Timetable & Duration

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28th September - 23rd November, 2023

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This course will take place online on Thursday evenings, 7.00pm-9.00pm. This course will be taught over 9 weeks (including a one-week break on the 26th of October) via online real-time meetings & instruction and after class activities.

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Introduction to the course

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The way we think about and practice mission in our local communities has changed. As churches, we are in a space both familiar and new. We understand our limitations in both mission and ministry and the new possibilities in relationship with places and neighbours. So how do churches and mission teams take up our present challenge? 'Listening in mission' takes the view that the Spirit of God invites us to pay attention and to learn where God is ahead of us and where invitations are open to demonstrate and share Good News. For churches or for new mission or planting teams starting out, 'listening in mission' offers practical pathways for becoming more attuned to local mission opportunity, and for discerning responses that are Christ shaped in their local context.

 

The course is designed to introduce activities, spiritual practices and practical steps that can be deployed in a local church or a new mission team setting. Hands-on practical work, introduction to key frameworks and resources, online supportive conversations and feedback, will involve participants in an 8 week journey of discovery.

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This course aims to:

• Help participants explore a local practice of church mission that attends to the mission of God in their social context. 

• Develop skills in local community research, theological reflection, and identifying local mission opportunities, that can be deployed in churches.  

• Stimulate participants and their churches to renew their imagination and impact for local mission through improved awareness and understanding of the local community and its social changes  

• Reflect on current church approaches to mission

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Topics include:​

• God's mission in Christ's way; 

• Being attentive to places;

• What are we not seeing or hearing?

• Community mapping skills and approaches for local discovery;

• Diagnosing local observations, features and stories;

• Discerning God possibilities

• Discerning Christ shaped opportunities;

• Cultivating church spaces for conversation and shared practices of mission attentiveness.

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Course information

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This course is conducted online in weekly real-time conversations along with materials and interaction using the learning platform, Moodle. Zoom as an online meeting tool will be used for the real-time conversations and online group times. Access to these tools will be supported by the course administration. More information about the use of these will be provided once enrolled.

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Each learning module will be taught through a range of online group discussion, exercises, and activities, viewing and reading. Participants will be introduced to a range of hands on practical work for practicing in their own local context, and invited to feedback to the class.

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If you take the course for credit, the formal assessment for this course consists of the following:

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Portfolio. (1000 words - 50%)  Three journal entries (300 words approx each.) 

Report. (1000 words – 50%) including diagram content.

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Cost

£207​*​

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*Priority Area subsidy available for this course. Email TrinityCollegeGlasgow@gmail.com for more information.

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Sponsorship or subsidies may be available through your own church or denomination and we encourage you to approach them with the details of the course.