Speaking/Training Engagements

I appreciate your interest in having me participate in your event. I prayerfully evaluate each request in regard to strategic Kingdom impact and with consideration with my family and teaching load.

Everything is customized to your needs.

To make a request, complete the form below with the following information, and I will contact you as soon as possible.

• Your name, email, phone number

• In the Comments on Request, include the following:

  • Organization name, address (street, city, state, zip)

  • Event title, focus, and a clear objective to be accomplished when the event is complete

  • What is needed from me: teaching, preaching, coaching, training, or consulting (one or all)

  • Possible topics/subjects of teaching (see below or provide your own)

  • Event date and times, and length of each event segment

  • Audience demographics

  • Travel issues (distance, time change, road construction, favored airport, etc. )

Again, thank you for your interest.

Rondel

Honorarium and travel fees are negotiable.

IN PREPARATION

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• Bio: Use bio on the About Me page.

What I will need:

• Video Projector Access (HDMI cable. I have a Mac lightning adapter and 6′ HDMI cable) I would like to control my laptop with my wireless remote. If the distance prohibits this, I need someone to work the presentation software to advance the slide deck presentations

• Wireless Internet Access

• Sound Access for Video Clips –HDMI access OR 1/8″ sound jack to plug into my computer

• Whiteboard/chalkboard – large enough for all participants to see

• New Markers and Eraser

• Round tables for discussion groups (if possible)

• I will send a PDF file that should be copied for all participants OR a seminar webpage to be given to participants to link to.

Below are the teachings and presentations that are currently available. Specific topics/teachings can be developed for your particular situation and need. If you want me to preach, provide that information when you contact me.

Sunday Preaching (A Sunday sermon or series could be a day, weekend, or weekly seminar)

• In Essense: A 12-week study of I Peter exploring the Core Essentials of Discipleship

• King Jesus-Holy Week: A 2-week study of The Triumphant Entry and Resurrection Sunday

• Re:SET: A 4-week study of setting priorities and living out your mission

• Rooted: A 15-week study of Colossians examining Paul’s Message to a Church about Being Grounded in their Faith

• The Benefit of the Doubt: A 2-week study talking about doubt, questions, and living with questions. it discusses faith construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction. This can be expanded to many more weeks.

• Together: A 6-week study of the Church and what it means to be a community

• Perspectives of Christmas: A 5-week study of Christmas through the eyes of the major characters in the Christmas Story

• Wholes: Finding contentment & wholeness in a broken & holey world - A 6-week study of developing a healthy self-portrait of ourselves so that can better carry out the second greatest commandment of Jesus: to love others as ourselves. [LINK to page]

• OR… any single sermon or series that you would like me to custom develop for your church.

Adult Seminars (A seminar could be a Sunday AM sermon or series)

• Discipleship: Making Apprentices of Jesus - A Saturday seminar that practically focuses on what maturity in Christ looks like and how to develop a discipleship initiative to mentor adults to become fully engaged apprentices of Jesus.

• Impacting our Community - A 4-session Saturday seminar in making practical the Great Commission. Session titles are: 1. Getting Our Story Straight (The Why). 2. Living in Babylon… We're NOT in Jerusalem anymore Toto (The Who). 3. Walking through Thresholds (The How). 4. Being Wise as Serpents and Innocent as Doves (The Now What) [LINK to page]

• Leading Out of Brokenness - A Saturday seminar on how to embrace our brokenness and weaknesses for greater leadership impact. [LINK to page]

• Navigating the Relational Dynamics in Ministry - An interactive Saturday seminar to equip participants to better understand and interact with other staff, volunteers, and one another in more healthy ways.

• The Art of Creative Teaching: Fostering Transformational Learning - An interactive Saturday seminar to coach participants to better understand how learning happens and develop the skills to craft and deliver creative learning experiences in their teaching. Applicable for all ages of learners. [LINK to page]

• OR… any Saturday seminar that you would like me to custom develop for your church

ReCalibrate: Student Ministry Institute (8 weeks or stand-alone)

Instead of taking some of your team to a large conference this year, why not bring a personalized, interactive conference to your whole team? Choose how you will experience the eight sessions (usually over eight weeks) to equip your team to work toward ministry health and together become the dynamic leaders your church and community need. Post-institute coaching is available. The eight sessions are listed below. Customization is encouraged.

• Instilling Healthy Team Dynamics – We will examine the key elements necessary for a healthy team to function most effectively.

• Examining Adolescent Culture – How can we incarnate ourselves and relate with these adolescent natives, understanding and speaking in their native worldview and language? We will explore the intricacies of American culture.

• Understanding Adolescent Development – Adults working with youth must understand the dynamics of pre-, early, middle, and late adolescence in order to most effectively disciple them toward maturity

• Fostering Relational Youth Ministry – This is a practical session for building deep and lasting (healthy) relationships with students so as to foster their growth in Christ.

• Developing Life-Changing Student Learning - This session will focus on the details necessary to create healthy environments where discovery learning and adolescent spiritual growth can naturally occur.

• Aiding Emotional Hygiene & First-Aid through Basic Counseling/Mentoring – Everyone can learn basic skills to help students deal with emotional hurts and better navigate the rough waters of adolescence.

• Transforming Letter-Jacket Faith – Your adult leaders and parents will explore how to better prepare your HS graduates to have their own confident faith as lifelong apprentices of Jesus instead of taking off their “letter-jacket brittle faith” on the first day of college. We will seek to cultivate a growing ministry ecology.

Other Leadership and Youth Ministry Staff Training Sessions/Events

• Moving Students from Sand to Rock in a Postmodern Culture – A Philosophical and practical exploration of developing ethical decision factors in the lives of teens. Just how do they decide what they should do? It’s not because you told them God said to!

• Seeing the Big Picture with Students who are Atheist to Authentic Disciples – Analyzing the needs, necessary actions, and things to avoid in developing a holistic youth ministry.

• Authentic Leadership Community: Embracing Conflict and Different Perspectives – Just because you get along, doesn’t mean AT ALL that you have community.

• Strategies and Paradigms for Effective & Efficient Time Management

• Big Picture YM Program Planning – Advanced planning, backdating, specific event planning so you will be prepared, the secretary on board, the janitor relieved, the parents informed, and the students engaged to grow… instead of all of those being incredibly frustrated with you!!!!!!

• Theology and Youth Ministry – Foundational.  What you believe WILL influence everything you do.

• Empower Parents as the Real Youth Ministers – Ensuring that the youth ministry exists for the parents and not the other way around.

• Herding Cats: Dealing with Tough Kids (Positive and disciple-making discipline)

• Custom designed for your staff

Youth Teaching/Events

• Living Under the Umbrella of Grace – Dealing with faith-shaking questions

• Relating to “THEM” – Connecting with postmodern people

• Biblical Dating and Sexuality –  a practical and wise presentation on how to handle all those hormones!

• Purity Ball Presentation – Daddy/daughter get-togethers

• Make My Life a Prayer to You (Living a  24/7 prayer life)

• Packing Up for the University – What do I need to prepare for before I go to college (being spiritually ready)

• Understanding Why My Parents Are So Mean! – This is a very interactive session to help your students better understand the WHYs of their Parent’s WHATs and HOWs.

• Framework: Moving from Renting Faith to Owning it - a three-session interaction ideal for a weekend retreat

• Re:SET… a four-week HS series on priorities and living out your mission Webpage

• Custom-designed for your students

Parenting Seminars

• Raising Kids with Durable Faith – Since we have 18 years to get our children ready for life, we can’t wait until the month before they head off to college to teach them how to do laundry, handle finances, prepare for retirement, think wisely, and how to live life as an adult disciple and lifelong apprentice of Jesus; we better have an 18-year plan. It may take that long for some!

• Setting Boundaries; Building Relationships – Striking the balance (no, the tension!) of Boundaries and Trust

• Loving the Hard to Love – Dealing with the Prodigal and the pre-Prodigal

• Caring to Communicate about Things That Matter

• Custom-designed for your parents

Corporation/Business Leadership Development

• What Matters Most – This seminar is a great way to take a step back to look at the big picture and determine what matters most for your organization. Explore barriers to functionality and clarity in vision and implementations.

• Conflict Metamorphosis – This seminar leads participants to explore the value and necessity for healthy communities that have a life and creativity-producing culture and guides them to evaluate and develop a plan to have such a culture where the best can happen.

Developing Sound and Wise Responses to Systemically Challenging Problems. We can do more damage when we apply the wrong solution strategy to a complex problem.

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