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A unique opportunity to improve your skills for extending hospitality and welcome to Francophones around you. If you are involved in ministry, be it as a lay or ordered person, you will profit from this course in the bilingual city of Ottawa and in the context of Ottawa Presbytery with its territory bridging from Eastern Ontario to Québec. The instructors are Stéphane Gaudet, who is an experienced teacher for French as second language, and Rev. Angelika Piché, who brings her insights about ministry to the course.

• Practice your French in a small class and with others who are on the same level as you
• Build your resources as well as your confidence for ministry in French
• Learn grammar without tears
• Become more aware of the reality of an increasingly intercultural church
• Benefit from professional instruction

Course Dates: Five Fridays (Sep. 10; Oct. 1, 29; Nov. 19; Dec. 3 2010)
Full days of class attendance required: 9:30 am - 12:30 pm and 2:00 - 5:00 pm.

Registration: $250.00
*This course is made possible by a generous endowment from the congregation of St. Andrew’s United Church, Trois-Rivières, QC

Course Location:
City View United Church
6 Epworth Avenue
Nepean, ON

Registration Deadline: July 15th, 2010

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For further information or for registration contact:
Angelika Piché, Director of Lay and Continuing Education
at apiche@utc.ca or by phone at 1-888-849-2042 ext. 203.
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CONTINUING EDUCATION EVENT - FALL 2010
(THE K.J. CAMPBELL PREACHING WORKSHOP)

"SPIRITUAL PRACTICE AND THE ART OF PREACHING"
with Rev. Dr. Russ Daye

DATES:
Wednesday, Nov. 3 at 2PM - Friday, Nov. 5 at 12 NOON.

Russ Daye, one of our exceptional preachers in the United Church,
will share how his profound experience of spiritual practice flows into the crafting of his preaching. He will point to the Spirit moving through our lives and into our words. The workshop will include active participation and practical tools for nurturing one’s own spirituality and bringing that into the pulpit.

Russ Daye is lead minister of St. Andrew’s United Church in Halifax and a lecturer at the Atlantic School of Theology (Halifax) and the United Theological College (Montreal). He also serves as the co-chair of the United Church of Canada’s Living into Right Relations (with aboriginal people) Task Group. Previously he taught at the Pacific Theological College in Fiji, where he was also an advisor to the Fiji government’s Ministry of National Unity and Reconciliation. Russ holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Religion and his dissertation on the Truth and Reconciliation process in South Africa was published by Orbis Books under the title: Political Forgiveness. Over the years he has witnessed or explored a wide range spiritual practices while sojourning with people of many faiths in India, Nepal, the Middle East, Southern Africa, and the South Pacific. Russ’ passions include preaching, mindfulness meditation, climate justice, canoeing, and time with his boys Sam, eight, and Will, seven.

further information or for registration contact:
Angelika Piché, Director of Lay and Continuing Education
at apiche@utc.ca or by phone at 514-849-2042 ext. 203
Toll Free 1-888-849-2042 ext. 203.
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NEW Lay Education Course Offering! For more information click here

The Montreal School of Theology was established to promote ecumenical co-operation in theological education in Montreal. UTC joins with Montreal Diocesan Theological College, Presbyterian College, and the Faculty of Religious Studies of McGill University to deliver high caliber academic, professional and spiritual formation for various Christian ministries. UTC and the Montreal School of Theology also partner with Université de Montréal to offer the program in French. Various events and many course options foster the ecumenical spirit and provide students with opportunity to prepare for ministry in a multi-denominational learning environment.

For information on upcoming Continuing and Lay Education opportunities at Presbyterian College, please click here

For information on upcoming Continuing and Lay Education opportunities at Montreal Diocesan Theological College, please click here