Pastoral Formation

For the past several years the seminary has been offering a Pastoral Formation Course. So named, because the state Baptist convention accepts this course for their formal education requirement for pastoral candidates for ordination into gospel ministry.

However, many graduates and current students in the course do not seek ordination and instead want to have a deeper understanding of the Bible and theology to equip them for what God has called them to do. 

Students range in church affiliation, age, and educational background. A high school diploma is required for all students, and some graduates go on to studies in Kairos or other graduate programs in Brazil.

The course has five semesters in total with required classes that include: Pastoral care and chaplaincy, communications and new technologies, discipleship, ecclesiology, Christian education, Christian ethics, evangelism, Baptist history, homiletics, hermeneutics, Christian leadership, praise and worship, missions, church planting and growth, Old and New Testament theology, and systematic theology.

This course uses both of the seminary's full-time faculty members: Lyndell Campbell Réquia and Brandon Jones. Each semester Lyndell, the co-ordinator of the course, recruits visiting professors from Brazil and North America to fill out the schedule.


Pastoral Formation

  • Lyndell Campbell Réquia, Coordinator

    Spiritual Formation, Hermeneutics, and Leadership Development

  • Pr. Brandon Jones

    Bible, Theology, and Ethics

  • André Daniel Reinke

    Introduction to Old and New Testaments.

  • Pr. Tiago Matias

    Homiletics and Preaching

  • Pr. Bruno Seitz

    Baptist History and Ecclesiology