Church Renewal in the 21st Century
Date: October 10, 200711 a.m. (Bowie Chapel)
Speaker: Dr. Howard Snyder
Howard A. Snyder served as Professor of the History and Theology of Mission in the E. Stanley Jones School of World Mission and Evangelism at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky, 1996–2006. Previously he taught at United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio, and served as pastor in Chicago and Detroit. Currently he serves as Distinguished Professor, Chair of Wesley Studies, at Tyndale Seminary in Toronto. Howard was born in the Dominican Republic to U.S. missionary parents. He is a graduate of Spring Arbor Junior College (1960), Greenville College (1962), and Asbury Theological Seminary (1966). He completed his doctorate in historical theology at the University of Notre Dame in 1983. From 1968 to 1975 he served as pastor and seminary professor in São Paulo, Brazil, with the Free Methodist Church. Howard’s books include The Problem of Wineskins (1975), The Community of the King (1977; rev. ed., 2004), and The Radical Wesley and Patterns for Church Renewal (1980). Other books include EarthCurrents: The Struggle for the World’s Soul, published by Abingdon Press, and Radical Renewal: The Problem of Wineskins Today, a revised edition of The Problem of Wineskins (2005). He is the editor of Global Good News: Mission in a New Context (Abingdon, 2001) and the author, with Daniel V. Runyon, of Decoding the Church: Mapping the DNA of Christ’s Body (2002). In 2006 he published the biography Populist Saints: B. T. and Ellen Roberts and the First Free Methodists (Eerdmans).

Holy Spirit in Pauline Theology
Dates: February 21, 2008 (Bowie Chapel)
Speaker: Dr.Gordon Fee
Dr. Gordon Fee is Professor Emeritus of New Testament Studies, Regent College. Gordon currently serves as the general editor of the New International Commentary series, succeeding the late F.F. Bruce, as well as on the NIV review committee. Dr. Fee is a noted New Testament scholar, having published several books and articles in his field of specialization, New Testament textual criticism. He also published a textbook on New Testament interpretation, co-authored a book for lay people on biblical interpretation, as well as a scholarly-popular commentary on 1 and 2 Timothy and Titus, and major commentaries on 1 Corinthians and Philippians. He has just completed a major work on the Holy Spirit in the letters of Paul. An ordained minister with the Assemblies of God, Dr. Fee is well known for his manifest concern for the renewal of the church. Dr. Fee is married and has four married children.

Christianity and Public Service
Date: November 29, 2007 (Bowie Chapel)
Speaker: Dr Gary Goforth
Dr. Goforth is currently Director of Medical Education and Family Medicine Residency Program Director at Self Regional Healthcare in Greenwood, SC. He also serves as Medical Director of the Greater Greenwood United Ministry Free Medical Clinic He holds the B. A. (Physics) from Vanderbilt University and the M.D. from Vanderbilt School of Medicine in 1980 He was named South Carolina Medical Association Physician of the Year for Service and received the Halford Award for Humane Medical Education.

Spring Missions Emphasis Week
Dates:February 12 - 14, 2008 11 a.m. (Bowie Chapel)
Speaker: Frank Van Dalen, Executive Director, World Witness
World Witness is the Board of Foreign Missions of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. Evangelism, discipleship, church planting and ministries of mercy have been the focus of World Witness since 1859. This year World Witness Programs are active in Mexico, Pakistan, Berlin, Istanbul, Moscow, the Persian World and Asia through a Cooperative Agreement with Evangelism Explosion. Cooperative missionaries of World Witness also serve in Brazil, Mexico, Spain and Korea.

Sermon on the Resurrection
Date:March 26, 2008 11 a.m. (Bowie Chapel)
Speaker: Dr. Marvin McMickle
Dr. McMickle serves as the Senior Pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland, Ohio and as Professor of Homiletics at Ashland Theological Seminary. He holds the B.A. from Aurora College; the M. Div. from Union Theological Seminary; the D. Min. from Princeton Theological Seminary; and the Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University. He is an Advisory Board member of The African American Pulpit and The Living Pulpit and featured columnist for Sermon Seedlings in the National Baptist Voice. He is also Contributing Editor of I Can Feel My Help: African American Preaching 1645-2002: A Norton Anthology. Dr. McMickle is the author of several books including . Star Book for Preachers (2006, Judson Press), Where Have All the Prophets Gone? The Decline of Prophetic Preaching in the American Church, (Pilgrim Press, 2006), Encyclopedia of African American History for Young People (Judson Press, 2007). Dr. McMickle has been married to Peggy Lorraine Noble since 1975 and they have one son, Aaron who is a middle school teacher in New York City. In addition to delivering our Annual Sermon on the Resurrection, Dr. McMickle will conduct a workshop on sermon delivery in the African-American tradition.

Annual Spring Conference
Date: April 16-17, 2008 Whitesides Pastors' Institute
Speaker: Dr. Richard Allen Farmer
Dr. Richard Allen Farmer is a classically trained pianist, concert artist, and Bible expositor whose itinerant music and preaching ministry has taken him to hundreds of churches and dozens of countries. He graduated from Nyack College with a Bachelor of Music degree and from Princeton Theological Seminary with a Master of Divinity degree. He has been awarded the honorary Doctor of Divinity degree by Gordon College (1996) and the honorary Doctor of Sacred Theology degree by Houghton College (1999). Prior to his present ministry he served as a senior pastor of the Bethany Baptist Church and as Dean of the chapel at both Gordon College and Taylor University. Very much committed to being a global Christian, Farmer has ministered in dozens of countries, including England, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Australia, Guinea, Peru, Kenya, Canada, the Philippines and throughout the United States. Farmer resides in Dallas, Texas, with his wife, Rosemary, and son, Timothy.

Robinson Lectures
Date: April 16-17, 2008 Topic: 60th Anniversay Celebration of the Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Speaker: Dr. Peter W. Flint
Dr. Peter W. Flint received his Ph.D. (1993) in Old Testament and Second Testament Judaism from the University of Notre Dame and is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute at Trinity Western University in British Columbia. He is the author of numerous studies on the Dead Sea Scrolls, including the critically acclaimed The Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls and the Book of Psalms (E. J. Brill, 1997), co-author of the widely-read Dead Sea Scrolls Bible (Harper San Francisco, 1999), and of The Meaning of the Dead Sea Scrolls (Harper San Francisco, 2003), winner of the Best Book award from the Biblical Archaeology Society in Washington, DC. Dr. Flint serves as a General Editor of one series on the Old Testament: The Formation and Interpretation of Old Testament Literature (E. J. Brill), as well as three series on the Dead Sea Scrolls. He has also edited over 25 Dead Sea Scrolls for three volumes in the internationally acclaimed series Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (Oxford University Press).