• Strengthening a Korean-Canadian Church Leadership Team by Developing Their Self-Awareness and Knowledge about Communication Styles 

  Kang, Minhee (Tyndale University, 2023-11)

  This Research Portfolio is about my leadership development via Tyndale’s Doctor of Ministry program. It includes my Leadership Narrative, Philosophy of Leadership, Ministry Context Analysis and Project Report. As a therapist, ...

• Practicing Community: Postures and Practices for Spiritual Formation 

  Parish, Corey Christopher (Tyndale University, 2023-12)

  This Research Portfolio explores the ministry of spiritual formation through the development of Practicing Communities (PCs) in Christian congregations. Aspects of individualism in my personal life and spiritual communities ...

• Being Transformed to Help Others Transform: Exploring Spiritual Formation and the Life-Changing Power of Lectio Divina 

  Nguyen, Hoa Dang (Tyndale University, 2023-11)

  This Research Portfolio explores the theme “Being Transformed to Help Others Transform: Exploring Spiritual Formation and The Life-Changing Power of Lectio Divina.” It encompasses the knowledge of God, self-awareness, and ...

• Listening to God: the Key to Spiritual Formation for Salvationists and All People 

  Moore, Alison Marie (Tyndale University, 2023-02)

  Having a relationship with God implies communication with Him. How do we communicate with God? How do we know what He is saying? Through the process of writing her spiritual autobiography during the COVID-19 pandemic, the ...

• The Practice of Silence and Its Related Spiritual Disciplines in Guiding Cambodian Christian Leaders Toward Christlike Transformation 

  Kim, Kilhyoun (Tyndale University, 2023-06)

  I have in my desire to be inwardly transformed toward Christlikeness and become as close to God as possible. My spiritual autobiography in this portfolio is a testimony of such a journey toward Christlikeness, a journey ...

• Developing Leadership Team Vision for the Oakville Community at the Oakville Adventist Company Through Appreciative Inquiry 

  Lashington, Dean Ann-Marie (Tyndale University, 2023-03)

  Oakville Adventist Company (OSDA) was a congregation that had not been growing and had no active presence in the community of Oakville. To help address these concerns, a leadership retreat was designed and implemented that ...

• A Psychospiritual Approach to Christian Spiritual Formation 

  Sequeira, Adrianne Wendy (Tyndale University, 2023-02)

  This research portfolio presents an integrated psychospiritual approach to Christian spiritual formation. It arose from the author’s reflection on her own spiritual journey, from her professional experience as a psychotherapist, ...

• Intentionality in the Practice of Spiritual Disciplines: A Case Study 

  Schuler, Sieg (Tyndale University, 2023-02)

  In this research portfolio, the author will answer the following questions: What place should spiritual disciplines have in the life of a Christian and how does the Christian need to be intentional in the practice of them? ...

• Training Ministry Leaders Towards Supportive Psychotherapy Referrals to Tyndale Wellness Centre 

  Nevers, Wilma Yvonne (Tyndale University, 2023-03)

  This Doctor of Ministry integrated portfolio presents a summary of key insights, themes and findings arising from an exploration of Christian leadership, with particular reference to the authors’ own ministry context as ...

• Building Resilience in Korean Canadian Leaders at Non-Profit Organizations in Toronto 

  Hong, Gabrielle Junghee (Tyndale University, 2023-01)

  This Research Portfolio was written to complete my Doctor of Ministry (DMin) program at Tyndale University in Toronto, Ontario. It describes how I changed from an agnostic to a Christian and from a worldly leader to a ...

• Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Ministry to Members of First Baptist Church, Montreal During the COVID-19 Pandemic 

  Carruthers, Edward Bruce (Tyndale University, 2023-03)

  In its nearly two-hundred-year existence in the city, First Baptist Church has seen the best and worst of life in Montreal. Still, the current congregation shows no signs of giving up our corporate goal to be "A House of ...

• Developing a Method for Growing in Intimacy with the Triune God Through Knowing, Being and Doing 

  Vanderheide, Benjamin Paul (Tyndale University, 2023-02)

  In this Research Portfolio, the author develops a method for growing in intimacy with God, through faith in Jesus Christ, empowered by the Spirit using the metaphor of a fruit bearing tree. The method is developed in three ...

• A Collaborative Model to Increase Confidence for Preaching in Young Adults at Rosthern Seventh-day Adventist Church, Saskatchewan 

  Richards, Carvil Antoney (Tyndale University, 2023-03)

  This portfolio aimed to develop a collaborative model with six young adults of the Rosthern Seventh-day Adventist Church, Saskatchewan, to increase their confidence for preaching. A three-phase process was required to train ...

• Assessing the Impact of Morning and Evening Prayer on the Spiritual Formation of the Wardens within the Parish of St. James and Christ Church 

  Adderley, Alvardo Lamont (Tyndale University, 2023-02)

  This action research project focused primarily on the spiritual and devotional aspects of the Anglican liturgy and its impact, or lack thereof. The project's participants were the Wardens (who in collaboration with the ...

• Three Dimensions of Spiritual Formation: Grow Deep, Grow High, Grow Wide 

  Wong, Anita Kwan-Wai, 1956- (Tyndale University, 2022-09)

  In this research portfolio, the author articulates spiritual formation using a model that involves three dimensions, Grow Deep, Grow High, Grow Wide. This will be explored through three avenues. The first is a spiritual ...

• The Importance of Hearing God in the Spiritual Formation of Chinese Christians of Immigrant Background 

  Song, Seng, 1962- (Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2018-01)

  Christian spiritual formation is a process of being conformed to the image of Christ. A Christlike Christian will be a convincing witness for Christ. The focus of this portfolio is to help Chinese immigrant Christians in ...

• Communal Discernment in Organizational Planning: Interweaving, Inclusive and Incarnational Approaches to Missional Direction-Setting in Christian Churches and Organizations 

  Van Ginkel, Aileen Marilyn, 1957- (Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2012-02)

  This research project explores and illuminates ways that practices of communal discernment can be interwoven with organizational planning processes to help a church or organization gain greater clarity around missional ...

• Encountering God's Healing through Holistic Spiritual Formation 

  Smith, Caleb Aaron, 1976- (Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2019-03)

  This portfolio begins by way of a spiritual autobiography to explore how the Lord has introduced me to different kinds of beauty, in an effort to bring about transformative beauty in my own life. These include the beauty ...

• Transformation Happens at the Margins: Shaping Beatitudinal Character of Volunteers By Embracing Excluded, Marginalized, Inconvenient Others at Drop-In Centres 

  Platz, Benjamin Carl, 1977- (Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2015-04)

  Jesus said "you cannot serve two masters." Yet, in the Western, Middle-Class Church (marked by syncretism) the world's ways (which exclude "inconvenient others") conflict with Jesus' ways (of embracing them). Consequentially, ...

• An Action-Research Project Investigating what Helps and Hinders Students Connected to Power to Change to Share the Gospel with Others 

  Watt, Graham Christopher, 1975- (Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2017-09)

  The purpose of this action-research was to identify factors that helped and hindered sharing the gospel by post-secondary Christian students in contact with Power to Change. Barrier and facilitating factors were identified ...

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