Dr. Pam Russell Services is a consulting firm. As such, there are times when training is needed. The ministry courses we offer are taught by At God’s Door Ministry. The classes are varied and centered around development and enrichment training to groups, ministries, and churches.
Click on the course name to find out more about the class you are interested in. The ones we are offering right now are:
Course Information:
Duration: 10 weeks
Materials needed: I’m Saved…What Now? book. Bible, materials to write notes, an open heart, and a
teachable spirit.
Cost: Determined by class size and if you have not purchased the book/materials.
Description:
This course is a vital piece of the discipleship process. It deals with basic principles that new converts and
even older converts sometimes fail to get. This course will help you discover how to understand the Holy
Spirit’s role in helping you move from an infant in Christ to growing into a mature well-rounded Christian;
ready for battle. Some of the topics we will discuss are:
• How You Can Be Sure You Are Saved
• Understanding the Holy Spirit’s Purpose in Your Life
• Hearing God Through Prayer and The Word
• Gifts God Has Given for A Victorious Life
• Tools God Has Given for A Victorious Life
• How/Why to Serve, Give, and Evangelize
Purchase Information:
Duration: 12 weeks
Materials needed: Disciple Me book. Bible, materials to write notes, an open heart, and a teachable spirit.
Cost: Determined by class size and if you have not purchased the book/materials.
Description:
Now that you have accepted Christ invitation to salvation, how are you doing? Are you finding that you’re living the life you heard about before you got saved? Are you able to navigate the correct lanes? When you go to church are you as spectator watching from the sidelines, or are you able to jump right in? Do you take an observer’s position because you’re not quite sure what you’re supposed to be doing or if you’re supposed to be doing anything at all? Do you lift your hands because everyone else is lifting their hands? Maybe you are sitting there wondering if you are missing something that everyone else understands or feels. In steps the enemy. He tells you the reason you are not feeling comfortable is because you’re not really saved. The reality is our salvation is not a feeling it is a fact. Salvation creates a relationship with the Father, through Jesus. Like any other relationship you have in your life, a relationship is only as good as the time, effort and energy you put into it. Your relationship with the Father has to be cultivated. You need to be discipled.
Being discipled is just like going to relationship school. You go from level to level, getting closer and closer to the Lord. You learn who God is. You learn how to align yourself with His wishes, not because you have to, but because the relationship is so amazing, you want to. You learn to seek the Lord for yourself, so you know what pleases Him. He will then help you identify those things you have changed in His creation and you submit to Him to correct the flaws you created. You come to terms with the ultimate life you were designed to live. No course can answer all the questions that you ever have. But the wonderful thing is you will learn how to go to The One who has all the answers. Then, as the Bible says, you wouldn't have any need for anyone to teach you. You will position yourself for God to teach you Himself. You need faith. There is a path and your feet need to be set on that path. If you will commit to studying and praying, your path will be made clearer as you reach for Jesus who is the author and finisher of your faith. The topics we will discuss in detail are:
• Confidence in Your Salvation
• Learning to Hear God’s Voice
• The Work of the Holy Spirit
• How the Holy Spirit Works in You
• Spiritual Gifts
• Being Equipped for Battle
• Committing to the Body of Christ
Some of the topics are covered in more than one class.’
When ministry leaders take on their role, they are often not sure of what they need to do next. As pastors identify the leaders, their desire is to guide them as they go. This course identifies a process that helps your ministry leader visualize where God is taking their individual area and helps them layout a plan to succeed.
There are 5 steps:
When we think about communicating we often feel that there are different ways to communicate depending on the people who we’re talking to. In reality, you can consistently be the same person no matter who you are speaking to. If you are a Christian, you rely on the power of God and you being yielded to His authority. If you are a member of some other religion, you also have a higher power you rely on. If you don’t believe in a higher power, I am sure you want to live peaceably. In order to do that we all need to learn to communicate better.
How you handle your ability to communicate dictates the level of peace you will have in all of your relationships. Relationships take on many forms and encompass a variety of human connections, i.e., romantic and nonromantic, close and intimate, distant and challenging, and so many more adjectives. No matter the nature of the relationship, they all make up a huge and vital part of your life and can impact both your physical and mental well-being
Often we allow our individual personalities to dictate the type of relationship(s) we have. That relationship may be with your:
This class teaches methods to navigate them all. As a Christian I will use the Bible to lay the foundation and provide guidance for this class. The foundational scripture is Romans 12:14-18
Evangelism training is important because it equips Christians to fulfill the biblical call to share their faith, which in turn deepens their theological understanding and faith, strengthens their love for God and others, and helps them become more like Christ. This training also transforms by creating outward focus, building faith in the next generation, and enabling believers to confidently share the gospel in their communities.
It is two parts.
Part I: For the Individual Believer:
Part II: For the Church Community:
By actively participating in evangelism, the church body can experience spiritual renewal, growth, and a deeper sense of purpose.
What does God’s abundance really mean and how do we access it. This course covers:
1. What does it really mean to live in God’s abundance?
2. Does it refer to money?
3. Does it refer to relationship?
4. What does the Bible say?
5. Who can live in the abundance of God? (Ephesians 2: 5-6)
6. What does it mean to live in the abundance of God? (Galatians 2:20)
7. How do you live in the abundance of God? (3 John 2)
The Lifestyle of Praise and Worship
This course deals with the responsibility of each member, but especially leadership to give to the vision. It discusses giving as an aspect of time, talent, expertise as well as money. The foundational scriptures are “Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. KJV” and “Hab 2:2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it. KJV” Outline for the course:
1. What does it mean to give of yourself to the vision?
2. How do you move into a place where you can give yourself to the vision?
3. How much is enough? When we look at the multi level marketers, we get a glimpse of how much is
enough.
4. What’s in it for me?
5. What about my vision
6. Are you a volunteer or are you on kingdom assignment?
This course that deals with warfare from a the perspective of understanding how the enemy came to be who he is, how he works and what we can do to defeat him. But the reason that we are here is because He is preparing us like never before to discern the sophisticated methods that the devil is using to gain entrance into the lives of people in this millennium so that we can get them free. In order to engage in the warfare that we have actually been a part of since the day that we got saved, there are some important things that we have to understand. Being saved does not give you the knowledge that you need in order to engage in spiritual warfare.
The foundational scriptures that we are going to use in this lesson are
“ Luke 14:28-31 28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 29 Lest haply, after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish it, all that behold it begin to mock him, 30 Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish. 31 Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? (KJV)” and “Eph. 6:11-12 11 Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (KJV)” In this course you will learn who, what, when, why, where and how of spiritual warfare.
Topics discussed will include:
1. The way the enemy operates
2. The way the enemy fought in the past
3. The allies that we have in the spirit realm
4. What is at stake
5. Where the battle takes place (the battlefield)
6. The enemy fully
There are steps that have to be taken and the hurdles that must be overcome in order for you to complete
tasks. This course outlines those steps and provides a flowchart for task completion:
1. Spiritual insight on any task
2. Determine what a task is.
3. Evaluate and adjust our attitudes about any task assigned.
4. Work within a time line for the completion of the task.
5. Process for completing the task.
6. Identify reasons why tasks/assignments are not completed.
7. Overcome barriers and realize task completion.
If you are starting a small group, this is the class for you. The teachers have to be trained to facilitate and not lecture. They have to understand how to manage the class and encourage participation and learning. Small groups base their success on the “Deductive Discipling Approach”. This approach will develop the disciple through both large and small group exposure, strongly emphasizing disciple development while identifying and equipping individuals for leadership. This will ensure that persons are adequately connecting with other members of the congregation. Small groups are seen throughout every area of ministry. In order for small groups to attain the goals that are set for them, we must be trained. The Bible says to study to show yourselves approved a workman who does not need to be ashamed, but who rightly divides the word of truth.
Upon completing this course, each member will be able to:
1. Explain the value of the small group discussion in the learning process
2. Describe basic principles of group processes
3. Describe and develop effective strategies for:
4. Recognize, describe and avoid the most common errors in facilitating small groups
The role of a leader is to serve as a model for how things should be done, how we should react and respond within any environment. Every pastor desires the lay leaders of the church to be a “Model to the people”, a “Mainstay to the pastor” and a “ Mentor to potential leaders”. This teaching takes the qualifications of church leaders from I Timothy 3:1-12. It covers:
1. Leadership Issues:
a. Credibility
b. Transparency
c. Character
2. Qualifications of church leaders are based on the Core Values for any church.
3. Living by the authority of the Scripture.
4. Commitment to ministry involvement.
5. Personal and corporate prayer and worship.
6. Loving and encouraging people.
7. Spiritual reproduction.
How to design your intercessory prayer ministry, select its members and train them. Intercessory is a calling, it is not the place for the pastor to determine if a person is or is not called to intercession. However, it is certainly the pastor’s call to determine who will serve on the intercessory prayer ministry with the church. Since this is such a critical area of the ministry you should prayerfully consider who will be placed here and then make sue that he or she is trained appropriately. Though the reward will not be monetary, the
benefits that will be received from increased prayer time and fellowship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ can not be measured.
This course will teach how:
1. To assist believers to grow and develop a deep fellowship and relationship with God.
2. To instruct every believer, by teaching and example, to seek God for themselves.
3. To help every believer become a self starter and self initiator in their prayer life.
4. To help believers be more sensitive to the Holy Spirit.
5. To teach and facilitate corporate prayer in our body.
6. To develop strong prayer leaders.
7. To have a working plan when we pray.
This course identifies those things that are necessary in order to experience God through praise and worship. Worship can not only be what you do, it must be who you are.
1. All the Days of My Life – Cutting the covenant of the lifestyle of praise and worship
2. Creating a Watercourse — There is a River
3. In This House of My Pilgrimage (Your precepts will be my songs)
4. Seven Times a Day Do I Give You Praise
5. Don’t Go Down Into Silence
6. Praising Continually
7. Preparing our Vessels and Walking in Humility
• Walking in Humility
• Humility and choosing the way of the lowly
• Blending weakness with strength:
• Becoming a surrendered vessel fit for the Master’s use.
• Preparing Our Vessels–Vessels for the House of the Lord
8. Carriers and Couriers of God’s Presence
9. The Cutting-Edge Worshipper
10. Creating a Flow in Worship
11. Tips and Tools for Worship
The spiritual checkup we all need to take from time to time to make sure that we have not gotten side tracked. We often give ourselves more or less credit than we deserve depending on how we are feeling when asked. This evaluation deals requires that we not only look at now, but a year ago and 2 years ago.
It covers:
1. How much time to you spend with God per day?
2. What do you talk about?
3. Is there any intercession?
4. How often do you mention the Lord’s name in a conversation?
5. Who do you spend your time talking to?
6. How much “home” Bible study is done in a week?
7. Where do you worship?
8. What types of groups are you a member of?
9. What has God called you to do?
10. Where do you see yourself with respect to ministry (any kind)?
We offer enriching, spirit-led classes designed to equip individuals, ministries, and churches for deeper impact. Select a course and take the next step in your spiritual growth journey.
