Mattersey Hall is a ministry training college and the main training centre for the Assemblies of God of Great Britain. It is located in Mattersey, near Doncaster, in Nottinghamshire, England which is also the home of the National Ministry Centre of British Assemblies of God. It was founded in 1909 in London under the Pentecostal Missionary Union, becoming the official College of A.o.G. in 1951 in Kenley, Surrey. The College moved to its current site in 1973.
At BA level there is a choice of two degrees: Biblical Studies & Theology; or Christian Leadership. Masters, Doctor of Ministry and PhD courses are also available. The college also offers distance learning and part-time degree courses.
Additionally, under the leadership of past-Principal, Dr Paul Alexander and the present Principal, Dr Glenn Balfour, the Graduate School at Mattersey Hall has grown to over one hundred enrolled students. The Graduate School offers three Master's programs, the Doctor of Ministry degree and supervision for PhD candidates through the University of Chester. This makes the Graduate School at Mattersey Hall one of the largest of its kind in Europe.
Mattersey Hall also has a Distance Learning program offering certificate, diploma and validated degree courses and several hundred students are enrolled in these programs. Mattersey Hall boasts a highly qualified faculty making it the institution of choice for those preparing for Christian service.
The College is characterised by a commitment to both local and global mission.
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“When Western people train the mind, the focus is generally on the left hemisphere of the cortex, which is the portion of the brain that is concerned with words and numbers. We enhance the logical, bounded, linear functions of the mind. In the East, exercises of this sort are for the purpose of getting in tune with the unconscious—to get rid of boundaries, not to create them.”
—Edward T. Hall (b. 1914)