Teaching Services
How We Serve Your Church
We offer biblical teaching in multiple formats to ensure your congregation has access to quality, Christ-centered guidance whenever it’s needed.
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Custom Presentations & Workshops: Our staff travels to your local church or facility to provide tailored training for ministry leadership, small groups, or the entire congregation.
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Multimedia Resources: A robust library of articles, courses, podcast episodes, discussion aids, Bible studies, and video teaching designed for individual or group study.
Bring ACCFS to Your Church
Scheduling a training session is a simple process. We work with you to tailor the content to your group’s specific needs.
Scheduling: Contact our office at 309-263-5536 or email [email protected] to discuss dates and topics.
Featured Training Topics
Foundations for a Loving Marriage
This day-long marriage seminar is designed to encourage couples to apply scriptural-based principles in practical ways in marriage.
Mentor Skills Training
Mentoring involves coming along-side someone to help them through the struggles of life by teaching, guiding, and encouraging. This half-day session teaches skills and approaches which can help those involved in mentoring others.
Parenting with a Purpose
This day-long seminar focuses on providing parents with specific principles and applications in “training up their children in the way they should go,” thus strengthening the role of the parent as a purposeful leader who points their child toward Christ.
Stewarding your Sexuality
This presentation discusses practical ways to understand and overcome sexual temptation, available for both men and women.
Principles of Biblical Decision Making
This presentation looks at principles behind biblical decision making and how to help others in the decision making process.
Safe Technology Use for the Whole Family
This presentation outlines scriptural principles surrounding discernment and usage in the realm of technology.
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Additional FAQs:
How do I schedule a presentation?
Please contact the ACCFS office at 309-263-5536 or email [email protected].
How much does it cost?
Presentation fees include staff preparation and delivery time and are based on roughly $300 per presenting hour. Travel and material costs are assessed in addition to this base fee. A sliding fee scale based on the size of the congregation is applied.
What are potential presentation topics?
Below is a list of some of our current teaching topics. All presentations are ~1-2 hours in length unless otherwise noted.
Foundations for a Loving Marriage
This day-long marriage seminar encourages couples to apply scriptural principles in practical ways. Shorter sessions are also available on topics such as Nurturing Joy in Marriage and Strengthening Emotional Connection.
Mentor Skills Training
Mentoring involves coming alongside others to guide, teach, and encourage them through life’s challenges. This half-day session equips participants with practical mentoring skills and approaches.
Parenting with a Purpose
This day-long seminar equips parents with principles and practical applications for raising children with intentional, Christ-centered leadership. Additional sessions include Establishing Family Worship and Navigating Sex Education.
Mental Health & Emotions
- Dealing with Stress, Worry, and Anxiety – A biblical framework for managing stress and worry
- Grief, Stress & Depression – Understanding what is normal and when to be concerned, especially for caregivers
Relationships
- Dealing with Hurt and Moving Toward Healing – Biblical guidance for forgiveness and restoration
- Redeeming Transitions – Encouragement for navigating major life changes
- Forgiveness – A biblical model with practical application
- Healthy Boundaries – Understanding God’s design for boundaries
- Healthy Communication Principles – Key communication practices and common pitfalls
- Healthy Relationships in the Body – Encouraging love and service within the church
- Helping One Another After a Major Stressor – Supporting others through crisis
Sexuality
- Stewarding your Sexuality – Practical guidance for overcoming temptation (for men and women)
Spiritual Growth
- Biblical Principles of Financial Stewardship – Establishing Christ-centered financial priorities
- Principles of Biblical Decision Making – Frameworks for wise, biblical decisions
- Spiritual Maturity: Growing from Milk to Meat – Understanding spiritual growth
- The Identity Equation – Helping singles find identity and purpose in Christ
- Understanding and Developing Spiritual Gifts – A biblical perspective on gifts within the church
Technology
- Safe Technology Use for the Whole Family – Biblical principles for discernment in technology use
Presentations for Women
- God’s Masterpiece – Developing a Christ-centered body image
- In His Image – Addressing emotional eating and unhealthy self-perception
- Healthy Vulnerability – Building encouraging relationships among women
- Living a Legacy – Considering the lasting impact of one’s life
Presentations for Men
- Spiritual Leadership – Leadership principles drawn from the life of Moses
Are there teaching opportunities specifically designed for ministers?
ACCFS offers several minister support sessions, which work with minister teams to increase awareness and understanding in such topics as: Understanding and Responding to Mental Health Issues, Core Counseling Skills, Resiliency in the Ministry, and more. These two-hour modules can be conducted at the local church, at the ACCFS office, or through webinars.