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 Goals and 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
using the disciplines of spiritual
maturity.
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