The Ministry Leadership program exists to prepare graduate students for healthy and balanced pastoral leadership and to prepare them to equip, teach, mentor and lead others to grow and serve as disciples of Jesus Christ.

Our M.A. in Ministry Leadership is recognized by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ as the basic standard for ordination.

• Proclamation that is reflective of an understanding of principles of sermon preparation and persuasion.

• Pastoral counseling with individual and small group ministries.

• The organization and administration of persons for pastoral care.

• The practices of corporate worship.

• Understanding the theological and educational implications of the biblical mandate "to make disciples of all nations."

• Realizing the crucial role the church plays as the major agency of discipleship.

• Developing strategies and skills in reaching out to the unchurched and assimilating them into the church family.

• Understanding the process of how to teach people at various levels of development and in different contexts to put Jesus' teachings into practice.

• Creating and designing discipleship and teaching strategies based on how people learn, grow, and develop.

• Developing skill in designing curriculum to facilitate the making of fully devoted disciples of Jesus Christ.

• Graduates of the program are expected (a) to articulate a Christian perspective of human growth, social development, and cultural dynamics, (b) to understand the process of teaching and learning, (c) to demonstrate competence in designing, implementing, and evaluating educational ministries that promote spiritual maturity, and (d) to show evidence of skillful use of small group strategies to bring about ministry purposes.

• Students are expected to be able (a) to balance ministry programs around purposes of evangelism, nurture, and equipping, (b) to design and implement assessment strategies of ministry outcomes and processes that are consistent with the ultimate biblical ends of ministry, (c) to articulate a philosophy of ministry based upon the integration of biblical, empirical, historical, and social science research.

• Students are expected (a) to expand their vision for leadership through pastoral ministry, (b) to increase their attentiveness to their personal spiritual formation, (c) to demonstrate an understanding of biblical and theological roots for ministry practice, (d) to grow in interpersonal awareness and skills, and (e) to improve their abilities to organize and manage ministry processes.

• Students are expected to be able (a) to identify personally relevant problems related to pastoral ministry leadership, and (b) to move toward solutions through the process of collecting information, devising and evaluating alternative approaches, and choosing and implementing decisions.

Required and Elective Courses

50 Credit Hours

Course descriptions are available on-line.

* Students must demonstrate proficiency in this area by

1) Having a course at the undergraduate level with at least a B- grade

2) Passing the proficiency exam given by the graduate school  

3) Or taking the class at HU, which add hours to the program

**The new MA in Counseling program will offer these counseling courses.

***CPE is an independently run program from which HU accepts credits. 

Achievement in these areas is measured by classroom interaction and course projects, exams, interaction with professors, accumulated material in the ministry portfolio, the student’s mentoring, and the culmination project.

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Note: This program will launch in the fall of 2008. Please contact Amy Mattox, amattox@huntington.edu, for additional information.

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