{"id":474,"date":"2007-10-18T23:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-18T23:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/wordpress\/?p=474"},"modified":"2007-10-18T23:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-18T23:41:00","slug":"student-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/2007\/10\/18\/student-again\/","title":{"rendered":"A Student Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Aside from the occasional seminar when teaching or youth pastoring, I haven’t been a student since April 2000 when I graduated from university. At that time I was so sick of school, after 5 long years, that I had no interest in furthering my formal education any time soon. <\/p>\n

Well, it’s been 7 1\/2 years and I’m ready to start up again. I’m registered to take a course with the Chalmers Center<\/a> for Economic and Community Development at Covenant College<\/a>. It’s a distance learning course of 4 weeks that I can get certification for. This first course is called “Foundations and Principles of Holistic Ministry.” It addresses the question of poverty and is the prerequisite for a few other courses that I want to take from them too: <\/p>\n

“Principles and Practices of Christian Microfinance and Microenterprise Development”
“Promoting Church-Centered Savings and Credit Associations”
“Partnering with Large-Scale Microenterprise Development Providers”
“Providing Small Business Training to Low-Income Entrepreneurs”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It lasts 4 weeks and only costs $75. One problem is that that book I need for it hasn’t arrived in Kamloops yet for a team to bring down on Saturday. Maybe I’ll need to have it scanned… \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

I’m excited about what I’ll be learning as these are things I’d like to base my future mission agency on. Here’s to an A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aside from the occasional seminar when teaching or youth pastoring, I haven’t been a student since April 2000 when I graduated from university. At that time I was so sick of school, after 5 long years, that I had no interest in furthering my formal education any time soon. Well, it’s been 7 1\/2 years … [Read more…]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,23,30],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-474","6":"format-standard","7":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"category-christianity","9":"category-education","10":"category-poverty","11":"category-zr"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zaakistan.com\/dir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}