Training in Global Missional Leadership
By Jason Clark, re-posted from jasonclark.ws:
Back in April, I wrote about a new Doctor of Ministry program that George Fox Seminary asked me to develop and be the lead mentor for.
I’ve been buried in the syllabus and fine detail for marketing and accreditation, and wanted to surface and try to see the wood for the trees, by posting a quick summary of what I think this program will be about, and its distinctives.
So this is my first run at distilling several dozen pages:
Who is this program for?
The Global Missional Leadership D.Min exists primarily for Christian leaders in church, the business world, and mission communities, who are looking for a comprehensive professional and educational development at a Doctoral level, to equip them for work and ministry, in our global emerging context.
The GML D.Min is therefore centred around these elements:
Focus
1. Missional and Emerging: Church, Leadership and Culture. These are the main domains of exploration. An exploration of the nature of our emerging culture, and the implications for church, mission, work, and leadership.
2. Global: An exploration of these domains by firsthand visits to Europe, Africa, and Asia, to get outside the box and gain a truly global perspective and experience.
3. Themes & Topics: Include, Secularism, Consumerism, Post-modernity, Colonialism & Globalization, Social Justice, The Environment, Religious Fundamentalism & Terrorism, ‘Human identity: The Role of Women, The Family, Sexual Identity’, ‘Church, World & Culture: The nature and purpose of Church’, The Nature and Art of Global Missional Leadership
Method
4. Reflective Practitioners: A new breed of christian leader who wants to engage in theological reflection that informs practice, and practice that is informed by theological reflection. Meeting with other ‘reflective practitioners’ in our global face-to-face locations. To learn from each other in a cohort, where our church, mission, and workplace roles can provide synergy to each in our learning and ministry contexts.
5. Theological, Biblical, Historical, and Sociological: To use these modes of exploration for a ‘deep’ understanding of global missional leadership, church, and culture.
6. Hybrid & Web 2.0: Learn through integrated technology and the education tools of our emerging culture, into learning and ministry, becoming masters of social media, to be confident and fluent in the art of incarnating ministry and leadership through the language and media of our global culture.
7. Specialization: Have the opportunity to specialise and become ‘expert’ with an area of interest, and to impart that expertise to the cohort and the wider christian community.
Values
8. Open Source: Create content and resources that are accessible for free through public “channels” (e.g., forums, blogs, pod/vod-casting, image-sharing tools etc.
).
9. Relational: Be committed to relational learning and mutuality, wanting to become part of a cadre of coaches, mentors, and friendships, within this global learning environment .
10. Church: Robustly critique the church in all its forms, including the ones most dear to us. Yet inspiring each other with a love and passion for the nature, purpose, and mission of the church.
Continue reading Jason’s post on his blog and learn more about the new Global Missional Leadership D.Min program being developed
Jason Clark and his wife Bev are both senior pastors at the church they planted together, Vineyard Church Sutton. Jason is also the coordinator of Emergent-UK.
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This course sounds fabulous … and I think something like this can be a benefit to any Christians interested in global missions. With that, I have a few comments on your outline …
Focus 1: “An exploration of the nature of our emerging culture, and the implications for church, mission, work, and leadership.” I think that in terms of global missions, the focus of exploring culture needs to be placed within the context of principles and practices for impacting foreign cultures with the gospel without necessarily impacting them with our own culture. In other words,learning the context of our own culture so that we don’t unintentionally, or even intentionally force it on someone else. To me, this is extremely important aspect of missions and one that is often regrettably overlooked.
Focus 2: “An exploration of these domains by firsthand visits to Europe, Africa, and Asia” If this course was offered in the US,Central America is another great option. It’s close (of course) and just as poor in many aspects although tribalism is less apparent.
Method 4: Absolutely – namely the implications and lessons learned (reflective history?). Method 6: Hybrid & Web 2.0 – sub-topic:integration vs overshadowing?
Values: 8 .. That’s great!
Values 10: absolutely
Peace & Much love for your commitment
Ryan