What will I learn?

By successfully completing this course, you can expect to have learnt:

• To operate safely and ethically as a youth/community worker in your community context.
• To serve, build relationships and share your faith with people from different backgrounds and cultures.
• To learn how to contribute to human development and learning, and respond appropriately to a person in crisis.
• To creatively facilitate groups and develop others in their faith.
• To develop structures for support and self care for service in communities.
• Explored your own spiritual journey, your giftings and motivations.
• Developed networks in your community, assessed, and developed responses to the needs of people within it.
• Improved your knowledge of the Bible and the Christian tradition that you are part of. How to use the bible to bring about change and how different Christian traditions express this is different ways.
• Improved your awareness of marae protocol, Maori language and considered the implications of the Treaty of Waitangi to your own practice.
• Developed supportive mentoring relationships with people in your identified community.