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Teaching Prophetic Literature: Habakkuk

A Workshop for Women Bible Teachers

July 25-26, 2025 | Cape Town, South Africa

What Is It?

The Workshop on Biblical Exposition is a three-day training event aimed to encourage and equip you in the skills needed to read, understand, and proclaim the Word of God.

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The Workshop on Biblical Exposition is a three-day training event aimed to encourage and equip you in the skills needed to read, understand, and proclaim the Word of God. The Workshop includes times set aside for 1) Principles of Exposition (instructional sessions on how to better handle biblical texts), 2) Small Group Practice (when you will share and receive feedback on two passages you prepare in advance), and 3) Expositions (the opportunity to sit under the word). Each of these sessions is carefully designed to be interrelated for the greatest value in improving your work. In other words, this is a Workshop and not a conference. If you cannot be at all the sessions, then it really isn’t for you.

It is important to note: Partial participation is not permitted. Our pedagogical commitments in the small group sessions as well as the cumulative relationship between the small group and plenary sessions, full participation is required. Extenuating circumstances should be discussed with the Charles Simeon Trust and exceptions will be granted very rarely.

Who Should Attend?

The Women’s Workshops are generally for women who are currently in a teaching ministry with the responsibility to teach the Bible regularly.

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The Women’s Workshops are generally for women who are currently in a teaching ministry with the responsibility to teach the Bible regularly. It is open to women who lead in regular teaching ministries including large group instructors, small group teachers, and women’s and children’s ministry leaders appointed by their churches.

How Should I Prepare?

During the small groups, you will have an opportunity to get feedback on work you’ve prepared in advance.

 

PREPARE FOR A WORKSHOP

Leaders

WILLIS Katie Willis Women’s Ministry Director, NorthCreek Church

Katie Willis

Women’s Ministry Director, NorthCreek Church

Katie is a Women’s Ministry Director at NorthCreek Church in Walnut Creek, California. She has a BA from Azusa Pacific University and has a background in education. Katie has served in women’s ministry for more than 17 years. She teaches in women’s Bible studies, oversees curriculum development, equips leaders, and is involved with women’s discipleship. Katie also facilitates all NorthCreek Simeon course classes for women.

PARKS Joanne Parks Bible Teacher, Covenant Hope Church

Joanne Parks

Bible Teacher, Covenant Hope Church

Joanne helps lead a weekly Women’s Bible Study, and counsels and disciples women in her church, Covenant Hope Church in Dubai, where her husband, Brian, serves as Senior Pastor. She is a mother of four daughters and a grandmother. Joanne spends her weekdays working as a nurse at the U.S. Consulate in Dubai.

Schedule
9am-5pm, Friday, July 25
9am-5pm, Saturday, July 26
Small Group Passages

Participants will each be assigned two of the following passages:

Habakkuk 1:1-4
Habakkuk 1:5-11
Habakkuk 1:12-2:1
Habakkuk 2:2-5
Habakkuk 2:6-20
Habakkuk 3:1-19

Cost

Contact the host church at  sharon@stjames.org.za for more information and to register.