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MINISTRY EXPERIENCE
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EVANGELICAL COVENANT CHURCH YOUTH
PASTOR, Belvidere, IL.
High School and Junior High Youth Pastor (1977-1978)
Guided, Directed, and Implemented Youth Ministries.
Organized Volunteers, Retreats, Conferences.
Taught Bible study, faith sharing skills, and mentored teens.
INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN
FELLOWSHIP CSM
(1978-1983)
Oversaw the Campus Ministry of IVCF on six northern Illinois
colleges and universities, and one college in Wisconsin.
Training student leaders to implement evangelism, discipleship,
and cross cultural missions ministries on campus.
Assist in on the job training, and hands on involvement at
strategic points, including help with music ministries.
ZAMBIA FELLOWSHIP OF
EVANGELICAL STUDENTS (1983-1986)
Year one as Training Secretary; implemented Leadership, Bible study leaders and
evangelism training on 12 different campuses with Zambian
potential staff apprentices and Zambian campus ministers.
Year two as Director of Campus Ministries; trained and assisted national staff in campus
ministry including raising their financial support from among
the Zambian churches.
Year three as Acting General Secretary; director of the National Movement of ZAFES,
overseeing the finances, training of staff, student training programs, the graduates' ministries,
and serving under the Zambian board of directors. This enabled
two strategic Zambian staff (of seven at that time) to pursue
advanced Christian (graduate level) training outside of
Zambia. It was rare at that time in the Zambian church to
have ministers with graduate level theological training.
PURDUE TEAM LEADER &
NORTHWEST INDIANA AREA DIRECTOR 1988-1995,
Lafayette, IN.
Responsibilities are the same as those listed below only with a
smaller Staff team and and a smaller budget.
Pioneered and gave oversight to the development of a target group
philosophy of ministry among fraternity and sorority students, and among
graduate students.
NORTHERN INDIANA AREA DIRECTOR 1995-1998, Lafayette, IN.
Oversee a full time Staff team of five, growing to sixteen
Campus Ministers with IVCF, and from five campuses with
five student chapters of IVCF to fourteen campuses with seventeen
chapters. We have sixteen Staff including two team leaders and two acting
(still in training) team leaders as well as six staff volunteers. Most of
the growth has come from increasing the Area size in 1995-6.
Pastoring campus ministers and key graduate student leaders.
Ministering as a team player on an Area Director team in
the Great Lakes West Region of the USA including the States of
IL, WI, IN.
Drafting and overseeing expenses and income, and Staff
accountability at raising a combined $800,000 yearly budget.
Serving in IVCF nationally during our Urbana Missions
Convention, National Management Meetings, and giving input
on our national vision processes, and from time to time our
publications through InterVarsity Press (IVP).
Encouraging the development of Area training programs with
International students, Spring break evangelism and refugee
resettlement projects, potential urban ministry projects,
evangelism, discipleship, missions, and leadership training
through weekend training conferences locally, regionally, and
nationally.
Developing an Apologetics Course at a week long summer
training camp for students regionally.
Public speaking in churches and at many Area campus
fellowships on Christian apologetics,
university discipleship,
evangelism, leadership, cultural critique, and
world missions.
Doing Bible expositions on campus and
at training events.
Managing our Area web page, IVCF staff e-mail
listserves, and
a Christian apologetics listserve.
PURDUE / NOTRE DAME AREA DIRECTOR 1999-2001,
Lafayette, IN.
Oversee a full time Staff team of five,
Campus Ministers with IVCF, with two Staff Volunteers and three
campuses, and five student chapters of IVCF.
Pastoring campus ministers and key graduate student leaders.
Ministering as a team player on an Area Director team in
the Great Lakes West Region of the USA including the States of
IL, WI, IN.
Drafting and overseeing expenses and income, and Staff
accountability at raising a combined $340,000 yearly budget.
Recruiting in IVCF nationally for our Urbana Missions
Convention, National Management Meetings, and giving input
on our Statement of Faith, and from time to time our
publications through InterVarsity Press (IVP).
Encouraging the development of Area training programs with
International students, Spring break evangelism and Urban
ministry projects,
evangelism, discipleship, missions, and leadership training
through weekend training conferences locally, Area-wide, divisionally,
bi-regionally, and nationally.
Public speaking in churches and at many Area campus
fellowships on Christian apologetics,
university discipleship,
evangelism, leadership, cultural critique, and
world missions.
Doing Bible expositions on campus and
at training events.
Managing our Area web page, IVCF staff e-mail
listserves, and a Christian apologetics listserve.
PURDUE / STATE OF INDIANA GFM TEAMLEADER 2002-2003,
Lafayette, IN.
Encourage Graduate student and professional student ministries across
the State of Indiana with a special focus on Graduate IVCF at Purdue, and
Graduate IVCF at Indiana University. Networking and encouraging and doing
some mentoring with student leaders in the Krannert Christians in Business
and Kelley MBA Christian Fellowship, as well as with a performing arts
masters student fellowship at I.U. called the Christian Musicians Fellowship.
Further, I am encouraging I.U. student chapter of the Christian Legal Society,
and have contacts with Law students at Notre Dame, and IUPUI, and graduate
students at Ball State.
Recruiting in IVCF nationally for our Urbana Missions
Convention, teaching and training graduate students about
Statement of Faith, and utilizing resources and publications through
InterVarsity Press (IVP).
Encouraging the development of a Statewide GFM training program
called simply the 'Graduate Summit' which is a day conference in February,
and with International students a huge percent of the total graduate student population
in most campuses from 40-50% of all grad and professional students,
regionally, and nationally.
Public speaking in churches and at many Area campus
fellowships on Christian apologetics,
university discipleship,
evangelism, leadership, cultural critique, and
world missions.
A lot of the same things listed above including doing Bible expositions,
managing our Statewide GFM web page, and recruiting GFM Staff as currently I
am the only GFM Staff in Indiana.
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