Main Training Modules
These modules can be accessed through your parish at any time online. The information from the Study Days will be online if it's necessary to complete the module, but if not you will find there is nothing much in those sessions. You can dip into modules to study those things you feel you are interested in, or would like some training in.
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If you decide at any time you would like to the complete the full Diocesan Certificate in Mission and Ministry course, please contact the Director of Studies, Rev'd Dawn Glen (dawn.glen@derby.anglican.org) and we will send you further information.
Modules are free through the parish but if you wish to register for the Diocesan Certificate in Mission and Ministry course there is a cost of £25 for each module.
First Year Modules
Introductory Modules
Called to be
the People
of God
Learn how God has called people from the earliest biblical accounts to the present day and how to discern God's call in your life.
Opening Up the Bible
Gain an overview
of the Old
and
New Testaments and
learn to read familiar
texts in a new way.
Discover new things about familiar scriptures as you watch and listen to world renowned authorities talking about key books of the bible.
Pastoral
Care
Learn about the many different types of pastoral care and identify which ones you are using in your life and how to develop them.
Certificate Programme
Requires all three modules to be studied and assignments passed.
Advanced Modules
Mission & Evangelism
This module at undergraduate level 4 will explore a variety of different types of mission and evangelism and help you develop in both.
Old
Testament
This module at undergraduate level 4 will introduce you to the amazing world of the OT, from a largely Jewish perspective (which after all is how Jesus would have learned it!)
Specialist Ministry Module
Choose from a suite of modules (see list below) to develop an area of ministry that interests you or to which you think you are called.
Certificate
Programme
Requires all three modules to be studied and assignments passed.
Specialist Ministry Modules
Our suite of specialist ministry modules currently comprises:
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Pastoral Care
Mission and Evangelism
Children's Ministry
Youth Ministry
Leading Worship
Licensed Lay Ministry (Reader) (LLM(R) ) (see below for further details of this specialist pathway)
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These modules (apart from those for the LLM(R) Course, are largely studied on a one to one basis with a Diocesan specialist in that area so they would need to be accessed through the Diocese via an enquiry and an applicaiton form. If you are interested in accessing a specialist module, please ask your parish co-ordinator to let us know/ Of ui are interested in becoming a License Lay Minister (Reader) see the information below.
Licensed Lay (Reader) Ministry
The discernment process for Licensed Lay (Reader) Ministry (LL(R)M) begins during the advanced level of the Certificate in Mission and Ministry course. If you know that you are interested in LL(R)M ministry from the outset you will need to tick that box on the application form. You will then be registered onto the next advanced level module running (as this is a rolling programme) and you will be asked to contact a vocations adviser to begin that part of the process. During the course of the year you will be asked to complete a further application form and, with the written support of your vocations adviser, incumbent (or equivalent in a vacancy) and PCC, you will be invited to an interview panel. If it is agreed at the panel that you may indeed have a calling to LL(R)M, you will go on to a further year of study which comprises the following modules: 'Preaching', 'Leadership, Worship & Ministry', 'Pastoral Skills', and a 'Specialist Reader Module'.
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Those who have studied on the old Transforming Faith course (and passed the assessments), or who have a University qualification in theology, may qualify for exemption from some of the modules and this will explored further on an individual basis prior to application for the first module. If you are in this category please contact the Director of Studies (dawn.glen@derby.anglican.org) before completing an application form.
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Further information on this pathway can be found in the Discipleship Training Information Pack which is available by clicking here or by emailing fiona.bennett@derby.anglican.org.