“Worship Leadership” is the subject of the new class in the Leadership Institute, beginning February 6, 2017, and Derek Brown will be our teacher. This will also be the start of the three-year Institute curriculum, and a good time for you to start, if you have not been involved, or to continue, if you have been active. There will be different teachers with new perspectives for each course. The course subjects will be: Worship Leadership, Church History and Theology, Old and New Testament Studies, The Personal Life of the Church Leader, Evangelism and Outreach, Church Leadership and Administration, Spiritual Formation and Spiritual Direction, Friends Faith and Practice, Family Building, Organizational Leadership, and Advancing the Church through Missions and Outreach Ministries.
During the months of February, March, and April, Derek Brown will teach the classes in the Worship Leadership course, central to which is the Teaching and Preaching Ministry of the church.
We are very privileged to have Derek Brown as our Leadership Institute teacher. Derek Brown is Chaplain, Chair of the Pastoral Ministry Department, and Director of the Pastoral Ministries and Transformational Leadership concentrations of the Master’s studies at Barclay College. As Professor, he teaches courses in Bible, Theology, Pastoral Ministry, Leadership, Preaching, and Worship. Derek was my student (an excellent student) in the Teachings of Friends class that I taught.
He earned the B.A. degree from Barclay College and the M.A.R (Master of Arts in Religion) from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary. He received the Ph.D. degree from Johnson University. Derek’s doctoral studies were in Friends Faith and Practice, particularly the development of the pastoral system in North America. He has studied thoroughly the Faith and Practices of the six Yearly Meetings in the Evangelical Friends Church – North America. His dissertation is a significant resource for 21st-century Friends.
Derek is married to Jessica Huffman (also an excellent student in my Teachings of Friends class), who is the great-niece of Max Huffman. Many Friends remember Max Huffman as past Director of Indiana Yearly Meeting’s Missions Department. Max Huffman came to me as a college student with the words, “I think God is calling you into the Friends pastoral ministry.” These words penetrated my soul and were a major stimulus for my life’s vocation in Friends Pastoral Ministry. Can you imagine the joy I have in God’s gift of being able to minister more than fifty years later with Max Huffman’s great-niece and her husband, Derek?
God has blessed Jessica and Derek with precious twin daughters, and God will bless us with Derek’s clear and informed teaching.
Some Friends will be unable to be present Monday evening, so you can view the video recording of the class on YouTube by clicking HERE.
You may want to gather a group in your church or area to view the video together and discuss it. If so, please inform me, so I can count you present when marking attendance. Thank you. Locations where you may share in live discussion and interact with Derek and others are:
Sudanese Community Church (Omaha), Friends Bible Training School in Alaska Yearly Meeting, Noatak, Alaska (Robert Sheldon, Superintendent), Neighborhood Friends Church (at the home of Tom and Bonnie Bousman), Friends Ministry Center (Wichita), Lighthouse Fellowship 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), Friends Community Church (Angleton), New Hope Friends Church, Friends Church at Liberal, Arkansas City Friends Church (at the home of Bud and Pauline Lawrence), Louisville, KY Friends Church, Stone Mountain Friends Church, Atlanta, GA, and Indianapolis with Steve Turner.
The class begins at 7:00 p.m. central time, February 6, 2017. However, most Friends will join at 6:50 for a time of sharing, prayer, and listening to the stories of others.
Excited about the new Institute course of studies with Derek Brown teaching Worship Leadership,
– Dave Kingrey, Director of Leadership Institute
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