Primarily the workshop emphasizes expository preaching and how to accomplish it. Each year, Orbison and Denny Petrillo, an instructor at the Bear Valley Bible Institute of Denver, take the workshop participants through a study of a New Testament book. Other speakers are invited to present uplifting messages to inspire and encourage those who attend.

Since its beginning in 1995, the Workshop in the Word has been conducted in a rustic lodge some twenty-five miles north of Durango. The men arrive on a Thursday afternoon and leave early on Saturday morning. This allows a preacher the opportunity to come without missing any teaching appointments at his home congregation. Several men from the Durango congregation prepare some five meals for all those who attend each year.


Although directed toward the preaching ministry, many elders and other Christian men have attended to increase their knowledge of God's Word. Information about the workshop is available by contacting the Durango church.

          

        The 2011 Workshop in the Word boasted 134 participants.

Workshop Notebooks

Each year a looseleaf notebook is prepared by Orbison and Petrillo. These notebooks contain both Exegetical Notes on the text and Sermon Seeds for the preacher.  These notebooks are now being used throughout the world by teachers and preachers of the gospel.  These are available to the general public at a cost of $13.00 per notebook (mailing price included).  They may be ordered from:

Dates for the 2012 Workshop in the Word are:  April 26-28, 2012