Creative leadership teams would find it possible to restructure to sessions to fit a six or eight week program, but there is much material to cover and so planners should not hesitate to extend the program to fifteen or eighteen weeks if that suits their situation. Generally speaking, twelve weeks is an optimum length for a class in a congregation and at Riverside, that was found appropriate for the amount of material to be covered in sessions lasting ninety minutes. Ideally leadership should be provided by the sponsoring congregation with assistance from the other two faith communities where possible, either throughout the study or at occasional sessions.

Registration opportunities should be provided following congregational worship for several weeks prior to the first session, with excerpts from Noah’s Other Son dust jacket material published in congregational newsletters and bulletins advertising the program (material also available online). Community participation beyond the congregation appears easy to facilitate through advertising, using the sub-title of the book, “Bridging the Gap between the Bible and the Qur’an,” as the title of the program, a topic of great public interest these days. The amount of public response seems related to the extent of the advertising, with test congregations finding previously unknown participants simply turning up to register when adequately informed.