Certification Program in Church Business Administration (NACBA)

The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity of the University of St. Thomas offers a certification program in church business administration. The program consists of two continuing education seminars, each two weeks in length, accredited by the National Association of Church Business Administration (NACBA), which established its guidelines. Interdenominational in nature, it is open to anyone who has or is seeking work experience in church business administration. The seminars cover topics on Personnel Human Resource Management, Staff Development, Congregational Leadership, Theology of Stewardship, Office Management, Information Management, Property Management, Strategic Planning, Financial Management, Stewardship of Self, Legal and Tax Matters, Christian Perspectives and Theology of Church and Theology of Church Administration.

For more information please visit our Web site: http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/lmcarrillo/NACBA/program.htm   

Jay Phillips Center for
Jewish-Christian Learning

The Jay Phillips Center for Jewish-Christian Learning was established in 1996 as a partnership between Saint John's University and the University of St. Thomas, two premier Catholic institutions of higher learning in Minnesota. Both institutions already had been recognized leaders in interfaith education, but this collaboration makes it possible for their individual programs in Jewish-Christian understanding to be mutually enhanced.

The center sponsors an active lecture and dialogue series with noted academicians, hosting distinguished leaders like William Cardinal Keeler and the late Rabbi Alexander Schindler, and sponsoring noteworthy visiting authors. In addition to a full schedule of classes at both universities, the center hosts week-long interfaith study workshops and brings scholars-in-residence to Christian and Jewish organizations, and congregations and to colleges and seminaries across the Twin Cities, as well as out-state Minnesota and Iowa. It supports significant work in Holocaust education, including sponsoring an annual trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and guest lectures and university courses on the Holocaust. The center makes extensive use of the Internet for circulation of its major addresses, and is affiliated with other centers devoted to Jewish-Christian relations, both throughout North America and in Europe.