This Semester

I thought you may want to know what classes we are taking this semester, and I guess if you don't want to know, you can scroll down to see pictures of Krispy Kreme!

• Introduction to Community Development- pretty self explanatory, but it's a little interesting to take this class after having other CD subjects last semester. We're looking forward to getting a good overivew of what CD is and maybe more importantly what it isn't.


• Being a Servant Leader- Seminaries train leaders, so we're going to learn how to serve like Christ, with a towel and basin instead of a crown and sword. For this class we're going to start and lead a young professionals group at our church.


• Community Organizing- This class takes on a new meaning for us Americans who experienced last year's election... We established last night in class that if we're a community organizer we should be prepared to become President or martyred (like the greatest community organizer, Jesus) and maybe everything in between!


• New Testament I- This class will focus on the synoptic gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke.


• Theology I- This class studies systematic theology, theology proper (study of God), revelation and bibliology.


• I (Sarah) am also taking Doing Theology in Asia- Most of theology has been done from a Western perspective, but the church has grown and is growing more so in the 2/3rds world and the way they do theology is different, so I'm going to learn about the Asian perspective. Though we don't plan to live and work in Asia, I think African theology will probably be more similiar to Asian than to Western thought.


• Uche is taking Transformational Learning and Teaching- We learn how to teach in a way that will change the lives and thinking of the people we are teaching. This is different from giving out or downloading information to learners.

So, there you have it our 18 units for this semester. This is how we'll spend our Monday-Thursday. Friday will become a day we spend in poor communities getting to know people there and see what kind of work is being done in these communities. We're super excited about the semester and after all our different first classes we decided that class was going to be a good class. We're so grateful that we have the opportunity to be here and study.