{"id":5822,"date":"2016-04-29T14:27:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T19:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/?p=5822"},"modified":"2016-04-29T14:27:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T19:27:15","slug":"faculty-in-their-own-words-andrew-dyck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/2016\/faculty-in-their-own-words-andrew-dyck\/","title":{"rendered":"Faculty: In Their Own Words \u2013 Andrew Dyck"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andrew Dyck, Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies, has taught at CMU since January 2013. Prior to coming to CMU, Andrew worked as a pastor for 16 years in Abbotsford, BC.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

What are you researching and writing right now?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m working to finish my doctoral dissertation this summer.<\/span> I\u2019m writing about the nature of Mennonite Brethren spirituality. I\u2019m looking at 150 years of Mennonite Brethren history and asking what place spiritual direction or <\/span>Taiz\u00e9<\/span> singing, and lectio divina<\/i>\u2014these so-called contemplative practices\u2014have in a tradition that wouldn\u2019t normally have gone there, but that includes people who are finding those practices helpful.<\/span><\/p>\n

Where or how do students give you hope?<\/b><\/p>\n

\"2016-04-28<\/a><\/p>\n

I teach a graduate seminar called Supervised Ministry Experience. The course provides an opportunity for a supervised internship experience in a congregation or other ministry setting, and runs for two or three semesters. In the last six weeks of their last semester, I watch students own their identity as a Christian minister. My priority is to say, it\u2019s not just about what skills you have, it\u2019s about what kind person you are. And I watch them becoming those kinds of people. Seeing men and women becoming leaders gives me a lot of hope.<\/span><\/p>\n

What do you most long for in your work?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

At CMU I interact with students from all over the world and from all different Christian backgrounds, including Mennonite, Catholic, Baptist, Pentecostal, and more. One of the things I long for is that Christians will treat each other with generosity from their different backgrounds; that they will say, \u201cI can learn from you,\u201d and vice versa: \u201cI\u2019ve got something to offer that I think you could use.\u201d CMU started as two denominations committed to doing that. Now, there\u2019s this explosion of all kinds of other groups here, and that generosity is something I long for and I think is happening.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you have any interesting projects underway in the broader community or church?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Last year, I spent about five months memorizing the book of Ephesians. I did it walking to and from work. Thirty hours of work and it was basically memorized. <\/i><\/b>I\u2019ve had a chance to recite it as a sermon three times now, and I\u2019ve just gotten another invitation from a church to do that. It takes 17 minutes, and then afterward we talk about what people heard. People hear things they\u2019ve never heard before, which I can relate to: I\u2019d taught Ephesians at Columbia Bible College, and I\u2019d preached it as a pastor, but by memorizing it I saw connections I\u2019d never seen before. It\u2019s very powerful.<\/span><\/p>\n

What saying or motto inspires you?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

In Matthew 13:52, Jesus says, \u201cEvery scribe [or Bible scholar-teacher] who has been discipled for the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a household who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old.\u201d That verse sums up what I try to do. I get to draw on treasures from ancient times and from current times, and I get to package them and offer them to people and say: Look, is there something here you can use? Hopefully I do it in a way that\u2019s in the service of the Kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Andrew Dyck, Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies, has taught at CMU since January 2013. Prior to coming to CMU, Andrew worked as a pastor for 16 years in Abbotsford, BC. What are you researching and writing right now? I\u2019m working to finish my doctoral dissertation this summer. I\u2019m writing about the nature of Mennonite Brethren […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5825,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[156,522],"tags":[173,75,747],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5822"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5829,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5822\/revisions\/5829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}