Evangelical Seminary of Theology

Matanzas

 

EVENTS / MAY 2008

 

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        CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SCHOOL. MY, 2008

        PRESENTATION OF A BOOK AT THE LIBRARY

        UNFORGETTABLE WEEK FOR THE RAINBOW PROJECT

        SOME FRIENDS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF PEACHTREE VISIT US

        A VISIT FROM GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA

        FOURTH MEETING OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION BACHELOR COURSE

        SIXTH MEETING OF THEOLOGY BACHELOR COURSE

        THIRD MEETING OF THE MASTERY PROGRAM

        WORKSHOP ON SPIRITUALITY OF RESISTANCE, LIBERATION AND TRANSFORMATION

        MEETING OF THE PROGRAM “COMMUNITY LIFE AND HEALTH” OF THE CHURCHES COUNCIL OF CUBA

        COMING EVENTS

 

CHRISTIAN EDUCATION SCHOOL. MY, 2008

Over the first week of May, introductory courses for teachers of Sunday School some different points of the country. At Lavastida Center of Santiago de Cuba and at the National Camp of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Santa Clara (CANIP) was offered the course “Knowledge of the History of the Church” given by Professor Carlos Molina Rodríguez. Professor Dora Arce Valentín taught the subject “Knowledge of the Old Testament” at the “The Quaker Friends” church in Holguín.

 

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PRESENTATION OF A BOOK AT THE LIBRARY

On May 13^th, it was presented at the library of the SET the book “Profetas de una Esperanza: sermones para los desafíos de la Cuba de hoy” (Prophets of a hope: some preachings for the challenge at the present Cuba), written by the professor of the seminary, Dr. Carlos Camps who through these sermons, he tries to recuperate the critical thinking which inspire the visions of a new fairer society that help us to live more enthusiastically and more confident.

After the welcoming by the responsible of the library, the director, Dr. Reinerio Arce Valentín said some words to acknowledge all people who made possible the publishing of this work.  Students, professors, workers and members of the community were present at this event.

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UNFORGETTABLE WEEK FOR THE RAINBOW PROJECT

In the framework of the one-week school break and also for Cuban celebration of the Mother’s Day, a program of activities for the children took place from 5^th to 10^th May, supported by the Rainbow Project set aside for the children who participate in this program. This time the SET workers’ children were added.

The aim of these activities was to offer a time for the assimilation of the group and the strengthening of the Christian ethical values and to develop abilities through games.

Every morning, from 9:00 to 1:00 AM, the children attended an Art Workshop, given by renowned artists of Matanzas.

In the afternoon, they had a time of games and judo’s lessons, taught by the Swiss teacher Juliane Robra and each afternoon, they completed the day with a varied program, consisting of: a party with their mothers, a clown show, presentation and sale of books by the writer Loreley Rebull who enchanted them with her fantastic short-stories for children. They also worked together with professors and family relatives cleaning the grass off the flowerbeds of the vegetable garden. They enjoyed at the children park at Monserrate, in the highest point of the city. On Friday, they participated and leaded the liturgy they offered to all the mothers of the community: they reciting poems, singing and praying at the chapel “La Resurrection” at SET. On Saturday, this week was closed, enjoying, together with their parents, a trip to the entertainment park of EXPOCUBA and Lenin Park in Ciudad de la Habana.

The children of the community, professors of the project, students, professors and faculty of the SET, appreciate to all bothers and sisters who, from near and from a distance, support this project which bears as a symbol the colors of the promise that God, the Light of world, will light our hope.

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SOME FRIENDS OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF PEACHTREE VISIT US

May 1^st to 3^rd, brothers and sisters from the Presbyterian Church of Peachtree visited the Seminary and accomplished a very hard program with the aim of sharing the academic and community life of the SET. This church throughout the years has cooperated and has kept a fraternal brotherhood with the SET and Presbyterian churches in Cuba.

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A VISIT FROM GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA

On May 26^th, a delegation from the First Baptist Church of Greenville, South Carolina, visited the SET, together with the leaders of the Fraternity of Baptist Churches. After a moment speaking with the Director Reinerio Arce, they share a time with the students and professors. Then, they made a journey through the Cuban churches.

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FOURTH MEETING OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION BACHELOR COURSE

4^th to 9^th May, the fourth meeting of Christian Education Bachelor Course at the SET. This time the students worked the subject “An Introduction to the Bible” taught by Professor Mairolet Vegas Comas and a workshop of the Popular Reading of the Bible given by Professor Izett Sama Hernandez. The students appreciated the professors the received knowledge.

 

 

 

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SIXTH MEETING OF THEOLOGY BACHELOR COURSE

12^th to 16^th May, the sixth meeting of the program of studies of Theology Bachelor Course for non-resident students took place at SET. This program has keep the same registering list of 25 students and in this meeting, they were taught the subject “An Introduction to the Theology” given by Dr. Reinerio Arce Valentin; “History of Israel” taught by Master Daylin Rufin Pardo and Theological English, taught by Canadian Professor David Reid.

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THIRD MEETING OF THE MASTERY PROGRAM

The third meeting of the Mastery Program of the academic year 2007-2008 took place 19^th to 30^th May 2008 at the Seminary. In this occasion, the students had the subjects “Anthropology and Exegesis of the Gospel of St.John” taught by Master Daniel Montoya Rosales; “Methodology of Researching”, given by Alina Camps Iglesias and “Philosophy and Moral” given by Dr of Philosophical Sciences Luis R. Lopez Bombino. He is also Master of Educative Psychology and Professor of Moral Philosophy, Education and Values and Science and Technology Ethics at the University of Havana.

About this subject, Professor Bombino said: “The subject tries to explain what the Ethics as Moral Philosophy is, what the Ethics as behavior is, a person’s moral acting. We explain the theoretical ethics –professional, applied and we also go to the education of values: such as the different positions in Latin America and a whole set of propositions: “how to educate in values and how to focus the moral education. The value crisis is not necessarily negative because “crisis” means breakdown and continuity of social and moral values. As loss and alternatives, loss as oxygenation...

It is important to know that values have always dialectically existed; they have always existed in a process of developing genesis, of developing of caducity and incorporation to the moral process of the Human beings.

I have enjoyed a lot the quality and the warm of the people I have met at SET. The students of the mastery are very concerned and they really are thirsty for knowledge and those are the values: “to develop the motivations”

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MEETING OF THE PROGRAM “COMMUNITY LIFE AND HEALTH” OF THE CHURCHES COUNCIL OF CUBA

26^th to 29^th May, the meeting the program “Life and Health” of the Churches Council of Cuba was held at SET. Lay people and pastors participated in it. They came from the following churches: Free Evangelical Church, Soldiers of the Cross, the New Pines, Reformed Presbyterian, Good News, Adventists, Baptist Churches Fraternity, Nazarene, Lutheran, Apostolic of Jesus Christ, Evangelical Pentecostal “The Light of World”, First Pentecostal Church of Cuba, the Quaker Friends, Christian Agrarian Brotherhood and Episcopal.

One of the coordinator of this event, Dr. Luis Becquer, professor at the Dentist Faculty at the University of Havana and a Master of Community Health, kindly talked about this event: “This one was a course for the training of specialists of basic community health from the churches. Among them there are lay people, pastors and some health workers. This course was held over a year at different moments for weeks and we taught six modules on the following subjects: “Health diagnosis from the deaconry”, “A healthy style of Life”, “Additions, Sexuality and Sexual Transmission Infections” and “Senior adult”. This meeting at SET was the last one. The participants presented their final papers and graduated. The Director Reinerio Arce was pointed to have the closing sermon.”    
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WORKSHOP ON SPIRITUALITY OF RESISTANCE, LIBERATION AND TRANSFORMATION

May 15^th to 20^th, the workshop on Spirituality of Resistance, Liberation and Transformation took place in our Seminary, summoned by the World Alliance of the Reformed Churches (WARC) and the World Council of Churches (WCC). The workshop counted on the presence of more than 20 Christians and non-Christians participants coming from North America, South America, Africa and the Caribbean and the remarkable presence of the feminist theologian Ivone Guevara.

Among the main aims of the event, there was the necessity of re-conceptualize the meaning of spirituality and what kind of spirituality we need to foster today. The subject was focused from a critical view which condemned the imperialists behaviors of powers like the United States, neoliberal globalization and the blockade against Cuba. The participants at the meeting made a call for strengthening the resistance against the tactics of divisions like the denominationalism and fundamentalism. They also expressed the necessity to promote a culture of solidarity among secular and religious groups as well.

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COMING EVENTS

 

   16-28 June     

Intensive Course of the Non-resident Bachelor of Theology at the headquarters.

   

   3-5 July          

Biblical Pastoral Institute of Santiago de Cuba. Subject: Family, Churches and Creation of Values.

  

   6-12 July      

Biblical Pastoral Institute of Matanzas. Subject: Family, Churches and Creation of Values.

                            

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

 

    President of the Board: Bishop Miguel Tamayo Zaldivar

 Vice-President of the Board:  P.P. Daniel Izquierdo Hernández, Lic.

Secretary of the Board: Odette Naranjo Colón

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Rector: Reinerio Arce Valentín, Th.D.

 Vice-rector: Pablo Odén Marichal. Th.M

  Dean: Francisco Marrero Gutiérrez, Th.M.

 Vice-Dean: Iván González Tassé, Th.M.

Chaplain: Wil Arts Ph.M. and Norca Iglesias Zúñiga, Lic

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FULL PROFESSORS

Clara L. Ajo Lázaro, Th.D,  Theology, Sergio Arce Martínez, Ph.D, Theology, Dora E. Arce Valentín, Th.M,   Biblical Sciences, Reinerio Arce Valentín, Th.D, Theology, Carlos M. Camps Cruell, Ped.D. Theology,  Alina Camps Iglesias, Lic,  Complementary Courses, F. René Castellanos Morente, Ph.D,  Biblical Sciences, Nelson A. Dávila Rodríguez, Sc.M. Practical  Theology, Marianela de la Paz Cot, Th.M. Practical Theology,  Iván González Tassé, Th.M. Practical  Theology,  Adolfo Ham Reyes, Ph.D. Philosophy and History, Odén Marichal Rodríguez, Th.M. Philosophy and History, Francisco Marrero Gutiérrez, Th.M.  Biblical Sciences, Héctor Méndez Rodríguez, D.Min. Practical Theology, Daniel Montoya Rosales, Th.M. Practical Theology, Ofelia Ortega Suárez, D.D.h.c. Theology.

 

VISITING PROFESSORS

Prof. Ildefonso Acosta Escobar Music, Prof. Wil Arts, Ph.M. Practical Theology, Dra. Mercedes Cárdenas Hodelins Complementary Courses, Esther Fuentes Oliva, Th.M. Practical Theology, Carlos R. Molina Rodríguez, Lic. Philosophy and History, Sonia Montes de Oca Castellanos, Lic. Complementary Courses, Orestes Roca Santana, Lic Biblical Sciences, Dr. Min. Francisco Rodés González Philosophy and History,  Daylíns Rufín Pardo, Th.M. Biblical Sciences, Prof. Hans Spinder Philosophy and History,  Iraida Trujillo Lima, Lic. Complementary Courses.

 

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Director:

 Reinerio Arce Valentín, Th.D.

 

 

Edition, Design and typesetting

 

   Elizabeth González R., Ing.

 

Writing

 

Rosa Bahomonde, Sc.M.

 

   Elizabeth González R., Ing.

 

 

Photography:

 

Jesús Martínez León

 

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