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ON the COVER Trinity's Library Houses a Collection of Rare Bibles, Including These, Written in Somali and Arabic Seed & Harvest TRINITY SCHOOL FOR MINISTRY SPRING/SUMMER 2020 ON THE COVER Trinity's Library houses a collection of rare Bibles, including these, written in Somali and Arabic. Read the full story on p.14. SPRING/SUMMER 2020 1 IN THIS ISSUE Seed & Harvest 3 From the Dean and President VOLUME 42 | NUMBER 2 5 A Shared Vision, A Gospel Partnership PRODUCTION STAFF 6 The Ministry of Hospitality [email protected] 7 New Life in an Old Church Executive Editor 8 Ministry Apprenticeship: Preparing Students The Very Rev. Dr. Henry L. Thompson III [email protected] to Serve Their Callings General Editor 10 Trinity News Mary Lou Harju [email protected] 12 Renewal Past and Present Editing 13 Trinity and the Renewal Movement Deanna Hall 14 Trinity Library Houses Rare Collection Layout and Design Alexandra Morra 15 New Wineskins Mission Conference: A Call to Pray 16 Summer InterTerm 2020 SOLI DEO GLORIA 18 In Recognition 21 Trinity Travels 22 In Memoriam 23 A World Well Lost 24 Using Technology to Find the One Thing Necessary 25 Trinity: A Community of Formation 26 Money Follows Ministry 27 Good Giving Starts With a Good Plan Dean and President The Very Rev. Dr. Henry L. Thompson III 28 Alumni News [email protected] 30 From Our Bookshelf Academic Dean Dr. Erika Moore Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from [email protected] The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®), copyright Dean of Administration © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Stacey Williard Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. [email protected] Dean of Students and Proofreading by: the Rev. Geoffrey Mackey, Kim Spencer, Director of Alumni Relations Mary W. Thompson, Dr. Leslie Thyberg, and Debra Yarger, The Rev. Geoffrey Mackey using The SBL Handbook of Style, The Chicago Manual of [email protected] Style, and the Trinity School for Ministry Style Guide. VISION STATEMENT Seed & Harvest is published biannually by Trinity School for Ministry, www.tsm.edu. Free subscriptions are available Trinity School for Ministry is an evangelical seminary in the through Trinity’s Development Office. Quantity orders of Anglican tradition. In this fractured world, we desire to be a Seed & Harvest are usually available upon request. Reprint global center for Christian formation, producing outstanding permission: Where copyright is stated, you must contact the copyright holder. In most cases, Trinity will grant per- leaders who can plant, renew, and grow churches that make mission to reprint items published here provided that they disciples of Jesus Christ. are reprinted in their entirety, credit is given to the author and to Seed & Harvest, Trinity’s web address and tele- phone number are included, and a copy of your publica- To this end we are forming Christian leaders for mission. tion is sent to the Communications Department at Trinity. All contents ©2020. 2 SEED & HARVEST From the Dean and President In this fractured world, we desire to be a global center for Christian formation, producing outstanding leaders who can plant, renew, and grow churches that make disciples of Jesus Christ. TRINITY SCHOOL FOR MINISTRY VISION STATEMENT The Very Rev. Dr. Henry L. Thompson III Dean and President At Trinity School for Ministry, we have always been committed to three aspects of mission and ministry. Dear Trinity Family, The first aspect addresses that which is new and has never been done before, namely the planting of new At the time of publication of this issue of Seed and churches. We form leaders who can start new work Harvest, our lives have been turned upside down by the and create a ministry where there had not been one COVID-19 pandemic. We have had to quickly identify previously. Perhaps an obvious example of new church how to work, teach, learn, play, and pray in new ways. planting is the account of Peter at Caesarea in We did not have time to rewrite this whole issue, and we Acts 10. God spoke to Cornelius, the Roman centurion, hope you will understand that we continued with the in a vision and told him to invite Peter to his house planned edition. You will see, though, that our honoring to teach. Cornelius invites friends and relatives to of our seniors this year and our June InterTerm offerings hear Peter. Peter, in the meantime, had been given his had to be addressed differently in response to the stay-at- own vision pointing him to start a church among the home orders from our governor. Gentiles, whereas prior to that moment he had been focused on Jews exclusively. When the Holy Spirit fell, We at Trinity are praying for good health, strength, and both Cornelius and Peter had been instrumental in the peace for you and your families. We are grieving the Spirit’s establishing of new work; they were church death of the police chief in Ambridge, a good friend of the planters. School's, from COVID-19. We pray for family members of faculty, staff, and students who have been hospitalized The third aspect of our vision is to recruit and train or have symptoms. We ask that you keep us in your leaders who grow churches. The assumption here is prayers as well, as through this, we continue to pursue that a local church is fundamentally healthy but in need of the energizing teaching of Holy Scripture, our mission for God’s kingdom. the breaking of bread, and the empowering life of prayer and worship to continue its path to maturity. A robustly growing church seeks to present everyone as “mature in Christ” (Col 1:28) so that “all attain to the I stared at the front seat of my Jeep. Many years of unity of faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, wear and tear had left the leather and vinyl looking to mature manhood…” (Eph 4:13). The leaders who are dry, cracked, and worn. Just as I began wondering being trained at Trinity are being equipped to help if it was time to replace my vehicle, the attendant healthy and robust churches through strong pastoral at the service station handed me a small bottle. He leadership, effective worship planning, and thoughtful encouraged me to pour it onto the upholstery and rub biblical teaching and preaching. Our graduates will it in. I did so obediently but inwardly wondered why be filling pulpits that will be left vacant due to future I was bothering. The results were immediate, and I retirements. found myself enjoying seats that looked shiny and felt almost brand new. ...continued SPRING/SUMMER 2020 3 Were you just about to pick up the phone to tell me I Renewal in its best sense is not simply an emotional or skipped over the second key aspect? Fear not. It is this subjective experience. My definition of renewal, shaped by second component of mission and ministry to which lived experience, is this: the release of the Holy Spirit in I seek to draw our attention in this edition ofSeed & such a way as to awaken and empower the mission of God Harvest. What is renewal and why do we seek it? In in the people of God through a fresh love for God’s word, the 1970s, many of us assumed that there were enough a revitalized passion for Jesus Christ, and fresh energy to churches available, but the challenge resided in the fact serve him in a lost world. that congregations had lost their life, vitality, and sense of divine purpose. These congregations had lost sight In closing, I want to share with you an important example of the “word of the cross [that] is folly to those who of renewal at Trinity School for Ministry. A local pastor are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the approached me and shared that her congregation wanted power of God” (1 Cor 1:18). In those days we saw many to sell their church building. The fellowship of some 30 congregations come alive as the fresh outpouring of the people simply didn’t need a space that could hold 10 times Holy Spirit enlivened and reinvigorated congregations that many people. The congregation was willing to sell that had been at the point of death. at a very modest price, as long as the building could be used for ministry rather than commercial purposes. In the In this issue, Dr. Stephen Noll and Dr. William Witt share days that followed I, along with several Board members, some of their reflections looking back upon this era where alternately agonized and prayed over what to do. In the so many churches and individuals grew excited about the midst of this process, I found my prayer list from 2012 renewing work of the Spirit. I was personally touched by and suddenly realized that this church answered all seven many of these leaders who saw new love for Christ and criteria for what I had been praying for Trinity. I also his mission flourish. realized that the church had the infinite potential for the seminary’s efforts to train students both locally and from One of my friends and mentors was the Rev. Terry Fullam, afar. In so many ways, this was a renewal project that who assumed the mantle of leadership in the Connecticut would help us grow into our identity as a global center for suburb of Darien. Under his teaching, we saw the church Christian formation. explode beyond its walls and pack a school gymnasium, the only local space large enough to house the I hope you will join this chapter of renewal for Trinity reinvigorated throng of worshippers on Sunday morning.
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