This course challenges the learners to critically think on issues in spirituality concerning offenders. Learners shall learn to articulate on what they and offenders have experienced concerning loses and the grief that follows. This course shall challenge the learners on how to address some of the basic issues related to helping the Christian offenders to advance to spiritual maturity and to become an ambassador for Christ in a correctional setting.
In the field of correctional chaplaincy the need to address issues generated by the offenders can be overwhelming. Institutions across America mostly offer courses in pastoral care. Here at Missional University there are courses designed for correctional chaplaincy. This course is one that will prepare the learners to enter in to the challenging field of correctional chaplaincy within a modern criminal justice system. By developing theological, spiritual, and sociological concepts it will help learners to better understand the critical issues that offenders expand on everyday.
Chaplains and pastoral caregivers are always needed to address the day-to-day issues of offender’s spirituality and caring for their souls.
This course will be based on a biblical worldview. We shall adhere to Galatians 6:1, “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.”
This course was developed to adhere to the commission of God placed on those that have been called into missional servitude for men and women that need to be spiritually restored into God’s grace and society. It is this course’s desire to guide and shape its leaners in developing the ability to grasp a deeper understanding on issues in spirituality to prepare them for the task of caring for the souls of offenders.
The profession of pastoral care in the field of corrections has a unique ministerial context, and a course on missional spirituality would help caregivers apply specific biblical principles that will address issues in spirituality to those offenders that are in need of their souls receiving spiritual care.
Students learn soul care of offenders and how to tend to the issues that are relevant to the spiritual needs of offenders residing in multicultural based correctional facilities. This course focuses on the deeper understanding of spiritual issues from a multicultural perspective that needs to be taken in account when provide soul care to offenders from different ethnic groups.
By deeper understanding the issues of spirituality, and addressing the soul care of offenders from a biblical perspective, adheres to the learners’ ability to spiritually reflect. Therefore, being mindful of the soul care of offenders becomes very practical.
In caring for the souls of offenders and being able to reflect an understand the issues of spirituality is another way that offers care for the souls of offenders. Learners will learn from discussing their reflections of assigned readings while being tested on the information they obtain. Then they will be able to return to their practice with the benefits from that learning.
