Course Overview

Pastoral Care (3 credits)

Instructor: Henry Reyenga

Content Providers: Brian DeCook, Drew Brown, David Feddes

CLC Intern Teacher Assistant (Voluntary)
Alexander Uriel Duodu 
Email: pastoralcaresupport@christianleaders.net

Overview: This course discusses pastorally caring for others and strengthening your marriage. Whether you are married or not, this course discusses the spiritual principles of what makes a powerful kingdom partnership as a husband and wife become one spiritually, emotionally, and sexually. If you are married, it is recommended that your spouse participates in this course.

Course Outcomes:

1. Develop character and ability to shepherd others on behalf of the Good Shepherd.
2. Learn the biblical essentials of marriage.
3. Cultivate health in one's own marriage (if married) and in the marriages of others.
4. Improve listening skills, self-awareness, and healthy boundaries.
5. Learn to deal wisely with conflict and live in the peace of Christ.
6. Know how to minister to the sick in Jesus' name.
7. Understand some of the major legal issues in pastoral care.

1. View all online lectures. (CLI computer tracks whether you do this.)
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 8-10 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.

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.

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.

Accessibility: All the videos' slides are available in this course, and transcripts are available for the videos. To find the transcripts, click on the video and select the blue link above the video on the right. 

Note: This course was formerly called "Pastoral Care and Marriage."