The Ministry Formation Certificate is a six-month, cohort-based program designed to equip pastors and ministry leaders for effective service in their local contexts. Through interactive learning, mentorship, and practical training, participants explore three key areas of formation: Personal, Communal, and Missional Ministry.

This is the full experience! It’s an entire weekend in the Tyndale community designed to give you a taste of being a student. Beginning Friday evening, guests are paired with host students and enjoy a fun event together. After spending the night in residence, the next day begins with a community breakfast to prepare you for the day, where you will discover program options, application information, and funding possibilities; explore the campus; and eat lunch with current students and faculty. Let us show you why Tyndale is the best place to learn, live, and grow!

This module will explore the different ways individuals, men and women express grief and adapt. We will examine the mourning traditions of different cultures and explore a number of different strategies to work through grief with the aim of increasing sensitive and understanding which we bring to the issue of death.

Disability, Theology and Spiritual Formation Certificate

This is an introductory program in Disability Theology. Students will examine the realities of living with a disability in contemporary society and their theological and spiritual implications. These modules will also delve into a practical theology regarding living and working with individuals with disabilities and their incorporation into our spiritual communities.

Spiritual Formation Certificate

Our decisions determine the path of our lives. When we follow the world's agenda, success is achieved by maximizing our performance, accumulating possessions and seeking positions of envy and influence. This approach to life stands in direct contrast to Paul's instruction; Do not be conformed to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is-his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2

“A Day in the Life” is a unique on-campus experience designed to give prospective students an authentic look at what it means to be a student at Tyndale University. Prospective undergraduate students will be paired with current students who will serve as hosts for the day.

Disability, Theology and Spiritual Formation Certificate

This is an introductory program in Disability Theology. Students will examine the realities of living with a disability in contemporary society and their theological and spiritual implications. These modules will also delve into a practical theology regarding living and working with individuals with disabilities and their incorporation into our spiritual communities.

Spiritual Formation Certificate

N.T. Wright has said, “Christian imagination rekindled by Scripture is vital to refresh our engagement with our contemporary culture.” The imagination is an important avenue for spiritual formation, but more than just a personal and private devotional practice, the imagination is the embodiment of hope. The imagination becomes a catalyst for living out the reality of the kingdom of God as an alternative to and a protest against adopting the culture that surrounds us.

This session offers an explanation of MAiD, enriched by an overview of its a) legal development (Criminal Code) and b) medical development (eligibility and safeguards and latest Health Canada report). It also introduces two tensions faced by clinicians and medical facilities: conscientious objection and the relationship between MAiD and other forms of end-of-life care, including palliative care.

This module will explore the nature of disenfranchised grief by understanding the language of grief and loss. Disenfranchised grief can include suicide, traumatic death, and other losses that are challenging to process because they are unacknowledged avoided or not legitimized. The second part of this module will provide training in setting up a support recovery group. This will include guidelines for groups, intake forms, the content of a good group, and learning to be a facilitator.