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.
