Resume for Ministry

Currently reading for M.Div., graduation approaching!

Experienced in missions, evangelism, and counseling: Background in church planting, urban outreach, and prison work. To wit,

Five and a half years (1973-1980) in urban, and military, outreach & discipleship ministry with Shiloh /Youth Revival Centers, based in Eugene, Oregon, an outgrowth of Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa, California.

Three years (1977-1980) phone counseling at CBN phone counseling center. This afforded a great opportunity to minister to people in a very broad variety of needs, and sometimes to rejoice with them in wonderful “divine surprises” as well.

Fifteen years’ involvement in jail & prison work: variously in team ministries, three years county-level Prison Fellowship Angel Tree coordinator, personal counseling/evangelism, and teaching Bible studies inside the prison compound, over the period of 1984-1999

In 1993 I developed a plan for a residential prison aftercare ministry which, while that ministry failed to materialise, has influenced at least two ministries now in operation. I continued in prison work until 1999, teaching Bible studies in a State facility and doing "jail-bar counseling" at City and County lockups.

After a break for family issues, I am now at seminary and helping to build a new church outreach for African expatriates and refugees with one ministry, and preaching weekly to prisoners with another.
Motivated and personally committed to seeing lives built up and directed into a full and productive relationship with Jesus Christ.

Active, as a full-time seminarian, and part-time curate and evangelist, seeking to continually improve my vision, motivation, and insight. I have been blessed with the opportunity to tour the Anglican churches on Ireland this past summer, and before that to have served an assignment as supply preacher for a Nazarene congregation, and, since, preached regularly for an African congregation. before being replaced by a retiring seminary dean.

Versatile though not in a way to call attention to myself, but rather in seeking to be "all things to all men, if by any means I might win some," I have some experience of life within churches ranging from Southern Baptist to Roman Catholic, Pentecostal to Presbyterian. Each church tradition has its own language, its own definitions and “ways. I believe my familiarity with various of these can make me more useful in a broader variety of ministry settings.

I am in the Anglican tradition as an Episcopalian. We are experiencing some conflict at present, and it is through conflict, through answering challenges and through explaining the Faith to people of differing backgrounds, that the Church's theology has developed, and the Anglican Way has as complete a “kit” both (at its core) as may be found of a complete presentation of the Faith and the means to teach it to both minds and hearts.

Dedicated:
The Gospel of Christ is my one calling, and growth in His love and service my one aim; reaching families and individuals with the full counsel of God’s Word, and helping them to become complete in Christ by His Spirit and grow into all that the name of Jesus Christ really means.
By "full counsel of the Word" I mean the whole fabric of God's Word, systematically taught, bringing the Church into an ever-deeper participation in His holy love: Living, dying and rising to life in Christ through His Holy Spirit.