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Biola University
TTMN 824 - Discipleship as the Ministry of the Church II Credits 6 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. Credits 6 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. Restrictions: Must be Post Masters Level or Doctoral Level. TTMN 825 - Discipleship and Community Relationships I Restrictions: Must be Post Masters Level or Doctoral Level. TTMN 826 - Discipleship and Community Relationships II Credits 6 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. Restrictions: Must be Post Masters Level or Doctoral Level. TTMN 827 - Foundations of Executive Management Credits 6 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. Restrictions: Must be Post Masters Level or Doctoral Level. TTMN 828 - Personal Strengths Assessment Credits 6 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. Restrictions: Must be Post Masters Level or Doctoral Level. TTMN 829 - Finances, Facilities and Fundraising Credits 6 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. Restrictions: Must be Post Masters Level or Doctoral Level. TTMN 830 - Legal and Ethical Issues in Executive Management Credits 6 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. Restrictions: Must be Post Masters Level or Doctoral Level.
TTMN 831 - Personnel Development and Human Resource Management Credits 6 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. Restrictions: Must be Post Masters Level or Doctoral Level. TTMN 832 - The XP Tool Box Credits 6 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. Restrictions: Must be Post Masters Level or Doctoral Level. TTMN 833 - Developing Life Groups and Transforming Communities Credits 6 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. Credits 6 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. Restrictions: Must be Post Masters Level or Doctoral Level. TTMN 834 - Counseling Individuals, Couples and Families Restrictions: Must be Post Masters Level or Doctoral Level. TTMN 835 - Developing Redemptive Family Ministries I Credits 6 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. Restrictions: Must be Post Masters Level or Doctoral Level. TTMN 836 - Developing Redemptive Family Ministries II Credits 6 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. Restrictions: Must be Post Masters Level or Doctoral Level.
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