Jeffrey Preiss

Dear Friends,

September 1! How can it be? The fall term begins and with it a change.

Jeffrey Preiss, who currently works as the Development Associate for Communications and Community Engagement, has decided to move on from VST. As we all know from his unflagging enthusiasm, Jeffrey loves our school and loves us. However, at this juncture in his story, he is feeling called to pursue other opportunities in academic administration. We will miss him but bless him and thank him for all he has given, as he moves on to a new world.

We will say good bye to Jeffrey with a cake at the Principal’s lunch after community worship, Wednesday, September 29. Jeffrey’s last day with us will be September 30.

With love,

Wendy

• Monday – Thursday: 8:00 – 6:00
• Friday: 8:00 – 5:00
• Saturday: Noon– 6:00

The library will be closed for the following holidays:

• Monday, October 11 – Thanksgiving Day
• Thursday, November 11 – Remembrance Day

The library will be closed for Christmas from December 19 – January 3, reopening Monday, January 4, 2012.

The staff at VST wish the faculty a restful and productive time away.

Click here to view the full schedule.

Caroline will be working closely with the University Hill Congregation and her office is located in room 226 of the VST building. You may reach Caroline at ucc.ubc.chaplain@gmail.com and 604-827-4301.

Dr. Harry O. Maier

Wondering where Harry O. Maier has been?  Well since August 3ed, he has been travelling visiting Rome, Ostia Antica, Herculaneum and Pompeii checking out urban geography.

This research is part of an ongoing project Harry is working on with Rabbi Dr. Robert Daum on urban space and religious identity amongst emergent Jews and Christians.

Fall 2010

• Opening “the Hurt Locker”: Religious and Spiritual Pedagogies for Pain
  Dr. Sharon Betcher
  Mondays, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. at St. Andrew’s – Wesley United Church in downtown Vancouver
• Wrestling with Sacred Texts in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
  Rabbi Dr. Robert Daum
  Wednesdays, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.

Spring 2011

• Resisters, Accommodators, Negotiators: Jewish and Christian Responses to the Roman Empire ca. 100 CE – 325 CE
  Dr. Harry O. Maier and Rabbi Dr. Robert Daum
  Mondays, 2:00 – 5:00 p.m.

For more information, please contact the Registrar.

January 4-15, 2011 (REVISED DATE)
Approximate expected costs:
GATE Registration fee $100 (USD), GATE Program fee $1430 (USD), and return airfare to Mexico City.
Audited VST course tuition: $367.50.
Degree Credit available through VST’s Registrar at registrar@vst.edu

Led by Global Awareness Through Exposure, (GATE), an international organization that offers cultural immersion programs. This study tour will take a group of VST students and participants from the wider community to Mexico City and Chiapas. This trip will offer you opportunities to learn from the marginalized peoples of Mexico as well as social analysts, teachers, theologians, and economists. The trip will be accompanied by VST faculty Rev. Dr. Stephen Farris.

For more information about GATE, visit www.gate-travel.com

Community participants interested in VST course credit, please email VST’s Registrar at: registrar@vst.edu

Applications are due September 15, 2010 to VST’s Registrar.

Dr. Harry O. Maier

Harry O. Maier recently submitted his piece on “The Shepherd of Hermas” for the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible (forthcoming, 2012). The Shepherd of Hermas is made up of a series of oracles and ethical instructions to a wealthy community of Christians in Rome at the end of the first and the start of the Second Century CE. The Shepherd is one of the longest Christian documents from that period. Hermas was a well-to-do freedperson of his Christian master, Rhoda, and his visions offer important insights into prophetic authority and the status of urban Christianity in Rome.