Handout: Expanding Your Teaching Repertoire

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Israel Galindo

This is the handout packet from an older version of the Expanding Your Teaching Repertoire workshop from Educational Consultants. You can pull out and use portions of this packet for training or educational purposes. Free to use as long as copyright tag remains in place. Share your stuff. (.pdf, nine pages).

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Handout: Effectual Faith

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Israel Galindo

A one-page handout of the Effectual Faith concept diagram found in The Craft of Christian Teaching, and How To be The Best … Study Group Leader…. by Israel Galindo. Free to use providing copyright tag remains on handout. Share your stuff. (.pdf, one page)

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Handout: Characteristics of a good group member

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Israel Galindo

A handout on the characteristics of a good group member. Free to use as long as copyright notice remains on the handout. Share your stuff. (.pdf, one page)

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Leadership education development for your church members

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Israel Galindo

Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond (BTSR) makes a splash in the latest issue of the Religious Herald, the state Baptist paper of Virginia (Feb 8, 2007, Vol. 180 No 3). The issue has a front page above-the-fold feature story about the seminary. Page four has a news item by Dr. Kim Siegenthaler, Director of the seminary’s School of Christian Ministry (SCM). The article provides information of the seven four-week on-line courses to be offered in February.

You’ll also want to notice the ads for courses and conferences through the seminary’s School of Christian Teaching throughout the paper on pages 2, 7, 11, 13, 14. Drs. Jim Peak and Kim Siegenthaler have done a great job of manifesting the vision of the seminary to be a “front line provider” of theological education to congregations.

Congregational Christian educators, pastors and program staff alike, know the importance of developing and training church members involved in ministries. But the realities of budget, time, and expertise often results in a failure to provide that important development component as part of their ministry. BTSR’s programs through the SCM is an effective and affordable way to address this need.

The Religious Herald
Learn more about the School of Christian Ministry

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The medium is the message

Posted on February 7, 2007 by Israel Galindo

One of the things I’m informally studying during my sabbatical is how “style” (forms, media) influence communication and learning. It’s related to “how the brain learns” and all that. I’ve been interested in this topic keenly since I read, and later attended a presentation by, Ed Tufte. I probably learned more about effective communication for teaching in that six-hour seminar than in any college or seminary course on “teaching.” Subsequent reading in the brain-and-learning literature has convinced me that as educators we do not pay enough attention to this issue (“The medium is the message,” “HOW you learn is WHAT you learn,” etc.).

Anyway, I wanted a handout of a list of the varied and “colorful” world of Baptists. But visually, lists are “boring” (except for us INTJs) and in terms of “style” do not communicate the intent of the message. So, attached is my novice attempt at a handout that communicates the concept in both content and form. Makes a nice handout, or maybe a poster.

To learn more about Edward Tufte visit these sites:
Edward Tufte’s website
Wikipedia entry for Tufte

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Church growth rant

Posted on February 6, 2007 by Israel Galindo

I continue to find that students come to seminary with certain (misguided) assumptions about churches. A popular one is the assumption that the goal of ministry is to grow a congregation numerically, that is, to work at increasing the membership of a church. When asked, most of them will cite the Great Commission (Mt. 28:19-20) passage as the driving rationale for this (for many pastors in congregational ministry, that rationale seems to be perpetuated by their denomination and the kinds of “ministry leadership” books and literature they tend to read and conferences they attend. This seems to be true for most denominations, from evangelical to mainline, in my observation).

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