ID 500: INTRODUCTION TO CHURCH AND MINISTRY
Module 1
“Connecting With My Story, My Narrative
Journey”
This module begins the historical, vocational, theological, and emotional
investigation of your own personal journey, your family context and your life
direction to this point. Where do you come from? How does your call to ministry
relate to your journey so far? What is your down-deep spirituality really about?
What is your personal theology? What are your strengths, your vulnerable places?
How is the Spirit moving in your human and emotional development, in your
academic growth, in your pastoral formation, in your understanding of spiritual
needs and practices? What do you need from the seminary experience to grow into
what God wants for you...into the fullness of God's intentions for you? How
aware are you of your potentials? Your hurt places? How does your whole
"package" function in ministry? How can you use your relationship with your
advisor to benefit your development? The materials in this module will help you
begin to tell your story like it really is.
Materials:
Please download each of the following electronic documents and save them to
your computer desktop. To download them, “Click” on the proper thumbnail to open
each document. If you have a Microsoft Word processing application for a MAC,
click on ther light blue "W", for PCs, click on the darker "W" in the square. If
you don't have a Microsoft Word processing application, click on the "PDF" icon
(you will need to download Adobe Reader to open this if you don't have it). The
MS Word documents can be completed and then saved to your desktop.
Remember to add your name to the title line when you save your
document. The PDF document can be copied to a new word domument,
completed, and then saved. Once you have completed the document(s), please email
it/them to Linda Parham proctor@ccdmin.org or l.parham@ccdmin.org.
DUE DATE: Please complete these documents and send a copy of
each one to proctor@ccdmin.org by
OCTOBER 13.
Books that will be used during the workshop are listed below. Please
be familiar with the particular chapters or volumes cited.
Edward Wimberly, Recalling Our Own Stories: Spiritual Renewal for
Religious Caregivers, Jossey Bass/Wiley, San Francisco, 1997 (chapters 1-5,
10)
Edward Wimberly, Claiming God, Reclaiming Dignity: African American
Pastoral Care, Abingdon Press, Nashville TN, 2003 (chapters 1-2, 6)
Homer Ashby, Jr., Our Home is Over Jordan: A Black Pastoral
Theology, Chalice Press, St. Louis, MO, 2003 (entire book)
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION FOR MODULE
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