Annual Report Support Foundation St. Andrew’s Biblical Theological Institute 2015

Introduction

A support foundation has a clear aim: give support. That’s what we have done in the year 2015 toward St. Andrew’s Biblical Theological Institute. Support has many forms. An important one is to be in contact with key-persons which do the actual work. In this paper we give a short report about our activities and work in the year 2015. 

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Board and Board meetings

The composition of the Board has not changed in the year 2015. At the end of the year the following persons were members of the Board:

Mr. Wolfgang Lenz (Solingen, Germany) – chairman; 

Mr. Jaap van der Sar (Wageningen, Netherlands) – secretary;

Mr. Fred Bogaards (Wageningen, Netherlands) – treasurer. 

Mr. Alexei Bodrov, rector of St. Andrew’s Biblical Theological College, is advisor of the Board.

The members of the Board don’t receive any compensation for their work; they are committed to the work, which they all do on a voluntary basis. In general costs are covered by themselves.

In 2015 the Board has not met in person, especially due to illness of one of the Board members. However, there have been quite some exchanges between Board members about several themes, almost always directly in close contact with our advisor. 

The Board considers the way it has worked as effective and efficient.

Official Information

Name:        Stichting Steun St. Andrew’s Biblical Theological Institute

Address:    Veerweg 51

        NL – 6703 CN Wageningen

Telephone:    +31 (0)317 417774

E-mail:        jaapvandersar @ gmail.com 

Bank account:    NL76 RABO 0148567282

BIC: RABONL2U

Chamber of Commerce:  09182091

Fiscal number ANBI:    819357108

Support

In 2015 quite some time and efforts were given to continue the normal support for St. Andrew's. Additional activities were considered. However, no formal steps could be realised, like for instance an appointment as guest lecturer or researcher of one of the staff members of St. Andrew's at a college or university in Germany of the Netherlands. Although these options are scarce, it will not be out of mind for the support foundation in the next years. 

As a Support Foundation we are proud that we have been able to support the work of St. Andrew’s throughout some years. 

The work of the Support Foundation, also regarding the spending of the money, dealt with the work outside the home country. 

We would like to thank our donors as well as individuals, which have supported us in our work. We think about contacts at the Free University in Amsterdam (NL), at the office of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands, colleagues at several Protestant Academies in countries like Germany, Sweden, United Kingdom and more. It was an encouraging part of the support which could be generated for St. Andrew’s Biblical Theological College. 

We also would like to thank donors which supported our Foundation in the last year.

Developments

In 2015 the Board explored further opportunities for cooperation with universities and other institutes in different countries. No concrete results have been achieved. However, this will be an issue for further work in the upcoming years.

Wageningen, January 2016