Serving from the Heart - Participant Workbook: Finding Your Gifts and Talents for Service

Recruitment & Training
for
SERVICE

Serving from the Heart is an 8-week study resource for small groups, designed to –

• Inspire a desire among laity to volunteer for active service
• Help members uncover their talents, interests, and personality traits appropriate for a ministry
• Connect Christians to the fulfilling ministries they are best suited for

This 4 to 8 week study can be segmented into eight 45-minute sessions or four 2-hour sessions.

It is designed to lead adults through assessing their spiritual gifts, talents and abilities, resources, individual style, dreams and experiences…all adding up to an enhanced capacity to serve God and neighbor. 

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Carol Cartmill is Executive Director of Adult Discipleship at The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection. In this role, she applies her passion for equipping people for ministry, practical experience from working in the local church, and an educational background in organizational management and leadership. She launched the spiritual gifts development program at COR in 1998. She and her husband Jim have raised two daughters and reside in Overland Park, Kansas.  Carol is the co-author of Serving from the Heart, Leadership from the Heart, Leadership Essentials, and Serving from the Heart for Youth. She has led workshops relating to equipping ministries on both the local and national level.

Yvonne Gentile is Director of Connections at The United Methodist Church of the Resurrection. Before joining the church staff in 2011, she worked in the corporate world and used her passion for equipping and developing emerging leaders on COR's Spiritual Gifts Team, Leadership Development Team, and Committee on Lay Leadership. Yvonne is co-author of Serving from the Heart, Leadership from the Heart, Leadership Essentials, and Serving from the Heart for Youth. She has led workshops relating to equipping ministries on both the local and national level.

Yvonne and her husband Frank live in Overland Park, Kansas, and have a son and a daughter.