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January 2004
Back Issues
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New Trustees and Associates elected
The Emmanuel Board of Trustees and Associates in Christian
Education held their annual meeting October 22-23, 2003. The
following individuals were elected as new Trustees: Doug Edmonds
from Philomath, Ore.; Ann Fulk from Carmel, Ind.; and David Ray
from Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Associates in Christian Education have elected the
following new officers: John Huff, Chairperson, of Canton, Ohio;
Richard Grover, Vice Chairperson, of Metairie, La.; and Gary
Knapp, Secretary, of Bristol, Tenn. The following individuals were
elected as new Associates: Rebecca Alexander from Jonesborough,
Tenn.; Tracy Brininger from Columbus, Ohio; Jerry Clinkscales from
Pearland, Texas; Richard Harper from Fayetteville, Ga.; Jeff
Holloway from Scottsbluff, Neb.; John Marr from Las Vegas, Nev.;
Richard Plew from Malabar, Fla.; Charles Pyke from College Park,
Ga.; and Roger Rodich from Bixby, Okla.
Coming
soon!
Western Student Scholarship Dinners
Hosted by our churches in the Western states, the annual
Western Student Scholarship Dinners raise tuition aid for students
coming to Emmanuel from the West. Be on the lookout in future Clipboards
for specific dates and places of dinners in your area!
Beginning March 13, 2004, Dr. C. Robert Wetzel featured speaker :
Ø Seattle, Wash. South
Ø Seattle,
Wash. North
Ø Portland,
Ore.
Ø Salem,
Ore.
Ø Eugene,
Ore.
Ø Roseburg,
Ore
Beginning April 25, 2004, Dr. Thomas F. Jones, Jr. featured
speaker :
Ø Twin Falls, Idaho
Ø Meridian,
Idaho
Ø Enterprise,
Ore.
Ø Grangeville,
Idaho
Ø Pomeroy,
Wash.
Ø Bend,
Ore.
‘Transfiguration of Christianity’ to be the subject of 2004
Kershner Lectures
Mark your calendars to attend the 2004 Kershner Memorial Lectures April
27-30 at Emmanuel.
Our guest speaker will be Dr. Brian Stanley, Director of the Henry Martyn
Centre of Westminster College, Cambridge.
Dr. Stanley will speak on The Transfiguration of Christianity: Insights
for Christian Mission Today from the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh
1910.
Lectures will be held at 10:45 a.m. each day in Emmanuel’s Mildred
Welshimer Phillips Memorial Chapel.
Meditation:
Help when your
heart hurts
By David A. Chapman, MDiv ’03
“We know that just as you share in our
sufferings, so also you share in our consolation. We do not want you
to be unaware, brothers and sisters, of the affliction we
experienced…”
2 Corinthians 1:7b-8a
Recently, an elderly woman in our town woke up in the morning and
discovered her husband was missing. However, he had left her this
note on his pillow:
“I think I might be having a heart attack. But I didn’t want
to wake you. I’m going to drive myself to the doctor. Don’t
worry!”
On reading this note, the woman hurried out of the house and
drove all over town looking for her husband. She went first to one
doctor’s office, and then another. Then she went to the hospital.
No one had seen him.
Her panic increased. Had he collapsed on the way? Finally, not
knowing what else to do, she returned home. And there, in the yard,
was her husband-raking leaves! “Oh,” he said, “I felt better,
so I decided not to go to the doctor after all.”
Of course, she took him to the doctor immediately! It turned out
that he really was fine. But the story could have ended so
differently.
When we hear that story, we can’t help but react with
amazement. Here is a man whose wife loves him deeply. She would have
been happy to help him in his moment of need. How could he have been
so foolish as not to call on her?
But how many of us have done something similar, when we are in
spiritual or emotional anguish? How many of us have gone it alone,
when we most needed to call on someone else?
Like that man, we have our excuses as to why we don’t call on
others; but they make no more sense. 1 Corinthians 12 says that we
are members of the Body of Christ. Even if we think we are
unimportant to the body, or if we don’t see our part in the body,
that doesn’t change the reality-every part belongs and is cared
for by the body as a whole.
Most of us would be surprised at how much those around us really
do care and do want to help. God intends for us to lean on each
other. Don’t be afraid to call on someone to “share in your
sufferings.”
Book
Review:
The Jesus Proposal: A Theological Framework for Maintaining the Body of
Christ
By Rubel Shelly and John O. York
Siloam Springs, Ark.: Leafwood Publishers, 2003
Reviewed by C. Robert Wetzel
President and Professor of Ethics and Philosophical Theology
It is a rare occasion when a book can deal so specifically with the
concerns of a particular Christian communion, and yet have such general
application to the church at large. Rubel Shelly and John York have done
just this in The Jesus Proposal. They speak out of their deep
commitment to the heritage in which they have ministered. And they attempt
to understand that commitment in the light of a world that has
substantially changed in the past 50 years. A convincing case is made for
the surprising relevance of the historic plea of the Restoration Movement
in a world that has moved from modernism to postmodernism.
Although the book gives a window to the struggles for renewal taking
place within the Churches of Christ, recounting those struggles serves as
a mirror for those of us in other circles. And we are not left with simply
being able to identify with the problems; we are given a theological
perspective that enables us to deal with the problems. And this
theological perspective is so biblically obvious!
The Restoration Movement has sometimes been referred to as the Second
Reformation. In which case what I see in The Jesus Proposal is a
remarkably helpful application of the reformation motto, Ecclesia
reformata semper reformanda, “the Church reformed always in need of
being reformed.”
You may purchase a copy of this book in the
Emmanuel Bookstore .
Contact 423-461-1545 or email bookstore@esr.edu.
Clipnotes
MIKE BRADFORD (’65–’71)
has published his first novel, Under the Bridge and Back Again: The
Winthorpe Mysteries, Part 1, a murder mystery available through
1stbooks.com. The novel is first in a series, with The Hole in the
Bottom of the Sea to follow soon. Mike is a healthcare executive and
professional speaker and resides in Bardstown, Ky., with his wife, Julie.
CHARLES CARMAN (’66–’68) has served as chaplain of Lubbock
Cancer Center in Lubbock, Texas, for the past three and a half years.
Charles has ministered to the patients and employees at Lubbock Cancer
Center, a private treatment facility that values prayer in the healing of
body and soul, since his retirement as senior minister of Raintree
Christian Church in Lubbock. Charles and his wife, Roberta, reside in
Lubbock.
STEVE CARPENTER (MDiv ’93) and his wife, Kay, will celebrate 10
years of missionary service with CMF in Latin America in April 2004. They
will be on furlough from July 2004–2005 and will reside in Johnson City,
Tenn., for that time.
LAVERN E. CLARK (MDiv ’83) serves as a Chaplain for the U.S. Army
and relocated from Fort Sill, Okla., to Fort Sam Houston, Texas, in
December 2003.
BRUCE COLSON (MDiv ’71) and his wife, Neide, and their two
children, Jonathan and Victoria, are on a six-week sabbatical which began
in November. They will travel to Brazil for a time of rest, renewal, and
reflection and will fellowship with Iran da Costa (MAR ’88) and
his wife, Neuza. Bruce has served with First Christian Church in Green
Bay, Wis., for the past 12 years.
TERRY L. FIGGINS (MDiv ’76) and his wife, Ardith, joined the
staff of Impact Ministries, International. IMI is a worldwide spiritual
formation, spiritual disciplines, prayer journey, and campus ministry
parachurch organization, headquartered in Odessa, Fla.
TIM FIGGINS (’94–’99) was married to Vanesa Olivera on
November 22, 2003, in Argentina, where they serve as missionaries with
Envoy Christian Mission in Buenos Aires.
CALVIN HABIG (MDiv ’83) received his D.Min. degree from Fuller
Theological Seminary in the fall of 2003. Cal serves as Minister at Tigard
(Ore.) Christian Church.
CLINTON J. HOLLOWAY (MAR ’98) recently compiled the history of
First Christian Church, Nashville, Tenn., where he serves as Associate
Minister. The book is in honor of the congregation’s fiftieth
anniversary, and the title is “The Past is Prologue, A Jubilee History
of First Christian Church, Nashville, Tenn., 1953–2003.”
JOHN LEFFLER (MDiv ’86) serves as Minister at Castle Rock (Wash.)
Christian Church. The church celebrated its sesquicentennial in October
2003 as the oldest Restoration Movement Christian Church in the state of
Washington.
JOSE MARTINEZ (MDiv ’03) and his wife, Raquel, will move to
Oxnard, Calif., in January to partner with Christian Missionary Fellowship
and Stadia, a church planting organization. They will minister to the U.S.
Hispanic population in that area.
TIM MCINTOSH (MAR ’92) and his wife, Vicki, began their seventh
year of ministry with First Christian Church, Dalton, Ga., on October 28,
2003.
STEVE MOORE (’88–’01) received the Master of Science in
Ministry degree from Pepperdine University. Steve serves as Minister of
the Cherry Lane Christian Church in Meridian, Idaho, where he resides with
his wife, Beth.
RYAN NICHOLS (MDiv ’99) has served as Associate Pastor of West
Salem Christian Church in Salem, Ore., for the past 4½ years and
continues to minister to youth, families, and adults. Ryan and his wife,
Krista, are preparing to travel to Russia to adopt two children.
LYNN POTTENGER (MDiv ’93) serves as a missionary with CMF-Kenya
and will return to the United States in July 2004 for a nine-month
furlough. She hopes to live in the Johnson City, Tenn., area after
mid-August.
DAVID ROOT (MDiv ’70) recently accepted a position as General
Editor of Cascade Books, a new division of Wipf & Stock Publishers in
Eugene, Ore.
DOUG ROUSE (’91–’92) is employed by the technology company
Ixia and resides in West Hills, Calif., with his wife, Jennie, and two
children, Katie and Michael. Doug serves as Children’s Deacon at West
Valley Christian Church and heads up the Children’s Church on Sunday
mornings.
CHRIS SMITH (’00–’03) serves as associate minister of the
Christian Church Buckhead (Atlanta, Ga.), a new church plant temporarily
located at the site of the former Gold Club, a notorious adult
entertainment establishment in Atlanta. The church plans to hold its first
services in early 2004 and will continue to lease the Gold Club building
until it is razed in the spring.
GREG SUMMERS (’97–’99) moved in September 2003 to the campus
of Saint Andrew’s School in Boca Raton, Fla., where he continues to
serve as a history teacher.
GREG TATUM (MDiv ’90) accepted the position of Senior Minister of
First Christian Church, Columbus, Ind., in December 2003, and resides in
Columbus with this wife, Linda.
Faculty
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JACK B.
HOLLAND will teach
a six-week parenting seminar, Communicating Faith to Your
Children, at First Christian Church, Johnson City, Tenn.,
January 7–February 11; he will participate in a lay
counseling training seminar at Cherry Lane Christian Church,
Meridian, Idaho, January 21–28; and he continues to preach
twice monthly at Sonlight Christian Church in Greeneville,
Tenn.
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ROBERT F.
HULL JR. will participate in the Forum for Lilly
Endowment Programs for Strengthening Congregational
Leadership in Indianapolis, Ind., January 6–7. He will
teach the combined Salt/Church and Community Class at
Grandview Christian Church in Johnson City, Tenn., January
11. Dr. Hull reviewed the book, The Canon Debate, Lee
Martin McDonald and James A. Sanders, eds., Peabody, MA:
Hendrickson, 2002, in Journal of Early Christian Studies 11/4
(Winter, 2003), 565–567.
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THOMAS F.
JONES JR. will teach for Stadia’s church planting lab
in Peachtree City, Ga., January 5–9; attend Stadia
Southeast retreat in Orlando, Fla., January 12; attend the
church planters’ retreat in Orlando, Fla., January 13–15;
host a church planting assessment center at Emmanuel
February 24–26; and coach church plants in New Orleans,
Charlotte, Lexington, Cherokee Co., Ga., and Bluffton, Ga.,
during January and February.
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FRED W.
NORRIS’s book Christianity: A Short Global History,
Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2002, was named one of five
books “Essential for Missiology” by the October 2003
issue of Missiology: An International Review published
by the American Society of Missiology.
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ROLLIN A.
RAMSARAN continues to teach an in-depth study of Paul’s
letter to the Romans for the Koinonia class at Grandview
Christian Church in Johnson City, Tenn. He published an
essay on “Paul and Maxims” in the volume, Paul in the
Greco-Roman World: A Handbook, ed. J. Paul Sampley, pp.
429–456, Harrisburg: Trinity, 2003. Dr. Ramsaran also
published the essay “Resisting Imperial Domination and
Influence: Paul’s Apocalyptic Rhetoric in 1 Corinthians”
in Paul and the Roman Imperial Order, ed. Richard A.
Horsley, pp. 89–101, Harrisburg: Trinity, 2004.
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BRUCE E.
SHIELDS
will be in Tübingen, Germany,
February 6–10, where he will encourage the missionaries
there and present a scholarly paper at the Kolloquium für
Graduierte. February 12–19 he will be with former Emmanuel
student Abraham Thomas in Madurai, India, to teach the local
evangelists. February 21–29 he will preach to the annual
convention of the Kuki Christian Church in Manipur, India, and
teach at Trulock Seminary, where current D.Min. student Alet
Khongsai teaches. From there he will go to Chiang Mai,
Thailand, where he will teach at Lanna Christian College from
March 1–6, and then to Seoul, Korea, where he will lecture
to the faculty and graduate students at Seoul Christian
University and preach in chapel on March 9. He will return to
Johnson City on March 17. Dr. Shields published an article,
“Response to David Fleer’s Preaching in Churches of
Christ: Moving Toward a Theology,” in Leaven (Volume 11,
Number 4, Fourth Quarter 2003). Dr. Shields is on sabbatical
for the 2004 calendar year.
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Emmanuel
on the Road
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DAVID FULKS will
travel to Canton and Toronto, Ohio, Atlanta Christian
College, Auburn University, Georgia Tech, Emory University,
Ocala, Fla., and to the Florida Collegiate Retreat in
January. In February David will travel to Johnson Bible
College, the Gatlinburg Collegiate Conference, Great Lakes
Christian College, Purdue University, and to Nashville,
Tenn.
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DAN LAWSON will
travel to South Florida in January; to Arizona and Houston,
Texas, in February; and to the Dallas area in March.
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JEFF MCNABB will
travel to Richmond, Va., and Baltimore, Md., in January. He
will travel in East Tennessee in February.
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JERRY
RUDBERG will travel in the Seattle, Wash., area, as well
as Portland and western and central Oregon in January.
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C. ROBERT
WETZEL will preach for Christian Fellowship Church,
Kingsport, Tenn., January 4 and will attend the Lilly
Endowment Forum in Indianapolis, Ind., January 6–7. He
will preach for First Christian Church, Tallahassee, Fla.,
January 25, and will attend the meeting of Christian
Standard Contributing Editors in Orlando, Fla., January
26–28. Dr. Wetzel will preach for First Christian Church,
Tarpon Springs, Fla., February 8.
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DMin Quote of the Month
By Dwight Young, D.Min. ’02
“After finishing the D.Min.
program, I can honestly say that Emmanuel is a place that helped
me grow in ministry and as a person. The program was broad and
offered much that enriched my ministry and my gifts.”
For more information about Emmanuel’s
Doctor of Ministry degree program, contact Melissa Noble by
email at noblem@esr.edu, or
by calling 1-800-933-3771.
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