Courses on Social Ministry of the Church
Curriculum for the Entire Academic Year
. These "Distance Discipleship" course materials are provided to you free of charge, our gift to you in Christ's name! They offer a lively environment of on-line lessons with automatic look-up of Bible references, quiz questions built into each lesson with positive or negative audio-visual feedback on true/false, multiple-choice and matching questions, and two short tests for each course. (You must use the Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Brave, or the latest Edge browser for our lessons and tests: other browsers might not work correctly here!)
General schedule of our classes:
Intro Course - "Ministry to the Handicapped and Poor"
12 lessons in 4 weeks, start of September to end of September (then 1-day break)
Course 100 - "Rehabilitation of Children with Disabilities"
16 lessons in 5.5 weeks, start of October to early November (then four-day break)
Course 200 - "Foundations of Psychology"
16 lessons in 5.5 weeks, early November to late December (then three-week Christmas break)
Course 300 - "A Biblical Theology of Ministry"
18 lessons in 6 weeks, mid-January to end of February (then one-week break)
Course 400 - "Care for Patients with Various Conditions"
16 lessons in 6 weeks, March to end of mid-April (then one-week break)
Course 500 - "Vocational Rehabilitation"
16 lessons in 6 weeks, mid-April to end of May (then ten-week summer break)
Here's our sample test: login with USERNAME = "SampleExam" and PASSWORD = "Chrysostom" so you can see how the tests work with logging each attempt, no audio-visual feedback, and with a time limit. It works like the "guest" login, which lets you ENROLL or try answering the questions in our lessons, but neither the "guest" nor "SampleExam" logins can view the real exams or participate in our group discussions. You're also allowed to re-open this sample exam, but regular enrolled students are normally allowed only one attempt. (See below for more...)
The mentor/instructor can set exam variables to allow a student a second attempt under extenuating circumstances, and also set variables so that the exams are "open-book" with no logging and no time limit, and even with positive or negative feedback. You can also print out the lessons and use them for in-person classes! Our course software is available free of charge for churches and schools that would like to create their own online courses.
If you ENROLL (click on START on the gray menu above) for a Certificate of Completion, you will have interaction with other students via our video discussion group or email group, and your quiz answers will be emailed to the mentor/instructor. They will automatically go to the correct email addresses: when you enroll we will enter you in our class and discussion groups.
Our courses are free, but when you enroll we ask that if possible you make a small donation of $5 for each course (12 - 16 lessons in each course), which is used to cover the expenses of maintaining our "virtual" classrooms and websites. It also increases the probability that you will finish the course: many of those who enrolled for free did not send in even the first lesson, so now we ask you to do the first lesson with the "guest" login.
By enrolling, you'll have much greater probability of finishing the courses because of instructor and group support that helps you keep to the schedule: you must promise to follow the course schedule with the other students, completing three assignments per week plus two short written essays and two short tests. If a lesson has a practical assignment, be sure to do those as well as reading the lessons and doing the written work.
Enrolling requires a real commitment of time and effort, so please be confident you can finish what you start. If you can't make this commitment, you're welcome to login as "guest" and answer the questions online with some audio-visual feedback, and/or print the lessons to use with a group in your church.