Exploring Your Gifts and Talents

Discover Your Spiritual Strengths and Make a Lasting Impact

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Are you ready to bring your unique spiritual gifts and strengths to the surface? Come gain a deeper understanding of who God made you to be, and be emboldened to lean into your talents as you take loving action in your church, community, and world! Join us for this comprehensive and profound on-demand learning experience. We’ll walk alongside you as you explore your spiritual gifts, embrace their significance, and learn to apply them in meaningful and powerful ways.

Frederick Buechner said it best: “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” We all yearn to better align our God-given purpose and our natural passions and talents in order to positively impact those around us in fuller and more resonant ways. Through engaging videos, guided reflection, and practical action planning, this course will empower you to do just that! You'll explore the scriptural foundations of spiritual gifts, identify your own singular strengths, follow the thread of the divine call that aligns with your abilities and passions, and craft a personalized action plan to use your gifts for faithful impact in your church setting and community.

What You'll Learn

  • Return to the Source: Understand the biblical foundation of spiritual gifts and their role in the church.
  • Embrace Self-Awareness: Identify your unique spiritual gifts and strengths.
  • Build the Blueprint: Craft a personalized action plan to utilize your gifts within your church community.
  • Look Around: Recognize opportunities to apply your gifts in various real-world contexts.
  • Look Back: Reflect on how your calling and purpose can evolve over a lifetime.
  • Look Forward: Connect your gifts with the needs of the world and make a meaningful impact.

About this Course

  • Modules

7

  • Learning Elements

49

  • Videos

6

  • Practices & Activities

21

  • Time

5 hours, 30 minutes

  • Price

$55

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Here's What's Inside...

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In this module, you will:

  • Celebrate that you are fearfully and wonderfully made.
  • Develop a desire to use your gifts to join God’s work in the world.

In this module, you will:

  • Learn about the Biblical foundation of spiritual gifts.
  • Identify the different spiritual gifts.
  • Understand ways spiritual gifts can be used in the church.

In this module, you will:

  • Discover your spiritual gifts.
  • Reflect on your strengths and talents.
  • Value and appreciate the strengths and spiritual gifts of others.

In this module, you will:

  • Identify your areas of interest.
  • Consider how the ways you use your spiritual gifts and strengths can change over a lifetime.
  • Discover how others have used their spiritual gifts and leveraged their strengths as disciples.
  • Reflect on how God is calling you to use your gifts and strengths.

In this module, you will:

  • Develop an action plan to engage in new or different ways by sharing your gifts within your church community.
  • Identify ways to further develop and apply your spiritual gifts and strengths in the world.

Find out your next steps as you complete the course and how to stay connected with your group. You'll also be able to submit feedback about your course.

You'll Learn How to Shift Ministry Models
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“In Christ we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us.” - Romans 12:5-6

Christ-followers are a beautiful mosaic of people, each containing their own beautiful mosaic of spiritual gifts. And we all have the power to use those valuable talents and passions to strengthen and enrich our churches or faith communities!

As traditional church models continue to shift in the direction of lay leadership, with responsibilities increasingly dispersed more evenly among lay members of the community, those members’ discovery (or rediscovery) of spiritual gifts is essential. Participants in this course will be challenged to actively build their plan for igniting and applying their spiritual gifts in their particular contexts, and will be emboldened and equipped to step up to the plate of this new, lay-powered way of “doing church.” Each of us is essential to the life and rhythms of our faith community; join us in gaining a deeper understanding of what you have to offer your church!

What to Expect

  • Engaging Videos: Enjoy interactive videos hosted by experienced facilitators, guiding you throughout a deep exploration of your spiritual gifts.
  • Reflection Exercises: Dive deep into self-discovery with reflective exercises that help you connect your gifts with your passions and purpose.
  • Practical Action Planning: Develop a personalized action plan to effectively use your gifts in your church, community, and daily life.
  • Supportive Community: Join a community of participants who share your journey, providing encouragement, insights, and connections.

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Meet Your Instructors

  • Amy Buechler-Steubing

    Dr. Amy Buechler-Steubing is an education professional with over 25 years of experience spanning organizational leadership, program development, curriculum and instructional design, and teaching. She is passionate about expanding access to quality education, increasing social and economic mobility for underserved populations, and developing leaders. Amy is currently an administrator at the University of Texas in San Antonio. She was raised in the Lutheran church and has served as a lay leader in several congregations across Michigan, Minnesota, and Texas. Amy enjoys helping others discover their gifts and strengths, mentoring youth, leading women’s groups, and cheering on the San Antonio Spurs with her husband and two children.

  • Rebecca Guengerich

    Rebecca Guengerich is the Director of Spirituality and Wellness at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church in San Antonio, Texas. She provides spiritual formation programs and caring ministry for the congregation. Rebecca is an educator and works as a teacher, as a community educator for the March of Dimes, and as a Spiritual Director in the Lutheran Campus Ministry at the University of Texas. In addition to a BA degree from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, she has a Master of Arts degree in Pastoral Ministry from the Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas. Rebecca lived in China for a year and was introduced to the ritual of Tea. Most recently, she started sewing again after a 20-year hiatus, making clothes for her two grandchildren.

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