Family Ministry (Distance Learning Program)

Family Ministry (Distance Learning Program)

Certification program.

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Program Goals

This program seeks to prepare married couples for practical ministry to families both within local churches and in the broader community, emphasizing marriage as God’s design for humanity. The program equips couples to provide guidance, support, and counseling, helping families thrive spiritually, emotionally, and relationally while modeling healthy marital and family life.

Target Audience

  • This program is designed for married couples who lead family home groups or family ministries, couples who want to strengthen their own relationships while supporting others, and family counselors serving in local churches or family support centers. It is also suitable for couples prepared to lead family ministry or provide counseling for children and teenagers.

Program Details

  • The program is offered in a part-time format over one year and leads to a certificate upon completion. Students participate in three intensive sessions per year, each lasting two weeks. This structure allows couples to continue their family, ministry, or professional responsibilities while gaining practical training in family ministry and counseling.

Curriculum Intro

  • Theology of Marriage and Anthropology

    The divine nature of marriage and the Creator’s plan for the family; marriage or singleness; the purpose of marriage and its purpose; traditions and the influence of religion on the family as an institution.

  • Vision and Practical Tools for Family Ministry

    Stages of building and developing family ministry in the local church: practical tools, forms of work, resources. Why is the vision important and how to form it? – What is to choose or to vary – large events, small groups? Team building and partnership.

  • The Art of Communication. Conflictology

    The ability to communicate openly is a crucial foundation and key to a successful marriage in family life. Conflicts: types and ways to resolve them.

  • Premarital Preparation

    Topics of the module: 1) Premarital preparation: its importance in counselling practice and its purpose in the context of the local church; 2) Where to start, what to use: resources for different target audiences and ways of conducting training; overview of available materials in Ukraine; 3) Individual preparation of a couple for marriage: mentoring and details of the work; 4) Preparatory stage of premarital preparation of a couple; 5) mandatory topics for study (based on different courses/resources), methodology of conducting individual meetings.

  • Developmental Psychology and Parenting

    Basic knowledge of the fundamentals of child development and formation psychology, which will help minimise the difficulties of this complex and time-consuming process.

  • Financial Literacy in the Family

    The financial sphere is a large part of every family’s daily routine, so it requires careful study: from budgeting and earning to spending and investing.

  • Sexology, Intimate Relationships in the Family, Sex Education

    Sexual relations in marriage: the Word of God’s view of their purpose and characteristics. Sex education: when and what to say about sexuality and relationships between the sexes.

  • Fundamentals of Family Counseling

    Family counselling is one of the most popular services in local communities. The purpose of the module is to introduce the basics of family counseling and to talk about the principles of working with couples.

Contacts

Program Director

Oleksiy Travnikov

olexiy.travnikov@gmail.com
+380 63 299 06 29

Admissions

info@uets.edu.ua
Kyiv, Pushcha-Vodytsia, 57 Kvitky Tsysyk St., UETS Academic Building, Floor 1

Information

+380 95 315 84 42
0800331252

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