Teach Them to Your Children: Helping Parents Fulfill Their Spiritual Responsibility to Children
Instructor: Donn Dobberstein
Description:
There are big issues tearing today’s families apart: divorce, single-parent homes, misplaced priorities, etc. Even stable families are hurting. Some parents may even be terrified. Families don’t have dinner together. Congregations need help holding families together. The key is not a church program, but the home. This course will:
• Address home culture issues that are causing families to struggle in their faith and worship life.
• Address philosophy of ministry issues: What is the parent’s job? The church’s job? The school’s job?
• Allow called workers to consider what a Family Ministry Plan for their congregation might look like that encourages parents to take the lead in faith-development.
During the Minnesota district-wide satellite event, choose this course as the main item of your agenda. You are welcome to take the course for credit (including assignments and readings outside of class) or you may audit the course (sit in for the material but without the work outside of class). The course will only cost $200 per credit if taken for credit and $100 if taken for audit. All retired pastors are welcome to audit any course free of charge.
Course registration will be available in the Student Information System (SIS) beginning February 4, 2025, and close April 1, 2025. Use the "Login with Office 365 button" once you've received a student account (if you don't already have one) and are logged in to Microsoft 365 with that student account. Need an account? Request one here.
WLS has been granted accreditation with ATS; therefore, the email domain has been changed from firstname.lastname@wisluthsem.org to firstname.lastname@wls.edu. Please use the new email domain to log in to Microsoft 365 and access WLS-related websites (e.g., Library Resources, SIS, SemNet).
For more conference information, please visit the district website.
Dates | Term | Location | |
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04/29/2025 to 05/01/2025 | Minnesota District Spring Satellite Event 2025 | Kahler Grand Hotel, Rochester, MN | View Courses |