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Last Week to Register for September Seminars and Take Advantage of the Special Summer Membership Discount

Next Thursday, September 2, is the last day to register for online seminars scheduled for September. It is also the last day to take advantage of this summer's 25% discount on membership in the Oates Institute. One of the key benefits membership offers is the opportunity to take any of the online seminars free; you just register as a member and enjoy the free registration. Five seminars will be offered beginning on Monday, September 6. Most of these seminars will continue through Friday, September 24, and provide participants 12 contact hours of approved continuing education credit. However, the Hot-Topic Discussion on Immigration Reform will be for just 2 weeks and offers 8 contact hours of approved continuing education credit, and the seminar on Integrating Spirituality and Health is six weeks long, will continue through October 16, and provides participants with 24 contact hours. Four of these seminars are being offered for the first time.
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September Seminar for Adding Art Tools to Your Ministry Toolbox

painting by Cherry Moore What role does art play in spirituality and health? What art tools are available to enhance your ministry opportunities and possibilities? According to chaplain and artist Cherry Moore, two of the pioneers in art therapy said: “Art is where the inner world and the outer world meet.” She adds that "That is also where ministry and change happen. The arts and ministry are natural allies." She continues by noting that, "Not every person in your congregation or client group is a verbal learner. Some relate best to images and other art media." From September 6-24, Chaplain Moore will present an online seminar on Art Tools for Your Ministry Tool Box. This seminar will offer participants 12 contact hours of approved continuing education credit.

Hot-Button Discussion on the Topic of Immigration Reform Added to September Schedule

weoi logo The topic of immigration reform is in the news almost daily. In light of this one of the Oates Institute members has proposed a "hot-topic" discussion in September to engage these concerns from the perspective of spiritual care givers. This discussion will take place online September 6-17 in the same way that we do online seminars. Participants are invited to join a conversation to explore the realities at work around this issue. In the process we will explore some of the history regarding immigration, work to separate fact from fiction, and seek to become more aware of immigration contexts and appropriate responses that we as pastoral care providers can make toward immigrants as well as law makers.

Pauline Oates' Hats to be Part of Silent Auction at Oates Annual Gathering

Whether it is that first hat carefully placed on the infant child in order to protect his or her porcelain-like skin, the person of all ages whose head is protected from the sun while tilling the soil, the box of hats in the attic for young girls anxious to play dress-up and imagine what it is like to be a lady, the famously adorned hats on countless attractive women at the Kentucky Derby, or women like Pauline Oates who faithfully sat on the back pew at church so that one of her beautiful hats would not block the view of worshipers sitting behind her, hats of all shapes and sizes have been deeply integrated into our culture. On September 23, hats will be a part of the Oates Institute’s Annual Gathering.

Reservations Now Open for Annual Forum and Oates Award Dinner on September 23

Dr. Wayne E. Oates The Oates Institute's Annual Forum and Oates Award Dinner will be held on September 23, 2010, at 6:00 pm at Broadway Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. The keynote speaker for the evening will be the 2010 Wayne Oates Award recipient, Dr. Hardy Clemons. Dr. Clemons' presentation, created out of experiences from nearly 40 years in the pastorate, will be "Living the Legacy: Memories of a Pastor by a Pastor."

Five New Seminars Highlight September Opportunities

"Having five of the six online seminars that we are offering in September be new ones that we are offering for the first time is exciting," said Chris Hammon, Director of Online Learning and Publication for the Oates Institute. "We have had a lot of creative activity going on within the learning community over the summer and we are starting to see it come out as new articles in the Oates Journal and new seminar opportunities for chaplains, counselors, congregational leaders and pastors, social workers, and nurses. With the addition of new seminars and offering seminars during November for the first time, we are anticipating an exciting fall with a lot of learning opportunities." All of the new seminars will offer participants 12 contact hours of continuing education credit along with flexibility of schedule for learning from one another. Most of these will be three week online seminars running from September 6-24. The seminars to be offered in September include:

Workshop on Thriving in the Pastorate Offered on September 23

Dr. Richard Hester and Dr. J. Michael Hester will join Dr. Hardy Clemons to present an onsite workshop on thriving in the pastorate to be held in Louisville, Kentucky, on September 23. The workshop, From Surviving to Thriving in the Pastorate, will provide pastors from all denominations an opportunity to engage with these three leading pastors and pastoral educators to learn from their insights and experience as they seek to nurture ways to thrive in ministry amid various personal and cultural transitions.