Course Learning Resources:
Course Description
Ministry leadership in the
inner city environment is examined.
Key topics include street ministry,
resource management, conflict resolution, the
inner city political environment, building
support systems with suburban churches and
organizations, and discipleship in the inner
city.
Course Learning Objectives
1.
Have read and understood the concept of
biblical authority and submission giving balance
to working relationships within the ministry
with volunteers, clergy and associates and
clients within the inner city environment.
2.
Be able to develop tough love and
effective communications skills regardless of
cultures, environment and depth of environmental
factors within the culture (i.e., drugs,
alcohol, prostitution, etc.) and become aware of
the dangers involved in street ministry.
3.
Be able to define and operate processes
of acquisition of goods, services and volunteers
and utilization of resource management while
building the ministry within to procure
productive outreaches without.
4.
Understand the biblical tough love theory
with respect to conflict resolution.
5.
Be able to communicate and break down the
glass walls of them and us issues
between the rich and poor of a community and to
biblically defend urban ministry within the
inner city political environment.
Be able to build avenues for financial and volunteer support
and integrate within the community social
services structure.
6. Be able to effectively communicate and demonstrate the love
and compassion of God toward the unlovely to
salvation and disciplining them to spiritual
maturity and be able to develop an Urban
Ministry Church or Para-Church Model.
Course Policies
This is a 90 day independent study course, and is designed to be primarily self-paced. Its requirements include assignments and tests that you will complete and submit via the
Internet. I will maintain email and Internet contact and will be available to answer questions, engage in discussion and provide assistance as needed. Your assignments should be submitted as file attachments in
either Microsoft Word or HTML format. Each assignment will be evaluated, graded, and returned with feedback. Values for each assignment and test are provided in a table below. Timing
Please be sure to
time your assignments so that you have adequate time to complete the work in 90 days. Course tests are sent to you after you complete specific assignments (please see Test page), so be sure to give yourself enough
space to pace the work comfortably. Communication
As an independent study course, this is more a one-on-one exercise than a scheduled class might be. However, discussion is still important. Please feel
free to use my email address for questions, comments, concerns, etc. and I will do the same. We do have the option to add a discussion forum should we need one.
Evaluation Material Assignments and Final Paper
There are 9 course total assignments and a final paper.
Grade components are distributed as follows:
Grading Scale |
