“Leaders of the 21st century church…will be called upon to address the following issues:
- Cross-cultural ministry skills
- Organizational changes for an inclusive church
- Neighborhood-based congregations
- The United States as a mission field
- Women in ministry
- Preserving properties in key urban areas
--taken from The Changing Face of the Church: From American to Global. by Thomas G. Nees. (Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press. 1997, pp. 75-76)
Urban Ministry Opportunities/Internships
Mission Year
http://www.missionyear.org
Center for Student Missions
http://www.csm.org
“Training Urban Leadership: An Incipient Program”
Charles Gailey
presented to Association of Nazarene Sociologists of Religion, March 22, 1986)
http://media.premierstudios.com/nazarene/docs/Training Urban Leadership_An Incipient Program.pdf
“The Educated Urban Bi-Vocational Pastor: A Model of Adaptation to a Two-Third World Social Phenomenon-Rural to Urban Migration”
Charles K. Morrow
presented to ANSR, 1986
http://media.premierstudios.com/nazarene/docs/The Educated Urban Bi-Vocational Haitian.pdf
The following organizations and institutions offer continuing or occasional courses in urban issues and ministering in the city:
Asbury Theological Seminary
doctorofministry.org
D.Min. program with Urban Ministry concentration
www.asburyseminary.edu/dmin/urban.htm
Auburn Seminary
auburnsem.org
Bresee Institute for Metro-Ministries
bimm.org
--affiliated with Nazarene Theological Seminary
nts.edu
CCDA Institute
http://www.ccda.org/institute/index.shtml
Center for Urban Ministerial Education of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
http://www.gordonconwell.edu/boston/index.php
Center for Urban Theological Studies
cuts.edu
North Park University
http://www.northpark.edu
School of Urban Ministry
http://www.stpaulsevlutheran.org/sum/home.shtml
Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education
scupe.com
Southern Nazarene University -- Bachelor of Science Degree
http://snu.edu/?p-{D034D57A-F393-407B-9B5F-273C464AB2AD
Urban Leadership Institute -- a component of the Urban Ministry Program of
Claremont School of Theology
cst.edu/URBANWEB/ulihome.htm
Westmont College Urban Program
http://urban.westmont.edu/
"Sustaining Urban Pastoral Excellence: A program of compensated leave, study, and spiritual formation for urban pastors”
offered by Center for Congregational Research and Development at Boston University’s School of Theology bu.edu/ccrd/supe/index.html
“Essential Tools for Effective Urban Leaders”
David Best
Session 2, Successfully Serving the City (cassette tape)
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