Welcome to CSBS's intensive courses page.
Here you will find information on the courses being offered in May-June. For more information about the intensive courses in general or about our distance education program, please return to the Distance Learning Center.
Tuition fees for Intensive Courses are $185.00 per credit hour (for academic credit) and $95 per credit hour (for auditing the class) plus applicable registration fees.
All courses are open to both college and seminary students.
Download the Summer 2008 intensive
registration form.
Support Development School - Mike Riggins & Ellis Goldstein
CANCELLED - please contact Wendy Woods if you are interested in the training. wwoods@ccsb.ca
Three and a half days of training focused on Mission Service Corps as part of the North American Mission Boards missionary force and in-depth training in developing personal support for fulfilling God’s call to serve in North American missions. The Support School also teaches the process of developing ministry support within the Southern Baptist cultural context.
Support Development School Syllabus 2008
Prayer that Availeth Much - Don Pierson
A biblical study of the spiritual discipline of prayer and its power with an emphasis on its practical applications for both personal and corporate prayer. Time will be spent in preparing participants to lead others in guided prayer that focuses on calling and kingdom issues and not just crisis needs.
9:00 am – 4:00 pm (2 credit hours)
Prayer that Availeth Much Syllabus 2008
Leadership Development for Today’s Minister -Dennis Anderson
This course is designed to assist students in discovering and developing their own leadership style and acquiring the necessary skills to lead themselves, other professional staff, and volunteers in effective ministry. Best practices derived from Scriptural principles, leadership development theory and methods, psycho-social sciences, and real-world cases will be identified, evaluated, and practiced.
9:00 am – 4:00 pm (2 credit hours)
Leadership Development Syllabus 2008
History of Baptist Theology - Leo Garrett
CANCELLED
Experiencing the Truth of God - Henry Blackaby
9:00 am – noon (1 credit hour)
In this class students will focus on going beyond merely knowing about the truths in their heads to actually experiencing God’s truth in their lives. The Scripture focus will be on John 14:6 and 8:32.
Textbook:
Richard Blackaby. Unlimiting God: Increasing Your Capacity to Experience the Divine (Colorado Springs: Multnomah, 2008).
Additional Resources :
Henry and Richard Blackaby, Claude King, Experiencing God Revised ed. (trade book), (Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 2008)
Henry and Richard Blackaby, Spiritual Leadership: Moving People on to God's Agenda, (Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 2001).
Henry and Melvin Blackaby, A God-Centered Church, (Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 2007).
Experiencing the Truth Syllabus 2008
Shaping the Church's Ministry with Teens - Richard Ross
9:00 am – 4:00 pm (2 credit hours)
This course will develop leadership skill in setting a mission, vision, values, and strategies for the church’s ministry with teenagers and their parents and leaders. Students will study emerging strategies for performing ministry with these three audiences. Issues will be approached from the perspective of student minister, pastor, and Christian educator.