Course description:
The course is designed to teach participants how to prepare and deliver messages and Bible studies for small and large groups. Practice of the principles taught is an integral part of the course.
Course goals:
o To learn how to teach the truths of God’s word in ways that lead to changed lives.
o To learn how to be a more effective communicator in various ministry situations.
Specific objectives:
By the end of the course, the student will be able to:
1) Identify and understand the significance of the components of the process of communication.
2) Develop messages and effectively deliver them to an audience.
3) Demonstrate an ability to speak with helpful delivery.
4) Gain confidence in the process of building and giving messages.
Participant Requirements:
1) Have at least a rudimentary knowledge of studying/interpreting the Bible, since people need to be able to do that before they can speak/teach from the Bible.
2) Understand that the key component of the course is preparing and giving messages to the group (or a smaller subset of the whole group) during the week. So it is not the kind of class that someone could just sit in on and not to any outside work on. (I mean, I guess they COULD, but it wouldn’t be very helpful either to them or to the rest of the class.) The course is very participatory, not just sitting and taking notes.
Language:
The course will be taught in English and we can provide translation as necessary. Small groups for preparing and giving messages can be done in either English or Bosnian, as long as we have 4-5 people in each group.
Workload:
The standard load of course work is 1 hour outside of class for every hour in class, so 20 hours in class and 20 hours outside class.
There is no necessary pre-course work. The first assignment has the possibility/suggestion of basing a talk on a portion of CRU’s Transferable Concepts material. So if someone would LIKE to get ahead, they could choose and read through 1 of the TCs ahead of time.
Professor:
Professor Gary Rickard earned his Masters degree from Denver Seminary and has been teaching in Eastern Europe for Campus Crusade’s Institute of Biblical Studies program since 2005. He currently lives in Budapest, Hungary.
Price: 40 KM
Registration: https://forms.gle/eCSkBJHXi26nAHTS7