Posted on August 12th, 2008 by Dr. Larry Perkins
Other tags: Church • Elders • Leadership
Categories: Board • BoardTalk • Church
What is the essential principle or presupposition that guides the Carver Policy Governance model? A volunteer board in a non-profit institution must “provide strategic leadership, it must clarify policies and expect organizational activities to give them life.”1 The key question the board must answer, according to Carver is this – What human needs are satisfied [...]
Posted on June 13th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • Culture • God • Gospel • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Missions • Northwest • Prayer • Seminary • Theology
Categories: Cultural Issues • Missiology
Jarrod Haas is a student in the Cross-cultural Leadership Training Program, CLTP @ Northwest, working towards an undergrad level diploma in preparation for cross-cultural ministry among Asians. CLTP is a one year, mentored, experienced based program that prepares the student for Master’s level seminary studies as well as equips them for ministry either internationally [...]
Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Bible • Church • Cross • Culture • God • Gospel • Jesus • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Missions • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: Cultural Issues • Missiology
Jarrod Haas is a student in the Cross-cultural Leadership Training Program, CLTP @ Northwest, working towards an undergrad level diploma in preparation for cross-cultural ministry among Asians. CLTP is a one year, mentored, experienced based program that prepares the student for Master’s level seminary studies as well as equips them for ministry either internationally [...]
Posted on June 6th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Bible • Church • Cross • Culture • God • Gospel • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Missions • Northwest • Prayer • Scripture • Seminary • Theology
Categories: Cultural Issues • Missiology
Jarrod Haas is a student in the Cross-cultural Leadership Training Program, CLTP @ Northwest, working towards an undergrad level diploma in preparation for cross-cultural ministry among Asians. CLTP is a one year, mentored, experienced based program that prepares the student for Master’s level seminary studies as well as equips them for ministry either internationally [...]
Posted on June 4th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • Culture • God • Jesus • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Missions • New Testament • Northwest • Prayer • Seminary • Theology
Categories: Cultural Issues • Missiology
Jarrod Haas is a student in the Cross-cultural Leadership Training Program, CLTP @ Northwest, working towards an undergrad level diploma in preparation for cross-cultural ministry among Asians. CLTP is a one year, mentored, experienced based program that prepares the student for Master’s level seminary studies as well as equips them for ministry either internationally [...]
Posted on June 2nd, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • Culture • God • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Missions • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: CLTP • Cultural Issues • Missiology
Jarrod Haas is a student in the Cross-cultural Leadership Training Program, CLTP @ Northwest, working towards an undergrad level diploma in preparation for cross-cultural ministry among Asians. CLTP is a one year, mentored, experienced based program that prepares the student for Master’s level seminary studies as well as equips them for ministry either internationally [...]
Posted on May 29th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Bible • Church • Cross • Culture • Discipleship • God • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Missions • New Testament • Northwest • Old Testament • Religion • Seminary • Theology
Categories: _Uncategorized
Program Outline
FIRST STAGE: Diploma in Cross-Cultural Leadership - (30 credits)
Fall Semester (12 credits)
This Semester is completed in a Canadian intercultural ministry setting
CCT 401 The People of God and the Practice of Ministry (4)
CCT 402 A Biblical Theology of World Missions (4)
CCT 403 World Religions (4)
Spring Semester (12 credits)
This Semester is completed with the Gateway Trax [...]
Posted on May 28th, 2008 by Mr. Loren Warkentin
Other tags: Church • God • Jesus • Ministry
Categories: ACTS Seminaries • Graduation
Graduation this year was held at South Delta Baptist Church. It was a beautiful day for a graduation and the celebration was memorable. Our graduation speaker was our own president, Dr. Larry Perkins. He summarized his address this way:
The theme ACTS has adopted this year is “Come together, Go Further.” By [...]
Posted on May 26th, 2008 by nav
Other tags: Church • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: _Uncategorized
General Videos
Northwest Promotional Video
Best Practices for Church Boards
Introductory Video
Posted on May 26th, 2008 by nav
Other tags: Church
Categories: _Uncategorized
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Posted on May 8th, 2008 by Dr. Larry Perkins
Other tags: Church • God • Holy Spirit • Jesus • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Scripture • Seminary • Translation
Categories: Book Reviews • Leadership • MinistryTalk
Dan Allender has provided a provocative look at several serious aspects of ministry leadership in his book “Leading with a Limp.” He writes primarily out of his experience as the founder of Mars Hill Graduate School located near Seattle. His thesis is clear: “to the degree you face and name and deal with your failures [...]
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: board • Church • governance
Categories: Calendar
[ Saturday, November 1, 2008; 12:00 pm; ] CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD REGISTRATION FORM
The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in British Columbia and Yukon
The Ministry Centre
The Church Development Commission
The Northwest Baptist Seminary
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BEST PRACTICES FOR CHURCH BOARDS: Basic Workshop
…The Spiritual Ministry of Board Governance…
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Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Missions
Categories: Calendar
[ Saturday, February 28, 2009; 12:00 pm; ]
Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Missions • Seminary
Categories: Calendar
[ Saturday, February 21, 2009; 12:00 pm; ] Code of Best Practices for Church Mission Mobilizers
Best Practices Workshop information
Posted on April 17th, 2008 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: Church • God • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry
Categories: NCLD
When we first began to address the health of church leadership through the Best Practices for Church Boards workshops, it didn’t take long to realize the wide range of potential that existed. Soon after the first workshop, the need to train individuals for board leadership was expressed … answered by the [...]
Posted on April 10th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Bible • Church • Cross • Culture • Jesus • Leaders • Leadership • Prayer • Seminary
Categories: Cultural Issues • Culture • Leadership • Missiology
The Power Distance Contrast
In Pakistan there is a strong tradition of "holy men" who are called Pirs. One day I had a visit from a young man who informed me that he was the Pir of his village. I was puzzled by this because he was dressed in modern clothes and did not have the [...]
Posted on April 4th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • Culture • God • Seminary
Categories: Church • Culture
In the book UnChristian (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2007), which deals with research from the Barna group, David Kinnaman refers to a survey which asked the participants to agree or disagree with the statement, “Christian churches accept and love people unconditionally, regardless of how people look or what they do” (p. 185). 20% of [...]
Posted on March 12th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Leaders • Missions • Northwest • Prayer • Seminary
Categories: Church • Missions
Best Practices for Church Missions Workshops Photos
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Immanuel Abbotsford
“Thank you for the great workshop. Our missions focus is struggling and we found it to be so helpful and encouraging. The questions and exercises were well thought out and gave us good direction, as well as the prayer focus throughout. We [...]
Posted on March 11th, 2008 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • God • Missions • Prayer
Categories: _Uncategorized
Further comments from the March 1 (Victoria) and March 8 (Lower Mainland) workshops
Thank you for the great workshop. Our missions focus is struggling and we found it to be so helpful and encouraging.
The questions and exercises were well thought out and gave us good direction, as well as the prayer focus throughout. We found it [...]
Posted on February 28th, 2008 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: Church • God • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Theology
Categories: Ministry • Preaching
One of my greater joys comes from time shared with my “A-Team” which I affectionately call the tiny band of brothers and sisters in our CLD Affinity Group. The group has grown over the years to several dozen, each called by God into a wide array of ministry in the church. They study hard. The [...]
Posted on February 15th, 2008 by Dr. Larry Perkins
Other tags: Church • God • Jesus • Leaders • Leadership
Categories: Board • BoardTalk • Church • Leadership • Ministry
When you are seeking additional people to serve as part of the church board, what aspect should receive most attention – skill, experience, character or attitude? Certainly Paul warns us not to ask a novice in the faith or someone who has not had experience in leading a family to fill this role. So experience [...]
Posted on February 12th, 2008 by Mr. Loren Warkentin
Other tags: Church • Missions • Northwest • Prayer
Categories: Internet • Website 101
WordPress is a great CMS (Content Management System) platform for a church website and web design as it is extremely flexible and very easy to use. Part of this flexibility comes from WordPress’ ability to take advantage of the programming skills of people from around the world who have designed various small add-on applications for [...]
Posted on February 8th, 2008 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: Church • God • Holy Spirit • Leaders • Prayer
Categories: Prayer
When I had once mentioned that I collected prayers, a friend quickly sent me a copy of the Prayer of Jabez, a book written by Bruce Wilkinson in 2000 based on a prayer found in I Chronicles 4:9-10: And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh that you would bless me indeed and [...]
Posted on February 4th, 2008 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: Bible • Church • Fellowship Baptist • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: NCLD
In November of 2005 we held our very first Best Practices for Church Boards workshop. At the time, it seemed to be the right thing to do and the right way to do it. Two years later, what seemed to be right has proven to be monumental. As of November, 2007 we [...]
Posted on January 29th, 2008 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other tags: Church
Categories: Bible Study • Conversion
This Sunday marked the second installment in a four part series that our pastor is preaching through entitled "LO$T." The dollar sign in the title is purposeful. The series is all about the dangers of becoming lost as a result of things and the pursuit of them.
He began with a question, "Why do you have [...]
Posted on January 25th, 2008 by Dr. Larry Perkins
Other tags: Church • God • Gospel • Holy Spirit • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry
Categories: ChurchTalk • Leadership • Seminary
In 2007 Amal Henein and Francoise Morissette published Made in Canada Leadership. Wisdom from the Nation’s Best and Brightest on Leadership Practice and Development. They argue that "in each of us rests the potential for leadership, but the response and measure depend on us….We are all called to lead"(58). They discovered that parental influence and [...]
Posted on January 15th, 2008 by Mr. Loren Warkentin
Other tags: Church • Northwest
Categories: Website 101
You may have noticed the new look to the Northwest website this month. Over the past several months I have been testing a number of new possibilities for our site in order to make it more friendly to navigate, more functional in terms of accessing the information and resources we provide here and hopefully more [...]
Posted on January 11th, 2008 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other tags: Church • God • Marriage • Prayer • Seminary
Categories: Bible Study • Discipleship • Faith • Marriage
Over the Christmas holiday, Rita and I received a long distance call from our eldest daughter Trish in Aberdeen, Scotland . With great excitement she announced, "Pete and I are engaged!"
The journey to this moment of family joy has been nothing if not exciting and a challenge to faith.
From their very earliest years, we as [...]
Posted on January 8th, 2008 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: Church • God • Leaders • Leadership • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: _Uncategorized
All of the Editions of the Best Practices for Church Boards are designed to equip Congregational leaders to serve with excellence. The Advanced Edition focuses on one key, critical issue. This year we will address the role of the Board and the Pastoral staff in the crucial process of making good and [...]
Posted on January 8th, 2008 by Dr. Larry Perkins
Other tags: Church • Gospel
Categories: Board • BoardTalk • Church
Behaviour will often make the difference between just being a church board member and being a productive church board member. People may know the rules about playing volleyball and participate in the game, but without passion, concentration, commitment and desire to work collaboratively, they will rarely excel and be productive with the team. Similarly a [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2007 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: Church • Fellowship Baptist • Leaders • Leadership • Northwest • Prayer • Seminary
Categories: _Uncategorized
The focus of the Best Practices for Church Boards: Basic Edition workshop is on three elements: giving clarity as to the function of a church board; offering practical ideas about ways to help a church board to function effectively; providing an opportunity to spend concentrated time on seeking solutions to key issues critical to [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2007 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: Church • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: _Uncategorized
…NOW THAT I’M A CHURCH BOARD MEMBER…
**Best Practices for Church Boards: **The Personal Edition Workbook
NOW THAT I’M A CHURCH BOARD MEMBER: Workbook for New or Prospective Church Board Members (Book on CD, recorded lectures covering 5 chapters on DVD]
By Dr. Larry Perkins and Dr. Lyle Schrag
List Price: $30.00
Editors Comments:
Serving [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2007 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: Church • Culture • God • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Northwest
Categories: _Uncategorized
“Leadership Training for the sake of Ministry…”
The Leadership Culture Church: What are the marks of a Leadership Culture Church? How does a congregation design a blueprint for developing leaders from the ground up?
“The Local Church is by design the most effective incubator of spiritual leaders [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2007 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: Bible • Church • Discipleship • God • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: _Uncategorized
I think that God may be calling me to take my ministry to another level…
I sense that God may be calling me into some kind of ministry…
I can’t help but think that God has something more for me…
BUT HOW CAN I KNOW FOR SURE?
Questions like this are being asked by men and women of all [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2007 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: Church • Cross • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Seminary
Categories: _Uncategorized
Over the last couple of years I have compiled a massive list of internet resources. The amount of material that is available is huge. Some of it is helpful, a lot of it…well, it’s the internet after all.
As I’ve looked for material to use in Leadership Development, one of the best sites I’ve found comes [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2007 by nav
Other tags: Church • Fellowship Baptist • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: _Uncategorized
In March, 2003, the FEBBC/Y Theological Education Taskforce issued an executive summary of ways to enhance the effectiveness of pastoral training in Fellowship Baptist churches. The first and primary recommendation addressed the issue of Ministry Leadership Development: that the Seminary [Northwest Baptist Seminary] and FEBBCY expand their focus and adopt the integrative, competency-based model for [...]
Posted on December 28th, 2007 by nav
Other tags: Church • Cross • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Missions • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: _Uncategorized
Centre for Leadership Development (NCLD)
Director: Dr. Lyle Schrag
NCLD operates at the intersection between the Seminary, local church and denominational ministry centre and serves to support good relations among these entities, so that together we can encourage the equipping of emerging ministry leaders within our churches. The traditional Seminary serves a very small percentage of the [...]
Posted on December 21st, 2007 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: Church • God • Holy Spirit • Prayer
Categories: Bible Study
There seems to have been a revival of interest in ancient forms of spiritual discipline, notably in the area of prayer. From the early Church, the day was marked by regular hours. As early as the Didache in 60 A.D. Christians were encouraged to pray with regularity – the Lord’s Prayer three times a day, [...]
Posted on December 15th, 2007 by nav
Other tags: Alumni • Church • Cross • God • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: _Uncategorized
Welcome Alumni! Our hope is that you will find this website a great resource for you. Click on the links to the left or follow the drop-down menu from the top to select areas of interest to alumni. Here is a greeting from Dr. Larry Perkins, our president.
Northwest is enjoying its 66th year of educational [...]
Posted on December 13th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Culture • Gospel • Seminary • Theology
Categories: Cultural Issues • Culture • Evangelism • Hermeneutics • Missiology
Everyday Theology: How to Read Cultural Texts and Interpret Trends
Edited by Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Charles A. Anderson, Michael J. Sleasman. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007. 285 pages, $29.99, paperback.
Most of our churches in the Fellowship are not missional, but communal in orientation. That is, their primary orientation towards the community in which they are placed [...]
Posted on December 12th, 2007 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: Church • Jesus • Leaders
Categories: Christian Life
Over the last couple of years, I’ve found myself increasingly distressed by the quality of evangelical worship, or lack thereof. It’s gotten to the point where I have to discipline myself from ranting over the loss of the deep symbols of our faith, the absence of holy moments and spiritual drama, and the general illiteracy [...]
Posted on December 6th, 2007 by Dr. Larry Perkins
Other tags: Church • God • Gospel • Jesus • Leaders • New Testament
Categories: New TestamentTalk
Considerable discussion is occurring about the appropriate way to define an "Evangelical". John Stackhouse (Church and Faith Trends volume 1, issue 1, EFC website) proposes a definition that includes the following elements: orthodox and orthoprax, crucicentric, biblicist, conversionist, missional, and transdenominational. There is much to commend such a definition, although personally I think it emphasizes [...]
Posted on December 4th, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • Culture • Jesus • Seminary
Categories: Cultural Issues • Evangelism • Missiology
The Common hunger of Humanity
What we as human beings search for and value in life is the “meaningful” and the “good.”
With regard to the “meaningful,” we are always trying to make sense of our world. Hopelessness, which is what we seek to avoid, is the antithesis of the “meaningful” and happens when the [...]
Posted on December 3rd, 2007 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: Bible • Church • Cross • Jesus • Leaders • Ministry • Seminary
Categories: Church
As full disclosure, I should confess that I’ve been a fan of Willow Creek before Willow Ceek was Willow Creek. In the mid-1970’s the youth pastor of my home church in Park Ridge, Illinois was a Trinity College student named Bill Hybels. I always enjoyed coming home on holidays from Seminary just to see [...]
Posted on November 25th, 2007 by Mr. Loren Warkentin
Other tags: Church • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: Internet • Website 101
WordPress is a web authoring software package that is designed to be easy to use and free for the downloading. The creators of the software describe WordPress as follows: "WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless [...]
Posted on November 23rd, 2007 by Mr. Mark Naylor
Other tags: Church • Cross • Gospel • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Northwest • Seminary
Categories: CLTP • Church • Cultural Issues • Evangelism • Leadership
Joy’s (1) emotional pain was evident as she related her move from her family’s mono-ethnic Chinese church to a multiethnic congregation. She felt guilt as if she had somehow betrayed her home church.
Bob pastored a multi-ethnic congregation but was frustrated by his inability to recruit leadership from certain groups.
Jane enjoyed belonging to a church [...]
Posted on November 22nd, 2007 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: Church • Gospel • Religion
Categories: Athiesm
I seem to have hit a theme this month. My eye keeps catching the flashes of debate being generated by the modern merry band of atheists. In a recent Journal of Religion and Society, Gregory Paul, a paleontologist, whose specialty appears to be the study of dangerous creatures [Predatory Dinosaurs of the World], decided to [...]
Posted on November 19th, 2007 by Dr. Kenton Anderson
Other tags: Church • Seminary
Categories: Preaching
One of the problems I have observed is that some of us think we preach better than we actually do. Truthfully, most of us probably suffer from that problem. If I’m honest, I’d probably have to admit that I have a higher sense of the effectiveness of my own preaching than what the listeners might [...]
Posted on November 16th, 2007 by Dr. Larry Perkins
Other tags: Church • God • Leaders • Leadership • Ministry • Prayer
Categories: BoardTalk • Leadership
At our recent "Best Practices for Church Boards Workshop" held in Langley, one of the groups attending had also participated in the first workshop we presented two and half years ago. What was remarkable to note was that none of the members of that church board were the same. Over that short period of time [...]
Posted on November 15th, 2007 by Mr. Loren Warkentin
Other tags: Church • Northwest
Categories: Internet • Website 101
You have a message you want to deliver; you have a specific audience that you want to target; you develop a cool website for this purpose and then you do a search - and if it shows up at all, your shiny new church website is buried 20 pages deep into the search engine’s list. [...]
Posted on November 13th, 2007 by Dr. Lyle Schrag
Other tags: Bible • Church • God • Jesus • Ministry • Prayer
Categories: Athiesm
In the last few months, I have encountered a number of people who seem “taken” by the current campaign to promote the message of atheism. Such books as God is Not Great, and The God Delusion seem to suggest that there is something solid to the life and belief of the unbelievers. Which is why [...]
Posted on November 9th, 2007 by Dr. Brian Rapske
Other tags: Church
Categories: Culture • Issues of the Day
The news in our city about gang wars and violence is deeply disturbing.
Over the past several weeks news articles and reports have been featured regarding a particularly gruesome targeted gang hit on six individuals at a high rise apartment complex. Four of the individuals were young men deeply involved in the drug trade and well [...]