VIVIAN TICA
Administrative Assistant Peace Studies
TEACHING AREAS
- Christian Motherhood topics, Partners in Ministry
EDUCATION
- MA in Social and Community Psychology
Ateneo de Manila University - BA in Psychology
Ateneo de Manila University
Vivian Tica has been a Christian worker with Higher Ground Baptist Missions since 1990. She taught English at Higher Ground Bible College from 1990 to 2010 as well as Journalism and Creative Writing at Higher Ground Baptist Academy, where her students and their school paper won writing contests from district to national levels. She currently serves at IGSL as administrative director of the PhD in Peace Studies program.
She took the Partners in Ministry course at IGSL and graduated in 2008, after which she became co-teacher for the Christian Motherhood class from 2009 to 2012. Since she came back in 2019 with her family from the US, she has been co-teaching with other PIM faculty in Biblical Womanhood and Becoming True Partner in Ministry classes. She has attended seminars like “Raising Gifted Kids”, “Teaching Singapore Math”, “Raising Children in This Digital Age”, “Educational Psychology for Middle School Aged Children”, and “Coding for Today’s Kids.” As a high school and elementary school teacher, she has also attended various seminars in teaching journalism.
Vivian has written more than 40 academic textbooks and trade books for children published by National Book Store, Anvil Publishing, Merryland Publishing, Academic Publishing, and other publishing companies. She also evaluated textbooks to assess if they fit the curriculum.
Vivian loves singing gospel songs, listening to classical music, and reading devotionals by Cynthia Heald and Francine Rivers. She is fascinated with historical fiction and creative non-fiction. Research and studies in psychology and education are some of the other readings she enjoys.
She considers herself very approachable and her background in psychology helps her sense people’s needs. Vivian is a hands-on mom, and she encourages her children to do creative stuff like singing, playing musical instruments, and writing poems, essays, or stories. She is married to Nimrod Tica, and the Lord has blessed them with four daughters—Caasi, Ivy, Pia, and Reigne.