Evangelical
Seminary of Theology
EVENTS
/APRIL AND MAY 2009
Credits Contacts Leadership Professor Interviews
11TH
LENT
PILGRIMAGE
AND
THE RESURRECTION...WAS LIGHT
THE
UNITED THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE (UTC) VISITS THE SET
CANADIAN
INTERCHANGES
10TH
MEETING OF BACHELOR OF THEOLOGY
8TH
MEETING OF BACHELOR OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
FAREWELL TO
ALEXANDRA FLURY-SCHÖLCH AND ANDRE FLUIR
THOMAS
D. WALTER AND A GROUP FROM THE
THERAPEUTICS
CIRCLE
REVEREND TIMOTHY
HART-ANDERSEN AT SET
FAMILY
AND THERAPIES. A PSYCHOLOGY COURSE AT SET
DIPLOMA WORKS AND
THESIS GIVING
A
VISIT OF PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS FROM LASP
3RD
MEETING OF THE MASTERY PROGRAM OF THE ACADEMIC COURSE
2008-2009
THE
LIBRARY OF THE SET WELCOMED THE VISIT OF THE WEST INDIES, ST.AUGUSTINE OF
TRINIDAD
JOAN
BROWN, DIRECTOR OF THE RELIGION DEPARTMENT AT CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION VISITS THE
SET
ART
SCHOOL GRADUATION AT SET
ACADEMICALS EVENT
FOR SAINT-PAUL’S JUBILEE YEAR
NEXT
COMING ACTIVITIES
11TH
LENT
PILGRIMAGE
Summoned by the
Evangelical Seminary of Theology, around 200 people from different churches of
the town, on 
April 5th, joined to walk
together in the traditional “Lent Pilgrimage” which since 1998 is taking place
in town, to remember Lord Passion. The pilgrimage made the customary program. It
started at eight thirteen the morning stopping at some churches: the
Roman-Catholic Cathedral “San Carlos Borromeo”, the Reformed-Presbyterian
church, the Catholic Church “Our Lady of the
In the gardens of the
SET, people reflectected and shared their experience in groups: brothers and
sisters from different congregations. Reverend Daniel Montoya, a professor of
the SET, closed this pilgrimage preaching at the Resurrection
Chapel.
AND
THE RESURRECTION...WAS LIGHT
A very light misty
welcomed the people from the town, who were arriving to the Seminary to watch in
the distance the town waking up with the lights reflecting on the waters of the
Bay. At the skyline, the shine breaks the dark little by little, at the sight of
the most beautiful view of the town.
Gentle voices or the songs of the
birds are the nearest voices. The families and happy young people and elders
too, they came from different churches and places to celebrate the day of the
victory, of the resurrection of our Lord and brother Jesus Christ, le Light of
the World.
Before
There were about over 900 people
participating. The number is not as relevant as the wish to pray and sing
together and to feel this transcendent moment of unity among people
present.
The Word was preached by
Vice-director Oden Marichal Rodriguez surrounded by the brightness of the rising
of the sun and the colors of the creation, after that we hugged and wished each
other the peace. That hug joined us in just one body, as a testimony of the
unity and the certitude that Jesus Christ, our Savour, lives within each of
us.
Throughout April,
continued the
At the subsidiary of
One of them devoted to
Oral story-telling and the other one to manual labours; both led by local
professors. So after a ten-month period, the participants of the Introductory
Course fulfilled the necessary aims to get the corresponding
certification.
THE
UNITED THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE (UTC) VISITS THE SET
11 to 18 April, a group
of students from the UTC visited us led by Doctor of Theology Oral Thomas. They
come from different denominations as Baptists, Moravos, Anglicans and
Methodists. The countries represented were Jaimaica, 
Trinidad-Tobago,
One of the students,
Baptist and Panamanian, industrial engineer, Rogelio Braithwaite said to this
bulletin that “we wished to be aware of Cuban reality, to know the Cuban church
and to participate in the Resurrection Service which is celebrated here at SET
every year. The Dean Francisco Marrero Gutierrez welcomed us and explained us
all about the students. We had lectures by some professors of the SET: Daniel
Montoya Rosales MTH and Doctor Ofelia Ortega
Suarez”.
“We wanted to especially
emphasize the tremendous impact that has hit our way of thinking about the Cuban
society and the church in particular. Finally, we consider this experience will
help us to be better people”.
CANADIAN
INTERCHANGES
19 March to 4 July the
Pentecostal Guatemalan-Canadian
Pastor and Professor Nestor Medina, Doctor of Theology, who works for the Master
College Seminary in
Doctor Medina is teaching three
courses in the programs of Bachelor and Mastery offered by our institution.
Speaking about them, he said “the course “Theological Methods” allows the
students to develop important critical tools for a contextual Theology and also
helps them to think about which aspects from their daily context must be taken
into account in the technological exercise. The “Theological Hermeneutics”
search for foster the researching process of the Bible and to extend it to the
theological process. It consists of an exam theological-historical of how in the
history of the church, in some aspects, in this discipline the interpretation
has changed and how today it has been diversified giving birth to new
researching schools. . The “Pentecostalism: Theology and History” course, it is
more than exploration of the important historical points which contributes to
the birth of the Pentecostal movement and a researching of the more important
theological aspects. This course search to state that the Pentecostal movement,
in itself, refers to different geographical irruptions, in different parts of
the world,
In many cases at the same
time. This course also try to demonstrate how in the course of one hundred years
of existence, the Pentecostalism, has been transformed from a marginal movement,
almost without any importance to a central movement in the consideration of the
Christianism in the world”.
10TH
MEETING OF BACHELOR OF THEOLOGY
27 April to 1 May, took
place the 10th meeting of the non-resident program of Bachelor of
Theology. The students had the subjects: “God’s Doctrine” and “Ecumenical
Pastoral”, taught by professors Carlos Camps Cruell and Daniel Montoya Rosales
respectively.
8TH
MEETING OF BACHELOR OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION
4 to 8 May took place the
meeting of the program Bachelor of Christian Education schools. The students had
the subjects “An Introduction to the New Testament” taught by Professors
FAREWELL TO
ALEXANDRA FLURY-SCHÖLCH AND ANDRE FLUIR
The Swiss family of the Reverend
Alesandra Flury-Schölch, pastor of the Reformed-Church of Solothum and his
husband brother Andre Flury, doctor of Theology and a worker at the Catholic
Church in Berna, together with their two children, stayed at SET from January to
April 22.
Throughout their staying
in
Before leaving, they
expressed how fruitful was the experience to know the different regions of the
country, the culture and the Cuban church.
THOMAS
D. WALTER AND A GROUP FROM THE
“8 April, the seminary welcomed
Reverend Doctor Thomas D Walter and a group of the4 First Presbyterian Church of
Nashville, US.
“Our church financiates
some academic programs at SET -said Reverend Walter- and my wife Betty and I, we
have create a fund for scholarships for this institution. Besides, my
congregation and my presbytery, we are very interested to support the efforts us
this Seminary, since for us, it is very important the theological training. We
feel ourselves privileged to be part of this effort”, he
added.
THERAPEUTICS
CIRCLE
At the beginning of 2009,
on Wednesdays evening, Doctor Rene Castellanos Morente, -our dear “Maestro”-,
restarted at SET a cycle of gatherings about Psychology. The number of
participants has been increasing to
Maestro wanted to share with us this
information for Acontecer: “Since ten or fifteen years ago a group of
psychologists from Matanzas asked me this kind of meetings, once a week, due to
the experience I have in these subjects. After some time, the group was going
through different ways. Some of them graduated or left the town. Two years ago,
university students asked me to have again these meetings and this year students
of SET and from other university faculties joined
us”
Castellanos calls these
meetings as “circle” and not as lessons, because he hopes that to be people
interested in psychology who participate, although it is him who coordinates the
meeting.
“About the circle, he
insists, is to train people participating in order they be able to help in their
respective places and that they could creates therapeutics communities, with
their knowledge of acquired mental hygiene. The main sources are my own
psychotherapy experiences and other techniques, which joined to the experiences
of the participants, support the knowledge and contribute to new ideas and
projects”: he concluded.
REVEREND TIMOTHY
HART-ANDERSEN AT SET
On April 23, Reverend
Timothy Hart-Andersen visited us together with a group from the Presbyterian
Church of Westminster,
This church comes every
year to the SET and financially support our teaching work. Next June, bothers
from this church have the intention to fulfil a project to clean the drinkable
water in the campus.
FAMILY
AND THERAPIES. A PSYCHOLOGY COURSE AT SET
Master Samia Saad –a
Colombian-Canadian psychologist- the wife of
Professor Nestor Medina, was visiting from 14 
April to 31 May. The professor Saad
was invited to present some papers related to the subject of the Family and
Therapy at the Psychology circle.
At this time, she is
having a new mastery interdisciplinary of “Psychology and Studies about Refugees
at
countries and also
coordinates an international web called “Women from
About her important work,
she wanted to say “I feel that giving; I also learn and interchange with
culture, I notice that the Psychology has to be contextualized.”
DIPLOMA WORKS AND
THESIS GIVING
On Friday May 8, the
students who finished his studies in the Mastery and Theology Bachelor program
at SET fulfilled the giving of their works of Diploma and Mastery Thesis, which
will be discussed in academic tribunals next June.
In the program of
Bachelor of Theology are:
“Searching a meeting: a
pastoral accompaniment to family affected by the migratory process” by Maikel
Baez Bruffau
“Sarah, Agar, Rebecca,
Raquel and Lea. Protagonists of the Salvation History” by Damaris Oms
“The spirituality in the
recovering of anonymous alcoholics: an alternative of life” by Milagros del
“A religious experience,
a philosophical discussion”, by Adianes Ponce
Villalonga.
“A pastoral that
contributes to the improvement of the attention to people deaf-blind at the
Baptist
“Analysis of different
doctrinal points in the Assembles of God in
“A proposal to reach
abundance of life in the old age”, by
At the program of Mastery
of Theology, the titles we are:
“The episcopalism in Haïti,
jalons pour une inculturation de la Liturgie dans le contexte haïtien”,
by the Haitian
student Jean Fils Chery.
« Ireneo´s Theology
updating », by Nelson Dominguez Garrido.
A
VISIT OF PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS FROM LASP
On April 24, Professors
and students from the
3RD
MEETING OF THE MASTERY PROGRAM OF THE ACADEMIC COURSE
2008-2009
May 29, the 3rd meeting
of Mastery Program of the Academic Course 2008-2009 met at SET. In this
occasion, three courses were presented: “Communication Abilities” by the North
American professor
And Doctor of Education
of Councelors Ellen Armbruster; “Biblical Hermeneutics” by Professor and Doctor
of Theology Nestor
THE
LIBRARY OF THE SET WELCOMED THE VISIT OF THE WEST INDIES, ST.AUGUSTINE OF
TRINIDAD
On May 22,
JOAN
BROWN, DIRECTOR OF THE RELIGION DEPARTMENT AT CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTION VISITS THE
SET
On May 20, Reverend Pablo
Oden Marichal, vice-director of the Evangelical Seminary of Theology of
Matanzas, 
welcomed Doctor Joan Brown Campbell,
director of the Religion Department at
In this occasion, Dr.
Campbell came together with the chairperson of Chautauqua Institution, Thomas
Becquer, his wife, Jane Becquer and George Follansbee, official of the
institution
Throughout their staying,
they met the rector and faculties of the SET and they talked about the possible
collaboration between both institutions.
Chautauqua Institution is
engaged in helping North American to, is a part of this
meeting.
know
A
VISIT OF PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS FROM LASP
On May 22, the SET was
the ideal place for a Graduation Concert of the students of Choral Direction of
the Professional School of Music of
A group of the
Presbyterian Church of
A group from the Highland
Presbyter in US visited us on May 29 accompanied by representatives of the
Central Presbyter with whom they keep a
brotherhood.
ACADEMICALS EVENT
FOR SAINT-PAUL’S JUBILEE YEAR
Sponsored by the Catholic
Seminary “San Carlos and San Ambrosio” of Havana, the SET OF Matanzas, and High
Institute of Biblical and Theological Studies “Rafael Cepeda Clemente” of the
Study Center of the CIC, had Saturday, May 30 an Academicals Event at Episcopal
Cathedral “
This group initiative has
the objective to foster the contacts between seminaries, with the hope that in
the future the relationships could be more fruitful and
systematic.
NEXT
COMING ACTIVITIES
16
June
Graduate
Consecration Service
18
June
10AM
Graduation
22 to 26
June
80th Anniversary of
12 to 17
July
Pastoral Biblical Institute
INTERVIEW TO
NORTH AMERICAN DR ELLEN ARMBRUSTER
The North American Dr
Ellen Armbruster a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe visited
the set FROM 18 to 29May to teach a course in the Mastery
Program.
She had a very large experience as a
professor on subjects such as communication abilities and the Theory of the
Psychological Advising. She also researches related to the human development.
She is an academicals student guide at the
About the course
“Communication Abilities”, she said “the communication in important for the
relations, the advising is necessary to help people to know their experiences
and the facts, the meanings hidden in the life. When we know all these
knowledge, then we have empathy with the others. The empathy has two parts,
first, the understanding and the communication of the understanding, and in
second placed, how to communicate4 this understanding. In this practical course,
every day, we learned new abilities.
For instance: we worked
seven ways of expressions non-verbal and developed a conscience about this. In
general, people have the tendency to listen to and the interlocutor has to
feel.
BOARD
OF DIRECTORS
President of the Board:
Vice-President of the Board:
Bishop Miguel Tamayo
Zaldivar
Secretary of the
Board: P. P.
Ismael Madruga Sotolongo , Lic.
lll
Rector:
Vice-rector:
Pablo
Dean:
Vice-Dean:
Chaplain:
Lic
FULL
PROFESSORS
Clara
L. Ajo Lázaro, Th.D,
Theology,
VISITING
PROFESSORS
Prof.
Ildefonso Acosta Escobar
Music,
Prof. Wil Arts, Ph.M.
Practical
Theology,
Dra. Mercedes Cárdenas Hodelins
Complementary
Courses,
Edition, Design
and typesetting
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Ing.
Writing
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González R., Ing.
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