Advocating, Celebrating, Teaching, and Serving
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The Academy offers several continuing education courses each year, designed to support ministry of lay and clergy serving small membership churches.
Courses are generally four to six weeks and meet online.
The web-based program allows students freedom to study and write at times that work into their schedule, while also providing the opportunity for interaction with their facilitators and other students.
This course is designed for people seeking to serve local churches as pastoral leaders including Certified Lay Ministers, licensed local pastors, etc.
Participants will gain some level of comfort with asking the right questions, preparing and delivering the funeral service.
This course is designed to empower pastoral leaders to be a vital presence to parishioners during times of failing health, crisis, and grief, specifically within a hospital or nursing facility environment.
This course is designed for people seeking to serve local churches as pastoral leaders including certified lay ministers and licensed local pastors.
Participants will learn the basics of grief, how to be present for the griever, and how to do pastoral care in times of loss.
The church is a place where folks find love, grace and community. Churches are also filled with people who have experienced different traumatic experiences and they have suffer from the lasting affects of trauma.
Being a leader in a smaller membership church can be very challenging. Whether you are in a Lay Leadership position, a Certified Lay Minister, or a credentialed pastor, this course will help you define your personal skills, learn team building practices, establish goals, and provide concrete ideas on how to