Continuing Education

Continuing Education and Conferences

The Divinity School's Continuing Education programs offer opportunities for high quality, purposeful, enjoyable and innovative lifelong learning. Participants may seek personal or professional enrichment. They may also earn Continuing Education Units (CEUs). One CEU is granted for each 10 hours of participation in a qualifying Continuing Education program. CEUs are billed separately from any Continuing Education course tuition or event cost. The rate is $20 per whole CEU and $10 per half CEU.

At the heart of the Continuing Education program are long-established lectureships associated with CRCDS' multiple histories, including the Stuber, the J.C. Wynn, the Ayer, the Martin Luther King Jr., the Bartlett Preaching Conference, the Howard Thurman Conference, the Mordecai Wyatt Johnson Institute, and the Helen Barrett Montgomery Conference. These lectureships offer opportunities for students and persons from the Rochester area and across the nation to engage speakers who are at the forefront of contemporary theological and biblical scholarship.

The Divinity School's Calendar of Events is published annually and is available throughout the year. The calendar includes information about lectureships and other learning opportunities sponsored by the Continuing Education program, the Black Church Studies program, the Program for the Study of Women and Gender in Church and Society, and other curricular areas. Most lectures are free and open to the public, although courses and some seminars require tuition or a registration fee.

Partnership with the local churches for ministry education includes offering some continuing education events in Rochester area churches. Increasing attention to clusters of alumni and friends in various geographical regions as well as to distance learning opportunities, seek to make off-campus events more available to a wider audience. Educational technologies are being explored to enhance Continuing Education programs.

Dates: Feb. 18 & 19  Time: Friday 7–9 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m.–5 p.m.  Location: see above  Cost: see above  

This course will introduce students to contemporary theory on leading congregations through change and  
transition and provide practical, hands-on strategies for negotiating the challenges of ministering to congrega- 
tions facing change and conflict, with particular focus on how to maintain boundaries and self care in the midst  
of conflict and transition. This course is recommended for vestries, church boards or councils, clergy (especially  
newly ordained), and key lay leaders in congregations.  

 

Leading Emerging and Missional
Churches in the 21st Century


Dates: Apr. 15 & 16 Time:Friday 7–9 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Location:see above Cost:see above

An introduction to church planting and innovative ways of leading “non-traditional” church organizations
and missions. An introduction to the Emerging Church phenomenon and a focus on redeveloping existing
congregations. This course is recommended for clergy, lay leaders, councils, sessions, vestries, and youth leaders.
Presenters:
Friday evening: “Emerging Church”–CALLID KEEFE-PERRY, CRCDS STUDENT
Saturday morning: “Church Planting”—THE REV. DR. TROY BRONNER
Saturday afternoon: “Redeveloping Existing Congregations for the 21st Century”–DR. DAVID CLEAVER-BARTHOLOMEW



Stewardship and Financial
Administration


Dates: May 20 & 21 Time: Friday 7–9 p.m. Saturday 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Location: see above Cost: see above

This course will introduce students to appropriate business and accounting practices for church administration.
It will also cover stewardship and how churches are finding creative ways to finance ministry. This course is recommended
for church treasurers, finance committees, board members, council members, vestry members, and clergy.
Presenter: CANON KAREN NOBLE HANSON, Episcopal Diocese of Rochester

Brian McLaren Workshop

Date: Mon. Apr. 4 & Tues. Apr. 5  Times: see below  Location: Third Presbyterian Church, 4 Meigs St., Rochester, NY 14607  Cost : see below   

Schedule:    
Apr. 4, 7–9 p.m. Apr. 5, 9 a.m.–4 p.m.  “Everything Must Change” Morning session – “Christianity as Way and Practice” Afternoon session – “Public Worship as Spiritual Formation”   

Presenter:    
BRIAN D. MCLAREN is an author, speaker, activist, and networker among innovative Christian leaders. He graduated from University of Maryland with degrees in English (BA, summa cum laude, 1978, and MA, magna cum laude, 1981). His academic interests include Medieval drama, Romantic poets, modern philosophical literature, and the novels of Walker Percy. In 2004, he was awarded a Doctor of Divinity Degree (honoris causa) from Carey Theological Seminary in Vancouver, BC, Canada.   
Brian has been active in networking and mentoring church planters and pastors since the mid 1980’s, and has assisted in the development of several new churches. He is a popular speaker for campus groups, seminaries and clergy leader-ship conferences, nationally and internationally. His public speaking covers a broad range of topics including the gospel and global crises; theology and postmodernity; liturgy, preaching and spiritual formation; evangelism and inter-religious dialogue; and faith and social justice. He is a pre-eminent voice in the “emerging church” movement.   
This event is co-sponsored by The American Baptist Conference Rochester/Genesee Region, The Presbytery of Geneva, The Presbytery of the Genesee Valley, The Episcopal Diocese of Rochester, and The United Methodist Conference of Upper New York.   
Tuition: $75.00 for full conference. April 4, evening lecture only, $30.00. Lunch will be provided on April 5.   
To register online, go to www.crcds.edu at LIFE LONG LEARNING tab, or send check to Gene Bennett Program for Life Long Learning, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, 1100 S. Goodman St., Rochester, New York 14620, with Brian McLaren in memo line of check. Registration deadline is March 28, 2011.   

Lecture Cost: $75.00

4/4 Only: $30.00

Click here to register online