Sentences with phrase «formal educational ministry»

The church school (I am using the term «church school» to mean the entire formal educational ministry of the church involving a wide spectrum of age and interest groups at various times during the week.)

The focus o # this chapter will be on the church school — the instrument by which the church carries on its formal educational ministry.

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Reflecting on his experience of attending seminary after first gaining considerable experience in the parish, one older participant wondered if maybe we're doing it backwards»; in other words, perhaps schools ought somehow to require practical experience before — or at the beginning of — formal education (such an arrangement would, of course, run counter to essentially all currently respected educational theories) For himself, he said, the practical application of what was being taught in seminary was plain in light of his experience of parish ministry.