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Rick Mast did his undergraduate work at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. During this time Rick also lived in, and traveled throughout Israel for one year.
After graduation he was employed in private industry as a Contract Administrator for three years. Rick then moved into sales with another firm, and liked sales so much he began his own business which is still in existence today. A shift in vocation was brought about by a firm, even stubborn, sense of calling into the Christian Reformed Church within youth ministry (in those days, barely organized religion). Rick devoted his life to this vocation in two congregations, for a total of twenty-seven years. During this time he made nine life-changing, trans-formative pilgrimages to the Iona Island Community in Scotland with senior high school students. Rick loves to ski, back-country and steeps. He is an avid hiker and biker. He also is keen to identify the ways in which contemporary culture and the biblical story enliven and bolster understanding of each other. Rick enjoys conversations around the biblical story, specifically about a). the inner connections within science through Space, Time and the Incarnation, and b). the essential, unavoidable relationship between knowing and believing - "I believe in order to understand". Rick is delighted to have been appointed by the Christian Reformed Church in collaboration with the University of Alberta as a full-time campus minister. Rick Mast, like his predecessors Rick VanManen and Tom Oosterhuis before him, believes that Christians may be called by God into academic life. God may be freely pursued in every academic discipline. In response to this call, Christian students, faculty and staff bear witness to the love of God and the hope of the kingdom by being faithful stewards of their intellect and loving participants in the life of the University of Alberta. |
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