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Personal Update & The Adrian Rogers Legacy Library
Posted by David Rogers in Church & Missions
For those of you who may have followed my personal life and ministry to any degree, I want to take the prerogative of sharing a personal update, as well as an exciting announcement.
After 19 years of missionary service to Spain (including the last two years in which we have been on Stateside Assignment and Leave of Absence), Kelly and I have come to a decision to officially resign from the International Mission Board. Our hearts are still very much committed to the advance of God’s Work around the world, and, in a special way, with the people of Spain, and the many dear friends we have there. We also remain supportive of the work of the IMB, and continue to pray God’s richest blessings on all of our colleagues who continue to serve Him through this strategic organization that God is continuing to use in mighty ways around the world. However, through various circumstances, God has made clear to us in the past months that, for the welfare of our family, we need to spend the next season of our lives living in the United States.
On the heels of this painful decision, God has graciously provided an opportunity for me to continue in fulltime ministry with the Adrian Rogers Pastor Training Institute. Among other projects in which I am involved, ARPTI has recently finished production of the 14-session, 10-DVD, “What Every Pastor Ought to Know” training course in Spanish. There are some exciting opportunities opening up in the near future to carry these materials to Latin America, and join hands with national Christian leaders, to train pastors on a wide-scale basis in various countries.
Another project on which I am dedicating significant time at present is the production of the Adrian Rogers Legacy Library. The following paragraphs, lifted from the Adrian Rogers Legacy Library website, give a brief overview of what this is all about…
The family of Adrian Rogers, along with the Adrian Rogers Pastor Training Institute, announces the formation of the Adrian Rogers Legacy Library. The goal of the Adrian Rogers Legacy Library is to capture the entire lifetime sermon output of Dr. Rogers in a state-of-the art online format.
This sermon library, when finished, will contain the full notes and transcripts of over 4000 sermons by Adrian Rogers, along with streaming audio and video, all in a fully indexed, cross-referenced and searchable format. Library “members” will be able to search Dr. Rogers’ entire body of work by keyword, topic, theme, scripture reference, “Adrianism,” and illustration.
It is a great blessing for me, at this time of my life, to be able to sit at the very same desk at which my father used to work, and spend hours editing texts and materials, knowing that these materials will help to keep his legacy alive, and touch lives for the advance of God’s Kingdom for years to come, both here in the States and around the world.
I would like to invite you to click here and visit the Legacy Library site, and learn more about this monumental project, as well as access a dynamic 5-minute video clip overview
There is also a 2-minute video clip, featuring Dr. James Merritt, presenting an exciting opportunity to become a part of the Legacy Library team, that can be accessed here.
If you would like to learn more about the overall ministry of the Pastor Training Institute, you should click here.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for your prayers for me and my family in this new season of our life and ministry. I hope to keep you posted from time to time, as God continues to lead us and we seek to be obedient to Him.
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David and Kelly,
I thank you for your witness and faithful service with the IMB in Spain. I have a brother in-law living in Spain and can attest to the difficult situation that you faced all those years. David of all the Pastors on these Blogs, you have always been in my Top Three and have been the One under Attack by some who dare to call themselves Christians. May God continue to Bless You in what He has in store for You. I know your Father’s in Heaven are saying “IN HIM WE ARE WELL PLEASED”.
Wayne and Irene
David,
Best wishes in the new jobs.
Mike
Brother David,
Sounds like a great work you will be doing! I’ll keep up with the progress. Good stuff!
Blessings,
Chris
Thanks for the update. Its good to hear how God is moving (and has moved) in your life.
David, I am so grateful for your service as missionaries to Spain. But I am tremendously excited and happy to hear of the leadership of God in your life to organize the work of one of the greatest preachers of SB history. This is such a blessing to read. I read your father’s devotionals regularly and watch his televised sermons as often as I can. The DVD series for pastors is so heartening to hear. I pray for the success of it.
May God continue to bless your ministry with your father’s legacy to us all. I love the fact that you get to sit at the very desk his hands touched and he bowed his head in prayer to his heavenly Father. It’s a wonderful image. selahV
p.s. and may God bless your family.
Thank you very much to all for your support and prayers.
I was interested to read what you had to say about “What Every Pastor Ought to Know” training course in Spanish. How do you envision this training taking place? Through contacts with national Baptist conventions? I think this kind of thing would be well received here in Ecuador, but would like to hear how it might play out. Is this a weekend kind of event? Self-taught at one’s own pace?
Guy,
Thanks for your interest.
Ideally, this would be done as a 2-3 day event. There are 21 hours of video content, but it is not necessary to show the entire 21 hours. We have done this already in the States, Kenya, India, Nigeria and Ethiopia. We use a big screen for the video, and try to schedule time for discussion and questions. I think it is best to network with local leaders and plan the specific format with them. This fall, we are working on lining up some events in Venezuela. I would love to see this happen in Ecuador as well.
Ideally, we would like to find local pastors who can take responsibility, and train them to carry on the ministry of putting on training events. With my missionary/church planting background, I can envision this also dove-tailing with church planter training, and vision-casting for local pastors to sponsor new church plants and/or evangelistic small groups, similar to what Wade Akins does with his Pioneer Evangelism training.
David,
Thanks for the response. Sounds interesting. I hope to meet with the President of the Ecuador Baptist Convention in the coming days and will run this by him to see if they might be interested in doing this as part of a convention-wide effort. Dr. Rogers is widely known and respected amongst the evangelical community here (mainly through the voice-over radio broadcasts) and they might jump at this kind of opportunity. I’ll get back with you if we get any response.
Guy,
By all means, if you have this opportunity, that would be great if you could run this by him. I will be eagerly waiting to hear what kind of response you get. Please let me know if you need any more information. Pending mailing time limitations, I might even be able to get you a copy of the DVD set in order for him to preview. Just let me know.
David
David:
Just today I came across a position paper of sorts Bob Marsh, then at 2nd Ponce de Leon in Atlanta, gave to his Deacons on a Monday night in June of 1990.
Marsh is the father of Charles Marsh of UVA and author of Wayward Christian Soldiers.
Bob Marsh mentioned your Father in his address, an aside without malice, but grave concern for the direction your Dad took the SBC.
As Charles Marsh will give the Buddy Shurden lectures on Church/State April 2010 at Samford, I am hoping you will search out his Dad’s address from the heart in 1990.
That too, is part of your Father’s legacy.