Certificate
in
Women's Ministry
Preparing Christian women to disciple, counsel, mentor, & coach the next generation!
CERTIFICATE IN WOMEN'S MINISTRY
The foundational certificate program is perfect for women embarking on their leadership journey. It equips students with the essential biblical knowledge and leadership skills to serve in various ministry roles within the local church. Moreover, participants will gain insight into their own leadership qualities, explore their unique calling, and learn how to prepare for this deeply personal mission.
Focus Areas:
Spiritual Formation, Ministry Foundations, Women's Discipleship, Basic Leadership Skills, and personal development.
COURSE OF STUDY
1. Women: A Biblical Profile
Course Description:
This course summarizes all the Bible teaches regarding women. It is a reference tool as it lists all the passages about women and references to all the individual women mentioned in the Word of God.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
2. INTRODUCTION TO LAY-COUNSELING - Part 1 - "HOW CAN I HELP?"
“Teaching the ordinary layperson how to help others in times of personal crisis.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Part 1
This course in personal Christian Lay-Counseling teaches how to reach out or respond when someone is in crisis. It presents a practical counseling model that utilizes Biblically based counseling techniques taking examples from the Ministry of Jesus. It prepares laypersons to support friends and community members emphasizing practical, hands-on approaches to counseling. The training encompasses various aspect of personal counseling, including understanding real-life crises, developing effective personal attitudes for counseling, and mastering a five-phased counseling model including exercises and role-playing scenarios to reinforce the learned concepts and techniques.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
3. INTRODUCTION TO LAY-COUNSELING - Part 2 - CRISIS INTERVENTION
This course is a continuation of the foundational lay-counseling course and provides knowledge of basic crisis counseling from a biblical perspective for Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Suicide and other related subjects including making proper referrals as needed.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
4. INTERCESSORY PRAYER
COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this study you will learn what intercessory prayer is and how to do it effectively using the dynamic spiritual resources that have been delegated for this purpose. This text is an intercessory prayer guide that includes guidelines on how to pray, what to pray for, when not to pray, resources for prayer, international intercession and factors that hinder prayer.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon conclusion of this course, you will be able to:
The foundational certificate program is perfect for women embarking on their leadership journey. It equips students with the essential biblical knowledge and leadership skills to serve in various ministry roles within the local church. Moreover, participants will gain insight into their own leadership qualities, explore their unique calling, and learn how to prepare for this deeply personal mission.
Focus Areas:
Spiritual Formation, Ministry Foundations, Women's Discipleship, Basic Leadership Skills, and personal development.
COURSE OF STUDY
1. Women: A Biblical Profile
Course Description:
This course summarizes all the Bible teaches regarding women. It is a reference tool as it lists all the passages about women and references to all the individual women mentioned in the Word of God.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Summarize the history of women as revealed in the Bible.
- List the purposes for which women were created.
- Contrast the traits of the two classes of women described in Proverbs.
- Explain the role of women during the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ.
- Summarize the Biblical position of women as revealed in Acts and the Epistles.
- Document with Scripture the ministry opportunities open to Christian women.
- Summarize the book of Ruth.
- Summarize the book of Esther.
- Continue independent study of women from a Scriptural perspective.
- Communicate what you have learned to other women.
- Explore how to start a ministry to women.
2. INTRODUCTION TO LAY-COUNSELING - Part 1 - "HOW CAN I HELP?"
“Teaching the ordinary layperson how to help others in times of personal crisis.
COURSE DESCRIPTION: Part 1
This course in personal Christian Lay-Counseling teaches how to reach out or respond when someone is in crisis. It presents a practical counseling model that utilizes Biblically based counseling techniques taking examples from the Ministry of Jesus. It prepares laypersons to support friends and community members emphasizing practical, hands-on approaches to counseling. The training encompasses various aspect of personal counseling, including understanding real-life crises, developing effective personal attitudes for counseling, and mastering a five-phased counseling model including exercises and role-playing scenarios to reinforce the learned concepts and techniques.
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
- To give the student an understanding of personal crisis situations.
- To help the student to understand the role of the personal counselor/helping friend.
- To impart practical counseling skills to the student and build confidence through role play experience.
- To broaden the student's counseling skills.
- To teach the student how to go about solving problems.
- To communicate the personal command from Christ that his followers should respond to the people in
- To confirm the student’s understanding of the Christian faith.
- To teach the student how to resist temptation and sin; and how to counsel others, helping them to change
- To teach the student how to integrate his Christian faith into the personal counseling process.
- The exercises and role play experiences thought-out the course builds the student's confidence and prepares him to answer the call to minister to people in crisis.
3. INTRODUCTION TO LAY-COUNSELING - Part 2 - CRISIS INTERVENTION
This course is a continuation of the foundational lay-counseling course and provides knowledge of basic crisis counseling from a biblical perspective for Alcohol and Drug Abuse, Suicide and other related subjects including making proper referrals as needed.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
4. INTERCESSORY PRAYER
COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this study you will learn what intercessory prayer is and how to do it effectively using the dynamic spiritual resources that have been delegated for this purpose. This text is an intercessory prayer guide that includes guidelines on how to pray, what to pray for, when not to pray, resources for prayer, international intercession and factors that hinder prayer.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
Upon conclusion of this course, you will be able to:
- Define prayer.
- Explain how prayer is answered.
- Summarize the role of prayer in the life of Jesus Christ.
- Identify the levels of prayer.
- Identify the different types of prayer.
- Define intercessory prayer.
- Explain the Biblical basis of the believer's ministry as an intercessor.
- Identify Jesus Christ as our model for intercession.
- Describe how intercession is done.
- Explain why intercession is important and how to intercede and what to intercede for.
- Summarize principles of effective intercession.
- Use spiritual resources for intercession.
- Identify and eliminate hindrances to effective intercession.