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2008 Workshops

• CONTENT: Writing in an anecdotal style, learn how to stimulate your readers to consider spiritual things. The course will cover Using Literary Devices, How to Show instead of Tell, Keeping your Focus, Using Metaphor
• INSTRUCTOR: Marcia Lee Laycock
• TO ENROLL: e-mail Marcia
• COST: $90.00 Receipt of fee confirms enrolment. Enrolment is limited. Send cheque to ICWF c/o Laurie Hanchard, 7403 - 92A Ave. Edmonton, AB. T6B 0V4.
• FORMAT: The course will run as a Yahoo group. Students should make themselves familiar with Yahoo Groups before the course begins. A short lesson and assignment will be given at the beginning of the week. Each student will send her/his devotional to Marcia for critique. Students are also free to comment on/critique one another's work.
• CREDENTIALS: Marcia is an award-winning, published writer. She has been writing a weekly devotional column for the past 18 years and has been published in both national and provincial newspapers and magazines. Marcia has taught writing at Inscribe conferences as well as at God Uses Ink in Ontario, and through Adult Learning of Alberta. She has been invited to read at The Gathering, a yearly event for poets in Edmonton, AB., as well as the Festival of Faith and Writing, Grand Rapids Michigan. Her devotional books, The Spur of the Moment and Focused Reflections have been endorsed by Janette Oke, Phil Callaway and Mark Buchanan. Her novel, One Smooth Stone won her the Best New Canadian Christian Author Award in 2006 and will be published in Sept. 2007.

• LEARN HOW to write Inductive Bible Studies
• COURSE LENGTH: 6 weeks
• CLASS SIZE: 8-9
• COURSE FEE: $90 (Canadian or US Funds)
• REQUIREMENTS: 2-3 Bible versions, some study skills, Bible dictionary, concordance, etc. would be helpful.
• ENROLMENT DEADLINE: TBA (fees must be paid in advance)
• START DATE: TBA. If you want your name on the list for the next one, send e-mail
• QUESTIONS: Send your questions, or your intention to take this course to the above address. You will receive by e-mail further information on how to send payment.
• COURSE INCLUDES: instructions on studying and interpreting Scripture, developing lesson objectives and lesson plans, grabbing class interest, use of illustrations, how to write good questions and ways to help the person teaching the lesson be a great classroom facilitator.
• INSTRUCTOR:  Elsie Montgomery has over thirty years experience teaching Bible studies, and most of that writing her own material. She also authored The Journey, a 13-week discipleship tool used in Canada, South America and Italy, and Reproducing Spiritual Women, a women’s mentoring kit recently published and already in wide use in Canada. See more at her web site
• If you missed the starting date for this course, email to get your name on a contact list for the next one.

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