WE HOPE TO RAISE A MILLION DOLLARS FOR STUDENT FINANCIAL AID BY YEAR'S END. WILL YOU HELP US? RTS hopes to raise a million dollars this month. If you did not receive our letter, you can read it here and read the flyer about our alumni here in pdf format. Thank you for prayerfully considering a gift to our Student Scholarship Fund. | December 5, 2013 | Issue #147 DATES TO REMEMBER December 25 - Merry Christmas from the RTS Faculty, Staff and Students! December 29 - RTS Faculty Panel at the Cross Conference in Louisville, Ky. (dinner hour) January 23-26 - Chancellor to speak at Pastors Conference in Jacksonville, Fla. January 28-30 - OnePassion Expository Preaching Conference with RTS alumnus Steve Lawson at RTS Orlando. |
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NEW YOUTH MINISTRY COURSE AT RTS/WASHINGTON DC Dr. Jim H. Byrne will teach Foundations of Youth Ministry on Wednesdays this spring at RTS/Washington DC from 10:00a.m.-noon, Feb. 15 - May 29. Byrne has over 35 years of service in various church and cultural settings. He is currently serving as minister of students at The Falls Church (Anglican)in Falls Church, Va. Registration is now open. RTS ONLINE REGISTRATION IS OPEN Registration for the upcoming winter term opened November 1. D.Min registration also opened Nov. 1. Registration for the spring term opened Dec. 1. Please keep our students in prayer as they are deep in study and are taking their final exams for their fall classes. Some of them will also be graduating at the end of this month. For a listing of courses, click here and select the campus of your choice. DEEP SOUTH FOUNDERS CONFERENCE RTS/Jackson hosts the annual Deep South Founders Conference. This year it will be held Jan. 16-18. The theme is "Christ the Mediator." Click here for more info. Organizer's note: Erroll Hulse will not be speaking and Geoff Thomas will preach an extra session. M&L DIGITAL MAGAZINE NOW AVAILABLE  Click here to view the digital version of the Ministry & Leadership magazine. Read a Bible study, devotional, interviews, articles about our alumni and find out where our faculty are speaking and the publications they have written. Sign up for the regular and digital versions here. This is a great option, especially if you are overseas. On this link you can also sign up to have the magazine delivered to your home, business or church. If you'd like to support the M&L magazine, click here.NEW GIVING SITE RTS has redesigned its giving site. Visit our page here. If you have questions about giving to RTS, please contact the development officer for the particular campus that interests you. Atlanta - Tom Campbell Charlotte - Charlie Dunn Jackson - Guy Richardson Orlando - Robert Emeott Washington DC - Scott Redd Houston - Tim McKeown Memphis - Brian Lewis Global - Andy Peterson Institution - Lyn Perez ELIAS MEDEIROS SPOKE AT CONFERENCE IN BRAZIL  In early November, Dr. Medeiros (pictured left with his wife Fokjenlena) spoke at the 14th annual Reformed Faith Conference in Manaus, Amazon, in Brazil. He gave three talks on "The True Gospel and All Nations." Medeiros is the Harriet Barbour Professor of Missions at RTS/Jackson. Also pictured is the pastor of the hosting church, Jaime Marcelino with his family (center) and Dr. Joel Beeke (Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary) with his wife Mary (right). CHANCELLOR TO SPEAK AT PASTORS' CONFERENCE Dr. Ligon Duncan will preach at the 28th annual Jacksonville Pastors' Conference at First Baptist Church of Jacksonville, Fla., on Jan. 23-26. The theme of the conference is "Feed My Sheep: The Call to Preach the Bible." See all of the speakers here. REFORUM AT RTS/WASHINGTON DC  A roundtable discussion with RTS/Washington DC faculty was held at McLean Presbyterian Church in Virginia in November. Pictured is: regular guest faculty Dr. Paul Jeon, regular faculty Dr. Scott Redd, Jr. (president), Dr. Chad Van Dixhoorn and Dr. Peter Lee, and then Geoff Sackett (admissions director and guest faculty). CHUCK HILL AND MIKE KRUGER RESPOND TO CRITICISM OF BOOK The Early Text of the New Testament was released last year. A review was written by David Parker in the Journal of Theological Studies in October. Dr. Chuck Hill and Dr. Mike Kruger responded, "It is gratifying to have David Parker’s review of ETNT (JTS 64 [2013]: 642-645) so relatively soon after publication, yet disappointing that most of the criticisms in his short review seem to have mistaken both the aims and the scope of the book. Here we would like to offer a brief response to some of his comments. Click here to read the complete response. RTS CHANCELLOR GIVES VIDEO REVIEW OF BOOK  From Heaven He Came and Sought Her is a new book released in November and according to the description, the book "stands as the first comprehensive resource on definite atonement as it examines the issue from historical, biblical, theological, and pastoral perspectives." Dr. Ligon Duncan, chancellor of RTS, has endorsed this book and gives a review in video form. Watch here. FREE EBOOK ON C.S. LEWIS The C.S. Lewis Institute is offering a free ebook on their site. Last month was the 50th anniversary of his death. His death in 1963 was overshadowed by the death of JFK on the same day. Click here to download this book. Dr. Don Sweeting, president of RTS/Orlando has two programs on his TAKE5 radio program on Nov. 19 and 20, in which he gives a lot of information on C.S. Lewis in 5 minutes on each broadcast. Or, read it on his blog here. CORRECTION There was a bad link on the last RTS E-Newsletter for one of the lectures by Kevin DeYoung at the John Reed Miller Lecture series at RTS/Jackson. Click here to listen to all of the lectures from the series. | Carl Chaplin (M.Div. '82) After serving with Mission to the World (MTW) for 20+ years, first in the Czech Republic and recently in Latvia, Carl has taken a new missionary position of ministry development leader with the Global Support Ministries of MTW. He is responsible for developing new evangelistic ministries world wide and helping to evaluate how short-term ministries can better serve the fields and Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) churches. Carl and his wife, Becky, will do other overseas ministries with MTW. Phil Davis (M.Div. '03)  Phil is pastor of Faith Community Church in Prague, Czech Republic, and is excited to report the church has become its own self-governing, particular church! Phil recalls in his newsletter, "I thought of our first scouting trip exactly 10 years before, where we prayed in front of a diapidated train station for God to raise up a church in Prague...which is now the beautiful building that we get to use for worship." He says, "I am full of humble thanks for how God has redeemed me, his child. I came to Prague with a big head and lots of scales covering my eyes. I didn’t even realize how big the cross was in my life, until God graciously, lovingly, removed some of my scales and revealed to me how much I needed Him." They currently offer two services at the church. Marco Escalante (M.Div. '11)  Marco was called to plant a church in Mexico City and they have named the church Cordero de Dios (The Lamb of God). Last month they averaged 80 people per service and their location holds 100 people. They have 80 chairs. Please pray for their need of more chairs. They also started a youth group last month. Marco's wife Diana is working in ministry to children and with their first children's Christmas program. Their son Marco Antonio is in college and works as a translator for the Christian ministry Compassion International. Esaie Etienne (M.Div. '04)  In November, Esaie, a missionary in Gonaives, Haiti, with Mission to the World (MTW) celebrated the 5th anniversary of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Gonaives. They ask for prayer that all five leaders serving in the church be fully trained, and ordained as elders and deacons in the next 1 1/2 years, and for Trinity to become particularized in the next 1 1/2 years. They also have a pastor and wife team (The Johnslys) in place to start a third church in Gonaives. They are excited that the Docine Christian Academy started in October with 302 students and 26 staff (pictured above). Jill Hadlock (MACT '03) Jill and her husband Jim are serving with Cru on The Jesus Film Project. They recently sent three recording teams to Kenya. Recording teams will soon leave for Tanzania and Madagascar. In all there will be four new JESUS films, one Magdalena and one Walking with Jesus language translations completed. More than 9.7 million people will soon hear and see the gospel and discipleship principles in their heart language. In June, the film Magdalena Released from Shame was launched in the Malagasy language. A group from Jill's church traveled to Madagascar partnering with an indigenous denomination, and hosted a retreat for more than 100 girls and staff of a girls' school. Two days after showing the film, over 50 girls came forward to receive Jesus as their personal Savior, many of them victims of human trafficking. Jake Hunt (M.Div. '07) Jake was installed as associate pastor of Faith Community Church in Prague, Czech Republic on Dec. 1. His very young daughter Eliza has been battling cancer and she has just finished her chemo treatments! Keep up with them here. James Midwinter (RTS Student) James wrote an article for Together, the magazine for the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches (FIEC) in the U.K. Click here and read his article on p. 23 on why he chose RTS. Jeff Schrage (M.Div. '13)  Jeff is the youth and family pastor at Christ Presbyterian Church in New Braunfels, Texas. They welcomed their third child, Lillian Patricia on Sept. 16 in Indianapolis, Ind. He began working in Texas on Oct. 1 and his family joined him a few days later. He asks for prayer for adjusting to the new location and for beginning life in the South Texas Presbytery. |
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RTS E-Newsletter iss. #147 December 5, 2013
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