February2010

VolumeNine

IssueFive

Heartland Baptist Bible College is committed to excellence in educating and training preachers, missionaries and Christian workers.

T he spring semester is off to a great start with a tremendous Church Planting Conference! The Conference is an annual event hosted by Heartland and has the purpose of bringing

pastors together to support church planters and those involved in home missions ministries. Another central purpose for this meeting is to hear the preaching of the Word of God and be encouraged in His work. This meeting is always exciting with Spirit-fi l led preaching, singing and times of great fellowship with brothers and sisters in Christ.

T his year ’s conference was a record week in many ways i .e. a record number of church planters attending the meeting with 101 registered, record giving with over $188,000

raised as one time gifts to the church planters, record attendance, and a record number of f irst time visiting pastors. Pastors and individuals came to the meeting prepared to give to the church planters. The special music and preaching was outstanding! Of course, the fellowship was also blessed with so many former students returning to the campus as church planters, and it was an added blessing watching them present their church plant .

Please mark your calendar for the next Church Planting and Home Missions Conference on January 11 – 13, 2011 and watch our publications for more information during the Fall of 2010.

Jeff Copes, Executive Vice President

God Blessed the Church Planting and Home Missions Conference

Church Planter Jason Herring Kuna, ID

Church Planter Tim Shellenberger Centralia, WA

Pastor Alan Fong preached one of the many challenging messages.

Pastor Dick Webster & Col. Ryburg Fellowshipping

Jamie Jett, Dean of Students

Student Profile

T he Lord has blessed Heartland Baptist Bible College with several “M.K.’s” (missionary kids), as well as ten foreign students

representing seven different nations. One of these students is Kim Lee from Portadown, Ireland. Kim who is of Chinese descent, is a product of missionary Don Randall.

K im was first witnessed to when 18 and even made a “profession” of faith then. At age 21,

Kim realized that she was not saved after attending Lighthouse Baptist Church, where Bro. Randall was pastor. Kim went through six months of intensive discipleship with her pastor’s wife and soon began to teach a Sunday school class. After a time, her pastor’s wife gave her a brochure from a Bible college, which Kim threw away. About three months later, the Lord began to deal with her about surrendering for the ministry. Not long afterward, her pastor preached a message from I Kings 17 (the widow and the barrel of meal) regarding God taking the little that we have and using it; Kim knew that God was calling her to serve Him. She finally surrendered; and after praying about several Bible colleges, the Lord led her here to Heartland.

T his past Christmas break, the Lord allowed her to go back to Ireland with a specific burden on her heart for her grandmother

who was dying. She visited her “granny” as she called her on several occasions while at home, and each time the grandmother was not alert enough to really talk with Kim. Finally the Thursday before

Kim was to leave, she saw her again and granny was completely alert; and though by her own admission, her Chinese is not very good, Kim was able to give her a clear plan of salvation in Chinese and lead her to Christ. The next day, granny once again was not alert and went home to heaven on January 16th after Kim had returned to college.

I asked her about her experiences here at Heartland. She said that she loves it here and everything about it. The encouragement she gets from her instructors and the student body has been paramount to her Heartland experience. She has grown in the Lord and knows that she is where God wants her to be. Before her salvation, at a low point in her life, she contemplated suicide. At that

time a friend contacted her and gave her a verse that has become her “life verse.” It is Isaiah 40:31 – “But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint.” We are very grateful that God has sent us students from around the world like Kim who in spite of human opposition have answered the call of God in their lives!

Kim LeePortadown, Ireland

Faculty Spotlight

2009 May Offering Update

Total Committed

Total Received

89.8% of Offering

Received$753,340

$676,734

March 17-19, 2010College Days

March 24-30, 2010Spring Break

May 10-13, 2010Graduation Preaching Conference

June 16-25Inner-City Church Planting ClassOpen Door Bible Baptist Church, New York City August 4-6Southwest Baptist Youth Conference

August 24-27Opening Days

Important Dates

Ted InmanAssistant Pastor,

Southwest Baptist Church

B ro. Ted’s various ministry responsibilities and experiences have helped him in his teaching,

his interaction with the students, and his ability to provide practical tools to help students in their future ministry and service. His involvement with children and teens over the years and his preaching at youth camps and youth rallies have provided him with experiences that he is able to pass on to students. Bro. Ted’s dedication and commitment to teaching is evidenced by student comments about his classes. “Bro. Ted has a heart for what he teaches. He also makes sure we see the need for children’s ministries.” “We received practical and very useful material.”

W hen asked for his comments about teaching at Heartland, Bro. Ted said, “I

wouldn’t trade any thing for the experiences I have had in being a small part in the lives of the students who have come through Heartland. My ministry would not be the same without Heartland.”

-Roger Howse, Academic Dean

T ed Inman has been involved with Heartland since its move from Southern California

in the summer of 1998. He was a help and an encouragement during the unloading of the moving vans and was very much involved during the seven week cleanup and renovation of the campus in July.

B ro. Ted has been involved in the lives of students at Heartland from day one. He

began teaching in the fall of 1998; has taught Teaching Bible, Children’s Ministries, and youth classes; and currently teaches two classes per semester. In addition, Bro. Ted works with the students in their various ministry involvements at Southwest Baptist Church.

B ro. Inman has served on the staff at Southwest Baptist Church since July 1991.

His positions of ministry at the church have included youth pastor, bus director, children’s ministry director, and children’s super church director. Bro. Ted is presently assistant pastor, Sunday School administrator, Sunday School teacher, and congregational song leader.

2010 May Offering Goal Breakdown

Summer Operations

Roofing Repairs

Van Purchase

New Chapel Auditorium Mortgage

Chapel Audio Equipment

Chapel Furniture

$300,000

$50,000

$20,000

$200,000

$100,000

$80,000

Total Goal $750,000

Thank you!$400,000 cash on hand needed by May 12, 2010

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God Blessed the Church Planting & Home Missions Conference

Student Profile - Kim Lee

Faculty Spotlight - Ted Inman

Graduate Spotlight - Josh Carter, ‘03

Graduate Spotlight - Josh Carter, ‘03Excerpted from The Mustang Times

Josh Carter says God called him to be a pastor, but he also enjoys police work. The Mustang resident will soon get to do some of both. Carter was introduced as Mustang’s newest police chaplain by Chief Monte James last week. “We’re extremely excited to have a new chaplain on board. Our previous chaplain’s program was a great success, and we’re looking forward to a long relationship with Mr. Carter,” James said Wednesday.

His love for helping and ministering to people make him a good fit for the job, Carter said at the Mustang Police Department on Thursday. “If I wasn’t in ministry, I guess I probably wouldn’t have a problem being a police officer,” he said, “They are ministers of justice. I am a minister of righteousness. I enjoy what they do, but God didn’t call me to that. He called me to do what I’m doing.”

Carter is the youth pastor at Mustang’s Lighthouse Baptist Church, and he works with the Lighthouse Baptist Academy, the church’s school. Originally from Kansas, Carter attended Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma City, where he realized he wanted to enter the ministry.

Carter and his family moved to Mustang last May from Grandview, Washington, where he worked at a church and served as police and fire

chaplain for the City of Grandview. He and his wife Rochelle have three children with another on the way.

When the family moved to Mustang, Carter offered his services to the City of Mustang. The Mustang Police Department had been without a chaplain since 2005. Carter attended a national chaplain academy in Grandview, and he received training in the duties of a chaplain. “I’m here to assist the officers,” Carter said. He will work in a volunteer capacity and ride with officers at times, but he will not carry a firearm, James said. To distinguish him as a chaplain, Carter will wear a differ-ent uniform than regular patrol officers, but he will be issued a standard police uniform for special occasions.

Carter said he hopes to fulfill the immediate needs of police officers and the community. “When Christ ministered to people, he always met physical needs

before he met spiritual needs. He gave sight to the blind. He healed the lame. He made the deaf to hear,” he said. “ I’m not here to try to save any-body’s soul or anything. That’s not the purpose of why I’m here. I’m here to meet physical needs, and when those needs are met, I’ve done my job there, I believe God will open doors to where I can minister spiritual things.”

Josh Carter, ‘03Rochelle Carter, ‘02