• 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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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.]