Upcoming Courses
and Intensives

Upcoming Courses

Leading and Planning Worship

Pastors, musicians, youth leaders, small group leaders – all have the amazing opportunity and privilege of leading God’s people in their worship. Our goal in this course is to think carefully about worship that will be spiritually transformative. We’ll learn to create and lead worship services that anticipate and leave room for formative encounters with God. The ministry of worship is one that shapes followers of Jesus, serves the Church, and ultimately engages the world, as those transformed from one degree of glory to another enter their weekday worlds, centered in Christ, and seeking God’s glory in all they do.

Instructor: Melissa Dueck (B.Mus, B.Ed, RCM Cert)

Experiential Youth Ministry 

This course will provide participants with the ability to use co-operative games and problem-solving initiatives as a means of impacting young people and training leaders within a youth, urban, or camp ministry. 

Instructor: Garth Friesen

Understanding and Caring for Foster/Adopted Children 

This course explores the foundational principles of attachment, connection, and relational healing for children and families impacted by foster care, adoption, trauma, and loss. Participants will learn practical, evidence-informed strategies for nurturing trust, emotional regulation, and healthy attachment in children who have experienced adversity.
The course examines how caregivers can create safe, secure, and responsive relationships that promote healing and resilience. Students will explore the effects of developmental trauma, disrupted attachment, grief, and neglect on children's behavior and development while gaining tools to respond with empathy, connection, structure, and attunement.

Instructor: Dallas Wiebe

Upcoming spring Intensive

The Distinctiveness of  Earliest Christianity

Instructor: Joshua Coutts, PhD

What is Christianity and what distinguishes it from anything else? This course considers this question through a close look at the earliest Christian communities, which united around the explosive historical event of Jesus and left the world forever changed. As we consider earliest Christ-devotion, Christian identity, community practices, models of cultural engagement, morality, and theology, we learn from our fore-bearers how to think and live Christianly in our own world.

This course is also available for graduate credit through Providence Seminary. Please register with Providence Seminary to take this course for graduate credit.

For more information about any of our upcoming courses and intensives, contact 204-326-6451.