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Issues in Children’s Ministry

Unit Details

Workload One semester, 12 credit points
Status Elective
Subject code DM021-812
Prerequisites 48 credit points of core foundational units, including 24 credit points from the foundational Bible units (OT001, OT002, NT001, NT002); Graduate Diploma students may be able to negotiate this prerequisite
Who Kay Chalwell

The dates for when this unit is offered varies. Please visit the timetable by clicking here for the most up to date information.

Unit Content
Section A: Contemporary issues in Church-based Children’s Ministry (40%)

  • Definitions of family: historical, sociological, and contemporary understandings; implications for family ministry.
  • Children and education: a survey of government, independent and Christian schools; the implications for and relationships between church and school based ministry.
  • An overview of significant pastoral issues for children: loss and grief; stress; drugs; occult; family dysfunction; abuse.
  • Working with children in a multi-cultural setting; children and other faiths.
  • An overview of children with special needs; and their integration.

Section B: Children’s Ministry Skills (40%)

  • Communicating with children; pastoral care; modelling behaviour; listening and language, verbal and non-verbal; effective discipline in a small or large group context.
  • Children, doctrine and the sacraments; teaching the doctrines of revelation, humanity, salvation, church, and work of the Holy Spirit; children and baptism, communion, and confirmation; various denominational perspectives.
  • Using Scripture with children, effective use and abuse.
  • Practical skills in ministry: creative arts – music, drama, puppets, storytelling; small group work.
  • Supporting and resourcing parents in nurturing and discipleship roles.
  • Leading a team; recruiting, training, liaising with parents and other stakeholders, including those from different cultures.

Section C: Ministry in Practice (20%)

  • Supervised Field Education: At least 20 hours work to be undertaken in one of the following areas: holiday and after-school programs; family ministry; camps; school religious education; church-based religious education; other work as approved by the course coordinator.

Note: the ministry area should be different from that undertaken in the previous study.

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