Proposal Overview

1. Proposal Overview Proposal Goals A story-telling M.A. in Global Urban Ministry Communal ideas(?) collated by Viv Grigg Urban Leadership Foundation The following ideas all open for debate, discussion, input. Need Proposed Schedules & Status Related Documents

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3. Perceived Need for Collaboration • Capacity-building: many workers need paced upskilling • Healing: Workers need academic reflection to process the horrific nature of issues they face • We need to design what we collectively want and market it to an academic institution for a partnership • Occasionally our attempts to get courses from extant institutions have been successful but inadequate responses - they control processes • We have most of the building blocs between us • We have enough qualified faculty between us • We have sufficient personnel to almost make it viable • Field-based: low cost, accessible in Asia and Latin America, mostly web-based, with yearly gatherings, accredited • Can be done 1 course per quarter, plus 6 months full time furloughs? plus project, all over 5 years?

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9. Proposed Schedule 2 • Brazil consultation - June 2001 • Discuss these issues in detail • refine proposal • common agreement • evaluate viability - numbers etc • refine proposal back to Asuza • 2002-3 Asuza or other accrediting process • Functional Sept ‘03? • Current Status • On-track • Rich excited and involved (see response) • initial diagram of courses • initial competency profiles • everyone excited • Behind in what areas? • need to nail down excitement to commitment • need to raise funding to cover my time

10. Initial Course Proposals (print to read)