Our new focus at Key-Way-Tin
We're still working
on ways to best communicate what our new program is all about ...
but we hope this page at least serves as an introduction.
Please come back to
our site in the coming weeks and months to read more about it. In
the meantime, here's some things we'd like you to know -- whether
you're thinking of attending Key-Way-Tin, or you know of someone who
should consider coming to KBI.
For starters,
we've decided that whether a student comes for one, two or three
years, he or she will be given a comprehensive view of the Bible as
the true and complete story of God revealing Himself, and His plan
of redemption for mankind and the world. We have developed a 10-part
overview of the Scriptures which we have labeled the "10 C's":
- CREATOR
- CREATION
- CORRUPTION
- COVENANT
- COMMANDMENTS
- CHRIST
- CROSS
- COMMUNITY
- CAUGHT-UP
- CULMINATION
Secondly,
three simple catchwords will help guide the way we present our
curriculum:
"KNOW - BE - DO"
While all three should be
present throughout our program, each year at KBI will have its own aim. For
the first year, the aim will be KNOWING. More specifically, we want students
to more fully know our great SALVATION through faith in Jesus Christ!
Knowing our identity in Christ
will also be a focus. In the second year, the aim will be BEING. There will be
more of an emphasis in cooperating with God in our SANCTIFICATION, maturity
and character.
For third year, the focus will
be on DOING. We want to better equip students for SERVICE. The more hands-on
and practical side of ministry will be the emphasis.
While these are our aims,
realistically there may be a transition period of up to three years before we
have the whole curriculum to fully reflect these aims. With possibly
having some students returning who have completed up to two years at KBI, we
will try to implement our new program and accommodate what returning students
need to finish what they started at KBI.
Another change in the works is
that courses will be taught only in the morning. What will students do the
rest of the day? Sometimes there will be work that needs to be done around
campus. Sometimes there will be Christian Service. There may be some
volunteering in the surrounding communities.
And then there will be time
allowed for less formal interaction and encouragement among staff and students
... because heart-issue or deeper life changes are more likely to occur during
our informal relationship times, rather than in the classroom. Being
short-staffed in recent years we became very busy and had lost sight, to some
degree, of the importance of investing time in building mentor relationships.
We'd like to make relationships a KBI strength again.
One further change we're
exploring is having teaching teams. Rather than just one teacher
teaching each course, two or more teachers will do so. This may not
mean there will be more than one teacher in each and every class
period, but often we hope there will be. We'd like to have more of a
team approach in the preparing and presenting of curriculum.
Questions? We'd love to
hear from you. Please write or call (see Contact Us).
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