Volume LXXVII, No. 1 • January –April 2013 Rick Warren to Deliver Hester Lectures at the IABCU Annual Meeting June 2-4, 2013 in Riverside, CA ick Warren, pastor of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, the CBU Office of Institutional Research Planning and Assessment RCalif., will deliver all three Hester Lectures at the annual meet - that includes data from all IABCU regionally accredited member ing and workshops of the International schools who file federal integrated Post Secondary Education Data Association of Baptist Colleges and System (IPEDS) reports. Universities (IABCU, June 2-4, 2013. All Administrators invited to the annual meeting and workshops sessions will be held at California Baptist include: presidents, chief academic officers, financial officers, pub - University (CBU) in Riverside. The hotel lic relations and marketing officers, development officers, student for the meeting is the historic Mission Inn, affairs officers, denominational relations officers and others inter - also in Riverside. ested in Baptist-related higher education. President Ronald L. Ellis and first lady, A spouse tour and luncheon is being planned for Monday Jane D. Ellis, will be hosts for the meeting morning through early afternoon. that will begin with a plenary session on A special low hotel rate has been negotiated at $139 per night for Sunday afternoon and conclude on Rick Warren single or double occupancy plus taxes. Registration fee for the meet - Tuesday at noon followed by an optional golf outing at the Victoria ing is $295 for conference attendees. The fee includes two breakfasts, Club. Workshops and addresses include the annual legal affairs the business lunch and the reception and banquet and transporta - briefing by attorneys Jim Guenther and Jaime Jordan, an address tion to and from the hotel for sessions on the CBU campus. by President Ellis on the phenomenal growth of California Baptist Spouse registration is $65 for the tour and lunch, the reception University and a workshop on development by Ray Lynne, and banquet and a breakfast at the annual spouse workshop Lifestyle Giving, sponsored by the Southern Baptist Foundation. Tuesday morning . Mark A. Wyatt, vice-president for marketing and communica - To make hotel reservations and to register for the confer - tion at CBU, will give the results of a research project conducted by ence, go to the IABCU website at <www.baptistschools.org>. I Rick Warren: Pastor, Theologian, Global Strategist, Philanthropist ABCU 2013 Hester Lecturer R ick Warren is versities including Oxford, Cambridge, the and faith and ethics in culture. Ia pastor, theologian, global strategist, and Evangelical Theological Society, and the He originated the Global P.E.A.C.E. Plan philanthropist. University of Judaism. that networks local congregations, businesses, As a pastor, he founded Saddleback His six books are known for explaining and governments to address poverty, disease, Church in Lake Forest, California in 1980 theology in understandable ways, and have illiteracy, corruption, leadership, and spiritual with one family. Today the congregation has been translated into 56 languages. The emptiness. 123,000 names on its roll, and 23,000 in aver - Purpose Driven Church is listed in The 100 As philanthropists, Rick and Kay Warren age attendance each weekend on its 120-acre Christian Books that Changed the 20th give away 90 percent of their income to plant campus. Century and won the ECPA Gold Medallion. churches, equip servant leaders, assist the The church offers over 300 community He wrote The Purpose Driven Life which poor, care for the sick, and educate the next ministries to the poor, prisoners, addicts, became the bestselling hardback in American generation. those with HIV/AIDS, Down syndrome chil - history, according to Publisher’s Weekly . It has Warren was born in San Jose, Calif. He dren, single parents, and hundreds of other sold 32 million copies in English alone, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from groups. Pastor Warren also built the Purpose was the best-selling book in the world for California Baptist University, a Master of Driven Network, a global alliance of over three years, in over 50 languages. Divinity from Southwestern Theological 400,000 pastors and priests in 163 nations. As a global strategist,Warren regularly Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry degree Over 700,000 church leaders have participated advises international leaders in the public, pri - from Fuller Theological Seminary. Rick and in his training events. As a theologian, Warren vate, and faith sectors on, poverty, health, edu - his wife, Kay have three children and five has lectured at numerous seminaries and uni - cation, corruption, leadership development, grandchildren. I Contents Leadership Training 1 Rick Warren to Deliver Hester in Baptist Colleges and Universities Lectures 2 Leadership Training in Baptist The Baylor Seminar, May 19 –23, 2013 Colleges and Universities ne of the important programs university finances, legal issues, and 3 Comment Oaffiliated with the International the rewards and opportunities of aca - Association of Baptist Colleges and demic leadership. 4 Fall Enrollment at IABCU Schools Universities is the annual “Seminar The seminar features a balanced on Academic Leadership in Baptist mix of speakers, participant discus - 5 IABCU Annual Meeting and Universities,” held on the campus of sion, case studies, and other interac - Workshops Agenda Baylor University. tive methods. Enrollment for the This seminar is designed to be an seminar will be capped at forty par - 9 2010 –2013 Baptist College and alternative to secular versions of ticipants. To date, there are approxi - University Scholars leadership development, such as mately 200 alumni of the seminar, 10 Robertson, Farmer, Hester what one finds with the American virtually all serving in some leader - Educational Loans Council on Education (ACE) Fellows ship capacity in our Baptist schools. Program and the Harvard Institute The total fee for the seminar is 11 CGE Report for Educational Management (IEM) $500, which covers all seminar-relat - 12 Accrediting Body for Educator Program. While these are excellent ed costs except travel. Preparation programs in their own right, they To receive complete information 14 Legal Notes both lack one essential component— about the seminar, including the pro - the critical dimension of Christian gram, roster of speakers, and applica - 16 2012-2013 Annual Tuition at mission. tion form, please contact your chief IABCU Schools The Baylor seminar will be held academic officer or Julie Covington Vol. LXXVII, No. 1 on May 19 –23, 2013. The purpose of at the Center for Ministry January–April 2013 the seminar is to provide a unique Effectiveness and Educational and significant leadership develop - Leadership at Baylor (254-710-4677); Publisher: Michael Arrington, ment opportunity for those in col - <[email protected]>. Executive Director, IABCU leges and universities across the Managing Editor: Tim Fields, country that have a historical con - The application deadline Associate Director, IABCU nection with Baptists. is March 15, 2013. The Baptist Educator (ISSN 0038-3848) is a news magazine published three times a year for The seminar is an intensive expe - If you have questions about the administrators, faculty, staff, trustees and friends rience, condensing into five days a seminar, contact the director of the of member schools by the International host of issues that includes leadership seminar, Donald D. Schmeltekopf, Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities. 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If your institution needs legal counsel, a competent attorney should Baylor University, Waco, Texas, is the site of the 2013 Seminar on Academic Leadership in be consulted. Baptist Colleges and Universities set for May 19 –23. 2 The Baptist Educator Comment: “They’re all our children .” Michael E. Arrington Executive Director, IABCU —President Barack Obama December 16, 2012, Newtown, Connecticut ometimes events far away bring such has been relatively rare at IABCU schools. Unfortunately, unfathomable pain to our hearts that we evil can and does strike anywhere, and the horror of Sandy S Hook looms particularly large in the minds of Presidents, are at a loss for words to Student Affairs officials, Campus Security officers and oth - describe our feelings. ers charged with campus safety. The cowardly shootings at I feel that inadequacy as I write in the Sandy Hook Elementary School serve as a fearful reminder immediate aftermath of the senseless and that anyone