Section outline

  • Church and Ministry Class

    Church and Ministry (3 credits)

    Instructor: Henry Reyenga

    Content Providers: Dr. Carl George, Rev. Ken Dignan, Rev. Lee Strobel, and others.


    Overview: This course explores some key aspects of pastoring a church including: Your Family and Ministry, Leading the Leaders, Helping People Through Grief, The Nine Facets of Training your Ministry and Small Group Volunteers (Carl George), Sharing the Gospel, Hospitality, and tools for pastors as they set up a discipleship culture in homes of those they influence. This course also offers guidance for dealing with important transitional events, such as baptisms, weddings, and funerals.


    Course Outcomes:

    1. Understand and embrace a ministry model of forming disciples of Jesus in a community of believers.
    2. Prioritize sustainable, healthy self-care and discipleship of family members.
    3. Learn to train leaders for ministries and small groups.
    4. Develop skills for guiding people through life transitions and important rituals such as baptisms, weddings, and funerals.
    5. Develop vision and skills for evangelism and hospitality.


    Assignments:

    1. Watch or listen to video lectures (tracked by the web server; grade affected by whether you tune in)
    2. Use the discussion forum to ask questions and exchange ideas with others.
    3. Take the online quiz for each unit. You will have 45 minutes to answer the questions for each quiz. Once a quiz starts, you must finish it and can't retake it. So be ready ahead of time. Each quiz covers readings and video lectures for that unit. While taking the quiz, you may use your notes and refer to articles and other materials. Tip: First, answer all the questions you know. Then try to look up answers to questions you don't know. When you have entered an answer for every question, submit the quiz for grading before the 45-minute limit. Quizzes are 70% of the grade.
    4. Do two written assignments to be shared locally with your mentor or pastor. Then submit a survey quiz to communicate how that went to get credit for the assignments.

    a. Funeral message (Up to three pages, double-spaced; 15% of grade) to be shared with your mentor or pastor. If you do not have a mentor/pastor available, just bring your paper to someone with experience who can give you valuable feedback.
    b. Wedding message (Up to three pages, double-spaced; 15% of grade) to be shared with your mentor or pastor. If you do not have a mentor/pastor available, just bring your paper to someone with experience who can give you valuable feedback.


    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.


    Deadline: You have 180 days to finish the course. Complete all assignments before the final deadline, or you will be automatically unenrolled, and all coursework will be removed. You will have to start over and take the class again to receive credit.


    Accessibility: All of the videos have slides to accompany them. 


    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.