The MQP Joint-Project: Youth Ministry E-ntegration 1st Section

Abstract

This capsule project is part of a two-phase joint-intervention program targeted towards the chosen locale of Mary the Queen Parish (MQP), a religious institution under the Roman Catholic Christian denomination which also serves as an institution facilitating learning to parish members and church-goers through seminars and team-building activities. The uniqueness of the institution’s context as a place wherein worship and learning occurs simultaneously underpins a delicate learning process that balances the Catholic doctrine with the conventional methods and strategies for learning. A field inspection and context analysis of the Institution revealed particular gaps and issues being faced by the parish which pertain to the need for instructional materials, manuals, and an exploration of technology-integration within the parish particularly on the part of the BA Core Youth Ministry which was identified to be inactive and scattered. In order to address these gaps, instructional design was utilized to design and create digital instructional materials and manuals that are print compatible which serves the purpose of helping resolve the aforementioned gaps within the institution. This phase of the joint-project focused on developing instructional materials to be used by the target learners during the BBS 1 youth seminar, with the developed materials garnering positive feedback from the target audience. With that said, feedback showed split preference between the digital and print version of the material. Length also became a deciding factor as the final combined output of the joined-project was deemed to be too lengthy which warranted changes in the sectioning and presentation of its content.