This five-week term offers courses and schedules to serve a wide variety of students, from young people seeking spiritual growth and practical teaching to seasoned pastors seeking refreshment and encouragement. Students can attend for three or five weeks.
Winter Term includes courses to challenge and deepen your faith and equip you to serve your church better, whatever your phase or direction in life.
Full-time Faith Builders instructors are joined by church and mission leaders with teaching experience. A complete listing of courses follows.
COVID-19 update:
We are working hard to minimize the risk of bringing COVID-19 to the Institute. As part of this effort, we will accept only students coming for the first three or all five weeks of the term. We will give priority to students applying for the entire five-week term. We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause.
Our COVID-19 mitigation protocols will have particular impact on families. We encourage families to contact us before applying to learn about the limitations they should expect. There may be some possibilities for families to attend for weeks 4-5 with additional COVID-19 mitigation efforts. Those interested should contact us to explore that.
Class | Hours | Instructor |
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Life-giving Spaces in a Dysfunctional World | 1 | Cynthia Brubaker |
Reading the Bible | 2 | Steven Brubaker |
Anabaptism as a Wordview | 1 | Steven Brubaker |
Preparing & Delivering Devotionals & Sermons | 1 | Brandon Byler |
The Sermon on the Mount | 1 | Brandon Byler |
Discipleship in the Local Church | 2 | John Coblentz |
Understandind Depression | 3 | John Coblentz |
Pastoral Care | 1 | John Coblentz |
The Life and Thought of Pilgram Marpeck | 1 | Josh Coblentz |
Women Caring for Women | 2 | Janelle Glick |
Bible Study Greek | 1 | Lucas Hilty |
Life & Leadership for Men | 3 | Melvin Lehman |
Themes from American Mennonite History | 3 | Melvin Lehman |
Kingdom-centered Business | 1 | Gary Miller |
Beginning Choral Conducting | 1 | Brandon Mullet |
Music Fundamentals | 3 | Brandon Mullet |
Music in the Life of the Church | 1 | Brandon Mullet |
Class Voice | 1 | Brandon Mullet |
Church Growth | 1 | Allen Roth |
Church Planting | 1 | Allen Roth |
Women of Faith | 1 | Carolyn Roth |
Church History: Early & Medieval | 3 | Stephen Russell |
Historical Theology | 3 | Stephen Russell |
Writing to Communicate | 1 | Anita Yoder |
I Corinthians | 1 | Dave Yoder |
Some courses run the entire five weeks while others run for two or three weeks. A typical course load is 6-8 semester hours, or two-three courses.
Winter Term is open to students applying for the first three weeks, but admissions preference is given to those applying for all five weeks.
Winter Term 2021 is full to capacity. We regret that we can no longer take applications for Winter Term 2021.