This course offers a sweeping survey of Christian history, with special attention to the first thousand years. It explores the many and varied ways Christians both embodied and betrayed the way of Jesus Christ. While heavily informed by the relevant primary sources and historical best-practice, the unit seeks to draw out tentative lessons for contemporary …
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Five days focused on faith, heart, mind, and skills for the art of intercultural ministry Engage Difference! Deepening Understanding for Intercultural Ministry (DUIM) is a 5-day interactive and engaging program with practical ideas for implementation in your own context. DUIM is for ministry leaders and community members nurturing cultural relevance, understanding, and awareness in their …
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The Connectors is a group that journeys over the course of 12 months to explore fresh approaches to flourishing ministry. It involves reflection, prayer, discussion, study, goal-setting, trying out missional initiatives, mutual peer support and more! ü Do you sense that God is nudging you to try something new? ü Do you wish to reach …
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To be able to laugh, to have humor and to be foolish are all tremendous forms of resistance, of showing love/compassion and affirming life in a time where depression, anger, sadness and disasters are mounting. This course follows a Christian Russian tradition called Sacred Fools and intends to be a practical-theoretical way of engaging humor, …
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Recent census data reveals that over half of the population in BC identify as ‘no religion.’ People who have spent some or all of their life in Christianity feel less and less at home there. For 60 years, many have imagined that Christianity isn’t so much dying as going through a once in an epoch …
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Este curso es una introducción al Nuevo Testamento. Aunque más enfocado en una perspectiva hermenéutica que exegética, no se limitará a presentar el Cristo de la fe sino también se desempeña en descubrir quién pudo haber sido el Jesús histórico y lo que éste puede significar para los creyentes de hoy. Una particular atención será …
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Este curso es una aproximación al Antiguo Testamento. En este se exploran los contextos de redacción y los grandes puntos de referencia de la historia de Israel. Se busca ofrecer a los estudiantes un conocimiento bíblico acorde a su utilidad litúrgica para los compromisos en sus parroquias.  Desde esta perspectiva, se trata más de un …
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Our current culture is fraught with conflict and tension. People often describe “walking on eggshells” or the inability to hold a respectful conversation with others. Disputes arise within communities, the workplace, families and far too often within our church congregations. Situations seem insurmountable and people become intractable. The focus of this class is to prepare …
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Have you heard or even uttered the phrase, “I didn’t learn how to do that in seminary!?” Have you wondered “What does it even mean to draft practices for financial management oversight in a way that is faithful and theologically sound?” We have been listening to creative colleagues and graduates and thinking hard about how the …
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Engage Difference! Deepening Understanding for Intercultural Ministry (DUIM) is a 5-day interactive and engaging program with practical ideas for implementation in your own context. DUIM is for ministry leaders and community members nurturing cultural relevance, understanding, and awareness in their communities. Location: Five Oaks Education and Retreat Centre 1 Bethel Rd, Paris, ON N3L 3E3 …
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