Wellington Pacific Bible College 2006–2016 Teachings, Trials and Talanoa

<p>This is the first academic study of the Wellington Pacific Bible College (WPBC), a distinctive adult educational institution in New Zealand, focussed on teaching the Bible in the languages of the Pacific. The thesis comprises: (1) a narrative history of WPBC based on primary sources and interviews; and, (2) a study of the College and its teachings by means of a questionnaire and follow up interviews of past and present students, staff and the Board. The thesis addresses the question of the contextualised meaning and significance of WPBC to its principal stakeholders and the major factors that have shaped its curriculum, ethos, and mission in its first decade.</p>

Wellington Pacific Bible College 2006–2016 Teachings, Trials and Talanoa

<p>This is the first academic study of the Wellington Pacific Bible College (WPBC), a distinctive adult educational institution in New Zealand, focussed on teaching the Bible in the languages of the Pacific. The thesis comprises: (1) a narrative history of WPBC based on primary sources and interviews; and, (2) a study of the College and its teachings by means of a questionnaire and follow up interviews of past and present students, staff and the Board. The thesis addresses the question of the contextualised meaning and significance of WPBC to its principal stakeholders and the major factors that have shaped its curriculum, ethos, and mission in its first decade.</p>

Perspektif Teologia Sistematik untuk Tugas Pelayanan Pendidikan Teologi

This paper is a systematic theology design which is underlying the role of theological education. In this paper, the author put the Bible as the primary basis and it will be developed with the support of various books from Christian education authors. The experiences of more than twenty years of service in Bible College are also coloring this paper. Theological basis from various dimensions such as anthropology, Christology, Pneumatology, Ecclesiology and Eschatology is regarded as important as theological education for churches today. By this effort, theological education will step on the true basis and can carry out the duty of its call.

The King of Kings

Born in 1926 outside of San Antonio, Texas, to a migrant farmworker family, Reies López Tijerina’s earliest years were defined by severe poverty and intense religiosity. Nevertheless, starting as a boy, Tijerina saw himself as destined by God for greatness. After attending a Pentecostal Bible college, he spent five years as an Assembly of God minister before becoming an itinerant preacher. As a preacher, he crisscrossed the United States, including several trips through northern New Mexico, which introduced him to the sordid history of land dispossession in the region. His marriage to a fellow Bible school student, Mary Escobar, produced an ever-growing family that joined him in his constant travels and life of precarity. In 1954, a collection of his sermons condemned the United States and its citizens for licentiousness and greed.

Menuju Pendekatan Penginjilan dan Pemuridan yang Efektif kepada Kaum Lanjut Usia Tionghoa

Artikel ini membahas pendekatan penginjilan dan pemuridan terhadap kaum lanjut usia Tionghoa yang bersumber dari hasil penelitian yang dilakukan penulis semasa masih sebagai mahasiswa pascasarjana di Singapore Bible College tahun 2000. Penelitian ini bersifat kualitatif-deskriptif dengan melakukan interviu mendalam kepada 14 hamba Tuhan yang melayani kaum lansia (14 gereja mewakili 7 denominasi) serta 28 orang lansia yang merupakan anggota persekutuan lansia dari gereja-gereja tersebut. Penelitian dilakukan di Singapura dengan dua pertimbangan: (1) terdapat kemiripan historis dan kultur budaya antara orang-orang tua Singapura dan Kalimantan Barat; dan (2) belajar dari gereja-gereja Tionghoa Singapura yang telah terlebih dulu menjangkau kelompok usia ini. Implikasi hasil penelitian tersebut adalah untuk gereja Tionghoa di Kalimantan Barat, tapi terbuka pula kemungkinan untuk diterapkan di gereja Tionghoa di daerah lain yang memiliki kaum lansia dengan latar belakang budaya, kepercayaan, bahasa, dan tingkat pendidikan serupa. Artikel ini dibagi menjadi empat bagian utama: Pertama, memahami kebutuhan dan masalah yang dihadapi oleh kaum lansia; kedua, tantangan didalam melayani kelompok usia tersebut; keteiga, kajian hasil penelitian akan pendekatan yang efektif dalam upaya penginjilan dan pemuridan; keempat, implikasi bagi pelayanan kaum lansia di Kalimantan Barat dan perkembangannya sampai saat ini.

On the Edge of War and Society: Canadian Pentecostal Bible School Students in the 1940s

During World War II the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada put forth arguments on behalf of bible college students concerning military service exemptions, chaplaincy appointments, and veterans’ benefits. The paper deals specifically with the Rev. J.E. Purdie, Principal of the Western Bible College in Winnipeg, his efforts on behalf of his students, and one particularly complex case where attempts were made to have the student exempted from serving, and failing that, to have him appointed as a military chaplain. After the young man’s premature release from service, Purdie argued that he should be entitled to veteran’s benefits to pay for his bible college training. What initially appeared as a bid to protect the individual rights of one young conscript was in fact part of a much larger effort as Pentecostals asserted their right (and by extension the right of other marginal religious groups) to be included in the broader liberal framework in Canada. This case study is significant because it addresses themes of public religion, specifically how Pentecostals challenged the ‘liberal order framework,’ by attempting to carve out recognition for themselves among the religious groups that were acknowledged as legitimate players in Canada’s public affairs.