by Carey Baptist College | 4 July, 2025 | Alumni Stories, Carey News
Chris Clark shares how the Snells Beach Baptist Church Eldership team grew in unity, confidence, and vision through Carey’s Christian Leadership Micro-credential—and why they’re now investing in the development of others.
by Carey Baptist College | 26 August, 2024 | Alumni Stories
Sacha Olson, Pastoral Leadership graduate, reflects on her first year in a pastoral role since graduating from Carey.
by Carey Baptist College | 14 September, 2022 | Alumni Stories, Research, Students
Sarah Beisly discusses how her participation in Carey’s postgraduate paper, Human Flourishing, has enabled her to explore the cross-section of theology and psychological trauma.
by Carey Baptist College | 9 September, 2022 | Alumni Stories
Carey graduate, Lachlan Bull, creatively narrates a story of jubilee. In this story, he offers a unique perspective of jubilee as a cairn, a mound of stones intentionally placed, “marking not just a static point, but also a crossing point, a place in which we cross from what was, to what might be.”
by Carey Baptist College | 20 June, 2022 | Alumni Stories
Carey Alumna, Helen Brereton, talks to us about her time at Carey, why she loves pastoral ministry, and her hope for the church in Aotearoa.
by Carey Baptist College | 21 March, 2022 | Alumni Stories
Tom Cadman, is an alumnus of Carey who graduated in 1957. In this article, he reflects back on his journey as a minister of the gospel, while also thinking about the challenge of gospel proclamation today.
by Carey Baptist College | 17 December, 2021 | Alumni Stories
Tim Given, Carey Alumnus and now Deputy Ambassador for the New Zealand Embassy to the Philippines talks to us about his work and how, for him, it is an act of worship.
by Carey Baptist College | 28 September, 2021 | Alumni Stories
Golden Sands Baptist Church: a new church in a brand new community for Carey Pastoral Leadership graduate Colin Gruetzmacher.
by Carey Baptist College | 19 August, 2021 | Alumni Stories
Jared Suisted looks at why he believes what he believes, so as to be able to share that more effectively with others.
by Carey Baptist College | 1 July, 2021 | Alumni Stories
Jamie Dempster,Youth Pastor at Katikati Community Baptist Church, reflects on the lead up to Easter Camp 2021.
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Further, the course brings Dietrich Bonhoeffer into conversation with Bull Hybels, the former pastor and leader of Willow Creek. Willow Creek proves to be a valuable case study in which issues of ego and power surface. It is important to understand them rightly and posit how Bonhoeffer’s thought and practice provides a needed corrective.
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Through the course you will follow a process of identifying an area of research that is of interest to you and shaping a research project directed towards answering a specific focal question, engaging relevant fields of study and utilizing appropriate research methods. Through the process your cohort will be a supportive community engaging with each other’s areas of interest and contributing to your development as emerging researchers. By the end of the course, you will have designed a research project such as would be suitable for a postgraduate research essay or thesis and presented this as a full Research Proposal.
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The Integrative Project is typically undertaken in the final year of the Bachelor of Applied Theology programme. It is an opportunity for you to draw on your learning across the Integrative Theology curriculum to resource understanding and faithful action in relation to an issue at the intersection of their faith, context, and practice. Utilizing the integrative framework of Word, World, and Work you will make use of a range of sources of knowledge and approaches to bring your faith, contexts, understanding, and examples of practice into conversation with each other. Having considered the topic and questions that arise in relation to it from within each of those areas, you will develop a Christian response to the issue that demonstrates attentiveness to faith, context, and practice.
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This course allows you to receive accreditation for a supervised ministry internship undertaken within an appropriate context. Over the year you will perform 200 hours of practical ministry internship and will reflect upon this with a Supervisor, in an online peer group, and in assignments.
RESTRICTION: This course is available only by arrangement with the Programme Lead of Field of Education prior to enrolment.
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This course allows you to receive accreditation for a supervised ministry internship undertaken within an appropriate context. Over the year you will perform 200 hours of practical ministry internship and will reflect upon this with a Supervisor, in an online peer group, and in assignments.
RESTRICTION: This course is available only by arrangement with the Programme Lead of Field of Education prior to enrolment.
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RESTRICTION: This course is available only by arrangement with the Programme Lead of Field of Education prior to enrolment.
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PREREQUISITE: This course is restricted to those achieving merit or excellence in MF601 Reflective Field Education 2.
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PREREQUISITE: This course is restricted to those achieving merit or excellence in MF501 Reflective Field Education 1.
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You will reflect upon and critically evaluate the significance of these selected personalities, topics and themes for the historic development of Christianity and their ongoing influence on Christian life and leadership today.
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The Research Essay is a maximum in length of 6,000 words including footnotes and excluding bibliography.
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Your skills will be developed in exegesis, analysis of texts, research and presentation and your theological awareness and interpretative competencies will be cultivated.
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Your skills will be developed in exegesis, analysis of texts, research, and presentation; your theological awareness and interpretive competencies will be cultivated.
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