Biola University 2015–16 Catalog
TTMN 812 - The Cultural Sensitivity of the Church This course is held off campus in a different city. The goal of this course is for students to enhance their ability to evaluate the cultural adaptation of a ministry. Students interact with ministry leaders, fellow students and their faculty-mentor as they discover in what ways and how effectively these ministries have adapted to the culture in which they minister. As a result, students are better able to assess and express the cultural sensitivity of their own ministries. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 813 - Healing the Wounded Leader During this class, students learn how and why ministry leaders are wounded in ministry. Through interaction with their faculty-mentor and guest faculty, students learn a variety of strategies to address the hurts experienced by leaders in the practice of ministry. Students apply these strategies to their own ministries and the ministries of others where appropriate. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 814 - Healing the Wounded Congregation Students learn how to assess if, and how severely, a ministry has been wounded. Through interaction with their faculty-mentor and guest faculty, students also learn a variety of strategies that leaders can use to address the corporate wounds of a ministry and facilitate healing and wholeness. Students apply these strategies to their own ministries and the ministries of others where appropriate. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 821 - The Biblical Context of Discipleship and the Person I During this class, students explore their own background in discipleship practices in light of the historical and biblical context of discipleship, seeking to understand Jesus’ distinct form of discipleship. This leads to an understanding of discipleship as Jesus intended it to be developed in the early church, and how Paul and Peter and other biblical authors developed discipleship and spiritual formation in their writings as a theoretical and practical way of life for individual believers and the church. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 822 - The Biblical Context of Discipleship and the Person II During this class, students examine and apply these biblical principles of discipleship in their personal life. Students are guided by resident and guest professors as they reflect upon their lifetime of study and application of discipleship and spiritual formation. Students conclude by developing a strategy of personal growth in their discipleship to Jesus, and how that can be implemented in the lives of those within their ministry. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 823 - Discipleship as the Ministry of the Church I Students explore God’s plan for the church and how discipleship can be understood as a holistic ministry of the church. Students are assisted by resident and guest professors in understanding the nature of the church
TTMN 829 - Finances, Facilities and Fundraising Students develop a biblical understanding of stewardship from a broad perspective. Students learn proper account management, facilities planning, and ethical techniques of fundraising for both operational budgets and capital campaigns. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 830 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Executive Management Students learn how the legal system affects the development and operation of churches as well as ethical dilemmas being faced in complex ministries today. Issues such as staff hiring, firing, liability concerns, and policy development are covered. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 831 - Personnel Development and Human Resource Management Extensive overview of matters pertaining to recruiting, training and developing volunteer and paid staff ministry leaders. Students learn how to develop policies and procedures, conduct in-service training seminars, and how best to mentor leaders. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 832 - The XP Tool Box This course covers a variety of topics, including PERT (Program Evaluation and Review Technique) charting for effective program management, overseeing information technology, working through teams, becoming a change agent, handling conflict resolution, and personal career development. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 833 - Developing Life Groups and Transforming Communities Life Groups and Transforming Communities form the platform for pastoral counseling ministries and marriage and family ministries as well as student’s leadership development. First students will learn compassionate connecting skills and how to teach them to church leaders. Then we will look at Life Groups with a pastor who uses them as his primary strategy for developing more and closer followers of Jesus. Third, we will explore Transforming Communities and their roles in healing individuals and marriages as well as developing volunteer ministers. Students design a plan to develop Life Groups or Transforming Communities in their
churches, and receive feedback. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 834 - Counseling Individuals, Couples and Families
This course focuses on how to help individuals, couples and families realize their conflicts and take responsibility for the changes that will dismantle their barriers to God and each other. The goal is not to turn students into Pastoral Counselors but to equip students to develop those in their churches who are gifted to develop transforming ministries including mentoring with individuals, couples and families. Students demonstrate competency in the skills of a Christ-Church multi-level model for counseling individuals, couples and families and to demonstrate awareness of personal limits by setting default decisions for counseling and referral. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 835 - Developing Redemptive Family Ministries I The focus of this class is on developing family and counseling ministries in church that will meet some of the needs of people in neighborhoods as well as the people in the congregation, and be on-ramps to evangelism. Students design and/or develop a Redemptive Family Ministry appropriate to a student’s church’s needs, goals and resources. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 836 - Developing Redemptive Family Ministries II This course challenges and equips students to develop a plan for ministry to people in a selected form of non-traditional family structure. This course will equip students (and through them, their leaders) to reach people in family structures that don’t normally experience churches as open to them. The residency outcome will be to write and develop this plan for a classmate and obtain your professor’s evaluation. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 837 - Ministering to People in Addictive Bondage This class will extend the focus of the second residency to minister to people both in and outside a student’s church who are living in addictive bondage. Examples of bondage are alcoholism, drug addiction, sex addiction, gambling as well as more common addictions such as addiction to eating and smoking. The residency outcome will be a workable plan addressing these issues. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 838 - Ministering to People in the Wake of Crisis, Loss and Trauma This class equips students and their churches to minister in the wake of individual, family and neighborhood crisis, loss and trauma. Recent catastrophes such as 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina showed the need for thousands of volunteers who have been trained to respond to spiritual and emotional needs. People in your church can be equipped to minister in the wake of shootings, accidents, and bereavement in your neighborhoods as well as the larger traumas such as earthquakes and firestorms. Students develop contingency plans for their ministry. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6.
and its relation to discipleship. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 824 - Discipleship as the Ministry of the Church II
During this class, guest professors escort students through past and present ministries to examine specific practices of discipleship within the church. Students visit with guest professors and examine first-hand various aspects of discipleship, including mentoring, leadership development, and small groups. During the rest of the week, we discuss life-span Christian education, youth ministry, family ministry, counseling, evangelism and follow-up. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 825 - Discipleship and Community Relationships I During this class, students explore the relationship of the biological community, the family, with the spiritual community, the church. Family developmental experts guide students to elaborate the working relationship between family and church discipleship and how they can support and promote each other. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 826 - Discipleship and Community Relationships II This class expands the study begun in TTMN 825 to include a strategy for developing discipleship relations between the local church and various external communities, including parachurch ministries. Veteran Christian leaders guide students through an examination of strategies to build a local discipleship community that reaches into their neighborhood, school,
workplace, and the world. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 827 - Foundations of Executive Management
Students gain a biblical and theological basis for management in the local church and learn to critically reflect on the advantages and disadvantages of various governance models in local church ministry. Students develop a strategic plan for their particular ministry. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6. TTMN 828 - Personal Strengths Assessment Students learn how to gain a better understanding of their own strengths and spiritual gifts. Students are then guided into how best to apply their personal strengths to their present area of ministry leadership. Grade Mode: A. Credit(s): 6.
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