You are cordially invited to Mukhanyo's opening ceremony to commemorate the start of the academic year. Dr Michael Barrett from the USA will deliver to addresses.

OUR SPEAKER
Dr. Michael Bar­rett is Vice President for Academic Affairs/Academic Dean and Professor of Old Testament at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. He is a min­is­ter in the Heritage Reformed Congregations. For­merly, Dr. Bar­rett served as pres­i­dent of Geneva Reformed Sem­i­nary. He earned his doc­tor­ate in Old Tes­ta­ment Text with a spe­cial focus on Semitic lan­guages.
His dis­ser­ta­tion was titled “A Method­ol­ogy for Inves­ti­gat­ing the Trans­la­tion Philoso­phies and Tech­niques of the Sep­tu­agint.” For almost thirty years, he was pro­fes­sor of Ancient Lan­guages and Old Tes­ta­ment The­ol­ogy and Inter­pre­ta­tion at Bob Jones Uni­ver­sity. Dr. Bar­rett had an active role in the min­istry of the Free Pres­by­ter­ian Church until his coming to PRTS. He is a mem­ber of the Evan­gel­i­cal The­o­log­i­cal Soci­ety and has pub­lished numer­ous arti­cles in both pro­fes­sional and pop­u­lar jour­nals. He contributed to and served as Old Testament editor for The Reformation Heritage KJV Study Bible.
Dr. Bar­rett and his wife San­dra have two sons and five grandchildren. Dr. Barrett’s hob­bies include hunt­ing and think­ing about hunting.

​BOOKS: 
Christian books will be for sale. Cash purchases only.

Date: Saturday 6 January 2018

Programme:
9:00 -  10:00 Who was Adam and why does it matter?
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00 Q & A

Speaker: Dr. William VanDoodewaard 
Dr. William VanDoodewaard is Professor of Church History at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. He has held appointments as Visiting Research Fellow in the School of History and Anthropology at Queen’s University Belfast and Visiting Scholar at Princeton Theological Seminary for his ongoing work in the history of biblical interpretation. Prior to coming to PRTS, Dr. VanDoodewaard taught at Patrick Henry Col­lege, near Washington, D.C., and at Huntington University in Indiana. He has written for Books & Culture, The Journal of British Studies, Themelios, Puritan Reformed Journal, Westminster Theological Journal, and online at The Gospel Coalition and Reformation21. He is also a contributor to a number of books, and the author of three: 1 & 2 Peter: Feed My Sheep (Welwyn Commentary Series), The Quest for the Historical Adam, and The Marrow Controversy and Seceder Tradition. Dr. VanDoodewaard is an ordained minister who has served as a church planter

Venue: Brackenhurst Baptist Church
76 Roy Campbell Street
Corner Hennie Alberts
Brackenhurst, Alberton, 1448
South Africa
GPS co-ordinates: -26.31395, 28.09701

Fee: Free of charge

Refreshments will be provided
RSVP for catering purposes: Stuart Chase church@bbcmail.co.za