Centre for leadership studies (CLS)

Founded in 2016, the Centre for Leadership Studies (CLS) is a research forum that brings academic rigor as well as ministerial perspectives into probing issues that are relevant and timely to the Chinese & Asian diaspora faith communities both in Canada and abroad from a Christian leadership perspective. The objective of the Centre is to initiate and facilitate such research and to disseminate its findings through publications and academic/ministerial events (e.g., conference, seminar, and symposium) that would foster healthy dialogue and sustainable learning of the critical issues that surface from the research among the Chinese diaspora churches.

Operating out of the overall structure of the Canadian Chinese School of Theology Calgary, the Centre partners with other theological institutions and other like-minded organizations in Canada and abroad to collaborate and share resources in the research endeavours. Such research engagements are multidisciplinary in nature and subscribe to a level of academic standards that would speak to both academic and ecclesiastical circles. In so doing, the Centre desires to be an institution that is Christ-centred with a Kingdom- focus that ultimately undergirds the research.