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The Christian Leaders Authors & Speakers Seminar is the cornerstone of everything we do. It is a dynamic ministry and while the concept of a seminar to train speakers may not sound "life changing," we have found it to be one of the most exciting things we do. Teaching people to share what God has done in their lives more effectively, to teach Sunday school with more power or to improve their professional communication skills is highly rewarding and spreads the gospel in geometric proportions. The CLASSeminar offers three full days of instruction from 9:00-6:00 which includes both teaching and small group interaction. This allows each attendee to give presentations and be critiqued. In addition to Florence and Marita, we bring in a trained staff of speakers and authors who are there to meet the individual needs of those in attendance. The registration fee includes all teaching and practice sessions as well as a complete course notebook, book, lunch and individual consultation with the staff, as needed. The registration fee for 2008 is $450 per person. Alumni registration is $350. Personal enrichment registration is $375 per person. Registration fees are sent directly to CLASS. We then pay for the printing of brochures and their mailing to our list, the hotel, meals, airfare and salaries of all the staff and, of course, the lunches, books and notebooks. If you are an experienced meeting planner you will recognize what a bargain the CLASSeminar is. Your participation in sponsoring a CLASSeminar involves what we call "soft costs" such as janitorial, electrical and mailing. Because CLASSeminar alumni know what is expected at a CLASSeminar, we ask that the sponsor or co-sponsor be a CLASS grad. We ask that a local committee be involved in the prayer and promotion of the CLASSeminar. Additionally, your local committee handles the organization of the meals and breaks (CLASServices has a budget to pay for the meals and snacks) and setting up the small group rooms--one for every ten attendees on the Professional Track. We will use these small group rooms Monday and Tuesday afternoon between about 4-6 p.m. and Wednesday about 11 a.m. -1 p.m. Your local committee also identifies a nearby hotel (within a 5-10 minute drive) that is safe and reasonably priced. CLASS will block the rooms with the hotel. Because half of the attendees will be arriving from coast to coast, we try to hold the CLASSeminar in a location that is within an hour’s drive from a major airport. Since CLASSeminar operates on a very small margin, and our goal is to have at least 100 to 125 attendees at each seminar, we require full support of the sponsoring organization of the event that would include the mailing of brochures to your mailing list and promotion at the various events. To insure support, CLASS requires a refundable deposit of $1000 upon agreement to sponsor a CLASSeminar. If there are seventy-five fully paid attendees, the deposit will be returned. If there are less people in attendance, the deposit will be returned on a sliding scale. However, when the seminar is larger than one hundred the sponsoring organization receives $15 for each fully paid professional track registration more than one hundred. The smaller seminars have an average of eighty people in attendance and many have numbers as high as 200. Whether attendance is high or low, CLASS is a wonderful service to make available to your church and community. The CLASSeminar allows your group to make Marita Littauer and Florence Littauer and their expertise in the field of speaking and leadership available with a minimal financial commitment. As an additional benefit to your church or organization, CLASServices will provide to sponsors their choice of either (1) two fully paid Professional Track registrations (valued at a total of approximately $900), or (2) one Personal Enrichment registration for every ten fully paid Professional Track registrations as of the early registration deadline. For example, if there are 100 fully paid Professional Track registrations by the 30-day early registration date, your group would receive ten complimentary Personal Enrichment registrations, with a total value of $3750. The sponsors can give these complimentary registrations to whomever they wish. Sometimes the sponsor will give these complimentary registrations to Pastors or assistant pastors, church personnel, Sunday School teachers, speakers, writers, or others in the community who are interested in developing their communication skills. If the individuals who receive these Personal Enrichment registrations wish to upgrade to the Professional Track, they may do so at $75 per person. If the CLASSeminar sounds like a program that would benefit the men and women of your community for 2008 or beyond, give us a call. The CLASSeminar is usually held on a Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Once you decide to sponsor a CLASSeminar, we have a complete manual with a timetable outlining the sponsoring organization's responsibilities. At your request, we can send you a copy of this year's CLASSeminar brochure for your review. The brochures we would provide for your CLASSeminar would be very similar. I hope the CLASSeminar will be right for your church or organization. I look forward to hearing from you! Please call me directly at 505/899-4283 or e-mail Gerry at classrvcs@aol.com
Partnering for the Kingdom, Gerry Wakeland
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EXPECT: * Three power-packed days * Understanding of your Personality strengths and weaknesses as they relate to your communication skills * Confidence and comfort in front of a crowd * Refinement for your unique message * New and creative sources for material * Speaking and writing tools and tips * Practical use of Scripture and personal examples * Guidance on developing your speaking and writing ministry * Spiritual refreshment
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