Thursday, November 8, 2018
Tuesday, March 6, 2018
New Cohort of CLP candidates starting January 2019
We will be starting a new cohort for CLP candidates in January of 2019. The cohort will take 12 ten class hour classes over 13 months. Class generally meet on the third weekend each month for 3 hours on Friday night and 7 hours on Saturday. There are reading and writing assignments before and after class. At the end of the 12 classes, CLP candidates will have completed all the educational requirements to become a Commissioned Lay Pastor in the PC USA.
If you are interested in becoming part of the 2018 CLP cohort please contact Karl Shadley at Karl@Shadley.net.
For an overview of the program, you can download the steps paper and the 2017-18 class catalog by clicking on the appropriate items on the right side of the blog page.
If you are interested in becoming part of the 2018 CLP cohort please contact Karl Shadley at Karl@Shadley.net.
For an overview of the program, you can download the steps paper and the 2017-18 class catalog by clicking on the appropriate items on the right side of the blog page.
Wednesday, July 19, 2017
READINGS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT: Wisdom Literature
READINGS
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
CRE/CLP
Leadership Training
Presbytery
of San Francisco Education Center
July
28-29, 2017
Instructor: Sung
Kim
(510)
559-9128
berkeleyks@yahoo.com
Teaching
Assistant: Susan
Hunn
(925) 708-4449
SHunn13@gmail.com
Course
Description:
This
course will be a reading of Wisdom Literature in the Old Testament.
Sung Kim will help the students read from the prospective of those
who are steeped in Wisdom Literature as in Asian and Buddhist
traditions and cultures.
Before
class students will read Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job. With the
following questions in mind
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Are justice and happiness congruent? Or, are you just to live a happy life?
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What do the texts say about the suffering of the just?
Students
are also to develop one question that they have of the
readings.
Required
Texts:
The Bible – NRSV as well as other translations
Course
Requirements:
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Attendance at both class sessions.
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Read the text before class bring insights from the questions and their own question to class.
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There will be on short writing assignment that will be developed during the class that will be due in the next couple of weeks.
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
OLD TESTAMENT OVERVIEW - June 23-24, 2017
OLD
TESTAMENT OVERVIEW
CRE/CLP
Leadership Training
Presbytery
of San Francisco Education Center – June 23-24, 2017
Instructor: Carol
Miles
(925)
817-9396
revdrcarolmiles@gmail.com
Course
Description:
This
course introduces participants to the content of the Old Testament
and to the task of interpreting the Old Testament for contemporary
Christian congregations. Questions of the Old Testament’s abiding
authority for the church are addressed, and attention is given to the
way its major literary forms (narrative, law, prophecy, psalm, wisdom
saying) uniquely bear witness to the gospel of God.
Required
Texts:
The Bible – NRSV Study Bible (Harper Collins or Oxford)
Jeff S. Anderson, The Old Testament: Its Story and History
(available as an e-book on lulu.com, or in paperback from
amazon.com), 2011
Ellen F. Davis, Getting Involved with God: Rediscovering the Old
Testament, Cowley Publications, 2001
Recommended
Resources:
Bruce
C. Birch, Walter Brueggeman, Terence E. Fretheim, and David L.
Petersen, eds., A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament,
2nd ed., Abingdon Press, 2005
OR
Walter
Brueggeman and Walter C. Kaiser, eds., The New Interpreter’s
Bible Old Testament Survey, Abingdon Press, 2006
Course
Requirements:
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Attendance at both class sessions.
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Completion of all required readings.
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A final assignment enumerating the 10 most important insights you gained from the readings and class presentations. Insights should be stated in your own words but may include quotes from books or lectures as appropriate (1-2 pp). On a separate sheet, list a minimum of 5 questions that remain for you about the Old Testament or the task of engaging or interpreting Old Testament texts for the life of the church. Send final assignment as an attachment to the instructor’s email address above. DUE: July 14, 2017
In
order to receive a passing grade for the class, ALL work must
be completed and turned in no later than July 28, 2017.
Pre-Course
Assignment:
Prior
to the first class session, please read the two required texts
(Anderson and Davis) and come prepared to discuss what you consider
to be the problems and possibilities of teaching and preaching the
Old Testament in your current congregation.
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Friday, March 24, 2017
PRESBYTERIAN POLITY - with the Rev. Kamal Hassan
The Class - Saturday - April 29, 2017
Education Center Leadership Classes
PRESBYTERIAN POLITY
Presbytery of San Francisco – April 28 – April 29, 2017
@ the Presbytery Education Center - 545 Ashbury Ave. El Cerrito CA
INSTRUCTOR:
Rev. Kamal Hassan
510-691-5204 "teachelder@gmail.com"
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Course Description This is a course on the basics of Presbyterian governance and the guiding principles that inform how congregations in the PCUSA can do mission and ministry in light of contemporary concerns in Church and society.
Required Readings
The Bible – NRSV Study Bible (Harper Collins or Oxford)
“Presbyterian Polity and white privilege: A denomination out of order,” Magdalena I Garcia, February 7, 2017 by The Presbyterian Outlook
Gray, Joan S., Spiritual Leadership for Church Officers, A Handbook, Louisville: Geneva Press 2009
Book of Confessions, The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church Part I, Office of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, Louisville, KY, 2016
Book of Order 2015-2017, The Constitution of the Presbyterian Church Part II, Office of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, Louisville, KY, 2015
Recommended Readings
Small, Joseph, The Great Ends of the Church, Short Term Study Course for Adults, Louisville, KY, Witherspoon Press 2003. www.pcusa.org/witherspoonpress
Gray, Joan S. and Tucker, Joyce C., Presbyterian Polity for Church Leaders, 4th Ed., Louisville, KY, Geneva Press, 2012
Course Requirements
- Attendance at both class sessions
- Completion of all required readings
- A final assignment TBA. DUE: May 19, 2017
Pre-Course Assignment
Read the Garcia article and the Confessions of 1967 and Belhar in the Book of Confessions before class. As you read these texts, record what are – for you – 10 key insights that illumine, deepen, or challenge your knowledge and understanding of how the congregation that you are a member of can best embody the PCUSA core identity of being “Reformed but always Reforming” in the post 2016 presidential election environment in Church and society in the United States. In addition, list 5 questions that remain for you – for further study or to be answered in class. This assignment will be collected on Friday evening. It will shape the instruction for the Saturday class and the nature of your final assignment.
Monday, March 20, 2017
Building and Maintaining Boundaries in Ministry
The
Presbytery of San Francisco
Classes
for all Elders, Deacons, CLPs and other servants
a ministry of the Presbytery
Education Working Group
Building
and Maintaining
Boundaries in Ministry:
March
25, 2017 Saturday
8:30 – 3:30pm
This
class will meet the required
“Sexual
Misconduct Prevention Training Class”
required
by Presbytery for all Pastors to take every three years
Class
held at the:
Presbytery
of San Francisco Education Center
545
Ashbury Ave., El Cerrito, CA 94707
(across from El Cerrito High School)
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COST: $40
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SATURDAY LUNCH: $10.00
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Class taught by: Kibby Ruth
Founder
and Senior Consultant of Kyros Ministry.
Dr.
Ruth works with judicatories and congregations to establish safe
relationships and faith communities, including prevention of child
abuse, domestic violence, elder abuse, sexual harassment,
professional misconduct and other abuses of power.
WORKSHOP
OBJECTIVES
1)
To increase awareness of the need for healthy and appropriate
boundaries in the
clergy/congregant or
teacher/student relationship
2) Review the Sexual
Misconduct Policy of the Presbytery of San Francisco
2) To illustrate the impact
of appropriate vs. inappropriate boundaries in promoting effective
ministry.
3) To provide clergy and
spiritual teachers with guidelines and suggestions for developing
appropriate boundaries and necessary self-care strategies
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Name:
Date:
Address:
Telephone
:
Email address:
Church
affiliation:
I would like a lunch at $10: _________________
Mail
this application and a payment to: (made out to the
Presbytery of San Francisco)
Presbytery
of San Francisco, Attn: CLP Coordinator
2029 University Ave. Suite 200, Berkeley, CA 94704
2029 University Ave. Suite 200, Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone:
510 - 849-4393
QUESTIONS AND FURTHER
INFORMATION
Contact the Rev. Karl Shadley at: karl@shadley.net 0r 510-435-4264
Contact the Rev. Karl Shadley at: karl@shadley.net 0r 510-435-4264
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