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Knowing God: Restoring Spiritual Vitality Among New African Immigrants to Canada
(Tyndale University, 2025-03)In this Research Portfolio, the author examines the practice of personal and communal prayer to enhance spiritual vitality and deepen believers' intimacy with God. The author presents this topic through three means. First, ... -
Providing Family Community Service Opportunities to Strengthen Spiritual Growth in Parents at Calvary Church, Dunnville
(Tyndale University, 2025-03)In this Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) Research Portfolio, the author explored how spiritual growth was developed in parents when they participated in community service with their children. Developing spiritual growth was the ... -
Sustaining Servant-Leadership: Balancing Self-Care and Burnout in the Staff of Fight4Freedom, a Christian Non-Profit, Anti-Sex Trafficking Organization
(Tyndale University, 2025-03)This portfolio explored the impact and influence of burnout on staff with Fight4Freedom (F4F), a Christian non-profit, anti-sex trafficking organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It began with a personal exploration ... -
Desire, Imagination, Story, and Imago Dei: A Multi-Method Exploration of Selected Elements of Spiritual Formation
(Tyndale University, 2025-03)Desire, imagination, story and the imago Dei are critical elements of Christian Spiritual formation. Throughout recent years, scholarship on spiritual formation has acknowledged these elements; however, a more extensive ... -
The Dance of Spiritual Formation in Two Communities: In the Church Participating in Missio Dei and in Facilitated Contemplative Evocative Group Supervision for Spiritual Directors
(Tyndale University, 2025-02)In this research project Portfolio, the author articulates the importance of community in spiritual formation in three ways. First, the author shares autobiographical details that reveal her transformation from unbelief ... -
An Exploration of Trauma-Informed Care in Christian Ministry and Leadership Through the Lens of Internal Family Systems
(Tyndale University, 2025-02)This portfolio explores the role of church and ministry leaders in providing faith-based trauma-informed care. It explores the author’s personal and ministry context and the way it influences the author’s understanding of ... -
Using Discipleship Evangelization to Encourage Believers in Northeast Thailand Who Are From a Buddhist Background to Witness to Their Family and Neighbours
(Tyndale University, 2025-01)As a cross-cultural missionary in Thailand, I discovered that less than one percent of the population professes to be Christian. I set out to strengthen the Christian presence in northeast Thailand, spending three years ... -
The Effects of Perfectionism Among Visual Artists in their Early Adulthood
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Seeing the Meaning of Mark 13: A Narrative-Critical Approach
(Tyndale University, 2025-04)One of the foundations of artmaking is the realization that human beings are flawed, and so the products they make are flawed as well (Bayles & Orland, 2023). Perfectionism is an obstacle to artmaking, because it prevents ... -
Investigating the Impact of Faith on Intrusive Thinking and Guilt
(Tyndale University, 2025-04)Intrusive thoughts, experienced by over 90% of people (Hale & Clark, 2013), disrupt the normal flow of thinking and are present in both clinical and non-clinical populations. To gain greater insight into the nature of ... -
Forgiveness as the Unconditional Rejection of Vengeance
(Tyndale University, 2025-03)Drawing on the work of Joseph Butler and Reinhold Niebuhr, this thesis presents and defends the idea that forgiveness involves only the unconditional rejection of vengeance, not other actions normally associated with ... -
Developing a Safe Leadership Relationship Among Aliança Presbyterian Church Leaders in Brasilia, Brazil
(Tyndale University, 2024-11)Aliança Church has struggled with relationships at the leadership level for at least ten years. Even though there were no major disagreements, there was much room for growth among the church ministry leaders. This project ... -
Servant Leadership in Prison Ministry: Using Appreciative Inquiry to Improve Volunteer Recruitment, Retention, and Ministry Content
(Tyndale University, 2024-12)This ministry portfolio contains information about my life, context, philosophy of leadership, and Doctor of Ministry research project. The title of that project was “Revitalizing our Ministry to Prisoners and Returned ... -
Assisting CEAM/AMIDE Seminary Students in Identifying Their Vocational Calling for Cross-Cultural Missions in Brasília, Brazil and Beyond
(Tyndale University, 2024-10)This research portfolio is about my leadership and vocational development. Because I had difficulty understanding my vocation and God’s will for my ministry career, I was looking for ways to help others with similar ... -
Serving and Adapting: Evaluating the Impact of Devotional Meetings on the Well-Being of the Media Team at Christian Centre Church
(Tyndale University, 2024-12)My research portfolio focuses on my leadership journey during my DMin program and how it has equipped me to support the media team. It documents my leadership formation journey to date, my philosophy of Christian leadership, ... -
Spiritually Focused Leadership Development: Exploring the Relationship Between Relinquishment and Self-Differentiation in Leaders as it Relates to Their Leadership Health and Resilience
(Tyndale University, 2024-11)This portfolio highlights the importance of a spiritual component in the development of healthy and resilient Christian leaders. Amidst a leadership crisis, where well respected and widely known leaders have made detrimental ... -
A Ministry Journey that is Unfolding: How I Came to See Myself as a Female Preacher and Leader
(Tyndale University, 2024-04)This portfolio explores my unfolding ministry journey as a preacher and leader by exploring my background, beginnings, theological traditions, and experiences – all elements that shaped my deepest convictions concerning ... -
Transformational Servant Leadership as a Combined Approach to Locally-Led Poverty Alleviation in Rural Western Kenya
(Tyndale University, 2024-07)This research portfolio examined the author's leadership formation and ministry context. It then explored transformational servant leadership (TSL) and argued this approach to leadership was biblical, and effective in ... -
Steward Leadership in Action: Growing a Sense of Belonging within the English Ministry of a Chinese Canadian Church in Vancouver, Canada
(Tyndale University, 2024-08)This research portfolio focused on fostering a sense of belonging within the English Ministry (EM) at Lord’s Love Church (LLC), a non-denominational Chinese Canadian church in Vancouver, Canada. As an EM pastor, the author ...