The Parish Resource Center conducts a variety of seminars and workshops that are designed to inspire, educate, and equip congregational leaders and teachers.

The subjects emerge from our understanding of the priorities, challenges, and trends in subscribing congregations. We enlist the best leaders available to share their insights and to inspire participants. After seminar and workshop leaders depart, our consultants help subscribers adapt and implement the ideas presented and maintain the energy generated. Click here to view the Workshop Archives Page.

Upcoming Workshops & Events are listed below. All workshops are held at the Parish Resource Center, unless otherwise noted.

Banner Making: A Hands-on Experience

Monday, February 27     6-7:30 pm     Preparation of fabric, transferring design

Monday, March 5           6-7:30 pm     Application of Gesso layer

Monday, March 12         6-7:30 pm     Painting and hanging tips

Leader: Jane Kintzi

Have you ever wanted to learn to make painted banners for your church? Here's an opportunity to get instruction

and hands-on experience. For three Monday evenings in February and March, consultant Jane Kintzi willbe working on two new banners for the Parish Resource Center with your help. Work alongside

her as she talks you through the design process, fabric selection, transferring the design to the fabric,

application of gesso layer and painting and hanging. No experience necessary!  Really!!

You will leave knowing how to create your own custom banners. And you will help the Parish

Resource Center create its newest banners. Please register for one, two, or all three sessions.

These are the banners Jane will be working on:

This is a FREE workshop!

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Music Lunch Bunch

Wednesday, February 29

11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Theme: Taize Music II

To open the doors to trust in God, there is nothing to replace the beauty of human voices joined in song.  Short texts, taken mainly from the Bible, sung over and over again form the basis of the music of Taize, a monastic community in France, now visited by young people from all over the world. 

We invite YOU to attend the Music Lunch Bunch meeting on February 29, when Rev. Sharon Freudenberger and Juliet Dodge, Cantor, will present TAIZE part 2.  Bring a sandwich.  The PRC will supply beverage and dessert.   

Music Lunch Bunch is FREE and open to the public. Registration is requested.

PRC Fundraising Event:

The Vienna Boys Choir in Concert

Saturday, March 10, 2012

7:30 p.m.

Location: Hempfield High School Performing Arts Center

Lancaster Area Spiritual Directors Gathering

Monday, March 19, 2012

4-6 p.m. Meeting; Book Group 3-4 p.m.

Coordinated by Tracey Marx & Sharon Bitner

Outreach Isn't Optional:

Why Community Ministry is Essential to Your Congregation's Future

Saturday, March 24, 2012

9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Leader: Joy Skjegstad

 Do you … need fresh ideas and practical advice on how to move your vision for ministry forward? … Then this workshop is for you!  Full of fresh ideas and practical advice, this workshop will send you home with … Funding and Partnership ideas; renewed energy for community ministry. Joy designed this workshop to help you understand why community ministry is essential to the very future of your congregation and how to go about getting more involved in it. Don't just provide folks with another long list of church programs, make your community ministry efforts one of the most productive engines driving your church forward!

Fees: Subs $45 Non-Subs $60

Lunch is included w/fee.

Church Building EXPO

Saturday, April 14

8:30 a.m. - 12:00 Noon

Location: (Newly remodeled) Mountville Church of the Brethren

Is your church looking to build or expand its current facilities? Is your chuch up-to-code and handicapped accessible? Join us to meet with builders, architects, engineers, designers, and stewardship program managers to get your project started!

This is a FREE event, but we would like participants to register so we can have plenty of coffee and donuts ready!

Click Here to learn more about the businesses represented and schedule for the morning.

Special Needs Roundtable II

Monday, April 16

6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Levina Huber, PRC Consultant, will facilitate

This is our second roundtable to continue the conversation on how the church is meeting the needs of all people who come through the church door. Several of the agencies that are part of the Lancaster Christian Council on Disability will be sharing with the group. There will be time for questions and reflections. This workshop is FREE, everyone is invited.

Decision Making for Church Boards

Saturday, April 21

9 a.m. - 12 Noon

Leader: Dr. Nancy Bieber

The process of making a decision influences the community as surely as the actual decision made.  In this workshop we consider decisions to be opportunities to practice spiritual discernment---the way of attending to divine guidance in our decisions.  We focus on learning ways for reducing conflict by building consensus.  Through presentation and discussion, exercises and examples, leader Nancy Bieber offers practical tools for decision making by church boards though a three-fold approach to spiritual discernment.  

The author of Decision Making & Spiritual Discernment The Sacred Art of Finding Your Way,  Nancy  L. Bieber is a teacher, psychologist, and spiritual director.  She teaches at Oasis Ministries for Spiritual Development and Lancaster Theological Seminary and leads retreats at Pendle Hill Retreat Center and for church groups around the country.  Nancy is a member of the Religious Society of Friends (Quaker) and  lives in Lancaster County (PA) with her husband Larry.  In this workshop, she draws on her experience as clerk (moderator) of her Quaker community and her spiritual discernment work with church leaders.

Nancy invites participants to contact her in advance with situations to use as anonymous teaching examples.

Fees: Subs $20  Non-Subs $35

"There's Hope For Your Church"

Saturday, May 19

9:00 a.m. - 12 Noon

Leader: Dr. Gary McIntosh

Dr. McIntosh will be here to discuss his NEW BOOK of the same title.

This is THE seminar for churches with declining membership!

Fees: Subs $35  Non-Subs $50

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Start painting and sculpting NOW!!

The PRC will hold its

3rd Annual Advent Art Show

December 3-12, 2012

Theme: "I Bring You Good News of Great Joy"

Print an Application to Participate

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ONLINE TRAINING COURSE:   "Called to Teach"

A self-directed course for new or experienced Sunday School teachers.

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