St Thomas Christian College
Class Syllabus
Multi-Cultural Ministry
Course #: DCC - 7000
*(This course is an approved substitute for CED-8010 & THE-541)
Course Title: Multi-Cultural Ministry
Instructor: Dr Mark Jones & Dr Zamekio Jackson
MJones@greateducation.com presidentjackson@greateducation.com
Course Description:
This course will serve as the Graduate student's mechanism for researching international and national trends within varying demographic and ethnic groups to determine needed areas of concentration for the 21st century church. It will provide a multi-cultural approach to the effective development of a model church that will, from a biblical basis; focus specifically on the multi-faceted needs of all the congregants it will serve.
Course Requirements:
1. Active participation in weekly group meetings. Each Graduate student will meet weekly to discuss required reading and assignments. These meetings are mandatory.
2. Meet required attendance policy. This is an independent study course for Masters/Doctoral students that requires regular weekly attendance at group meetings. These meetings will be held for no less than 2 hours weekly. Each student is required to miss no more than 2 sessions throughout the semester.If you are an online student the attendance requirement will be waived
3. Attend required meetings under instructor's Doctoral oversight. All students are required to participate in group meetings with the instructor to discuss required reading, implications for the Multi-Cultural Church, and to further provide status reports on all research and assignments. If you are an online student the attendance requirement will be waived
4. Research and program development. Students will collectively research and develop a "Framework for Developing the Benevolent Multi-Cultural Church." Students will organize and discuss their systematic approach to this assignment in their weekly meetings.
5. Final presentation. Students will present final research findings and recommendations for the effective Multi-Cultural Church as a group to the instructor and/or her designated audience. This presentation may consist of, but not be limited to, a Manual for the Development of the Benevolent Multi-Cultural Church; a formal power point presentation to include research findings and recommendations, and/or a research paper concluding various areas of the project assignment. Online students will conduct a video of them doing the presentation and submit on DVD.
6. All assignments must be emailed to test@greateducation.com
Required Course Textbooks:
Brekenridge, James and Lillian. What Color is Your God? Multi-Cultural Education in the Church: Examining Christ and Culture in Light of the Changing Face of the Church.
Ireland, David. What Color is Your God? - A New Approach to Developing a Multi-Cultural Lifestyle.
Sittser, Gerald L. Loving Across Our Differences.
Grading Methods:
Research Requirement 40%
Attendance at Weekly Meetings 30%
Class Participation / Preparation 30%
Course Goals
1. Students will read all required material relative to identifying the needs and meeting the demands of the effective Multi-Cultural Church in the 21st century.
2. Students will engage in comprehensive, group research to determine the demographic needs of the various ethnic groups the church will serve.
3. Students will participate in regular weekly meetings to discuss all findings and to review progression of assignments.
4. Using the Bible as the foundation for all recommendations and framework development, students will provide written documentation of their proposal for the development of the "Benevolent Multi-Cultural Church in the 21st Century."
Week 1 Review Course Syllabus and Required Assignments
Instructor Meeting Examine Course Textbooks and Specific Reading Requirements
Homework: Read section provide 500 word paper on each "" subject
Ireland; Chapter 2 - "Diversity: The Nature of the Kingdom"
Ireland; Chapter 9 - "Creating an Expression of Kingdom Diversity"
Week 2 Establishing Multi-Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity in the Church
Develop the framework for this portion of research
Homework:
Brekenridge; Chapter 1 - "Our Multi-Cultural Challenge"
Assignment: Examine the concepts of Multi-Culture Changes and minimum 5 proposed challenges and give 5 hypotheses to resolve the problem.
Brekenridge; Chapter 3 - "Communicating a Theology of Multi-Cultural Awareness"
Social / Political Challenges in the Multi-Cultural Church:
Sittser; Chapter 2 - "Greeting One Another"
Sittser; Chapter 5 - "Forgive One Another"
Assignment: 400 words summarizing the section on "forgive one another."
Week 3 Establishing Multi-Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity in the Church
Instructor Meeting (Developing the Framework continued)
Social / Political Challenges in the Multi-Cultural Church
Homework:
Sittser; Chapter 9 - "Comfort One Another"
Sittser; Chapter 11 - "Stir Up One Another"
Brekenridge; Chapter 12 - "Our Multi-Cultural Opportunity"
Assignment: 400 words summarizing the section of Chapter 9, 11 and 12
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Week 4 Proved demographic for the proposed area which your final research project will deal with.
Social / Political Challenges in the Multi-Cultural Church
Demographics
Homework:
Ireland; Chapter 10 - "Cross-Cultural Worship"
Week 5 Review Status of Research Project
Liturgy
Assignment: 400 words summarizing the section Chapter 7,9,10. 400 words each chapter.
Homework:
Brekenridge; Chapter 7 - "Examining Hispanic-American Culture"
Brekenridge; Chapter 9 - "Examining Asian-American Culture"
Brekenridge; Chapter 10 - "Selected Asian Groups"
Week 6 Review Status of Research Project
Establishing the Christian Education Program in the Multi-Cultural Church
Homework:
Brekenridge; Chapter 11, - "Examining African-American Culture"
Brekenridge; Chapter 12, - "Our Multi-Cultural Opportunity"
Assignment: 250 word paper examine the multi cultural opportunities.
Week 7 Review Status of Research Project
Establishing the Christian Education Program in the Multi-Cultural Church
Homework:
Preparing Final Presentation
Week 8 Review Final Presentation
Week 9 Final Presentation
