ABCNYS LAY STUDY PROGRAM
2022 COURSES
WINTER 2022
BAPTIST HERITAGE - First class date TBD
This course is designed to introduce the student to:
When: Evenings, 7:00-9:00 pm. – Online via Zoom. The class will meet for 10 weeks,
Instructor: Rev. Jeremy Spencer. Spencerj76@aol.com
WORSHIP – STARTING JANUARY 10, 2022
This course is designed to serve as an introduction to corporate Christian worship. In it the student will be exposed to a variety of worship styles both within and outside the American Baptist tradition. The student will also become acquainted with a variety of theological approaches to worship and worship design.
When: Monday evenings, 7:00pm-9:00pm – Online via Zoom
The class will meet for 10 weeks, ending on March 14, 2022.
Instructor: Professor Loueda Bleiler, lbbleiler@gmail.com
Professor Bleiler has served in a variety of worship settings including American Baptist, Episcopal, and Lutheran churches. She is the Director of Music at SUNY Corning Community College and the Minister of Music for the Odessa Baptist Church in Odessa NY. She is a student in the Liberty University Doctor of Worship Studies program and will soon begin work on her doctoral thesis.
Textbooks
The Worship Architect: A Blueprint for Designing Culturally Relevant and Biblically Fatihful Services by Constance Cherry. 2nd edition. (2021. Baker Academic.) Note: This is a new edition.
Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship by David W. Manner (2020. Abingdon Press.)
SPRING 2022
MINISTRY THROUGH THE SMALL CHURCH – STARTING APRIL 26, 2022
This course is designed to familiarize students about the unique opportunities and challenges of ministry in the small church. The course will guide the student through the theological, relational, and organizational aspects of small church ministry as well as provide the tools necessary to carry out the tasks unique to the small church.
When: Tuesday Evenings, 7:00-9:00 pm. – Online via Zoom.
The class will meet for 10 weeks, ending June 29, 2022.
Instructor: Rev. Steve Reynolds.
CHURCH HISTORY – First Class Date: TBD
The course is designed to provide an overview of church history, focusing on issues and incidents that have had the greatest impact on the Church and its relationship to the world. It will provide an historical context for the issues, personalities, and events studied. Students will be provided the tools and techniques to do competent research in church history.
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To Register: Complete registration form (scroll down to download) and mail with payment (payable to ABCNYS) to ABCNYS, 3218 James St., Syracuse NY 13206. You can also pay online at http://www.abc-nys.org/lay-study-program.html
Fees
The tuition is $110 per course. For family members living in the same house, the course fee is $110 for the first person and $60 for each subsequent person. Students may audit a course, without credit, for $60. The cost of the textbooks for each course is in addition to the tuition.
Questions: Rev. Leon Oaks-Lee (315.637.0023, leon.oakslee@gmail.com
BAPTIST HERITAGE - First class date TBD
This course is designed to introduce the student to:
- Baptist History: Beginnings, development, and key leaders
- Traditional Baptist practices of local church life, organization and structure
- American Baptist Characteristics: the principles that identify us in the context of the larger Church
- The Origins and development of American Baptist denominational life and structure
When: Evenings, 7:00-9:00 pm. – Online via Zoom. The class will meet for 10 weeks,
Instructor: Rev. Jeremy Spencer. Spencerj76@aol.com
WORSHIP – STARTING JANUARY 10, 2022
This course is designed to serve as an introduction to corporate Christian worship. In it the student will be exposed to a variety of worship styles both within and outside the American Baptist tradition. The student will also become acquainted with a variety of theological approaches to worship and worship design.
When: Monday evenings, 7:00pm-9:00pm – Online via Zoom
The class will meet for 10 weeks, ending on March 14, 2022.
Instructor: Professor Loueda Bleiler, lbbleiler@gmail.com
Professor Bleiler has served in a variety of worship settings including American Baptist, Episcopal, and Lutheran churches. She is the Director of Music at SUNY Corning Community College and the Minister of Music for the Odessa Baptist Church in Odessa NY. She is a student in the Liberty University Doctor of Worship Studies program and will soon begin work on her doctoral thesis.
Textbooks
The Worship Architect: A Blueprint for Designing Culturally Relevant and Biblically Fatihful Services by Constance Cherry. 2nd edition. (2021. Baker Academic.) Note: This is a new edition.
Better Sundays Begin on Monday: 52 Exercises for Evaluating Weekly Worship by David W. Manner (2020. Abingdon Press.)
SPRING 2022
MINISTRY THROUGH THE SMALL CHURCH – STARTING APRIL 26, 2022
This course is designed to familiarize students about the unique opportunities and challenges of ministry in the small church. The course will guide the student through the theological, relational, and organizational aspects of small church ministry as well as provide the tools necessary to carry out the tasks unique to the small church.
When: Tuesday Evenings, 7:00-9:00 pm. – Online via Zoom.
The class will meet for 10 weeks, ending June 29, 2022.
Instructor: Rev. Steve Reynolds.
CHURCH HISTORY – First Class Date: TBD
The course is designed to provide an overview of church history, focusing on issues and incidents that have had the greatest impact on the Church and its relationship to the world. It will provide an historical context for the issues, personalities, and events studied. Students will be provided the tools and techniques to do competent research in church history.
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
To Register: Complete registration form (scroll down to download) and mail with payment (payable to ABCNYS) to ABCNYS, 3218 James St., Syracuse NY 13206. You can also pay online at http://www.abc-nys.org/lay-study-program.html
Fees
The tuition is $110 per course. For family members living in the same house, the course fee is $110 for the first person and $60 for each subsequent person. Students may audit a course, without credit, for $60. The cost of the textbooks for each course is in addition to the tuition.
Questions: Rev. Leon Oaks-Lee (315.637.0023, leon.oakslee@gmail.com
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