News

April 2010 Council.  The EEAA Council met in Rome in April 2010.  The following items are extracted from our minutes.

1.     General Assembly 2011. The dates for our General Assembly in 2011 are 27-29 October in London (the conference will be held at the High Leigh Conference Centre (Hoddesden). We are pleased to announce that our speaker will be Dr Alister McGrath.  Please mark your calendars.

2.     There is a continued interest and a sustained activity in the EEAA. Council members have visited Spain, and we have new membership requests from the Ukraine and Switzerland.  In the next year accreditation visits are planned for eleven schools in seven different countries (The Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, the Ukraine, Switzerland, Greece and Romania).

3.     Annual Progress Reports. It was noted that many schools are not submitting APRs and that the overall system of regular reporting needs some revision.  A proposal is being prepared for a simplified bi-annual and annual reporting. This will be approved at the next Council in October. In the meantime, schools are requested to use the current APR form to report on 2009-2010 (http://www.eeaa.eu/forms.htm). The only exception to this are schools that have been reviewed or accredited in the last 12 months.  

4.     Our journal The Theological Educator has been appreciated and missed by some.  We are planning for a new web-based TTE to begin online in October 2010.

5.     Staff.  In terms of staffing, we are grateful that, for the first time in its history, the EEAA has three part-time staff members:  Dr Bernhard Ott (Accreditation Director), Dr Graham Cheesman (Network Director) and Marvin Oxenham (Coordinator).Job descriptions have been produced and approved for all staffing positions.

6.     EEAA Manual.  Subsequent to minor corrections, changes and additions, it has been decided that a revised edition of the EEAA Manual will be produced and presented to the General Assembly in 2011.  It should be noted that this is a minor revision and that standards will remain the same as the 2006 4th Edition.

7.     Policy section.  A document has been produced to further specify the nature and use of Formal, informal and non-formal education. This has been published in the Policy section of the EEAA Website and can be downloaded here.  A document has also been produced to outline the procedures for an abbreviated accreditation process in cases where schools have already gained another accreditation (government, university). This Dual Accreditation document can be downloaded here.

8.     The Post Graduate Certificate in Theological Education has now moved into the executive phase. This is an exciting and unique opportunity for in-service faculty development in evangelical theological education. The plan is that the PGCTE will be fully accredited by a British University and delivered beginning Summer 2011.   Further details will be soon forthcoming.  For more information and to be placed on a continuing interest list, please contact Dr. Graham Cheesman at network@eeaa.eu.  

9.  We are glad to welcome the Copenhagen Lutheran School of Theology as a new Member of the EEAA.

10.  Accreditation Certificates Reminder.  All EEAA accredited schools have a right to request personalized accreditation certificates for their graduates. If you wish to request these, please contact the EEAA Coordinator at office@eeaa.eu at least 30 days ahead of your graduation date.  We cannot guarantee that we will be able to produce certificates in time for late requests.

Membership and accreditation news (April 2009)

Membership  The following schools have been accepted as EEAA Members:

                   - Belfast Bible College (Belfast)

                   - Seminário Teológico Baptista (Lisbon)

                   - The Bible Institute of the Christian Baptist Church in

                               Bosnia-Herzegovina (Sarajevo)

                  - Fellowship of European Evangelical Theologians (FEET)

                              (Associate member)

Partnerships are being sought by Saint Petersburg Christian University

 The following request has been made by Alexander Negrov at SPBCU.

We would like to ask you if you would be able to connect us with the schools of  EEAA (European Evangelical Accrediting Association)  who might be interested to learn and establish a prospective partnership with our school in St Petersburg so that they will have opportunity for their students and professors to spend a cross-cultural semester with us at St Petersburg Christian University in St Petersburg, Russia.

 We have had a small program in place for 10 years now, working primarily with Bethel College Indiana (Mishawaka, IN). Last year we had students from there and from Briercrest College (SK, Canada). This Spring we are providing an intensive semester for a group of students from Pepperdine University (Malibu, CA).   We have various options of study in English (from several weeks to a full academic year). Usually we offer 4 months of study in English in 4 basic areas as shown below.  Other courses can be provided, if 5 or more students sign up for it.     Russian Language - 3 credits (48 hours of lecture time)     Russian History - 3 credits (48 hours of lecture time)     Russian Literature - 3 credits (48 hours of lecture time)     Russian Fine Arts - 3 credits (48 hours of class time spent mostly in various museums or places of special interest).

Our international students live in a modern dorm teamed with Russian roommates.  There are many wonderful sites to visit in Saint-Petersburg and special trips are arranged to Moscow and other famous Russian cities.  For more information about us, please check our websites:

 We would be happy to provide a copy of a generic semester abroad contract or course syllabi and to answer any questions you/or other leaders might have. Please, be assured that, should European schools encourage their students to come and join "A Semester in Russia with SPbCU" or any other program at our school, we will do our best both as a campus and as a Christian community to show them the true breadth of the Russian heart, mind and soul. We hope that with God's help we will be able to develop a mutually beneficial relationship with more Christian Colleges in Europe and beyond.

 

Download updated ICETE News (January 2009) an in-house circular for the ICETE community.

EEAA General Assembly and ICETE Consultation.

As the world turns under the individualism of modernity, many Christians around the world are thinking in new ways about the importance of community. The same holds true for “evangelical theological educators”, men and women from all over the world who have been gifted and called by God to equip the people of God. What they teach and model in the seminary, is then reproduced by their students in the churches and replicated as the church reaches out to the world.  Read the full report