Family and Marriage Seminar in Moscow

In September, we held an intensive seminar on Family and Marriage for our residential program. Although the course was mandatory for all students, it was a trial run of a new track that ETSM will offer this December. In December, we will begin offering a special track (a professional sequence) in Family and Marital Ministry in our Moscow Extension . we have already had final exams and graduation exercises, that doesn't mean that the spring semester is over. We have had a couple of intensive "block" courses. The goal of the course is to equip students/pastors to

1. Formulate the Biblical foundations of marriage\family
2. Know contemporary theoretical approaches to analysis of family issues
3. Analyze marital dynamics skillfully using methods of research (PREPARE\ENRICH) and counseling techniques that are in line with the Bible
4. Receive experience of counseling of families at the mid-professional level (to know how to begin, continue and end a counseling session)
5. At mid-professional level do premarital, marital, second-marriage, post divorce\divorce counseling
6. Organize Marriage and Family Ministry in a church (formulate goals and aims, direction and methods of reaching the goals)
7. Be able to conduct theoretical and practical sessions with couples in church and society: training, meetings, evenings, services, etc.