• Riverside Community Church, Johannesburg

    18 February 2021 to 5 August 2021

  • Registration Information

    Please note that you will receive an automated email with a document containing all the following information upon submission of your application form, for your convenience.

    The meetings will run from 19:00 to 21:30. 

    It is essential that you are available to attend all of the group meetings, actively participate in the weekly groups, read the required course material and answer the prepared questions in a diligent manner. You may not miss more than two sessions in total. If you are aware that you will miss more than two sessions ahead of time, you will not be considered for participation in this JDC, but recommended for one at a later date. The JDC will break over Easter and the June school holidays.

    The JDC is run as a closed group. Thus, candidates apply before the group starts and once the group commences we do not allow any further applications. Please note: Application to these groups is on a first-come-first-serve basis. We have a limited number of places available in each group. As a result, should your application be received after all spaces have been filled, we will have to suggest entry to another JDC at a later time when there is space available. Parents are not permitted to bring children or infants to any of the sessions.

  • VENUE

    St.Declan's School for Boys,

    Rietvlei Zoo Farm,

    101 Swartkoppies Road,

    Brackenhurst.

    1448

  • INTERVIEW

    You may be required to undergo a telephonic interview once your completed application form has been received. You will be contacted to schedule a convenient time for the interview.

  • COST

    The cost for the JDC is R1650.00, which includes the course manual. Of this, a deposit of R750.00 is required with the completed application form by Monday 25 January 2021. 

    PLEASE NOTE: APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE PROCESSED WITHOUT PROOF OF PAYMENT OF THE DEPOSIT.

    Upon acceptance to the JDC, the remaining R900.00 must be paid in full by 30 June 2020.

    Please note: If you require further information or assistance regarding any of the above contact Jackie Rudd on jackie@edisonlebone.co.za or Anton van Dam on antonvandam00@gmail.com

  • RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH BANK DETAILS

    Bank: Standard Bank
    Account name: Riverside Community Church
    Branch code: 012342
    Branch: Alberton
    Account number: 081588925 

    Reference: JDC + Initial + Surname

  • Personal Information

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  • Personal History

  • The following questions help us to assess the level of need that you have, the nature of the problems that you face, and to place you in a suitable small group. Please fill this out with as much detail and as honestly as possible. Your responses will be kept strictly confidential.

    The JDC is approximately 20 weeks long and requires a deep level of commitment.

     

  • Please describe your relationship with your parents (in childhood and adulthood). It is important that you spend time answering this question. You need to describe these relationships over a minimum of 500 words for each parent.

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  • Privacy Policy and Consent

    Journey South Africa respects your privacy.  We protect your personal information (name, address, phone number and email address) and adhere to all required legislative requirements with respect to protecting your privacy.  We do not rent, sell, trade or distribute our mailing list to anyone.

    The information you provide in applying for this course is kept strictly confidential, and all such documents are securely stored.  Only the program coordinator and your small group leaders will read your application.

    We want to stay in touch with you.  Please indicate your consent to receive emails from us about programs, events and stories of hope.  You can unsubscribe from our mailing list by clicking the link at the bottom of the emails sent by Journey South Africa.

  • Confidentiality Agreement

  • To provide a safe environment, JSA ministry team members will keep all disclosures confidential, with these four exceptions:

    1. Ministry team members may discuss matters disclosed by participants to receive supervision and oversight from the ministry team. Any disclosures made will not include the name or identifying details of any participant.
    2. Any Journey group member who discloses that they are currently or have engaged in sexual activity outside of their marriage will be expected to process the need to disclose to their partner/spouse with the help of the support group leader. If they choose not to and their behaviour is putting the health of their partner/spouse at risk, we will be obliged to disclose this information to their partner/spouse.
    3. Any JDC participant who discloses intentions to take harmful, dangerous or criminal action against another person or against themselves will require JSA to warn appropriate individuals of such intentions. JSA is required, by law, to report any suspected acts of child abuse or neglect. Those warned about a participant’s harmful actions may include:
      1. the person or family of the person who is likely to suffer the results of harmful behaviour;
      2. the family of the participant who intends to harm himself or herself or someone else;
      3. associates or friends of those threatened or making threats, and,
      4. law enforcement officials or child protection services.

    The JDC coordinator or group leader will inform the participant beforehand of his or her intention to report such information to any of the above mentioned people.

    4.JSA operates under the blessing and support of the local church. JSA reserves the right to disclose confidential information to the pastor of a participant’s church for the purpose of pastoral responsibility and care (e.g. if a participant is in a position of responsibility in their church community and is involved in illicit activity with other members of the congregation). A participant will be encouraged and supported to disclose this information themselves, and a JSA small group leader/coordinator may attend as a support person for the purpose of disclosure. Failing this, JSA will take steps necessary to disclose the needed information, and participants will be informed beforehand of any such intention.

  • Policy for Interaction with Other Participants

  • Over the course of our experience, we have found that certain things enhance healthy group dynamics and certain activities detract from the Journey Discipleship Course (hereafter “JDC”) being a healthy, healing experience. One of the important goals of JDC is to create a holy, safe and intimate context where the deep wounds of each group member’s heart can rise to the surface and begin to be healed through the care and prayer within the group.

    Because many JDC participants suffer from emotional and/or sexual addictions, we have learned that certain boundaries must be erected to safeguard the intimacy and sanctity of the group. We have seen the effectiveness of JDC be greatly undermined when people intertwine the unique intimacy forged in JDC with socializing outside of the group.

    In order to maintain our goals of providing intimacy and safety within the group, we ask that you refrain from social contact outside of the parameters of JDC with other group members for the course of the JDC.

    An exception would be if a small group wishes to do an activity together outside of normal JDC activities. We ask that the small group leader be made aware and that the entire small group be invited.

    Over the course of JDC, the coordinator or small group leader may make exceptions to this policy or modify aspects of this policy as seems appropriate to individual or small group situations.

    Journey South Africa does value the importance of healthy friendships. We believe that the primary place for those heart investments to be made is in the context of one’s local church. We believe that it is important to develop relationships with people who do not share our same sexual vulnerability in the context of the church.

    JDC is a unique context where we can discuss and receive healing from the fears which inhibit our greater integration into the Church and into healthy friendships.

  • Agreement and Release from Liability

  • Statement of Faith and Beliefs

  • Statement of Faith

    • We believe the Old and New Testaments are the inspired Word of God, the final authority of doctrine and instruction in living.
    • We believe in one God, existing eternally in three persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
    • We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, fully man and fully God, only Son of the Father.  He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, and lived a sinless life. He suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, buried and rose physically from the dead. He ascended to the right hand of the Father and will come again in power and glory.
    • We believe that faith alone in Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord frees us from the mastery of sin, and its consequences of death and eternal damnation. He assumed the penalty of death Himself, and enables us to live out of His resurrected life unto eternity.
    • We believe the Holy Spirit carries out this work of renewal in our lives, empowering us to grow in loving union with our Heavenly Father and to walk in obedience to His will.
    • We believe that the church of Jesus Christ is formed of all those who know Him as their Saviour and Lord, regardless of denominational beliefs.
    • We believe God created man and woman in His image, and as such, each person has worth and value because his or her identity is rooted in God.
  • Statement of Beliefs on Human Sexuality

    In His generosity and love, God has poured out good gifts on all people. The most important of these is our capacity for relationship and the ability to reach out to God in love, and to know the delight that He takes in us. People are also created to be part of intimate, loving, human relationships marked by mutual care and joyful service within the bonds of friendship, family, community and marriage.

    • Sexuality (and genital sex in particular) is among these gifts and is inherently good.
    • To receive the gift of sex in a way that is most life-giving and joyful, it is reserved for marriage, which is undertaken by one man and one woman together as a life-long journey toward greater intimacy, mutual spiritual maturity, and self-giving love.
    • God's gifts to us can be misused through sexual acts outside of marriage (such as oral sex or mutual masturbation, pornography use, or compulsive masturbation).
    • God calls all people to explore their identity as His beloved children, not only followers but brothers and sisters of Jesus, and members of the family of God. Each of us is loved by God unconditionally, regardless of sexual orientation or behaviour.*

    * Journey South Africa (hereafter” JSA”) is a discipleship ministry and therefore does not seek to change same-sex orientation/attraction.

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