STUDY TOPICS

Peter Story, South Africa

The world is your classroom. Through the unique strategy of peer learning that employs:

• self-selected groups
• that design their own learning
• travel/study together over time, and
• hold one another accountable to the learnings

Groups who establish their own study theme and resources remain energetically open to learnings that enhance their ministries. Past study topics include, but are not limited to:

• Faith and Money
• Ending Well
• The Role of Women in Church Leadership
• Experiencing the Divine
• Urban Ministry

The choice is yours to make; what do you want to study that will transform you and the ministry you serve? ICE groups have drawn from the expertise of proven church leaders as well as the world at large such as:

Round Table Group and Martin Marty in his studio

Round Table Group and Martin Marty in his Chicago studio

• Martin Marty, author and educator, Chicago, Illinois
• Wayne Cordeiro, pastor of New Hope Christian Fellowship who shares his vision and life lessons with pastors from around the globe.
• Dr. Anna Carter Florence, teaching the historical, theological, aesthetic and performative dimensions in preaching.
• Dr. Lawrence A. Hoffman, Barbara and Stephen Friedman Professor of Liturgy, Worship and Ritual at Hebrew Union College
• Dr. James Hudnut-Beumler. Vanderbilt Dean of the Divinity, author of Generous Saints: Congregations Rethinking Ethics and Money
• Dr. Eugene Peterson, paraphrase author of The Message
• Barbara Brown Taylor, Episcopal priest, teacher and author
• Dr. Tom Long, Bandy Professor of Preaching, Candler School of Theology
• Tom Key, actor/director and resource for pastors to improve their communication skills
• The Disney Institute: the basics of hospitality and welcoming people into faith communities
• NBC Nightly News: An ICE group learned new ways to give close attention to every detail of worship and preaching
• Jay O’Callahan, Storyteller taught an ICE group to remember and tell personal stories for powerful transformative moments in worship
• Brian Kvasnica, Bible Scholar with The Home for Bible Translators and Scholars in Jerusalem, Inc.