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SPIRITUAL DIRECTION
Interested in becoming more intentional about deepening your walk with God? Wanting to ensure that your own spiritual life grows along with your growth in ministry? Then read on! This semester students will have available to them a trained spiritual director experienced in working with seminary students. Deanna Frank, a graduate of Talbot School of Theology, will be offering, on campus, individual once-a-month meetings with students who wish to have another come alongside them regularly to assist them in hearing and discerning God's voice and work in their lives and ministries.

What is spiritual direction?Briefly, a spiritual director listens prayerfully to the student the Holy Spirit for the purpose of helping the student discern the work of God in his or her life. He or she may offer observations, suggest prayer practices or other spiritual disciplines which maybe be helpful, ask questions for reflection, etc. Sessions involved prayer and brief scripture meditation and are tailored to fit an individuals unique walk with God.

Some questions a spiritual director might discuss during a session are: When you bring this to God, what happens? When do you sense yourself being most receptive or most resistant to God's leading? Have you noticed a pattern in how God seems to work in this area of your life?

Dates, times, and fees will be negotiated with students individually. If you are sensing that God would have you explore this possibility, please contact Deanna Frank, either by e-mail at deannafrank@gmail.com or by phone at 559-474-9773.

HONDURAS CROSS-CULTURAL ENCOUNTER/COUNSELING
requirement through doing an June 5-15, 2008 for 1.5 units. Students now have the option of meeting half of their CCE MBBS International CCE course. The first one will be June 5-15, 2008. Mark Baker will take a group of students to Honduras. The main focus of the trip will be studying Galatians in a bi-lingual and interactive setting with Central American seminary students from the Latin American Anabaptist seminary from June 9-14. Special attention will be given to pastoral and missional application of the text. MBBS students will also visit both rural and urban Christian community development projects, including Amor Fe y Vida Church.
Students with interest in the CCE Honduras trip should be alert to a change in the cost of the trip. The cost of the Honduras trip will include tuition plus a course fee of $350 plus airfare. Our first announcement did not include mention of the course fee. Please accept our apologies for unclear communication. Please contact Mark Baker if you have interest in CCE Honduras.
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FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY + ANABAPTIST MISSIOLOGY
Fuller Theological Seminary is planning on offering a special course on Anabaptist missiology, and has invited MBBS, AMBS, EMU and other schools to participate. The course will be offered on Fuller's campus, and will run from July 21 to August 1, 2008, from 8 a.m. to noon. MBBS students will be given a discount, and will be able to take the course for $700. Depending on the number of students who register, lodging may be available through Pasadena Mennonite Church and/or regular Fuller students. Contact Fuller's representative Matthew Krabill at 626-584-5260 or sis-advising@dept.fuller.edu if you are interested.

General

GRANT AVAILABLE FOR PASTORS
The Lilly Endowment, through its National Clergy Renewal Program, makes grants of up to $45,000 available to support an extended time of Sabbath rest and renewal for the pastor and his or her family, and to support their congregations in renewal activities. This program is open to Christian congregations that are served by a pastor having a Master of Divinity degree from an accredited Association of Theological Schools seminary. For information on the program, click here to go to the Lilly website, or call 317-916-7302.

CHANGE IN PAYMENT POLICY
Change in Installment payment plan policy: We will only accept arrangements to make payments by credit card or automatic withdrawal from checking accounts on a monthly basis until the end of the semester. The reason for this is so we can set up the payments automatically and we don't have to track them manually. A complete list of Student Account Policies can be found at http://www.mbseminary.edu/fresno/finaid/student-accounts.

ACCESS LIBRARY RESOURCES FROM HOME
MBBS and FPU are excited to announce the arrival of the new Hiebert Library proxy server. MBBS students will no longer be required to be physically in the Hiebert Library in order to access online periodicals and resources such as JSTOR, ERIC, and Thesaurus Linguae Graecae. Now MBBS students can go to ez.fresno.edu and log in with the seminary's name and password from anywhere in the world. Contact Jason Hiebert at jhiebert@mbseminary.edu to find out the seminary's name and password on the proxy server.

HAVE YOU READ ANYTHING GOOD LATELY?
Would you like to share it with others? The editors of MB Biblical Seminary's 'In Touch' magazine invite you to submit your favorite quote from a book you have read here at the seminary. All you have to do is e-mail the quote (no more than 4 sentences long), along with the books' title, author and year of publication, your name, campus, and degree program to: Megan Richard at mrichard@mbseminary.edu. Five will be chosen and featured in the March 2008 edition!

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