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No. 2 - February 18, 2011
by Doug Kutilek
Dear Friends—
I am pleased to report that everything went well for the most recent seminary session in Arad, Romania this past November, indeed, even better than I had reason to expect. Professor Gelu Pacurar reports that all 13 students who began the elementary Hebrew course successfully completed the eight-hours-per-day, four-week-long intensive course. Anyone who has taught Hebrew knows that it is a rare thing not to lose a student or two or even more during such a course. These students are not finished with their Hebrew studies. The next sessions in the Hebrew language will come in June 2011 and will include a week each of Hebrew syntax and Hebrew exegesis. In the meantime, the students have exercises in a grammar to review, and the book of Jonah to analyze in Hebrew in preparation for the June courses. And they must pass an entrance exam in order to be permitted to take these courses.
Also taught during the November sessions (and of which I was not aware when I wrote last) were two two-week long M.A. sessions in hermeneutics, and ecclesiology/eschatology respectively. These were taught by Pastor Beni Costea, with the classes made up of four new students who recently entered the Arad program.
The next seminary sessions, and for which we solicit your earnest prayers, will occupy three weeks in March, beginning March 7 and concluding March 25. The first week, March 7–11, M.Div. students are scheduled to study Old Testament Introduction with Pastor Gelu Pacurar. M.A. students will study Research and Writing with Pastor Sergiu Dobre. The second week, March 14-18, M.Div. students will study Homiletics with Pastor Beni Costea, and the M.A. students will study Baptist History with Pastor Marius Birgean. The final week, Pastor Costea will teach the M.Div. students Pastoral Theology, and Pastor Birgean will teach The History of Neo-Evangelicalism/The History of Fundamentalism to the M.A. students.
Looking a bit ahead, the late spring and summer months are filled with activity at the Arad campus. Three weeks of classes are scheduled for May, with three more in June and then again in July, with only a week or two in between the end of one session and the beginning of another, so the students will be very busy. Your prayers on their behalf, both as students, and as ministers in churches, are much coveted. And of course, with the intensity of activity at the Arad campus, expenses for books, materials, and room and board will rise proportionately.
Thank you much for your interest in and support for this important and effective ministry in Romania.
In Christ,
Doug Kutilek
CBTS, Th.M. 1998
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