Tyndale Chapel Podcast

In this week’s Community Chapel, Dr. Miriam Charter invites listeners to her message entitled “A Hinge Moment in Life” from Acts Chapter 13.

Dr. Miriam Charter is a seasoned storyteller and describes herself as a woman of three passions:

1. Those in our world who, through no fault of their own, have never heard of Jesus
2. Those in our world who suffer intensely for their faith, because they are willing to be known as followers of Jesus
3. The next generation – equipping and mentoring those who will lead the Body of Christ in the next decades

In her retirement, Miriam is a mission practitioner, speaker, and mission mobilizer based in Calgary. She has a pronounced calling to the nations, which began with her birth in China under Communism. She continues to champion the local church, serves on the Global Impact Team at her local church, teaches Alpha and ESL to newcomers to Canada, mentors young adults, and has a special commitment to mentoring women in ministry.

We are excited to bring you the final installment of our Black History Month series, featuring BET's chapel. BET (Black Educators of Tyndale) is a student organization at our university that works to empower and uplift the Black community both on and off campus.

This week's chapel features Debby Kumoi, a renowned community leader who has been involved in grassroots community work for years. She has collaborated with many great partners, including Toronto Carnival, and is a member of the Black Community Consultive Network Committee under Toronto Police. 

Abide – Prayer with Lizzie Reynolds. These bi-weekly podcasts offer listeners a chance to reflect and pray meditatively on passages of Scripture related to I and II Samuel.

This week’s Community Chapel is connected to Student Life and the Centre of Academic Excellence’s job fair. Becky Cripps shares her message about working together in fellowship as believers from the book of Acts 2 verses 42 to 47.

Becky Cripps is the Program Director at Muskoka Bible Centre.

Abide – Prayer with Lizzie Reynolds. These bi-weekly podcasts offer listeners a chance to reflect and pray meditatively on passages of Scripture related to I and II Samuel.

In this week’s Community Chapel, Dr. Sarah Han, Assistant Professor, Pastoral Ministry shares her message entitled “Go and do likewise”, inviting listeners to explore the Parable of the Good Samaritan from Luke 10 Chapter 10 verses 25 to 37. 

Dr. Sarah Han considers herself to be a "third culture" Canadian-Korean-Chinese and her formative theology was shaped on the mission field abroad. She has provided leadership in the Canadian immigrant church context for over a decade and has diverse experience in the Canadian public and private sectors. Dr. Han's vocational commitment and theological passion are to critically observe and reflect on how ecclesiology shapes and informs missiology and her research focuses on an intercultural, intergenerational, missional ecclesiology for Canada. Sarah and her husband along with their three children live in the GTHA.

In this week’s Community Chapel, Lisa Oppitz offers a message entitled “Gentleness as a Response to Anxiety” and shares her reflections from the book of Philippians 4 verse 5. 

Lisa Oppitz started her Tyndale journey nine years ago this month. She completed her MDiv in Clinical Counselling in 2019 and has been with the Tyndale Wellness Centre since then working with both student and community clients, and now as an assistant supervisor with Tyndale intern therapists. Lisa remains deeply committed to the integration of theology, psychology and psychotherapy and will be speaking on the intersection of personal and relational gentleness as a response to anxiety.

Abide – Prayer with Lizzie Reynolds and Dr. Heather Birch begins again this Wednesday, January 18, but unlike last term when we gathered on campus, this semester’s “Abide – Prayer” is in podcast format. The podcast will be available every second Wednesday in the morning through the term. These bi-weekly podcasts offer listeners a chance to reflect and pray meditatively on passages of Scripture related to I and II Samuel.

In this week’s Community Chapel. Kevin White shares his message entitled Dreaming with the King and invites listeners to explore Isaiah 40 verses 3 to 5.

Pastor Kevin White,  an alumnus of Tyndale Seminary (MDiv), is currently Pastor of Youth Ministries at Cornerstone Christian Community Church in Markham where he has served since 2007. He tells us that “I’ve loved being a Youth Pastor since 2000 and Lord willing will retire as a Youth Pastor”. Kevin is a talented and creative communicator and will speak to us about the influence of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his life.