Teacher: Shaun Miller

This course allows students to focus on one aspect of compassion/social justice ministry for the entire semester, building on experiences gleaned in the Regional Praxis ministries in the first year of the program.

Teacher: Marc Jolicoeur

This course offers further inquiry into the art of worship leading and explores by practical application the necessary skills needed by a worship pastor. Emphasis is placed upon the practical principles involved in giving leadership to rhythm sections and vocal teams. The hands-on design of this course is to assist the student in gaining competence in using the tools and techniques of worship leading.

Spring 2024-2025

This course will focus on curriculum development, teaching technique, digital and verbal communication skills, awareness of various audiences and general leadership communication expectations for our current culture. The course is designed for hands-on participation.

Spring 2024-2025

This course is designed to equip students to understand adolescent and family issues at a deeper level and to respond to issues of brokenness and pain in a way that truly promotes health and wholeness. Class time will be built around lectures supplemented by case study evaluations and group discussions. Students will be evaluated based on reading reports, a real-life adolescent profile, statistical analysis and the deep exploration of a contemporary adolescent issue as a final summary project. Specific topics such as eating disorders, substance abuse, depression, self-harm, suicide and anxiety will be discussed.

Spring 2024-2025

Spring 2024-2025

Spring 2024-2025

Teacher: Marc Jolicoeur

This course is designed to introduce the student to the ministry and art of worship leading. Emphasis is placed upon the practical principles governing the creative preparation of worship orders for the local community, and the development of necessary skills to follow through with leading the planned service.

Spring 2024-2025

This course focuses particularly on the connection between theological thinking and the historical situation in which that thinking developed. This course gives attention to the way in which historical theology informs the shape of theology today. The course includes a survey of the four broad periods of the history of Christian thought, identifying historical background, key theological developments, individual theologians, and the theological schools of thought of each period.

Teacher: Merrill Greene

This course is a study of contemporary movements in theology. Primary attention is given to liberation, feminist, process, and other modern theologies, particularly as they articulate their doctrine of God, humanity, and salvation.

Teacher: Axel Kazadi

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: Clinton Branscombe

This course lays the foundation of a firm belief in the Christian religion. It introduces the student to the basic doctrines of the Bible and furnishes evidence which supports the divine origin of the doctrines, morals, and institutions of Christianity.

Teacher: Shaun Miller

This course explores the biblical mandate to transform not just the individual but social patterns and institutions with the love of God and the truth of the scriptures.

Teacher: Allen Lee

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

Teacher: Shaun Miller

This course is a ten-day immersion into ministry in another culture. Students work through the process of fundraising, putting together a prayer team, learning language and culture, and preparing ministry tools before the trip.

Teacher: Shaun Miller

This course continues the experiences of Regional Praxis I, with an emphasis on going deeper. Students are encouraged to look below the surface of ministry models and step more into development of leadership and their gifts.

Teacher: Allen Lee

This course is a study of the behaviour of organisms from the simple stimulus/response mechanism to the human mind in its reactions to conditions and environment.

Teacher: Stephen Elliott

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: Clinton Branscombe

This course acquaints the student with the terminology and the significant problems of the field of philosophy especially in relation to the Christian faith..

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.