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  • SF001F19H: FOUNDATIONS OF CHRISTIAN SPIRITUAL FORMATION

    Instructor: Rev. Dr. Paul Bramer
    Season: Fall

    Course Start Date: September 8, 2019

    Residency: November 8-10, 2019
    Location: Sisters of St. John the Divine, North York

    This course introduces foundational definitions, motifs, frameworks, means, and issues of Christian spiritual formation and an introduction to spiritual direction. The topic and format create opportunities for deepening and expanding your understanding and experience through selected readings, lectures, class discussions, guided experiences, sharing, prayer, and spiritual direction.

    Course Fee: $915 including Residency Fee

    Payment Due: August 8, 2019
    Payable by e-transfer–cheque–paypal
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  • SF002W20H: SOUL-SHAPING WORDS: THE ROLE OF SCRIPTURE IN SPIRITUAL FORMATION

    Instructor: Dr. Ingrid Reichard
    Season: Winter

    Course Start Date: January 6, 2020

    Residency: Feb 21-23, 2019
    Location: Queen of the Apostles, Mississauga

    This course introduces the Christian scriptures (Old/New Testaments) as the most essential ongoing resource we have for the Christian journey of personal spiritual transformation into the image of Jesus Christ; makes the claim that to be formed as a follower of Jesus requires deep, constant, provocative personal participation with the radical shaping of the Bible in the power of the Holy Spirit, so that full participation in the friendship of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit might be more fully experienced; explores how Christian formation towards maturity requires a radical shift in the ways of reading scripture in order to truly understand and appreciate how God’s written revelation operates in personal formation; offers practices to help students intentionally open themselves to this life changing reading relationship with biblical texts; gives special consideration to scripture as a resource in the ministry of listening to, accompanying and guiding others in Spiritual Direction.

    This course utilizes selected readings, lecture, class discussion, guided experience, sharing, prayer and spiritual direction.

    Course Fee: $915 including Residency Fee

    Payment Due: December 5, 2019
    Payable by e-transfer–cheque–paypal
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  • SF003W20H: TRADITIONS OF SPIRITUAL FORMATION AND DIRECTION

    Instructor: Rev. Dr. Paul Bramer
    Season: Winter

    Course Start Date: January 6, 2020

    Residency: Feb 22-24, 2020
    Location: Queen of the Apostles, Mississauga

    Each tradition of the Christian faith nuances spiritual growth and spiritual formation differently. We will consider a number of historical and contemporary expressions of faith including why they developed, certain assumptions or doctrines that guide the understanding of Christian formation, how they vary in their understanding of the initiation, goal, and process of spiritual growth, and which practices they emphasize or avoid. We will consider how we engage in formation of self, others, and our community in light of these various models.

    Course Fee: $915 including Residency Fee

    Payment Due: December 6, 2019
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  • SF005S20H: LIVING THE SPIRITUAL DISCIPLINES

    Instructor: Rev. Marc Gauvreau
    Season: Spring

    Course Start Date: March 16

    Residency: April 3-5, 2020
    Location: Queen of the Apostles, Mississauga

    This course includes both online learning and a 3-day retreat/residency. This course will help individuals to understand, assess and apply the various means (disciplines /practices) that have been employed over the centuries within Christianity to cultivate awareness and responsiveness to the presence of God in the life of the follower of Jesus Christ. These means will be explored in terms of their overall purpose and place within the believer’s spiritual formation. Students will have an opportunity to practice a discipline and journal on the outcomes of their experience.

    Course Fee: $915 including Residency Fee

    Payment Due: Feb 16, 2020
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  • SF005SF20H: LIVING A LIFE OF DISCERNMENT

    Instructor: Mee Yun Kim
    Season: Fall
    Residency: TBA
    Location: Queen of the Apostles, Mississauga

    This course introduces discernment from the context of relationality. Rather than reducing discernment to a set of steps to follow, we will be exploring our relationship with God as the very place where true discernment unfolds. We will be grounding ourselves in theology, engaging our minds through the Biblical stories, touching upon discernment models throughout history and making space for the formation of our hearts through prayer, reflection and conversations. Our prayer is that discernment would be the natural outflow of your friendship with God.

    Course Fee: $915 including Residency Fee

    Payment Due: TBA
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  • SF006S21H: INTRODUCTION TO THE PRACTICE OF SPIRITUAL DIRECTION

    Instructor: Dr. Sandra Broadus
    Season: Spring

    This course will serve to introduce mature students to the art and practice of spiritual accompaniment. The content and format provide an opportunity for an expanded knowledge and experience of the ministry through lectures, class discussions, spiritual exercises, and the supervised practice of spiritual direction through triad work. Through this experience, both students and supervisor(s) will continue to learn about the persons, process and practice of guiding fellow pilgrims deeper in love, faith and hope in Christ. Enrollment is limited. Please note, students will co-discern with instructors as to their readiness for the Spiritual Direction Practicum.

    Course Fee: $915 including Residency Fee

    Payment Due: TBA
    Payable by e-transfer-cheque-paypal
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Spiritual formation gives us some really important Christian tools, primarily the spiritual practices to meet the deep longings and the big challenges of life.
Rev. Dr. Paul Bramer
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The testimonies of people who had experienced the benefits of having a spiritual director were moving and inspiring. Your ministry is a wonderful expression of God's love and tender care for His treasures here on earth.
Steve Read, PHD
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There's so much more you can learn with other people than when you're just reading scripture by yourself. The Spiritual Direction program has expanded my thinking about God, spirituality and how very different we all relate to Him. I highly recommend this program.
Tammy Pierce, Emmaus Student
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The course has developed a new hunger in me for scripture. I also appreciate the time of group spiritual direction as we process together between classes.
Lynne Ball, Emmaus Student
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Taking time in spiritual direction to reflect on where God is, day-to-day, has awakened in me, a clarity of vision. It has renewed my passion and continues to be a crucial part of my spiritual discipline. The impact of spiritual direction affects not only me, but my congregation and the community we serve.
Rev. Angie Song, Associate Pastor, Vaughan Community Church
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The first course – Introduction to Spiritual Formation – gave us high quality instruction that incorporated visuals, art, music, spiritual direction exercises as well as teaching that reflected a scholarly breadth of understanding and insight into both historical and current Christianity. I’d recommend this course, alone, for anyone interested in gaining a solid introduction into ancient-contemporary Christianity, and grasping something of how our orthopraxy and orthodoxy can fit even better together! Emmaus is a long-waited for gift, to believers and churches in the GTA and surrounding areas.
Naomi Johnson, Emmaus Student
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Ministry is challenging and can leave those who pursue it feeling depleted and lonely. Spiritual direction replenishes me. It deepens my perspective, keeps me grounded in God’s Word and reminds me that I am connected with Jesus and his community of friends.
Rev. Andrew Gordon, Pastor, Compass Church
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I discovered that I was serving out of a depletion—a growing depletion of soul. And so I knew that I needed someone to come alongside of me, and not listen for me—but to listen with me. And I think every emerging leader needs a spiritual director. Not to replace God. Not to replace the discipline of being in silence, in solitude, and listening to God through scripture, through His holy word, through the presence of the Holy Spirit—but to help clarify the questions.
Rev. Marc Gauvreau – PAOC Discipleship & Spiritual Direction
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Spiritual direction and spiritual formation has been a journey that I will continue for as long as I’m in ministry, and as long as I have breath because the benefits are just so astounding, and I can’t imagine carrying on in ministry without it.
Rev. Ron Shantz, Executive Director, Front Line Outreach
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How is your relationship deepened and nurtured in the context of your ministry? Many in ministry often say it’s not, and we’re all running around like a chicken without a head. It’s crucial, that we all have—especially in ministry—a spiritual director. These conversations about spiritual direction are immensely helpful because it starts where you are at—of your own ego and of your own desire to be somebody important in ministry. Now I can lead a life where I'm responding to God, rather than soliciting a response from God.
Rev. John Kim – Pastor Bridgeway Church
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The Individual Retreat is a process over a period of days where you interact with scripture, learn ways of praying, and develop that kind of personal connection with God. So it’s a process of developing our soul-connection—spirit-connection—with God, so that we are seeing God’s work in daily life, and that we are creating space for God in the crush of the normal things that happen in our daily lives. So that is one of the formation processes that an organization like Emmaus can facilitate or help with in churches—is to run retreats like that, that help people get into that mindset.
Rick Wukasch – Associate Pastor, The Meeting House
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