Our Bible Study Tools Intensive conference is a Saturday workshop that invites you to learn and practice Bible Study tools. Throughout the day, you’ll use your new skills to study a passage of Scripture, in-depth. It is our hope and prayer that you will leave with three things:

1. A greater confidence in your ability to understand, interpret and apply God’s Word in your personal study

2. A deeper understanding of the workshop scripture passage.

Eight Bible study tools will be covered throughout the day — six in interactive workshops, and two as part of opening and closing keynotes. Each session will be taught by lay women with previous experience leading and teaching with our ministry and throughout the Dayton area.

Keynotes will cover Context and Commentary. We’ll have breakout sessions for:

— Annotation

— Cross Referencing

— Comparing Translations

— Homiletics

— Responding to the Text

— Word Study.

(All six workshops will run throughout the four breakout sessions and you can choose which four you want to attend.)

As you learn each tool, you will practice using them to do an in-depth study of a passage of Scripture.

A workbook will be provided that includes a double-spaced copy of the text for easy annotating, as well as worksheets tailored to each learning session.

For more information on the Bible Study tools, go here.

All of our teachers are seasoned women of the ministry, with hearts for teaching women to love God’s Word!

Registration cost is $45, and includes your workbook and a boxed lunch. All proceeds support the ongoing ministry of DWITW.

We are offering a $5 discount for early registration, so be sure to secure your seat early! (No code needed.)

8:30 a.m. Doors open / Registration and marketplace

9:00 a.m. Welcome / Opening worship

9:30 a.m. KEYNOTE // Context of 1 Peter

10:00 a.m. Break / Marketplace

10:15 a.m. WORKSHOP 1

11:00 a.m. Break / Marketplace

11:15 a.m. WORKSHOP 2

12:00 Lunch / Marketplace

1:00 p.m. WORKSHOP 3

1:45 p.m. Break / Marketplace

2:00 p.m. WORKSHOP 4

2:45 p.m. Break / Marketplace

3:00 p.m. Ministry updates

3:15 p.m. KEYNOTE // Commentary on 1 Peter

3:45 p.m. Closing worship and remarks

4:00 p.m. Marketplace

4:30 p.m. Doors close

We’ve made quite a few changes for Intensive in July 2025.

First, we’ll use different Scripture to practice what we learn. Even if you attended Intensive last time, this Intensive is an opportunity to dig deep into 1 Peter with a group of like-minded women.

Second, based on feedback we received after our first Intensive in 2022, we’ve extended the workshops to 45 minutes (instead of 30 minutes). This will give you more time to learn and linger in the text.

We’re changing our Outlining and Paraphrasing workshop this year to Homiletics, which is a tool that helps us narrow down the meaning and interpretation of any passage of Scripture, then expand on its possible applications.

Finally, knowing that everyone’s needs are different, we’re letting you choose which four tools in which you most desire to grow. So if you’re a whiz at paraphrasing, but want to grow in your annotation skills, you’ll be able to attend the workshops that will benefit you the most. All six workshops will run throughout the day during our four breakout sessions, so there’s no need to register for individual ones. Space permitting, you will be free to attend whichever workshops you like and in whichever order.

Absolutely! We will offer a media kit that contains graphics you can use to tell others about this event. Feel free to use whatever you like and share it with your church, pastor or small group.

Media Kit

— Attending with friends: We hope to see small groups, church groups, friend groups and all kinds of groups attending Intensive together! Since breakouts will be running the whole day this year, registration for individual workshops won’t be necessary. Space permitting, you should be able to go around to the various breakouts with your group. Be sure to register each woman in a separate transaction, even if you are paying for multiple workshop seats, so that individual lunch selections can be attached to the correct name.

— Marketplace: We’re excited to offer a bigger marketplace this year, with vendors and ministries that share your desire for God’s Word to be known and shared!

— Age Requirement: We recommend that only women and girls over the age of 16 attend Intensive, however we trust mom’s judgment on the maturity level of their girl(s) and their ability to attend. Please contact bri@daytonwomenintheword.com if you have any further questions about this.

We’re looking for many volunteers to help us the weekend of our event in many different roles from set up, tear down, helping at registration, and more! Check out this link to sign up to be one of our volunteers, and you receive a free 1 Peter t-shirt for volunteering: