CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Jan 10 - Mar 4
Paschal Term 2011
Feb 23 - 26
ABHE Annual Meeting
Mar 22
Spring Governor's
meeting
Apr 4 - May 27
Omega Term 2011
Apr 11 - 13
ABHE site visit
May 30 - Jun 1 Summer Colloquy
May 31
Convocation
Jun 6 - Jul 29
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 CARROLL INSTITUTE'S
COUNSELING PROGRAM
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The counseling program at BHCTI is in full progress and continues to grow as new students apply for admission and new faculty are added to the roster. Mrs. Fran Wilson, Director of Admissions, comments, "I receive several calls each week from people inquiring about the counseling program at Carroll." Usually the calls result from contacts with other BHCTI students who are in the counseling program.
Carroll Institute offers a Master of Arts in Counseling degree which allows students to pursue state counseling licensure and enables them to work in agencies, hospitals, and counseling centers in addition to church related venues.
Of the 161 enrollments in master's level courses that are currently being taught in the Paschal 2011 Term, 22% are in counseling courses. These figures include 9 BHCTI master's students who are seeking a M. A. in Counseling and 17 transient students who are pursuing degrees elsewhere but are taking counseling courses through BHCTI in order to complete their degrees. In addition, there are four students who are in the PhD degree program in counseling.
Several new faculty members and courses have been added since the counseling program began last Fall. Scott Floyd (PhD, Psychology and Counseling), a Fellow of the Institute, supervises the counseling program at both the master's and doctoral levels. During the Paschal Term he is teaching a class on Family Systems and Therapy. Other faculty members include: Lisa Nussbaum (LPC, PhD, Marriage and Family Counseling) is teaching a Practicum course; Shirley Moxley (PhD student at BHCTI - ABD, Psychology and Counseling) teaches Vocational Guidance; Malinda Fasol (PhD, Psychology and Counseling) teaches the online class Personality and Counseling Theory; and Dan Clement (LPC, PhD, Psychology and Counseling) teaches Spirituality and Counseling.
Dr. Bruce Corley, President of Carroll Institute, who sees the counseling program as one of the Institute's most promising initiatives, recently commented, "BHCTI expects that the counseling program will experience rapid growth because of felt needs in the community of faith and the volume of inquiries received concerning such training and licensure. This initiative, an essential step forward for the Institute, is reason for celebration.”
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BHCTI IN THE NEWS
Carroll Institute was featured in an article that appeared in the December 22 issue of the Arlington Citizen-Journal. The article, written by Jim Jones, was entitled "B.H. Carroll Theological Institute has eye on expansion, accreditation."
You can read the article in the newspaper archives at:
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ACCREDITATION UPDATE
The Association for Biblical Higher Education will hold its annual meeting in Orlando, Florida February 23 - 26, 2011. Drs. Bruce Corley and Stan Moore will represent Carroll Institute at the meeting.
The ABHE site visit to the BHCTI offices, as well as other teaching sites, is scheduled for April 11 - 13. The team members will meet with faculty and visit with students as they gather data for making their report.
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BHCTI in ARKANSAS
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In the month of November 2010, an article appeared in the Arkansas Baptist News ("Epoch Church, First Church, Sparkman, share sermon topics, minister together" - www.arkansasbaptist.org) describing a partnership in missions and ministry between pastors from two very different churches: a small, young church with a contemporary style of worship meeting in a Little Rock strip mall and a small, but older, traditional style church in Sparkman, Arkansas.
One thing these two churches do have in common is that both of their pastors are students at Carroll Institute. Nathan James, pastor of Epoch Church, and Eric Moffett, pastor at First Church Sparkman, are in the masters’ program at the BHCTI teaching site, Fellowship Church in Arkadelphia. Nathan James commented in the November article:
"B. H. Carroll students have formed a type of community. We almost have a network of ministers striving to learn together, walk alongside each other and shepherd each other and our congregations.”
While participating in Ouachita Baptist University's Seminary Day during the first week of November last year, Drs. Karen Bullock and Norma Hedin had the opportunity to see first hand that type of community among Carroll students when they visited them on site at Fellowship Church.
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Dr. Scott Duvall with class
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Dr. Hedin supplied photos and wrote the following report about their visit with the Carroll students:
"Fellowship Church in Arkadelphia, Arkansas hosts the largest cohort of face-to-face students in the B. H. Carroll Nexus. While we have larger groups of combined students and readers in other locations, this group includes 17 active students. Most of the students are graduates of Ouachita Baptist University and are pursuing the Master of Arts in Theology, building upon their work in Biblical Studies at Ouachita. Dr. Scott Duvall serves as the coordinator for the program in Arkansas. He also serves as a Resident Fellow and a PhD Supervisor for B. H. Carroll, as well as serving as co-pastor of Fellowship Church.
In addition to Dr. Duvall, other Ouachita Baptist professors teach masters-level classes. Dr. Joey Dodson, Dr. Jim Wilson, Dr. Brad Sickler, Mr. Jeremy Greer, and Mr. Michael Cox have taught at this site. In 2011, Carroll added another teaching site in Arkansas. First Baptist Church Little Rock is hosting a class in Christian Disciplines, taught by Dr. Jonathan Curtis, Associate Pastor at the church. Dr. Curtis is our newest Resident Fellow, a three-time graduate of Southwestern Seminary with the MDIV, MACE, and a PhD in Foundations of Education and Church Growth.
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MISSION NEWS
PhD Student in Poland is learning "a new normal"
James Roberts, a Carroll Institute PhD student, along with his wife Angela, and two daughters Ella and Macie, arrived two weeks ago in Krakow, Poland where they will be serving for three years as International Mission Board field personnel. James wrote in his blog, "Our first two weeks in Poland have been great! We have learned so much. I highly recommend everybody to live overseas for at least a year. It will change your entire view of people, life, and the USA. I cannot begin to tell you how blessed America is with its infrastructure - things we never see and just have - it is awesome."
After years of mission trip experiences and seeking the Lord's call on their lives,. James and Angela were appointed as missionaries by the IMB on September 15, 2010 at Bell Shoals Baptist Church in Brandon, Florida. At the appointment service, James shared his testimony of how God had led him to become a career missionary. In 2000, he had been part of a small volunteer team delivering aid to Albanian refugees in Kosovo just months after a NATO bombing campaign forced Serbian troops from the country. The volunteer team faced a harrowing experience one evening on their way back from a worship service when they were stopped by what appeared to be Serbian rebels. The team was forced out of the van by soldiers wielding weapons. The soldiers turned out to be part of an Italian peacekeeping force, but the vivid images of that horrifying experience left an indelible impression on James.
“We didn’t know what to think. We were praying and I just remember … this amazing peace came over me - I was ready to die for my faith." That was the beginning of a call to missions that 11 years later took James back to Eastern Europe. “God gave me a bigger picture of the world,” Roberts said. “I remember coming back (to the United States) and trying to find a way to get back (to Kosovo). My heart was in Eastern Europe.” James' wife, Angela, had also felt called to missions as a young girl. Now, together with their two young girls, they are fulfilling a call to share Christ with the Poles and to plant churches in Krakow.
Since arriving in Poland, James and Angela are learning how to live with a "new kind of normal" amidst many changes in their surroundings and culture. Everywhere they turn, they are faced with the history of a war-torn Poland under German Nazi occupation. Even their place of worship is connected to that dark time in history during WWII. James writes, "We worship at a church in the Jewish Ghetto section of Poland. We walk by a remnant of the Ghetto wall that was built in WWII to keep the Jews away from the general population. Oscar Schindler’s textile factory is a block from our church. . . On the way home today we drove by the area where they used to line up Jewish people and either kill them or put them on a train to head to the death camps. There is a memorial placed there now."
You can follow James and Angela's experiences in Krakow through their individual blogs: James - www.redefiningnormal.org and Angela - www.angelaroberts79.blogspot.com. Please keep this family in prayer as they adjust to a new culture, acquire language skills, make relationships, and find ways of sharing Christ.
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