Second 8th Week Ministries, Inc.

Second 8th Week Ministries, Inc. is a non-profit 501 (C)(3) corporation founded by Drs. Eric and Maria vonAnderseck in 2003.  Second 8th Week Ministries has made significant humanitarian advancements in 3 years, building an international infrastructure of staff trained to fulfill the philanthropic, scientific research and educational goals of developing a Global Culture of Community Wellness.  To date the staff has donated over $4 million dollars in pro bono volunteerism in service to their communities and fellowmen with the faith-based education services the corporation provides through its Distance Learning University and its affiliate colleges.

Second 8th Week Ministries, Inc. corporate global focus:

• To provide critical faith-based skills for the improvement of quality of life for individuals and communities by access to accredited education services at no cost.

• To advance the scientific research on quality of life and its psychological, educational and spiritual prohibitory and facilitating factors.

• To professionally train and equip staff for faith-based leadership roles in international communities to advance education and improve quality of life.

• To network with other philanthropic groups and synergize resources for support of humanitarian advancements with free Choice Education services.

• To provide accreditation services for educational institutions desiring to offer the Choice Education program.

• To increase awareness of the empirical evidence of quality of life enhancements that are systemically oriented to the accredited faith-based Choice Education program offered by the corporation.

• To bridge science and theology by engaging trans-disciplinary researchers in observational studies of S8W Choice Education program and its impact on individual and community quality of life.

• To build on the scientific achievements in Intelligent Design for Christ-Centered Spiritual Transformation by Dr. E.W.B. vonAnderseck and promote global awareness of IDCCST knowledge for community wellness in the following fields:
   

  • Psychology:  Understanding the intelligent design of the soul and its need for integrated experiences with Jesus Christ for spiritual transformation to causally produce mental and emotional wellness.

  • Sociology:  Understanding the dynamic interface between ownership of community social transformation and Choice Education in Intelligent Design for Christ-Centered Spiritual Transformation.

  • Neuroscience:  Understanding the intelligent design of the human signature and the neurological implications as it plays out in life for individuality and diversity, as well as the impact of IDCCST knowledge spheres upon the signature that produce wellness virtues yet do not prohibit individual uniqueness.

  • Theology:  Understanding the amalgamation of knowledge spheres endemic to the Second Covenant causally producing IDCCST and human and community wellness.

  • Hermeneutics:  Understanding the principles of IDCCST that facilitate successful reconciliation with God and sustained reciprocation of His virtues.

  • Pneumatology:  Understanding the intelligent design spiritual entities that work with the soul via design compatibility and design incompatibility tools to either prohibit or facilitate IDCCST for human and community wellness.

  • Phenomenology:  Understanding phenomenological patterns as it relates to intuition, reason, cognition, conscience and faith and how IDCCST education in pattern recognition successfully removes faith exploitation and Exigent Faith symptoms and behaviors.

  • Epistemology:  Understanding the etiology and physiology of self-verifying knowledge patterns non-indigenous to Jesus Christ that produce symptoms of Exigent Faith and the etiology and physiology of knowledge spheres evaluating to Jesus Christ that produce Cognitive Faith and the sustained production of IDCCST.

  • Philosophy:  Understanding how knowledge spheres endemic to the Second Covenant of Jesus Christ follow the correspondence theory of philosophy, referencing the soul to God for IDCCST virtue production and community wellness.

  • Christology:  Understanding the culture of God's truth encapsulated in Jesus Christ and how it produces the likeness of Jesus Christ in the soul through IDCCST when disseminated through accredited knowledge stewards.

  • Theodicy:  Understanding how the Etiology of God, the Atrium of Time, Themistic Law, and Event Theology 1, 2, and 3 define humanities' origin, purpose and destiny as they exercise their sovereignty with good or evil.