Centre for Rural Community Leadership and Ministry

STM in Rural Ministry and Community Development

NEW! MASTERS IN SACRED THEOLOGY (STM) IN RURAL MINISTRY AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTFIRST COHORT HAS BEEN ASSEMBLED.  WE ARE LOOKING FOR A SECOND TO BEGIN Fall 2010.  (click here for a listing of course descriptions)

• If you have a basic theological degree and are interested in honing your skills in rural ministry and community development this is for you. The Saskatoon Theological Union, with the guidance and support of CiRCLe M, are offering this accredited graduate degree in a cohort-based, distance-education format. This 3-year Master of Sacred Theology degree aims to help rural ministers lead their congregations in more effective engagement with their communities.   The program is interdisciplinary and will be drawing on resources and teachers from theology, rural sociology, rural health care and other disciplines. Each cohort of students will meet together for three, one-week periods each year to do an intensive course. In the third year students who elect to do a thesis will work on that while the rest will take two more courses. The cohort will graduate together at the end of the three years. 
• The emphasis in this degree is on working out of your context. So students’ employers (congregations, judicatories or agencies) must agree in writing to release and support their church worker for the periods of time during each year needed for the study. And of course the study will directly benefit, not just the ministers but the ministry sites. 
• Get in on a ground-breaking Canadian experience!  
• Open this document for a look at how this program might benefit your congregation and community. 

 

Rural STM Cohorts Schedule:

1st Rural STM Cohort: Congregation Research and Community Projects Begin

August 2010

Cam Harder

 

2nd Rural STM Cohort: Foundations of Rural Ministry and Community Development

Registration March 2010; Begin Fall 2010.

 

Below are the students in our first cohort (of many!) working on their STM degree in Rural Ministry and Community Development.  They come from AB, SK and MB and from United, Anglican and Lutheran Churches.  They are a dynamic bunch.  It was quite a week we had together!  The program is open to anyone who has a basic theological degree in any denomination or faith group.