Dynamic Living for Men

Workshops: Men's / Youth / Leadership / Adult

Men's Ministry Workshops

The Destructive Consequences of Pornography and its impact on the church
Many men are enticed by the sensual images that surround them. These images range from suggestive ads to pornography. When men entangle themselves in pornographic images, they entangle themselves within an unreal world that is difficult to escape. Their involvement with pornography has a number of destructive consequences summarized in this workshop along with solutions for winning the battle over it.

Where are Men Today?
How would you describe the American male today? How does the American male feel today? What are the outcomes of these cultural messages on the American male today? The workshop will focus on the six unique characteristics of men and how they shape the church’s ministry to men.

Dynamic Living for Men - Building Integrity through a Vital Relationship with God and Others
The key to establishing and maintaining Christian integrity is dynamic relationships with God and others. In this workshop we will discover ways to maintain a core-to-core connection with God and others.

10 Habits of Moral Integrity for Men
In this workshop we will consider 10 healthy habits to attain and maintain dynamic relationships with God and others. Because these habits are based on biblical principles, they enhance a man’s character. They strengthen his spirit, mind, and body – enhancing a deep, accountable, and nurturing connection with God and other men that will carry us through many trials and temptations.

Counterfeit Relationships and Men
Our culture is saturated with counterfeits, objects of desire that pretend to meet men’s God-given needs for intimacy. They hinder men from meeting God’s standards of purity, fail to satisfy their deepest God-given longings, and bring destructive consequences. We’ll discover the damaging consequences of counterfeits and how to avoid them.

A Model for Men's Ministry
This workshop will examine a variety of existing Men's Ministries and uncover the common elements which will guide you to implement an effective men's ministry in your location. This workshop will include a discussion of guidelines for developing effective Men's Ministries and look at a proven model for effectively impacting the lives of men.

A Man and His Marriage
You cannot make use of anything unless you know what it is made for. In this workshop we will open God's glove compartment and examine owner's manual for how God created marriage. He and He alone knows how it should function.

How to Recruit, Train and Nurture Volunteers for Men’s Ministries
The greatest problem facing the church today is the unemployment problem. I don't know of any church who can hang a sign out front that says "No help needed." Every Christian has been gifted by God to serve the body. But where is the process breaking down? This workshop will concentrate on how Jesus recruited, trained, and nurtured volunteers. We will uncover guidelines to help us overhaul how we are finding, enlisting, developing and using the leadership of our local churches.

Creativity in Men’s Ministry
Does the Bible have anything to say about creativity or is it merely another modern gimmick? What identifiable characteristics do creative individuals share? What roadblocks can prevent you from becoming an imaginative individual? These questions form the basis for this workshop. Brainstorming, plusing, objection countering, storyboarding, and other techniques will be discussed and demonstrated.

Discovery Learning for Men
The benefit of this session is that participants will learn a way of presentation that makes it possible for men to retain up to 90% of the learning experience. The purpose of the workshop is to motivate the group to make presentations that actively involves men in the learning process. We will discuss the presentation techniques of Jesus (John 8:1-11; Luke 5:1-11; Luke 24:13-35), Jesus and the learning cycle (Matthew 19:16-22), tips for guiding group/individual involvement, choosing/evaluating the best method and asking the right questions.

Youth Workshops

Sex and Young America
Since the late 1960s the youth of America have been growing up in an increasingly permissive culture in which they old rules about sexual behavior no longer seem to apply. This workshop will equip you with the tools designed to lead senior high to an understanding of how they can live their lives in the midst of an increasingly “sexualized culture.”

Boundaries, Tips and Tools for Sexual Abstinence
In this workshop leaders will be taught to guide youth through the minefield of our sex saturated culture. You will be taught how to use A Pledge of Sexual Purity challenging students to remain sexually pure until marriage.

The Significance of Youth Ministry
This workshop will lay a biblical and practical foundation for Youth Ministry. At the conclusion participants will be frothing at the mouth for involvement with youth. We will also discuss practical avenues of involvement with students today.

Volunteer Leadership of Youth Groups
Here are some questions asked of youth that we will investigate in this workshop: What do you think an adult leader should look like? What are the basic characteristics wanted in good youth workers? What turns you off about a youth leader? The primary focus of this workshop is how to develop a volunteer team.

Teaching Students
This workshop will examine 6 basic assumptions every teacher of youth must keep in mind. These principles are the key to effective communication with youth. We will also look at the six characteristics of a "safe environment" and good discussion techniques.

Programming Youth Ministry
A coordinated, balanced youth ministry doesn't just happen. There are too many pieces involved for things to just fall together. There needs to be a system or a process whereby someone deliberately and purposely puts it all together. In this workshop we will work through eight steps for putting it all together in youth ministry. The workshop will also be full of ideas for youth seasonal activities.

Leadership Workshops

Research and Development of Ministries and/or Products for Ministry
This course will introduce you to the phases necessary to move from an idea to the implementation of a ministry and/or product that is effective.

Christian Management
In this workshop both the secular and Christian view of management will be examined. We’ll first and foremost examine management of our organizations through a Biblical lens. Christ gave us marvelous management principle in Matthew 20:20-28 with what has been dubbed the so-called Platinum Rule – whoever would be great – serve. We’ll probe Biblical principles on management as well as celebrated works on management including the Towers Perrin study and Henri Fayol’s traditional elements of management (planning, organizing, directing or motivating, setting controls and using them).

Communication
This workshop will investigate the theory of how communication works. It will help the participant to become aware of the many ways communication can break down at EACH step of the communication process. We’ll learn how differing assumptions can render communication ineffective. We will also learn to recognize FEEDBACK as the only effective means of ensuring complete communication

Planning
This workshop will help you master the terms of planning (e.g., vision, strategy, mission). We’ll investigate the scriptures that show us God has a plan for our organization. We’ll also learn how to access His plan as we learn the steps of the planning cycle.

Directing and motivating
The goal of this workshop is to help the manager to comprehend Christian (“Servant”) management as stewardship. We’ll overview several classical theories of motivation. You’ll also begin to set your own priorities on what motivating factors you would see as most important in creating an efficient and effective workforce under your management.

Characteristics of a Leader
This workshop will look at the essential qualities to be a model to the Christian community and to an unregenerate world. We’ll probe varying leadership styles and distinquish the difference between leadership and management. We’ll also explore the characteristics shared by leaders of all shapes and sizes.

Can Ordinary People Make A Contribution?
One of the archenemies of serving God is false propaganda - wrong ideas that get imbedded in Christians minds before truth can find lodging. The false propaganda carries with it a line something like this, "Serving God is for superstars - spiritual giants. It is not for ordinary people like me." This workshop will look at ordinary people who are doing extraordinary things and how God can use you to impact your world.

How to Supervise Church Staff and Volunteers
Some powerful things you can expect to learn include:

Five stages toward supervisory excellence of church leadership.
How to avoid the pitfalls of selecting the wrong person for any position.
Significant points all staff members need to know about every job.
Using evaluation for motivating volunteer workers.
Simple ways to express reinforcement for staff and volunteers that’s guaranteed to get results.

Mandate for Mentoring
What are you doing today that will guarantee your impact for Christ in the next generation? This workshop will give you a multi-generational perspective and some practical ways to becoming involved in a Mentoring relationship.

Adult Workshops

What are Adults Like?
What do adults need? What are the key issues in the area of family, vocation, physical, social, relational, civic, and church facing an individual during Young Adulthood (18-29), Median Adulthood (30-59) and Senior Adulthood (60-up)? Answers to these questions will provide valuable perspective as we shape and form adult classes and ministries in the 90s.

Discovery - the Key to Adult Learning
During this training session each participant will identify some of Jesus' teaching techniques and list a variety of activities and teaching methods that involve adults in discovery learning.

What Does a Good Adult Education Session Look Like?
How can we teach adults? How can I get people to study the Bible? During this workshop each participant will list the parts of a total session plan and identify how each part of the session relates to the session aim. You will also learn to choose the right method in the right place.

How Adult Christian Education Can Become a Caring Place
One way that the spirit of caring can be implemented in your church is through "caring groups." What are caring units? How are they organized? How are they formed? What happens in a caring unit? During this session each participant will plan to use a specific method of increasing the caring ministry of your Sunday School classes. We will also discuss three reasons or benefits for having adult fellowship activities.