Hospitality:
Life without Fear
Finding Meaning and Purpose in a Fearful World
 Speaker:
Fred Bernhard
Fred Bernhard is pastor of the Oakland
Church of the Brethren in rural west central Ohio. He is co-author
(with Steve Clapp) of the books Hospitality:
Life without Fear and Widening
the Welcome of Your Church.
Fred’s popular "Hospitality
and the Vital Church" workshop has been well-received
all across North America.
Taking Hospitality to the
Next Level
In this new workshop, which focuses on
hospitality’s role in the spiritual lives of individuals, leader
Fred Bernhard will take a careful look at the issues of fear and
trust—and how the biblical and spiritual basis of hospitality
informs our daily living.
He will show how extending hospitality to
others—even those we’ve learned to fear—can lead to a truly
God-centered life. Fred will discuss how learning to recognize the
presence of Christ in others can have a liberating impact on all
that we do.
Through this seminar you'll learn many
practical ideas that you can apply in your personal life and in
the life of your congregation.
Seminar Topics
Session One: What Do You Fear?
 | What do you fear—the enemy, isolation,
loneliness, or sickness? How our fear breeds isolation, which
grows into loneliness. |
Session Two: The Biblical Basis of
Christian Hospitality
| The need to recognize the presence of
Christ in family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, and the
stranger (or guest). |
| How to develop our spiritual side of life
as a way of combating our inner fear. |
| The necessity of prayer. |
Session Three: Hospitality in the Home and
Community
| How to develop an appreciation for the
changing nature of family in our time. |
| How hospitality can help us reclaim a
sense of community in our neighborhoods, in the workplace,
with the people with whom we do business, and with some
persons we may only encounter once. |
Session Four: Hospitality in the Church
| How hospitality should be at the heart of
the faith community and how it has the power to transform
congregational life. |
Dates and
Locations
Seminar Date
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Location
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Pre-Registration
Deadline
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Lunch
Information
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| A limited number of dates are
available. If interested in hosting this or another
seminar, contact us at
NLMServiceCenter@aol.com
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Time
Registration: 8:30 - 9:00 a.m.
Seminar: 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Registration Costs
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Registration
Fee per Person
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Registration
at the door or after deadline
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$40
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Pre-registration (mailed by
deadline) |
•
One to three, same church,
registered together
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$35
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Four or more, same church,
registered together
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$30
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To
Complete Your Registration or
To Request a Seminar Brochure
| Write: New Life Ministries, 6404 S
Calhoun St, Fort Wayne, IN 46807 |
| E-mail:
NLMServiceCenter@aol.com |
| Call toll-free: 1-800-774-3360 |
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