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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Sounds like a great work you will be doing! I’ll keep up with the progress. Good stuff!

Blessings,
Chris

Best wishes in the new jobs.

Mike