Course Details
Dates: 5 March - 16 July 2022
Duration: 20 weeks (17 weeks of learning, with week breaks in-between)
Mode: Hybrid (Online and In-person) - including individual study, small group discussions, live talks and Q&A, and ongoing online classroom interactions
Registration Deadline: (Extended!) 1 March Tuesday
About Springboard:
SPRINGBOARD is CBC's adult discipleship course to develop a good foundation for Calvarians to grow in their Christian faith, by:
grounding themselves in a systematic understanding of core doctrines (the most important teachings and beliefs of Christianity)
nurture life-long spiritual habits of bible-reading and meditation and theological reflection
build spiritual friendships with a committed group of Calvarians over a period of time
This will be our pilot run and would love for fellow Calvarians to come and join us in this journey!
Interested to find out more?
You can refer to the slides (PDF) and recording of the earlier info session on 29 January.
FAQs
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This is a name that came out of a focus group we did when we reviewed the previous foundations modules! We hope that through this course, we can help Calvarians develop ‘coils’ or ‘springs’ that can springboard them to an equipped, healthy, growing disciple of Christ. :)
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We will be going through topics of theology according to the traditional systematic theology outline. Topics will include the Bible, God, Humanity, Christ, Holy Spirit, Salvation, Church and End Times.
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This course is developed in-house by Calvarians in the CE ministry, vetted and taught by seminary-trained church staff.
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You can refer to the PDF slides from the info session for the full course requirements. But in essence, we are asking for participants who has a desire to learn and grow, and are willing to commit and participate as fully as possible! It is also mainly for Calvarians 18 years and up as there will be mainly adult self-directed learning throughout. But if you are younger and interested, let us know and we can see how it goes!
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SPRINGBOARD is 20 weeks long, with 17 weeks of learning (and 3 weeks of break)! We are trying to give participants a full survey of theology systematically - while we cannot go deep into every subtopic, we hope to help participants have some handles (springs!) to springboard to further learning in those topics if they are interested to do so in the future.
Our earlier proposal was to spread it out across 2 years but feedback given was a once-off 20 weeks might be more doable. Let us know if you prefer a more spread out format the next time! -
There are only 6 out of the 20 weeks we have in-person meetings on Saturday from 10.00-11.30am - 5 March, 2 April, 14 May, 25 June, 9 July and 16 July (which is our graduation party!). These are live seminars and Q&As where you can interact with the larger group of participants. If you are not able to make one or two in-person meetings, we can make arrangements for a recording, but the value will be to make it in-person.
All other sessions are small-group discussions and you can meet whenever is convenient for your group members, whether online or in-person. -
Time commitment per week will be 10 minutes x 5 days (Mondays-Fridays) + 40-90 minutes over the weekend for small-group discussions or live seminars.
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The course is free!
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Majority of this course will be self-directed learning from the Bible, with supplementary teaching materials. You will also learn from fellow participants as you reflect and discuss through the week’s readings. The live seminars will look the most like a teaching session, where we will hope to provide additional perspectives to help tie theological concepts together, and answer any other questions that might have arisen over the weeks prior.
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Great! Email ce@calvary.org.sg or contact Angel at angellim@calvary.org.sg and we can talk more. :)