Leadership
St. Trivelius Institute is governed by a board of directors. The members of the board are united in a common conviction, and are responsible for ensuring the mission and vision of the school are maintained, and for holding staff accountable. The function of the board pertains to financial, legal, and spiritual matters. The present board members include:
Dr. David Sveen
Robert Faber
Stoyan Lalev
Staff
Rector: Rev. Prof. Parush R. Parushev
Dean of Theology: Dr. Daniel Patterson
Dean of Christian Counselling: Dr. Kameliya Slavcheva
Administrator: Bilyana Nedyalkova
Faculty
PROF. MILCHO ANGELOV
Qualifications: Master’s Degree (Sofia Technical University); PhD and Habilitation (Technical Sciences, Pedagogy)
Subjects Taught: Christian Education (and ‘Introduction to the Specialty’?)
REBECCA FABER
Qualifications: BA (British Literature, Teaching, Wheaton College); MA (Theology, Wheaton College); MA (Linguistics, Wheaton College); PhD candidate (Patristics, Sofia University)
Subjects Taught: Church history
ROBERT FABER
Qualifications: BA (English, Dartmouth College); MA (Theology, Wheaton College)
Subjects Taught: Old Testament; Archaeology
LUBCHO KOLEVSKI
Subjects Taught: Church History; History of Cults and Religions; History of Christianity in Bulgaria; Introduction to Eastern Orthodoxy
DR. GARY LAYNE
Qualifications: Advanced discipleship counsellor training (Grace Ministries International); Doctorate Causa (St Trivelius Institute)
Subjects Taught: Pastoral Care; Counselling – the Counselling Process; Depression, homosexuality, and the church; Marriage counselling; Suicide; Peace – how to protect and guard the heart and mind; Emotional intelligence; Anxiety and grief; Life through faith; Sexual violence, co-dependence, guilt, and shame; Parenting training
ASSOC. PROF. PARUSH PARUSHEV
Qualifications: BS/MS, PhD (Scs); M.Div.; PhD (Th)
Subjects Taught: New Testament; History of Philosophy; Ethics; Critical Thinking
DR. DANIEL PATTERSON
Qualifications: B.Ed. (JCU Townsville Queensland); M.Ed. (JCU Townsville Queensland); M.Div. (TTC, Perth, Australia); MA (Nottingham UK); PhD (Aberdeen UK)
Subjects Taught: Systematic theology; Hermeneutics; Homiletics; Theology of the Reformation
PROF. DR. JOHANNES REIMER
Subjects Taught: Pastoral Care; Missiology
DR. KAMELIA SLAVCHEVA
Qualifications: Master of Law; PhD (Theology, Sofia University)
Subjects Taught: Foundations of law; Human rights and religious freedoms; Counselling
DR. VENTSI STOIKOV
Subjects Taught: New Testament Studies
DR. NADYA STOIKOVA
Qualifications: Bachelor in Social work; Masters in Social Work Management (Sofia University); PhD (Social Work and Pedagogy, Sofia University)
Subjects Taught: Counselling
YULIA UBEYVOLK
Qualifications: B.Th. (Saint-Petersburg Christian University); Licentiate in Psychology (Moldavian State Pedagogical University); Master in Psychology (Moldavian State Pedagogical University
Subjects Taught: Counselling – Art Therapy in Practice; How to Restore What is Broken; How to not destroy myself; Practical Help for Refugees
ASSOC. PROF. TODOR VELCHEV
Qualifications: PhD
Subjects Taught: Old Testament; Archaeology; Apologetics; Communications and Mass Media; Christianity and Culture
CRAIG WEYRENS
Qualifications: BS (Mathematics, California Polytechnic State University); MA (Global Leadership, Fuller Theological Seminary)
Subjects Taught: Old Testament Interpretation; Evangelism; Discipleship