Transformation
of the Church
A Database of
Historical and Current Data on the Strategic Partnerships &
Through
Fuller's regional offices, Fuller's extension courses and conferences impact
the churches in communities where they are based––
FULLER
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA–Orange County • Santa Barbara / Ventura • San Diego FULLER NORTHERN CALIFORNIA–Menlo Park • Sacramento • Oakland • Walnut Creek
FULLER
NORTHWEST–Seattle • Tacoma • Kirkland • Issaquah
FULLER
COLORADO–Colorado Springs
FULLER SOUTHWEST- Phoenix • Tucson • Las Vegas.
Fuller's Youth Leadership Extension Course
Many church youth workers
attend Fuller's accredited courses
for youth leadership. Trusting
parents naively send their children to neighborhood church youth programs, thus
exposing them to the influence of Fuller Theological Seminary’s teachings.
The mobilization of youth in
the Global Prayer and Missions Movement is covered more fully in Prayer Mobilization, Mission America,
National Network of Youth Ministries [Paul Fleishmann]. LINK
The
following gives insight into the in-depth
training of youth pastors through Fuller's extension courses:
FULLER
COLORADO
The
Certificate in Youth Ministry offered by Fuller Colorado’s Institute for Youth Ministry provides youth pastors in churches and
leaders in parachurch organizations with solid biblical and theological
perspectives alongside practical ministry training. With a focus on training
leaders for relational ministry, courses in this unique certificate program
offer an overview of the youth ministry task, develop an understanding of
family systems and adolescent development, and provide training in outreach and
evangelism to adolescents, as well as in leadership and team development…
• Program Description from School of Theology
• Dr. Chap Clark, Program Director
Introduction to Youth Ministry
If
you’re already planning to attend Youth Specialties’ [Mike
Yaconelli] National Youth Workers
Convention (NYWC), get graduate credit as well. This course offered each
fall at each convention location includes focused instruction from Dr. Chap
Clark and other youth ministry leaders at the convention location. Add some
stimulating reading, some practical and thought-provoking assignments, and you
will come away thinking differently about your ministry.
NYW
Convention 2001 includes Tony Campolo
among speakers listed.
CF515: INTRODUCTION TO
YOUTH MINISTRY. Chap Clark
DESCRIPTION:
This
course gives an overview of youth ministry philosophy, models, and theology
while providing an opportunity for interaction
with a wide variety of youth ministry leaders and organizations. The Youth
Specialties Convention is the largest of its kind, and students will be exposed
to a specifically identified and personally tailored experience in order to
enhance their ministry training and expertise.
RELEVANCE
FOR MINISTRY:
From
a human perspective, the future of the church rests in the hands of the next
generation. How those in power pass on the Christian faith to children and
adolescents will determine the shape of the church for years to come.
Understanding the nature of human and spiritual development, how to read a
culture, how to solicit support and adult ownership and how to develop programs
and models that reach an adolescent subculture will honor God by preparing them
for service in the Kingdom.
COURSE
FORMAT:
The class will meet at the Youth Specialties
Convention for 22 hours of direct contact time with the professor and will
attend a minimum of four (4) additional one and one half-hour seminars and six
(6) half-hour general session lectures. Thus the course will include a minimum
of 32 1/2 hours of contact time. The class will meet a day and a half prior to
the conference and will extend to the end of the five day event.
REQUIRED
READING:
*Borgman,
D. When Kum Ba Ya is Not Enough. Peabody,
MA: Hendrickson, 1997. 234 pgs.
*Dunn,
R. and M. Senter, eds. Reaching a
Generation for Christ. Moody, 1997. 689 pgs.
*Fields,
D. Purpose Driven Youth Ministry. Zondervan/YS,
1998. 390 pgs.
*Mueller,
W. Understanding Today’s Youth Culture. Rev.
ed. Wheaton: Tyndale, 1998. 260 pgs.
CF556:
LEADERSHIP IN
YOUTH MINISTRY. Chap Clark.
DESCRIPTION:
The
purpose of this course is to teach students the roles and responsibility of
Christian leadership in any context, but especially youth ministry. Issues
discussed are: the meaning of being a Christian leader; how to develop a
volunteer leadership program; how to recruit, initiate, train, nurture, and
care for volunteer leadership; the necessity for encouraging people in their
giftedness, even if that may mean helping them to move on from youth ministry;
and how to lead, equip, and best utilize interns and paid staff…
REQUIRED
READING:
*Larson,
Carl E. and LaFasto, Frank. Teamwork:
What must go right, what can go wrong. Sage Publications, 1989.
*Nouwen,
H. J. M. In the Name of Jesus.
Crossroads, 1990.
*Reed,
Bobbie, John F. Westfall (Contributor), John Maxwell [CNP]. Building Strong People : How to Lead Effectively. Baker Book House,
1997.
*Wilson,
Marlene. How to Mobilize Church
Volunteers. Augsburg Fortress, 1990.
Fuller Seminary's
Pacific Association for Theological Education/PATE––
serving
as Fuller Seminary's Extension Program/Continuing Education Resource to the
Seattle vicinity; drawing pastors and laity from the surrounding area for
purposes of augmenting their credentials in Christian leadership.
Outline for Fuller's
PATE:
• PATE as an affiliate of
the Association of Theological Schools/ATS
• Fuller Seminary
Extension Courses in Washington State –– PATE
• Renovaré conference
sponsored by PATE
• PATE and World Vision's
International Justice Mission
• Pacific Association for
Theological Studies Salt & Light
Newsletter:
articles
√ Dr. Aldrich
past president of Multnomah Bible College
√ History of
Fuller Seminary's PATE
√ PATE's
President Gasque––Activities [including]
– World
Relief [affiliate of the National Association of Evangelicals/NAE]
– Theological
Commission of the World Evangelical Fellowship
– Association
of Theological Schools
– Consultation
on Global Theological Education
– PATE's
President Gasque––speaker at InterVarsity's URBANA
additional info:
– PATE's first Ex. Director
– Director of World
Vision’s Institute for Global Engagement
• Renovaré
and David & Karen Mains
[David Mains’ connection to the Global Prayer and Missions Movement]
emphasis
added below for purposes of this report
PATE & the Association of Theological Schools/ATS Affiliate Status
“ATS
affiliate status is not membership in the Association. Affiliate status carries
eligibility for appointment to committees and voice but no vote in Association
meetings.”
ATS Affiliate Members
partial
listing
•
American Association of Pastoral Counselors
•
The Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences
•
The American College Catholic University of Louvain
•
Institute of Buddhist Studies
•
National Catholic Educational Association
•
Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc.
•
National Conference of Catholic Bishops
• Overseas
Ministries Study Center [Pew Charitable Trusts Grants]
• Pacific Association for Theological Education [Fuller
Seminary's Extension Program in the Northwest––Executive Director W. Ward Gasque.
Tim
Dearborn was the first Ex. Director of PATE, see below]
•
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
•
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Division of Higher Education [denomination of Jim Jones,
People's Temple]
•
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
Fuller's Extended Education
Program, offered through The Center for Lifelong Learning
Found:
http://www.fuller.edu/cll/extension/
“Our Extended Education Program
allows you to earn Fuller Theological Seminary degrees and certificates by
taking classes at one of our five extension sites located throughout the
Western United States.”
* Northern
California
* Southern
California
* Colorado
* Northwest
(previously Washington) ––Pacific Association for
Theological Education
* Southwest
Fuller Seminary Extension in Washington State:
In partnership with Fuller
Theological Seminary, Regent College [faculty member––J.I. Packer] and Seattle Pacific University [SPU is the former base of Alex Hill, who is the new president of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/URBANA]
Executive
Director, Tim Dearborn*
*Please see bottom of this
page for important information linking Tim Dearborn to World Vision's
Institute for Global Engagement.
Fuller Northwest – Extension Courses
Previously
found: http://www.fuller.edu/cll/extension/html/classschnw.html
Highly
abbreviated for the purposes of this report.
Winter Session 2001 (January
3-March 16)…
TM503 World Mission and the Local Church ……………T. Dearborn
Renovaré Conference Announced by PATE
Late
1990s…
“Sponsored
by Koinos - Pacific Association For Theological Education/ Director Tim
Dearborn
Koinos
& PATE–– A Fuller Theological
Seminary partnership
Koinos
offers luncheon/workshop conferences to corporate Seattle with such themes as
"Prayer in the Workplace," lead by perhaps a Microsoft executive.
A
coalition of more than 80 churches and
six educational institutions who seek to make theological education
accessible through its Koinos programs.”
A Regional Conference on
Spiritual Renewal
Led
by Richard Foster
Introducing Renovaré
From
the Latin meaning “to renew,” Renovaré was
founded by Richard Foster and is a ministry working for the renewal of the
Church of Jesus Christ in all its multifaceted expression. Christian in
commitment, international in scope, and ecumenical in breadth, Renovaré seeks to combine the best
from six traditions, or streams, of Christian life and faith with a practical
strategy that nurtures spiritual growth.
The
six streams are:
Contemplative the prayer filled life
Holiness the virtuous life
Charismatic the spirit-empowered life
Social Justice the compassionate life
Evangelical the word-centered life
Incarnational the sacramental life
Background on the PATE-sponsored
Renovaré conference as relates to the Global Prayer and Missions Movement
report is found at bottom of this page–– Renovaré and David & Karen Mains.
International Justice Mission [a division of World Vision]
Fuller's Pacific Association and
World Vision
have co-sponsored breakfasts where Gary
Haugen, President of International Justice Mission spoke on "the
opportunity for Christians to mobilize their efforts…"
World Vision/ International
Justice Mission [future
LINK]
Excerpts from…
Fuller Seminary/ Pacific Association for Theological Studies Salt & Light Newsletter [1998]
Salt & Light
Autumn
1998 Vol. 2, Number 2
Matthew
5:13-16
A
Publication of the
Pacific
Association for Theological Studies
101
Nickerson St.
Suite
330
Seattle,
WA 98109
Dr. Aldrich Challenges Pastors ~
“More
than 70 pastors met with Joe Aldrich, past president of Multnomah Bible College and Biblical Seminary, for a Christian
Leadership Forum in February… the forum provided a model
for Pacific Association's goal to strengthen the local church by resourcing
its leaders.
Aldrich
challenged leaders to ask hard questions: "What kind of individual do we
want to the church to deploy into the world? "What kind of leader makes
possible that sort of Christian?" "Is there potential for intimacy in
relationship anywhere.?" He suggested that the latter question was the
most crucial question asked by Americans today. Thus, it is imperative for Christian
leaders to build and model relational
unity among their church leadership team.
It
was obvious that evangelism remains Aldrich's deepest passion. He suggested
that we have shifted from a rational era of the '60s to a relational era of the
'90s. "The home is the most effective tool for evangelism," he
argued. "If people will relate to us socially, they will respond to us
spiritually." He concluded by offering eight annual review questions
for the church boards as they seek to do strategic planning…”
Mission
America’s National Prayer Committee, National Senior Advisors, Joseph Aldrich
Tom Sine Challenges Discipleship ~
Tom
Sine challenged a group of pastors and Christian leaders from Pierce County to reevaluate North American Christianity
during a CLF [Christian Leaders Forum] luncheon in May…
Tom Sine is a nationally-known
Christian Futurist
Benefits of Church Membership in the Pacific Association
•
Planning for adult education
• Strategic
planning for church development
• Mentor
relationships with future church leaders
•
Input into the renewal of theological education
•
Fully accredited graduate theological degree programs in the NW
•
Access to consulting services in leadership and organizational development
•
Life-long education for clergy and laity alike
• Networking
with a community of pastors and lay leaders
History of Fuller Seminary's PATE
Found in Salt & Light
newsletter…
With
the encouragement of local pastors Robert Munger and Homer Goddard, Fuller Seminary began offering
extended education courses in Seattle and the Tri-cities in 1973. These
leaders foresaw that the church of the Northwest would benefit significantly if
the seminary responded to the need of lay people for serious theological education….”
“In
1981, Terry McGonigal became the first director of the Seattle extension with
adjunct faculty status. Terry left to become the director of the Institute of Youth Ministries [see below]…”
“In response to repeated
requests from churches in the Northwest Fuller sought approval of the
Association of Theological Schools to offer a full M.Div.(Master of Divinity)
in Washington. An innovative new approach was developed jointly by Fuller Theological Seminary and the
Seattle Association for Theological Education (now the Pacific Association for
Theological Education), incorporating twelve courses offered in cohort
groups over three years linked to
mentoring by experienced, local
Christian leaders. Founded in 1990 by a coalition of local churches and
educational institutions, SATE took on a new vitality under the
leadership of Tim Dearborn who
arrived in 1992, and became the driving force behind the design and early
implementation of the new cohort M.Div. The current president of the Pacific
Association for Theological Studies is Ward
Gasque, who has been a leader in Christian higher education for nearly
thirty years. He is a co-founder of
Regent College in Vancouver, B.C., and initiator of a Master of Theological Studies degree program for the
laity in Toronto using the cohort model. Nearly eighty Western Washington churches are members of the
association.”
The
Association facilitates cooperative relationships between churches and
education institutions by providing a wide variety of traditional and
non-traditional educational opportunities for the grassroots Christian
community, including coordinating Seattle's M.Div. mentorship program.
“The
Washington extension celebrated Fuller
Theological Seminary’s 50th anniversary and its own 25th anniversary in
Seattle on May 15 [1998]…seminars were lead by early alumni Gary Demarest and School of World Mission Dean Dudley
Woodberry [contributor
to the Perspectives Curriculum], addressing aspects of Fuller's
50th anniversary topic, "An Unchanging Focus for an Ever-Changing World."
….
The
evening dinner program featured
President Richard Mouw [Fuller Seminary] and honored Washington graduates. Dr. Mouw paid tribute to the
strategic contribution of the Pacific Association to the growth and success of
the Seattle program and made special presentations to both Tim Dearborn [PATE director] and Ward Gasque [PATE president] as a token of the vital
partnership between the two institutions.”
Institute of Youth Ministries
See
Prayer Mobilization, National Network of
Youth Ministries, Larry Acosta
Continuing with the PATE Salt & Light Newsletter…
John
Stott has shaped the contemporary evangelical movement as much as anyone, other
than Billy Graham. Chaplain to the Queen
of England, author of 35 books,
primary editor of the Lausanne Covenant, celebrated Bible teacher, and enthusiast for the ministry of Pacific
Association from its inception…
His
topic will be "Jesus is Lord: Call to Radical Discipleship." He
will also speak at a Christian Leadership Forum on "The Paradoxes of
Preaching"…
From
1950 until 1975, Stott served as senior pastor of All soul's Anglican Church
in the heart of London, England, during which time he also conducted
evangelistic missions on university campuses around the world. He has been
rector emeritus since 1975. Since the 1970s he has spent much of his time
traveling in the Third World, preaching, teaching and mentoring younger leaders
among the most dynamic, growing and now the largest sector of the world Christian
movement….
Editor's Note: John Stott was a principal
framer of the landmark Lausanne Covenant (1974).
As
Stott is in the leadership of the Anglican Church in England [aka Church of
England], consider this news report:
UPDATE:
UPDATE~ Sunday May 21, 2000: “SENIOR Church of England
clergy are to join Druids and pagans at a controversial conference...The conference, Spirit of
the Land 2000, is described as ‘a Christian-Druid dialogue and reconciliation meeting for the
new Millennium’. It is being held against a background of growing interest in New
Age religion and white magic. Organisers of the event include Emma Restall Orr,
the joint chief of the British Druid Order, the Rev Marcus Small, a vicar in
Hertfordshire, and the Dean of Guildford, the Very Rev Alexander
Wedderspoon...a number of clergy already participated in joint Christian and
pagan services, but there was still too much ignorance and hostility. Mark
Graham, of the Pagan Federation, which represents Druidry, wicca and
sharmanism, said: ‘Some pagans believe in magic, just like some Christians
believe in the power of prayer and miracles.’ ‘We celebrate our connectedness
to nature and I will sometimes dance naked around a fire. They aren't doing
much dancing around a fire naked at matins or evensong but perhaps they should.
Perhaps they will like it.’ ‘...The day-long conference at Amesbury, Wiltshire,
in June, will be chaired by Rosemary Hartill, the former BBC religious affairs
correspondent. Speakers include Martin Palmer, a former adviser to Prince
Philip, and Ronald Hutton, a professor of history at Bristol University. The
event will end with a Christian service and a Druid ceremony in which a
green-robed priestess will make offerings of bread and mead...”
Source:
Alarm Over Church Talks With Druids', Jonathan Petre, Sunday, May 21, 2000;
Issue 1822, Electronic Telegraph; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
Returning to PATE's Salt & Light newsletter…
abbreviated
• Governor's
Prayer Breakfast, Olympia (January 1998)
•
Consultation for Gospel and our Culture Network, San Francisco, CA (March 1998)
•
Consultation on Post-Modernity and the Future Church, with Shuv Institute and
others, Seattle (April 1998)
•
Conference on Urban Ministerial Education for the Shalom of the City, Boston,
MA (March 1998)
•
Graduation Ceremonies, Northwest College AOG, Kirkland, WA (May 1998)
•
Graduation Ceremonies, Regent College, Vancouver, BC (May 1998)
•
Consultation on Urban Ministry Education, M.J.
Murdock Charitable Trust [see note below], Vancouver, [WA] (May 1998)
•
Seattle-King County Leadership Prayer Breakfast, Seattle (May 1998)
• Ethnic Harvest Briefing, sponsored by World Relief [affiliate of the National Association of
Evangelicals/NAE], Seattle (May 1998)
• Executive Committee Meeting,
Theological Commission of the World Evangelical
Fellowship,
Tuebingen, Germany (June 1998)
• Biennial Meeting of the Association of
Theological Schools, USA & Canada, Baltimore, MD (June 1998)
• Fuller
Seminary Seattle Graduation Ceremony, Seattle (June 1998)
• Consultation on Global
Theological Education, Trinity Western University, Langley, BC (August 1998)
Editor's Note:
M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust – Funded a Washington state
Heritage Foundation think tank (WA
Evergreen Freedom Foundation/EFF) for a project to train the state's
churches on how to take federal/state funding for Faith-based Welfare Reform.
EFF
worked with Focus on the Family James
Dobson's Washington state affiliate (Washington Family Council [Jeff Kemp];
now Northwest Families) and World Vision
leading a coalition involving other church and para-church groups for passage
of the legislation.
Returning to Newsletter…
abbreviated
•
"Strategic Planning for Churches and Christian
Organizations" with D. Bruce Lockerbie, President of Paideia, Inc. ….
•
"The Holy Who?" seminar and lecture with Gordon Fee, Professor of New Testament, Regent College…
•
"Serious Money: The Role of the Board and CEO in Raising Major Gifts"
with Bruce Lockerbie and Frederick Weissbach
•
"Jesus is Lord" Evening with John
Stott, evangelical leader and chaplain
to the Queen of England.
•
"Biblical Preaching in the Modern World" with John Stott
•
"The Ministry of Mentoring"
with Don Schatz, Director of Mentoring,
Pacific Association and Fuller Seminary.
continuing with PATE's Salt & Light newsletter…
InterVarsity Christian
Fellowship
has sponsored the influential Urbana
Missionary Convention for a half century to encourage each generation of
college students to consider the challenge of foreign missions. This year the
Graduate and faculty Ministries of IVCF are launching what might [be] described
as “An Urbana for the Professionals.”
To be
held at the Chicago Hilton from December 29, 1998 through January 2, 1999, the
Following Christ/ Shaping Our World conference seeks to assist young professionals, graduate students, and university
professors to think, work and live as faithful disciples of Jesus in a
pluralist society.
There
will be a fourteen academic and professional tracks, each led by a
distinguished dean who, in turn, will be assisted by an associate dean and a host of experienced mentors …
W.Ward Gasque, president of
Pacific Association [Fuller
Seminary's extension classes, Seattle], will be a speaker and mentor in the Theology and Religious
Studies track, headed up by William A.
Dryness, Dean of Fuller Seminary.
End of PATE Newsletter
excerpts
Background on Tim Dearborn ––PATE's first Ex. Director
World Vision’s Institute for Global Engagement
Excerpts from IGE brochure:
Mission Statement
“Through learning partnerships with our various constituencies
(churches, donors, nongovernmental organizations, academic institutions,
businesses and government agencies), the Institute for Global Engagement
enhances our participation in God’s Ministry with the world’s poor and
oppressed by formulating strategic responses based upon analyzing global
needs and trends, sharing educational resources, and providing insights for
organizational and public policies.”
Rationale for
the Institute for Global Engagement
“The Institute for Global Engagement has been commissioned to help
World Vision and its partners prepare for the future. Our desire is that through
creative partnerships, we will mutually strengthen our capacity to move
toward the realization of the vision with which we have been entrusted. The
vision of the Institute for Global Engagement is:
To prepare World Vision to help fill the void in global
leadership.
…There is a need and opportunity for quality faith-based
organizations to provide the world with leadership it currently lacks. The
Institute is needed to help World Vision and all its partners become
well-prepared to fulfill our unique roles in global leadership…
To prepare our constituencies for long-term global
engagement…”
Education and Church Partnership
Tim
Dearborn, Director
• Provides research and analysis of church and mission-related
issues and trends that promote and strengthen World Vision’s theological
integrity and effective leadership within
the U.S. Christian movement.
• Develops
partnerships with churches, denominations, academic institutions, faith-based
nongovernmental organizations, and mission agencies to mutually enhance our
effective engagement in global issues.
• Facilitates
education for World Vision’s partners and staff to provide the
missiological insights and theological reflection that facilitate the
integration of Christian faith with our ministries in holistic development.
Editor's Note: Bob Seiple, former President
of World Vision, was appointed in 1999 as Special Assistant to Secretary of
State Madelaine Albright. Seiple is Ambassador at Large for the Commission on
International Religious Freedom. The International Religious Freedom Act, known
last year as the Freedom from Religious Persecution Act ---H.R. 2431---set up
the Office of Religious Persecution Monitoring in the U.S. State Department.
Before Seiple left World Vision [which is an NGO of the United
Nations], he set up the Institute for
Global Engagement (IGE). This writer called World Vision, Federal
Way, WA, and requested to be put through to the office of the Institute for
Global Engagement, which, as it turns out, is located at the World Vision
headquarters in Federal Way, Washington [2000]. I was told by the
receptionist that the director for this office is Tim Dearborn [Fuller Seminary/PATE].
The interlock of Tim
Dearborn's positions with both World
Vision’s Institute for Global Engagement and Fuller Seminary’s Pacific Association for Theological Studies
suggests a strategic and highly influential
partnership between the two organizations and their mutual agendas.
World Vision's
Institute for Global Engagement LINK to World Vision's IGE
when available
Background on the PATE-sponsored
Renovaré conference as relates to the Global Prayer and Missions Movement
report:
Following
found on the Biblical Discernment Ministries web site: http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/mains/general.htm
“Both
David and Karen Mains are on Renovaré's ‘Board of Reference’-- Renovarè is an international, New Age, ecumenical
organization that emanates from the religious traditions of Quakerism,
whose message is that today's Church is missing out on some wonderful spiritual
experiences that can only be found by
studying and practicing the ‘meditative’ and ‘contemplative’ lifestyle ‘of
early Christianity.” …Renovaré espouses
the use of the early pagan traditions of guided imagery and visualization,
astral projection, ‘Zen’ prayer techniques for meditation (i.e., Buddhism), and
Jungian psychology (i.e., a blend of Eastern mysticism and Roman Catholic
mystical spiritual tradition, which nicely fits the New Age model), all as
means of obtaining ‘personal spiritual renewal’ in the lives of believers….
[Evidence
that David Mains continues to be enamored with psychologist Richard Foster and
his New Age organization, Renovaré, was the fact that Foster was a guest on the
5/26/93-5/28/93 Chapel of the Air
radio broadcasts, was a 1994 Focal Point television
guest, and his books are still being offered in Mains’s 1996 ‘Chapel Choices’
catalogue.]
Note:
David
Mains is listed on various boards for Lausanne's prayer
mobilization:
See Prayer Mobilization, Mission
America’s National Prayer Committee, National Senior Advisory
See Prayer Mobilization, The
Dobson’s National Day of Prayer
See
also complete BDM exposé – David & Karen Mains: http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/mains/
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