{"id":1337,"date":"2014-08-15T20:40:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-16T01:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2021-03-12T14:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T19:14:23","slug":"new-doctor-ministry-degrees-meeting-todays-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pts.edu\/blog\/new-doctor-ministry-degrees-meeting-todays-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"New Doctor of Ministry Degrees: Meeting Today&#8217;s Needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the world changes, those in ministry must meet new needs. To help prepare pastors, Pittsburgh Seminary is offering two new Doctor of Ministry focuses. The Missional Leadership and Urban Change DMins begin January 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The Urban Change Focus is designed to assist church leaders in framing and pursuing spiritually and socially transformative ministry responses to rapidly changing complex urban circumstances. Opportunity for study in urban settings, including an international immersion for one week in London and a second week in Pretoria, South Africa, will provide global contextual education. Other sessions meet in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>The Missional Leadership DMin seeks to form pastors to lead congregations in recognizing what it means to participate in God\u2019s mission within their specific context. Defining mission while sitting in the pews blocks the wide open vision of community. The goal is to plunge into the neighborhood and develop new relationships while practicing a keen understanding that God is active in the world. From these new practices and habits, a new vision for ministry and faith emerges. Classes meet in January and June in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Both Urban Change and Missional Leadership include the following goals:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To develop a biblically rooted and theologically informed understanding of missional congregations and leadership. Achieving this goal will include the development of a theology of missional congregations, leadership theory, ethics, ecclesiology, proclamation, and conflict theory.<\/li>\n<li>To form leaders who are theologically reflective from within their own contexts and able to lead their congregation to become a missional community. Achieving this goal includes the integration of research methodology with formative postures, habits, and practices of adaptive change leadership, the challenge of re-thinking church, cultivating communal discernment, plunging into the neighborhood, preaching, worship, and pastoral care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interested in either program? We welcome your <a title=\"Doctor of Ministry application\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pts.edu\/ministry\">applications online<\/a> through Oct. 31, 2014. Or contact the Doctor of Ministry Office with questions at 412-924-1421 or<a href=\"mailto:DoctorOfMinistry@pts.edu\"> DoctorOfMinistry@pts.edu<\/a>. 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