Issue #113 | September 29, 2011 |
JOHN REED MILLER LECTURE SERIES AT RTS/JACKSON
Rev. Reddit Andrews, senior pastor of Soaring Oaks Presbyterian Church in Elk Grove, Calif., is the speaker for the John Reed Miller Lecture Series at RTS/Jackson Oct 26-27. Prior to serving at Soaring Oaks, he served as assistant pastor at First Baptist Piney Grove Church in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and then as assistant pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Ga. Andrews has a B.A. in Biblical Studies from Trinity International University in South Florida, and a Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Ill. As a student, Reddit founded Coram Deo, a student fellowship that ministered to halfway houses, rescue missions and prisons throughout South Florida. The lectures are open and free to the public.
The schedule is as follows:
Wednesday
11:00 Grace Chapel, session I
12:00 Lunch, Patterson's Porch, session II
Thursday
12:00 Lunch, Patterson's Porch, Session III
NEW PRESIDENT APPOINTED FOR RTS/WASHINGTON D.C. CAMPUS
The executive committee of the Reformed Theological Seminary Board of Trustees has appointed Professor Scott Redd, Jr., as the first president of RTS/Washington D.C., effective June 2012. Redd is currently an assistant professor of Old Testament and dean of students at RTS/Orlando.
In addition to teaching at RTS/Orlando, Redd is a graduate of The College of William and Mary and RTS/Orlando, where he received his Master of Divinity degree. During his doctoral studies, he taught at Fourth Presbyterian Church in Bethesda, Md., and later ministered at Christ the King Presbyterian Church in Raleigh, N.C. Redd also taught at Catholic University and the Augustine Theological Institute in Malta, a theological training center operated by the Arab World Evangelical Ministers Association. Redd currently belongs to the board of the International Training Institute, an organization dedicated to the training of pastors in the Arab world. Read more here.
RTS/CHARLOTTE LECTURES
Dr. Mark Ross, professor of systematic theology at Erskine Theological Seminary in Columbia (pictured right), was the speaker for RTS/Charlotte's fall lectures in September. Dr. Ross spoke on "A Door Standing Open in Heaven: Public Worship According to Scripture."
DR. MILTON TO SPEAK AT NATIONAL MINISTRIES CONFERENCE
Dr. Michael Milton will speak at the National Ministries Conference at Briarwood Presbyterian Church on October 22-24. His topic is "Homeland Security: The Church and National Missions Today". Click here for session info.
FACULTY SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
The newly appointed president for RTS/Washington, D.C., Scott Redd, will teach a class on Old Testament Survey at the International Training Institute in Malta. See more faculty speaking engagements at rts.edu/facultytravel.
FORUMS AT RTS/ORLANDO
Greg Livingstone, founder of Frontier Ministries (seated left beside Dr. Don Sweeting) was Sweeting's recent guest during the president's forum at RTS/Orlando in September. Livingstone shared his experiences and knowledge of ministering to Muslims. See RTS/Orlando events for the next forum in October, which is open to the public.
YOU'RE INVITED TO THE SECOND SEASON OF TAPINGS OF FAITH FOR LIVING
Dr. Michael Milton has begun taping the second season of the Faith For Living television program. If you live in the Charlotte, NC, or Rock Hill, SC, area, and would like to be a part of the audience, please contact Wendy Simmons for the specific dates available. The program is being recorded at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Rock Hill, SC. Taping begins at 9:00 am. The 2nd season will begin to air in January.
MACLELLAN FOUNDATION CO-FOUNDER PASSES AWAY
Kathrina "Kitty" Maclellan (99), of the Robert and Kathrina Maclellan Foundation, passed away on Monday, September 26. The funeral will be a Wann Funeral Home in Chattanooga, Tenn., on Thursday, September 29, at 1:00 p.m. We are thankful for all that Kitty and her husband Robert did for Christian causes over the years.
STUDENTS TO TRAVEL TO ITALY
Dr. Jim Coffield (associate professor of counseling at RTS/Orlando) Katherine Schwab (MAC, '08) and a staff member of Campus Crusade for Christ or "Cru", will take students from the RTS/Orlando counseling program to Italy Oct. 5-10 to minister to missionaries living there. They will speak at a national conference for about 80 Cru staff who minister throughout Italy. They will also be in Rome for a few days working and meeting with Cru staff there. The students participating are Jim Badorrek, Trent Murray, Kathy O'Keefe, Belinda Thrift and Kevin Sipp.
CAMPUS EVENTS
RTS/ATLANTA
Ministry Mondays - Tom Wood, network director of North Georgia Church Planting Network, and Bob Cargo, director of church planting at Perimeter Church, will discuss church planting in Atlanta at RTS/Atlanta, on October 10 at noon.
RTS/CHARLOTTE
Oct. 28: Fall Festival for RTS Community
RTS/HOUSTON
Oct. 9-11: Marriage Enrichment Weekend with Dr. Jim Coffield, associate professor of counseling at RTS/Orlando, sponsored by Christ Evangelical Presbyterian Church (CEPC) and RTS/Houston. The event will be held at CEPC.
RTS/JACKSON
Chapel is now on Wednesdays at 11:00a.
Wednesdays: Knitting and Needles, 7:00 p.m. at Mrs. Irwin's home.
RTS/ORLANDO
Mondays from 9:00a.m. to 10:00a.m.: Free Workshop on "Logos Academic Training" led by Dr. Mark Futato in Classroom 3.
Sept 29: Ministry Lunch for students titled "Rethinking Evangelism in Ministry- What's It All About? with Rev. Jim Hatch, Mission to North America's church planter development director.
Sept. 29: Preview Day for 35 prospective students.
Sept. 30 - Oct. 1: Women in Ministry (WIM) Retreat, Deerhaven Retreat and Conference Center, Ocala National Forest.
Oct. 5: President's Forum with The Honorable Scott Redd, Sr., US. Navy (Ret.), and cabinet member under President George W. Bush, along with Professor Scott Redd, Jr., Old Testament professor at RTS/Orlando and newly appointed president for RTS/Washington, D.C. The forums are at noon in the fellowship hall. The public is invited. Please RSVP with hdefrancisco@rts.edu if you would like lunch at the forum for a minimal cost.
Oct. 17-18: One School One Book - In honor of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, RTS/Orlando welcomes Leland Ryken, author of The Legacy of the King James Bible: Celebrating 400 Years of the Most Influential English Translation. One School One Book is a program that seeks to cultivate greater community life at Reformed Theological Seminary Orlando through corporate reflection on a recently published book of mutual interest and benefit. The program culminates each year with a “meet the author” event that includes a public lecture and book signing. Leland Ryken is a professor of English at Wheaton College.
Schedule for the Event:
Monday, Oct. 17, 7pm
“Ten Fallacies about the King James Version”: Lecture by Leland Ryken, followed by a book signing and reception
RTS Pamplin Chapel; book signing in the RTS bookstore
Tuesday, Oct. 18, 12-1pm
“Reflections on a Life with the King James Bible”: Q&A with Leland Ryken
RTS Campus during a community lunch
RTS/VIRTUAL
Upcoming dates for the Orientation Seminars are:
October 24-26 (Charlotte), January 12-14 (Houston), February 27-29 (Charlotte), and April 23-25 (Charlotte).
ALUMNI SNIPPETS
Do you have an alumni snippet to share? Have you published a new book? Send it to the editor, here.
Nathan Ahimbisibwe (MACE '05) is a chaplain of St. James Chapel, at the Makerere University Business School (MUBS) in Uganda. The school has a population of 13,000 students. He reports that many staff and students have become Christians. The university gave them land to construct a chapel and resource center. The Muslims and Roman Catholics were also given land. Last year a mosque was buillt on campus and then a Roman Catholic chapel was built. He says that work has started on the foundation of the chapel and resource center and prays God will provide the resources needed. He is appreciative of the RTS professors and their humility, and is grateful also for First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Miss., whose love and care is still ringing in his ears.
Scott Davenport (M.Div. ‘08) is working as a member of the Peru mission team. He and his wife Julie and their six children are in Arequipa studying Spanish at the ABC Español Language Institute. They are encouraged by the assortment of missionaries who come there from all over the globe. They have made wonderful friends and are encouraged to see those from Europe, about which they hear so much about spiritual dryness. All of Scott's children attend a Peruvian evangelical day school called Rey de Reyes (Spanish for King of Kings). It has been an adjustment for the children, but they have done well and enjoy their new friends and teachers. They ask for prayer for financial support.
Jonathan W. "Jonny" Dyer (M.Div. '10) is an associate minister for international students with All Souls Church at Langham Place in London, England. As an international student in the States, he experienced first hand many of the challenges of moving to a foreign country to study. But, he could not have guessed that the Lord would call him back to serve international students at All Souls. (Pictured right is Naomi, Jonny, Edward and Thomas Dyer.)
Edward "Eddie" Lim (M.Div. '10) was ordained as a teaching elder in the PCA on May 15, 2011, and was installed as an assistant pastor at New Church of Atlanta on July 10.
Jay Modha (M.Div.M. '01), a former Hindu, is a scientist, businessman and Bible teacher. After his brother converted to Christ in 1987, he disowned his brother and opposed the gospel. But following an encounter with Christ one night, Jay was powerfully converted in 1990. Read more about his story in a 1998 article of Reformed Quarterly (now called Ministry & Leadership) here. Jay is now in England and preaches the evening services for St. Peter's Church in the parish of Gaulby, Leicester.
Jeane Ch. Obadja (M.Div. '92, Th.M. '93) is teaching Old Testament seminars and actively facilitating small-group discipleship online and offline, in and out of town and country. Next year she will be teaching at PETRA University in Jordan, on discipleship to train disciplers in Batam Island, Indonesia, for one year and asks for prayers in this endeavor.
Allen Stanton (M.Div. '09) passed his ordination exam before Grace Presbytery in September and will be ordained October 10 at Waynesboro Presbyterian Church in Waynesboro, Miss, with Mike Francis (M.Div. '01) preaching.
Josh Walker (M.Div. '10) is working on a Ph.D. in New Testament at McMaster Divinity College under Dr. Stanley E. Porter. He has published a book review on Compact Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament that can be found here. He is teaching Freshman Greek at Canadian Reformed Theological Seminary.
Ian Wise (M.Div. '00), currently pastor of the First Reformed Presbyterian church of Durham, NC, will be installed as the organizing pastor of The Pageland Mission Church. This church is a new church development of the Great Lakes-Gulf Presbytery of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America (RPCNA). The organizational service will be held Oct. 8 at 10:30 a.m. at the Guest Lodge Motel in Pageland, SC.