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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Free Continuing Ed on Poverty for Watauga County Teacher and church leaders

11-12-13 Notes for upcoming Poverty Training Events from Evelyn Lemons

Click Here to Register for Poverty Training

Developing successful church school partnerships
Who: Pastors of the Watauga Missional Network
Date: Wed. Nov. 20, 2013
Time: 11:30am to 1:30pm,
Location: Deerfield UMC
Please bring a bag lunch, Evelyn will provide drinks.
Audience: Small group meeting with Pastors of Watauga Missional Network. The Watauga Missional Network pastors will have the chance to meet with Susan to have follow up training from our meeting in May in a small group setting.
Subject:   1. Leading our churches to launch new efforts to build bridges to the schools in our communities. Trouble shooting time for pastors in how to get the effort off the ground. How to get lay people on board? Hear from pastors where we are stuck and get suggestions from Susan.
2. How can we do follow up work in the schools after the poverty training offered this week?
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Event One Seminar:  Understanding and responding to children and families living in poverty
Date: Wed. Nov. 20th ,  Snacks ready: 3:15pm,  Time: 3:30pm to 5:30pm
Audience: Teachers and church leaders
Focus: Emphasis on Title one schools as they deal with supporting children in poverty.
Location: Henson Chapel UMC
Contact person at Henson UMC: Pastor Catherine Cornell 828-263-2035
 Catherine is coordinating the snacks with her church for that day.
Maximum seating for 300 to 350.  We anticipate having enough room for all who will want to participate. Teachers and church leaders invited.
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Seminar:  Developing successful church-school partnerships
Date Wed. Nov. 20, Time: 6:30 to 8:30pm, Location: Deerfield UMC
Contact person: Pastor Evelyn Lemons, 828-264-7130, church. Register at this number.
Audience: Appalachian District, missional network leaders, key lay people working in schools
Subject: Follow up strategy training in how to launch new partnerships with schools in the community. Hear where people are stuck and do trouble shooting.  Address how the church can deal with poverty issues in the schools they are supporting. What does the church need to understand about poverty as they begin these new partnerships? Watauga Missional Network is focusing on building relationships in the community that will last. Susan said she would begin with the poverty piece then move towards the church school partnerships.
Needs from Deerfield UMC: Refreshments, greeters.
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Seminar:  Understanding and responding to children and families living in poverty
Day Two: Thursday November 21, 2013, Time: 8:00am to 10:00am
Location Central office: Space is booked and Christy Welch’s husband John Welch is providing breakfast. Participants should contact Christy Welch to register. 
Audience: Counselors, social workers, nurses. We are looking at about 20 people for this. Similar material from the afternoon seminars for teachers, targeting these specific support staff in their role.
Subject: Trainer would focus on the subject of poverty, the mindset of the students vs the mindset of what teachers think vs mindset of those who are in a support role. 
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 Business Leader Luncheon: Jim Hastings. Watauga County Lay Leader, member from Deerfield UMC is heading up this luncheon. We hope to have a small meeting of business leaders to begin the conversation about poverty in our community. We hope that our gathering this week will spark an interest for people to want to work towards solutions here locally.
Date: Thurs, Nov. 21, 2012
Time 11:00 to 11:30 registration and lunch.
11:30 am to 1pm Lunch Meeting
Location: To be decided

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Seminar Two: Understanding and responding to children and families living in poverty
Date: Thurs, Nov. 21, 2012
Time: 3:30 to 5:30pm
Location: Boone UMC.   Luke is providing snacks.
Audience: Teachers and church leaders
Subject:   Trainer explains how poverty impacts education.   Focus on comments from trainer targeting a population mixed with those in poverty and students from middle class. She will address many ways poverty has an impact in the classroom and look at Watauga County data.
What kind of differences could a teacher make to adapt to this diversity in resources at home for students? 

Remember, this is for free continuing education for the teachers on Wed afternoon and Thursday afternoon. See Evelyn to sign up for the credits at the seminar.

 Evelyn

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