{"id":22,"date":"2014-08-18T21:45:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T21:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chongshinca.com\/chongshinca\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2020-12-11T19:56:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T19:56:51","slug":"about-us-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chongshinca.com\/chongshinca\/about-us-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Welcome to Faith College &#038; Theological Seminary&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h1|font_size:38px|text_align:center|color:%23dd8500&#8243; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:PT%20Serif%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #666666; text-align: left;\" align=\"right\"><span style=\"font-size: 13pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Since 2006, this seminary has been located in Surrey, in British Columbia, Canada under the name PGA College and Theological Seminary of Canada. In 2018, we changed our name to Faith College &amp; Theological Seminary. Through evangelical theology and biblical teachings, we train and educate students to become pastors, missionaries, chaplains, and mature laypersons.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Programs&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|font_size:30px|text_align:left|color:%23dd9933&#8243; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:PT%20Serif%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; font-size: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Diploma Programs (2 to 4 years):<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 15pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>For students seeking to become ordained pastors, missionaries, pastoral educators, Christian counsellors:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Pastoral Ministry:<\/strong> For persons striving to develop the necessary leadership skills and knowledge for pastoral occupations (pastoral, chaplaincy ministry, church planting, and missions). Students who complete this program are able to be ordained by the denomination.<br \/>\n<strong>Theological Studies:<\/strong> Biblical study on the theological issues, exegesis, subjects, people, introduction, background, and books of the bible<br \/>\n<strong>Christian Counselling:<\/strong> Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced programs available<br \/>\n<strong>Christian Education:<\/strong> Education for Sunday school teacher<br \/>\n<strong>Church Music:<\/strong> Worship Leader, Worship Team, and Choir<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>Theology &amp; Christian Education Programs:<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Theological Program\u00a0 &#8211; 126 credits<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Christian Education Program &#8211; 126 credits<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Ministry &amp; Counselling Programs:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Pastoral Ministry Program &#8211; 96 credits<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Theological Program II &#8211; 39 credits<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Christian Counselling Program &#8211; 48 credits<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #000000;\"><strong>Advanced Programs:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Advanced Pastoral Ministry &#8211; 60 credits<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Advanced Christian Counselling &#8211; 60 credits<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">Advanced Theological Program &#8211; 60 credits<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt;\">*Proposal, review, and oral defense of thesis and dissertation must be completed at our seminary<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;Welcome to Faith College &#038; Theological Seminary&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h1|font_size:38px|text_align:center|color:%23dd8500&#8243; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:PT%20Serif%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221;][vc_column_text] Since 2006, this seminary has been located in Surrey, in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":546,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chongshinca.com\/chongshinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chongshinca.com\/chongshinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chongshinca.com\/chongshinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chongshinca.com\/chongshinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chongshinca.com\/chongshinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chongshinca.com\/chongshinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3434,"href":"https:\/\/chongshinca.com\/chongshinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/3434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chongshinca.com\/chongshinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chongshinca.com\/chongshinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}