Summer Preaching Reboot: How to take the stess, Tedium, & Procrastination out of your Preaching life
Do you ever ask yourself
these questions?
Who
do I think I should be a preacher?
How
am I going to find Good News this week?
How about the next?
And the next?
Why
do I preach?
After years in the pulpit,
do I even remember?
When
can I do my prep when it's not
in the cracks and margins of my time or at the last minute?
Instead:
What if you knew you'd find new insights in the Scripture, even on your hundredth reading?
What if you knew what needed to be done each day to ensure your sermon was written by Friday?
What if you had a process and schedule you could count on every week to take the stress, tedium, and procrastination out of your sermon prep?
What if sermon prep became a joy—even a respite—rather than a weight hanging over your head all week?
Who's Summer Camp for?
Preachers who want to be inspired by Scripture again
Preachers who want a process that is life-giving rather than draining
Preachers who want to be more intentional about their time and schedule
Preachers who want to be more effective in the pulpit
Preachers who want the opportunity to discuss ideas and problems with other preachers
Whether you're new to the pulpit and want to set up good preaching habits, or you've been around the pulpit a while and want the Holy Spirit to breathe new life into old preaching lungs, Summer Camp was made for you.
Where is Summer Camp?
Online! Participate from anywhere you have internet access.
What will you take from Summer Camp?
By the end of Summer Camp, you'll know how to:
Shift Your Mindset & Overcome the Obstacle of Perfectionism: Move your focus from product to prayer.
Prepare Yourself for Sermon Prep: Cultivate an environment and routine you enjoy.
Go Deep: Apply Lectio, Meditatio, Oratio, and Contemplatio to sermon prep to discover new wonders, mysteries, and insights in Scripture (no matter how many times you've read the passage!)
Offer Good News You Know: Let the sermon preach in your life before you preach to your listeners
Write More Clearly & Efficiently: Discover writing tips and tricks you can apply immediately to improve your clarity and impact.
Revise Your Sermon with Purpose: Ensure your sermon says what you mean.
Get Ready for Fall: Set up your calendar by day, week, and month for prayer and sermon-prep time.
“Backstory Preaching helped me to be intentional about my time for prayer and sermon prep this week, to engage Scripture for my soul as well as my sermon, and to preach sermons that specifically and consistently invite people to love, heal and grow in Christ.”
How does Summer Camp work?
Based on our eCourse, Craft an Effective Sermon by Friday, and our sold-out Sermon Bootcamps, Summer Camp provides an ideal combination of face-to-face meetings online, independent practice, and interactive Facebook support to help you revamp your sermon prep process over the slower months of summer.
By the time church life kicks off its Fall activities, you'll have established a new process, schedule, and approach to preaching that will make sermon prep a time you look forward to each week.
A week before camp, you'll receive Craft an Effective Sermon by Friday in your inbox
The first week, we'll meet live online for one hour each day, Monday through Friday, to learn the process to craft a meaningful sermon on your own schedule.
For the next seven weeks, we'll meet live online one hour each week for Q&A, office hours, and additional teaching.
BONUS: you'll be invited to join a private Facebook group for mutual support around the clock.
Summer Camp is structured to help you truly absorb the concepts so you can successfully create the new habits you want to stick.
What's included?
12 hours of live instruction and support with the Rev'd Lisa Cressman, D.Min., Mentor, Founder and Steward of Backstory Preaching, and Adjunct Faculty in Preaching at Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, TX
BsP's eCourse Craft an Effective Sermon by Friday (PDF format)
Access to a private Facebook group during Camp to ask questions, brainstorm ideas, share challenges and successes, and build community with like-minded preaching professionals.
Be Good News to Preach Good News,
Lisa+