Workshop, Retreat and Event Leaders in the SED

Gatherings and Resources for Women

 Gifts abound in gathering women in one day and longer settings.

For intentional learning time together in community.

These are some of the women who have experience
 in this area and enjoy spending time teaching,
 leading and learning about God's grace
  in our spiritual journey.

Suggested Topics for each presenter can be:
Hands- On Workshops,
 Retreats- One day and More 
And tailored for your group
Intergenerational Designs are also possible
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Diane J. Guelzow

EDUCATION:

• Doctorate in Educational Leadership
• Licensed Professional Counselor
• National Certified Counselor
• Registered Expressive Arts Consultant/Educator

WORK:

• Counselor at Mimosa Christian Counseling Center (NC): children and adults
• Team Counselor at Shepherd’s Canyon (AZ): a one-week retreat for church workers, 
• military chaplains who need guidance and counseling
• Writer/Illustrator/Artist

• Hands-on approach, arts-based awareness, nature’s lessons in learning about God’s love and Intentions
• Individual, small-group, full group
• One day, weekend, week-long

Workshops:

1. Mary and Martha: Two Dynamic Women
2. Life Journey of Hope: Lessons about Perseverance
3. Nature’s Story: Lessons on Inter-dependence and Intra-dependance
4. Pages of our lives: 
5. Gratitude (based on Ann Voskamp’s DVD series)
6. Your Gifts and the Kingdom:Defining Your Special Gifts for the Kingdom of God.
7. Seeking Self: A journey within.

Presented at:

• Pastors’ Wives’ Retreat
• Connections -SED Gathering for Women
• International Expressive Arts Therapy Conference
• Catawba Valley Association of Counselors and Therapists
• Engage

Contact info:

dianeguelzow@gmail.com

home: 828-326-9294

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Sally Hiller

Deaconess Sally J Hiller

Currently Serving:

Executive Director for Congregational 
Outreach and District Operations

Education

1976, BS, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso IN

1976, Consecration as a Deaconess in the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod

2001, MS in Administration, Trinity College, DC

Experience

First Lutheran Church of Bowie MD

Trinity Lutheran Church, Bowie MD

Ascension Lutheran Church, Landover Hills MD

Southeastern District, LCMS, Alexandria VA

Parish ministry: youth, education, family ministry, early childhood and day school education

District and National: youth ministry, family ministry, education and school ministry. Mission outreach

Service

SED Youth Gatherings

LCMS National Youth Gatherings

LCMS Outreach Task Force

LCMS Urban Schools Task Force

LCMS Ablaze Task Force

Retreats and Presentation ( A listing of some of the workshops led by Sally)

The View, Joshua 3:5

Strengthened through His Spirit, Ephesians 3:16

Streams of Living Water, John 4: 1-42

Hemmed to Wholeness, Matthew 9: 20-22

Soul Improvement, Colossians 2:6

Prayer Notes…The Music of Prayer, Ephesians 6:8

Heart Healthy, Proverbs 4: 23

God’s Loving Kindness, Ruth 2: 12

A Woman, A Jar, and Some Very Expensive Oil, Mark 14: 3-9

Wade in the Water, Matt 14: 22-23 

Shaped by Grace…Compelled by Love

Blessed to Be a Blessing

Home as Blessing Place

Concerts of Prayer

ADVENTures for the Family

Raising Spiritual Children

Contact information:

Southeastern District Office:
703-971-9371

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Connie Denninger

Co- Founder of Visual Faith Ministry- www.visualfaithmin.org
Education-
Masters in Secondary Education
Masters in Church and Community Leadership

Work- 

Early Childhood Educator- 9 years
Director of Women's Ministry- 15 years
Connections for Women of the SED- 9 years
SED Spirit Life Team- 11 years

Workshops and Retreats
Eformation- Spiritual Formation in a Digital Age
Doors into Prayer
Families in Faith- Raising Spiritual Children
Visual Prayer- Visio Divina
Living as Deployed Digital Missionaries
Awaiting the Wonder- Advent Hearts
Bible Journaling- a Visual Faith
The Gift of JOY- Counting Gifts
Walking with Jesus- A Holy Land Pilgrimage
Telling Your Story with Heart- Faith Journals
Presented-
Prof. Church Workers Conf. - Ohio, Florida-Georgia, Rocky Mountain District, SED
School and Staff Retreats- Bethany Lutheran Long Beach, CA., Prince of Peace Lutheran School, Springfield, Va
Women's Retreats- Hope- Lorton, VA, St Luke's, Oviedo, FLA
Prince of Peace Lutheran, Springfield, VA
Tending the Flame in the SED- various topics
Southeastern District- Pastor's Wives Retreats, Connections

ABIDE  online Retreat- March 2021

Featured:
Creative Christian Blogger at Merridennis.com-
creative christian bloggers
Feature Columnist for Women's Leadership Institute- Quarterly Newsletter
LWML Quarterly- Winter 2015- Bible Journaling Feature

Faithfully Yours-
Faithfully Yours-Bible-journaling


Contact Info:

Connie Denninger

7209 Trappers Place

Springfield, VA 22153 

Email- condoit@aol.com

Blog-constancedenninger.blogspot.com
Pinterest-http://www.pinterest.com/cdenninger/

Cell Phone- 703-623-5211

Claire Partlow-
Presentations in the SED on Worship and Devotional Life

Visible Words: Spiritual Formation through Rites (one hour session)

(Presented to Circuit 12 pastors, 2013)

The Christian church was formed not as much by the writings of the New Testament authors, but by the rites of the everyday people as they gathered around dining room tables and pools of water in the atria of Roman villas. This session will offer some new ways to think about our sacramental history and give us an opportunity to discuss how to bring them alive in our own environments.

Lutheran Missional Worship in the 21^st Century (2 parts)

 (Presented at Atlantic District Festival of Workshops, 2008)

1. Re-capturing a Lutheran Worship Ethic. This workshop’s objective is to help us recapture both a theology of worship and a missiology of worship as we listen with new ears to Luther’s passionate perspective on music in his day. 
2. Re-aligning a Lutheran Worship Ethic. This workshop’s aim is to help us realign our theology of worship with our missiology of worship as we look at the emerging postmodern context of mission today and discuss guidelines for choosing music that allows worshipers of differing backgrounds to experience the presence of God in a Lutheran worship setting where “message and music join to move the listener’s soul” (Luther). 

The Creative Use of Scripture in Worship Venues 

(Presented at the Atlantic District Festival of Workshops, 2010 and NJ JAM, 2011)

This interactive two-hour session will offer principles of interpretive reading and drama and offer some hands-on time to work together to allow the “Word of Christ to dwell in us richly. (Col 3:16)

Small Voices In Whoville: Hearing the Cry of and Giving Voice to the Under-Represented in our Midst

 Presented at the Atlantic District Festival of Workshops, 2010)

A one-hour session with Biblical and historical insight into how might better 

serve the grieving, the poor, victims of injustice, the immigrant, and/or the physically impaired in our worship 

Every Tribe and Nation: Contextualizing Worship in Diverse Urban Churches

(Presented in the NJ District, 2010)

A six-hour, three-session (or retreat) workshop to assist both pastors and lay leaders in reaching out to the increasingly-diverse neighborhoods around our churches (African, Asian, South American, and even those emerging “postmoderns” ). 

1. Every Tribe and Nation: Principles of Corporate Worship
2. Every Tribe and Nation: Doctrinally-Sound and Culturally-Vibrant Worship 
3. Every Tribe and Nation: Taking it Home! (Theological and Missiological Guidelines for making worship contextualization choices)

This workshop series won’t give pat answers on how a congregation should contextualize, but will offer instead a framework for making those decisions. We’ll also have an opportunity to work together on some of the tough questions and the knotty contextualization choices our missionary work brings. 

Diet-Right: Food for Hungry Ears

(Presented to King of Glory Adult SS, 2013)

This three-session (or three-hour) workshop investigates the prospect of God Speaking to His People as we discover: that God speaks (and why);  how God speaks (and where); what God speaks (and to whom).If you’ve sometimes wished God would just let you know what He wants (speak, Lord, puh-lease!), then join us as we consider His Word as food for thought. 

Eucharist: New Testament and Early Church Practice

(Presented to King of Glory Adult SS, 2013)

1. Jewish Roots: Last Supper to Lord’s Supper. (Where does it come from?)
2. New Testament and Early Church Practice: What is it?
3. The Lord’s Supper: What does it mean? (Spiritual formation through ritual)
4. Eucharist: Understanding Real Presence (What’s in it for me?)

Celebrating Sacraments in Alternative Settings, A Biblical and Historical Survey: Where Do Sacred Actions Take Place? Who Presides? (2 Parts)

(This workshop was offered to district pastors—by invitation-only of the President—in New Jersey, 2009.)

This three-hour session is designed as a round-table workshop to assess how current trends in house church-planting intersect with our Lutheran (and biblical) theology of sacramental practice. Aligning a 21^st century missional practice with historic beliefs presents a particularly knotty problem as we seek to determine answers to the dilemma of where and by whom  sacraments may be celebrated. 

Those queries pose the even more basic questions of What is the church, where does it exist, and how is it governed? Because views on church governance may be shaped as much by cultural norms, worldview, and current practice as by “doctrine,” discussions often merely polarize defending either the Office of the Ministry or the Priesthood of All Believers. Left out of such discussions is often the missio Dei—that impetus of the Gospel by which we “go into all the world.” 

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner: Jewish Expectations & Church Lingo on “Messiah”

(Presented to King of Glory Adult SS, 2013) 

What does the Incarnation of Christ have to do with our 21^st century mission? We’ll examine historical perspectives on Jesus’ work of Atonement and Re-creation and then ask what the implications are for the Church today. 

Praying the Psalms: From Theoretical to Real (new)

Do you find it hard to set aside time to just “rest” in the presence of the Lord? Does your mind drift and then the guilt-ies set in? Might there be a way to use the “prayer book” of the Church (Bonhoeffer) to overcome these obstacles? [implied answer – yes! ☺]

Eternity in Our Hearts: Spiritual Formation through the Lectionary Cycle (4-parts)

1. Eternity in Our Hearts: The Nature of Time
2. Eternity in Our Hearts: Old Testament Patterns of Worship
3. Eternity in Our Hearts: Time Redeemed (Worship Cycles continue in the New Testament church)

1. Eternity in Our Hearts: The Backdrop of the Liturgical Calendar in 21^st Life 

This project presents an eight-hour, four -session training course designed to aid missional “third place” church planters to consider both theological and missiological guidelines, consistent with Biblical example and Lutheran doctrine, as they plan worship for the nascent community. This course will not attempt to address planning the third place gatherings but will instead focus on the importance of building an awareness of the traditional church calendar in the growing community. Though embedding a coffee shop gathering with an awareness of the liturgical calendar might at first seem to be unduly ecclesiastical, four aspects of such an idea should be considered: (1) the nature of time itself and the human need to order life around something larger than self; (2) cyclical worship as the standard assumption in both Old and New Testaments, as well as in church history; (3) the church plant’s need to identify with the larger church; and most importantly, (4) the Christus Victor message inherent in the sacred calendar. 

Biographical Info

Dr. Claire Partlow formed and led teen and cherub choirs at St. Paul Lutheran in Flemington, NJ for more than 15 years and then as Worship Director there, designed and led contemporary worship services. After earning an MA, Theology (Concordia, Irvine), Claire authored and taught classes in the NJ District’s Lay School of Theology, also serving on its board. In addition, she chaired the steering committee for the NJD’s “NJ JAM” contemporary worship conferences in 2010 and 2011 and was chair of the program-planning team for the SED’s Engage Workshop on contemporary worship in 2013. 

Claire earned a doctoral degree from the Institute for Worship Studies in Orange Park, FL (2011). She currently teaches “The Emergence of Christianity” and “Salvation History” as Adjunct Professor of Religion at Saint Leo University, Fort Eustis, VA (a Roman Catholic institution) and also serves on the Adult Education team at King of Glory Lutheran in Williamsburg, VA. 

Claire’s love of worship—both traditional  and contemporary—paired with a passion for the mission Dei impels both her studies and her teaching.

Contact information:
Claire L. Partlow
15 Frenchmen's Key
Williamsburg, VA 23185
Home:   757-645-9939"No story but God's; no God but the Father, Son, and Spirit; no life but the baptized life."    Robert E. Webber, The Divine Embrace