Course Dates:
March 17 – May 2, 2025 (no class during Holy Week, 4/14-18)
Pre-requisites for this class are IFDC1510, IFDC1520 & IFDC1530
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In this six-week course, learners will engage practical tools and resources to broaden or refresh their (personal) gifts-based ministry while also exploring the principles of the gifts-based ministry approach as an organizational system for aligning people, gifts, and ministries. Ministry is what we do. Using our gifts is how we successfully do ministry in all the places where we can go out and meet people hungry for the experiences of God. The gifts-based ministry approach is the heart of equipped and empowered 21st-century frontline ministry.
Expect to spend about an hour a day, Monday through Friday, earning contact hours by viewing video presentations, preparing weekly assignments, and posting to the Discussion Board. (Reading or viewing books, articles, or websites are not included in contact hours.)
Learners are required to have this book for this class:
For the Common Good: Discovering and Using Your Spiritual Gifts by Christine Harmon
Guidelines: Nominations and Leadership Development – Leaders Are the Key to Church Vitality
Using the required books for IFDC1510, IFDC1520 & IFDC1530
In addition to Blackboard interactions, 1 optional Zoom meeting will be held each Thursday, at 7:30pm Eastern time. The meeting will not be recorded.
This course is eligible for 3.0 CEU.
Pre-requisites for this class are IFDC1510, IFDC1520 & IFDC1530
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Quick Info:
Number of weeks: 6
Price: $125
CEUs: 3.0
Required books: Yes
Blackboard: Yes
Zoom: Yes, optional
Certification or Series: Yes (Spiritual Gifts)
About the Instructor
Barbara Justis is an administratively gifted servant with strong leadership and service gifted influences. She is passionate about leading the laity through their unique triple-D (discovery, development, and deployment) journey. She served on the District Lay Servant Ministries Team for 20 years and as a Certified Lay Minister in the Virginia Annual Conference. She also served as a Lay Supply Pastor for 5.5 years. Following her retirement from NASA in 2020, she moved to Florida in early 2024. Barbara is a super-learner at BeADisciple.com, having completed 68 of her 101 accumulated CEUs through the online learning platform.
