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| JEAN MORRIS TRUMBAUER, consultant and author: Specializing in shared ministry systems and gifts discovery |
Jean Morris Trumbauer provides professional consultation and training services to churches, denominations, and religious and non-profit organizations throughout the United States.
She leads workshops and retreats and serves as a consultant, specializing in gifts discovery and a systems approach to empowering lay people to share the ministry of the church.
Jean authored Sharing the Ministry: A Practical Guide for Transforming Volunteers Into Ministers, published by Augsburg Fortress. Her new book is Created and Called: Discovering Our Gifts for Abundant Living.
She served as executive director of a Minneapolis ecumenical agency, the Director of Shared Ministry in a large Twin Cities congregation, and a lay leader in her own parish.
Jean graduated with her doctor of ministry degree from United Theological Seminary, New Brighton, Minnesota. She also holds a master's degree in religious studies.
- Short-term assistance with specific shared (volunteer) ministry issues
- Long-term contracts to help establish effective shared ministry and gift-based systems, including:
- Comprehensive assessment
- Leadership training
- Facilitating plan development
- Follow up support and resources
- Workshops on shared ministry systems: Several-hour or several-day events
- Seminars and retreats on gifts discovery: Half-day to several-day events
- Speaking engagements
Wednesday, January 30 - Friday, February 1, 2002
- Explore a new, wholistic, and comprehensive model for gift-based ministry
- Experience exciting new gifts-discovery reflection tools for yourself!
- Learn to design and teach gifts-discovery seminars and use discovery tools
- Explore many non-classroom approaches to gifts-discovery and celebration
- Design gift-based ministry to reach the diverse membership of your congregation
A three-day workshop introducing:
Created
and Called:
Discovering Our Gifts for Abundant Living
Presented by Jean Morris Trumbauer
You’ll discover more ways to do gifts-discovery and gift-based
ministry in your congregation than you ever dreamed possible!!!
NOTE: This workshop is designed both for experienced practitioners in gift-based ministry as well as for those who are just beginning.
| Workshop Fees |
| $350.00 (includes manual) for first participant from congregation or group |
| $250.00 (no manual) each additional participant from congregation or group |
* All workshop fees cover extensive handouts as well as
refreshments
Additional manuals available at $65.95 (plus tax if applicable)
Registration deadline: January 15, 2002
For registration forms and further information, call Jean Trumbauer at 612-823-7706 or e-mail Jean at trumbauer@aol.com
Upcoming Workshops:
| Jan 30-Feb 1, 2002 | Created & Called: Discovering our Gifts for Abundant Living--trainer of trainers event, Minneapolis, MN. | |
| Feb 23, 2002 | Crossroads Presbyterian Church, Milwaukee, WI. | |
| April 6, 2002 | North Como Presbyterian Church, St. Paul, MN | |
| April 12-13, 2002 | "Dancing God's Dreams Across our Lives," Women's Retreat, Word of Peace Lutheran Church at Koinonia Retreat Center, Annandale, MN. | |
| May 4, 2002 | Mary, Queen of Peace Parish, Sammamish, WA. | |
| May 13-17, 2002 | Gifts-discovery and shared ministry workshops for Western Region Pastoral Coordinator/Pastoral Administrator Conference in Redlands, CA. | |
| May 22, 2002 | Staff retreat for Resurrection Parish, Rochester, MN | |
| June 14-16, 2002 | Gifts retreat for Christ Church, Alexandria,Virginia | |
| July 10-11, 2002 | National Ass'n of Church Business Administrators, San Diego, CA. | |
| Oct 12, 2002 | Episcopal Diocese & Lutheran Synod, Philadelphia, PA | |
| March 3-6, 2003 | Center for Ministry & Leadership Development, Union Seminary-Presbyterian School of Christian Education, Richmond, VA |
Discuss and schedule workshop events with Jean by calling Trumbauer Consulting at 612-823-7706 or e-mailing her at trumbauer@aol.com
Shared Ministry Workshops:
Jean leads one to three-day workshops throughout the country on shared (volunteer) ministry systems and her manual, Sharing the Ministry: A Practical Guide for Transforming Volunteers Into Ministers.
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An All-Day Workshop covers the topics of paradigm shift in ministry;
theology of gifts; designing ministries; recruiting and followup; motivating
and supporting.
More Advanced Workshops (days two and three) include the topics of interviewing, managing data, managing risks, supervising, evaluating, and planning.
Gifts-Discovery and Gifts-Based Ministry Workshops:
- Exporing a new, wholistic, and comprehensive model for gifts-based ministry
- Experiencing exciting new gifts-discovery reflection tools for yourself
- Learning to design and teach gifts-discovery seminars and use discovery tools
- Exploring many non-classroom approaches to gifts-discovery and celebration
- Designing gift-based ministry to reach the diverse membership of your congregation
Leadership Training Events:
Jean trains church leaders in developing and implementing gifts-based ministry and provides a trainer-of-trainers workshop for those intending to lead gifts-discovery seminars using materials from her new manual Created and Called: Discovering Our Gifts for Abundant Living. These leadership events range from one-day to three and a half-day events. The longer events include the following:
Participants in these sessions will discover more ways to do gifts-discovery and gift-based ministry in congregational life than they ever dreamed possible!
Gifts-Discovery Seminars and Retreats:
Jean often leads all-day and weekend gifts-discovery seminars and retreats for faith communities.
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"A great educator.... you inspired us. Please come back."
"Practical, pertinent information.... Top-notch workshop!!"
"Challenged...hopeful...satisfied...renewed.... Some of the feeling words (from our group) after (Jean) left.
"Thank you for the marvelous workshop. (It provided) excellent resources...and a solid base for (the seminary students') own development of shared ministry."
"The things I learned here will help me in my professional life as well."
"Jean has guided, encouraged, and equipped us for shared ministry."
- Minnesota Association of Church Volunteer Coordinators
- National Catholic Stewardship Conference, 1997 & 1999
- Episcopal Dioceses of Pennsylvania and Minnesota
- Catholic Dioceses of Saginaw, MI; Louisville, KY; St. Augustine, FL; Rockville Centre, NY; Orange, CA; LaCrosse, WI; Pueblo, CO; Raleigh, NC; and 40 parishes in the Minneapolis/St. Paul Archdiocese
- St. Stephen's Lutheran Church, Bloomington, MN
- Alive in Christ, ELCA National Conference, 1998
- Minnesota Annual Conference, United Methodist Church
- Church Business Administrators' Certification Program, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
- St. John's University, Collegeville, MN
- Unitarian Universalist Association
- Stewardship University, 1998, Ecumenical Stewardship Center, Indianapolis, IN
- Association of Presbyterian Church Educators, 1998
- Church of the Presentation, Upper Saddle River, NJ
- Presbyterian School of Christian Education, 2000
- St. Michael's Catholic Parish, Olympia, WA
- SALT team, national ELCA program, Chicago
- Southern Ohio & Southwest Texas Synods, ELCA
- Mary, Queen of Peace Parish, Sammamish, WA
- Alban Institute
- Action research, books and periodicals, consulting and training services for congregations.
- Augsburg Fortress Online Store
- Order Trumbauer's Sharing the Ministry and Created and Called on-line
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BeFriender Ministry - National ecumenical program of skill-building and spiritual formation that prepares people to develop lay pastoral care ministry
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Directors of Church Volunteer Ministries in MN - Professional association
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Energize, Inc. - Nationally-recognized web site for volunteer managers
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NALM Homepage - National Association of Lay Ministry
Personal Power Products, low cost self development products focusing on leaders- Order personal assessment tools such as learning styles inventories and facilitator's guide, spiritual life inventory, and personal power inventory.
Only Connect Web Development- Designs, builds, and maintains Web sites for non-profit, educational, and business clients.
Points Of View home page- Training, keynotes, consultations, and products to bring the five living generations together. And Elder Eye consultation on effective design for the aging eye.
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Roy Phillips - Reflections and resources for transformation of congregational life
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Shared Ministry Resource Management Program - Software for gifts-inventories and shared ministry sign-ups
The Congregational Resource Guide- An extensive annotated guide to selected resources for congregations. Resource categories include lay ministry, gifts-discovery, volunteers, and many others.
- Products and services to help people live in full and meaningful ways - regardless of age. Features book: ReFirement: A Boomer's Guide to Life After 50.
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