Friday, February 17, 2006
- NTS News
On February 14, 2006, Dr. David Wesley delivered his induction address to the NTS community. Dr. Wesley officially joined the faculty at the start of the 2005 fall semester as Assistant Professor of Missiology.
His induction address was titled “The Implications of Wesleyan Intercultural Studies in a ‘Flat World’: Toward a Missiology of Learners, Partners and Servants.” In his introduction, Wesley stated that the questions he hoped to address involve the “doing of theology” within the changing and diverse global context in which we live. His address then outlines four key questions that he believes that we as a denomination must answer:
- Where do we a Wesleyan Church fit in God’s global plan?
- What are the future challenges of mobilizing the church in the West?
- What roles does a Western Church fulfill when we find the Great Commission being undertaken by a worldwide church?
- How can students of theology become learners who contextualize good theological and hermeneutical practices within a global context?
Listen to his address in its entirety.
Prior to coming to NTS, Wesley served as the Regional Education Coordinator for the Church of the Nazarene in South America from 1998 – 2005. Dr. Wesley is a native of Bethany, OK and has held pastorates in Kansas City and Orlando. He was district superintendent and coordinator of mission work in Ecuador from 1992 – 1995 and Rector of Seminario Nazareno Sudamericano in Argentina from 1997 – 2003. As regional education coordinator in South America, Wesley developed the structure for theological education for the Church of the Nazarene in that region. His responsibilities included oversight of 3,000 students, seven campuses and 94 extension centers. He led the strategic planning process for Nazarene ministerial development for ten of the countries of South America. He also served as liaison between the national education systems, regional director, and the General Church, developing financial resources and human resources for developing institutions of Nazarene theological education in South America.
Dr. Wesley served as general editor of the Spanish materials printed for modular courses to be used in Latin America for extension theological education, a total of 60 books. As Rector of the Seminario Nazareno Sudamericano he developed and trained a national faculty and staff who have become the leadership core of that institution.
David and his wife, Glynda, live in Olathe, Kansas. Their son, Shane, is a junior at Olivet Nazarene University and their daughter, Leah, is a junior at Olathe South High School.