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Besides
being an associate professor and the director of the Masters
in Evangelism and Leadership degree, Rick is also an Associate
Evangelist with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. Rick has
been in campus ministry for 20 years, regularly speaking and
ministering as an evangelist on campuses in many different parts
of the country. Rick is an ordained Anglican priest and served
for three years as Pastor of Evangelism and Small Groups for
Church of the Resurrection in Wheaton, Illinois, a church known
for its healing prayer ministry. Rick received his M.Div. from
Northern Baptist Seminary, studying with Ray Bakke, focusing
his studies in evangelism and urban ministry, and was Area Director
for InterVarsity’s Chicago Urban Ministry for a number
of years.
Rick seeks to bring together his passions for evangelism, prayer
and racial reconciliation in order to cast vision and equip
an emerging postmodern generation in ministry for the sake of
the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Rick also enjoys fly fishing, hiking in the Colorado mountains,
and reading fantasy literature. His secret ambition is to write
a science fiction/fantasy novel.
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Membership in Professional Societies |
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- Phi Beta Kappa
- Tau Beta Pi (Engineering Honors Society)
- Chairman, Chicagoland Concerts of Prayer, a network of
100 churches and pastors committed to pursuing united prayer
and joint outreach across metro Chicago
- Member National Advisory Council for Missions and Urbana,
IVCF
- Member National Advisory Council for Multi-Ethnic Ministries,
IVC
- Member Academy for Evangelism in Theological Education
- Advisory Council for the Billy Graham Center
- Executive Committee for the Proclamation Evangelism Network
- 2004/2005 Fellow for the Center for Theological Understanding
($10,000 award) at Trinity for PHD studies.
- Ordained Priest with Anglican Mission in America (Rwandan
Anglican Archbishop)
- Director of the Billy Graham Center Evangelism Round Tables
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- Evangelism in the Emerging Culture
- Spiritual, Social, and Cultural Capital in Short Term
Urban Mission Projects
- Christ and Culture
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- Reimagining Evangelism: Inviting Friends on a Spiritual
Journey. IVP, 2006.
- Reimagining Evangelism, DVD curriculum and Participants Guide, August, 2008.
- “Cross Cultural Preaching,” article in Zondervan’s
Encyclopedia of Preaching and in Leadership Magazine Spring
2005.
- Experiencing Healing Prayer: How God Turns our Hurts
into Wholeness, IVP, April, 2005.
- The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads
to Social Change, co-authored with Brenda Salter McNeil,
IVP, December 2004.
- Groups Investigating God Bible Study Series: Sex,
Spirituality, Finding God and Following After God (4
guides), IVP, 2002.
- Circles of Belonging, IVP, 2000.
- Evangelism Outside the Box: New Ways to Help People
Experience the Good News, IVP, 2000 (nearly 30,000
copies sold, being used in 10+ seminaries and colleges as
an Evangelism textbook).
- “The Angel of Chicago,” article in SCUPE Bulletin,
1991.
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