• North
Park Theological Seminary’s link to its partner SCUPE
• SCUPE
- Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education
• Good News for the City –– Speakers and
Sponsors
• About the Conference Sponsors:
Chicago Theological
Seminary's Center for Community Transformation MidAmerica Leadership Foundation
• About Ray Bakke–– Senior Associate for Large Cities with the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelism
• Northwest
Graduate School of Ministry & Ray Bakke
• WEF’s
Interdev [Randy Bridges] at Northwest Graduate School of Ministry –– Collaborative
Partnerships for City Transformation
Syllabus
• Multnomah’s
International Renewal Ministries and Interdev's Randy Bridges
North Park Theological Seminary
Links
[North Park is an ATS member]
Seminary Affiliations
Listing includes:
• SCUPE North Park partners
with the Seminary Consortium for Urban
Pastoral Education (SCUPE) to offer students training and experience in urban
ministry
Note: The NPTS LINKS page is
maintained by Eric Pement who is “currently attending North Park Theological
Seminary”:
“Please send any comments about or problems with this site
to pemente@northpark.edu
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This site
is maintained by Eric Pement.
Last
updated: June 14, 2001
Pement is president and board
member of EMNR. See: http://www.emnr.org/board.htm
Pement and EMNR are Facilitators
of the Lausanne Consultation on World Evangelization.
EMNR requires their members
to sign the Lausanne Covenant.
SCUPE — Seminary
Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education
The Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education (SCUPE) was created in 1976* to meet the city’s need for experienced pastors with training in urban issues and systems. For twenty-five years, SCUPE has partnered with churches, academic institutions, denominations, and community agencies to provide this training and experience.
[Editor's Note: Ray Bakke, co-founder of SCUPE,
was the contact to Big Cities for the Lausanne Consultation on World Evangelization. See below.]
The breadth of SCUPE's vision is
reflected in its mission statement:
The
Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education develops leaders and provides consultation
and educational resources for individuals, educational institutions, churches,
and agencies that seek to enhance the spiritual, social, and physical quality
of life for those who live in the city.
SCUPE offers a number of
educational and consultational programs to serve the needs of urban pastors,
churches, denominations, seminaries, community development organizations, and
other urban ministries.
·
We offer contextualized theological education, training in community development,
consultation in urban ministry, publications, a resource center, and a biennial
Congress
on Urban Ministry. <<<<By clicking this link, you arrive at the Good News for the City conference.
Conference info, below.
[abbreviated for purposes of this
report]
Congress Co-Chairs
•Michael Mata - Claremont
School of Theology Center [ATS member]
•Britt Minshall - Cathedral
Church of St. Matthew
[World Relief is an affiliate of
the National Association of Evangelicals/NAE,
regional member of the World
Evangelical Fellowship/WEF]
Robert Franklin - President, Interdenominational Theological Center [ATS member], Atlanta, GA
Curtiss DeYoung - Twin Cities
Urban Reconciliation Network
Altagracia Perez - Episcopal
Church of St. Philip the Evangelist
Cain Hope Felder - Howard
University School of Divinity [ATS member]
Tony Campolo - Eastern College [ATS member] Wayne,
PA [See:
Biblical
Discernment Ministries]
Jesse Jackson, Jr. – Representative, U.S. Congress; son of Jesse Jackson, Sr. [CFR member]
Good News for
the City Sponsors
[abbreviated for purposes of this
report]
Silver Anniversary Sponsors
• Lilly Endowment, Inc.
• Opportunities Industrialization
Centers
Congress Sponsors
• Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Community of Christ / RLDS [Mormon]
• Fourth Presbyterian Church,
Chicago
• Presbyterian Church USA
Supporting Sponsors
• Chicago Theological Seminary [ATS member] [see below]
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America--Division for Outreach
• Lutheran School of Theology at
Chicago [ATS
member]
• McCormick Theological Seminary [ATS member]
• United Church Board for Homeland
Missions
• United Methodist Church--General
Board of Global Ministries
Contributing Sponsors
• CityVoices [Ray Bakke, co-founder, see below]
• Hoogendoorn Talbot Davids
Godfrey & Milligan
• MidAmerica Leadership Foundation
[see below]
About the Sponsors of Good News in the City
Created in 1937, Lilly Endowment
Inc. is a private philanthropic foundation based in Indianapolis, IN. It supports the causes of religion, education,
and community development, and it is interested in initiatives that
benefit youth,* foster leadership
education among nonprofit institutions, and promote the causes of philanthropy and volunteerism. While the
Endowment's grantmaking focuses primarily on Indiana, it also provides funding
for programs that are national in scope…
Lilly’s
Investment in Youth –– Search
Institute
See Major Current Funders at bottom of Search Institute's About Search web page.
Lilly plays a significant role in
the funding of grants to the Association
of Theological Schools/ATS:
Lilly
Theological Research Grants 2001-2002
The Lilly Theological Research
Grants are designed to aid the scholarship and publication of faculty members at
ATS schools. The program encourages scholarly research that:
* contributes
to theological education,
* informs
the life of the church,
* develops a greater public voice for
theology in society,
* collaborates with other academic
disciplines,
* offers new perspectives on Christianity in
a pluralistic setting.
…The program of Lilly Theological Research Grants is supported by Lilly Endowment Inc. All decisions regarding the selection of fellows and grantees
will be made by the Association upon recommendation from its Advisory Committee
to the program…
Advisory
Committee [all ATS members]
Barbara E. Bowe,
Catholic Theological Union
B. Barry Levy, McGill
University Faculty of Religious Studies
Larry I. Rasmussen,
Union Theological Seminary
R. Scott Rodin,
Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary
Edward P. Wimberly,
Interdenominational Theological Center
Sponsor of Good News in the City…
Sponsor of Good News in the City…
Chicago Theological Seminary's Center for
Community Transformation
More Lily Endowment…
In 1998, Lilly Endowment Inc. awarded CTS a grant of $1.5 million to fund a bold
and experimental approach to theological education called "The
Center for Community Transformation."
Growing from years of curricular work by faculty, students, and alumni/ae, and
translated into real design, processes, and dollars with the help of
extraordinarily committed trustees, the center's mission is to discover new
ways to prepare transformative leaders for transformative communities.
At the core of this five-year research project is the conviction that there
can and must be a much deeper partnership between theological education and
communities of transformation which are already working successfully to
bring about greater justice and mercy, healing, health, and vitality. We believe that theological education
itself can and must be transformed. The grant provides funds for three new faculty appointments to be assigned
to the project: Bible and Ministry, Mission and Evangelism, and Social
Sciences. These new faculty will join our present faculty in learning and teaching with community
partners - congregations, health-care providers, business and financial
leaders, grass-roots leaders, community service organizations - and what they
learn together will impact the core of our M.Div. curriculum. Also
supported by the grant are the Director, Deborah Haffner; Assistant Director,
Lori Taylor; and Associate Director of Major Gifts, Constance Lee; and the
students selected to participate in the project.
This is, indeed, a research
project. We will begin, therefore, with one partner site for school year '00
-'01, then expand to two sites the next year, and three sites the final year.
By the end of the project we believe we
will have not only new wine, but new wineskins to hold it. There are, of
course, many issues to be faced and obstacles to be overcome in such a new
undertaking. Whatever the practical
problems are, however, the greatest challenges will be to our faith, and in the
days ahead we will often need to walk by faith, not by sight. For this
reason, we shall have to return again
and again to the resurrection witness of the Church. [emphasis added]
Sponsor of Good News in the City…
MidAmerica Leadership Foundation
• Community Programs: Incubator of
emerging ministries.
• Community and Economic
Development: Asset-based approach
leading low-income individuals to self-sufficiency.
• America's Promise: Youth-focused development between America's Promise, the Council of
Leadership Foundations and Search Institute.
[See Character Education for Race Betterment: The Bohemian Grove, Colin Powell & America’s Promise]
Contributing Sponsor for Good News to the City…
City
Voices [Ray
Bakke, co-founder of SCUPE, above]
Connecting the
Urban World
Increased expectations and limited
resources are the dual realities facing America's city churches. Never before
have we had the opportunities to impact our communities and change individual
lives as we do right now. Urban
congregations need the right resources [Editor: such as federal funding through Faith-Based Welfare Reform??] and networks to carry
out their mission, and that's what CityVoices is all about!
Through CityVoices, thousands of
churches now have the opportunity to exchange workable solutions to everyday
ministry issues. In joining the CityVoices
network…
ARTICLES &
WRITINGS | RAY BAKKE'S BIO | INTERNATIONAL URBAN ASSOCIATES
Dr. Raymond J.
Bakke Biographical information
Raymond J. Bakke is Executive
Director of International Urban
Associates (IUA). IUA animates a
network of more than 100 urban-based church and mission leaders in many of the
largest cities of the world, the result of more than 250 major urban
consultations in those and other cities since 1979. Through resourcing,
networking and mentoring Dr. Bakke’s ministry touches countless people every
year. Doctoral students and Senior Associates actively involved in ministry all
over the world are the beneficiaries of Ray Bakke’s mentoring, through e-mail,
his books and his presence.
From 1959 through 1979 Ray
pastored inner-city churches in Seattle and Chicago. During that time he also co-founded the Seminary
Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education (SCUPE) and taught Bible at Trinity College and Church History at
McCormick Theological Seminary [ATS member]. Between 1979 and 1989 he served as Professor of Ministry at
Northern Baptist Theological Seminary [ATS member], and presently he is Professor of Global Urban Ministry at
Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary [ATS member] in Philadelphia. [Bakke
is on the EBTS faculty with Tony Campolo and Ron Sider (Evangelicals for Social Action).] He
served as Senior Associate for Large
Cities with the Lausanne Committee
for World Evangelism from 1979 to 1995.
Dr. Bakke has personally led or
served as a major resource leader for
urban ministry consultations in more than 200 large cities on six continents.
He is author of The Urban Christian
(InterVarsity Press, 1987), a
groundbreaking book on urban ministry, which has been translated into seven
foreign languages. He is a collaborative author of Espoir Pour La Ville, Dieu
Dans La Cite, the first book of its kind done in and for French-speaking
cities. He is also a theme editor for the
Word in Life Study Bible (Thomas Nelson, 1996). Ray’s two most recent
publications are A Theology as Big as
the City (InterVarsity Press, 1997), The
Expanded Mission of City Center Churches (International Urban Associates,
1998), which he co-authored with Sam Roberts, and A BIBLICAL WORD FOR AN URBAN
WORLD (Board of International Ministries, 2000), which contains a series of
Bible studies that both inspire and direct the reader to come to the texts in
ways that bring engagement in Christian mission from a global perspective. [emphasis added]
Home | About CityVoices | © 2000
CityVoices
Alliance Member Gospel Communications
Network (Gospelcom.net)
Report problems to roger@CityVoices.com.
Note that Ray Bakke of City
Voices is member of the Gospelcom.net Alliance.
>>> http://www.gospelcom.net/cv/ <<<
Ray
Bakke is/was a featured speaker at Lausanne’s
Chinese Congress on World Evangelization [CCOWE, July 2001,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia]
Ray Bakke imparts a vision of the Global City to the Northwest
Bakke is on the faculty for the Northwest Graduate School of Ministry
in the Seattle, WA region.
Overlake Christian Church’s Northwest Graduate School of Ministry/NGSM
A
catalogue for the NGSM (based at Overlake Church), lists the NGSM faculty,
including several prominent names in Christian leadership:
·
W. Ward Gasque, the president of the Pacific Association for Theological Studies
(aka Fuller Theological Seminary's Theological Extension Education [TEE] offering courses in Seattle. Gasque was
co-founder of Regent College [ATS member], Canada.)
·
Jack Dennison [Doctor of Ministry from Fuller
Theological Seminary] founder and president of CitiReach, which works closely with George Otis, Jr.’s Sentinel Group. He was formerly North
American regional coordinator for DAWN
Ministries [DAWN’s founder was Donald
McGavran of Fuller Seminary. DAWN was the precursor to CitiReach]. Dennison was previously on the faculty of Multnomah Biblical Seminary's Pastoral
Theology Department teaching Church Growth and Leadership Development [ATS member].
·
Joseph Fuiten, pastor of the local Cedar Park Assemblies of God [AOG] church
and president of the Christian lobbyist org. WERG [Washington Evangelicals for
Responsible Government]––helped to lobby with Focus on the Family and World
Vision for Faith-Based Welfare
Reform legislation in WA state.
Adjunct
professors:
·
George Sweeting, the former president of Moody Bible Institute and a featured
speaker at Billy Graham’s Amsterdam 2000.
·
Glenn Wagner, former Vice President and Pastor-at-Large for “the international
Promise Keepers.”
OCC's Northwest Graduate
School
offers a Master of Theological Studies or a Doctor of Ministry in a “Four
Course Concentration” that is aligned with the George Otis/Sentinel Group's Transformations I and II videos:
·
City
Transformation Strategies [teacher Jack Dennison of CitiReach]
·
Spiritual
Factors in City Transformation [teachers George Otis of the Sentinel
Group and Tom White of Frontline
Ministries & Multnomah’s Int’l. Renewal Ministries]
·
Leading
Congregational Transformation
·
Collaborative
Partnerships.
Another
“Four Course Concentration” is offered in
Transformational Leadership for Ministry in the Global City and is taught
by teachers including:
· Dr. Raymond Bakke of International Urban
Associates
[a featured speaker at the upcoming Lausanne Chinese Congress on World
Evangelization [CCOWE, July 2001, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia]
·
Ward Gasque of Fuller Seminary who is the North American Coordinator for the
Doctor of Ministry in Transformational Leadership and co-founder of Regent
College, Vancouver, Canada.
World Evangelical
Fellowship/Lausanne’s Interdev: Contribution to City Transformation…
NORTHWEST
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF THE MINISTRY SYLLABUS
COURSE TITLE: Collaborative Partnerships for City Transformation
DATE: June 19-22, 2001
INSTRUCTOR: Randy Bridges, Ph.D.
Dr. Randy Bridges is the Director of City
Ministries at Interdev* [see note below] in Seattle, Washington. He is responsible for the training and development of faith based ministry partnerships
working with multiple cities in the U.S. and Canada. He is the convening partner of the City Impact
Roundtable, a partnership dedicated to the learning and acceleration of
citywide partnership process. His experience includes: pastoring for 28
years, ten years as a city leader in Tacoma, Washington, and the directing and facilitating of Leadership
Consultations for International
Renewal Ministries [see below]
(based
at Multnomah Biblical Seminary [ATS member], see below). Randy has been married to
Marcia for 29 years and his son has recently graduated from
About Interdev:
•Interdev is a member of the
Lausanne/AD2000 Resource Networks (Tracks) & Task Forces.
AD2000 Track –– Partnership
Development Chairperson : Phill Butler, Interdev.
•Butler also serves on the
AD 200 Prayer Track under the direction of C. Peter Wagner.
•In 1994 Brian O'Connell, representing the World Evangelical Fellowship/WEF was on
the steering committee which wrote Evangelicals & Catholics Together I/ ECT
I.
However, in 1997, O'Connell, appearing on the steering
committee for Evangelicals & Catholics Together II/ ECT II, represented Interdev.
•Interdev [Randy Bridges] is
an Associate Member of the World Evangelical Fellowship/WEF.
Seattle Pacific University/SPU
The
new president for InterVarsity Christian
Fellowship, replacing IVCF's Steve Hayner, is a professor from SPU, Alex Hill.
Returning to Interdev's Collaborative Partnerships for City
Transformation Syllabus…
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The
course is designed to give the student a working knowledge of Missional Unity.
The course will deal fully with the development
of “ministry partnerships” and collaborative processes by covering
theology, definitions, theory, leadership styles, leadership skills and stages of partnership development. It is the intent of this
course to bring the student to a point where “partnering”
becomes a new paradigm and theoretical framework for the work of ministry.
OBJECTIVES
Upon
the completion of this course the student will be able to:
1. Define and use the language of collaborative
ministry
2. Evaluate and critic the process of partnership
development over time.
3. Understand leadership skills needed for true
partnership.
4. Identify the stage and crisis points of the
partnering process.
5. Clearly communicate a theology of Missional
Unity.
6. Plan and carry out partnering strategies.
REQUIREMENTS OF THE COURSE
1. Reading
Assignment: …
2. Course Project:
Submit
a final written project reflecting how the course
information will be used to develop a ministry partnership in the future…
[Here's
the list of texts which spell out the formula for City Transformation; the Bible not being a primary source:]
REQUIRED READING (1162 pages)
Bennis,
Warren, Biederman, Patricia. Organizing
Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley
Publishing, 1997.
Kouzes, J.M.& Posner, B.Z. (1987). The Leadership Challenge: How to Get Extraordinary Things Done in
Organizations. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1996.
Kraakevik,
James, H. & Welliver, Dotsey.
Partners in the Gospel: Strategic
Role of Partnership in World
Evangelism.
Wheaton: Billy Graham Center, November, 1992.
Taylor,
William D. Kingdom Partnerships for
Synergy in Missions. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 1994.
[This library is located at
the US Center for World Mission, Pasadena, CA.]
RECOMMENDED
READING
Bakke,
Ray. A Theology As Big As The City. Downers
Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1997.
Carle,
Robert & Decaro, Louis. Signs of Hope
in the City. Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1999.
Greenleaf,
Robert, K. On Becoming A Servant Leader.
San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1996.
Guder,
Darrell, L. Missional Church: A Vision For The Sending Of The Church in
North America. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1998.
Katzenbach,
Jon & Smith, Douglas. The Wisdom of
Teams: Creating the High Performance Organization. New York: Harper
Collins, 1993.
Koivisto,
Rex, A. One Lord, One Faith: Wheaton:
Victor Books, 1993.
Lipman-Blemen.
The Connective Edge: Leading In A
Interdependent World. San Francisco, CA: Josey-Bass, 1996.
Sine,
Tom. Mustard Seed Vs. McWorld:
Reinventing Life and Faith for the Future. Grand Rapids: Baker Books,
1999.
Randy Bridges [Interdev under the umbrella of WEF] is
director and facilitator of Leadership
Consultations for International
Renewal Ministries…
Multnomah Biblical Seminary's
International Renewal Ministries
* While
pastoring Mariners Church in Newport Beach, Calif., in the '70s, Dr. Joe Aldrich often took the leaders
of the church away for extended times to seek the Lord. The growth of the church and the impact on the
community was incredible.
* In 1978, when Dr. Joe became president of
Multnomah, he sponsored the first Pastors Enrichment Congress…
* Dr Joe wondered, "What would it take
to initiate and sustain a significant work of God in a specific geographical
community? In other words, what would it take to see John 17 lived out in
answer to the Sons prayer?" He believed that unity comes about through a
five-part process: holiness, humility, unity, community, and impact.
* Dr. Joe invited Terry Dirks to join him in
what was then referred to as Northwest Renewal Ministries. In February 1986…
* The idea of getting the critical mass of
pastors from a specific geographical community together for several days of
seeking the Lord was talked about for years before the vision resonated with the hearts of pastors in
nearby Salem, Oregon. At the request of pastors in Salem, Dr. Joe Aldrich and Terry Dirks facilitated the first prayer summit in
1989.
* Since
then the movement, now referred to as International Renewal Ministries, has exploded with an ongoing relational
commitment to more than 120 cities and communities, resulting in hundreds
of groups of pastors meeting regularly for prayer, and many community-wide celebrations of unity and prayer gatherings.
* Thousands of pastors became involved in the
movement and local churches have been significantly impacted. Communities are
seeing the benefits of a unified church. We have witnessed confession,
repentance, brokeness, reconciliation and restoration--the amazing expressions of unity. The walls that typically divide and fragment are coming down.
* Women
in ministry leadership summits have grown out of the movement at the request of
many women, as well as summits for
pastor's wives, youth workers, lay leaders and college students. It is
obvious from the scores of personal testimonies received that the Lord is using the movement in a powerful
way.
* IRM remains
in regular contact with most of the communities where we've ministered. As we continue to serve the local churches and
leadership, the movement is growing stronger. It is truly a movement that is being sustained.
* Such a relational movement has been
made possible through the commitment of hundreds of volunteers and covenanted alliances with ministries of
similar vision and passion.
* Both Billy Graham and international evangelist
Luis Palau said they experience the most significant results where the prayer
summit movement is strongest.
* We
must press on to see cities and specific geographical areas reached for Christ.
The vision of IRM concludes with our desire for a fresh touch of God in
heaven-sent revival upon the church and its leadership, resulting in widespread
evangelization of the lost, leading to a change in society. The prayer summit
is only the first step. We must persevere in prayer, dwell together in unity, and follow the Lord’s leading in obedience
until the complete vision becomes reality. [emphasis
added]
[Editor's note: The IRM movement
includes Catholic churches. Does IRM envision the inclusion of Mormons also?]
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Biblical Seminary
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IRM Facilitators' Consultation 2001
Note: Randy Bridges of Interdev
serves as facilitator of Leadership
Consultations for International
Renewal Ministries and would therefore be involved in this IRM Prayer
Summit.
If you have served as a
facilitator or are interested in learning about Prayer Summit facilitation, you
are invited to join us for the Eighth
Annual Cannon Beach Facilitators' Consultation. Please mark your calendar
now and plan to attend:
Dates: June 11-14,
2001
Times: 12:00 noon
Monday to 1:00 pm Thursday
Location: Cannon Beach
Conference Center in Cannon Beach, Oregon
Cost: $198 Individual,
$178 Spouse
This will be a time 1) of fellowship with other facilitators and
their spouses, 2) to hear and share some of the encouraging stories from summits 3) for some instruction and dialogue about how we can see His work sustained in a summit community and (last but
not least!) when we can come into His
presence in a summit environment.
[Cannon Beach is an exclusive
beach get-away resort location on the coast of Oregon.]