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■ Frequently Asked Questions
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Book table information
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Pastor Tripp's biographical information and photo
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Transportation information for Pastor Tripp
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A suggested schedule for the typical Friday night/Saturday seminar:
"Shepherding a Child's Heart"
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A suggested schedule for the typical Friday night/Saturday seminar:
"Instructing a Child's Heart"
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Your promotional responsibilities and our suggestions
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
1. What supplies will I need to provide for Pastor
Tripp?
You will need to supply:
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A data projector for PowerPoint slides
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A wireless, lapel microphone
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A stand/podium for Pastor Tripp's notes
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Support Staff (as applicable): book table,
registration (both prior to the seminar date and at the seminar),
refreshments, childcare, parking
2. What costs am I
responsible for?
The seminar host is responsible to cover the following
costs:
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$3,000.00 speaking fee
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Travel
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We will
procure the airline ticket.
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One night's lodging
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that you procure the lodging since you will know the most about
accommodations in your
area. Due to his frequent
traveling, Pastor Tripp prefers to stay in a motel if possible. Pastor Tripp
usually
arrives Friday in the late afternoon or
early evening, and departs immediately after the seminar
concludes.
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Checks must be made payable to Grace Fellowship
Church.
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You will be invoiced the week after your seminar for
the balance of $2,500.00 ($3,000 - $500 deposit)
plus travel costs.
3. Should I charge those attending the seminar?
This is your decision. However, we have found that
when people pay, even a nominal fee, they tend to place a higher
priority upon attending.
4. How should I handle refreshments?
Suggestions for Refreshments (These are only
suggestions; feel free to serve less or more.)
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Friday night: coffee, tea, water
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Saturday prior to first session: coffee, tea,
juice, bagels, fruit
- There is a 25% increase in promptness on Saturday morning when
refreshments are served prior to
the first seminar session.
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Saturday mid-morning: water, coffee, tea
5. Should I provide childcare?
Since the seminar is most valuable when both parents
attend, we ask that you provide childcare for at least your home
church families.
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Some churches charge for this service, while
others ask for a donation.
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Some request participating churches to provide
childcare for their own children.
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Some have youth groups that are willing to serve
in this way.
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BOOK TABLE INFORMATION
Please contact Shepherd Press at
1-800-338-1445 or
info@shepherdpress.com to
discuss the various options for providing a book table for your
seminar attendees. Shepherd Press can provide a range of books on
parenting, practical Christian living, and books for children. These
books have been selected by Tedd Tripp and Shepherd Press as material
that is consistent, biblical, and will support and explore the
fundamental issues of Heart Change and Gospel Hope that are so central
to the message of Shepherding a Child's Heart. This gives the
seminar attendees excellent exposure to books they might not encounter
in other book buying contexts.
We are sorry that we cannot give permission for the
seminar to be audio or video taped. However, audio and video
resources are available from Shepherd Press.
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PASTOR TEDD TRIPP'S BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Tedd Tripp is the
senior pastor of Grace Fellowship Church, Hazleton, Pennsylvania. He
was married to Margy in 1968. They have three adult children and
nine grandchildren. Tedd is a graduate of Geneva College, B.A. in
History, Philadelphia Theological Seminary, M. Div., and Westminster
Theological Seminary, D. Min. with an emphasis in Pastoral
Counseling. Tedd is the author of the popular child-rearing book,
Shepherding a Child's Heart.
Tedd has been an elder in Grace Fellowship
Church since 1976 and pastor of the church since 1983. Before
seminary Tedd worked as a contractor and in industry.
Tedd and Margy founded Immanuel Christian
School in 1979 where Tedd has served as a teacher and administrator.
Tedd and Margy still serve on the board of ICS. From 1985-1997 Tedd
served as a counselor in the Lehigh Valley office of the Christian
Counseling and Educational Foundation. Since 1994, Tedd has
maintained an extensive ministry as a conference speaker and presenter
of Shepherding a Child's Heart Seminars. His books and video and
audio materials are used throughout the world.
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TRANSPORTATION FOR PASTOR TRIPP
1. Pastor Tripp prefers to be met at the airport and
driven to and from the seminar.
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We will provide you with the appropriate flight
information.
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If Pastor Tripp is driving to your seminar, please send
us directions to the site as well as to the hotel, if applicable.
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He will be coming from Northeast Pennsylvania,
where I-80 and I-81 intersect.
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Suggested Seminar Schedule and Session Summaries
"SHEPHERDING A CHILD'S HEART"
Friday Evening
6:30- 7:00 p.m. Registration
7:00- 8:00 p.m.
Getting to the Heart of Behavior
The major theme of
Shepherding a Child′s Heart is that the heart directs behavior.
In this session Dr. Tripp presents an overview of several passages
that teach that the heart is the wellspring of life. Since behavior
is heart driven (Luke 6:45), it cannot be understood or addressed
biblically in isolation from the heart. What a child says and does is
a reflection of the abundance of his heart. This session explores
some of the common ways that we try to address behavior without
shepherding the heart, helping parents gain skill at working back
from behavior to the heart unmasking heart issues for their children.
8:00- 8:15 p.m. Break
8:15- 9:15 p.m.
Helping our Kids See the Glory of God
Shaping influences of
childhood are the events and circumstances in a child's developmental
years that prove to be catalysts for the person he becomes. Shaping
influences, however, are only half the story. Children are
worshippers so they interact with the shaping influences of life out
of the Godward orientation of their hearts. Since they are
worshippers children either worship God or idols. They filter the
experiences of life through a religious grid. Since their Godward
orientation will determine the ways they respond to the shaping
influences of life, one of the primary tasks of the parent is to help
their children see the glories of God. They are made to be dazzled
and awed by God. The parent's calling is to help them see the glories
and excellencies of the one for who they have been made. Psalm 145
describes parenting as "one generation commending the works of God to
another."
Saturday
9:00- 10:00 a.m. Early
Childhood: Helping our Children Live Joyfully
Under Authority
These early days are
wonderful day for helping children understand that they are designed
to live under authority. Kind and gracious authority is a blessing
for children since they lack wisdom, maturity and life experience.
Our task is helping them see that God, who is good and kind, has
designed them to function as people under authority. God has promised
wonderful blessing for children who learn to honor and obey Mom and
Dad.
Saturday
10:15- 11:15 Childhood:
Helping Children Understand How to Identify Attitudes of Heart
There are many issues
that arise in shepherding our children that cannot be reduced to
living under authority. The Bible teaches that the heart has strayed
long before the behavior strays. We must help our children understand
the heart attitudes that are behind common behavior problems. Focus
on the heart keeps before us the need for the transformation that
grace brings. This session will present a paradigm for getting from
behavior to heart attitudes and helping children understand ways that
their straying hearts show how profoundly they need the forgiveness,
grace and empowerment of the gospel.
11:25 - 12:30 p.m. Teenagers: Helping Young People Embrace the
Gospel as their own Living Faith
This is the time to
pass the baton of faith from one generation to the next. There are
foundational issues in
Proverbs 1: the fear of the Lord, remembering your parent's words and
disassociation from the wicked. The parent accomplishes the tasks of
this developmental stage through rich biblical communication. We will
discover that the finest art of communication is to understand the
other person, in this case our teen.
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Suggested Seminar Schedule and Session Summaries
"INSTRUCTING A CHILD'S HEART"
Friday Evening
6:30
p.m.-
7:00 p.m. Registration
7:00 p.m.-
8:00 p.m. The Call to Formative Instruction-
Deuteronomy
6
Formative instruction
provides children with biblical ways of thinking. It is the process
of instruction that
enables our children to root all of life in God's revelation in the
Bible. Formative instruction
is not focused on correcting something that has gone wrong; it focus
is providing ways of interpreting and responding to life that are
biblical.
8:00 p.m.-
8:15 p.m. Break
8:15 p.m.-
9:15 p.m. Giving Children a Vision for the Glory
of God -
Psalm 145
Children are
instinctively worshipers. They are made in the image of God and are
hard-wired for worship.
They love to be awed. They delight in marveling at things. They will
either worship God the Creator or created things. We will identify
some common idols of the heart as well as our calling as parents is to
hold the glory
and goodness of God before our children.
Saturday
9:00 a.m.
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10:00 a.m. Giving Children an Understanding of
Authority -
Ephesians 6
Our culture thinks of
authority as derived from overwhelming force or consent. We have
no idea that it is good and proper for some to be in authority and for
others to be under authority. Parents often, unwittingly make their
children independent decision makers. When we do, we give them an
appetite for a liberty that does not exist and a mistaken notion about
freedom. True freedom is living joyfully under the authorities that
God has ordained.
10:10 a.m.-
11:10 a.m. Giving Children an Understanding of
the Heart-
Proverbs 4:23
Proverbs 4
says "the heart is the well-spring of life."
Luke
6
says that it is "out of the overflow of the heart that the mouth
speaks." If behavior flows from the heart, then we cannot think about
behavior biblically without reference to the heart. This
teaching will equip us to help our children see how behavior that has
strayed reflects a heart that has strayed.
11:20 a.m.-
12:30 p.m. Overview of Corrective Discipline:
Spanking, Sowing & Reaping, & Communication
The Proverbs makes a
clear case for spanking, especially as we deal with small children.
This teaching will provide clear guideline for physical discipline
that is gracious and kind. The second part of this session will
explore the sowing and reaping principle of the Bible and root our
administration of consequences for our children in rich biblical
soil. Additionally, we will examine some of the biblical principles
that can guide our communication. The seminar will end with the
reminder that the grace and strength, insight and wisdom for this work
is found in Christ.
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YOUR PROMOTIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES
You are responsible for the following promotional
activities:
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To produce a brochure and any registration
materials needed.
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Please inform churches and Christian schools of
the seminar immediately so they can put it on their calendars if they
desire.
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Please advertise throughout your community in
churches, bookstores, Christian schools, Christian radio & TV
stations, and newspapers.
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Possible materials: brochures, bulletin inserts,
posters, and flyers.
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Schools, churches and bookstores are usually willing to
give out brochures and display flyers and posters.
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Radio and television stations often offer public
service announcements free of charge.
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Please send us a copy of your brochure and any
other promotional materials.
The master for the reproducible seminar booklet will be
e-mailed to you prior to your seminar.
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