St Hild Specialist Tracks provide the opportunity to:
- Join a community of people working in a similar context
- Receive mentoring and encouragement appropriate to your stage of ministry
- Achieve a Graduate Diploma, postgraduate award or MA, or complete a personalised programme of informal study
- Work towards the skills and wisdom to innovate, teach or write in your chosen field
We offer tracks in the following areas:
Our Church Planting Track is designed to resource a new generation of church planting leaders. Led by Christian Selvaratnam, our Director of Church Planting and Revitalisation, it enables in-context learning in areas such as contextual awareness, planting and sending, team leadership and missional spirituality. Track participants are expected to be involved in church planting and all modules are tailored to develop more effective ministry in their local context.
Our Mission on the Margins Track aims to support people working in marginal urban, rural or pioneering settings. Partnering with Urban Life, and linked to a wider network of practitioners, it focuses on the skills to cultivate transformative community-based ministry for the long term. Track participants are expected to be involved in leading or supporting local mission, and all modules are tailored to enable effective reflection in that context.
The St Hild Centre for Christian Spirituality offers opportunities to further your study of the Christian spiritual traditions. A range of modules is available each year, which may be taken either as freestanding courses or as part of a pathway towards a Durham University award. Find out more about the St Hild Centre for Christian Spirituality.
The Rural Ministry Track is designed to support students who are either ministering in Rural locations or considering whether Rural Ministry might be right for them. There are Rural Track meetings twice a term, which aim to inspire and support students. Rural modules are available online and in the Lincoln centre, alternating every other year between a level 4 and 5 and a level 6 and 7 module.