BATAVIA, N.Y.—Raising up more and better disciples. This commitment of Grace Baptist Church is what led its staff to host a day of high-impact training in Bible teaching Saturday, Oct. 20.
Alex Bauman, director of Regular Baptist Press, and Andrea Chamberlain led nearly 80 participants from churches across western New York in two simultaneous daylong seminars—“Impact Teaching” for adult teachers, and “Seeds of Faith” for children’s teachers.
“The Sunday School ministry has taken its fair share of hits through the years,” says Associate Pastor Mark Hurlbut; “but if done well the Sunday School serves as a strategic ministry to grow better disciples.”
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Regular Baptist Press began offering these two seminars several years ago as part of its BuildUP series of training seminars to help teachers “move people toward spiritual maturity.” Alex Bauman has said, “The topics we cover in the seminars are crucial to becoming an impact teacher. Teachers see the value of concentrating on teaching; they see the eternal impact the training will have on them and their students. The teachers leave excited to improve their teaching by implementing what they learned.”
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Throughout the day participants learned how to engage students in the classroom, using teaching techniques and resources that “make lessons come alive.” Mark Hurlbut says, “Teaching the Bible in an accurate and engaging way is so foundational to the health of a local church. Today was all about helping churches achieve that. We were excited to partner with RBP to make this a highly successful conference.”
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