{"id":973,"date":"2008-02-12T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T00:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.brethren.org\/news\/?p=973"},"modified":"2018-08-24T03:19:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T03:19:34","slug":"course-on-intercultural-competence-to-be-offered-at-churchs-general-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/2008\/course-on-intercultural-competence-to-be-offered-at-churchs-general-offices\/","title":{"rendered":"Course on Intercultural Competence to Be Offered at Church’s General Offices"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cCelebrating the Church of the Brethren\u2019s 300th Anniversary in 2008″<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Feb. 12, 2008) — The Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership will offer a course on “Intercultural Competence: Key Skills in a Multicultural World\u201d at the Church of the Brethren General Offices in Elgin, Ill., on April 27-29.<\/p>\n

Darla Kay Bowman Deardorff will be the instructor for the course. She is executive director of the Association of Intercultural Education Administrators, a cross cultural trainer, and an instructor at Duke University. She also was a member of the Annual Conference Intercultural Study Committee.<\/p>\n

The course will follow the denomination\u2019s annual Cross-Cultural Consultation and Celebration to be held in Elgin on April 24-27. The course begins on Sunday, April 27, at 3 p.m. and ends on Tuesday, April 29, at 4 p.m. Tuition is $200. Participants are encouraged, but not required, to attend all or part of the Cross-Cultural Consultation (for registration and information go to www.brethren.org\/genbd\/clm\/clt\/CrossCultural.html).<\/p>\n

Training in Ministry (TRIM) students will receive one Academy Level\/CEQ unit of Ministry Skills Credit for completion of the course; pastors and other ordained ministers will receive two continuing education units and will be required to do the pre-course reading in addition to participating in the course.<\/p>\n

For more information, including a brochure which lists the texts, contact Debbie Mullins, Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership, at 765-983-1824 or mullide@bethanyseminary.edu.<\/em><\/p>\n

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