It has been half way through the academic year. The 44 BSM Online students are bracing themselves to run the second half which will be composed of seven 3-week blocks. Two courses are covered each block.

We are very glad to welcome Steve Sullivan as a guest teacher for BSM Online starting September 15, 2021. Steve Sullivan will teach the course on Introduction to Missions and Culture and Missions Strategy. With his many years of experience in the missions field, here in the Philippines, Cambodia, and Myanmar, the BSM Online students really look forward to be challenged with the need of the mission field.

Schedule of classes: Wed, Thu, Fri evenings at 8-9 PM and Sat at 10-11 AM.

The restrictions to large gatherings due to the pandemic seem to signal the churches to have a reset from large congregational gathers to house-church meetings. This course was designed and opened for local church pastors and leaders to help them prepare to transition to the house-church system.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course will lead students to a look again at the Biblical record of the Church that Jesus built to discover the basic ingredients necessary for the church to continue to be vital, alive, dynamic.  A special focus will be on the church in the homes that was an essential expression of church life in the formative years of church history and its relevance to our present-day situation. It will include discussion on how to transition an existing church into a house-church system. A later part of the course are practical guidelines how to conduct a house church gathering.

COURSE OUTLINE:

UNIT 1 – THE MAKE OF THE CHURCH

Analyzing the Biblical record about the early church: The origin, the purpose and design; discovering the basic ingredients necessary for the church to be vital, alive and dynamic. One lesson will be on evaluation of the church of today in comparison to the Biblical picture and life of the early church.

UNIT 2 – THE MEETING OF THE CHURCH

Rediscovering facts, principles and practices of the early church when they meet, with focus on the church in the homes that was an essential expression of church life in the formative years of church history and its relevance to our present-day situation.

3. THE MOVE OF THE CHURCH

Discovering how the church operates, as communities, as people of God, as ambassadors of Christ. Knowing how they multiplied and expanded – What are the Principles of growth. Studying a Return to the Basics of Church Life – The House Church;  Learn guidelines and HOW TO’s in implementing “Operation Home Base.”

Teachers: Rey and Zeny Calusay

Schedule:

Starts September 1,2021   (for 3 weeks)

Wednesday-Friday 7-8 pm  and Saturday 10-11 am

Second Block Classes: July 2^nd Week – October of 2021

Second Break: November, first week

The following are the first block of courses published in their promotional titles.

First Block Classes: April to June of 2021
First Break: July, first week