Discipleship & Spiritual Formation

2010 Cohort Schedule and syllabi 
See the brochure that describes this concentration

Mission

The Doctor of Ministry Discipleship and Spiritual Formation Concentraiton integrates an understanding of a theology of discipleship and spiritual formation, with the process and dynamics involved in the participants' personal spiritual growth and consequent modeling, mentoring and teaching roles within the context of family, church and community.

Competencies

The DMin Discipleship and Spiritual Formation concentration seeks to create competency in the areas related to the discipline:

1. Academic: to enable participants to acquire knowledge of current and classic literature related to the area of spiritual formation and the process of discipleship. To engage this area of ministry through theological, biblical, and psychological perspectives, as well as to learn basic research skills relating to the field of discipleship and spiritual formation.
2. Spiritual and Theological Formation: to enable participants to reflect on their personal spiritual and theological perspectives and to integrate them into their practice of ministry.
3. Praxis: to enable participants to acquire skills pertinent to their practice in pastoral care and spiritual leadership within the context of discipleship and spiritual formation in the family, church, and wider community.
4. Self-reflection/Personal Growth: to enable participants to understand that in Christian ministry, being is as important as doing, and that true spiritual formation is grounded in a 'double knowledge' -- that of self and God. 

Outcomes

Upon completing this program, the participants will be able to:

• Articulate a Seventh-day Adventist perspective on discipleship and spiritual formation.
• Demonstrate a continuing maturity in Christian formation, personal growth and ministry.
• Integrate the theological, theoretical, experiential and practical dimensions of discipleship into a theologically reflective practice of ministry.
• Train spiritually mature and relationally gifted people as spiritual mentors.
• Embrace and carry out a biblically and theologically faithful praxis of discipleship and spiritual formation both individually and corporately.

Contact

The concentration coordinator is Dr. Allan Walshe. He can be reached at 1-269-471-3318, walshe@andrews.edu.

Travel and lodging information is provided in the links under the "Intensive Location" column. 

Cohorts are identified by the year in which they formed. Cohort participants will take these courses and modules:

Ordering Books

For a schedule of dates and locations of intensives planned for cohorts in other concentrations, see the four-year DMin Program Planner.

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11/13/2009

The next cohort for the Youth and Young Adult Ministry concentration will be coordinated by Dr. Steve Case. He is president of InvolveYouth, a parachurch organization that energizes young people for service.