Specialized Certificate in Parish Life and Administration - New Orleans Campus Format
Description of the Program
The Specialized Certificate program offers specialty-level ministry education courses, informative readings, and integrating project work for persons currently engaged or soon to be engaged in pastoral ministry leadership roles in local Christian faith communities.
Thus, the Specialized Certificate is a professional ministry credential and a continuing ministry education (c.e.u. credit) program which is ideal for lay ministry professionals, clergy, pastoral administrators, parish coordinators, and pastoral associates; other local church leaders such as DREs and religious education coordinators; experienced ministry volunteers; and post-graduate level students. Certificate program participants often include persons who wish to update themselves on current areas of ministry interest, to acquire another professional ministry credential, to acquire ministry leadership skills, to fulfill continuing education requirements, to further integrate their previous ministry studies and/or ministry experiences, and to integrate knowledge from the disciplines of theology, canon law studies, ministry, leadership theory, and psychology.
Admission to the Program
Four criteria exist for formal admission to the Specialized Certificate program. A learner ’s admission requires at least one of the following:
- a Masters degree, preferably in pastoral studies, religious studies, religious education, theology, or a closely related field of study; or
- a Certificate awarded by the on-campus or the extension programs
(C.P.S. or C.R.E.), of the Loyola Institute for Ministry of Loyola University New Orleans. - a B.A. or B.S. degree, plus at least three years of documentable ministry
leadership experience; or - no academic degree, but at least five years of documentable ministry
leadership experience.
Applicants for the Certificate program are evaluated in light of the current academic expectations placed on adult continuing education (c.e.u.) students by Loyola University’s Institute for Ministry (LIM).
The Specialized Certificate program leads participants toward 12 continuing education credit hours (c.e.u.) of specialty-level ministry studies. Successful completion of the program results in the student’s reception of the professional ministry credential called the Specialized Certificate in Parish Life and Administration, awarded by the Loyola Pastoral Life Center (LPLC), in conjunction with the Loyola Institute for Ministry, at Loyola University New Orleans.
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Complete All of Your Certificate Work Via Courses in 3 Short Summer Sessions
Summer Session 2008
Summer Session 2009
Summer 2008
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Courses and Instructors:
Effective Leadership & Pastoral Administration - Carol Holden, D.Min.
June 23-27, 6:10-9:30 p.m.
This course considers key, practical aspects of effective leadership in local faith communities consistent with current theologies on church and ministry. Participants explore and experiment with leadership and ministry-team paradigms in light of the mission of the church and their own ecclesial visions. Special attention will be given to the crucial leadership skills of collaboration, navigating change/transition, and spiritual self-care in modern church life and administration.
Cultural Diversity and Parish Ministry- Sister M. Vianney Bilgrien, SSND, STD
June 30-July 3, 6:10-9:30 p.m.
This course provides a framework that enables participants to investigate and understand pluralism and cultural diversity in the local faith community as both gifts and challenges. It will also provide the participants with a vocabulary that will enable them to understand their own culture, and the cultures of others, in the environment in which they live and to identify some of the dynamics in cross-cultural situations.
Summer 2009
Projected Courses Dates -- TBA
Courses:
The Dynamic Parish Today
Stewardship and Financial Management