Competency Profiles as Basis for MA in Transformational Urban Leadership Course Design - By

This is a summary of inputs from the WEA Missions Commission Cross-cultural profiling process, the Encarnacao Brasil and Bangkok gatherings,

NCIBC, and ten grassroots training conferences. It includes comprehensive cross-cultural, and churchplanter outcomes, but movement leadership

and specialist ministry outcomes need more refining. Ongoing profiling discussions will add or delete some of these. The next step is to compare

the proposed courses with these and see what is missing, then to redefine these with appropriate language for level 9 outcomes e.g. experience

"living in a slum community" needs to be redefined as something like, "critically evaluate an experienceof living in a slum community". The step

after that is to ask which of the outcomes for each course should actually be evaluated and how, as we can rarely evaluate everything. There is

also a separate set of pre - MA assessment competencies that have surfaced from these years of process. These were largely derived by looking

at the goals of the program in terms of progressions from evangelist, pasttor, teacher, comm development worker into apostolic and broad scale

crosscultural movement leadership roles, but I have laid them out according to proposed course as at this point that helps show the deficiencies of

both this process and the courses proposed
Competency Profiles as Basis for Course Design of the MA in Transformational Urban
Course: OO OO Overall Course Goals
CompID Competency Skill Knowledge Value Character

Course Objectives: The student population is comprised of two major groups:



OO Overall Course Goals The majority will be movement leaders, church leaders, activist believers, and business entrepreneurs who want to

extend their skills into wider movement leadership among the urban poor.



Existing workers with a number years experience and proven servant ability who are progressing from pastoral,

evangelistic, teaching, prophetic or diaconal (community development) roles into future apostolic team leadership of

multiplying urban church movements in the slums across a city.



Those preparing to be pioneers who would catalyse new movements in cross-cultural settings among the urban poor in

the poorest cities of the world.



Up to 1/3 of applicants may be drawn from among those intending to serve the urban poor from a diaconal or justice

role, and wanting to use business or professional training and experience to socially, politically, economically and

spiritually liberate the poor.

Some will do this in church-based advocacy, community development or community organisation processes within

urban poor movements.


Some will do this through non-governmental organizations (e.g. World Vision, Oxfam, Tear Fund) or foundations,

multilateral development agencies (e.g., the United Nations, World Bank Group, OECD, WTO), refugee and

immigration services,

Some will do this through government ministries, and business enterprises, or through professions such as teaching,

journalism, development planning, and administration, especially within less-developed regions.
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To lay academic and practical To lay practical foundations for To lay academic foundations for

foundations for urban poor urban poor workers, pastors, urban poor workers, pastors,

workers, pastors, those in those in professions and city those in professions and city

professions and city leaders to leaders to expand indigenous leaders to expand indigenous

expand indigenous theologies theologies and city strategies for theologies and city strategies for

and city strategies for church church planting and societal church planting and societal

planting and societal

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