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The People's Seminary offers the following courses for your congregation, to be held at Tierra Nueva or at your own church. Click the titles for complete information. • Advocacy 101: Walking with People on the Margins A training course designed to inform and sensitize people desiring to serve as advocates for the most vulnerable in our society. Immigrants, homeless people and ex-offenders together with local advocates, representatives of the legal system and helping professions will present diverse social and theological perspectives essential to effective advocacy and mentoring. This course will examine biblical, patristic and social perspectives on the nature of structural and personal sin together with approaches to resisting forces that oppress and enslave. Those from various perspectives including immigrants, gang members, ex-offenders, social workers, employers, pastors, attorneys, drug and alcohol counselors, and probation officers will participate in the course. A reflection and training series designed for pastors, teachers, social workers, outreach committees, and lay people who currently work with, or wish to minister to, the Hispanic communities in our region. Ignorance of the cultural, social and ethnic differences represents the most common barrier that separates us from our Hispanic neighbors. This course will strive to build bridges of understanding between these two cultures, which in turn will assist us in developing a sensitive and informed advocacy, ministry and evangelization. A five-session course which examines popular, street-level images of God and life on the margins, through interaction with immigrants, gang members, and ex-offenders. Together we will discuss the Biblical messages that are addressed to the poor and excluded, and effective ways to lead Bible studies, worship, and accompaniment with those often ignored by the church and our society. This course will help students develop a Biblical, theological and pastoral framework for a ministry of presence and proclamation to people on the margins of society and church. The course will consist of lectures and discussion that will include a survey of the Biblical messages addressed to the marginalized (slaves, exiles, tax-collectors and sinners, etc.) throughout the scriptures, exegetical study of some of these key texts, and discussion of the specific content and function of Biblical and theological concepts and doctrines such as the Trinity, creation, fall, sin, redemption, call, covenant, judgment, exile, salvation, liberation, healing; unclean/clean-cleansing; demon-possession expulsion; landlessness-landedness; this life-the afterlife and others.
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for more information about courses through the People's Seminary, call 360-755-5299, or click on the upcoming events link at right. __________________________________________________________ Tierra Nueva • PO Box 161, Burlington, WA 98233 • 360-755-0768 • info@peoplesseminary.org |