Christian Leadership & Church Ministries (CLCM)
Online Prerequisite: THEO 615
An introduction to faith-based humanitarian action in foreign and domestic contexts. This course explores the history, actors, and practices in emergency response from US and global perspectives. Special attention will be given to the role of the church and faith-based organizations.
Offered: Online
Prerequisite: RTCH 500
The Digital Age has created an interconnected network of overlapping communities that is blurring the historic distinction between physical and digital. Given the evidence for the existence of these networked realities and their counterparts in the natural world, what is our theological and biblical response? This course provides students an opportunity to formulate an emerging theology of networks through which the Spirit of God works to minister to his people.
Offered: Resident and Online
Prerequisite: RTCH 500
Given the changing landscape of ministry that is moving from embodied to embedded, we need a biblical model of spiritual formation that encompasses all possible ministry contexts. This course presents a biblical-ecological model of spiritual formation that identifies God’s design for growth in all the spheres over which he presides as Lord.
Offered: Resident and Online
Prerequisite: RTCH 500
Is physical presence a requirement for authentic Christian community? This course examines the debate between those who advocate incarnated community and those who argue that Christian community is unconstrained by time and place because of the omnipresent ministry of the Holy Spirit. Attention is given to the biblical and theological concept of the communion of the saints and its significance for the creation and formation of online communities of faith.
Offered: Resident and Online
Prerequisite: RTCH 500
Martin Luther transformed Europe and eventually the world by taking his innovative theological beliefs and tethering them to an innovative technology; the printing press. Ministry leaders have a similar opportunity because of the technological innovations available to those who live in the Digital Age. This course provides a structured examination of the current digital landscape and a practical model for digital ministry in the 21st century.
Offered: Resident and Online
This course examines a theoretical and practical application of disaster response activities through faith-based organizations. The course will highlight the unique role of churches and faith-based organizations in humanitarian action. The course will include Sphere certification.
Offered: Online
This course introduces the basic concepts involved in designing programs for disaster relief and emergency response for faith-based organizations. The student will learn how to integrate the available field data and the principles of emergency management to develop and implement humanitarian action programs.
Offered: Online
This course describes the role and use of assessments, and of monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) in the delivery of aid programs. Specific attention will be given to how MEL is used in faith-based organizations. The student will learn how to integrate the available field data and the principles of emergency management to develop and implement humanitarian action programs.
Offered: Online
Online Prerequisite: ((GLST 525 or GLST 600 or APOL 525) and CRIS 605 and GLST 650 and CLCM 501 and CLCM 600 and HUMR 501 and JURI 680 and THEO 615 )
This course for all Humanitarian Action and Human Rights majors seeks to integrate the concepts, techniques, and knowledge of all areas of the student’s selected cognate. The capstone is designed to be the last course in the degree program. The course will highlight the unique role that the church and faith-based organizations have concerning humanitarian action and ministering to those who are in need.
Offered: Online