This is a six week online course focusing on Adult religious education and Christian formation and its integration with adult development, learning context, teaching and learning, methods and approaches. The course will run from September 28 to November 6, 2020. Participants will read and discuss contemporary academic and scholarly writings which address the following topics: foundational issues, adult faith formation, teaching and learning, models and methods. With: Christine Hong. Program fee: $190, Early registration of $170 before August 15, 2020.
- Instructor: Israel Galindo
This is a five week interactive course of study of Henri Nouwen’s most popular work on the Rembrandt painting of the Return of the Prodigal. This course can satisfy requirements of the Certificate in Spiritual Formation. Check with the program director for details.
This five week online course will focus on the role and function of associate staff in the congregational context—ordained or lay, pastoral or program. Being an effective children’s, youth, or program minister requires more than just expertise about one’s ministry specialization. Because most children’s and youth ministers work in the congregational setting as associates, they must understand staff relationships, staff functions, teamwork, personal professional skills, and relational intelligence in dealing with pastors, staff members, and congregational members.
- Instructor: Holly Dillon Inglis
This program is for mid-career clergy (ten to twenty years into full time ministry) who are seeking to participate in a professional formative conversation or to reflect on their vocational experience, and assess their ability to meet the leadership demands/needs of their organization. Attention will be given to addressing common experiences and issues of mid-career clergy: facing either a normative or unanticipated career transition, standing at a vocational crossroads of some sort, engaging in reflective self-assessment and finding support among peers.
- Instructor: Alison Riviere