Crisis Counseling (May 2018 Intensive Course)
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Crisis Counseling (LF563, 3 credits)
15-24 May 2018, 9.00 am-5.00 pm (starts on Tuesday, ends on the following Thursday)
The course is designed to develop sensitive Christian counselors who are able to discern spiritual and emotional needs, listen well, and guide counselees toward an understanding, healing and acceptance/remediation of their unpleasant circumstance/s. Toward that end, formats and models for counseling those experiencing a crisis in their lives are explored. Topics on counseling skills and Biblical perspectives on suffering are also covered.
Wilson Phang, PhD
Wilson is the founder of Ministry Personnel Care. He is using his background in crisis response, psychiatry, psychology, Biblical counseling and missiology to provide care, counsel and training to Christian workers globally. He and his wife have three grown children.
Registration deadline is Tuesday, 8 May 2018. Online registration of courses at www.east.edu.sg or contact registrar@east.edu.sg for registration form.
Gospel Tool for Honour-Shame Cultures
There is a new contextualized gospel tract which targets cultures where honour and shame predominates (such as African, Asian, Middle-Eastern, etc.). It was developed by Cru based on the HonorShame Reference Bookmark. The Honor Restored gospel tract is found within the God Tools mobile app and available in multiple languages. A third-party review of the Honor Restored tract is found here.
According to the Honor-Shame Network, “about 90% of unreached people groups and 65% of the world’s population lives in honor-shame contexts.” There are additional gospel resources for reaching honour-shame cultures on the HonorShame.com website.
Picture courtesy of HonorShame.com
Sacred Parenting with EAST PIM
The EAST Partners in Ministry (PIM) program is designed for wives of seminary students, or whose husbands are ministers or in vocational Christian ministry. PIM seeks to develop wives as they grow in partnership with their husbands and in their own circle of influence.
The above photo is the PIM group who went through the fruitful 6-week course on “Sacred Parenting” with resources from Gary Thomas. The PIM ladies are so blessed by the biblically-based material and group interactions. They learnt how God uses the challenges and struggles in parenting as God’s spiritual formation curriculum to shape each parent to be more like the Heavenly Father.
Photo courtesy of Josephine Lam. A portion of text originated from Josephine Lam and Margaret Chan.
New Testament Found in the Old
The study of Genesis to Esther, through the Old Testament Narratives course, highlights that the God of the Old Testament is the same God we worship today. It has been said that “The New Testament is concealed in the Old, and the Old Testament is revealed in the New.” Many themes we find in the New Testament have their roots in the history of Israel.
The students in the class appreciated the unfolding drama of God’s redemptive plan for man. Dr Jeremy Chew, the class teacher, taught how each book advances God’s plan to raise up a chosen people and a holy nation. Indeed the New is found in the Old.
Photo courtesy of Michael Tien.
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