Nexus Point for Holistic Transformation in Jesus Christ

SARJ Schole is a strategic implementation of the Filipino Baptists Model of Transformational Leadership developed by Sergio A. Rojo, Jr. during the Doctor of Ministry in Transformational Leadership program at Bakke Graduate University(www.bgu.edu) in Seattle, Washington. There is a need to affirm the legacy of the Filipino Baptist leaders by cultivating and instilling the contextual core values of Jesus Christ's transformational leadership in both formal and non-formal mentoring.

Schole denotes principally as lecture, then, that for which leisure was employed, a disputation, lecture; hence, by metonymy, the place where lectures are delivered, a school. . .” While the Schole in the Biblical times was a place for lecture and discourse, SARJ Schole in the contemporary world is not only a place fort education and learning, it is as well a nexus point for groups of peoples, ideas, and understanding connected to each others for holistic transformation of human life and relationship based on the life and teaching of Jesus Christ.

SARJ Schole subscribesto the conviction that leaders play a major role for the church of Jesus Christ to function effectively in carrying out the mandate of preaching the Gospel and bringing peoples of God to maturity.Research shows however that, Evangelical theological schools and seminaries in the Philippines could only produce an average of 1,000 graduates every year vis-a- vis the 8,000 trained pastors needed each year for churches in this region.

The SARJ Schole was incorporated in accordance with the Corporation Code of the Philippines under SEC Registry No. CN200528083 dated June 17, 2005. The Bureau of Internal Revenue issued the Schole a Tax Identification Number: 006-002-457 dated July 1, 2005.

SARJ Schole envisions: Contextual People Who Are Living Out the Transformational Leadership of Jesus Christ.

SARJ Schole is committed: to Educating Peoples in the Holistic Transformation of Jesus Christ.

SARJ Schole distinctivesare linked together by a set of espoused values such as call of God (Bahala na ang Dios), compassionate (Kalu-oy; Maayong Kabubut-on) and service-oriented (Bayanihan spirit) life, missiological (Bugsay Padulong sa Kaginhawaan) and ecumenical (Baranganic model) approaches to leadership.

SARJ Schole designs the teaching-learning environment to be collegial. The student attending the Schole will not only mimic the teachings of the mentor-transformational leader but will also serve as companion of the mentor in learning and in growing up to the life, works, and teachings of Jesus Christ. This approach calls for both the mentor and the mentee to commit (bug-os nga paghatag sang kabuhi) themselves to each other and to grow together in their being disciples of Jesus Christ. They become fellow sojourners in Christ with a view of increasing competence and commitment to the works of His calling.