Seminars & Training

Clergy wishing to be licensed, have privilege of call or ordination in the United Church of Christ and those interested in ministerial partner standing in the United Church of Christ need to take the UCC History & Polity Course.  For more information about the 2012 course, click here.

It is recommended that clergy attend the Healthy Boundary Training sessions each year or at least one training session in the last three years.   Topic  this year will be Seeds of Hope - Pro-Reconciliation/Anti-Racism Training.  Resource speakers will be Chris Hobgood & Marcus Leathers.  Four sessions are offered annually - all four sessions will be offered March 14-17, 2012, 9am-3pm - one day each, moving around the Region.  Locations are:

• March 14 - Marshall Ave. Christian Church, 620 S 26th St., Mattoon, IL 61938
• March 15 - Central Christian Church, 359 W College Ave, Jacksonville, IL 62650
• March 16 - First Christian Church, 301 N Broad St., Galesburg, IL 61401
• March 17 - Grace Community Christian Church, 2770 Montgomery Rd., Aurora, IL 60504

For more information and a registration form, click here.

This course is offered biennially by the CCIW Ministry Committee for commissioned ministers, students attending non-Disciple seminaries, ordained clergy seeking transfer of ordination, and U.C.C. clergy wanting to have Ordained Minister Partner standing with the Disciples of Christ.  A reflective paper on the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) will be required following the course as a fulfillment of the course requirements.
  
The next course will be offered June 25-29, 2012.  Click for the Registration Form.  Resources for the course include:  Mark Toulouse's Joined in Discipleship:  the Shaping of Contemporary Disciples Identity  (The Introduction and Chapters 1-5) and Duane Cummins, The Disciples:  A Struggle for Reformation.  Below are other course resources which you can download to begin preparation for the course:

• The Design for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
• Thomas Campbell's Declaration & Address
• Barton Stone's Last Will and Testament of the Springfield Presbytery
• Theological Foundations & Policies & Criteria for the Ordering of Ministry in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) - current version approved by the General Assembly in July 2011.

A Disciples History & Polity Course is also offered "on-line"  through Missouri School of Religion or Phillips Theological Seminary.