• Cokesbury's VBS 2010 Showcase
• Using Cokesbury's 2010 VBS Online Tools
• Cokesbury's 2010 VBS Galactic Blast
• Focus on the Five Practices
• Children's Curriculum from Other Publishers
• Rock Solid Leader Training 2009-2010
• Rock Solid Overview 2009-2010
• Adult Curriculum Resources Overview
• Choosing Children's Curriculum
• Youth Resources Overview
• Implementing the Enough Stewardship Program
• Tweens Choosing Faith
• Claim the Life
• What’s in the Bible (and Why Should I Care?)
• Live B.I.G.
• One Room Options
• Rock-a-Bye
• Faith in Hard Times
• Introduction to Disciple Bible Studies
• Introduction to Short-Term DISCIPLE
• Three Simple Rules – Small Group Studies for Adults, Youth, and Children

Having trouble comparing all your VBS 2010 options? Join Michael Aulisio, Cokesbury's VBS Marketing Manager, for a FREE webinar that will give you details on the major components of all 2010 VBS programs, including: 

• Cokesbury's Galactic Blast
• Abingdon Press' Praise Party 
• Augsburg's Baobab Blast 
• Concordia's Planet Zoom 
• Gospel Light's SonQuest Rainforest 
• Group's Egypt 
• Group's High Seas Expedition 
• Standard's Hero HeadQuarters

Please note: If using a Mac to view this webinar, music clips will not work unless you are running Windows Media Player through a PC emulator or utility. If you are not, please e-mail CokesburyVBS@cokesbury.com for links to the VBS 2010 music samples. 

Join Michael Aulisio, VBS Marketing Manager, as he demonstrates the functionality and use of our new Online Registration VBS tools. He will show you how to use the tools to: 

• Set up your own unique VBS registration website for your church
• Pull information about your registrants and sort them into groups
• Use custom e-cards in addition to your print invitation postcards
• Plus an overview of new features, such as save prompts, thank you page editing, registering multiple people from the same family, and more!

The congregation-wide Focus on the Five Practices is a program in place in churches across the country. Robert Schnase’s approach to teaching the basic principles of what makes a congregation vital in its community is unique and exciting. Join Cathy Robinson as she takes you through the components of Focus on the Five Practices and how they work together to inspire your congregation to greater, fruitful living.

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Cokesbury has a long history of serving United Methodists along with an array of other denominational and independent churches, leaders, and members. We regularly review our offerings for children and recently worked to gain a better understanding about the number of requests we routinely hear for curriculum developed by publishers other than Cokesbury. Based on what we learned directly from churches, we announced our plan to continue offering a limited selection of children's curriculum resources from publishers other than Cokesbury alongside Cokesbury curriculum. In this webinar, you'll learn more about these offerings. This webinar will also include a quick overview of Cokesbury curriculum approved by the Curriculum Resources Committee (CRC) of The United Methodist General Board of Discipleship for use in the Christian education ministry of The United Methodist Church.

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Children provide so much vitality in the life of the church.  As faith develops from an early age, Sunday school is a time and sacred space for children to be excited and to grow their faith.  An experienced Christian educator for over twenty-five years, LeeDell Stickler provides the tools to help you create an effective children's ministry.  LeeDell will outline Cokesbury's children's curriculum Rock Solid: Building a Heart of Faith, which provides an experiential environment for children to know and love God through Jesus Christ.

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You may be teaching children about God, but are you inspiring them to know God?  Children might be learning about the Bible, but are they learning what faith feels like through being nurtured by trusted examples of faithful living?  Rock Solid goes beyond teaching knowledge of God and the Bible.  Through Rock Solid, children will personally know God through Jesus Christ and make the Bible a part of their everyday lives.  LeeDell Stickler will introduce you to Cokesbury's children's curriculum Rock Solid:  Building a Heart of Faith, which provides an experiential environment for children to know and love God through Jesus Christ.

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Research shows us that small groups are one of the most effective means of helping people form significant relationships and grow spiritually.   Find out about a wide range of curriculum options for your adult ministry. Whether you are looking for Bible basics or in-depth Bible studies, whether you prefer printed resources, DVD-based or downloadable content, whether you’re looking for short-term or long-term studies--Cokesbury has a variety of options for your small groups, Bible study groups, and Sunday school classes.

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How can you pick the curriculum that best suits the needs of your children’s ministry? And what should you consider when purchasing resources that help children experience the Bible? Join long-time Christian educator Cathy Robinson as she gives you a toolbox for evaluating and choosing curriculum resources for children. 

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Find out about a wide range of curriculum options for your youth ministry that apply the Bible to real-life issues that teens face. Abingdon Youth publishes materials for three primary youth ministry settings: Sunday school; youth group—which includes Sunday or weekday night youth fellowship gatherings as well as youth group functions such as retreats, service projects, and trips; and confirmation.

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With the soft economy, the thought of planning a stewardship program may seem a bit daunting. Adam Hamilton’s Enough Stewardship Program Guide provides a simple yet effective approach with a clear focus on addressing the personal concerns and needs of your congregation during this downturn. The campaign will lead members and leaders to examine their values and behavior toward spending, wealth, discipline, giving, and life purpose. They will see the positive impact that a transformation of their relationship with money can have on the world.

Join Cathy Robinson for a look at Adam Hamilton’s Enough Stewardship Program Guide based on his book Enough.

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Tweens are beginning to ask questions about faith. Help them gain a better understanding of the Bible, meet Jesus on a personal level, and have a safe place in which to ask personal questions about faith. These resources bridge the step from the tween’s acceptance of the faith of their parents to developing a faith of their own. And learn ways to give tweens the vocabulary and understanding to express their faith.

This workshop will introduce you to this multi-faceted resource for the spiritual formation of youth, but more importantly, it will address key questions asked about youth Sunday school:

• develop the words and concepts that will enable them to grow in faith and express it to others;
• apply their learnings to their life;
• be supported in their discipleship;
• stay in love with God; and
• claim the life of a follower of Jesus Christ. 

Are you looking for a wonderful way to engage newcomers to your church in a small group setting? Maybe your church includes new Christians and those who have little or no familiarity with Scripture. In this webinar, Elizabeth Gay shares ways to help newcomers to your congregation feel a sense of belonging and move toward feeling fully accepted in your church community. What’s in the Bible and Why Should I Care? is a series of Bible studies that give you three effective strategies for engaging newcomers including:

• providing a chance for your newcomers to have direct engagement with Scripture;
• demonstrating sensitivity to your newcomers and your awareness of who they are and what needs they have; and
• helping them become more involved in the life of faith.

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Bible stories are timeless. Like a child's favorite book, they are repeated over and over again as they are passed from older children to younger children so that they too will come to know and cherish them and continue to pass them on.

And now, you can share the stories of God's love for us with the newest group of children in your Sunday school through Live B.I.G., a curriculum series that has been helping churches transform their Sunday schools. This webinar will introduce you to the innovative curriculum that will excite their imagination and bring them back again and again as the teachings of the Bible come to life in the classroom.

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What do you do when you have a 3-year-old, 7-year-old, and an 11-year-old in your Sunday school? Often children of all ages learn together in this setting. While the resources and numbers may be small, the learning and loving are big, and many exciting opportunities lie in these special groups. Cokesbury offers two exciting curriculum resources specifically tailored for these small but very important Sunday school experiences: One Room Sunday School and Live B.I.G.’s One Big Room.

Hoping your church can provide a nurturing program for babies from birth through 36 months? Learn how to reach out to young families and help your church become a familiar, comfortable place for small children to grow in faith through a safe, happy, and structured nursery environment. Discover how Cokesbury's new Rock-a-Bye series of curriculum resources will nurture the Christian faith of the youngest ones in your faith community and engage children with age-appropriate activities, crafts, Bible stories, and games.

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Our faith in Christ does not exempt us from hard times.  It does, however, offer unique perspectives and resources for coping with them.  This webinar covers nine tips for becoming stronger and more faithful during the current economic crisis.  Are you a church leader looking for truly helpful new resources for people struggling with the current economic downturn?  This webinar will give you an inside look at resources that offer both reassurance and practical life tools for adults, youth, and children. 

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For nearly twenty years, Disciple Bible Study has set the standard for in-depth, small-group Bible study. Over a million and a half people worldwide have participated in a Disciple Bible Study group. As a result, thousands of individual lives have been transformed and entire congregations have been equipped for ministry by encounter with Scripture. Disciple is a program of disciplined Bible study that focuses on the disciple as learner, believer, follower, proclaimer, and servant while providing the fellowship of a small group for study, prayer, preparation, support, and servanthood. Disciple assumes that the Bible is key to renewal in the church and gives the Old and New Testaments equal time, drawing upon the work of scholars to aid our understanding of the Bible.  In this webinar, Cathy Robinson, Christian educator and Disciple facilitator, will introduce you to our Disciple family of products.

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Through words, pictures, music, and video, Short-Term Disciple Bible studies share the story of God and inspire participants to changed lives and strengthened congregations. Cathy Robinson, Christian educator and Disciple facilitator, will introduce you to our Short-Term Disciple family of products.

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Looking for a fresh approach to Lenten studies, one that bring all ages together? Or hoping to find a new church-wide study that will offer a meaningful spiritual experience any time in the church year? Join Cathy Robinson for an introduction to the new groups studies based on Rueben Job's best-selling book, Three Simple Rules.

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