Leadership Institute
Formerly known as School of Leadership Training
If you are interested in attending InterVarsity’s Leadership Institute, please fill out the application and have your staff worker fill out the recommendation form by May 30, 2010 before you can register. If you have any questions, please email Josh Bilhorn jbilhorn@gmail.com
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InterVarsity’s Leadership Institute (IVLI) values are: experiential learning, “getting real” with a group of like-minded student leaders, high quality Bible teaching, intensive discipleship, practical evangelism experience, and personal time with the Lord in an unhurried setting. The Leadership Institute is also a wonderful place for student leaders to hear the call to serve as InterVarsity staff.
The purpose of Leadership Institute is to invite, equip and commission the next generation of missional leaders, wholly transformed by Christ in heart mind, soul and body, who courageously embrace the call of leadership in their lives to transform the campus the church and the world.
We intend to equip leaders of every ethnicity and gender who are Spirit-filled, biblically informed and globally engaged; who are humble, compassionate and confident; and who will resolutely bear persuasive and creative witness to the Kingdom of God among all people.
Leadership Institute is July 3-30, 2010. Two of the main speakers at Leadership Institute are:
Associate Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College
Dr. Lynn Cohick is interested in how average Jews and Christians lived out their faith in the ancient setting of Hellenism and the Roman Empire. In her doctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania, she studied an Easter homily attributed to a second century figure Melito of Sardis. She examined the author's use of the Jewish Scriptures (Old Testament) to explain Jesus Christ, and his portrayal of Christians' relationships with Jews (The Peri Pascha Attributed to Melito of Sardis: Setting, Purpose, and Sources, Brown Judaic Studies, 2000).
Dr. Cohick is also interested in women’s religious activities in the ancient world, and how that might help contemporary women in their faith. She has recently published on this topic, Women in the World of the Earliest Christians: Illuminating Ancient Ways of Life (Baker Academic, 2009). With two of her colleagues she also published a survey of the New Testament, The New Testament in Antiquity (Zondervan, 2009).
Dr. Cohick taught overseas at the Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology in Nairobi, Kenya, for three years (1998-2000).
Campus Staff Member at The Ohio State University
Ram Sridharan is on staff with IVCF as Team Leader of the Undergraduate Ministries at Ohio State. He grew up as a third culture kid, living most of his life in Tanzania, Kenya, South India and then the United States for his college education. Ram studied Microbiology as an undergraduate and went on to study Folklore and later Human Resources for his masters. He served as a career counselor for a number of years at the University. Ram has served as a volunteer for 8 years with InterVarsity before coming on staff full time in 2002. Since then he has helped launch a Black and an Asian-American chapters at Ohio State. Ram enjoys reading, writing and watching movies.
Dr. Timothy Brown
President of Western Theological Seminary
The Rev. Dr. Timothy L. Brown is president of Western Theological Seminary. Dr. Brown is also the Henry Bast Professor of Preaching at Western Theological Seminary, a position he has held since 1995. Dr. Brown brings to the task of teaching homiletics twenty years of preaching and pastoral experience, most recently in a joint position held with Hope College as the Hinga-Boersma Dean of the Chapel. While at Hope College, Tim participated in a highly charged student spiritual renewal movement that gained national acclaim. Prior to coming to Western Theological Seminary Dr. Brown was the senior pastor of Christ Memorial Church in Holland, Michigan, from 1983-1995. During that time the church became one of the fastest growing congregations in the United States, as well as one of the largest in the Reformed Church in America. Dr. Brown is a frequent speaker at pastors conferences, college campuses, and church renewal events. He has served on the Reformed Church in America's Board of Theological Education; the Hope College Board of Trustees; and the executive committee of Words of Hope, a worldwide radio ministry; and is currently a General Synod Professor.
