Volume 27, Number 4 Winter 2004

Volume 27, Number 4 ? Winter 2004

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WINTER

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CONTENTS

Special Campaign Features

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Campaign Overview

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Sustaining the Seminary Fund

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Strengthening the Endowment

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Building a New Campus

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Campus Elevations and Construction Pictures

pg 11 Learning Resource Center and Bookstore

pg 12 Leadership Center and Chapel

pg 13 Administration and Counseling Center

pg 14 Progress Report

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Special Articles

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What Would Jesus Do With All Your Stuff?

Seminary Professor Craig Blomberg on stewardship of

our stuff

Raising Up Stewards

Vice President of Advancement Gary Hoag speaks to

the challenge

Departments

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Campus News

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Resources

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Chancellor¡¯s

Corner

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IN YOUR CHURCH

Pg. 6 Last year, 84 churches provided financial support to Denver Seminary.

Call today to learn how your small group or congregation can invest in one

or more future leaders.

Pg. 12 Did you know that four different church plants currently use our

chapel facility on weekends? This will continue on our new campus. How

about your church or parachurch ministry? Do you have space that could be

used to plant a new church?

Pg. 16 To learn more about raising up stewards, sign up for LD 612 ¨C

Stewardship and Resource Development. Pastors and lay leaders have found it

to be a very helpful class for learning biblical principles and practices.

Pg. 17 Heart, Soul and Money is a great book for your small group or bible

study if you want to expand your biblical view of possessions.

Gary Hoag

Cynthia McDowell

Dave McClellan

Karen McClellan

Hugh Fowler

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Ann Ackerman

Melanie Eagar

Taryn Jensen

Luanna Traubert

Stephanie Patapenka

Tom Morgan

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Relocating the Denver Seminary Community

During the summer of 2002, Carolyn and I relocated our household from Colorado

Springs to the town of Parker after months of enduring the home buying and selling

process. That move included two adults, the faithful family dog and way too much stuff! I

still remember all of the work and our resulting levels of exhaustion. Next came the work

to be done to live in our new community: finding a new church, changing auto licenses,

completing voter registration, selecting a new bank and the change of addresses. (Ironically,

all of the junk mail items found our new mailbox without ever receiving a change of

address form from us¡­ how did that happen?) Though we anticipated all the obvious

work, in the end a host of forgotten or unanticipated items still had to be completed before

our new house became our home.

President,Craig Williford

Imagine moving 900 current students, all the students and their families who live in the apartments, 21 full time

faculty, 60 adjunct faculty, 80 staff members, hundreds of mentors, 160,000 books, all of the archives, and truckloads of furniture, files, computers, etc.! Equally important are the closure processes needed to move the memories of almost 4,000 alumni and the hearts of thousands of partners who have faithfully prayed and supported

our mission over the past five decades.

The work of relocation is underway and has been for a number of months. We do not dread all these challenges

because we believe God guides our move, has provided our new campus and will empower us in this process.

We are not na?ve; this will require lots of early mornings, evenings, weekends and restless nights as we think

though all the details. With God¡¯s help and the continued dedication of all members of the seminary family, we

will build a new home for Denver Seminary and thrive¡ªnot just survive¡ªin the process.

Please continue to pray for God¡¯s leadership and strength for us. We hope to start classes in our new campus

home for fall semester of 2005, and the official ribbon cutting ceremony for the new campus is tentatively

planned for September 16, 2005. Please spread the word of what God is doing at Denver Seminary ¨C and plan to

visit us in our new home!

I hope that this issue of Focal Point will provide you with a comprehensive overview of all aspects of the

Equipping Leaders, Increasing the Impact campaign: building a new campus, sustaining the Seminary Fund, and

strengthening the endowment. In addition, I hope the articles on stewardship will provide a foundation and

framework for this $17 million campaign¡ªtruly a God-sized undertaking. And while this challenge is exciting,

the campaign is merely a means to an end. Our greatest and most privileged undertaking still remains¡ªand will

remain¡ªthe equipping of Godly leaders for God¡¯s glory!

For His glory,

Craig Williford

President

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Seminary Hosts

Leith Anderson

Leadership Conference

Seminary Crisis

Intervention Team Invited

to Beslan, Russia

Denver Seminary hosted the Leith

Anderson Leadership Conference Oct 12, 2004. The conference promoted the

development of leadership teams within the church and was designed specifically for teams of church leaders: elder

boards, church staffs, volunteer teams,

deacon boards, or ministry teams. Over

147 people participated from 18

churches. Leith Andersen, senior pastor

of Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie,

Minn. and alumnus of Denver

Seminary, taught plenary sessions titled

¡°Effective Church Leadership,¡± ¡°Vision

Casting and Communication,¡± ¡°Team

Building,¡± and ¡°Spiritual Formation

and Convergence.¡± In strategic workshops, facilitators guided the teams

through an understanding of each of

these areas, challenging them to take

action and apply their understanding to

their unique church or ministry context.

From Oct. 2-Oct. 12, four members of

Denver Seminary¡¯s Critical Incident

Stress Management (CISM) Team traveled to Beslan, Russia to provide counseling for the families and victims from

churches that were involved in the

Beslan School tragedy in Russia. The

team, consisting of Deb Ford, Chaplain

Kevin Grenier, Marcia Osteroos, and

Stephanie Patapenka, also provided

training for clergy and laity and Russian

national counselors to be able to provide on-going credible counseling and

crisis intervention.

The Seminary

received an official invitation from the

Russian Baptist Union.

¡°As a newly certified CISM team, we

never expected our first deployment to

be of such an intense magnitude and

need to be accomplished in an international setting with all the legal and cultural layers of complexity as well as the

spiritual and emotional needs of hurting families and friends! God certainly

paved the way for us to share our team¡¯s

talents and experiences with our

Russian sisters and brothers in their

¡®hour of darkness and need¡¯ and provided a circle of safety around our team in

the process,¡± said Dr. Jan McCormack,

Denver Seminary CISM team coordinator and Director of Chaplaincy and

Counseling Training Centers at the

Seminary.

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Denver Seminary¡¯s CISM team is a

unique, specialized crisis intervention

team under the umbrella of Denver

Seminary and the International Critical

Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF).

Most ICISF teams provide crisis intervention for emergency first responders

including police, medical and fire personnel. Denver Seminary¡¯s team is the

only ICISF team in the country that is

specifically designed to provide crisis

intervention to religious organizations

and institutions of higher education.

Several members of the 15-person team

are not only experts in providing crisis

intervention, but are also highly experienced in providing training on pastoral

crisis intervention. Some of these same

team members also provided crisis

intervention after the Columbine

school tragedy, which the Russians

identified as having many similarities to

the Beslan school tragedy.

The church in which the CISM team

served is located only 300 yards from

the school (pictured above). In that

church alone, of the 50-member Sunday

school, 33 children and one teacher

were taken hostage. The Sunday school

teacher, along with fifteen of those children, are dead or missing. Six of those

fifteen children were the children of the

two brothers who pastor the church.

¡°My heart went out to the two surviving

teenage daughters of Pastor Sergei.¡± said

Stephanie Patapenka, ¡°Having lived in

the culture, I understand the great gift of

hospitality that is foundational to the

culture and the stress that visitors can

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therefore place on people. With their

parents in the States together with their

brother who needed emergency surgery,

having lost two siblings and four close

cousins, these young women provided

non-stop hospitality to an enormous

number of visiting westerners, all who

came to provide help after the school

tragedy.¡± Patapenka added, ¡°The best

way that I felt that I could minister to

them at that moment was to take on

some of the hospitality role and just do

the dishes for them. I felt encouraged

the next day when they attended our

last training seminar and were able to

fellowship

with

their

friends.

Sometimes it is through the simplest

things that we can provide the best ministry.¡±

At a final lunch together before the

team left, the pastor, who lost four of

his five children, had this to say, "You

have come here and been with us in our

weeping. I have one daughter left. When

she gets married, you are all invited to

come to the wedding and join us in our

rejoicing."

Denver Seminary¡¯s

Distance Learning

in Demand

Due to student demand, two of Denver

Seminary¡¯s four online courses this fall

have two sections, and there are a total

of 138 online students! This is up from

the 107 online students in fall 2004.

Denver Seminary currently has nine

online classes that we offer annually.

The educational technologies department hosts four classes in the fall and

spring, and two in the summer session.

Students use our course management

system Moodle as their virtual classroom. (Please visit our Online Learning

page at

aboutus/online.php.)

Peterson¡¯s Distance Learning defines distance learning as ¡°the delivery of educational programs to off-site students

through the use of technologies such as

cable or satellite television, video and

audiotapes, fax, computer modem,

computer and video conferencing, and

other means of electronic delivery.¡± The

courses offered by the Seminary use a

variety of media. Two of the classes use

CDs, one uses a website, and the others

use streaming media which is mostly

Powerpoint with audio but in some

cases includes video. Each class has a

professor, and is not self-paced.

Students interact with the professor and

their fellow students through online

discussion forums and email.

Many people assume that students take

online classes because of their distance

from campus, and we do have one student in Korea and one in New Zealand,

as well as a number of students who live

in other states and cities including

Colorado Springs, Fort Collins and

Longmont. Some of our online students

even live on campus. However, for

many students, their choice to enroll in

distance learning is a time management

issue. Sometimes there is a schedule

conflict between two classes they need

to take. Due to the convenience and

increased demand, the Seminary would

eventually like to have most of our core

courses online, and we continue to add

a class or two each year.

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Dr. Joseph J. Edwards,

1907-2004

Former Denver Seminary professor, Dr.

Joseph J. Edwards, passed away on May

23, 2004 in Newberg, Ore. at the age of

96.

Upon his graduation from

Northern Baptist Seminary and Iliff

School of Theology, Dr. Edwards

became one of Denver Seminary¡¯s first

professors. He was a professor of first

year Hebrew and Greek, as well as a

professor of Old Testament studies. Dr.

Edwards retired in 1971. His wife,

Dorothy, passed away on Sept. 13,

2004. Mrs. Edwards served as the original librarian at the Seminary and continued to work in the library until the

Seminary moved to the Hampden

campus. The Edwards¡¯ celebrated their

76th wedding anniversary on April 30.

Their only child was Marilyn Madsen

who died of cancer while serving as a

missionary in Africa. As a community,

we acknowledge and are thankful for

the foundation that Dr. Edwards laid

for biblical scholarship at Denver

Seminary. Please join us in thanking

God for the legacy of Dr. and Mrs.

Edwards.

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