Preparation phase:
Rooted in the church and community necessitates preparing students for their return after training and other preparatory tasks linked to the residential curriculum.
Incubator phase (12 weeks):
The residential part of the program with short lectures by guest experts and application with discussions with peers and lecturers on topics including:
- Personal development and Leadership: e.g. values, worldviews, mentoring, facilitation skills, motivation, direction and constituencies.
- Biblical foundation and Spiritual growth: e.g. calling, disciplines, a Biblical understanding of change, prayer, models and testimonies such as Transformations, evangelism, understanding of the church.
- Project Management and Program design: e.g. people and financial management, funding, strategic planning, administration.
- Social change: e.g. overview ofcommunity development, wheel of human needs, economic processes, sustainability, community assets, culture, assessment, evaluation.
- Action-based Reconciliation: e.g. conflict management, reconciliation, and synergy.
- Students integrate their learning in a ministry plan.
- Specialized training: HIV/AIDS, Job Creation and Youth Development
Implementation Phase:
As a follow-up to the program, it is essential to apply and further assess learning (to receive a certificate of graduation). Participants will be required to submit a ministry plan before the end of the residential phase and several papers focusing on aspects of the implementation of the ministry plan and how their service will impact their community during the Implementation phase.
The write-up should include all aspects of an entrepreneurial project in which the participant had received training, from the needs- or assets assessment to the proposed solution to a plan for developing funds and marketing the solution, as well as an explanation of how the plan advances the work of Jesus Christ.
Curriculum notes
Especially during the residential part of the program a major emphasize will be placed on:
- an incubator method of training creating an innovative space where knowledge is gained, insight and ideas developed and applied with the assistance of peers and specialists;
- the role of economics – the empowerment of students towards financially sustainable projects; also the key role of job and income creation.
- lectures will give a theoretical framework but focus on practical applications and/or implications.
- the intersection of faith and social action should be emphasized daily.
Evaluation:
Evaluation Method Marks
(Please note that Evaluation Methods can change at any given point of time)
- Practical Assignment (20)
- Co-leaders’ evaluation (20)
- Ministry Plan (30)
- Lecturer evaluation (10)
- Written exam (20)
Total 100 |
