Social Justice & Service

  • $50.00

God has given you gifts and talents to make the world better, but it's up to you to search the answers. In this self-paced Social Justice & Service course, you will witness faith communities promoting freedom, equity, and liberation and discover your next most faithful step toward your call. Enrollment is open, so don't wait to grab your seat! Once you are enrolled, you will have five weeks to explore and complete the course.
Enrollment Opens 2024.

What can the church be to the world with your leadership?

In this self-paced five-week course, you will explore how your calling intersects with the world's needs. With a group of like-minded peers, you will discover and explore ways to bring justice, hope, and healing to your community.  Whether you have completed a service year program or are deeply engaged in the social justice movement, this course is for you. 

Course Leadership

Christina Repoley serves with her FTE team to make spaces for discernment, connection, resourcing and community building amongst various FTE constituencies including young adults, campus ministries, high school youth theology institutes, denominational organizations, intentional communities and faith-rooted volunteer service organizations. Christina is the founder of Quaker Voluntary Service and served as its executive director for seven years. Before that she served as Peacebuilding Director for the Southeast region of the American Friends Service Committee. She holds an MDiv from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology and a BA from Guilford College.

Christina Repoley
Heather B.P. Wallace

hwallace@fteleaders.org

678-369-6146

Explore the Course

Develop an understanding of social justice ministry.  Identify and analyze the reasons why one would pursue social justice as a calling.

Develop an understanding of social justice ministry. Identify and analyze the reasons why one would pursue social justice as a calling.

Investigate the ways people engage with service and cause-related ministry.  Analyze and think critically about the pathways one can take to pursue social justice.

Investigate the ways people engage with service and cause-related ministry. Analyze and think critically about the pathways one can take to pursue social justice.

Thoughtfully reflect on how the various pathways to social justice stir you.

Thoughtfully reflect on how the various pathways to social justice stir you.

Articulate your next most faithful step after discerning what it might mean to serve your community, cause, or creation.

Articulate your next most faithful step after discerning what it might mean to serve your community, cause, or creation.

Even after you finish, take some time to look over the course material, journal, ingest the wisdom that you need from this program. Gerald-Olufemi Darling, course alum

Cohort Option

Discern your next most faith step in community

FTE also offers a 20% discount to groups of three or more interested in journeying through the course together. This option is especially great for leaders of young adult ministries who want to offer their participants an online discernment opportunity. To sign up as a group, click the button below and select the number of participants in your group at check out. Once your information is received, we will reach out to you for contact information on each young adult enrolling in the course.

FAQ

The Forum for Theological Exploration (FTE) is a leadership incubator that inspires young people to make a difference in the world through Christian communities. Since its founding in 1954, FTE has provided resources, events, networks, grants, and fellowships to cultivate tomorrow's leaders, pastors, and theological educators, FTE provides a forum through which gifted, purposeful students, young adults, and partners explore their passion, purpose, and call.

Young adults who are 18-35 exploring or pursuing ministry through social justice, service, or nonprofit ministry. 

This course was created to help young adults identify the social needs in their community, and tap into opportunities to build relationships and engage with people, faith communities, and organizations who work in the movement for social justice. 

Upon completion, you will join FTE's network of alumni which includes pastors, professors, deans, presidents or organizations, civil servants, and non-profit leaders who are leading their communities, congregations, and society. 

This course is self-paced, you will have 5 weeks to complete the course from your start date. 

Yes, if you meet the requirements set forth in the course you will receive a certificate that you can post to you Linkedin profile and download to share. 

Yes, NovoEd have a mobile app, you can access the course anytime and anywhere you want.

Yes, you can contact Heather at hwallace@fteleaders.org for pricing or other information.

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