WSOLC – Western Seminary Online Campus
Course Number: PCW 514E – Spring 2015
Course Title: BuildingRelational Ministries to Women
Instructor: Beverly Hislop, D.Min.
Lectures by: Beverly Hislop, D.Min.
Credit Hours: 2
COURSE SCHEDULE
This course is offered in both an 8 and a 16 week schedule. You can see a “Course Schedule by Week” in this syllabus. After enrollment in the course you can see a course schedule with specific dates in the learning center for your assignments.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Studentslearn how to build, maintain and advance- from vision to reality - relational ministries for women featuring four components:casting the vision, building the team, discerning the needs, and molding the ministry. The focus is on relational components, such building and strengthening a leadership team, accurately discerning the need of individual women and molding ministry around that unique profile while developing spiritual friendships and mentoring relationships. Student will learn how to enhance ministry effectiveness by reflecting a relational emphasis in promotion, evaluation, and celebration.2 credit hours.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- By the end of this course, you should be able to:
1. Formulate and value a vision for ministry to women
2. Discover and appreciate teambuilding strategies
3. Understand how to discern the needs of the women and form a profile
4. Learn the essential elements of molding the ministry around that profile
TEXTBOOKS
Required:
Books of Nehemiah, and Ezra in the Bible
Excellence in Leadership, John White, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1986, 13: 978-0877845706. MSRP: $15.00.
New Doors in Ministry to Women, Sue Edwards and Kelley Mathews, Kregel, 2002, 13: 978-0825425080. MSRP: $14.99.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni (Jossey-Bass 2002) ISBN: 9780787960759, MSRP: $24.95.
REQUIRED READING - 300 PAGES OF YOUR CHOOSING FROM THE FOLLOWING LIST in preparation for III. Post course assignment
New Doors in Ministry to Women, Sue Edwards and Kelley Mathews (Kregel, 2002). ISBN: 9780825425080. $11.69, 315 pages.
Generation iY, Tim Elmore (Poet Gardener Publishing, 2010) ISBN: 0578063557, $16.99, 228 pages
3G Mentoring, A Relational Strategy for Working with Generational Distinctions, Global Diversity, and Gender Differences, Liz Selzer (Mentor Leadership Team, 2011), ISBN-13:978-0578084299, $14.95, 224 pages
Mentoring Leaders, Wisdom for Developing Character, Calling and Competency, Carson Pue (Baker Books, 2005), ISBN: 978-0801091872, $16.99, 262 pages.
Becoming a Woman of Influence, Carol Kent (NavPress, 2006). ISBN: 1576839338. $14.99, 170 pages.
Shepherding a Woman’s Heart, Beverly W. Hislop (Moody Publisher, 2003) 225 pages, ISBN-13:978- 0802433541, $14.99.
Visioneering, Andy Stanley (Multnomah Books, 2005) ISBN: 9781590524565, $15.99, 272 pages.
Building an Effective Women’s Ministry, Sharon Jayness (Harvest House, 2005) ISBN: 0736916091, $18.99, 354 pages.
Women Reaching Women, Beginning and Building a Growing Women’s Ministry, Compiled by Chris Adams (LifeWay, 2009) ISBN: 1415825904, $16.95, 237 pages.
Women Mentoring Women, Ways to Start, Maintain and Expand a Biblical Women’s Ministry, Vickie Kraft (Moody Publishers, 2003). ISBN: 0802448895, $18.99, 224 pages.
Release Your Potential, Using Your Gifts in a Thriving Women’s Ministry, Elizabeth Inrig, (Moody Publishers, 2001). ISBN: 0802484980 $13.99, 192 pages.
Leading Women to the Heart of God, Creating A Dynamic Women’s Ministry, Lysa Terkeurst (Moody Publishers, 2002) ISBN: 9780802449207, $14.99, 272 pages
Designing Effective Women’s Ministries, Briscoe, McIntyre, Seversen (Zondervan, 1995) ISBN: 0310431913, $10.99, 224 pages.
Women’s Ministry Handbook, ed. Carol Porter and Mike Hamel (Victor Books, 1992) ISBN: 0896938859, $10.99, 270 pages.
Important Note: Required and recommended course texts are subject to change at any time. You are encouraged to purchase these titles through the Amazon.com associate program; you may use the links provided above, or the search option found on the Western website under “Students/Online”: http://www.westernseminary.edu/students/online
Course Format
1. Course Audio/Video Materials.
Shortly after your course registration, you will receive instructions about how to download your course using the Integr@te program (not earlier than three weeks from your start date).
2. Learning Center.
You will also be given access to a web-based learning center which functions as your classroom for the course. There you will find:
· The course syllabus. Please Note: The syllabus in your learning center is the governing course syllabus. Syllabi downloaded from the seminary website, or received from any other source, are for informational purposes only.
· A week-by-week schedule to help you successfully complete the course on time with the least amount of stress. To discuss changing the assignment due dates within the schedule, please contact Jon Raibley:
· A progress report for each lesson, by which you will indicate whether you completed your lesson requirements. While still allowing great scheduling flexibility, progress reports help us help you should you begin to fall behind.
· Assignment summaries and links for uploading assignments.
· Links to discussion forums, your course instructor and other students, the distance learning support team, as well as links to other helpful communication and instructional resources.
3. Responsibilities.
Before the end of the first week of the session, you need to log onto the online learning center to complete and upload the course affirmation file. By federal law, we now need to ensure that students participate in courses for the full length of the course. So failure to complete the course affirmation on-time will result in a loss of course points and may impact your financial aid eligibility.
Students will receive on-time completion points for finishing their course work according to the schedule. This means students in the 8 week sessions are required to have all their course work into their course instructor by the end of week 7. Students in the 16 week sessions are required to have all their work into their course instructor by the end of week 15. If you have not been granted an extension, graded assignments turned in after 8:00 a.m. on Monday of the final week may be subject to a late penalty of up to 10% per day. No online completion points will be granted after that time.
4. Course Instructor.
You will be assigned a course instructor who will participate as appropriate in classroom activities; review, grade, and provide feedback on course assignments; and interact with you on any questions you have about the course. When you receive your course materials, you will also receive contact information for your course instructor. Please contact your course instructor within two weeks of your course start date and maintain regular contact throughout the course.
ASSIGNMENTS
All written work should be typed and double-spaced, unless otherwise noted. As always, quotes and original ideas must be documented either within the text or by foot or end notes. Student should observe rules of grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.
1. Participation Requirements. For each lesson, complete the items as instructed in your learning center, and submit the progress report verifying that you’ve done so. These progress reports are our primary means of verifying your attendance, and each is worth up to one point toward your final grade. If the progress report is submitted by the due date on your course schedule, you’ll receive 100% of the report grade. If you submit the progress report late, but within two weeks of the due date, you will receive 80%. If you submit the progress report more than two weeks late, you will receive 50%. And, of course, if you fail to submit a progress report at all, you will receive 0%. Certain changes are allowed within the course schedule, to allow for flexibility. You may contact Jon Raibley for details: .
In addition, you are to complete three activities that will allow us to verify your participation at key points within the course, in compliance with federal regulations. Failure to complete these activities within the designated times may impact the amount or timing of federal financial aid you receive.
§ First week participation: Within the first week of the posted course dates, complete and upload the affirmation file.
§ On-time verification. By the date listed in the schedule, submit your final assignments and complete the verification assignment, to confirm that you finished the course work on time.
§ Course evaluation and reflection. Within the final week of the posted course dates, complete the course evaluation and reflection assignment; a link will be emailed to you at that time.
Points: 38 points possible (32 for progress reports, 1 for affirmation file, 5 for on-time verification
Time: 20 reading hours & 25 media hours
Required Reading: (All reading are to be completed at the familiarity level unless
stated otherwise)
Required:
Books of Nehemiah, and Ezra in the Bible
Excellence in Leadership, John White, Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1986, 130 pages (Mastery Reading Level).
New Doors in Ministry to Women, Sue Edwards and Kelley Mathews, Kregel, 2002, 315 pages (Mastery Reading Level).
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Patrick Lencioni, Jossey-Bass, 2002, 229 pages (Mastery Reading Level).
2. Discussion Forum Assignments (You will be sent information about accessing the learning center/forum after you are registered)
A discussion forum allows you to share your thoughts with, and receive feedback from, your course instructor and other students in the course. For each forum posting set, you will write an original posting and respond to someone else’s posting.
You’ll complete a total of6 forum posting sets and one final forum.
· Create6 new messages, in which you interact with some of the material in the readings or lectures. This posting should be a minimum of 100 words in length. It could include such items as:
o Questions or insights aboutthe material covered thoughts about the class lectures, readings, and notes.
o Ways in which you've seen the course principles work (or not work) in ministry.
· Respond to 6 other postings of someone else's. There is no minimum length for this response, but it should show thoughtful and constructive thought. It may include:
o Questions to clarify what they've written,
o Points where you agree or disagree, and reasons why,
o Personal illustrations of a point they've raised,
o Additional thoughts on the scripture they've discussed, or related passages
· On the 7th posting:
o 3principles you've found in this course to help promote spiritual transformation, along with a specific plan for implementing one of these in your own life, or a report of how you have been implementing it in your life this semester,
o 2principles you've found in this course to help a believer minister more effectively, along with a specific plan for implementing one of these in your own ministry, or a report of how you have been implementing it in your ministry this semester.
Time: 5 hours
Points: 20 points possible. (2 points per forum set & 8 point for last posting)
3. Mission and Vision (Unit 1, Cast a Vision). Post the following information online:
A. Write your own definition of women’s ministries
B. Define vision and mission. Clearly explain the relationship between the two.
C. Write a mission and a vision statement for a ministry to women
D. Time expectation.
Time: 1 hour estimated project time.
Points: 5 points possible.
4. Team-Building (Unit 2, Build a Team). Post the following information online:
A. A. Identify Lencioni’s five (5) essential elements for building a cohesive team and briefly tell why each is important. Are these present in your team?
B. B. Name the teambuilding elements you have used to build this team.
C. C. What joys and challenges have you experienced in the process?
D. D. What is the current outcome?
Time: 1 hour estimated project time.
Points: 5 points possible.
5. Audience Analysis (Unit 3, Discern the Needs)
Audience analysis is essential in accurately discerning the needs of women to whom we will minister. This can be done from technical and biographical resources, direct observation and media influence. Your audience analysis will include all three elements.
A. Observation. Time expectation: 6 hours. 10 points possible.
Choose three observation locations from the list below which you would NOT normally frequent. Engage a woman in conversation if possible, for the purpose of understanding her needs. For each one chosen, complete the observation, and summarize your observations as indicated.
1. Spend a couple of hours riding on public transportation in your city. Watch the women who ride public transit. Choose two women that particularly catch your attention. Write a brief (500 word) description of each and what you might guess about their lives based on your observation.
2. Visit the emergency room of a general hospital (preferably the hospital in your city where they have to take you in). What kind of women go there? What can you see that is relevant to ministry to women? Write a brief (500 word) summary of what you observed about the real world of women.
3. Go to the department store of your choice (such as Meier & Frank or Nordstrom). Take a chair near the fitting rooms and watch for an hour or so the women who come and go. What do you see and learn about real women? Now go to Wal-Mart or Goodwill and repeat the observation. Are there differences in the women you observe in these two places? If so, what? Write a brief (500 words) summary of what you observed.
4. Go to a coffee shop you don’t normally frequent—OR A SITE OF YOUR CHOOSING. Observe the women there. Engage some in conversation to learn more about their world and what their felt needs might be. Explore needs with which you are less familiar. What might contribute most to their lives?
5. Sit on a bench or outdoor/indoor café’ and observe two contrasting populations in your local area. Who are the women you see? Note any age or cultural differences? What did you observe that would influence ministry to these women? Summarize your response.
6. Choose the busiest Laundromat nearest your church. Go and observe for an hour on two separate days (choose different times of day: one in the morning, the other in the evening). Who are the women who come? If possible, start a conversation with them. Write a brief (500 words) description of these women.
7. Go to a downtown rescue mission or homeless shelter and talk with some of those on the street or staying at the shelter. What is the greatest struggle for these women? In what ways can you relate to them? What ways do you not relate?