Ambassadors of Reconciliation

Policy for Using Copyrighted Materials

Purpose of This Policy

The mission of Ambassadors of Reconciliation is equipping and assisting Lutherans for living, proclaiming, and cultivating lifestyles of reconciliation. We do this, in part, through our seminars and teaching materials. By God's grace, we receive many inquiries from people who desire to teach and use our materials in various ways. This policy sets forth the manner in which people who are not on the Ambassadors of Reconciliation staff may teach, adapt, and/or use copyrighted Ambassadors of Reconciliation materials or excerpts from them and integrate Ambassadors of Reconciliation concepts into other available material.

Through this policy:

We are seeking to serve the Lord and His church by equipping and assisting Lutherans to live, proclaim, and cultivate lifestyles of reconciliation. By extending permission to others to teach and use our materials, we hope many people whom our staff could not reach will learn and implement biblical concepts.
We intend that the latest versions of our materials be taught by godly people under the authority of their local churches, denominations, and/or ministries.
We desire to wisely steward the resources that God has entrusted to us.
Ambassadors of Reconciliation has a license to use materials developed by Peacemaker Ministries. As such, this policy is designed to be consistent with the policies of Peacemaker Ministries and in accord with the license granted to Ambassadors of Reconciliation.

Integration of Ambassadors of Reconciliation Concepts into Other Materials

Ambassadors of Reconciliation encourages others to draw freely on the concepts that we have developed to communicate biblical peacemaking.

Quotations of up to 1000 words from our work may be used for ministry purposes without written permission. (By "ministry purposes," we mean that an excerpt will be used within a church, ministry, school, Bible study, etc., and will not be for resale, i.e., in published form.) We ask that you give proper attribution to the source of the quotation by listing the title, author, publication information, and our ministry name and web site. For example:

Reprinted or adapted from “Blessed Are the Peacemakers: A Bible Study on Personal Peacemaking”. (Ambassadors of Reconciliation, Ver. 1/07, 2004). www.HisAor.org.

Quotations of less than 200 words from our work may be used for non-ministry purposes without written permission. We ask only that you give proper attribution to the source of the quotation by listing the title, author, publication information, and our ministry name and web site.
Quotations of more than 1000 words for ministry purposes or more than 200 words for resale require written permission. Please contact Ambassadors of Reconciliation to request permission (mrichholt@HisAor.org).

Teaching Seminars

We have developed Bible studies and several standard seminars on various aspects of biblical conflict resolution. These Bible studies and seminars are currently available in printed form, and are also presented in person by Ambassadors of Reconciliation staff members.

You are welcome to teach any of our Bible studies and our two seminars on basic biblical peacemaking – Blessed Are the Peacemakers Seminar and Getting to the Heart of Conflict Seminar – provided you adhere to the following guidelines:

Bible Studies and Seminars: Teach without charge within your own local church, denomination, or ministry. You are encouraged to purchase our materials and use them to teach internal groups (within your church, ministry or denominational group) how to respond to conflict biblically, without charging a fee. You may teach any of our Bible study material without any instructor qualifications. We recommend that those who intend to present our seminars attend one of our seminars on that topic prior to teaching it themselves. There are no other instructor qualifications required for any of these types of free "in-house" training in churches, Sunday school classes, small group Bible studies, sermons, and staff workshops. Denominational groups that have been licensed by Ambassadors of Reconciliation to adapt these seminar materials may teach the licensed material within their own denomination consistent with the terms of the licensing agreement. You may recover actual expenses for materials purchased from Ambassadors of Reconciliation.
Seminars: Orally report in the introduction of the teaching of seminars that you are not employed or contracted by Ambassadors of Reconciliation but are teaching this seminar in accord with the policy for teaching copyrighted materials by Ambassadors of Reconciliation. In addition, a written statement should be distributed with the seminar guide that states: "The person presenting this seminar is not employed or contracted by Ambassadors of Reconciliation but is teaching this material in accord with the policy for teaching copyrighted materials by Ambassadors of Reconciliation."
If you are a Certified Christian Conciliator™ with Peacemaker® Ministries, and have received a Teaching License from Ambassadors of Reconciliation, you may teach these two basic seminars outside of your church or ministry or for a fee in any setting. The Teaching License will require that you clearly communicate that you are not a representative of Ambassadors of Reconciliation, that you not use any of our seminar titles, and that if requested you will provide Ambassadors of Reconciliation with the name and telephone number of each organization for which you provide training.

Those under the oversight of a denominational group licensed to adapt Ambassadors of Reconciliation materials for use within that denomination are encouraged to be candidates for Certification through Peacemaker® Ministries. They may receive nominal fees according to denominational guidelines. All other restrictions apply.
Graduates of Peacemaker® Ministries' Reconciling Church Conflict course who are assisting in a church conflict intervention may teach "Blessed Are the Peacemakers" as part of the intervention without a special license. All other restrictions apply.