Advanced Certification of Pastoral Ministry Free

This course helps people lay a foundation for development as a Christian leader through a process of personal and spiritual growth, thus undergirding all their spiritual life and ministry.

Curriculum Covered

1. Course Description
2. Spiritual Growth
3. How Do I Best Grow?
4. Growing Through Seasons
5. Integrity: What is Integrity?
6. Benefits of Integrity
7. Building Integrity
8. What is Character?
9. Character Development
10. Spiritual Formation of Leaders
11. The Power of Surrender
12. Overcoming Obstacles to Spiritual Growth
13. Responding to Temptation
14. Self-Leadership & Self-Mastery
15. Achieving Self-Leadership & Self-Mastery
16. Self-Management

About your instructor

Pastor Cheryl Forrest

With more than twenty years in ministry, Cheryl brings experience in the areas of: well being coaching, running addiction recovery groups, training new Christians, outreach ministries, overseeing and developing departments, pastoral care and leadership training. Cheryl holds a Master in Arts Ministry.

This course continues to build foundation spiritual disciplines and leadership practices including; biblical study tools, prayer and spiritual disciplines. Students build a foundation for development as a Christian and as a leader through a process of personal and spiritual growth, thus undergirding all your spiritual life and ministry.

Curriculum Covered

1. Course Description
2. Scripture Reading & Journaling
3. How to Read the Bible
4. Bible Reading Program
5. Leaders & Prayer: What is Prayer?
6. Prayer Strategies & Spiritual Warfare
7. What are Spiritual Disciplines?
8. The Need for Spiritual Disciplines
9. The Benefits of Spiritual Disciplines
10. Spiritual Disciplines: Foster, Willard, Whitney & Calhoun
11. SD Abstinence Part 1
12. SD Abstinence Part 2
13. SD Engagement Part 1
14. SD Engagement Part 2
15. The Truth Quest & Biblical Submission
16. Relationships with God
17. Relationships with Others
18. Relationships at Work
19. Being a Catalyst for Growth & Health
20. How God causes Growth through Adversity
21. Review & Future Growth

About your instructor

Pastor Cheryl Forrest

With more than twenty years in ministry, Cheryl brings experience in the areas of: well being coaching, running addiction recovery groups, training new Christians, outreach ministries, overseeing and developing departments, pastoral care and leadership training. Cheryl holds a Master in Arts Ministry.

Advanced Pastoral Care equips you with the skills you need to provide pastoral care in the local church, chaplaincy or the wider community. It is one of the most common expectations of pastors and leaders.

Curriculum Covered

1. Course Description
2. God – the Original Pastoral Carer
3. Significance of ‘imago dei’ (1)
4. Significance of ‘imago dei’ (2)
5. The Provisions of Creation (1)
6. The Provisions of Creation (2)
7. The Provisions of Creation (3)
8. Biblical & Historic Models of PC (1)
9. Biblical & Historic Models of PC (2)
10. Biblical & Historic Models of PC (3)
11. Biblical & Historic Models of PC (4)
12. Biblical & Historic Models of PC (5)
13. Biblical & Historic Models of PC (6)
14. At the Coal Face of Pastoral Care (1)
15. At the Coal Face of Pastoral Care (2)
16. At the Coal Face of Pastoral Care (3)
17. At the Coal Face of Pastoral Care (4)
18. At the Coal Face of Pastoral Care (5)
19. At the Coal Face of Pastoral Care (6)
20. At the Coal Face of Pastoral Care (7)
21. PC in the Local Church Context (1)
22. PC in the Local Church Context (2)
23. PC in the Local Church Context (3)
24. PC in the Local Church Context (4)
25. PC in the Local Church Context (5)
26. PC in the Local Church Context (6)
27. The Power of a Small Group (1)
28. The Power of a Small Group (2)
29. The Power of a Small Group (3)
30. The Power of a Small Group (4)
31. The Power of a Small Group (5)
32. The Power of a Small Group (6)

About your instructor

Dr Adrian Turner

Adrian Turner has been involved in church planting and senior church leadership for just over 30 years, with a primary interest in Missions, including 20 short-term mission trips to over 12 different countries at last count. He completed his doctoral studies at Melbourne School of Theology focusing on spiritual transformation, and loves the opportunity to challenge Pastors and congregations to rise to their Kingdom responsibilities of mission and justice, and explore the possibilities of creating ‘organic relationships’ with other congregations through child sponsorships in the developing world.

Advanced Pastoral Care continues with the skills you need to provide pastoral care in the local church. It focuses on pastoral care in the local church and how to properly care for yourself and others.

Curriculum Covered

1. Course Description
2. Various Avenues of PC – One Goal 7 steps (1)
3. Various Avenues of PC – One Goal 7 steps (2)
4. Various Avenues of PC – One Goal 7 steps (3)
5. Various Avenues of PC – One Goal 7 steps (4)
6. One Goal 7 steps – Application
7. Tips from Jesus on PC
8. Developing Pastoral care Skills
9. Understanding people & their needs
10. Learning to communicate clearly
11. Dealing with conflict (1)
12. Dealing with conflict (2)
13. Helping others enter into forgiveness (1)
14. Helping others enter into forgiveness (2)
15. Pastoral Care & relationships (1)
16. Pastoral Care & relationships (2)
17. Pastoral Care & relationships (3)
18. Pastoral Care & relationships (4)
19. Pastoral Care & relationships (5)
20. Pastoral Care & relationships (6)
21. Pastoral Care in Times of Crisis & Loss (1)
22. Pastoral Care in Times of Crisis & Loss (2)
23. Pastoral Care in Times of Crisis & Loss (3)
24. Pastoral Care in Times of Crisis & Loss (4)
25. Pastoral Care in Times of Crisis & Loss (5)
26. Pastoral Care in Times of Crisis & Loss (6)
27. Understanding stages & transitions in life (1)
28. Understanding stages & transitions in life (2)
29. Understanding stages & transitions in life (3)
30. Understanding stages & transitions in life (4)
31. Review of the course

About your instructor

Dr Adrian Turner

Adrian Turner has been involved in church planting and senior church leadership for just over 30 years, with a primary interest in Missions, including 20 short-term mission trips to over 12 different countries at last count. He completed his doctoral studies at Melbourne School of Theology focusing on spiritual transformation, and loves the opportunity to challenge Pastors and congregations to rise to their Kingdom responsibilities of mission and justice, and explore the possibilities of creating ‘organic relationships’ with other congregations through child sponsorships in the developing world.

This course will kick start your interpretive journey of the Scriptures as you unpack the nature of the Bible and how to read sentences, paragraphs and discourses within the biblical text.

Curriculum Covered

1. The Nature of the Bible (1)
2. The Nature of the Bible (2)
3. Pre-Understandings (1)
4. Pre-Understandings (2)
5. The Interpretive Journey (1)
6. The Interpretive Journey (2)
7. Reading Sentences
8. Reading Paragraphs (1)
9. Reading Paragraphs (2)
10. Observation
11. Reading Discourses (1)
12. Reading Discourses (2)

Pastor Grant Buchanan

Prior to Bible teaching, Grant served as a full-time pastor and school chaplain. Although a lecturer in theology and biblical studies with a focus on Pauline theology and the Gospels, Grant also operates as a professional counsellor and is working towards the completion of this Doctor of Philosophy by exploring a pneumatological reading of Galatians in light of 6:15 and the impact this has on Christian identify.

The Bible is not one book, but a collection of books with many genres. In this course, you’ll uncover the different genres in the Bible and learn how they affect the way in which Scripture is read and interpreted.

Curriculum Covered

1. New Testament Genre: Gospels
2. New Testament Genre: Epistles
3. New Testament Genre: Revelation
4. Old Testament Genre: Narrative
5. Old Testament Genre: Law & Prophets
6. Old Testament Genre: Poetry
7. Old Testament Genre: Wisdom
8. New Testament Genre: Acts
9. Communicating the Passage
10. Where we have Been

About your instructor

Pastor Grant Buchanan

Prior to Bible teaching, Grant served as a full-time pastor and school chaplain. Although a lecturer in theology and biblical studies with a focus on Pauline theology and the Gospels, Grant also operates as a professional counsellor and is working towards the completion of this Doctor of Philosophy by exploring a pneumatological reading of Galatians in light of 6:15 and the impact this has on Christian identify.

It’s difficult to get to the heart of the Bible without an understanding of biblical context. You’ll dive into how to get a grasp of historical and literary contexts, before exploring word studies and getting to the original intention of the passage.

Curriculum Covered

1. Historical Context (1)
2. Historical Context (2)
3. Historical Context (3)
4. Literary Context (1)
5. Literary Context (2)
6. Literary Context (3)
7. Word Studies (1)
8. Word Studies (2)
9. Word Studies (3)
10. Meaning & Original Intention (1)
11. Meaning & Original Intention (2)
12. Meaning & Original Intention (3)
13. Interpretation
14. Holy Spirit & Interpretation
15. Application
16. Literary Context & Genre

About your instructor

Pastor Grant Buchanan

Prior to Bible teaching, Grant served as a full-time pastor and school chaplain. Although a lecturer in theology and biblical studies with a focus on Pauline theology and the Gospels, Grant also operates as a professional counsellor and is working towards the completion of this Doctor of Philosophy by exploring a pneumatological reading of Galatians in light of 6:15 and the impact this has on Christian identify.

This course explores some of the foundational principles of leadership in ministry. You’ll learn about conflict management, leading collaboratively, failure, risk and decisions, before the course moves into implementing and sustaining change.

Curriculum covered

1. Course Description
2. Sources of Conflict
3. Styles of Conflict
4. Biblical Principles of Conflict Resolution
5. Failure & Decisions
6. Risks & Opportunities
7. Leading Collaboratively
8. Vulnerability of the Leader
9. Accountability of the Leader
10. Leaders as Mentors
11. Leaders as Coaches
12. Leaders as Disciplers
13. How do you Measure up?
14. Change! Why?
15. Leadership: Influencing People to Change
16. How do you Sustain the Change Process?

About your instructor

Dr Albert Haddad

Albert is in the learning field so that he may assist people to achieve their potential! His teaching style is facilitative and aims at drawing out principles from theories and best practice that may be applied differently according to the participants’ contexts and thus achieving successful learning experiences.

Albert seeks not only to provide learning to the participants but also to enable them to integrate their observations into their lifelong learning journey. Albert holds a Doctor of Education and a Masters of Education Degree in Leadership and change. He is an experienced Human Resource and Leadership Development consultant, experienced in Adult Education in both private and public sectors and has extensive experience in Medical Research at a senior level as well as in Higher Research Degrees.

This course discusses key theological issues related to the Person and Work of Christ and analyses the historical development of the doctrines and issues related to the deity, humanity and atoning work of Christ.

Curriculum covered

1. Course Description
2. Prolegomena (Introductory Thoughts)
3. Jesus in History
4. Search for the Historical Jesus
5. Jesus in the Old Testament
6. Jesus in the Gospels
7. Jesus in the New Testament
8. Humanity of Jesus
9. The Virgin Birth
10. Heresy & the Humanity of Christ
11. Responses to Heresies Concerning the Humanity of Christ
12. The Deity of Jesus
13. Heresy & the Divinity of Christ
14. Responses to Heresies Concerning the Divinity of Christ
15. Fully God and Fully Human
16. Heresy and the Hypostatic Union
17. Responses to Heresies Concerning the Hypostatic Union of Christ
18. Jesus & the Trinity (1)
19. Jesus & the Trinity (2)

About your instructor

Pastor Grant Buchanan

Prior to Bible teaching, Grant served as a full-time pastor and school chaplain. Although a lecturer in theology and biblical studies with a focus on Pauline theology and the Gospels, Grant also operates as a professional counsellor and is working towards the completion of this Doctor of Philosophy by exploring a pneumatological reading of Galatians in light of 6:15 and the impact this has on Christian identify.

This course continues discusses key theological issues related to the Person and Work of Christ and analyses the historical development of the doctrines and issues related to the deity, humanity and atoning work of Christ.

Curriculum covered

1. Course Description
2. Intro to the Work of Jesus
3. Salvation & Atonement
4. The Cross & Resurrection
5. Extent of Atonement
6. Worldview & Theology
7. Biblical Metaphors 1
8. Biblical Metaphors 2
9. Theories 1
10. Theories 2
11. Theories 3
12. Grace
13. Election
14. Calvinist-Arminian Debate
15. Justification 1
16. Justification 2
17. Sanctification
18. Adoption/Participation
19. Contemporary Issues 1
20. Contemporary Issues 2

About your instructor

Pastor Grant Buchanan

Prior to Bible teaching, Grant served as a full-time pastor and school chaplain. Although a lecturer in theology and biblical studies with a focus on Pauline theology and the Gospels, Grant also operates as a professional counsellor and is working towards the completion of this Doctor of Philosophy by exploring a pneumatological reading of Galatians in light of 6:15 and the impact this has on Christian identify.