Help your churches get excited and equipped for Advent, even as the pandemic lingers and plans need to stay flexible.
Get through Advent feeling energized instead of exhausted!
Advent-ure Design Camp
A 6-Week Continuing Education Experience
with Dr. Marcia McFee and the Worship Design Studio
October 3 - November 12, 2021
Greetings, friends. Marcia McFee here–long-time worship educator and leader, professor of worship, author, and teacher/consultant to many churches.
As a resource person, I have seen the request for help from churches increase dramatically throughout this pandemic. The number of inquiries for help with online/hybrid worship has grown to a point that I needed to address this in a way that can reach a lot of people.
Twice a year I offer an online continuing education series that consists of 6 learning experiences over 6 weeks for people who want to improve their worship. Last year, I decided to refocus the content to deal directly with the extraordinary needs for flexible, adaptable planning and deeply nourishing spiritual offerings in this unprecedented time. This course was so well received from the pastors and worship teams who participated!
I'm offering it again this year, equipped with even more experience and knowledge that has come from almost a year and a half of navigating the challenging waters of worship in this lingering season of pandemic. And we've improved the structure to offer more ways to engage with the material and a new online platform that makes learning a blast. Check out yourself by visiting worshipdesignstudio.com/virtualstudio to see where the action will take place! (Please note that the site works best in Google Chrome.)
This year's Advent-ure Design Camp starts October 3rd. Opening and closing webinar sessions are also recorded for convenience of watching and the Virtual Studio and Lessons on our website can be doen anytime. Here are the subjects we will cover over 6 weeks together:
Structure and Topics Covered in the Advent-ure Design Camp
Week One: How Do We Navigate this Moment? Planning Advent/Christmas
- Webinar with Dr. Marcia McFee on Monday, October 4th at 9am Pacific / 12pm Eastern
- Introduction to the Virtual Studio and Lessons on the Website
Week Two: How to Choose a Meaningful Theme and Create Memorable Symbols
- Design Process Steps 1-2
- Short video clips and worksheets in the Virtual Studio and Website
- Open House hours in the Virtual Studio - drop by and pick Dr. Marcia's brain about your work!
Week Three: Creating the Structure for the Journey and Utilizing all the Worship Arts
- Design Process Steps 3-4
- Short video clips and worksheets in the Virtual Studio and Website
- Open House hours in the Virtual Studio - come meet our WDS Trainers and swap good ideas!
Week Four: Creating Adaptable Worship Scripts and Getting Help with Tasks
- Design Process Steps 5-6
- Short video clips and worksheets in the Virtual Studio and Website
- Open House hours in the Virtual Studio - drop by and pick Dr. Marcia's brain about your work!
Week Five: Getting the Word Out and Prepping the Details
- Design Process Steps 7-8
- Short video clips and worksheets in the Virtual Studio and Website
Week Six: How to Sustain the Creativity AFTER Christmas!
- Closing Webinar with Dr. Marcia McFee
- Party in the Virtual Studio!
I usually only offer my continuing education course to individual churches and smaller regional bodies, but I am expanding my offering of help for doing worship in these times to whole regional areas who want to give access to any and all their churches for one flat fee. And I am keeping that fee a fraction of what I usually charge for a one-day workshop in person so that this experience is accessible and affordable for regional bodies.
I know this offering will help small local churches and I really want to help.
Here is what people have said about our previous 6-week course offerings, and I know that this year churches who participate will be even more apt to take in the information and let it transform their ability to continue offering vital ministry:
For a $1000 one-time regional fee
ALL the churches in a regional area (and anyone in those churches) will have the opportunity to:
- Receive an e-mail every Sunday for 6 weeks with an introduction to the concepts we will cover
- Access written and video digital materials that further the learning if they so choose
- Join the Worship Design Studio Advent-ure Camp Resource to connect with other churches and access a lot of other free material on our website
- Pastors and staff may receive CEU’s if they need them for completion of the course (they complete a survey so we can make sure they did the course)
It is easy to sign up:
If you're a regional leader, click on the link below to purchase access for all your churches. My team will set up a unique link for you to send to your area’s churches to register. That’s it. We’ll even give you some verbiage to send with the link. At the end of the course, we send you a list of churches that have participated so that you can follow up with them if you so choose.
I would be glad to connect with you about this education opportunity and answer any questions you have. Please reach out to me at [email protected].
Peace & Passion,
Marcia McFee, PhD
Creator and Visionary
Worship Design Studio
[email protected]
www.worshipdesignstudio.com
