Fall 2025-2026

Fall 2025-2026

Teacher: Shaun Miller

This course provides an opportunity for students to assume a leadership role and assist with the first-year Regional Praxis weekly ministry.

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.

Fall 2025-2026

This course explores how communities and churches can partner together to solve complex social problems, especially in a poor, urban contexts.

Teacher: Shaun Miller

This course is a self-directed study completed in the senior year of the B.A. Ministry (Evangelism & Social Justice major). The student focuses study on an area of particular interest within the realm of evangelism, compassion, or social justice ministry. Areas of interest may arise from participation in previous Praxis experiences.

Fall 2025-2026

This course is an introductory anthropology course taught from a Christian perspective. The focus of the course is in gaining skills to analyze and understand, appreciate those of other cultures, as well as to be able to adapt more effectively to new cultural and ministry settings. The practical component of the course is the successful completion of the ethnographic and/or quantitative study of a cultural or social situation in the surrounding community and beyond.

Fall 2025-2026

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, as well as looking at the more unique non-Sunday worship planning needs (i.e. Christmas, Easter, etc.) that a primary worship leader needs to think about. The hands-on design of this course is to assist the student in gaining competence in using the tools and techniques of worship leading.

Teacher: Kenneth Gavel

This course offers an intensive study of Christian perfection from a Wesleyan perspective in its biblical, doctrinal, historical, and practical aspects.

Fall 2025-2026

This course provides a systematic treatment of the nature and sources of theology. Considered are the problems of knowledge and authority, the proper approach to the Bible as God’s written revelation, and the doctrines of God, creation, anthropology and sin.

Fall 2025-2026

Fall 2025-2026

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: Allen Lee

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

Fall 2025-2026

A week-long, intensive plunge into ministry in a more urban context. Students spend a week living in Brooklyn, New York, and participate in two to three ministries per day in the greater New York City area.

Fall 2025-2026

This course provides students with an opportunity to participate in a wide range of local and regional ministries on a weekly basis under the supervision of an experienced program director.

Fall 2025-2026

This course is designed to give the student an overview of the issues involved in marital and family counselling. Various models are examined, and time is designated to utilize and understand processes and interventions used in therapeutic practice.

Fall 2025-2026

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.

Fall 2025-2026

This course acquaints students with various learning theorists and models of learning. It also addresses pupil variability, its measurement and evaluation, and student motivation.

Fall 2025-2026

This course studies the real-life work and responsibilities of the pastor (except preaching). Students are exposed to both the ‘up-front/public’ ministries of a pastor, as well as the ‘behind-the-scenes’ responsibilities. Many practical areas of pastoral ministry are explored through lecture, demonstration, practice, and visits to local churches.

Fall 2025-2026

This course 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.