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3.00 Credits
Charles Brockwell This course provides an intensive introduction to the Book of Discipline and encourages students to think theologically about United Methodist polity as ecclesiology and to produce a body of material that can be used to interpret United Methodist connectionalism to peers and lay persons in the church.
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3.00 Credits
David R. Sawyer In this case-study approach, students learn to think theologically and systemically as they apply the appropriate principles, standards, and rules of the constitution of the church to the practices of ministry and administration at the congregational, presbytery, synod, and general assembly levels. Attention will also be given to church administration in the Presbyterian tradition based on the theology of the church in the Book of Order. Students under care in the PC(USA) should plan to take this course prior to taking standard ordination examinations.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers Christian education as an aspect of the whole ministry of the congregation and its leaders. Biblical, theological, philosophical, and behavioral foundations will be related to practice through theory by considering the issues of objectives, process, scope, context, timing, personnel, and methods. Implications for curriculum and leadership will be developed. This course fulfills the Teaching Ministry requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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3.00 Credits
David C. Hester This is a course intended to assist Pastor- Educators in teaching practical theological reflection in a local church. It is assumed that practical theology is the responsibility of the people of God and one for which seminary graduates need to have particular educational concern. This course will develop participants' skills for practical theological reflection and consider appropriate ways for teaching these skills to others. A case-study method will be used, employing, where possible, issues from student field education settings. This course fulfills the Teaching Ministry requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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3.00 Credits
David C. Hester; J. Bradley Wigger This course consists of seminars intending to engage faculty, students in field education placements, and their supervisors, in interpreting and planning for the teaching ministry needs of the congregations involved. This is a field-based seminar, using congregational studies methodology. This course fulfills the Teaching Ministry requirement for the Master of Divinity degree program.
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3.00 Credits
Dianne Reistroffer This course is designed to provide biblical, theological and practical understanding of money in the lives of congregations and individuals. Stewardship will be an important theme, but the course will focus on how understanding theology and money can strengthen the life of the church. Attention will be given to practical concerns - raising money, budgets and managing money.
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3.00 Credits
David R. Sawyer In this two week, intensive seminar, participants will reflect theologically on the practice of leadership and administration in congregational ministry, begin the formation of effective approaches to administrative leadership in the church, and build a spiritual, intellectual and pastoral repertoire for addressing the practical issues of the organizational life of a congregation. Topics for research and reflection include: ethics of leadership, comparative analysis of leadership styles from various American cultures, adapting leadership style to the culture and size of a congregation. Hierarchies and networks as alternate structures for leadership, the ministry of the laity, personnel, financial, and program administration, and nurturing healthy structures in the church.
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3.00 Credits
David R. Sawyer Handling conflict in the church is one of the more difficult tasks for the pastor. This course is designed to introduce students to a new systems approach to assessing the context and to provide skills and practice in joining the system, building a hypothesis, and planning systemic interventions based on the congre gation's inner wisdom and desire for health. The systems approach will be compared with other approaches to church conflict utilization.
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3.00 Credits
David R. Sawyer This course is a laboratory experience designed to develop and enhance personal, interpersonal, and group process skills for church leaders. The content of the course will focus on the four areas of emotional intelligence, self awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship management, as they promote more effective leadership. The laboratory will provide opportunities for practical theological research and reflection on leadership and group process . The teaching methodology in this one-week intensive course is experiential learning in small groups of 10 to 14 people led by two experiential educators in each group. As group life unfolds, participants are offered feedback on the impact they have on others in the group. Each participant will receive information from personality and leadership instruments and will be assisted in interpreting the information by their small groups and their group leaders.
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3.00 Credits
Ministry to a congregation requires the mastery of a variety of practical skills and spiritual understanding and depth in those who wield those skills. This course seeks to model the development of both these essentials for effective ministry by introducing students to the practice of lectio divina and to a set of skills that can supplement and support preaching, teaching and administration in the parish. Participants will be taught how to locate and use resources (both paper and electronic) for remaining current in contemporary theological reflection, for biblical exegesis, for sermon and worship preparation, for classroom instruction as well as for budgeting and the administration of a congregation and its church office. The focus here will be on resources available to church leaders after they have left seminary and no longer have easy access to a theological library. At the same time, students will be introduced to the practice of lectio divina and asked to maintain a daily schedule of spiritual nurture through this practice.
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