Course Overview
Section outline
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Youth Ministry (3 credits)
Instructor: David Keehn and the One Hope Team
Overview: This course teaches biblical and practical foundations for youth ministry and trains you in youth ministry practices. One Hope Ministries has created this Youth Ministry foundation course to help you identify and learn some best practices in youth ministry. One Hope's mission is to affect destiny by providing God’s eternal Word to all the children and youth of the world.
Professor Bio: Dave Keehn has served for over 30 years in youth ministry in both small and large churches. After teaching ministry courses as an adjunct for 12 years at Talbot School of Theology and Biola University, Keehn’s expertise is in developing ministry programs to reach and disciple the millennial generation and their families. He has spoken at numerous conferences and serves as the teaching pastor at Cornerstone Community Church in San Clemente, Calif.
David Keehn and One Hope have developed the Youth Ministry 201 Matrix that covers the essentials of Youth Ministry. This Matrix will be explained and expanded on throughout this course. Also included in this course will be featured additional materials from various Youth Ministry training sources.
The Classes will also feature selective blogs and youtube video links to leaders who are experienced in Youth Ministry. The links will be included. We advise you to know these sites and read new blogs and articles as they become available.
Course Outcomes:
- Learn the importance of youth ministry.
- Memorize the stages of faith development and how to incorporate that knowledge in youth ministry.
- Establish best practices of Discipleship of Youth.
- Acquire essential skills in teaching the Bible to youth.
- Implement essential practices in sharing the gospel with youth.
- Develop skills related to recruiting volunteers.
- Analyze survey issues of crisis in youth ministry.
- Learn to empower youth to lead.
- Examine your own calling for youth ministry.
- Refine how to work in a team with others.
- Reflect on Youth Ministry "Minefields" and set up proper safe boundaries.
Resources: This course includes resources from many books and articles. All required material is included in the online course. No book purchases are needed.
Assignments: View all online lectures and read all the articles on each topic. CLI computers track whether you do this. After viewing all the unit lectures, take the quiz based on the materials - videos and readings (100% of grade).Grading Scale:
A 95-100% A- 90-94% B+ 87-89% B 83-86% B- 80-82% C+ 77-79% C 73-76% C- 70-72% D+ 67-69% D 63-66% D- 60-62% F 0-59%Your average grade for all assignments in the class must be at least 60%. Otherwise, you will fail the class and will receive no course credit.
Course Forum: Each course forum is at the beginning of the course, right before the first-course content section, and has comments and questions from other students in the class. The forum is a great way to post a question or comment for other students who are currently enrolled in the course to see. Additionally, you can search the forum to see if anyone in the past has addressed or discussed the issue, question, or comment you wanted to post about.
Deadline: You have 180 days to finish the course. Complete all assignments before the final deadline, or you will be automatically withdrawn from the course and all coursework will be removed. You will have to start over and retake the class to receive credit.
