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Pastoral Care Field Education

Overview
This subject gives students the opportunity to spend a full year engaging with their chosen ministry at a deep level.

Much more than placement, field education aims to develop reflective learning, self-awareness and a critical approach to ministry. Students not only learn from doing but learn how to be life-long learners.

After setting their own goals through conversation with trusted mentors, students meet weekly with a supervisor and monthly with a field committee who are part of the ministry they are undertaking.

It provides a rich time of self-reflection as students gain confidence through practice and learn how different ministries operate, take lessons from experienced practitioners and discover what it is like being in a public position of responsibility.

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Subject Details

Mode On-campus 
Workload Two semesters, 12 credit points
Status  Elective
Subject code PC093
Prerequisites  48 credit points of core foundational units
Teacher  Richard Trist

Content
In this subject you will look at

  • Pastoral Visitation – congregational members, families, the sick, the home-bound, those on the fringe of the church
  • The pastoral care of new believers; assimilation into the life, work and witness of the church
  • Pastoral opportunities provided by enquiries for the baptism and blessing of children; preparation of candidates for communicant membership
  • An introduction to ministry to the dying and bereaved, including the preparation and conduct of funerals; follow-up of the bereaved
  • Field Work: the supervisory relationship; the supervisory session; and learning covenants; evaluation; field committees

Study Expectations

Allow ten hours of work per week for this subject; this will include class time in the first semester and fieldwork in your chosen ministry setting over the year.

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