KLA Curriculum
The curriculum will tell you a little bit about what the KLA Training Program consists of.
Program Topics
The Mission of God
The Mission of the Church
Incarnation, Relocation, and the Cross: The Call to Suffer with Christ
The City as Classroom, Parish, and Playground. What’s Justice Got to Do With It?
Knowing and Loving the Other
Diversity: Reconciliation Across Race, Class, Sexuality, and Gender
Unity in the Body
Kingdom Economics
Projects, Assignments, and Application
Assignments, projects, and active learning structured around your calling and what you need to know
Discussion based reflections on subject matter
Written reflections
Presentations
Ministry specific field excursions
Explicit challenges
Capstone project
Required Reading
Where the Cross Meets the Street – Noel Castellanos
The Shaping of Things to Come – Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch
Supplemental Reading
Leadership on the Line – Martin Linsky and Ronald Heifetz
The Divine Conspiracy – Dallas Willard
Tattoos of the Heart – Gregory Boyle
With Justice For All – Dr. John Perkins
Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision – Randy Woodley
Roadmap to Reconciliation – Brenda Salter McNeil
Disunity in Christ – Christena Cleveland
Faith-rooted Organizing – Alexia Salitervia
One Church Many Tribes – Richard Twiss
Ethics in Business: Faith at Work – James M. Chids
God is in the City: Encounters of Grace and Transformation – Shawn Casselberry