Diploma in Vocational Ministry Leadership
Twenty core
courses form the Diploma in Vocational Ministry Leadership.
Ten hours in elective courses can be applied toward the
required sixty hours.
Ten hours in concentration studies are required to fulfill the DVML
program. The
concentration courses are being developed and will present studies
in the following areas: Pastor Leader, Worship Leader, Youth Leader,
Children Leader, Evangelism Leader, and Administrator-Assimilator.
The CVICS course studies are to fulfill our CVBA purpose:
“Multiply disciples and churches and equip and encourage
pastors and members to accomplish this.”
Course may change over time in order to better fulfill our
purpose.
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Expository Preaching—public communication skills for sharing
God’s Word
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New Testament survey—knowledge and understanding of the key
truths of these books
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Old Testament survey—greater insight of our God by the case
studies of these books
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Baptist History: theological development—the SBC and
associations
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Hermeneutics—how to effectively understand and apply Scripture
to life
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Evangelism—theology and application: how to equip members to
multiply
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Mentoring (multiplying leaders): how the local church raises
more leaders
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dministration and Church Growth: organizing people
for effective ministry
(How to steward the spiritual gifts of members for church
growth and extension)
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Church Growth I: theology, principles, and applications
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Music and Worship (worship leaders, planning worship, media
supports)
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Planting Healthy
Reproducing Churches—the bi-vocational team approach
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Age Group Ministries (needs/approaches for Adults, Youth,
Children, Preschool)
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English—grammar skills: correct use of verbs, pronouns,
modifiers, punctuation
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Church History: Ante-Nicene period through the twentieth
century
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Systematic Theology I
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Systematic Theology II
- Conflict Preclusion and Resolution in the church
18.
Counseling Principles and
Human-Social Issues
19.
Exegesis of
Culture—effective harvest ingathering principles for local contexts
20.
Small Groups—Leading and
multiplying
