In Contemporary Approaches to Leadership & Management, Dr. David Wells helps Horizon Seminary students explore organizational behaviour, emotional intelligence, motivation, and the hard and soft skills that shape effective leadership.

Leadership in ministry is about more than having a title or being the person in charge. It’s about understanding people, navigating challenges, building healthy organizations, and helping others grow.

In Contemporary Approaches to Leadership & Management, taught by Dr. David Wells, Horizon Seminary students examine what it means to lead and manage effectively in today’s world, with Christian ministry and the local church as primary contexts for learning and application.

Healthy organizations depend on healthy relationships. Students will explore organizational behaviour, emotional intelligence, and “both-and” leadership as important elements of contemporary leadership.

The course also considers the balance between hard skills and soft skills—the technical abilities needed to lead an organization alongside the relational skills needed to engage and motivate its people.

Through case studies, personal reflection, presentations, and practical assessments, students will have opportunities to consider how different leadership approaches affect the growth, motivation, and engagement of individuals.

While the local church and Christian ministry provide the primary context, the principles explored in this course extend into marketplace and organizational settings as well. Taught from an evangelical Christian and biblical perspective, Contemporary Approaches to Leadership & Management equips students to grow not only in what they know about leadership, but in their ability to lead others well.

Because competent Christian leadership isn’t simply about getting things done. It’s about helping people and organizations become what they’re called to be.

Explore the story of Christianity from the early Church to the present day—and discover how the past can shape Christian life and ministry today. Survey of Church History with Dr. Mykhaylo Khromyak is up ahead, at Horizon Seminary.

Christianity has a long and complex story. Survey of Church History takes students on a journey through that story, beginning with the world of the early Church and continuing through the major developments of Christianity in the 21st century.

Along the way, students will explore how Christians have understood their faith, worshipped, organized themselves, shared the gospel, responded to cultural change, and interacted with the societies around them.

Rather than simply memorizing dates and names, students will learn to see how people, events, movements, and ideas fit together—and why that history matters for the Church today. In this course, you will:

• Understand the story of Christianity.
  Identify important people, events, and movements and explain where they fit within the larger history of the Church.
• Connect history with ministry. Explain why an understanding of Church history matters for Christian life, leadership, and ministry today.
• Consider worship through a historical lens. Visit a Christian worship service from a different tradition and use what you have learned about Church history to understand its liturgy, architecture, music, theology, sacraments, and other practices.
• Develop research skills. Investigate a significant person, movement, or event in Church history using scholarly sources and historical evidence.

Knowing Church history helps Christians understand where we have come from and how the past continues to shape the Church today.

The course develops contextual awareness by helping students grow in an orthodox Christian worldview, develop a healthy understanding of themselves and their place in the Church, and engage people and cultures with wisdom and discernment.

For students preparing for Christian leadership, history is more than information. It provides context for understanding the people, traditions, questions, and challenges that shape ministry today.