Interested in developing congregational strategies for missions, church planting and revitalization, discipleship formation, dealing with change, and leadership development? Through the Certificate in Evangelism and Church Planting, you will be equipped to articulate an understanding of evangelism that is authentic to your own experience of God’s goodness, faithful to the Christian tradition, and contextually relevant to enhance your ministry.
A Certificate in Evangelism and Church Planting will help you:
The Certificate in Evangelism and Church Planting is a 15 credit hour program with the following required courses:
3 Credit Hours
In this course, participants will engage critical, creative, liberative approaches to reading and teaching the Bible in communities of faith. We will explore reading strategies from the margins, particularly as articulated by racial/ethnic biblical scholarship. Synthesizing this exploration of critical methods of biblical interpretation with knowledge of developmental and learning theories, we will construct teaching strategies for Bible studies that would enliven transformative, transgressive biblical faith.
3 Credit Hours
This course equips students to synthesize their personal experiences of God’s goodness with contextual awareness, various theological perspectives, and biblical teachings to develop creative practices of evangelism that are true to their personal faith.
3 Credit Hours
This course offers an introduction to Christianity as a truly worldwide movement today. We study factors that contributed to and sustain Christianity’s current shape, reach, and impact and examine key cultural, ethical, interreligious, and theological challenges facing mission and ministry in a world church.
Choose two of the following 3 credit hour courses:
Empowering the Congregation for Evangelism
Study of the role of the pastor and church leaders in discipling the congregation and motivating and training the laity in faith-sharing outreach ministries.
Planning and Planting Congregations
Drawing from the fields of leadership and evangelism, this course provides a theological framework and a variety of practices for revitalizing current congregations and/or planting new congregations.
Pastor and the People
This course will survey the responsibilities, tasks and relationships of the pastor within various contexts. A portion of the course will be devoted to future challenges for the pastoral ministry and the student’s vision for engaging these challenges effectively. This course will also offer opportunities to discuss and experience pastoral practices.
Church and Community
This course is designed to help students understand and develop their own theological positions about the mission of the local congregation in its neighborhood and community settings and about how this mission can be made effective. It seeks to explore motivations, provide resources, and demonstrate methods for such a mission. We will use biblical/theological sources, social theory, and other resources for developing and evaluating effective ministries for social service and social change.
Through the Certificate in Evangelism and Church Planting UMC Certification Track, you will earn both a Certificate in Evangelism and Church Planting from Garrett-Evangelical and complete the necessary academic courses set by the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of The United Methodist Church for their professional certification in evangelism. Students on this track will take the following courses:
3 Credit Hours
In this course, participants will engage critical, creative, liberative approaches to reading and teaching the Bible in communities of faith. We will explore reading strategies from the margins, particularly as articulated by racial/ethnic biblical scholarship. Synthesizing this exploration of critical methods of biblical interpretation with knowledge of developmental and learning theories, we will construct teaching strategies for Bible studies that would enliven transformative, transgressive biblical faith.
3 Credit Hours
This course equips students to synthesize their personal experiences of God’s goodness with contextual awareness, various theological perspectives, and biblical teachings to develop creative practices of evangelism that are true to their personal faith.
Choose two of the following 3 credit hour courses:
Empowering the Congregation for Evangelism
Study of the role of the pastor and church leaders in discipling the congregation and motivating and training the laity in faith-sharing outreach ministries.
Planning and Planting Congregations
Drawing from the fields of leadership and evangelism, this course provides a theological framework and a variety of practices for revitalizing current congregations and/or planting new congregations.
Pastor and the People
This course will survey the responsibilities, tasks and relationships of the pastor within various contexts. A portion of the course will be devoted to future challenges for the pastoral ministry and the student’s vision for engaging these challenges effectively. This course will also offer opportunities to discuss and experience pastoral practices.
Church and Community
This course is designed to help students understand and develop their own theological positions about the mission of the local congregation in its neighborhood and community settings and about how this mission can be made effective. It seeks to explore motivations, provide resources, and demonstrate methods for such a mission. We will use biblical/theological sources, social theory, and other resources for developing and evaluating effective ministries for social service and social change.
You will need to take one of the following 3 credit hour course:
Garrett accepts applications from students with a minimum GPA of 2.5 in a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and who are proficient in the English language.
