Dear Friends in the Institute,
We have good news for all of us in the Church Leadership Institute. We will begin a new course on Church Leadership and Administration. We know that strong churches depend upon strong leaders. And we have strong teachers to share with us their knowledge and experiences in giving strong leadership in the Friends churches they have served as pastors: Adrian Halverstadt, Chancellor/Professor at Barclay College, and Jim LeShana, Vice President for Academic Affairs at Barclay College. Adrian will be our teacher on August 3. Jim will teach us on September 14 (the Second Monday of September, since Labor Day is the first Monday). Both Adrian and Jim will be in dialogue with each other as they co-teach the October 5 class.
Adrian Halverstadt, our teacher on August 3, is my personal friend and colleague at Barclay College. Adrian holds the positions of Chancellor and Director of the Online Studies. He is also Professor in the fields of Bible, Ministry, Theology, and Leadership. Serving the wider Friends Church, he is Leadership Facilitator of Rocky Mountain Yearly Meeting. He is a Recorded Friends Minister in Evangelical Friends Church – Eastern Region, with thirty years of pastoral service. Adrian received the Bachelor’s degree from Ft. Wayne Bible College, the Master’s in Christian Ministry from Huntington University, and the Ph.D. in Theology, with a concentration in conflict management and system theory, from Trinity/University of Liverpool. Before coming to Barclay College, Adrian was more recently Interim Pastor of the Pratt Friends Church, Executive Pastor of Willoughby Hills Friends Church, and a District Superintendent in Evangelical Friends Church (Eastern Region). He also opened a mission field in Brazil. Adrian is married to Lisa, and they are the loving parents of Adrian III, Joel, and Tim, and grandparents of five beautiful grandchildren. Adrian describes his commitment to the Church. “Lisa and I enjoy visiting churches and speaking on behalf of Barclay College. We love the Friends Church and are committed to Biblical holiness. I am convinced that God can transform the world for His glory through Barclay College and the Evangelical Friends Church!”
I will give a biographical sketch of Jim LeShana in my August letter, in preparation for his teaching in September.
To make attendance at the Institute classes easy for you, we offer them at several locations: Friends Community Church (Angleton), Friends Ministry Center (Wichita), Lighthouse Friends Church (at the home of Jerry and Mary Louthan), Bangor Liberty Friends Church, Fowler Friends Church, Barclay College (Jackson Hall), Faith Friends Church, North Newton (at the home of Merl and Eunice Kinser), Arkansas City Friends Church (at the home of Bud and Pauline Lawrence), and Northwest Friends Church (at the home of Tom and Bonnie Bousman). Other sites which have the technology to participate in the live Institute sessions include: Booker Friends Church, Miami Friends Church, Chandler Friends Church, Sudanese Community Church (Omaha), Iglesia Amigos (San Antonio), and Hesper Friends Church. Maybe you would like to hear the presentations at a different time. We extend gratitude to Drew Davenport who makes available the videos of our Institute classes on YouTube, so that you can assemble a group at the time and location of your choice. In order to view them, go here and click on the desired video. Churches which have viewed the video recordings for group discussions at times more convenient than Monday evenings include: Vancouver Friends Church and Pratt Friends Church.
I hope you will encourage everyone who is interested in strong leadership in your church to attend these classes on Church Leadership and Administration, beginning August 3, 2015 at 7:00 p.m. central time, 6:00 p.m.mountain time with Adrian Halverstadt as our teacher.
With a desire for strong church leaders,
– Dave Kingrey, Director of Leadership Institute
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