ADVANCED TRACK
Duration: Weekly | Frequency: 2 sessions per week | Session length: 90-120 minutes
Program Objective
To deepen theological understanding, strengthen design-thinking mastery, develop creative leadership and entrepreneurship, and prepare adults to use their creative gifts with excellence, influence, service, and kingdom impact, to the glory of God.
Curriculum
Stage 1: Foundation
Objective Rudimentary Principles
- Exploring advanced biblical aesthetics, holiness, beauty, and revelation through Scripture
- Examining art and design as forms of theological reflection, spiritual formation, and communion with God
- Helping learners build a more mature theology of transcendence, beauty, and divine longing
Conceptual Knowledge
- Biblical aesthetics through the relationship of truth, goodness, and beauty
- Theopoetics and creative design as forms of scriptural reflection and spiritual practice
- Holiness and divine beauty as foundations for how creative work is understood and evaluated
Applied Theories
- Theological aesthetics paper engaging biblical and theological sources
- "Beauty of Holiness" creative work with theological artist's statement
Stage 2: Formation
Objective Rudimentary Principles
- Applying advanced design thinking to complex social, emotional, cultural, and spiritual challenges
- Teaching systems thinking, ethical design, sustainability, and redemptive problem-solving
- Strengthening collaborative facilitation and innovation grounded in kingdom values
Conceptual Knowledge
- Salvation's design framework for addressing brokenness and restoring dignity
- Cultural analysis and kingdom-aligned intervention through design
- Human-centered design understood through the image of God and biblical ethics
Applied Theories
- Innovation challenge addressing a real-world issue through divine design thinking
- Collaborative design workshop leading toward a capstone exhibition project
Stage 3: Mastery
Objective Rudimentary Principles
- Developing creative entrepreneurship through integrity, stewardship, pricing, and faithful delivery
- Building mentoring capacity and discipling others in creative growth
- Strengthening leadership skills for teams, ministries, businesses, and creative communities
Conceptual Knowledge
- The creative professional as witness in the marketplace and wider culture
- Legacy thinking in creative work and long-term kingdom influence
- Leadership, influence, and stewardship as part of mature creative discipleship
Applied Theories
- Creative business plan for a product, service, venture, or ministry
- Ongoing mentoring relationship with a Level 1 learner
Stage 4: Purpose & Application
Objective Rudimentary Principles
- Integrating theology, design thinking, technical craft, and kingdom purpose into one mature framework
- Building lifelong rhythms of creative discipleship, mentorship, and multiplication
- Preparing learners to pass on what they have received through teaching, resourcing, and leadership
Conceptual Knowledge
- Creative eschatology and the new creation as the long horizon of faithful making
- Finishing well through endurance, humility, service, and sustained obedience
- Legacy, multiplication, and lifelong stewardship in creative practice
Applied Theories
- Exhibition-ready capstone project demonstrating theological integration, design-thinking maturity, and technical excellence
- Final portfolio and creative's statement articulating theological, creative, and vocational vision
- Commissioning ceremony and praise celebration with testimonies, prayer, and recognition
Materials for Instructions
Scripture Resources
- Bibles, topical study materials, theological reading guides, creativity-themed passages, and reflection prompts on beauty, holiness, leadership, stewardship, and vocation
Teaching Demonstration Materials
- Advanced theology visuals, case studies, innovation and systems-thinking frameworks, testimony clips, portfolio examples, and workshop facilitation tools
Student Practice Materials
- Journals, research tools, innovation templates, business-plan worksheets, mentoring logs, portfolio materials, and presentation tools linked to the learner's main creative discipline