Teacher: Andrew Graham

Ethics in Counselling (PH 401) presents concepts regarding ethical issues encountered by the pastoral counsellors and licensed professional counsellors. Areas of interest include ethical principles, professional codes of ethics, identifying and resolving ethical dilemmas, ethical decision-making models, and legalities of the profession.

Teacher: Allen Lee

This course will provide you with a foundational understanding of the knowledge and skills required to facilitate group therapy utilizing various theoretical perspectives, strategies, and techniques.

Teacher: Ken Gilmore

This course is a critical study of the background, content, and specific theological themes of I & II Corinthians. Attention is given to background issues, critical issues, and other elements that contribute to understanding the letters to the Corinthians. The issue of unity and its relationship to Paul’s teaching in these letters receives intentional attention, especially as it relates to leadership in the 21st century Christian church.

Teacher: Eric Hallett

The Great Commission contains a dual focus: evangelism and discipleship. No evangelism program is complete without the inclusion of an intentional system of discipleship; and no discipleship program is complete without a strong engagement in evangelism. It is often at the point of making disciples that the church has her greatest failure. Conversion is only the beginning, and often that beginning is lost because converts never become followers of Jesus. The objective of this course, therefore, is to equip students with both a biblical understanding of how a local church effectively reaches the unsaved in the community with the gospel message, and transitions new believers into a community of believers who intentionally support and encourage each other in becoming as much like Jesus as the Holy Spirit intends and enables.

Teacher: Janet Starks

This course provides a survey of the history of the Christian church from its birth to the present day, in the context of world history. Attention is given to how the past impacts present and future ministry.

Teacher: Erik Ireland

A major objective of this degree is to provide a special emphasis on integrating scripture and biblical theology with pastoral leadership, worship, evangelism and discipleship, a deeper understanding of the church, and spiritual formation.  Class work in each of the specific MA courses will include the opportunity to design assignments around some ministry need or theme each student will choose.

In order to further facilitate the program objectives, the final course in the MAPT program is a Capstone Project in which students will revise, compile and/or create a set of ministry resources oriented around a particular need or theme they had earlier identified at the beginning of (or during) the program. This project will involve the processing, assimilation, and compilation of principles, insights and methodologies gleaned from the integration of class work and ministry involvement in the core curriculum of the degree. The completion of this project will be your final “class.”

Teacher: Erik Ireland

Teacher: Janet Starks

Church History provides a survey of the history of the Christian Church from its birth to the present day in the context of world history. Our focus in this course will be to trace ways that Christianity has both confronted and adopted the prevailing culture as followers of Christ have sought to be “in but not of the world." Attention is given to how the past impacts present and future ministry.

Teacher: David Hansen

Teacher: Ken Gilmore

This course is an introduction to hermeneutics, the art of biblical interpretation, through the study of the principles of induction, the development of skills, and the use of various reference tools which are applied to specific books of the Bible.

Teacher: Michael Black

This course will enable the student to gain a clearer understanding of the New Testament as a whole, as well as its parts. Students will gain factual knowledge that can be passed along so that all can better know the Jesus of the New Testament and share His good news with others. The student will gain knowledge about the structure, content, history, and geography of the New Testament.

Teacher: Milt Van Natta

This course is designed for the personal and spiritual growth of the minister. It explores the biblical and historical foundations of the spiritual life, as well as methodologies and resources for developing Christian spirituality in the lives of others in cooperation with the work of the Holy Spirit. This course will enhance the student's ability to see the relationship between spirituality and ministry, discover principles for the enrichment of their own spirituality, and help Christian disciples grow in their relationship with Christ.

Teacher: Michael Black

This course will enable the student to gain a clearer understanding of the New Testament as a whole, as well as its parts. Students will gain factual knowledge that can be passed along so that all can better know the Jesus of the New Testament and share His good news with others. The student will gain knowledge about the structure, content, history, and geography of the New Testament.