Student Learning Outcomes (identify as many as apply):

 

Measurable Learning Outcome (as many as needed)

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

1. Cognitive (Head)   1.1    Articulates multiple dimensions of national spirituality and of slum spirituality.   1.2    Understands the work of the Holy Spirit and various styles of spirituality from a holistic and contextual perspective, using tools that measure several people’s holistic orientation and their resultant spiritual growth.   2. Affective (Heart)   2.1    Has identified areas of blockage to the work of the Holy Spirit in their own lives and areas of primary gifting, calling and capacity.   3. Skills (Hands)   3.1    Has developed a personal Lifestyle and Values and a plan for personal spiritual growth and exercise of spiritual disciplines in an ongoing relationship with a spiritual director.   3.2    Exercises ministry gifts in a team, and in a way that encourages an urban poor community to experience the direct presence of God.   3.3    Understands the seasons of growth each member of a small group has reached and can identify next steps in this season.

 

 

 

Proposed Activities to Assess Learning Outcomes

Describe the assignment or activity to be used to assess learning outcome.

 

 

 

 

Assignment 1: Pre-Course Slum Worship Styles

Prior to the course attend a slum church and conduct a simple ethnographic analysis. Write a one-page ethnographic analysis that answers 4 questions: What was the physical context of worship?  What are the noticeable features of the participants?  What were ten discernible characteristics of the worship? What is contextually determined? What is imported? Papers will be used as basis for class discussion. Supports outcomes 1.1

 

Assignment 2: Course Reading Log

Approximately 15 chapters of required course reading are available on the course CD; the other texts are available in the library.  For each reading, identify and outline the main theme and the sub-points.  Then compose a reading log that lists the article/chapter (APA format) and the number of pages read, and provides a one paragraph summary or personal response. Include a key quote, with page number, that you feel encapsulates the author’s thesis.  Supports outcomes 1.1, 1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3

 

Assignment 3: Fivefold Ministries Questionnaire

Complete the questionnaire in Breen, M. (2002). “Fivefold Ministries.” In The Apostle's Notebook. Eastbourne, England (pp. 161-171, 220), and bring to class. Supports outcomes 1.2, 3.2

 

Assignment 4: Urban Poor Spirituality Logs

Each day in the back of your course journal, keep a log of two things you notice in the life of your host community: (1) elements of everyday spirituality expressed through the national culture, and (2) elements of spirituality exhibited within a particular slum community. Students will share examples in class. These observations will be integrated into a paper (3-5 pages) in preparation for the retreat on Slum/Urban Poor Spirituality. Supports outcomes 1.1, 1.2

 

Assignment 5: Designing a Rule of Life

Read V. Grigg, The Lifestyle and Values of Servants, and S. Bessenecker, The New Friars. Write your own “Rule of Life” with your wife and/or team.  Keep it simple. Not too many topics.  Think through how you can be accountable to each other and a spiritual director for the values you identify.  Discuss with your spiritual director.  Supports outcomes 3.1

 

Assignment 6: Husband-Wife Evaluation

The demands of ministry among the poor put high levels of stress on the husband and wife relationship. Take 1-2 hours to discuss and document (1-2 page paper) the particular stresses you and your spouse face and how they affect your marriage. Is your marriage at a place where you fulfill the biblical requirements of an elder or overseer (1 Tim 3:1-7 & Tit 1:5-9)?  Decide what steps you can take to manage these stresses and to turn them into positive factors for growth.  Decide when you can get time together as a couple without kids or people just talking each week.  Supports outcomes 2.1,1.2

 

Or Assignment 7: Single Person’s Self-Evaluation

Using the form in the course syllabus, complete a self-evaluation as the basis for reflection and discussion with a core of friends or your spiritual director. Supports outcomes 2.1, 1.2

 

Assignment 8: Motivational and Ministry Evaluation

Use the questionnaire supplied in Lingenefelter & Mayers, Ministering Cross-Culturally, to plot the graphs and determine to what extent each statement describes your thinking and approach to life. If the statement is not at all descriptive of you, write the number 1 in the blank space. If it is very descriptive to you, write the number 7. Write the number 4 if the statement describes you only somewhat. Use the numbers 2 or 3 for items that are less descriptive of you and the number 5 or 6 for those that are more descriptive. Respond to all statements with a number from 1 to 7. Bring completed evaluation to class. Supports outcomes 2.1, 1.2

 

Assignment 9: Dealing with Pain

In a 1-2 page analytic journal, identify at least one major experience of grief, loss, bitterness, or pain that you have experienced.  Narrate the experience in your journal, identifying particular areas of pain needing healing and surrender, as well as any actions you might take to rectify broken or strained relationships. These journals will be shared with one other class member, the course facilitator, and later with a spiritual director.  Supports outcomes 2.1, 1.2

 

Assignment 10: Spiritual Direction Plan

Identify one person who you would welcome as a spiritual director. Discuss this person’s background and qualifications with the course facilitator. Then work with this director and the course facilitator on a plan for spiritual direction over the course of the program. Submit final plan to course facilitator Supports outcomes 3.1

 

Assignment 11: Slum Spirituality Integration Retreat

Students meet together for a 2-day retreat to integrate their field observations on Urban Poor Spirituality into an integrated (all-class), publishable paper. Supports outcomes 1.1, 1.2

 

Assignment 12: Weekly Examen Exercises

At least once each week, students work through the Examen protocol of questions to facilitate personal spiritual examination. Notes are kept in a course journal and are discussed with the student’s spiritual director. Supports outcomes 2.1

 

Assignment 13:  Spiritual Growth Group

In consultation with your community supervisor (e.g. church-planter, Christian development specialist) lead a small group for a 6-10 week period, working through the principles of practices of spiritual formation as it relates to community ministry. The Supervisor completes a report form and sends to course facilitator. Supports outcomes 3.3, 1.2

 

Assignment 14: Individual and Group Evaluation

The course facilitator develops and administers two evaluations: (1) a written course evaluation, completed by each student, that provides feedback on the relevance of course content and effectiveness of the course facilitator, and (2) a group discussion guide that enables students to freely express and summarize, in writing, their ideas for improving the course.  Supports Program Evaluation Outcomes

 

Textbook Information:

(For each textbook, identify Author/editor, title, edition, publisher, and date)

The Course CD has copies of the following

Abeledo, Yago. (2002). The Slums: The Challenge of a Crucified People. In Franceso Pierli and Yago Abeledo (Ed.), The Slums:A Challenge to Evangelization (pp. 109-132). Daughters of St Paul, P.O. Box 49026, 00100 Nairobi GPO: Paulinas Publications Africa.

Bessenecker, Scott. (2006). Voluntary Poverty of God. The New Friars: The Emerging Movement Serving the World's Poor. Downers Grove, IL: IVP.Boa, Ken. (2001). Warfare with the Flesh. Conformed to his Image. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

 Boa, Ken. (2001). Walking in the Power of the Spirit Conformed to his Image. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection. (1977). The Practice of the Presence of God. Garden City: Image.

Cone, James H. (2005). God & Black Suffering. The Spirituals and the Blues. An Interpretation. New York: Orbis Press.

Chu, Reineer. A Theology of Change Unpublished paper.

Doolittle, Benjamin R. and Micheal Farrell. The Association Between Depression and Spirituality in an Urban Clinic. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2004; 6(3).

Hanks, Thomas. (1984). Basic Old Testament Vocabulary of Oppression. God So Loved the Third World. Maryknoll, Orbis Books. pp3-25.

Breen, M. (2002). Fivefold Ministries. In The Apostle's Notebook. Eastbourne, England, pp. 161-171, 220

Cox, Harvey. (1995).Your Daughters Shall Prophesy. Fire from Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-First Century. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. 161-184.

Flavier, Juan M. (1974). Ka Berong, Albularyo. In My Friends in the Barrios. Manila: New Day Publishers.

Grigg, Viv. (2005). Works of the Spirit of God. In Cry of the Urban Poor. GA, USA: Authentic Media.

--- . (2005). Group Structures for Squatter Churches In Cry of the Urban Poor. GA, USA: Authentic Media. ch 13.

 ---. (2005).  The Nature of Revival. In The Holy Spirit and the Postmodern City: Transformative Revival Among Auckland's Evangelicals and Pentecostals.  PhD (Theology), University of Auckland, Auckland. ch 6. pp74-96.

---. (2005). An Insider's Perspective. In  Cry of the Urban Poor. GA, USA: Authentic Media. ch 15.Capaque, George N. (c2000) PAGBUBUKAS-LOOB: A Filipino Evangelical Theology of Spirituality. Excerpt from PhD Thesis.

Jocano, F. Landa. (1980). The Coming of the Gods. In Outline of Philippine Mythology. Manila: Centro Escolar University Research and Development Center.

Koch, Kurt. (1994). Pastoral Cases from the Field of Occultism. Christian Counselling and Occultism (fr German, Trans.). Grand Rapids: Kregel.

Ligo, Arche. (1993). Liberation Themes in Philippine Popular Religiosity: A Case Study. Voices from the Third World, XVI (2), 117-142.

Murphy, Ed. (1996). Six Sin Areas and Possible Demonisation of Christians. The Handbook of Spiritual Warfare. Nashville: Thomas Nelson.

Rieblich, Ruthellen Josellson and Amia. The Psychology of Keeping a Diary. In The Narrative Study of Lives.

Sandford, John and Paula. (1985). The Forgotten Functions of Our Spirit. In Healing the Wounded Spirit (pp. 3-26). Tulsa, OK: Victory House, Inc.

Wimber, John & Springer, Kevin. (1986). An Unlikely Healer. Power Healing. London: Hodder & Stoughton. 

Weekly Examen Exercises

 

Texts in Library or online

·         Boa, K. (2001). Conformed to his image. Grand Rapids: Zondervan.
 

·         Grigg V. (2004). Companion to the poor. Monrovia, CA: Authentic Media.

 

·         Grigg, V. (1985). The lifestyle and values of servants. Auckland: Urban Leadership Foundation.

 

·         Grigg, V. (2005). The nature of revival. The Holy Spirit and the postmodern city: Transformative revival among Auckland's Evangelicals and Pentecostals. Auckland: University of Auckland. 

 

·         Murphy, E. (1996). The handbook of spiritual warfare. Nashville: Thomas Nelson.