ICDS, ACGB, Diocesan Partnership,
Oxford Centre for Mission Studies
ICDS, ACGB, Diocesan Consortium/Partnership,
Oxford Centre for Mission Studies
Expected Achievement
a) gain spiritual, social and economical
reasons for Christian active participation in
urban community situations.
b) mature to handle community issues with local
congregations
c) develop a more informed approach to community
development.
d) gain insights on Christian approach to community
participation
e) gain substantial understanding of Church ministry
in community development context.
f) identify three community directories and analyse
community development trends in the light of social,
political or market changes
g) be licensed as a Community Participating Worker,
Associate, Dean, Assistant, or Deacon
h) established in a Church or Community Ministry
a) relate community needs to Biblical
vision, and from there state a frame work for
promoting Christian community development.
b) grow in professional self-awareness and cultivate
a leadership practice
c) reflect the ethnic, class, commercial, and
religious interests and cultures that are embedded
in Christian community development services
d) identify tasks within a project and develop
an organisational guide to execute a plan of action
e) write report about their work/ministry in community
development context, and revisit such report to
observe changes or further developments
f) relate inter-sectorally and inter-professionally
with confidence, openness, and competence.
g) gained sufficient field exposure to take up
leadership responsibility in a community development
service.
h) produce quality essays on identified topics
or issues
a) ability to overview existing
services and develop creative connections between
the parts (dissemble and re-assemble) with the
view to achieve higher outputs.
b) leadership ability to respond to ministry or
work situations and draw up both lessons and pathways
for higher outputs.
c) develop the ability to recognise and access
the significance of events within their communities
in relation to prospects for the people, and develop/formulate
methods which would utilise existing and new resources
to bring about community resourcefulness and positive
change.
d) understand development in current social policy
particularly in matters affecting the delivery
of urban development programmes.
e) develop the ability to think objectively, creatively
and independently.
f) generate new solutions to long-standing problems.
g) reposition and refine church-based community
development services in the light of market demands
or market changes.
h) produce a quality dissertation on a relevant
topic or issue
Interested parties should apply for admission, and
possible bursary 
