The School for Pastoral Ministry (SPM) will be held Tuesday, August 25th and Wednesday, August 26th, 2015 at the Kellogg Center in East Lansing.
The SPM is delighted to announce that our 2015 speaker will be Bobette Buster. Bobette Buster is an author, story consultant, speaker and lecturer, her expertise is in storytelling, (both written and spoken). She is the author of a book titled “Do Story: How to Tell Your Story so the World Listens.”
The topic of impactful storytelling is important for clergy who are working with biblical texts full of stories, whether teaching, preaching or doing evangelism. Every Sunday as clergy preach, they are in some way practicing storytelling.
Bobette Buster will be the only teacher at this year’s SPM which will give her enough time to cover the topic in depth, and in a way that will be interactive.
Bobette consults for Hollywood’s top decision makers at leading studios including Pixar, 20th Century Fox, Disney Animation, and Sony Animation. She conducts seminars for the most elite film school programs around the world as well as in-depth, immersive workshops on how to be a storyteller.
Bobette was the Creative Director for Tony Scott (Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, Days of Thunder, Crimson Tide, The Fan, Enemy of the State, among others); Creative Director for Larry Gelbart (M*A*S*H); and Creative Director for Ray Stark (Steel Magnolias, The Slugger’s Wife, Annie, Smokey and the Bandit, The Goodbye Girl, The Way We Were, and Funny Girl).
Bobette Buster was a main presenter at the 2012 Fuller Theological Seminary conference titled “Preaching in a Visual Age.” This past January, Bobette was the keynote speaker at the January Series at Calvin College.
Bobette Buster believes that every organization could benefit from learning to do a better job telling their story.
The SPM expects the registration period will begin in mid-April at schoolforpastoralministry.org. Registration brochures will also be available at the Detroit and West Michigan Annual Conferences. This announcement is intended to be a reminder to “save the date.”
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