Teaching

  • Myth & Memory: The American Story

    2025 Exordium Week at St. Andrew’s College, Lake Almanor Exordium Week, 2025: Sep 22ndโ€”Sep 26th. Join us for a week of learning and discussion about the American Myth, the political philosophy behind the USโ€™s founding and its stories. This is week before school starts, helping get our students excited about getting back into the swing…

  • Residency Builder

    Come and learn about how to establish an effective and thriving pipeline of leaders through Residencies and Curacies. Residencyย Builder24-Hourย Intensive Januaryย 20-21,ย 2025Noonย toย NoonPhoenix,ย AZ For anyone who wants to start a residency or curacy program within your church or for those who want to refine their current offerings, we are offering this exclusive event for up to 25 people. We believe this intensive time in a smaller setting with exclusive access to our specialists will truly accelerate you and your church to launch or polish a residency program to equip our future leaders within the province! Our trainer and specialist, Ryan Johnston, joins us from the Send Network. We have hired him to guide us in building Residency Programs that can be implemented across multiple churches within our province. In an article about building residencies, he shares the following… “One of the greatest legacies a pastor could leave behind is to raise up laborers for the harvest in the form of a cascading flow of missionaries, pastors, planters and church staff. Over the past years, I have worked with hundreds of pastors and ministry leaders wanting to develop a residency. Some of the residencies are similar, but each one also is uniquely different. You can build a lasting residency program that you deeply believe in by working through a process that helps you define what you want in your residency. You must define three things: your terms, your why and your content.” Ryan Johnston serves as the Send Network’s church planting leader in Kansas and Nebraska. During 20 years of ministry, he has served in multiple roles within the local church. As a pastor, he has spent the greater part of his ministry investing in and raising up pastors, church planters and leaders. Recently he has focused on using residency builder events and has helped over 300 pastors develop church planting residencies that are unique to them. Ryan is passionate about personal discipleship, kingdom expansion and pastoral health. He has been married to his wife, Debby, for 19 years and they have five children. Our friends from Made to Flourish will also join us at the Residency Builder Intensive to share about funding options for residencies. Kevin Harlan, VP of Programs, Made to Flourish: Kevin played a role in forming Made to Flourish and served on the senior pastoral team at Christ Community Church in Kansas City for 15 years. He and his bride, Sharon, have been involved in many leadership capacities at Christ Community since 1994. Before his work with Christ Community, Kevin served with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) and was the executive vice president at the end of his tenure.

  • Hearing the Voice of Christ in the Old Testament

    This symposium will explore the early Christian method of reading the Old Testament that identified certain dialogical passages as conversation among Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Scholars and practitioners will consider the exegetical, theological, homiletical, and ascetical implications of identifying theย vox Christiย within the Old Testament, with special attention to the opportunities and resources provided by…

  • Teaching for Spiritual Formation

    Christian Education:Teaching for Spiritual Formation with Dr Kyle Hughesย PT 7082 creditsThis course will explore a fresh vision of Christian teaching and learning by drawing upon the riches of the Christian tradition, synthesizing the wisdom of the early church fathers with contemporary efforts to cultivate a distinctively Christian approach to education. Of interest to Christian educators,…

  • Becoming Whole Conference

    Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary; they will walk and not be faint (Isaiah 40:31). โ€The ministry of healing and wholeness is at the heart of the life of the Church in the making of disciples. At…

  • Imago Dei in the Church

    A virtual event to engage and grow. February 17  |  6 – 7:30 p.m. CT John Swinton, theologian and founding director of Aberdeenโ€™s Centre for Spirituality, Health, and Disability, writes about the importance of engaging with someone to develop a thick rather than a thin description of the person. Learning about a personโ€™s history, their daily life, and what they…