Cost
Simply The Story does not charge a fee for the workshop. Simply The Story does not pay for workshops, and our instructors volunteer their time. We encourage the host to establish a workshop registration fee for attendees that covers the expenses of the host, the church and any other workshop fees. Different locations will have different workshop fees for attendees. Headquarters staff assists the host in establishing an appropriate fee for the attendees. Costs typically include one meal and two snacks daily for attendees, audio or print workshop materials if available in the local language, as well as food and housing for the Simply The Story instructors. If there is no way to get material to the location, handbooks and some audio in various languages are available for download, free of charge, on the Simply The Story website.
Although not required, any help toward the travel expenses for instructors who have flights or ground travel costs to get to a workshop is very welcome.
The Simply The Story headquarters provides registration forms, bulletin inserts, brochures and flyers that the host can use. A wealth of helpful “How to Host Tips” are also available.
Currently, requests for workshops far outnumber the available instructors who can pay their way to a workshop. Due to this interest, the cost, and time that Simply The Story headquarters and the instructors jointly invest to lead workshops, we ask that workshops be open to people outside the hosting ministry. We desire to best utilize our instructors’ time and investment by planting Simply The Story principles and skills into the widest number of ministries and denominations possible.
If a host wants to limit the workshop to attendees from their ministry, church or denomination, we ask that the travel costs for the instructors be paid by the host.
If, for security reasons, an open workshop is not wise, we are happy to respect the local host’s wisdom. Please talk with Simply The Story headquarters if this is your situation.
We recognize it might be hard for the host to learn how to communicate the costs to churches and attendees. Our headquarters staff are willing to help fellowships write letters to churches that will help bring this training to their people.