SAMPLE CURRICULUM

• Evidences from Scripture that indicate God's calling upon one's life. This is a study of men and women in the Bible and how they were called. The questions how one knows and what one looks for will be answered.
• Taking valid risks.
• Servant leader qualities: Exodus 18, Acts 6, Galatians 5, 1 Timothy 3, and Titus 1.
• Public speaking: getting over fears.
• Civility and chivalry: proper conduct in private and public settings.
• How to share Jesus: practical evangelism.
• Sunday and midweek: 35+ morning and evening ministry opportunities that await God's people.
• Building the message/sermon/teaching: how to assemble and present God's Word.
• Finding your way around Israel and the Ancient Near East. Maps and testing.
• Term paper assignment (for ministerial and pastoral students, or those interested in writing a term paper).
• Christian education and Sunday School ministry.
• The 2-minute Student Sermon: an adventure in live presentation under different climatic conditions.
• Vacation Bible School: the fun camp of Bible learning.
• Hospital visits: do's and dont's. A session on proper etiquette when visiting an ill person in a care facility.
• Missions: brief consideration of the domestic and foreign fields.
• Premarital guidance and preparation: a treatment on God's prized institution.
• The wedding service: assembling a beautiful ceremony.
• The homeless ministry: things to know when visiting those living on the streets.
• Dealing with discouragement and depression. We look at indications and encouraging Scriptures.
• Prison ministry: visiting the incarcerated.
• The Baby Dedication service: how to hold a baby and present these precious little prizes to Jesus.
• Giving guidance from God's living word.
• When it is time to quit or move on in ministry.
• Worship: the ministry of music and praise to our Lord.
• Men's and women's ministries.
• Baptism: getting wet, and how to baptize.
• The funeral service: assembling the chapel and graveside services. Visiting the local mortuary/crematorium.
• Ministering to the terminally ill: things to say and not to say.
• Ministering and giving God's comfort to you and others. Bearing grief and giving the comort of Jesus Christ.
• Ceremonies and church activities.
• Church plants.