
Shane Bermingham
B.DIV, B.Rel Ed, BMS(Hons), CA(ret.)
| Formerly an accountant, Shane studied full-time for 7 years to prepare for Bible College ministry. He was principal of Ascension Bible College for 3 years before moving to Ministry Training College in 1999. | What's on at the Auckland campus |
Spiritual Growth - Dialogue with God, Spiritual Formation, Worship, Worship Leading
Biblical understanding - OT/NT survey, Interpreting Scripture, Doctrine, Church History
Ministry Skills - Counselling, Communication Skills, Leadership Skills, Missions, Ministering in the Gifts and the Annointing of the Holy Spirit, Service planning and running, Specialist Ministry Areas (Youth, Women's etc), Ministry Preparation.
Character Growth - Cleansing Streams
Focus on Leadership Development - Not basic discipleship, nor a purely academic orientation, our goal is to equip people to move into actual ministry. Students are trained in ministry area and later in the year take services in local churches and may undertake a short-term missions trip (optional). Past students have gone into church planting and pastoring, overseas missions, eldership, ministries and other leadership positions.
Holy Spirit Ministry - Students will experience daily worship, focused prayer, and visiting prophetic ministry. The aim is that lives will be changed.
Quality Teaching - There are 15 regular lecturers, the majority of whom are practising pastors or recognised specialists in certain areas (e.g. OT/NT specialist, theology specialist, registered counsellor, missionaries etc). Most have lectured for a number of years. In addition, there are a variety of guest lecturers.
Recognised Qualification - not only is the qualification recognised by NZQA, but more importantly it is recognised by churches. The Elim, Apostolic and other movements have drawn pastors from graduates, and a total of 30 churches from 16 different denominations have sent students in the past 3 years.
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MTC Auckland is on site with the Elim Christian Centre, and also a cafe, bookstore, Christian kindergarten, and a Christian school.
