Resources for Pastors and Church Ministry Staff
SLT 2008 will focus on sexual wholeness in a broken world.
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School for Leadership Training -
EMS will host its annual School for Leadership Training (SLT) January 19-22, 2009, with the theme "Christian Engaging Cultural Change." This training opportunity is comprised of worship, preaching, workshops
and many opportunities for connections with other
pastors.
- Distance
Learning Program - The primary purpose
for this program is to broaden access to ministerial
training by offering courses for persons at a distance
from seminaries and conference-operated centers. Course
offerings will meet typical requirements of a theological
education degree and range across the fields of Bible,
history, theology and practice of ministry.
- EMU
at Lancaster (Pa.) Programs - EMU at Lancaster is located within the Greenfield Corporate Park in
Lancaster, Pa. Seminary and other ministry courses
are available.
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The Preaching Institute - This
institute provides continuing education for congregational
leaders, particularly pastors. Its goal is to provide
high quality in-service training for leaders who desire
to improve their preaching skills. The primary participants
of the Institute are pastors and congregations that
lie within the constituency area served by the seminary.
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Clinical Pastoral
Education (CPE) - CPE is professional
education for ministry which utilizes a clinical method
of learning. Disciplined reflection on the practice
of ministry in the context of a peer group and individual
supervision is central to the learning process.
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United
Methodist Connection - EMS shares a
special relationship with The United Methodist Church
in theological education, having been approved by
the church's University Senate for the training of
candidates for ordination. A significant number of
United Methodist students are enrolled at EMS and
will seek to be ordained.