Development of educational programs of the Russian Orthodox Church in the sphere of charity and social service

Abstract

Responding to the requests of the clergy of the Moscow and Moscow region parishes, and then remote parishes, since 2017 The Department for Church charity and social service of the Russian Orthodox Church in partnership with the Department of social work of St. Tikhon’s Orthodox humanitarian University (PSU) has developed and is implementing a course of distance learning of Church social work «Social service in the parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church: organization, management, communication», which provides for full-time practice in Moscow. Training is conducted using distance learning technologies. The basis of the training program is practice-oriented tasks, the implementation of which is carried out by students directly in the parishes, in which the students carry out social service.

Keywords

• distance learning
• church charity
• parish
• social project