Family Ministry

2010 Cohort
2014 Cohort

Mission

Changing the people who change the world, the Doctor of Ministry (DMin) Family Ministry Concentration prepares men and women to fulfill the teaching and discipling mandates of the gospel commission, impacting families for the Kingdom.

The DMin Family Ministry Concentration prepares one for a proactive ministry of preaching, teaching, and working with groups to develop the positive family and relationship skills needed in today's culture. It is designed to sustain pastoral excellence by attending to the (1) pastor's personal life, (2) the pastor's own family, (3) families in the congregation, (4) the congregation as a family, and (5) the congregation as a partner in service to the community.

Competencies

The DMin Family Ministry concentration seeks to create competency in four areas related to the discipline:

  1. Family Life Education: to help participants acquire knowledge of current issues and empirical findings related to the field of family life education.
  2. Spiritual, Theological, and Personal Formation: to reflect theologically on the lived experience of families, to help participants integrate their spiritual and theological perspectives into the practice of ministry. To help participants become aware of their strengths and limitations (background, emotional state) and to realize the impact self-awareness and self-understanding may have on ministry.
  3. Research and Praxis: to help participants learn and acquire basic research skills pertinent to their practice in the field of family life education and family ministry within the context of church and community. Based on the current research develop and deploy a relevant, field-based project intentionally addressing family ministry in the local context.
  4. Professional: to help participants gain knowledge of the professional field including family life education, family ministry constructs, family law and public policy. To help participants acquire ministry skills pertinent to their practice in the field of family life education within the context of ministry.
Learning Modalities

The following five learning modalities will be included in the concentration's pedagogy:

  1. A professional portfolio: including a ministry development plan, journaling, and relevant learning artifacts
  2. Learning groups/mentoring: including collective assignments, consultations, and accountability
  3. Classroom consultation: including didactic and experiential learning, as well as networking, with top educators and experts in the field of family life education
  4. Research: including perusal of the current literature, assigned readings, and developing empirical constructs for family ministry interventions
  5. Praxis: including implementation of family life education interventions in the context of ministry
Coordinator

Dr. Allan Martin served as coordinator for this concentration until 2010 and coordinator for the 2007 cohort. He can be reached at amartin@andrews.edu.

Starting in 2010, Dr. Ron Flowers assumed leadership for the Family Ministry concentration. He can be reached at ronaldmflowers@gmail.com.

Cohort participants will take these courses:
 

2010 Family Ministry Cohort

Course requirements and schedule for the cohort beginning in 2010:
(follow the linked course names to obtain the course requirement documents)

Course # Course Name Instructor Intensive Dates Intensive Locations
RLED755 Families in Society (3 cr)
Daily schedule for intensive
Willie Oliver July 11-16, 2010 Andrews University
RLED758 Internal Dynamics of Families (3 cr) Jeffrey Brown July 18-23, 2010 Andrews University
GSEM790 DMin Project Seminar (2 cr) Bill Knott and/or Kenley Hall July 25-30, 2010 Andrews University
GSEM706 Spiritual & Theological Foundations for Ministry (6 cr) Jon Dybdahl May 2-12, 2011 Andrews University
GSEM730 Field Research for Ministry (2 cr) Monte Sahlin Feb-July 2011; dates posted in syllabus virtual delivery
DSRE779 Parenting Education & Guidance (3 cr) Calvin Thomsen July 15-20, 2012 Andrews University
DSRE759 Human Sexuality (3 cr) Curtis Fox July 22-27, 2012 Andrews University
GSEM796 DMin Project (2 cr)   summer 2012  
DSRE757 Family Law & Public Policy (3 cr) Deborah Berecz and/or Rene Drumm July 14-26, 2013 Andrews University
DSRE720 Professional Development (1 cr) Allan Martin July 14-26, 2013 Andrews University
GSEM796 DMin Project (4 cr)   summer 2013  

Ordering books

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

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3/30/2012

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