WTC Prospectus 2009

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Prospectus2009

& Mission

Trainingfor

Kingdom MinistryLeadership


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About 10 years ago some ofus sensed that God wanted tocreate a new training resourcethat would serve the Charismaticchurches in the UK with akingdom-focused theology.

In 2006 a number of theological educators and

church leaders from around the world startedto talk with renewed vigour about intentionalcooperation. Westminster Theological Centre(WTC) and leaders of New Wine quickly senseda common purpose; God was bringing togetherministries and birthing something new.

WTC has grown out of the experience oftheological training delivered in the localchurch context that began when CrispinFletcher-Louis started work as ResidentTheologian at St Marys Bryanston Square,in September 2004. WTC is dedicated tothe delivery of robust theology and trainingthat equips local churches for the growth of

Jesus Kingdom; and since its foundation in2006, has trained students in degree-leveltheology. The result is nearly ve yearsexperience of the needs, challenges andopportunities of the context of a local church

focused on mission and church planting.

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InTroduCIngI wanted a theological frameworkthat could make reasoned senseof tradition and charismaticexperiences. WTC did this for me.

Alwyn Youth church leader

Cses oeiew Page 04

Cicl Ctet Page 06

deliey oeiew Page 08

Hw I apply? Page 09

Faclty Page 10

Patte f Sty Page 12

Qalicati tlie Page 13

Fthe Ifati Page 14

d Cispi Fletche-Lisre Jh Cles


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Church history suggests that signicantmovements of God are stimulated by aconvergence of theological content, ministryand mission. Often theological exploration hasbeen taken up with concerns removed fromthe front line of Church life in the power ofthe Spirit. But at times of renewal and revival,theological content and training becomesaligned to the needs and character of Godskingdom manifestation and church growth.

In the 18th Century, England was sweptby a revival initiated by a group of Oxford-educated and highly literate evangelists:the Wesleys preached outside the connesof existing church structures and emptiedthe gin-halls of the downtrodden workingclasses who became intoxicated by Godslove and his Spirit. In the rst half of thesame century in New England the GreatAwakening was accompanied by many signsof the Spirits presence and was led by thephilosopher-theologian Jonathan Edwards. Inour own time, the recovery of Jesus messageand the experience of Gods kingdom wasspearheaded by the late John Wimber, a one-time member of the teaching faculty of FullerTheological Seminary (in California). At thesetimes of renewal there has been a growth incondence in Gods power, obedience to his

word and, simultaneously a renewed clarityof theological perception focused on Jesus(his words, deeds and personal presence).

In creating the New Wine Training Partnership(NWTP) we are offering local churches andindividuals the opportunity to invest time andenergy in training that equips the whole Body

of Christ to see Jesus Kingdom grow. Wehope you will join us in this venture, and thepages that follow outline the training on offer.

Ys

re Jh ClesDirector, New Wine

May 2009

Westiste Thelical Cete athe new Wie Taii Pateship

...we are offering localchurches and individualsthe opportunity to investtime and energy intraining that equips the

whole Body of Christ tosee Jesus Kingdom grow.

& d CispiFletche-LisPrincipal, WTC


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CourSES ovErvIEW


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We are offering three courses;one at undergraduate entrylevel and two for graduates.

The ueaate Ceticate i KiThely is a fully accredited level 4* course(equivalent to a rst year as an undergraduateat university). This course has 120-credit

units and takes two years to complete.

1. A Tw-Yea ueaate Ceticatei Ki Thely: 120 Creditsundertaken half-time (an average of circa12 hours per week over one year)We are not currently offering a full-timeundergraduate level study course. However,study on the 120-credit course may be taken

for just one year. In this case, studentswill have undertaken work across all coresubjects (biblical theology, ministry andleadership, spirituality and church historyand mission) and then will have 60 creditsthat can be transferred to another tertiaryeducation study programme (and that will,for example, count towards ordinationtraining). The Undergraduate Certicate isthe rst level of a full BA course that will

be rolled out over the coming years.

The gaate Ceticate i KiThely is a fully accredited level 6* course.The student attains a level of competenceequivalent to that of a full BA course (and maythen proceed to study towards an MA or similarqualication). This course has 120-creditunits and takes two years to complete ifworking half-time; one year if studentsstudy full-time. So, there are two Graduatecourses for which students can apply:

2.A Tw-Yea gaate Ceticate i KiThely: 120 Credits, undertaken half-time.

3. A oe-Yea gaate Ceticate i KiThely: 120 Credits, undertaken full-time.

The Graduate Certicate is the rstlevel of a full MA course that will berolled out over the coming years.

The core subjects covered at Undergraduateand Graduate levels are the same.

Graduate content and assessment is ata higher level and takes for granted thestudy, communication and conceptualskills attained during a rst degree.

Undergraduate and Graduate Courses

share broadly the same aims and thesegovern the overall shape of the curriculumand the content of individual modules.

I wanted to be equipped for leadership in everyway. The course has taught me to read the Bible,expanded my imagination and made me hungryto understand Scripture better. Ive been soexcited and inspired by what Ive learnt I justwant more. I love the God Im discovering!Jenny - A development charity worker

* Please note that tertiary education levels haverecently been re-numbered. The new level 4 is theold level 1 and the new level 6 is the old level 3.


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ol Testaet &new Testaet

Old and New Testaments arestudied with a focus on theoverarching biblical story thatclimaxes in Gods Kingdomannouncement and enactment

in Jesus. Students areintroduced to the key themesof Scripturecreation, Godswork in history, the fall andthe saving work of Jesus in theincarnation and at the cross,eschatology, ecclesiology,pneumatology. There is aspecial focus on the waysin which, going back to the

original purpose in creation,Gods people are created forhis glory in mission, serviceand for the proclamation andworks of the Kingdom. Youwill be given tools for lifelongstudy of Scripture and modelsto help you apply Gods wordto everyday life challenges,ministry and leadership.

Spiitality &Chch Histy

Church History is approachedwith a focus on spiritualityand an appreciation forthe ways in which God hascontinued to work in the

church and in the world downthrough the ages. We readsome classics in the historyof Christian spirituality,discovering the ways inwhich they help us face thechallenges of life today: life inthe Spirit, life in community,pastoral care, leadership andgrowth into Christs character.

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Students are introduced to thehistory and biblical shape ofChristian doctrine especiallyas this inspires our vision forChristian worship, prayer,

discipleship and mission andas it guides our thinking aboutthe nature of healthy churchand life in the Spirit. Downthrough the centuries greatminds with big hearts havehelped the church think inan organised way about Godand his ways in the world. Thequestions these theologians

faced are as pressing todayas they were in the 3rd and16th centuries. The classicsin Christian Doctrine lead usdeeper into worship of Godfor his wisdom and power.

CurrICuLum ConTEnT

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missily

The theology and practiceof mission is taught byspecialists with decadesof personal experience ofmission, evangelism and

church growth. The focus is onthe challenge and inspirationof all that God is doing inour own time, the lessonsof history and core conceptsand debates in missionstudies. Particular attentionis paid to: the relationshipbetween proclamation andaction; the understanding of

mission in the Pentecostaland Charismatic traditions;the role of advocacy andpursuit of justice; the natureof mission in a post-modernand pluralistic context andthe study of church growthand models of churchplanting. What you learn inthe classroom is accompanied

by rst-hand experience of amission or evangelism project.

Leaeship, miisty,missi aPesal Fati

All our courses includeteaching for personalformation, for ministry andfor leadership; in both theChurch and in the life-place.

This means practical trainingthat equips students withan understanding, forexample, of team leadership,conict management, visioncasting, communicationskills, the nature of power,how to develop enterprisestrategies, organisationalhealth and growth and the

nature of ministry in thepower of the Spirit. Trainingfor ministry and leadershipis set within the context ofa personal investment inspiritual disciplines (prayer,Bible study, hospitality,worship, service, fasting),comprehending individualmotivational strengths

and weaknesses, self-leadership, and the natureof relationships and oflife in the community.

The focus of theteaching is sopioneering, it wasrefreshing andchallenging inequal measure.

Tim Ordained Minister

Studying at WTChas been mindstretching, relationaland empowering. Adam - Ordinand


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The residential teaching blocksprovide an opportunity for allstudents from across the countryto come together. The weeksinclude academic classroomtime, practical training fromspecialists and the opportunityto grow with others from acrossthe country in the contextof ministry and worship.

Most of the time students willattend the course as part ofa group based in local Hubsscattered across the UK. AHub is made up of one or morechurches hosting the teaching,and providing placementsfor student interns. TheseHub groups meet on a weekly

basis for teaching, to worshiptogether and grow as a learningcommunity applying Gods Wordinto their life-place. Teachingin the Hub is a combinationof web-based lectures thatprovide audio-visual accessto a remote lecturer deliveringcore theological content; anddelivery of material by local

tutors that is particularlytailored to the local context thatthe Hub is operating within.

dELIvErY ovErvIEW

14 - 18th September 200922 - 26th February 2010

1. Residential Weeks

2. Web-based Delivery

3. Local Tutors

5-day teaching blocks(September and Februaryfor half-time students,plus November and Julyfor full-time students).

Weekly teaching viaremote web-basedpresentation deliveredfrom the Centre into thelocal church Hub duringthree 8-week term blocks.

Up to 30 hours teachingby local tutors ofmaterial specically forthe local church context.


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Hw I apply t sty a WTC cse?

Ae y atteia nWTP Hb Chch?

Do you want to be anintern in this Church?

Speak to your Churchleadership and if theyare happy, completetheir intern form and theNWTP Application Form

Do you want to bean intern in yourown Church?

Read details of Courserequirements. Discusswith your Church Leader& complete NWTPApplication Form

Do you want to applyfor a place as an internwith a Church?

Are you preparedto travel to aHub to study?

Contact WTC to

register your interestfor future years

Complete NWTPApplication Formindicating anypreferences ofHub location andparticular ministryinterests you have

Are you living closeto a Hub Church?

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Through the teaching I found a new way totalk about what I do - how my work ts into theincredible story of what God has done throughhistory, and what he is doing through us in ourworld today. It has been engaging, subverting,surprising, challenging and transforming.Anna - International Development Adviser


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d Cispi Fletche-Lisstudied at Oxford as an undergraduateand also as a post-graduate, writing adissertation on angelology in Luke and Acts.He has taught at Kings College London,Durham and Nottingham Universities andhas published widely in the areas of NewTestament studies and the historical contextof earliest Christianity. In 2004 he became

Resident Theologian at St Marys BryanstonSquare, a large, mission-focused Anglicanchurch in Central London and in 2006 helpedestablish Westminster Theological Centre.He has been in active church leadership fortwenty years and is married to Mary, withtwo children (Emily is 7 and Reuben is 5).

d Pete Fitchteaches Spirituality & Church History forWTC and Biblical Studies and MinistryStudies at St Stephens University, a smallUniversity with strong Vineyard and New Wineconnections in New Brunswick in Canada(www.ssu.ca). He specialises in the retrievalof resources for a dynamic and healthy life ofdiscipleship from the depths of the Christiantradition across the centuries. He is also apastor at St Croix Vineyard in St Stephen.

d Bb Ekbla(www.bobekblad.com) is a Biblical Theologianwith a unique experience of 25 years ofmission in South America, Africa and NorthAmerica. He works with the poor and ethnicminorities, especially in prisons and combinesa commitment to advocacy and justice withministry in the power of the Spirit and thecritical role of Signs and Wonders. He is a

visiting lecturer at WTC and Regent College,Vancouver, is an international speaker and haswritten three books, the latest of which -A NewChristian Manifesto:Pledging Allegiance to theKingdom of God(2008) - explores the comingtogether of the Spirit, the Word and the Streetas the location of the Kingdoms presence.

d Chck Ckeis head of Human Capital in a US technologycompany that has grown rapidly in thelast 10 years, he is founder and head of aChristian martial arts outreach ministryand ordained Baptist Pastor. He has 20+years involvement in Theological Educationand brings to WTC an expertise in theunderstanding of human developmentand the spirituality of the workplace.

FACuLTY


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d Flit mcglahli(www.intmcglaughlin.com) is a businessleader and a Theologian with a background inPhilosophy who currently serves as: Directorof MECLABS (an Inc. 500 group of researchcompanies), co-pastor at The BeachesVineyard, Jacksonville Florida and Directorof Enterprise Research at TransformingBusiness (a Research Unit at the University

of Cambridge). Flint oversees a number ofresearch projects and teaches in the elds ofleadership, organisational health and growth,and what it means for businessor work in thelife-placeto be both worship and mission.

d Alaa Tayl

studied theology at North Central University

in Minneapolis, Minnesota before comingto Birmingham University to do researchon creative methods of biblical languagelearning and teaching. She sings in Greek,writes her shopping lists in Greek, enjoysreading lexicons and whenever she learns anew language she likes to invent soap operadialogues in the language to entertain herself.She also loves cartoons and martial arts.

Expeiece lcal chch leaeswill contribute to leadership andpersonal formation training.

d rb Baettstudied theology at Regent College(Vancouver, British Columbia) beforemoving to Durham (UK) to write a doctorateunder Prof. Walter Moberly on PoliticalTheology and the book of Deuteronomy.Rob began his formal theological training ina church-based programme while workingin the marketplace (as an IBM research

scientist) and is passionate about the rolefor theological education within the church.Rob has worked for WTC since 2007, and iscurrently a visiting lecturer whilst studyingmonotheism in Isaiah as a postdoctoral fellowat Georg-August-Universitt in Gttingen,Germany. He is married to Crystal and hastwo adorable little daughters, Ellie and Isla.

re Chis Pebet(new Wie Taii diect)

Chris has been vicar of St Mary Bredin, inCanterbury, Kent, since 1998 and is one of theleaders of New Wine. He has a background inmarketing and worked with Dunlop Holdings,London before ordination in 1984. Beforemoving to Canterbury, he was involved in localchurch leadership at St Lukes, Maidstone,Kent (four years) and St Aldates, Oxford (tenyears) where he worked as a chaplain in theUniversity and taught part-time at WycliffeHall, an Anglican theological college.

The most signicant thing is that I no longerfeel that all the questions I have must betidied up and answered before I can be a realChristian. I can have faith and hope in theface of many difcult and complex issues.Ruth Jewellery maker/Engraver


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The academic year starts formally in the thirdweek of September 2009 when studentscome together from across the UK for 5 daysintensive residential teaching (14th to

18th September). In the rst two weeks ofSeptember students have an opportunity forformal and informal induction into their Hubchurches. The rst Residential is followedby a pattern of 4-weeks teaching followedby 2-weeks study leave. At the end of eachstudy leave period a piece of work needs tobe submitted. There are 6 pieces of work tobe completed during the academic year (for

part-time students). This is a mixture of essaysand written reections alongside portfoliosof evidence of ministry and leadership.During Hub Teaching Weeks, students willhave 3 hours of classroom time per week.

Key ates ae:

Fist esietial teachi blck14th to 18th September 2009

Chistas Hliay21st December 2009 to 8th January 2010

Sec esietial teachi blck22nd to 26th February 2010

Easte Hliay 29th March to 9th April 2010

Se Hliay starts 19th July 2010

Fll tie stets will hae tw aitial

esietial teachi blcks9th to 13th November 2009and 5th to 9th July 2010.

PATTErn oF STudY

1-Sep-09 AuTumn TErm 18-dec-09

21-dec-09 SPrIng TErm 9-Ap-10

12-Ap-10 SummEr TErm 30-Jl-10

Induction R1 Prep Hub Teaching Study Weeks Hub Teaching Study Weeks

Christmas Holiday Hub Teaching Study Weeks R2 Hub Teaching Easter Hol.

Study Weeks Hub Teaching Study Weeks Hub Teaching Study Weeks Summer Hol.


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Concepts and image-systems which appear throughout the Bible- humanity made in the image of God, the Son of Man, the temple,the Genesis narrative - have gone from being familiar weirdnesses,to hugely engaging and exciting in their contextualised and appliedmeaning. I suddenly have a vocabulary to understand (and explain andexplore) the Bible that I simply didnt have before. This is extremelyexciting and empowering, both personally and in my work.Debs Film-maker

QuALIFICATIon ouTLInE

Yea 1 Yea 2

ueaateSties

gaate Sties WTC Cses

Bachels deee

120 Credits

dipla i HiheEcati

120 Credits

Ceticate f HiheEcati

120 Credits

Qualications leading toaward of Bachelors Degree

Qualications leading toaward of Masters Degree

F/T

P/T

P/T

P/T

mastes deee

120 Credits

gaate Ceticate

120 Credits

gaateCeticate120 Credits

Fati

Ceticate60 Credits

gaate Ceticate120 Credits

Ceticate f HiheEcati120 Credits


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FurTHEr InFormATIon

WTC is part of the New WineTraining Partnership set up inconjunction with New Wineand local churches to delivertheological training coursesaccredited by the Universityof Wales, Lampeter.

The New Wine Training Partnership (NWTP) isfocused on equipping local churches to see

Jesus kingdom grow.

Wh ae the cses f?

These courses are designed for Christians inactive ministry and leadership. They are suitedto anyone working part-time (whether paid

or voluntary) in a local church or para-churchorganisation, especially as interns; and formature Christians able to dedicate time todeeper theological training.

Why shl I sty with WTC?

We have created accredited courses thatare designed for individual personalgrowth in character, vision, purpose and a

foundational theological understanding. Youwill be equipped for more effective ministryand leadership with a deeper grounding inGods word and in the life of the Spirit.

Wh acceits the cses?All students who complete 120-credits will gain aUniversity of Wales Lampeter Certicate (eitherat Level 4 if you are a rst time Undergraduate,or level 6 if you are a Graduate who is ready for amore challenging introduction to Theology).

What ae the qalicatiseqie f ety t the cses?If you are over 25 you do not needto have any A Levels to qualify.

If you are under 25 and haveanother degree you qualify.

If you are under 25 and have at least180 GCE A Level points (eg threeCs) or equivalent, you qualify.

There are two courses to suit your ability andprior experience of life, informal theologicalstudy and university-level training.

(1) The Graduate Certicate is specically forstudents who have a rst degree and who arenow ready for a more challenging introductionto degree level theology. The GraduateCerticate leads straight on to an MA.

(2) The Undergraduate Certicate is foranyone who does not yet have a degree orfor graduates of other subjects who wantan entry-level introduction to theology.


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What sppt will I hae?At an academic level, you will have a local Hublibrary with all key and supporting textbooksfor your course. Additionally you will haveonline access to considerable resources at theUniversity of Wales Lampeter (UWL), and yourstudent card from UWL will give you accessto other libraries throughout the UK. You willhave support and guidance from your tutors

to help with completion of assessed work.

On a personal level you will have access tomentoring and support from your Hub churchas well as being part of a learning communitywith the other students based at your Hub.

What shl I expect t ai

by the e f the cse?(1) As well as a university level qualication

(2) You should have a condent grasp ofa biblical worldview that you are able toclearly communicate to others and canhumbly, and under the guidance of theSpirit, apply to the opportunities andchallenges of a life of discipleship.

(3) The course will equip you with a clearfoundational understanding of the biblical,historical and doctrinal character of the callto a life of service, mission and leadershipin the church and in the world; and

(4) The course will signicantly contribute tothe development of a Christ-like character andskills in leadership, ministry and mission.

Ca I sty Biblical laaes?

There is an option to study Greek andHebrew. If you are interested in this, pleasestate this on your application form.

What ae se f the keyfeates f these cses?

- Orthodox Biblical Study in acontext of worship and prayer

- Charismatic emphasis to the teaching

- A local church base for the students

- An apprentice/mentor model of learning

- Teaching that embodiesthe values of New Wine

- Training for the life-place (leaders inall spheres of life learning together)

- Theological educators working alongsidechurch leaders to deliver training thateffectively equips the local church

Its like prising open boxes of reworks, lettingthem off one by one and discussing the fall-outin the presence of a committed tutor, otherinquiring students, and the Holy Spirit.

Jeremy Documentary maker


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