A beginning course on preaching that covers the process of discerning the message of the Biblical text for your context, sermon preparation, and delivery, including tips for in-person and hybrid worship. Required for certification as a lay speaker.

Prerequisite Courses: Basic LSM (LSM 101) and Deeper into the Bible (LSM 103). If you have not taken these two courses, exit out of this form and do not continue with the registration. Please take the next offering of the missing course(s).

Required Books: From Pew to Pulpit & From Your Heart to Theirs: Delivering an Effective Sermon 

*** The other pre-class requirement:  Please send a video of you preaching a sermon, or a manuscript of the sermon if a video is not available, to Rev. Becky Stockdale at pastorbeckyumc@gmail.com.

Cost: $20

Instructor: Becky Stockdale & Dawn Blundell

Class Schedule - 

3/4/2023 - Session 1- 9:00am-3:00pm

3/11/2023 -Session 2 - 9:00am-3:00pm

The class will be on Zoom. You will receive the Zoom link on your registration confirmation.