Applied CAREY ALUMNI AND FRIENDS
Vocation: More Than a Job Developing Leaders for Ministry and Mission An Interview with Martyn Norrie
ISSUE 6 / OCTOBER 2013
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love the excitement of sitting down with prospective students to talk about training options at Carey. There are four things I am keen they understand.
Firstly, they will be superbly trained. Their curriculum and training experiences will be relevant and focused on the things that will best prepare them to achieve the call God has placed on their lives. Carey lecturers will be both leaders in their fields academically and cutting-edge practitioners doing the stuff they are teaching. We pray that our graduates will be leaders, thinkers, and risk-takers; people who are innovative, globally aware, outward looking, and very God-dependent! Secondly, they will make a difference. A theological education at Carey will give you a healthy dissatisfaction with the status quo. As you develop God’s call on your life you will be encouraged to imagine, to stand up and say, “It will be different!” I keep saying, “It’s not by chance that you have arrived at Carey.” Students will be encouraged to find the answer to, “Why has God brought me here? What does he want me to do?” We pray that one of our graduates might be the next William Wilberforce, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Mother Teresa, or Billy Graham. Thirdly, they will become part of something much bigger than themselves. Learning in isolation is not really an option at Carey. God uses the relationships we develop with one another to form us, grow us, and challenge us – staff included! As Principal, not a day would go by without me being challenged or inspired in my thinking and behavior by a Carey student. And even more, you will take this community with you into your ministry and mission — the friendships formed at Carey will never stop journeying with you! Fourthly, they will know Jesus in a deeper way. If the purpose of education at Carey is to just fill students with head knowledge, and to provide them with the right diploma or degree, then we will be letting them down enormously. Although the academic is vital, we should never lose sight that our purpose must be the same as that of the Apostle Paul’s in Philippians 3…knowing Jesus Christ my Lord…gaining Christ and being found in him…to know Christ and the power of his resurrection…becoming like him. We pray that our graduates might consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus our Lord. As Principal of Carey I am always keen to hear from our graduates and friends. Please feel free to communicate your thoughts and ideas to me at any time. My email is charles.hewlett@carey.ac.nz Regards
(Colossians 1:28-29)
Contents Credits Applied Magazine ISSUE SIX Editor: Sam Kilpatrick Design: Junie Jumig Photos: From contributors Printing: 473 Great South Road For enquiries please email sam.kilpatrick@carey.ac.nz Carey Baptist College 473 Great South Road, Penrose, Auckland PO Box 12149, Auckland, 1642 09 525 4017 www.carey.ac.nz Our Apologies In the 4th Edition of Applied we mistakenly stated that Dr. Bob Thompson spent 23 years as Principal of the NZ Baptist Theological College. Dr. Bob did in fact work at the college for 23 years, but was Principal from 1973-1984.
2 EDITORIAL Charles Hewlett 4 GRADUATE PROFILES Laura Giddy, Grant Harris, Frank Ritchie 6 CAREY NEWS 8 FEATURE Vocation: More than a Job 10 THEOLOGY APPLIED James Molony on Being an Army Chaplain 12 AN INTERVIEW WITH MARTYN NORRIE Maryanne Wardlaw 14 DEVELOPING LEADERS FOR MINISTRY AND MISSION John Tucker and Andrew Picard
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Graduate Profiles LAURA GIDDY
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"Mission becomes a daily conversation."
started Carey at the ripe old age of 17 and spent 5 glorious years at this fine establishment. I don’t mean to overstate it; I did love my time studying and look back fondly on these years. The lecturers were encouraging and interesting and they genuinely took an interest in each student’s life. The nature of a small institute is that it does become like an extended family. As well as the social aspects, I worked hard. I managed to fit nearly all of Carey’s study tracks into my years there, starting with Intermission then continuing with the Bachelor of Applied Theology, adding on the Diploma of Pastoral Leadership in my third year and finally dabbling in the Graduate Certificate to round it all out. As much as it could, Carey really set me up for ministry in the ‘real world’. Now I work as the Youth and Young Adults Pastor at Shore Community Church. We are based in Albany on Auckland’s North Shore but people attend from all over the city. In my work with young people I am often confronted with situations that test the faith I so carefully constructed in my earlier years and at Carey. Suddenly these theological issues come across my path as real people with struggles and joys that look quite different to the ideas I’ve got on my bookshelf. Mission becomes a daily conversation. What does it look like for a young person to engage
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with a faith that is so different to the values society upholds? How does this faith intersect with work place dramas, broken families, questions of sexual identity and expression, and the kiwi dream that they aspire to at all costs? Outside of their own bubble how does faith relate to global issues of consumerism, greed, third world poverty and even first world poverty? I still don’t have hard and fast theologies (or even any clue!) on some of these dilemmas but I’m feeling more content with being uncertain these days. I have a foundational knowledge that I gained through study as well as plenty of books, and friends in ministry, to refer to. But I think it’s ok if sometimes our missional response differs depending on situation or season. Carey taught me to hold some things lightly, and that a dependence on Jesus is where our missional activity flows from. If I focus on this as a pastoral leader, I feel comfortable leaving some of the other questions to God.
FRANK RITCHIE
"I regularly face mini crises about how I understand the world and faith."
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remember walking around Carey in the first semester of 1999 thinking ‘what on earth am I doing here?’ Training to be a pastor in a local church was definitely not one of the plans I had for life; my career as a banker had been fruitful and enjoyable, and now I was facing 3 years of study and training surrounded by ‘spiritual’ people whose pictures I was used to seeing in the NZ Baptist; and now I was one of them. The sense of call I had to pastoral leadership took a while to work itself out, and the switch from a corporate environment to a church has taken years to understand, although the unique aspects of ministry leadership probably mean I’ll never fully work it out, but God has been gracious and I’ve learnt through trial and error. The season of life that was Carey provided a foundation and environment that changed and equipped me in so many ways.
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n my work with TEAR Fund I engage with some of the best and worst of humanity as we work to combat extreme poverty and the injustices associated with it. At the core of what we do is hope. For that hope to remain strong when faced with the brutality of things like human trafficking it has to be well informed and driven deep into the core of who we are. Our job is to then draw others into that story of hope. This is leadership in the Christian sense. Study with Carey informed me well about the story of God and over the long period that I
". . . different environments need me to exercise leadership in different ways."
The relationships I built have been a source of ongoing strength while the ideological thinking that meant we had all the challenges of church solved by the time of graduation seems like the distant past! Seven years spent developing my leadership skills at Northpoint Baptist Church in New Plymouth gave me a great environment in which I could think through some of the bigger missional challenges, and where I believe God was equipping me for my current challenge of leading Windsor Park Baptist Church on the North Shore of | continued on page 6
took to complete my Applied Theology degree, that story was able to implant itself deep into who I am and how I understand the world. The degree set me up to continue moving forward in my own personal growth in union with God and gave me the tools to take others on that journey. I regularly face mini crises about how I understand the world and faith because I care about what happens to people and there is a lot of stuff that happens to people that was never the intention for our humanity. If I didn’t have the grounding that the degree provided, | continued on page 6 Applied / 5
Graduate Profiles continued . . . GRANT HARRIS | from p.5
Auckland, a diverse organisation with multiple ways in which we’re interacting with our wider community in a relevant and purposeful way. Combined with my responsibilities of now chairing the Board of Carey Baptist College, serving on the Murrays Bay Intermediate Board of Trustees and having just finished my third season as Chaplain to the NZ Breakers Basketball Team, I have found that all of these different environments need me to exercise leadership in different ways. Whenever a new challenge arises I am reminded to press back in to God, and am often left asking the question I had back in 1999, ‘what on earth am I doing here?’ God knows, thankfully. FRANK RITCHIE | from p.5
along with the solid community in which I am planted, those moments of crisis would destroy me. My ability to serve the bigger mission of God demands that I remain close to him and be willing to offer myself. I would struggle in that if my hope wasn’t well informed and embedded deeply and I daresay I wouldn’t be in the humble place I am if it wasn’t for the degree and all the tutors who walked that journey with me. Study with an institution like Carey is indispensable to the work of mission. It helps in giving us a solid footing from which we can step into the story of God and give ourselves to his mission with the hope of his redemption, reconciliation and renewal of all things always before us, glimpsed first in the resurrection of Jesus that compels us forward. Applied / 6
Carey News TUESDAY LUNCHTIME A highlight each week on the Carey campus is the Principal’s Tuesday lunchtime interview with a leader. Recent interviews have included Aimee Cringle (Christians Against Poverty), Uesifili Unasa (Auckland University Chaplain and Auckland Mayoral candidate), Natalia Hutton (author of “A Mum in Waiting”), and The Governor-General
Lieutenant General The Right Honourable Sir Jerry Mateparae. Future guests include Gareth Sands (Contract Director at Mt Eden Corrections Facility), and James Molony (New Zealand Army chaplain based at Burnham). PACIFIC JOURNAL OF BAPTIST RESEARCH Dr Myk Habets has been appointed the Senior Editor of the Pacific Journal of Baptist Research. Myk has established an exciting new Editorial Board of international scholars and has networked with all the Baptist Colleges in Australia to gain their support as Contributing Colleges - Malyon College (Brisbane); Morling College (Sydney); Whitley College (Melbourne); and Vose Seminary (Perth). In this transition process, PJBR has moved from being a printed journal to becoming an open-access online journal. Check out this great read!
VOCATION From 2014 Carey will be offering a training option for people in the workplace. Our hope is to see participants gain an understanding of work as a Christian calling, and become theologically equipped and spiritually renewed in order to carry out their own work in a distinctively Christian way. Dr Lyndon Drake (Pastor, Auckland Baptist Tabernacle Church) has joined our team on a part-time basis to oversee this programme. Turn to page 8 for more details. DR MICHELLE ANTONY We are excited to have Dr Michelle Antony teaching a course within our Child and Family curriculum in 2014. Michelle is a former professor at Biola University and Talbot School of Theology and has written over a dozen resources for Christian Education and Family/Youth Ministries. WAIKATO ASSOCIATION Carey teaching staff recently enjoyed a day together with pastors and leaders from the Waikato Baptist Association, at Cambridge Baptist Church. After spending the morning reflecting on challenges facing pastoral leaders in 2013, the afternoon focused on Baptist Theology and opportunities for the Associations with appointment of Regional Mission Leaders. DR DARRELL GUDER Professor of Missional and Ecumenical Theology at Princeton Seminary, Dr Darrell Guder, will be teaching within the Carey Postgraduate School in 2014. His writing and teaching focus on the theology of the missional church, especially the theological implications of the paradigm shift to post-Christendom as the context for Christian mission in the West.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
In July we hosted the ‘Theology, Disability and the People of God’ conference. 120 academics and practitioners gathered together at Carey to present papers and hear from keynote speakers John Swinton (The University of Aberdeen) and Amos Yong (Regent University). Look out for the publication of a book containing some of the presentations. SENDING A special welcome to attend sENDing 2013 at Carey on Thursday, October 24, at 7pm. sENDing is a celebration evening when we commission our pastoral, youth pastoral, and mission track graduates. Come along and join in the celebration and listen to our guest speaker. NEW YOUTH COURSES We are excited about the development, with the help of Baptist Youth Ministry, of new courses within Carey’s curriculum for the formation of youth pastors and leaders. In 2014 we will be teaching a block ‘Youth Foundations’ course in both Auckland and Christchurch. This will be taught in a residential setting by both Carey and BYM staff. Enrol your youth leaders now! Applied / 7
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any Christians have the impression that some jobs are more valuable than others, and that really spiritual people will one day seek to become a pastor or overseas missionary. In fact, for many of us, work is a burden which we bear out of necessity, not something we celebrate as a vital part of our Christian life. Our work often feels disconnected from our faith. I want to equip Christians to have a better vision for their work, and to that end I’m excited to be part of a new Carey initiative. Vocation is a new Carey programme that will transform people to see the purpose of work in God’s world and be equipped to carry out their work in a distinctively Christian way. God intended work to be more than just a job, more than just a setting for evangelism, and more than just a source of income. Work has intrinsic value in God’s sight, and we want people to discover that value within their profession. The course is modelled on the Gotham Fellowship from the Faith & Work Center at Redeemer Presbyterian Church (the church led by Tim Keller). Redeemer are helping us with resources and advice on establishing the programme at Carey.
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Job The foundation of the initiative is a daily devotional that focuses on individual spiritual renewal, with application to the workplace. Over the nine months, the material guides participants through various forms of devotional practice. Participants will form good devotional habits which connect their devotional experience with their working life, while experiencing a range of practices beyond simple daily Bible readings. The variety of practices is drawn from across Christian history, and helps to develop an awareness of multiple traditions. The devotions focus on head, heart, and hands. Vocation also involves a significant reading list, which participants work through in their own time. This reading list covers a broad range of Christian theology, transforming attitudes towards work and the wider world, and equipping participants to form a distinctively Christian approach to their own line of work. Participants will learn to consider not just their own daily tasks within their work, but the larger function of workplaces and businesses in redeeming the city and the world. This will lead them to make distinctively Christians choices when they are able to bring influence to bear on society through their work.
Participants meet regularly as a group. The most frequent meeting is an evening each week for a mixture of taught material and discussion together. These evenings connect the week’s theological reading with the realworld situations participants are part of on a daily basis. In addition to the weekly evenings, each month one Saturday is devoted to more in-depth teaching and discussion and to engagement in group activities for the good of the city. Regular assignments help participants to assess and apply the reading and taught material. Three weekend retreats round out the experience with a focus on individual spiritual renewal. As participants meet over the nine months, they are forming a community which continues to function after the course finishes.
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WORK HAS INTRINSIC VALUE IN GOD’S SIGHT, AND WE WANT PEOPLE TO DISCOVER THAT VALUE WITHIN THEIR PROFESSION.
The end result of Vocation is renewal. Our aim is that participants will experience personal spiritual renewal, as God transforms them; a renewed vision of work in God’s world, supported by a deep understanding of the theology of work; and be equipped to seek the renewal of the city and the world around them, as they live out the gospel through their professional life and build relationships with their peers in the course.
Lyndon is married to Mim, and they have three boys (aged 1, 3, & 5). He is the pastor of the Morning Congregation of the Auckland Baptist Tabernacle. The role there is 4 days a week, with the remaining day a week at Carey. Lyndon has Bachelors degrees in Science and Commerce from the University of Auckland, a DPhil in Computer Science from the University of York, and a BA in Theology from the University of Oxford. Before studying theology, he was a Vice President at Barclays Capital in London, working as a government bond trader.
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Theology Applied James Molony on Being an
Army Chaplain WHAT DOES A CHAPLAIN IN THE ARMY DO? rmy chaplains are known as Padre’s no matter what your denomination. We are here for the pastoral and spiritual support of all NZDF people, soldiers and officers. Right from the start soldiers know that if they have a problem and they are not sure where to start, to go see a Padre, I guess we are kind of like GP’s and can link a person to the right resource to guide them through. We also run chapel services, bible studies, say prayers on various parades and generally get involved in the life of the camp.
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HOW IMPORTANT WAS CAREY IN THIS PROCESS? Carey provided the foundation for all of it. Carey is where I formed my identity as a minister. It’s where I developed the tools of the trade and the platform for church ministry and I also think I was a good fit for Carey in that it is theology applied and especially now that I’m in a military workspace my theology has got to be practical. IN 2012 YOU HAD AN OPERATIONAL DEPLOYMENT IN AFGHANISTAN. TELL US ABOUT THIS EXPERIENCE. Very difficult to describe as there are some aspects that I’m still processing. It was a great experience in terms of the culture and the people and the landscape. The Bamian people were mostly very friendly and appreciated our presence there, they felt that they had had the opportunity to grow and develop because of the security provided by the New Zealand contingent. It simply meant they could send their children, both girls and boys to school, work the land, open shops and run businesses. Part of my role was also running English lessons. We ran 4 classes of 20 -30 people, mostly university students, two for boys and two for girls. It was such a privilege to get to know these students and to hear their hopes and dreams for their country. This was one of the highlights of the tour for me, along with regular visits to a local orphanage where we would turn up and play sports, Applied / 10
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AS . . . THINGS BECAME MORE OBVIOUSLY DANGEROUS, FAITH BECAME INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT . . . or games like ‘Duck Duck Goose’ and 'Simon Says' for the younger ones (we renamed Simon Says to Abdhul Says). I often wonder what impact ten years of kiwi soldiers hanging out with these kids would have on them and how that will influence them later in life. I also ran weekly services whichever camp I was in, we had the main base in Bamian town and the forward operating base (FOB) further to the North called Romero. These services were a lifeline in the tough times. They were small meetings where we would read and discuss scripture and pray together. As the tour developed and things became more obviously dangerous, faith became incredibly important for those attending, even a ceremony such as communion became extremely significant as the guys were heading on patrol again. In a sense the experience is ongoing, in a week or so I’m heading up to the unveiling of one of our personnel, Luke Tamatea, one of three killed in an IED explosion on this trip. The loss of young people’s lives and the ongoing cost of that to their loved ones, including wives,
partners and children as well as for those who returned wounded, has consequences which are far reaching and ongoing. HOW HAS YOUR FAITH DEVELOPED AS A RESULT OF THIS? Looking back it was an incredibly intense, focused and difficult period, it takes a lot to wind down and get used to life back in NZ, even to get used to family again. I can see how God was with me the whole time. I guess I have a greater assurance that God is involved and can help us through and is still in control when so much seems chaotic and out of control. It means I don’t sweat the small stuff (as much), I appreciate the ordinary things like reading to my younger kids at night or chatting to the older one on the phone, and just hanging out with my wife. LOOKING BACK, WHAT DID YOU ENJOY THE MOST ABOUT YOUR TIME AT CAREY? It was definitely a special time in our lives, I loved the learning and digging deeper into what I believed and why and exploring scripture and engaging with lecturers on the various topics that came up. What I loved most though was simply being a part of this incredible Christian community both at Carey and in Hamlin Road where we lived for three years and also with the churches we were placed at, Mt wellington Community Church and Milford Baptist, great people working hard at God’s stuff. Applied / 11
An interview with Martyn Norrie MARYANNE WARDLAW
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hat do a CEO for an international company, a Carey lecturer, and a Parachute Music board member all have in common? Okay, that’s a trick question; Martyn Norrie is no longer a CEO. But he remains a man of many hats, and beneath them all ticks a methodical and innovative mind. In March, Martyn retired as NZ CEO for Cunningham Lindsey Ltd. after 15 years in the role. He has clocked more than 40 years in the field of insurance assessing. It’s misleading to suggest Martyn has retired in the traditional sense; he describes it as a transition from a corporate career to portfolio life. Leaving the responsibilities that come with 300 staff and international shareholders allow him to focus on what he’s most passionate about and live life at what he calls a “slower pace.” (He says “slower” with a completely straight face. Pace is relative.)
will be involved with another course on organisational leadership. The plan after that is for the two to continue to alternate. The goal of these courses is to help Carey students become people-builders. That, in a compound word, is how Martyn describes an effective leader. Carey has been looking closely at its leadership training from both individual and organisational angles. One reason for this focus, Martyn says, is that the Bible is full of leaders and it calls us all to lead in our own lives. Another is necessity. “In the past, what we’ve done with students is given them a very good theological education, but not equipped them well to go into the workplace and lead a very complex organisation—called the church—which is full of volunteers,” Martyn says. “That can be the most difficult group of people to lead and to manage.”
So he continues to work as a consultant, working with several organisations in the areas of governance, leadership development and business growth. This year the Carey board member is also teaching alongside Principal Charles Hewlett in a course on spiritual leadership, and next year Martyn
The principles, and the best literature he has seen on marketplace leadership, come from people with a values-based approach to the topic – many of them Christians. This kind of leadership training does not fit stereotypical corporate culture with megalomaniac heads. Imagine Undercover
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THE GOAL . . . IS TO HELP CAREY STUDENTS BECOME PEOPLEBUILDERS. THAT, IN A COMPOUND WORD, IS HOW MARTYN DESCRIBES AN EFFECTIVE LEADER.
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IN THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION, WE GIVE PEOPLE THEOLOGICAL TOOLS, VERY LITTLE ON LEADERSHIP, AND THEN SAY ‘GO OUT AND LEAD A CHURCH.’ AND THAT’S A BIG ASK.
Boss, not Dragons’ Den. “I think effective business leadership these days is far less about the inspirational, charismatic leader out the front, and far more about values-based organisations,” Martyn says. Ironic, then, that it is often not applied to leadership in the church. “You do an undergraduate degree—say in business management or marketing or accounting—and that equips you to go out into the workplace and take the most junior of positions,” Martyn says. “In theological education, we give people theological tools, very little on leadership, and then say ‘go out and lead a church.’ And that’s a big ask.” The two emphases in Carey’s courses, spiritual and organisational, look at both personal and situational aspects. Spiritual leadership covers vision and self-care topics such as spiritual disciplines, life planning, personal effectiveness and self care—“failure in any of which can derail a person’s ministry.” The focus is quite personal. One of the lectures, titled “Leading with a Limp,” asks how we function as leaders given that all of us have areas of brokenness in our lives. Next year, the organisational course will explore the peculiarities of being a leader in the notfor-profit Christian world. Martyn and Charles are not the only ones who share their expertise in these classes. Lecturers Andrew Picard, John Tucker and Sarah Harris add to the theological
perspectives, Phil Halstead has spoken on emotional intelligence, and other guests from the business and not-for-profit sectors have contributed. “We’re fortunate at Carey to have such a great cadre of leaders and lecturers,” Martyn says, “and also contacts and general goodwill in the community allow us to draw in people who can really contribute and make courses truly worthwhile.” While his own strengths lie in organisation and management, Martyn’s interests aren’t limited to the corporate world. He is part of Leadership Network— working with Churches and Pastors—assisting them in their leadership journeys. He was also the founding chairman of Parachute Music’s board, where he continues to serve. Music has always been one of his interests. Martyn and his wife, Marg, attend Windsor Park, and together they have four children and five grandchildren. Travel, reading and time at their place in Rotorua are core to their “re-creation,” he says. And even that leisure time is planned out in advance, of course; refer to the self-care section of the spiritual leadership course. Good leaders practice what they preach.
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Developing Leaders for Ministry and Mission
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WHAT DO YOU THINK MAKES A GOOD PASTORAL LEADER IN 2013? John: They possess deep convictions about God, Scripture, the church and mission. They exhibit integrity, humility, resilience, wisdom and love. They are committed to feeding the people of God with teaching and preaching that is faithful and engaging. They never stop reading but see themselves as lifelong learners. Their approach to leadership is collaborative, inclusive and innovative. And they are willing to take risks, pioneering new ways of being church and doing mission in a constantly changing world. Andrew: Good pastoral leaders ‘get’ the Gospel and allow their lives and ministry to be conformed to its cross-centred vision. Out of this vision flows the courage, imagination and determination to take risks in translating the Gospel into new and faithful forms of ministry in our churches and communities. Applied / 14
This love for the Gospel and its demands is married with a love for people and a willingness to be shaped into the image of Christ with these particular people. HOW DO YOU ENSURE YOUR GRADUATES HAVE A MISSIONAL EDGE? John: In our curriculum we provide papers that explore the mechanics of how to lead missional change. In our community life we expose our students to a range of people and leaders who are doing exciting things on the margins. And in the context of their ministry placements students face challenges that help to stimulate the skills and spirituality for missional leadership. Andrew: We teach students that mission is not simply an arm of the church and ministry, but that mission is the church and ministry itself. We teach students to discern how God is at work in the church and in the world and to get on board with what God is up to. We try to place students into environments that are less secure and predictable than they are used to and encourage them to develop resources from
their own depth and creativity instead of buying them from churchresources.com.
engaging in their teaching, and rigorous and wide-ranging in their ongoing learning.
DOES A THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION MAKE A DIFFERENCE TO THE FORMATION OF PASTORAL LEADERS? IN WHAT WAYS?
Andrew: I think there is more of a flavour than a look that I would like to see. I would like the distinctive flavour of our graduates to be gracious servants who are interpreters of both the Gospel and our culture and know how to translate this into creative, daring and faithful ministry and mission.
John: Yes, without a doubt! It’s their robust theology of ministry that sustains pastoral leaders over the long haul. It’s their mature understanding of Scripture and its essential message that enables pastors to build up their people into Christian maturity. And it’s their ability to reflect theologically on their context and culture that enables pastors to lead the people of God in mission. Andrew: It gives them new and better problems than the ones they arrived with. At its best, theological education reorients the student around the Gospel and does not let them squelch out of its demands. Students go through a process of being slayed and made alive, a process from which we hope they never fully recover. Theological education creates as many problems as it answers, but they are new and better problems because they are Gospel problems.
YOU TALK ABOUT YOUR WORK WITH SUCH ENTHUSIASM—WHY IS THIS? John: It’s such a privilege to walk alongside people who are training for pastoral leadership. I get to watch the profound transformation that occurs as they go deep into the Scriptures, deep into new ministry settings, deep in their understanding of themselves, and deep in their relationship with the God they serve. Andrew: Who wouldn’t want to give their lives to teaching and being taught, shaping and being shaped, challenging and being challenged, equipping and being equipped for the sake of Jesus and his Gospel?
WHAT DO YOU WANT YOUR GRADUATES TO LOOK LIKE? John: I want them to be collaborative and innovative in their leadership, gracious and patient with their people, faithful and
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Theology. Applied. ON-SITE CLASSES
A variety of courses are offered at our campus in Penrose (Auckland). These are timetabled in weekly 3-hour classes lasting through the 12-week semester. A variety of these courses are also offered as evening classes making them accessible for students in full-time employment.
BLOCK COURSES
A number of classes are offered by means of block or intensive courses. These courses are usually held at the Auckland campus.
FIELD EDUCATION
There are a number of practical based field education courses. The requirements of these courses are completed in the student’s local place of ministry under the guidance of a nominated supervisor.
DISTANCE COURSES
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