Personal Call and Statement of Vision
To glorify God through the facilitation of racial harmony particularly in the Christian Church. I will use specific teachings and principles in the Scriptures and the wisdom of life experience to teach and model to white Christians and Christians of color the fact that it is essential to appreciate the racial, ethnic and cultural variety God has placed in His body, the church.
Education
1991 Doctor of Ministry in Biblical Counseling, Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1979 Master of Divinity, Biblical Theological Seminary, Hatfield, Pennsylvania.
1973 Bachelor of Science in Education, East Stroudsburg University, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
Teaching Experience
1994-Present Assistant Professor of Education, Northwestern College, St. Paul, MN. Developed and taught Biblical Foundations for Race Relations each quarter for the past three years.
Redeveloped and taught Human Relations Multicultural Education. This is a state required course for education majors in Minnesota. There is a heavy emphasis in this course on the problems presented in public school curriculum by the secular Multicultural movement. This course traces the origins of the Multicultural movement and recasts the valuable components in the movement into biblical categories. I have taught this course for the past three years at Northwestern.
Case Studies in Biblical Counseling is a upper level Christian Education course which is currently being offered at Northwestern College.
1993 Counseling Methodology is an upper level counseling course taught to psychology majors at Eastern College, St David?s, Pennsylvania.
Counseling experience
1983-89 Co-pastor of 400-member suburban church in Wayne Pennsylvania.. During my pastorate at Calvary Fellowship I did from 8-12 hours of week of pastoral counseling. 1989-91 Counseling practice in a private drug and alcohol center in West Chester Pennsylvania. Although substance was the presenting problem the counseling included a spectrum of issues from family to personality disorders.
1989-93 Counseling practice in a private Christian Counseling Center in Wayne Pennsylvania. While at Life Counseling Center I address the spectrum of counseling issues.
Other related teaching experiences
Director the office of Racial and Ethnic Diversity on Campus at Northwestern College. As the director of this office for the past two years I have been responsible for exposing the faculty and administration to education relevant to race relations. This has included the presentation of papers at faculty meetings as well as bringing in speakers who can lead us in dialog relevant to racial reconciliation. As Director of the REDOC office, leadership was given to the college for the development of an inner city satellite campus. The goal for the satellite campus is to make the resources of the college and a Christ centered education, economically, culturally and geographically accessible to people of color in the central city communities. Classes are to begin in the fall of 1997.
Pastoral experience: In 1980 I did church planting in a black community in Norristown, Pennsylvania. From 1983-89 I was the co-pastor of a large suburban Philadelphia church. I shared the pastor?s responsibility with a white co-pastor. In 1989, I planted another church this time for the Evangelical Free Church of America. The church was a well-integrated work. From September 1993 to November 1996 I pastored Salem Evangelical Free Church in South Minneapolis MN.
Evangelical Free Church leadership. I have presented workshops for the Free Church at our national conference and conferences in two districts .. In the Eastern District I was appointed to lead the task force of racial reconciliation. I currently serve on the Board of Directors for the North Central District where we are currently working on a plan for more diversity in the district churches.
Next year february marks Black History Month,and for that CAC with consultation from BSU and MSP is bringing in Rev Dr Jamel Harrison-Brynt to speak as the Key note speaker for the BHM. This man has been met and listened to b4 by me,Tasha,Dione,Ricky Hall,just to mention a few at the 23rd Pan African Student Leadership Conference at Mankato where he was the Key note speaker as well.He is an associate pastor of an 11,0000 seating capacity church as well as the National Youth Director for the NAACP. He is the first youngest AMERICAN to receive a doctorate in divinity and serve on a lot of international and national committees.Infact he also serves on the Scholarship Fundation Bill Gate has just created for Minority Students.