Provision Workshop 2019
Monday, November 4, 2019 1:00 PM-Tuesday, November 5, 2019 11:30 AM
Longview Mansion, 811 Caldwell Lane, Nashville, TN 37204
Ministering to the Sick, Dying & Grieving
A hands-on workshop for ministers
$49 registration includes:
- Book: Comfort When the Shadow Falls
- Dinner and Breakfast
Join us for the second annual Provision Workshop and come away with insights, skills and materials that you can begin using immediately in your church setting. This year, ministers will learn:
- how to discern and claim spiritual gifts for ministry in one's life
- best practices for a hospital visit
- how to make a life, death and grief map of your church
- how to share bad news in the best way
- how to do a warm funeral
Facilitated by Eddie Sharp
Eddie Sharp has been in ministry since 1971. He has served churches in Texas, New Mexico, and Nevada. He was the senior minister with the University Church of Christ in Abilene, TX for 28 years, recently retiring from full-time ministry after ten years with the University Avenue Church of Christ in Austin, TX. He received his DMin from Abilene Christian University in 1990 and taught Bible at the undergraduate level and church leadership at the graduate level at ACU. Over the years, his congregational ministry and service in police and fire chaplaincy gave him insight into crisis ministry, ministry to the sick and dying, and ministry through funerals and memorials. He has recently written Comfort When the Shadow Falls, a book on ministry to the dying and grieving.
The workshop is limited to 50 people so we may engage and learn around tables together.
Full Schedule
Monday afternoon
1:00 – Check in
1:30 – Welcome | Session 1, “Internalizing Jesus—Practicing Ministry with Christ in Us”
Session 1 Skill: Finding and Claiming Spiritual Gifts for Ministry in One’s Life Story
3:00 – Session 2, “Ministry to the Sick and Suffering”
Session 2 Skill: Best Practices for a Hospital Visit
4:00 – Break
4:15 – Session 3, “Ministry to the Dying and Those Who Love Them”
Session 3 Skill: Making a Life, Death and Grief Map of Your Church
5:15 – Break
5:30 – Dinner (at Longview)
6:15 – J. P. Conway, “It’s Worth It”
J. P. serves as the preaching minister for Acklen Avenue Church of Christ in Nashville and as an adjunct professor of Bible at Lipscomb.
6:45 – Evening prayer
Tuesday morning
7:45 – Continental breakfast (Longview)
8:30 – Morning prayer
Session 4, “Ministry in Life and Death Crises”
Session 4 Skill: Sharing Bad News in the Best Way
9:45 – Break
10:00 – Session 5, “The Ministry of Funerals and Memorials”
Session 5 Skill: How to Do a Warm Funeral
11:00 – Closing conversation
11:30 – Dismissal