Leadership

2010 North American Division cohort
2011 In-residence cohort
2012 ESD-Zaoksky cohort
2013 North American Division cohort
2013 In-residence cohort

Mission

Prompted by the promise of Christ's soon return, the Doctor of Ministry (DMin) program at Andrews University is designed to develop spiritually mature and responsible professionals in ministry for worldwide church leadership. The DMin Leadership concentration prepares participants for excellence in ministries of church and organizational leadership.

Competencies

The competencies of the Leadership concentration include a knowledge base, an emphasis on being expressed in seven essentials, and doing expressed in skill training for administrative practices.

Knowing: the knowledge base has the following four components: 

1.  A current understanding of leadership theory
2.  A faithful theology of leadership
3.  Systems thinking and organizational culture
4.  Human development theory

Being: In the process of the leadership concentration, participants will experience development in all of the following seven leadership essentials:

1. A God-given passion-stirring shared vision
2. Faith-based hope
3. Solid integrity
4. Courage to challenge the status quo
5. Unswerving commitment to empowering people
6. Abundance mentality
7. Appreciation of diversity

Doing: Participants in the leadership concentration also enhance administrative skills and demonstrate competency in areas fitting their context selected from the fifteen administrative practices listed below:

1. Fostering participation
2. Facilitating effective planning
3. Emphasizing quality
4. Managing resources responsibly
5. Communicating effectively
6. Building effective teams
7. Affirming others
8. Managing change well
9. Managing conflict effectively
10. Evaluating
11. Confronting
12. Following through
13. Making meetings matter
14. Mentoring others
15. Coaching

Learning Modalities

The following six 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 networking, didactic and experiential learning with top educators and experts in the field of leadership
4. Research: including perusal of the current literature, assigned readings, and case studies
5. Praxis: including implementation of leadership interventions in the context of ministry
6. Project: including theological reflection, field research, and intervention involving a specific challenge in their ministering context

Contact

Dr. Skip Bell serves as coordinator for the Leadership concentration for the North American, Euro-Asia, and South Africa-Indian Ocean Division cohorts. He can be reached at sjbell@andrews.edu.

Separate cohorts form every two years for international students who wish to do their program in-residence at the Andrews University campus on an accelerated schedule.  Enrollment for each in-residence cohort is limited to 15 participants. Dr. Stan Patterson serves as coordinator for these cohorts; he may be reached at 269-471-3217, patterss@andrews.edu. For more information about this option, see the in-residence cohort page.

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: 

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

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12/7/2012