Teacher: Allen Lee

Participant will serve as an assistant pastor and fulfill a variety of roles as assigned by the senior pastor. This may be focused in a particular area, for example youth or children’s ministry.

Teacher: Nikki Ebbett

This course helps prepare students for success as an online student. It is required for all students before taking their first online course through Kingswood Extended.

Teacher: Allen Lee

This lab is required for students who did not earn a high enough grade in the previous semester's Spiritual Formation Component

Teacher: Allen Lee

This course is where students report participation in the required spiritual formation activities each week.

Teacher: Allen Lee

This course is a generic placeholder for practicums which will be replaced by a specific course when the student contract is approved. Practicum assignments are designed to allow students to integrate classroom learning and practical ministry.

Teacher: Michael Schwind

This course is a comprehensive survey of the New Testament. Problems relating to its proper understanding are considered.

Teacher: Milt Van Natta

This course introduces students to the concepts of holistic Christian spiritual formation and historic spiritual practices for spiritual growth. Personal spiritual assessment and opportunity for developing a practical plan for personal spiritual formation are also emphasized.

Term 4 2024-2025

This course continues the journey into the art of persuasive writing, focusing on the rhetoric, logic, and evidence needed to craft compelling arguments. Drawing inspiration from works of classical rhetoric, students will hone their skills in writing persuasive and expository prose.

Teacher: Michael Schwind

This course centres on the life of Christ as seen through a careful study of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Particular attention is given to the unique historical and theological contributions of each of the Gospels. Key themes are surveyed.

Teacher: Cynthia Tweedell

This course studies social systems and their development from early times to the present. The course is designed to enhance the student's appreciation of the various forms of social life as well as show the complex forces at work within the scope of social life. Students will conduct a sociological research project as part of the course requirements.

Teacher: Marleigh Genereaux

This course gives an overview of counselling theory, and reviews and practices skills of being a good helper and counsellor. The integration of theology and psychology is considered and foundational understanding of people and what is needed to promote healing is studied and practiced.

Teacher: Richard Kavanaugh

This course continues the study in Homiletics I in teaching students to prepare and deliver sermons using a variety of methods and styles for a variety of settings, with a focus on expository preaching.

Teacher: Justin Bradbury

This course is a continuation of Christian Doctrine I, focusing on a systematic treatment of the doctrines regarding the person and work of Jesus Christ, the atonement, the nature and function of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer, sanctification and the Christian life, the nature of the church, and eschatology.

Teacher: Janet Starks

This course traces the history of the Methodist Wesleyan movement, with a focus on the development of today’s Wesleyan Church, and how the past affects the church’s ministry today. The course also assists in the understanding and application of The Discipline.

Teacher: Juliann Young

This course is designed to provide the student with a basic understanding of abnormal human behavior. Models of abnormal behavior, methods of classification of mental disorders and approaches to treatment of these disorders will be discussed.

Teacher: Dr. Janet Dean

This course presents concepts regarding competent multicultural counselling. Counselling practices surrounding major ethnic groups are studied in-depth. The overarching cultural context of relationships, including factors such as age, race, gender, sexual orientation, religious and spiritual values, family values, and socioeconomic status are examined. Multicultural counselling theories are considered in the area of client work. Likewise, counsellor self-awareness toward the management of biases, prejudice, discrimination, and the like will be addressed.

Teacher: Justin Bradbury

This course is the hands-on ministry component of the Master of Arts (Pastoral Theology). During twelve months of the program, each master's student will invest a minimum of 20 hours per week in an approved ministry, on a paid or volunteer basis. Monthly reflective reports will be submitted to the Program Director. Students who choose to complete the degree in two years may reduce their ministry hours to ten hours per week over two years.

Teacher: Justin BradburyTeacher: Eric Hallett

This course examines how the church is meant to function as the mission of God in the world. 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: Justin Bradbury

This course allows students to integrate and apply in a working preaching/teaching model the principles, insights and skills they have learned in each of the M.A. courses.

Teacher: Justin BradburyTeacher: Tina Pitamber

This course aims to lay the foundation for a firm grasp of the basic doctrines of the Christian faith. While the theological perspective is that of The Wesleyan Church, the student is encouraged to interact with other Christian perspectives to gain a clearer understanding of one’s own view.