Discover Your Spiritual Gifts: This course helps participants understand spiritual gifts and how the church can use them to fulfill its mission and ministry. Participants will also learn what it means to be a spiritual leader and will be equipped to lead others in exploring and using their This is an optional advance course for all lay servants and a required course for individuals who are working toward the certified lay speaker and lay minister status.

The instructor for this class is Rev. Alicia Randolph Rapking, the current pastor at First UMC Parkersburg. Alicia, as she prefers to be called, is an ordained elder in our conference and previously served 9 years as director of Upshur House in Buckhannon, one of the conference’s supported missions. Alicia previously taught this course for the Wesleyan District.

Little Kanawha District 2021 Lay Servant Zoom Class