2010/2011 Second Quarter Classes
4 October 2010 – 14 January 2011
THE BOOK OF MARK
Dr Christopher Creech
Dr Christopher Creech
This class is a study of Mark, pericope by pericope, with an emphasis on its historical and cultural background. As a result of this study, the overall flow of Mark will be evident, making sermon preparation and Bible studies more consistent with the authorial intent of the book.
“A walking Bible encyclopaedia”, “inspiring”, and “passionate” are some description of Dr Creech by his students. Dr Creech did doctoral studies in Biblical Preaching, Bible Interpretations, Biblical Backgrounds (Southwestern Seminary, 1992) and served as a pastor and teacher for more than 30 years.
RELIGIONS OF ASIA
Dr Mah Yeow Beng
Dr Mah Yeow Beng
“How can a Christian help maintain religious harmony in a multi-racial society, yet remain sensitive in witness for Christ? This class seeks to understand the history, motivation, and teachings of other belief systems.
As a Campus Crusade staff since 1987, Dr Mah had worked with church leaders in Singapore and served in Cambodia with his family. His doctoral studies (Asbury Theological studies, 2004) focuses on helping Asian Christians contextualize Chinese folk beliefs and practices, looking at fengshui as a case study.
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August Block Class @ EAST (registration closed)
Luda Leinster
Character Development (2 credit class)
Ms Luda Leinster
16, 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 27 August 2010
Mondays to Fridays (excluding Wednesdays), 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm
Saturday, 9.00 am to 1.00 pm
This is a foundational class dealing with the various stages of growth and character development. Ms Leinster, a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, earned her Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from California State University. For the past ten years, she has been ministering with the Genesis Counselling Service in Southern California as a therapist working with individuals and families in relational crisis. Ms Leinster will draw from her expertise and experience in counselling and share spiritual insights on how to better understand self and others. She will also provide you with a means of evaluating your spiritual and emotional development, and give you tools and skills to monitor and facilitate Christian growth and character in your personal ministry.
Registration
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June Block Classes@EAST (registration closed)
Dave (right) & Ronnie Carder
Family Counseling (2 credit class)
Rev Dr Dave Carder
14 – 25 June 2010
Mondays to Fridays
10.00 am to 12 noon
What are roots to family dysfunction? Does time heal all emotional wounds? What issues do children from ministers’ family background go through but won’t tell their parents? This class focuses on a biblical counseling approach to the above and other common life problems in family relationships. The student will learn to help each family member identify problem areas, and seek to bring healing and resolution among family members.
Alex Tang
Biomedical Ethics & the Contemporary Church (2 credit class)
Dr Alex Tang
18, 19, 25, 26 June 2010
Fridays: 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm;
Saturdays 9.00 am to 4.00 pm
Advances in medical treatment modalities, biotechnological innovations, and genetic-molecular manipulations have brought about unique challenges to issues faced by the church today. In this class, a pastoral-theological approach will be used to examine, reflect and develop responses to difficult moral and ethical issues such as test tube and designer babies, facts and fallacies of stem cell therapies, cloning, abortion, mercy-killing, living will, gene therapy, and aesthetic surgery
East Asia School of Theology (EAST) is an inter-denominational graduate seminary, committed to shaping Christlike leaders through solid biblical and theological knowledge, field-tested ministry skills, and character development. 