EPTA

This is your site for EPTA  - the

European Pentecostal Theological Association

A few representatives at EPTA 2009's conference in the European Theological Seminary Kniebis, Black Forest.Germany.

This is YOUR site for going places theologically.... across Europe... and beyond... into history... into the future possibilities - in the enabling power of the Holy Spirit.

Education.... Theology.... Training .... Missions studies....

Pentecostal... Charismatic... neo-Pentecostal... whatever label... come and discuss the issue of "Pentecostal" identity on the blog!

Find out more through our member institution links.

To become a member please go to the Individual Member Application page or for Institutions the Institutional Application page. Signing on the website page does not mean you are a member of EPTA. Payment of subscription /member fees does that!

To be a non member but subscriber to the journal articles please fill in the Individual Application page and after the address tick 'subscriber' choice (instead of member).

Fees may vary each year so please  fill in the form, send it, and the Secretary Anne Dyer - will contact you with those details. adyer@matterseyhall.com

We do have articles from JEPTA - our JOURNAL - on this site.  We provide links to all articles 1981-2007 (or year prior to the immediate publications) for members by password on a page on this website.  This is because we still produce a paper version of the journal and members pay for it and their advantage is paying for the online subscription in that. If you wish to register for subscription please see that page and fill in the online form.  We will reply to you as soon as the executive have perused the application. Then you will be sent the subscription form and requested to send payment. Once received we will register you for that years' issues in print and online.

To write for JEPTA please see the 'submit an article' page to contact us and give an outline of your proposed topic. You will soon be able to download a template, style sheet and instructions on what we expect; meanwhile see contact details for the Secretary above. Any manuscripts need to be kept to 5000 words (including footnotes and a short abstract and short bibliography), sent in MS Word, using our template.

• To promote excellence and effectiveness in Pentecostal and Charismatic theological, historical, missional... scholarship,
  
• To promote excellence in ministerial education
  
• To promote excellence in the production of theological literature in our journal and members' publications.
• To foster exchange, fellowship and co-operation between member institutions and individuals.
• To foster exchange and fellowship between the Association and other associations with similar objectives and commitments.
• To strengthen the testimony of Jesus Christ and His Church in Europe and to bring glory to God in all actions and concerns.

The European Pentecostal Theological Association was founded in 1979 as a Fellowship of those actively engaged in Pentecostal education of ministerial training in Europe. Membership is open both to individuals and institutions who agree with EPTA's purposes and share its convictions. Many of Europe's finest Bible Colleges are members of EPTA.

Paul Alexander has been Chair of EPTA since the conference of 2006 in Finland. His duties lie in coordinating the conferences and facilitating the various members- both institutions and individuals - in any way that enhances the purposes of EPTA and its members.

He has a wide experience of global Christianity. After training as a young man at Mattersey Hall he managed, with his wife Carol, to travel the whole world for a year preaching before taking on a pastoral role at a church in Rotherham UK.  From there they returned to his native South Africa where Paul served in the chaplaincy of the armed forces for a required time and then took on the pastorate of Fairhavens Church in Johannesburg. Sensing there was more to his destiny than this he was led by God's Spirit to found the Africa School of World Mission in White River, near the northern borders of South Africa. Training people for global ministry has become his lifework and he has pursued it in Australia and America and now Europe. Still travelling widely to preach, encourage and promote mission, he has recently pioneered courses through Mattersey and the University of Wales, Bangor so undergraduates can train for practical mission away from the college and for postgraduate students to do a masters degree in Missional Leadership.

For Europe he trusts that he can facilitate other ministerial and mission training colleges to ensure that the increasingly secular European nations have opportunity to hear the Good News of God in relevant communication. He wishes to pioneer the development of innovative training, scholarly understanding and accessible learning in order to prepare people to plant churches, enter cross-cultural ministry or the workplace in such a way as to build churches and communities that truly show the life changing power of Jesus Christ.