It is good to think of having a Mixed Mode student as “an investment with an
early payback”.
There is a clear mission focus in the Mixed Mode programme.
All Mixed Mode students will follow the same mix of modules as other SEI
students while also taking additional modules on evangelism, mission
entrepreneurship, and the development of mission and ministry in context.
These modules are also available as extra courses for other SEI students,
but they are required courses for the Mixed Mode students.
Some of these additional courses will also be open to any SEC clergy or
others who wish to take them as part of their ongoing professional and
ministerial development (and you don’t even have to do the essay!).
Mixed Mode students will receive a maintenance grant and accommodation
to support themselves during their training. The costs for this are to be
shared between SEI, the placement charge, and the host diocese.
Through this financial arrangement and the central role of the placement
charge in the training and formation of future clergy, we can see how the
whole church is sharing in the responsibility for investing in the next
generation of Christian leaders in the SEC.
At the same time, the whole church will also share in the benefits of doing
so.
There is still time to express an interest in being a placement charge from
September 2018.
If you would like to know more about the programme and what it entails to
be a placement charge, please contact me on [email protected]
If this year is too soon but you would like to know more about the possibility
for future years, please also contact me now and I will be more than happy
to discuss this with you and answer any questions you may have’.
Please pray for this new programme, for the ordinands who will study
through it, and for the placement charges who will receive a student. This is
a long-awaited and exciting new addition to the range of training
programmes offered through SEI.
Please pray too for Richard as he pioneers this programme.
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