Last February 18 to 21, the East and Southeast Asia Team of the “No More Project” met at Tagaytay City, Philippines for a writing retreat as they together worked on contextualized material for various audiences.
The team is expected to produce the following output:
- A handbook for the Accreditation Association in the Region, and for this case, it is the ATA;
- An Institutional Adaptation Guide;
- A Faculty Development course (with guidebook, digital lessons, videos);
- Curriculum for Seminarians and Pastors (with guidebook, digital lessons, and videos);
- Curriculum for Local Congregations (with guidebook, digital lessons, and videos).
As can be seen in the expected output, the project has four intended audiences:
- Regional Associations;
- Seminary faculty and administrators;
- Seminarians and Pastors; and
- Local church communities.
The Writing Retreat was brief but rich and very productive. The team not only had the chance to have focused time to work on their assigned tasks but were likewise given the opportunity to review each other’s work and provide feedback. Each one sharpened each other’s work and shared ideas that could possibly make the material better suited for the intended audience.
The “No More Project” is “an international, collaborative endeavor organized by an international steering committee and global working group, receiving institutional support from Scholar Leaders to address the issue of sexual abuse (ranging from harassment to assault) in churches and institutions of higher theological education around the world.”