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Lay Leader Training Institute |
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Equipping the Body of Christ to Lead Through Discipleship |
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Professor & Instructor Bios |
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Introduction to Missional Church Professor Kurt Fredrickson
Kurt is Associate Dean for Doctor of Ministry Continuing Education, and Assistant Professor of Pastoral Ministry at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. He is ordained with the Evangelical Covenant Church. Prior to coming to Fuller in 2003, he was on the pastoral staff at Simi (Evangelical) Covenant Church in Simi Valley, CA for twenty-four years, eighteen of those years serving as senior pastor. Kurt earned a BA in Religious Studies from Westmont College, a MDiv, DMIN and PhD from Fuller Theological Seminary. His PhD dissertation is entitled: An Ecclesial Ecology for Denominational Futures--Nurturing Organic Structures for Missional Engagement
Kurt’s family continues to live in Simi Valley, and they still attend the church he once served as pastor. He is a member of the Rotary Club of Simi Sunrise; he serves on the Community Crime Prevention Task Force, the City of Simi Valley Task Force on Homelessness, and as the chair of that group’s Faith Community sub-committee, the Simi Valley Community Foundation, the board of the Free Clinic of Simi Valley. He is a Supervising Chaplain with the Simi Valley Police Department.
“I love the church, but I am not naïve about the church. The church offers amazing good news of Jesus that transforms lives and cultures. My passion is to help churches missionally engage with their culture extending blessing and good news, and to offer church leaders a new sense of hope, fostering new imaginations as they navigate through crazy societal shifts.”
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Professor Tremper Longman
Dr. Tremper Longman III is the Robert H. Gundry Professor of Biblical Studies at Westmont College. He earned a B.A. in Religion at Ohio Wesleyan University, an M.Div. from Westminster Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in ancient Near Eastern studies from Yale University. Tremper has authored or co-authored over twenty books and written numerous articles. A number of these works are interdisciplinary. His Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation (Zondervan, 1987); Complete Literary Guide to the Bible (contributor and co-editor along with Leland Ryken; Zondervan, 1993) and numerous articles approach the study of the Bible through literary criticism. He also co-authors books with the psychologist Dan Allender (Bold Love [NavPress, 1991]; Cry of the Soul [NavPress, 1994], Intimate Allies [Tyndale House Publishers, 1995], Bold Purpose (Tyndale House Publishers, 1997]), a church curriculum called The Intimate Mystery of Marriage (InterVarsity Press, 2005), and most recently Breaking the Idols of Your Heart: How to Navigate the Temptations of Life (IVP, 2007). His interest in history and historiography is expressed in A Biblical History of Israel [co-authored with Iain Provan and Phil Long; Westminster John Knox, 2003]). He has also written commentaries on Song of Songs (Eerdmans), Ecclesiastes (Eerdmans), Daniel (Zondervan), Nahum (Baker), Proverbs (Baker) and Jeremiah and Lamentations (Hendrickson). For InterVarsity Press, he has produced four books: How to Read Psalms, How to Read Proverbs, and How to Read Genesis, and How to Read Exodus is in press. He co-edited and wrote articles for The Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry and Writings (IVP). In addition, he is one of the main translators of the popular New Living Translation and has served as a consultant on other popular translations of the Bible including the Message, the New Century Version, and the Holman Standard Bible. His most recent publication is The Expanded Bible: New Testament (along with Mark Strauss and Dan Taylor), a next generation Amplified Bible. Tremper and Alice have three sons. Tremper IV is married to Jill and works in Hartford. They have two daughters, Gabrielle and Mia. Timothy is an antitrust lawyer working for Howrey Simon in Washington D.C. Andrew is an manager for Bank of America in Simsbury, Connecticut. He is married to Tiffany (Love) Longman, and they are both graduates of Pepperdine. For fun, Tremper watches movies to relax and for exercise, he plays squash.
Christian Faith & Society Professor F. Ross Kinsler
Education: B.A., Wheaton College, major in history, with highest honors, 1957. B.D./M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary, 1960. Ph.D. in New Testament, University of Edinburgh, 1963.
1963-1977: Mission co-worker of Presbyterian Church (USA) with the Presbyterian Seminary of Guatemala, where theological education by extension began and became a worldwide movement.
1977-1983: Seconded to the World Council of Churches as Assistant Director of the Program on Theological Education, Geneva and New York, with special focus on Africa.
1983-1987: Director of the Southern California Extension Center of San Francisco Theological Seminary, based in Los Angeles.
1987-2000: Mission co-worker of Presbyterian Church (USA) with the Latin American Biblical Seminary/University, San Jose, Costa Rica, administrator and professor of N.T. with special focus on the design of decentralized and diversified models of theological education.
Publications: Inductive Study of the Book of Jeremiah, various languages and publishers. Inductive Study of the Book of Mark, various languages and publishers. Inductive Study of the Book of Romans, various languages and publishers. The Extension Movement in Theological Education: A Call to the Renewal of the Ministry, Pasadena: William Carey Library, 1978, revised 1981. Ed., Ministry by the People: Theological Education by Extension, Geneva: WCC and Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 1983. Ed. with James Emery, Opting for Change: Evaluation and Planning for Theological Education by Extension, Pasadena: William Carey Library and Geneva: WCC, 1991--also in Spanish. Co-authored with Gloria Kinsler, The Biblical Jubilee and the Struggle for Life: An Invitation to Personal, Ecclesial, and Social Transformation, Maryknoll: 1999--also in Spanish. Co-edited with Gloria Kinsler, God's Economy: Biblical Studies from Latin America, Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2005. Diversified Theological Education: Equipping All God’s People, Pasadena: William Carey International University, 2008.
1970-1977: Edited The Extension Seminary, Guatemala: Presbyterian Seminary of Guatemala--also in Spanish.
1978-1983: Edited Ministerial Formation, Geneva: World Council of Churches.
Evangelism in a Post Modern Society Reverend Dr. Eddie Gibbs
Rev. Dr. EDDIE GIBBS Senior Professor, Fuller Theological Seminary School of Intercultural Studies
Eddie Gibbs was born in Nottingham, England and came to a personal faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord at the age of 16 through the ministry of his Anglican Parish Church. After working in a pharmaceutical company and military service in the Royal Air Force, he went to Oak Hill Seminary in London, where he obtained a Batchelor of Divinity degree from London University. He was ordained in the Church of England forty-three years ago, serving in an Anglican parish in Wandsworth, London. A year prior to ordination he was married to Renee, who was also born in Nottingham and attended the same church as Eddie.
They served as missionaries in Chile for five years. They then return to England for Eddie to take up the position of Home Secretary to his mission, The South American Missionary Society. For the next seven years he worked with the British and Foreign Bible Society, and during that time, he served as the Training Director for Mission England, which climaxed with six Billy Graham Crusades in cities around England.
In 1984 he came as a professor to Fuller Seminary, where he had obtained a Doctor of Ministry degree in 1982. He has occupied the Robert Munger Chair of Evangelism and the Donald A. McGavran Chair of Church Growth in the School of Intercultural Studies. He is now a Senior Professor spending his researching future trends with younger leaders. He has conducted church growth, leadership and evangelism seminars in many parts of the world. He has authored thirteen books, of which the latest are), ChurchNext (InterVarsity Press 2000) and Way to Go, and Way to Serve (InterVarsity Press, 2003), LeadershipNext (InterVarsity Press, 2005), co-authored with Ryan Bolger, Emerging Churches (Baker Academic, 2005, The Morphing of the Church (Baker Academic, 2009).
Eddie and Renee have been married for forty-eight years and have one son, three daughters and eight grandchildren.
Theology of Ministry Pastoral Care & Counseling
Reverend Valerie J. De La Torre
Valerie has served as an ordained pastor in the Santa Barbara Presbytery for nearly fourteen years. She has worked mainly in the areas of church development and redevelopment and has served five congregations. Her passion is for church renewal, strong Christian education along with personal and deep discipling. She has been instrumental in the success of the Lay Leader Training Institute as a founding Steer Committee member where she has taught Homiletics, Theology of Ministry, Pastoral Care and Worship and Sacrament classes. She is a musician by trade, has been a public school fine arts teacher and was also involved in a brief career in marketing. She is bi-lingual, bi-cultural and loves leading worship as a primary place of meeting God as a missionary unit of believers. Her other passion is in the work of emotional healing and wholeness through the careful pastoring of the soul through spiritual formation and guidance. She holds a B.S. from Grand Canyon University, an MDiv. from Fuller Theological Seminary and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Formational Counseling program at Ashland Seminary in Ashland, Ohio.
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