Part-Time:
Duration of the Qualification
12 months
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COURSE FEES – 2024
Application Fee: R 200
Registration Fee: R 500 (After Successful Application)
Monthly Fee: R 950 (per month, includes books)
External Exam fee: R1000
This qualification aims to prepare a learner to operate as a Christian Religious Practitioner.
Christian Religious Practitioner facilitates the effective practice of ministry work within a specific congregation/faith community to encourage spiritual formation, nurture fellowship and mutual care within the congregation/faith community, help members develop a Christian lifestyle, provide Christian leadership, to ensure organisational well-being, and to facilitate appropriate responses of the congregation/faith community to needs on the broader society.
A qualified learner will be able to:
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Share the gospel in a specific context and to a particular audience.
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Build caring relationships in the faith community and respond to the spiritual and physical needs of members.
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Provide spiritual leadership and develop leaders in a faith community.
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Arrange and oversee the day to day running of ministries and of the administrative and accountability processes of the faith community.
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Share the gospel in a specific context and to a specific audience.
Needs that the qualification will meet
There are many religious ministers in rural areas, and often even in urban settings, with low literacy ability, yet they function as ministers and as leaders of their faith communities. A need to assist these leaders by means of a qualification that will provide them with the competencies to minister has been expressed for many years. The Christian Religious Practitioner (Level 2) qualification aims at fulfilling this need. It will provide appropriate training to leaders who do not have the literacy ability to access any other qualification, without trivialising the competencies required to effectively function as Christian Religious Ministers. The qualification focuses on all the aspects of Christian Ministry, but at a level that will make access possible for people with no or little schooling or literacy. Church representatives involved in the development of the qualification foresee that the qualification will ultimately be used as a baseline for preparing ministry leaders to be formally recognised as ministers or spiritual leaders in their churches.
Benefits for society
With the introduction of the new qualification at Level 2, society will benefit from the assurance that large numbers of spiritual leaders who did not have a proper training opportunity in the past, will now have a common set of competencies, despite their numeracy and literacy level of competence.
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Entry requirements:
No educational requirement for this qualification
STRUCTURED CURRICULUM
NQF 2 qualification consists of total 6 Modules including Knowledge, Practical and Workplace Experience Components.
i. M-01 – Bible and Bible interpretation
ii M-02 – Basic Christian Concepts
iii M-03 – Worship services and preaching
iv M-04 – Basic Christian pastoral care
v M-05 – Church leadership, administration and accountability
vi M-06 – The role of the Church in the world