Core Subjects

Core subjects must be completed by all graduating students.

Ministerial Leadership
This subject covers the leadership skills necessary for longevity in ministry, including management principles and prevailing ministerial leadership issues.

Strategic Outreach Systems
This subject develops the concepts of strategic systems for outreach events, covering management coordination and training needs necessary for the effective planning and execution of evangelistic events.

21st Century Church Planting
Proven pathways and methods are explored and examined for those called to pioneer church plants. Students are exposed to the foundations and building concepts requisite for effective church planting and their ongoing impact within the community.

Worldwide Missions
Providing students with biblical, theoretical and practical insight into the current situation of worldwide missions. It will develop the concepts of mission needs and evaluate the effective management practices that are behind successful mission’s endeavours.

Pastoral Counselling
This subject will develop students in the competencies of supplying Pastoral Counselling in a variety of contexts and applications. Students will recognise the biblical basis for pastoral counselling technique and will be taken through the process of developing Pastoral Counselling aids.

Ministry Administration and Finance
A preparation for understanding ministry administration and financial oversight; covering the requirements of constitutional set up, sound financial practice and relevant ATO compliances. Students will also consider the need for insurance and duty of care issues in ministry departments and ministry endeavour.

Ministry Marketing
Learning to develop the specialised knowledge necessary for effective Ministry Marketing in a variety of contexts. The student will be exposed to Marketing concepts that are applicable to the Contemporary Church and Para-church Industry.

Provide Leadership in Ministry Music
Students will be taught the foundations of contemporary, biblically-based and prophetic worship. The subject explores the variety of patterns for Worship in ministry and the necessary knowledge and practical skills to lead a worship team in their ministry to the Lord and among the people of God.

Apply Healing In Ministry
This subject will see students developing their understanding of the basic causes of sickness and disease and applying biblical prayer strategies for the support and care of those seeking Divine Healing.

Manage 21st Century Youth Ministry
Provides students with the appropriate skills to manage and lead youth ministry endeavours, skills and knowledge necessary for the planning and promotion of contemporary ministry to post modern youth culture.

Apostolic and Prophetic Networks
A study of the necessary biblical perspective of the Apostolic and Prophetic offices, their calls, responsibilities and effect on churches, cities and nations and the need to release and allow their governance in ministry endeavours.

Elective Subjects

Understand Faith Systems
The necessary building blocks of faith required for the development of faith discipleship programmes will be examined. This will include identifying and analysing the history and current direction of faith ministries, and the common pitfalls associated with belief and faith systems.

Discover Koine Greek
Develops the necessary foundations for students desiring to conduct ‘Introduction subjects to Koine Greek’. It explores the concepts of Greek English transliteration, Greek alphabet learning aids and the skills necessary for noun declension and verb conjugation.

Apply Prayer Strategies
Students will develop the management skills necessary for effective prayer team leadership. It will identify historical and current trends relevant to strategic prayer applications for prayer team initiatives and programmes.

Understand World Belief Systems
An examination and analysing of the predominant religions of the world, identifying categories in which they fall and the belief systems on which they are founded. Students will develop their understanding of the origins of world religions and their growth in the past 100 years.

Understand Christian Politics
Students will develop a specialised knowledge of the history of Christian involvement in politics with an emphasis on Australia and will be aware of the basic structure of government and the role of the bureaucracy within. They will consider the methods available for Christians to impact government decision-making and the justification for Christian involvement in government.

Grief Care
A focus on the causes and effects of grief, whilst developing a sound biblical basis for answering the most common questions and doubts that arise in the midst of grief counselling. Students will learn to apply grief recovery techniques whilst supplying both the spiritual and practical funeral service needs of a family experiencing bereavement over the loss of a loved one.

Peaceful Resolutions
Students will learn and be established in the concepts of peaceful conflict resolving techniques. The material will develop an appreciation of the nature of conflict and the impact of personality types on the causes of tension in relationships. Students will be provided with resolution tools for a variety of functional and dysfunctional conflict situations.

Drug and Alcohol Dependency
Raises awareness of alcohol and drug addiction and its impact on our society and community. It will equip students to assess the immediate needs of the substance abuser. This subject provides students with a foundational knowledge of duty of care issues that affect ministry care and referral paths that exist for those at risk.

Establish Children’s Ministry
This subject exposes students to the various scopes for primary school aged ministry. Students will explore the biblical concepts of Children’s Ministry and the development of effective programmes that are relevant to local church, chaplaincy or religious education contexts.