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Information Sessions
Attending an Information Session at New Brunswick Theological Seminary is a great way to uncover how God's call on your life and a theological education at NBTS come together. Learn about our programs of study, the admissions requirements, and the community of scholars and learners who make up NBTS. Sit in on a class and meet with faculty and staff that are passionate about transformative and engaging theological education.
At Our NJ Campus:
35 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1196
732.247.5241
(Click the date/time for more info)
RSVP: Call Celia Galorenzo at 732-247-5241 Ext. 307 or email
[email protected] for more information.
At Our NY Campus:
New Brunswick Theological Seminary at St. John's University
8000 Utopia Parkway
Queens, New York 11439
718.990.6000
RSVP: For New York, call Faye Taylor at 718-990-6000 or email
[email protected] for more information.
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Leadership Workshop
The Dynamics of Church/Organizational
Culture and Change - Part 1
Saturday, February 6, 2016
10:00am - 12:00pm
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This workshop examines how the dynamics and impact of Culture is the most powerful factor in any organization or church. The importance of assessing and defining culture is explored and how relationships drive & sustain vitality and overall health of a church or organization. An in-depth look at how these factors affect change and growth that will determine if your organization has a Inspiring-Motivating Culture, or a Stagnant-Discouraging Culture, or even a Toxic-Unhealthy Culture, that either enables or derails vision, and nurtures or stunts growth.
Assessment tools are shared as well as methods to produce a transformational environment that encourages people and organizations to grow and reach for their greatest potential.
Kevin Caldwell - Executive Director KIAH Institute
Lisa Hendricks Richardson, Esq. - Getting your Legal House in Order: focusing on legal and management issues in a church or organization.
There is no cost for this event - all NBTS students and alumni are welcome to attend.
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February 4 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
"Office: What It Means, Why It Matters
," a discussion on the RCA's theology and understanding of ecclesiastical office, working from the papers presented to the General Synod of 2015 by the RCA Commission on History. Two members of the Commission-James Hart Brumm, director of the Reformed Church Center, and Matthew van Maastricht, pastor at Calvary Reformed Church in New Berlin, Wisconsin and an adjunct instructor in church governance at the Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan-will present those papers; Renée House, NBTS affiliate faculty member and pastor of Old Dutch Reformed Church in Kingston, New York, will reflect on a Reformed theology of office; and all the participants, including other members of the Commission on History, will respond and discuss together over dinner.
The suggested donation for dinner is $15.00/person, free for all NBTS students, faculty, and staff.
35 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1196
732.247.5241
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February 18 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
A Conversation About the RCA's Arabian Mission with Jerzy Zdanowski, a historian and Arabist and a Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw/Poland. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Rutgers University and a recipient of the Kuwaiti and Jordanian Governments grants and the "haut niveau," the French Government fellowship (La Maison Mediterranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme, Aix-en-Provence). His presentation is based on documents from the archives of Hope College in Holland, Michigan, NBTS, and the Archives of the Reformed Church in America. He also visited The Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia (PA),The Library of the Princeton Theological Seminary, The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary in NYC, and The Al Amana Centre in Muscat.
The suggested donation for lunch is $10.00/person, free for all NBTS students, faculty, and staff.
35 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1196
732.247.5241
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February 25 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Kate Lynch, a New York-based researcher, educator, and philosopher, will present the results of her research on "The Reformed Church, Rutgers, and the Revolution." Colonel Theunis Dey, a charter member of Queens College (Rutgers), a member of the New Jersey Assembly and colonel of the Bergen County Militia, and a host to Gen. Washington and his "family" (Hamilton, Greene, Knox, LaFayette, Varick and the Schuylers), embodied the spirit of religious and political independence as a fourth generation Dutch-American. Many of Dey's sons and daughters and other Dutch-Americans who fought in his regiment carried their religion with them to western New York, founding Reformed Churches in the 1820s in Lodi, Ovid, and Tyre in Seneca County whose ministers were graduates of the NBTS.
The suggested donation for lunch is $10.00/person, free for all NBTS students, faculty, and staff.
35 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1196
732.247.5241
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For more information about these or any of our other events or classes, please visit our website at www.NBTS.edu.
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New Brunswick Theological Seminary
35 Seminary Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
732.247.5241
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