establish good self care practices that result in renewed vitality of body, mind, spirit, positive self esteem, self assessment, healthy boundaries, etc.

Requirement: 5.5 CEU per quadrenium for all active clergy are to be distributed among the three catagories of: Professional Competency Development, Career Assessment and Life Planning, and Self-care and Personal Growth. For 2009-2012 phase-in period, only 2 of these 5.5 CEUs are required.

  • Courage To Lead
  • Mendocino Workshop And Alturas Kiln
  • Disney Institute Training
  • Catalyst West
  • Anger, Forgiveness and Healing Process
  • Depression Recovery
  • The Me I Want to Be
  • Sister Spaces: Lives of the Heart
  • The Challenges Facing Chinese UMC in the 21st Century
  • Rhythms of Life (Nevada-Siera District Clergy Retreat)
  • Visalia UMC Winter Men's Retreat
  • God's Healing Gift
  • Reconciling Ministries Network Convocation/workshops
  • The Benedictine Way
  • The Enneagram: A Process of Spiritual Awakening
  • Women in Pain: 2nd Annual CME Conference
  • Pride and Patience
  • Intro to Insight Meditation
  • Bay Area Chinese Pastor's Retreat
  • Compassion Fatigue
  • Hymn Society
  • Evangelical Renewal Fellowship Retreat (September 14-16, 2010)
  • Financial Peace University
  • UMC Path1 Coaches Forum: Eight Characteristics and Behaviors of Coaches for New Church Start Planters/Developers
  • Friends of Jung: Eureka-Humboldt Extension Classes
  • National Federation of Japanese American Clergy Caucus 2010
  • Creativity Conference
  • Clergy Benefits Academy
  • Befriending Tension: The Road to Wholeness
  • Emotional Intelligence Human Relations
  • Interfaith Scholars Weekend: Saving Paradise
  • Leadership Seminar and Missions Convocation