Program Description:

This ecclesiastical program is designed to nurture and empower ministry workers, counselors, parents, teachers, church leaders and other people helpers. It will equip them with knowledge, skills strategies and techniques for effective and relevant family ministry, parenting and pastoral care and counseling practice

 

PROGRAM/ DEGREE No. of Units
Certificate in Family Ministry  12 units
Diploma in Family Ministry  27 units
Master of Arts in Family Ministry 45 units 

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Program Description:

Equips and develops highly competent Christian educators and administrators who will provide educational leadership in a church or school setting.

Program Strengths:

  • A balanced and integrated curriculum
  • Helps students become sensitive to Asian cultural context
  • Prepares students to handle training seminars combined with theory and practice
  • Faculty with a wide range of academic and ministerial experience
Degree
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Time Frame Description
Graduate Diploma in Christian Education  One-year study program  For people who desires to enrich their teaching effectiveness and deepen their understanding of Christian education. 
Master of Arts in Christian Education  Two-year study program  For people who wants to focus on Christian education ministry with a solid foundation in biblical and theological studies. 
Master of Divinity in Christian Education  Three-year study program  For people who intend to enter ‘fulltime’ ministry in church or Christian school setting; this program is a more comprehensive graduate education in Bible, theology, history, Christian education in theory and practice and field education 

Program Description:

The Counseling Program helps students develop the knowledge, skills and maturity necessary for effective professional Christian counseling that can address deep and complicated emotional and relational problems.

Program Strengths:

  • focus on the personal and spiritual formation of the counselor
  • equipping for counseling ministries in various settings (church, school, work non-government organization, etc)
  • program designed to meet local and Asian church
  • faculty with excellent individual specialization on the different counseling areas
Degree
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Time Frame  Description 
Graduate Diploma in Christian Counseling  One-year study program  For people training to be professional counselors 
Master of Arts in Christian Counseling  Two-year program  For people training to be professional counselors with knowledge of Bible and theology 
        
Special Lay Training       
Certificate in Crisis and Trauma Management  Five-days  For lay people or lay leaders interested to learn basic knowledge and skills in the field of trauma response and crisis intervention. This four-unit certificate course can be credited as an elective in the Master of Arts in Christian Counseling.  

Program Description:

The Biblical Studies program trains students toward a solid, biblical, theological and cultural framework to understand and apply the timeless truths of the Bible in today’s world.

Program Strengths:

a creative fidelity to Scripture - steeped in the traditions of the past yet able to address today’s issue – to serve as frame of reference for assessing information that proliferates.

Degree
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Time Frame Description
Graduate Diploma in Biblical Studies  One-year study program  Lays the basic foundation for interpreting the Scriptures 
Master of Arts in Biblical Studies  Two-year program  For people intending to go into theological education or taking further studies 
Master of Divinity in Biblical Studies  Three-year program  For people preparing for ministry in the church