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Lectern

How the Heavenly Father Can Meet Your Deepest Longings

Are you in touch with your deepest longings? Have you put words to those longings? Your heavenly Father knows and wants to meet them. Clara Schnupp explores this topic using stories of women in the Bible as well as stories from her own life.

Family as Ministry

An often asked question is: “"How can I involve my family in the ministry that I have been called to”?" While this is a good question, another that is at least of equal importance is: “"How can my family have direct influence on the immediate community where we find ourselves”?" Or: "“What does fami

The Joy of Being God's Woman

How can joy be realized in our life as women? The Father calls us to live freely and spontaneously. How is that possible in such a troubled world?

God's Glory in the Refugee Crisis in Lesvos Greece

In this session, we’ll watch the European refugee crisis unfold through the eyes of Isaiah 60. Surely this is one of the greatest opportunities of the age to reach these difficult people groups. This is a call to the church to arise and shine.

Peace Demonstrated

What does peace look like when demonstrated? Mr. Burdge sketches the stories of conscientious objectors in World War I.

By Love, Serve One Another (Pete Peters)

In order to serve effectively, we must lay the foundation of loving God. However, Pete calls us to make our love for God practical: "Our love for God is demonstrated in service where others become the beneficiaries." Courtesy Christian Light Education (CLE).

Sharpening Our Vision for Christian Education

For the sake of our Church, we must have and work towards good Christian schools. They are our future generation. Gerald provides a compelling call to support and grow our involvement in Christian education.Courtesy Holmes County Tent Meetings 2013.

Relating to the Local Community (Stephan Gingerich)

As a fisher of men, how far does your net reach? What happens if you catch a “Barracuda”? Can the Christian school be a tool for evangelism or the Christian teacher an evangelist?

Identifying and Developing your Strengths: As Good Stewards (Howard Lichty)

As a teacher, many wonderful resources are available. Where do I begin? One of the most helpful resources you can get are the people you teach with. Seek advice and give advice. Listen to this presentation to hear other tips that will strengthen your teaching.View the PowerPoint.

Why You Should Prepare to Teach

What am I going to do with my life? Farm? Replace roofs? Be a missionary? No matter what vocation God calls us to, preparing to teach enables us to serve skillfully and effectively.

Book Reports

Presenters at WFTI summarize, review, and recommend books of interest to teachers.

Lessons Learned in Parenting 24 Children in 34 Years

Parenting six biological children and providing care for over a dozen foster children has been an avenue to receiving Abba’s love like no other personal life experience. Join me for stories, laughter, and maybe some tears!

Ministering to the Abused

Sexual abuse damages people in ways that are deep and significant. Abuse among our plain people is much more prevalent than we wish. Reaching out to the abused who are not a part of our churches will also require that we confront this damage done by the enemy. Helping people who have been hurt in th

Texts for Teachers: You Shall Love the Lord, You Shall Love Your Neighbor

Love the Lord with your all. Love your neighbor as yourself. These commands capture the essence of godly living. How do we nurture love for God and neighbor in the classroom?

Guidelines for Working with Children (Phil Hershberger)

Learn ways to more effectively touch the hearts of the children you are called to reach. This presentation includes pointers in relating to children that have been through hard things in life. Some healthy protocols are discussed.

Improving Communication with Fellow Staff (Diana Sauder)

Have you as a woman ever wondered how you can support your leader or how to support your administrator who does not seem to take leadership? Perhaps you wish for better relations with your fellow lady teachers. This workshop, which is directed toward, but not limited to women, will give tips on how

Teacher Orientation: Managing the Classroom (Jonas Sauder)

Teaching is intensely personal. Students have minds, abilities, and wills that sometimes foil our lesson plans. They may be so full of apathy or energy that our procedures are frustrated. How do we keep order, stimulate students to do their best, and get everything done?

Preparing for Missions

Prepare? There is work to be done! Let us go before we waste more time! While zeal is commendable, proper preparation will help prevent an early death of ministry through burnout, interpersonal conflict, and other issues. Maturity, character, cleansing, and a clear call developed in the womb of wors

Healthy Student Relationships

Mark leads a workshop analyzing what school relationships should look like and discussing what undermines these relationships.Courtesy CASBI.

History Workshops Part 3

What are the reasons that we study history? What is history? Is it what happened or what we think happened? How do we dig through bias and teach what really happened? Also, discover a few fascinating historical events that helped shape the world.
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