Clergy College takes shape

Graham Cray, Bishop of Maidstone and Bishop for Mission in the Diocese of Canterbury (England) is author of The Mission Shaped Church and will offer a total of five lectures on June 21 and 22. Two will look at Ecclesiology for Missiology. His other lecture topics are Enculturation and Post Modernity, Fresh Expressions of Church, and Ministry for Mission.

The second faculty member is Dr. Scott Gibson, the Haddon W. Robinson Professor of Preaching and Ministry, director of the Center for Preaching, and director of the Th.M. Program in Preaching, at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Massachusetts. He will offer four lectures, beginning Thursday evening, June 22, and continuing on Friday, June 23. He begins with Getting the Idea From the Text, carries the process through Shaping the Idea From the Text and Presenting the Idea From the Text. He concludes his lecture series with The Text-Shaped Sermon.

Bishop Cray was previously vicar of St. Michael le Belfrey in York, and the principal of Ridley Hall Cambridge, a Church of England Theological College. He is chairman of the Soul Survivor youth ministry, and chaired the working party that wrote the General Synod report Mission-Shaped Church. His special concerns are for mission and church planting, gospel and culture, and the theology of renewal. His wife Jackie is also ordained; they have two adult daughters.

Dr. Gibson is an ordained Baptist minister, past-president and co-founder of the Evangelical Homiletics Society and a member of the Academy of Homiletics, and the Evangelical Theological Society. He is the author of two books on preaching, has written numerous articles for books and journals, and is editor of The Journal of the Evangelical Homiletics Society. Dr. Gibson's personal interests include contemporary issues in preaching, pastoral ministry concerns, the history of preaching and the history of evangelicalism, and discipleship. He and his wife, Rhonda, live in Beverly, Massachusetts.

Detailed information on the Clergy College and registration will be available soon on the diocesan web site http://anglican.nb.ca.   Visit the Clergy College website.