Local pastors and Lay Missioners in Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference (OIMC) will have an opportunity to experience a satellite Course of Study School that will be held in the boundaries of OIMC.
Through collaboration with Perkins School of Theology and the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, OIMC will offer a satellite Course of Study class beginning in March of 2020.
The Satellite school is one of the ways that OIMC is working to interest part-time and full-time local pastors in ministry.
Two courses will be offered each year and OIMC clergy and lay persons will teach the courses. The courses are offered for one Saturday for three months in the spring and in the fall.
“This is one of the ways that we are working to be creative to help our local pastors to obtain the classes necessary for the eventual ordination process in OIMC,“ said the Rev. David Wilson, OIMC superintendent.
“These classes will help our bi-vocational pastors take care of classes when they have limited time off work.”
Wilson says the satellite courses give indigenous context of tribal culture and leverages the vast knowledge of the OIMC Native American faculty.
