Student Scholarship: Recent submissions
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Transitioning a Malayalam Church (Full Gospel Assembly of God, Toronto) Towards a Multicultural Congregation through Leadership Development and Ministry Projects
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Introducing and Assessing the Spiritual Discipline of Morning and Evening Prayer to the Congregation at Christian Baptist Church, Newmarket
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2014-10)A project was designed to introduce the spiritual discipline of morning and evening prayer to the congregation at Christian Baptist Church in Newmarket, Ontario to enhance the vitality of the congregation. A prayer guide ... -
Missional Marriage Ministry: A Pilot Study in Enlisting, Equipping, and Engaging in Missional Expressions of Marriage Ministry
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2012-04)The intention of this project was to equip, mobilize and assist Christian couples to have missional impact on marriages in the community and in so doing prevent or minimize the negative impact of family dysfunction for ... -
Developing the Confidence and Competencies of Church Board Chairs: Designing, Facilitating and Evaluating a Training Course to Develop Church Board Chairs for Effective Leadership in Their Local Churches
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2016-03)Comparatively little focus has been placed on the leadership development of church board chairpersons. This thesis reports the findings from a six-month training course delivered to a group of church board chairpersons in ... -
Hagar, Favored Woman, Favored Wife: A Narrative-Critical Study of the Egyptian Slave
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2003-04-23) -
Ironies in Abraham's Family : A Study of Narrative Linkage Between Gen. 21:8-21 and Gen. 22:1-19
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Mobilizing "Second-Mile" Christians to Engage in Ministries in a Chinese Church Through the Tribe of Caleb Project : An Initiative to Equip Cantonese-Speaking Senior Christians and Provide Them with Opportunities to Serve
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2015-02)Chinese churches in Canada have been enjoying significant growth over the past few decades, but their aging Cantonese-speaking congregations have started to show signs of withdrawal from active church ministry. Using the ... -
Servant, Transformational, and Missional Leadership Essential Relational Qualities and Competencies and Seminar for more Effective Ontario Nazarene Pastoral Leadership
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2012-03)This project addresses a gap between pastoral leadership training and the demands upon leadership in Ontario Church of the Nazarene parish ministry. Through Action Research analyzed using Grounded Theory this project ... -
A Strategy to Move a Traditional Church to Being a Missional Congregation: An Experiment in Implementing the Roxburgh Missional Change Model in a Newfoundland and Labrador United Church
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2012-04)This project focused on moving a traditional church to being a missional congregation. The Missional Change Model (MCM), developed by Alan Roxburgh and Fred Romanuk (2006), was used as a guide to that process. The Missional ... -
Assessing and Evaluating the Nature and Extent of Plagiarism in One Course at a Southern African Christian College in Kitwe, Zambia
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2014-04)A guest instructor at a Southern African Christian college in Kitwe, Zambia incorporated a tutorial in academic literacy and integrity into his course syllabus and assessed its effects through a syllabus quiz, end-of-class ... -
Leading the Armenian Evangelical Church of Toronto Through an Envisioning Process Using an Adaptation of Aubrey Malphur’s Model as Described in Advanced Strategic Planning
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2013-04)The Armenian Evangelical Church of Toronto (AECT) has never had a shared and clearly communicated corporate mission and vision statement. As a result the congregation's ministries have not been aligned with any explicit ... -
Atonement in Leviticus and Hebrews: Convergences and Divergences
(Tyndale University, 2022-04-18)Leviticus describes cultic rituals within the historical context of the ancient Near East. In the biblical narrative, YHWH instructs Moses and the Levitical priesthood in various sacrificial offerings to provide atonement ... -
Developing Intimacy with God in an Anglican Context
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2017-05)Spiritual growth is the development of an individual’s relationship with God. It happens when an intimate relationship with God is nurtured. This portfolio looks at nurture that links corporate worship with the personal ... -
Adventures in Spiritual Formation: Exploring God’s Grace, Intentional Human Response, and Growth from the Holy Spirit
(Tyndale University College & Seminary, 2017-06)In this research portfolio, the author explored spiritual formation as an ongoing, adventurous, individual and communal journey of becoming more like Jesus. The key question the research addressed was how Jesus’ followers ... -
Video Games as a Form of Stress Relief and Emotional Improvement
(Tyndale University, 2022-03)The potential risk factors and benefits of video games have been a topic of interest in psychology for quite some time (Anderson & Carnegey, 2009; Bushman & Gibson, 2011; Granic et al., 2014). This research study addressed ... -
Relationships Between Psychological Birth Order and Perfectionism
(Tyndale University, 2022-04-11)Research examining ordinal birth order in relation to various variables has continued for decades with mixed results. However, with the resurgence of an Adlerian conceptualization of birth order, studies have begun producing ... -
The Relationships between Emotional Intelligence, Resilience, and Academic Performance during the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Tyndale University, 2022-04-18)The adversities inflicted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic placed university students at a disadvantage in their pursuit of academic achievement. Previous studies demonstrated that emotional intelligence (EI) and resilience ... -
Does God Call Laypeople to Preach in their Local Church? An Exploration of Calling and Introduction to Preaching for Laypeople in the Local Church
(Tyndale University, 2022-03)The purpose of this research portfolio was to identify if God was calling lay people to preach in their local church and begin to equip them for that calling. Sitting in the pews were people whom God called and gifted to ... -
Journeying Home: A Study of Christian Spiritual Formation Through the Interface of the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous and Lectio Divina
(Tyndale University, 2022-03)This study grew out of my life experience. After decades of longing to belong, God led me first to the halls of 12 Step programs, then to Seminary where I discovered, spiritual formation, Lectio Divina and spiritual ... -
A Didactic Approach to Spiritual Formation: Integrating Spiritual Practices to the Seminary Curriculum of the Diaspora of Chinese Students in Panama, Central America
(Tyndale University, 2022-03)An awareness of God’s presence and a capacity to hear Him are two important elements to cultivate an intimate relationship with God for spiritual growth. This research portfolio seeks to answer the question: Will prayer ...