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Master of Arts in
Global Leadership
Mission
We come alongside and
equip in-service leaders from all parts of the world with
transformational graduate education for leadership in their
contexts.
Vision
To see more and
better missional leaders committed to lifelong learning and
biblically-informed communities of practice.
Values
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We will be
characterized as global.
As much as possible, we will deliver our program globally.
Our students will study with others around the world and, in
these learning communities, be exposed to global trends and
cultural, contextual analysis.
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We nurture
missional commitment.
We desire our students to embrace their role in missio Dei
and become missional change agents in their communities.
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We serve
in-service leaders who are adult learners.
We come alongside identified leaders in their communities.
Adult learning philosophy and praxis typify our program
design-providing opportunities for reflecting, learning, and
doing.
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We create
biblical learning communities of practice.
We understand that transformation best happens in safe,
peer-oriented environments. Therefore, we create space for
dialogue and support.
Program Goals, Objectives and Achievement-Based Objectives
To accomplish our
mission, the MAGL has established six broad goals (bold), each with
a specific objective (numbered) to be accomplished by several
program achievement-based objectives (bullets):
Biblically Informed Practice – the Origin & Objective of Leadership
1. Graduates will integrate theology and
praxis to develop informed responses to situations encountered
in their ministry/mission.
By the end of the program, students will have:
- Examined and critiqued a variety of contemporary and historical paradigms of mission
- Developed a practical missions application based on a biblical theology of mission
Missional
Church – the Goal of Leadership
2. Graduates
will make plans for their church’s missional engagement with
their cultural contexts to promote transformation.
By the end of the program, students will have:
- Contrasted traditional and missional
forms of church life
- Assessed their congregations or
ministries from the perspective of a holistic missional
ecclesiology
- Developed a leadership strategy,
including theological, methodological, and behavioral
dimensions, for personal and congregational missional renewal
Global Diversity – the Context of Leadership
3. Graduates will demonstrate familiarity with
the diversity of theories, practices, and global contexts of
missional leadership.
By the end of the program, students will have:
- Distinguished issues of modernity/postmodernity
impacting their local ministries/missions
- Identified the effects of globalization
on their local contexts and churches
- Developed missiological plans of
engagement that reflect both local and global dimensions
Lifelong Learning in a Diverse Community
– the Continuing Development of Leadership
4. Graduates will
employ
a lifelong learning posture that values peer
learning
with diverse persons as well as reflection on practice.
By the end of the program, students will have:
- Developed and fulfilled personal learning
plans
- Investigated adult learning principles
- Participated in a diverse community of
learning that incorporated peer learning and reflection on
practice
Organizational Dynamics – the Implementation of Leadership
5. Graduates will examine
various organizational dynamics and apply selected
administrative theories.
By the end of the program, students will have:
- Observed their churches/organizations
through a variety of organizational development theories
- Evaluated their churches/organizations in
order to diagnose health and offer prescriptives if necessary
Leadership Development and Character – the
Heart of Leadership
6.
Graduates will
implement a
developmental perspective that prioritizes character/spiritual formation.
By the end of the program, students will have:
- Described and evaluated their personal and ministry
character/spiritual development
- Designed and implemented plans for character/spiritual
development and mentoring
- Identified leadership emergence concepts to facilitate
lifelong development as leaders
rev. 9/07
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