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PAGE 4 • Great golf day
• TEE College
celebrates 30 years
• Thornhill gets new priest
• Alpha
marriage course powerful
•
Sworn to uphold code of conduct
Great golf day
The
fifth annual Golf Day proved to be a lot of fun for all those, young
and old, who entered the competition, or who just went along to see
what was going on.
Arranged
by Ronnie Harker and his team
from All Saints’, it was held at Shark River Golf Club on
Saturday 18 February. All the starting times were quickly snapped up,
and many sponsors were found to supply wonderful prizes. New this year
were T-boxes, sponsored by various members of the All Saints’
family at R50 a time. The families' names were on a peg at each T-box
for all to see.
Unfortunately,
no details of the winners of the
various trophies and prizes were available as iindaba went to press.
Nor was iindaba able to ascertain the amount raised for St Thomas',
Midros, in the Parish of the Karoo. Over the past four years it has
been a good amount.
TEE
College celebrates 30 years
From
a few students and a couple of rented rooms in 1976, to the current
count of 2 812 learners from 16 denominations, doing 6 308 courses -
that´s the story of the Theological Education by Extension
College of Southern Africa, writes Howard Lancaster.
This
year TEE celebrates 30 years of service to the church in preparing
Christians for ministry, both lay and ordained, and is now managed from
extensive premises donated by the former Transvaal Education Department
in answer to prayer.
TEE began in 1963 at the
Evangelical
Presbyterian Seminary of Gautemala, South America. Teachers were
struggling with the question of how a single seminary could prepare
ministers for a diverse range of ministry needs.
They
began an
experimental programme based on the belief that the seminary needed to
go to the student, rather than the student coming to the seminary. This
meant that the context of the student needed to be taken seriously and
used as part of his or her training. Many of the
students
of the seminary were already running parishes, due to the shortage of
trained leadership. Now, instead of abandoning their ministry and
uprooting themselves and their families to attend a residential
seminary, they remained at home.
Instead
of attending
lectures, they studied specially written course material supplied to
them by the seminary, and they met regularly in groups with a tutor to
discuss the academic work and how it related to the practice of
ministry among God’s people. The idea
spread, first
to the Caribbean, then further through Latin America. Once established
throughout South America, it spread to North America, Asia, Europe,
Australia, and Africa.
Today TEE
programmes are run in at
least 32 countries worldwide on all continents, including nine in
Africa, the Middle East (Jordan´s is one of the biggest in
the
world), and the North Pole.
TEECSA was established
as an
anti-apartheid institution to ‘provide Theological Education
within a non-racist, non-sexist, ecumenical and multi-lingual
setting’. The initiative came from the Joint Board for the
Diploma in Theology, and involved the SA Council for Theological
Education, an arm of the South African Council of Churches.
The
foundations of the College were laid in the eight-year tenure of its
first director, Father Louis Peters. The present principal is the Revd
James Massey.
TEE offers a
range of programmes:
Bachelor of Theology, Diploma in Theology and Ministry, and the
Certificate and Award in Theology.
Many
of our diocesan
ordination candidates are trained through TEE. Many lay people deepen
their understanding of their faith and equip themselves for further
ministry through these programmes. And an increasing number of lay
preachers are now using TEE courses.
TEEC
tutorial
groups have been run in Port Elizabeth for at least 20 years. This year
there are 21 groups tutored by representatives of four denominations,
catering for over 150 learners.
The
compulsory study
skills course at Diploma and Degree level,
“Developing
skills for theological study”, is open for registration until
15
June. You can register for other courses from October onwards.
Contact
Howard Lancaster at: 041 360 1267 to find out about courses offered by
TEEC.
Thornhill
gets new priest
Blessings
for their ministry - Ernie du Plooy and his wife, Jenny, receive the
blessing from the clergy who attended his inauguration as the rector of
Thornhill United Church.
Ernie was
inaugurated by Bishop Zipho Siwa of the Methodist Church
Alpha marriage course powerful
Visiting
Somerset East recently, iindaba met a couple who described the Alpha
Marriage Course as “a powerful tool for couples, in sound
marriages, to get back on track.”
Dennis
and
Verona Gowar were one of three couples whom the rector of All
Saints’ United, Dudley Green-shields, invited to be "guinea
pigs"for the course. They have been married for many years and, with
reservations, they agreed. As it was the pilot course, Dudley and
Carolyn did it too. Dennis said of the course, “It was not
threatening as there is no sharing with the group after each session,
unless you want to, of course. There are so many ideas the course
brought to our attention, or reminded us where we’d become
slack.
It is a powerful tool to get one back on track. We discussed and ironed
out little problems that we were made aware of before they could become
too big, and there were also many times of fun. I feel couples should
do it every ten years or so.”
Verona was
enthusiastic too,
saying, “People are inclined to forget about the little
things
that are done at the beginning of a marriage. Now we make time for
‘us’ again. We often go for a drive together, and
have just
spent some time on holiday alone when the children went to their
friends.”
Dudley is hoping to run another
course in the near future.
Sworn to uphold Code of Conduct
Dudley
Greenshields, rector of All Saints’ United, was one of the
clergy
invited to be part of an unusual oath-swearing ceremony before the
recent municipal elections.
The
ceremony was held on the
evening of Thursday 23 February in the Somerset East Town Hall. The
District Senior Magistrate, Mr D O Claassen, heard the oath taken by
members of the four parties contesting the Blue Crane Municipality
elections, to abide by the Code of Conduct. Dudley was asked to pray,
and other clergy read scripture and prayed at various places during the
ceremony.
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