AGTS ALUMNI CONNECTION From the Office of Institutional & Alumni Relations February 2008 Keeping you connected! Volume 1, Number 12 In This Issue • Keeping Connected • Resources • What’s New? • Heritage Center • Books & Publications • Connect with President • Faculty News • Alumni News • Seminary Day • Upcoming Events Visit us online at www.agts.edu/alumni Contact Us Dorothea J. Lotter Director of Institutional & Alumni Relations [email protected] Deborah Fegler Coordinator [email protected] Phone: (417) 268-1022 Fax: (417) 268-1030 Assemblies of God Theological Seminary 1435 N. Glenstone Ave. Springfield, MO 65802 1-800-467-2487 www.agts.edu/alumni [email protected] Keeping Alumni Connected New Preaching Website Launched AGTS is happy to announce an online extension of the Center for Biblical Preaching program. The website is located www.karoox.com. ('Karoox' is simply a word play from the Greek stem 'to preach.') Karoox.com is dedicated to fostering biblically accurate and relevant preaching. The website is built around the Karoox blog which is a forum to address ongoing issues in contemporary communication both in relevance and substance. We encourage alumni to be a part of this online community during its introduction! Your input, insight, and experience is valuable to students heading into the ministry. Our ambition is for Karoox.com to become a place where all types of students, ministers, and church members can connect to offer ideas, encouragement, and discussion that will sharpen us and further the art of preaching. We look forward to your input and participation! Dr. Doug Oss (’80) Director of the Cordas C. Burnett Center for Biblical Preaching and professor of Bible Exposition Resources Sermons and Lectures Listen to the 2008 Day of Renewal services On January 24, AGTS fasted from work and classes to seek God. Listen to these services featuring church-planter Dr. Earl Creps (’02). Renowned biblical scholar challenges students with New Testament MissiologyYou can make an online gift now. Dr. Craig S. Keener (’87) highlights the issue of race and community as he shares his New Testament missiology. Prayer Focus: Each One, Pray One On March 10-11, the faculty, staff and students will call alumni to pray for you, your family, your ministry and special needs. No fundraising will be involved. Our goal is to pray and encourage you! What’s New? New AGTS Branch Campus AGTS launched a new branch campus, AGTS West at Capital Christian Center in Sacramento, CA. Dr. Charles Self is the branch director. For more information contact Barbara Touchstone in the CE Office at 268-1044 or [email protected] Alumni Step Up to Help Students A special thanks to every alum who sent a gift to provide scholarships through the Pentecostal Leaders Fund! You sent a clear message to current students with your gift. Year-end gifts increased 85% in 2007. Thank you! Alumni on Staff at AG Resource Center Flower Pentecostal Heritage Center (FPHC) The FPHC is the official AG archives, research center, and museum dedicated to preserving and sharing materials relating to the AG and the broader Pentecostal and charismatic movements. Their website includes free research tools, including: over 200,000 digitized pages of indexed periodicals; over 15,000 digitized historic photographs; and audio and video clips available for download. Users may search the online catalog collection, which contains over 55,000 entries. Three AGTS alums and two students are part of the team serving at FPHC. Darrin Rodgers (’98), has served as director since 2005. He also worked at Fuller Theological Seminary at the David du Plessis Archive and the McAlister Library. Darrin authored Northern Harvest, a history of Pentecostalism in North Dakota, and numerous articles in books and journals. His research interests include Pentecostal origins, ethnic aspects of Pentecostalism's development, and the intersection of Christianity and culture.Joyce Lee (’79), has served as the archivist since 1986. Born and raised in New Jersey, she is a third-generation Pentecostal. She assisted in the compilation of The Essential Smith Wigglesworth. Joyce previously worked as cataloger and coordinator of technical services at the AGTS library. Glenn Gohr (’84), reference archivist, has served the center since 1987. He is the copy editor for Heritage. Glenn has also written articles for various publications, including the New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements and has a broad knowledge of early Pentecostal history. Books and Publications Alumni Publications Gabe Lett (’03) recently published Let’s Get Together which explores the state of community in the Church today and offers sound biblical principles upon which to connect to the family of God. Click here for ordering information. Cheryl (Goodman) and Bill Gray (’84), U.S. missionaries, recently started a ministry to their discipleship classes to go beyond where they live and introduce them to aviation. They published a book entitled Extreme Passion which shares Bill’s testimony and stories of their ministry in Mobile, Alabama’s inner city. Check out these recent articles by AGTS alums. God Thinks Outside the Box: Thinking Creatively About Ministry by Dr. Cheryl Taylor (‘91/’03) in the AG Women in Ministry enewsletter. Visit online. Read the article Discipling Youth: A Bicultural/Bilingual Mission by Dr. Randy Walls (‘97/’04) in the Winter 2008 Enrichment. Visit the Enrichment Journal website. Connect with President Klaus Dr. Byron Klaus will be at the following events:March 14 March 17-18 March 24-26 March 27 AG U.S.Missions Commissioning Service, Springfield, MO ATS Church and Seminary Task Force, Chicago S. Cal. District Council, Anaheim, CA AGTS West, Capital Christian Center, Sacramento, CA Faculty News Dr. Ray Gannon (‘82/’84) taught two modular courses at The King’s Seminary in Los Angeles, The Spectrum of Jewish Religion and Isaiah and the Spirit of Prophecy. This was the official launch of their new Messianic Jewish Studies program. Dr. Edgar Lee and his wife Louise spoke at the fifth anniversary celebration of Renewal Christian Center in Mitchellville, MD. The church is pastored by alumnus Albert Appiah (’98). Sam Gyermeh (’06) is the music minister at the church. Alumni News Dr. Beth