STETS is launching a new Practice-Based Training (PBT) pathway, beginning September 2012, within our current FdA, BA and MA programmes. If you are able to train for an additional 17.5 hours a week it will offer you greater opportunity to bring together practice and theology and to do ‘reflection in action’. This is an enhanced version of our current programmes. Students will otherwise follow identical educational programmes to other part-time students, and will be full members of their year-cohort.

The extra dimension is that you will be rooted and immersed in a local, but unfamiliar, church context and gain first-hand experience of a wider range of ministry- and mission-practice. And, crucially, you will be enabled to reflect wisely and candidly on this. Where possible, students can be employed and be paid a stipend by the local church; otherwise they will act in a voluntary capacity. You will be supervised by a local training minister, who will be given thorough, ongoing, supervisory training from STETS.

Entry to this pathway will be dependent on finding a suitable training context and appropriate supervisor, which we may be able to help you with. Potential incumbent candidates will be eligible for a 50% single student maintenance grant.

David Lloyd has six years’ experience of developing and operating a similar pathway elsewhere in our region and is available for further discussion - dlloyd@stets.ac.uk . 

Please contact Annette Young in the STETS Office to find out more.