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Summer Courses

Tuition: $367 per credit hour
Non-credit Tuition: $195 (except Preaching Institute: $495) Textbooks not included.

Congregational Evangelism (2 SH)

This course is designed to help congregations return to their primary calling i.e. to fulfill the great commission beginning in their local community. It operates with the assumption that nearly everything we do inside our churches should prepare and equip our people for impacting their community. Students will become acquainted through reading as well as observing congregations that are influencing their communities for Christ.

Location: Lancaster, Pa.
Introduction: Friday evening, May 7, 2010 6:30–9:30 p.m.
Schedule: Monthly: Thursday and Friday evening, 6:30–9:30 p.m. & Saturday 9:30 a.m.–4:00 p.m.; May 20, 21 and 22, June 17, 18 and 19
Instructor: David Eshleman serves as a church revitalization consultant. From 1994 to 2006 he was pastor of Capital Christian Fellowship.

Cross-Cultural to the United Kingdom: Struggle and Hope in Post-Christendom

This course is designed to offer a reflective and engaging pace in the post-Christendom context in the UK while attempting to investigate the difference and similarity of North American context.

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Gateway Course

Spring 2010: Anabaptist Leadership, Polity and Effectiveness (2 SH graduate)

Instructors: Steve Kriss and Donella Clemens
Dates: Feb 5-6 and March 5-6, 2010
Friday 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Saturday 8 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Location: New Life Fellowship, Norristown and Sunnyside Mennonite Church, Lancaster
Cost: Graduate credit for two (2) semester hours- $734 , Non-credit cost- $195 (Textbooks not included)

Course Description

Designed for both emerging and current congregational leaders, this course provides an entre into understandings of missional leadership, rooted in the Anabaptist tradition and more specifically within the Mennonite Church. Taking context seriously and understanding unique strengths and struggles as leaders, the course will explore the possibilities for leadership that is rooted and transformational, toward yoking historic Anabaptist vision and spirituality. Students will explore the possibilities and pitfalls for ministry, extending ministerial calling by cultivating skills and a posture of leadership that recognizes best practice and anticipates the movement of the Spirit.

Objectives

Cultivate a general familiarity for emerging leaders within Mennonite Church USA through discussion of denominational polity manual
Provide a foundation for self-care for congregational leaders rooted in a spirituality that considers hand, head, heart and gut
Provide an entre for the development of a missional posture for congregational leadership
Develop an understanding of possibilities for Anabaptist leadership within the increasingly multiethnic Northeast Corridor

Books to be used

Mennonite Polity for Ministerial Leadership
The Lion shall Dwell with the Lamb Eric HF Law
The Missional Leader Alan Roxburgh
Altar in the World Barbara Brown Taylor

Church members, pastors, youth, Sunday School teachers and any who think learning is fun are encouraged to register.

EMS Distance Learning

Tuition: Course tuition Distance Learning is $432 per credit hour.

Money, Ministry and Me

This course involves an exploration of stewardship education resources alongside an exploration of financial tools and services needed in today's world. It is designed to serve the needs of pastors and other church leaders in the congregation. Initial attention will focus on the personal stewardship practice of class participants. An exploration of biblical and spiritual perspectives will prepare the way for each participant to develop a five year stewardship education plan for themselves as leaders as well as their respective congregations.

Professor: Beryl Jantzi
Cost: $900
Credit Hours: 2
May 3-June 26