Certified Lay Ministry Course: Specialization as a Simplified Accountable Structure Coach (SAS)

About This Course

This course equips the participant in understanding and leading in the simplified, accountable structure (SAS) made permissible by the BOD ❡247.2 as an alternative to the traditional leadership structure. This comprehensive equipping opportunity is based on the resources, experience, and training of Kay Kotan and Blake Bradford who have been working with local church leaders and congregations across the connection for more than a decade.

What It Includes

Read Mission Possible: Structuring Your Church for Missional Effectiveness
Read Winning on Purpose by Kaiser (3 hours)
Viewing the following videos:
- SAS overview of SAS (15 minutes)
- Accountable Leadership Demo (40 minutes)
- SAS Leadership Equipping (5 hours)
- SAS Nominations Equipping (40 minutes)
- Specialist Training Videos (9 hours)
Comprehensive quiz

Projects (using current ministry context):
- Create and submit a set of guiding principles (3 hours)
- Create and submit a leadership covenant (1 hour)
- Create and submit a SAS organizational chart (1 hour)
- Create and submit a Discernment Phase timeline, steps, including a communication and information-sharing plan (2 hours)
- Record and submit a video presentation that could be used to introduce SAS to a congregation in teh Discernment Phase (2 hours)
- Interview your Disctrict Superintendent to understand her/his views, the conference's current implementation process for SAS, and the on-going need for equipping local church leaders in the model.
- Share your learnings, key advantages of the model, and common local church implementation gaps.
- Record your notes and key take-aways to submit. (2 hours)
Completion Certificate