PENTECOSTAL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY CARE AND BENEVOLENCE PRACTICUM SA 806 ON SPRING 2014 Welton Wriston, DMin Instructor of Supervised Ministry & Care wwriston@ptseminary.edu (423) 478-7250 office A. TEXT: Dudley, Carl S. Community Ministry: New Challenges, Proven Steps to Faith-Based Initiatives. New York: Alban Institute, 2002. ISBN---1-56699-256-7 Hunter, George G., Church for the Unchurched (Nashville, Abingdon Press) 1996 ISBN---0-687-27732-9 B. COURSE CREDIT: One Semester Hour. C. COURSE DESCRIPTION: This practicum provides the student opportunity to develop a theology of care while providing hands on ministry under supervision. He/she will have scheduled dialogue sessions with qualified supervisors that will address the social and theological issues relevant to their particular context of ministry. D. LEARNING OUTCOMES: As a result of taking this course the student should be able to: 1. Identify the societal care and benevolence needs of a particular community. 2. Put into your own words your feelings and personal experiences concerning the needs you observe in the particular community. 3. Evaluate these needs as they relate to your thoughts and attitudes on care. 4. Develop a life-long position on care giving. 5. Determine practical ways to implement care programs in your present and future ministry assignments. 6. Discover and articulate your specific care ministry gifts. 7. Design a team based approach to Care and Benevolence. 8. Collaborate with a wide range of religious and faith based approaches to care. 9. Recognize the role of care and develop a model of care as it relates to social justice. E. COURSE REQUIREMENTS: 1. Weekly discussions should reflect the following: a. Care activities involved with that week. b. Issues that arise: ministerial, theological, social, etc. c. Personal and theological reflection.
2. The development of a resource document. This includes a list of agencies, governmental, private, or religious that is involved with care in the area you are ministering and should include the name of the agency, contact person, normal hours of operation, and services offered. In addition a personal bibliography of at least ten sources that relate to the type and setting of this practicum. This list should include books, periodicals, and journals. 3. A nine-ten page Ministry Development Model for Care Ministry. This paper should: a. Describe the care center/agency, including qualifications of the supervisor. b. Reflect upon some primary, personal, social and theological issues directly related to the experience. c. Provide the demographics of the ministry setting; this should include socio-economic, educational level, medium age, resources available, need, and other information necessary to provide for actual, not perceived need. 4. 40 hours devoted to hands on ministry at an approved care practicum. The site and nature of the care practicum must be negotiated with and approved by the Professor. These hours consist of: a. Development of a needs assessment. b. Development of a ministry plan to meet these needs. c. Actual hands on ministry. d. Training of workers. e. Dialogue with instructor via e-mail, telephone and course site. F. Attendance and Students Responsibilities: 1. Online participation is mandatory. Failure to complete a weekly assignment will greatly affect your grade. Each assignment will be open at 8am beginning Tuesday, February 4. Each weekly unit will close on Monday night at 12am. 2. Participation online will serve as attendance. Online discussions are reflections/critiques of course materials and issues raised by course participants. One word or one sentence responses will not be considered adequate. Responses should contribute to and facilitate discussion. 3. All work submitted and discussions added must be your original work. Any information that is not original with you, or cannot be considered public knowledge, must be properly cited in order to avoid plagiarism. When submitting reflection paper, assignments, or adding to discussion be sure to proof read to ensure proper grammar, spelling, format, content, etc. Always save a copy of submitted work for your own records. This will also allow you to resubmit your work quickly in case copies are lost or not transmitted properly. 4. Take time to read all assignments completely and carefully. Failure to complete all reading assignments will greatly hinder success in the course.
G. ONLINE ACCESS TO THE COURSE: Announcements. Each time you log onto http://courses.ptseminary.edu and go to the page for SA806ON, the first thing you should check is the News tab. Lessons. After checking the announcements in the News feed, the next place that you should always go is to the Lessons section of the site. In Lessons you will find scheduled material to be utilized in our course of study. The Lessons material is the key that ties all of the other components of the online course together. All of your instructions for assignments and projects will be found in the Lessons section. Please note that the student must access and use each Lesson within the scheduled time for that Lesson. Lessons will be made available in a timely manner. Resources : Selected units in this course of study have a related files including as a part of the course material. Please be sure to check this section at the beginning of each Lesson in this course. Discussion Forums. Participating in the discussion Forums is the equivalent to showing up for an on-campus class. Please note that class attendance is tracked on the basis of your participation in the online discussion Forums. It is especially important that you log into the discussion Forums and submit your post during the first week of the course. Please contact the Help Desk in the event that you have a problem accessing the online portal at http://courses.ptseminary.edu. H. EVALUATION/GRADING: All grading is done with 100 possible points available. 1. Participation in weekly discussion 30 % 2. List of Agencies, Bibliography 10 % 3. Ministry Development Model 30 % 4. Participation/cooperation in care/benevolence ministry. This includes regular meetings with volunteers, community leaders 30 %.
Care Practicum Weekly Assignments SA 807 ON Week Reading Weekly Discussion Topic Assignment ONE Be prepared to discuss a biographical sketch of yourself. Present current ministry involvement. TWO Dudley 1-16 Hunter 19-24 Discuss steps 1-2 on page 62 in Dudley s Integrate reading with personal theology of ministry THREE Dudley 17-41 Hunter 25-34 Discuss steps 3-4 on page 62 in Dudley s Provide the demographics for the community you are serving. FOUR Dudley 42-50 Discuss steps 5-6 on page 62 in Dudley s Present initial outline for new care model Hunter 35-41 FIVE Dudley 51-61 Discuss steps 1-2 on page 104 in Dudley s Present details of new care model Hunter 41-54 Dudley 68-83 Discuss steps 3-4 on page 104 in Dudley s Present new care model SIX Hunter 55-68 SEVEN Dudley 84-103 Discuss steps 1-2 on page 133 in Dudley s Hunter 69-80 EIGHT Dudley 111-120 Discuss steps 3-4 on page 133 in Dudley s Hunter 81-102 NINE Dudley 121-132 Discuss steps 1-2 on page 174 in Dudley s Hunter 103-118 TEN ELEVEN TWELVE Dudley 142-158 Hunter 119-137 Dudley 159-173 Hunter 138-148 Dudley 175-177 Hunter 149-170 Discuss steps 3-4 on page 174 in Dudley s Discuss the influence this reading has on your ministry. Dialogue how this course has impacted your approach to care ministry What major changes have you made in your approach to care ministries? Which segment of this course has been most beneficial? Make general comments regarding your experience with this course
I. READING LIST Required: Dudley, Carl S. Community Ministry: New Challenges, Proven Steps to Faith-Based Initiatives. New York: Alban Institute, 2002. Hunter, George G., Church for the Unchurched (Nashville, Abingdon Press) 1996 Recommended: Anderson, Leith, Dying for Change: An Arresting Look at the New Realities Confronting Churches and Para-Church Ministries. Minneapolis, MN: Bethany House Publishers,1990. Anderson, Ray S. The Shape of Practical Theology: Empowering Ministry With Theological Praxis. Downers Grove IL: InterVarsity, 2001. Bakke, Ray. A Theology as Big as the City. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1997.. The Urban Christian. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1987. Conn, Harvie M. and Manuel Ortiz, Urban Ministry: The Kingdom, the City & the People of God. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2001. Dorrien, Gary J. Reconstructing the Common Good: Theology and the Social Order. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1990. Eiesland, Nancy L. The Disabled God: Toward a Liberatory Theology of Disability. Nashville: Abingdon, 1994. Elliott, Charles. Comfortable Compassion? Poverty, Power and the Church. New York: Paulist Press, 1987. Flanagan, Owen and Kathryn Jackson. Justice, Care, and Gender: The Kohlberg -Gilligan Debate Revisited. Ethics 97 (1987): 622-37. Gutiérrez, Gustavo. The Power of the Poor in History. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1983. Hauerwas, Stanley. A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1981. Hays, Richard. New Testament Ethics: Community, Cross, New Creation. San Francisco: Harper, 1996. Hessel, Dieter T. Social Ministry. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992. Marquardt, Manfred. John Wesley s Social Ethics: Praxis and Principle. Wipf & Stock Publishers (Reprint), 2000. Meeks, M. Douglas, ed, The Portion of the Poor: Good News to the Poor in the Wesleyan Tradition. Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1995. Meeks, M. Douglas. God the Economist: The Doctrine of God and Political Economy. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1989. Moltmann, Jürgen. Creating a Just Future: The Politics of Peace and the Ethics of Creation in a Threatened World. Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1989. Niebuhr, Reinhold. Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics.
New York: Scribner s, 1947.. The Nature and Destiny of Man. 2 vols. New York: Scribner s, 1964. Nowen, Henri, Donald P.; McNeill, Douglas Morrison, Compassion, New York: Doubleday, 1982. Rauschenbusch, Walter. Christianity and the Social Order. Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991.. The Social Principles of Jesus. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1916.. A Theology for the Social Gospel. New York: Macmillan, 1917. Schleiermacher, Friedrich. Christian Caring: Selections From Practical Theology. Translator James O. Duke. Editors James O. Duke, James O Duke and Howard Stone. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1988. Sider, Ronald, Philip Olson, Heidi Rolland Unruh, Churches That Make a Difference: Reaching Your Community With Good News and Good Works. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2002. Sider, Ronald, Evangelicals and Development : Toward a Theology of Social Change, Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1982 Villafane, Eldin. The Liberating Spirit: Toward an Hispanic American Pentecostal Social Ethic. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993. Volf, Miroslav. Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996. Wolterstorff, Nicholas. Until Justice and Peace Embrace. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1983.