MT400 PIONEERING WORKS FOR GOD

Instructor: Holland Davis

PH: (949) 533-4656

EM: hollanddavismail@gmail.com

COURSE: MT400 Pioneering Works For God (3 Credits)

Textbooks

The Reproducers by Chuck Smith (available FREE at calvarychapelstore.com)
New Ministry Planning Manual by Holland Davis (available FREE)
Church Administration And Finance Manual by by Otto F. Crumroy Jr. (Author), Stan Kukawka (Author), Frank M. Witman (Author)

This course is designed to walk students through the process of starting a brand new ministry. The principles students learn can be applied to church planting. Students are encourage to apply the course material to a ministry they are currently in process of starting.

• • Grow more in love with Jesus Christ, establishing a deeper knowledge of Him and intimacy with Him through the study of His Word.  The primary goal of this class and the CCSoD as a whole is to grow in your relationship with Jesus. 

• • Gain a practical understanding of how to launch a brand new ministry.

• • Gain a practical understanding of church administration

• • Apply course materials to a current ministry that needs relaunching or to being a new ministry.

Course Requirements

• • Attendance/Participation:
    • • One aspect of grading will be based upon your attendance and participation during classes. 
    • • This class is highly interactive and requires high interaction.
    • • Everyone is allowed one unexcused absence.

• • Homework:
    • • You will be required to complete assignments from the Textbook.
    • • For Online Students… take notes from each class and upload your notes to receive credit for attending the class.
    • • *All homework assignments are due on the designated date; there will be NO late homework accepted.

• • MID-TERM:
    • • There will be no Mid-Term.
    • • Instead of a Mid-Term a Book Report will be due week 7 on The Reproducers by Chuck Smith.

• • Final Project:
    • • Instead of a Final Exam, students will be required to start a ministry or to complete materials starting a potential ministry

Grading

Your grade in this class will be based upon the criteria above.  The percentages are as follows:  

Plagiarism

Anyone who plagiarizes (i.e., presents as one’s own work something which has been taken from someone else) may receive an automatic failure on that piece of work and a warning. (Plagiarism can involve the taking of an idea or structure of a written work as well as the actual copying of what is written.) If you use someone else’s material, you must give them proper credit for using their work.  For a first-time offense, the student will receive a 0% grade for the paper with a 1-week grace period to rectify and correct the paper. If such corrections are made on time and to the standards of the course outline the result will be a grade maximum grade of 60%. A second offense of plagiarism will result in failure (“F”) for the final course grade.