Chapel 1979-1980

Rev. Dr. John Hirt Ph.D. educated in Berkeley, Zurich, and Sydney. John is currently the Uniting Church Chaplain to the University of Sydney. He has been a University educator for more than 25 years, having taught internationally and more recently in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Sydney, and now in Charles Stuart University School of Theology. As a Minister of the Word and social activist, John has worked in the areas of Human Rights in Central and North America, and is strongly committed to Multifaith dialogue and Peacemaking efforts.

Dr. John Oswald Sanders (1902-1992) was an international Christian preacher, missionary statesman, and prolific author for nearly seventy years and wrote over forty books on spiritual living. This respected Bible teacher and writer influenced Christians throughout the world for much of the twentieth century. He is primarily remembered for his Christian classic Spiritual Leadership and as the General Director of the Overseas Missionary Fellowship (formerly China Inland Mission). Dr. Sanders died in his native New Zealand in 1992 at the age of ninety.

Rev. Dr. John Hirt Ph.D. educated in Berkeley, Zurich, and Sydney. John is currently the Uniting Church Chaplain to the University of Sydney. He has been a University educator for more than 25 years, having taught internationally and more recently in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Sydney, and now in Charles Stuart University School of Theology. As a Minister of the Word and social activist, John has worked in the areas of Human Rights in Central and North America, and is strongly committed to Multifaith dialogue and Peacemaking efforts.

In 1960 he moved with his wife (Vera Mae Perkins) and children from California to Mendenhall, Mississippi, which neighbors his childhood hometown of New Hebron. There he began a Christian community development ministry in the rural Mississippi community. In 1982, the Perkinses left Voice of Calvary Ministries to return to California, where they founded Harambee Christian Family Center in Northwest Pasadena. After the death of his son in 1998, Perkins returned to Mississippi, and bought the property once owned by Spencer and his Antioch Community and established the Spencer Perkins Center, the youth arm of the John M. Perkins Foundation. It has developed youth programs such as After School Tutorial, Summer Arts Camp, Junior and College Internship Program, Good News Bible Club, Young Life and Jubilee Youth Garden. The foundation also has a housing arm, Zechariah 8, providing affordable housing for low-to moderate-income families with a focus on single mothers.

Rev. Dr. John Hirt Ph.D. educated in Berkeley, Zurich, and Sydney. John is currently the Uniting Church Chaplain to the University of Sydney. He has been a University educator for more than 25 years, having taught internationally and more recently in the Religious Studies Department at the University of Sydney, and now in Charles Stuart University School of Theology. As a Minister of the Word and social activist, John has worked in the areas of Human Rights in Central and North America, and is strongly committed to Multifaith dialogue and Peacemaking efforts.

Robert Ohman was the pastor of Carmel Presbyterian Church and was involved in many church committees throughout California.

Dean Halverson is a World Religions Specialist with International Students Inc., a para-church organization committed to sharing Christ with the half-million internationals studying in the U.S. He was a researcher for the Spiritual Counterfeits Project and is the author of Crystal Clear: Understanding and Reaching New Agers. He lives in Colorado with his wife, Debbie. They have three children.

Dean Halverson is a World Religions Specialist with International Students Inc., a para-church organization committed to sharing Christ with the half-million internationals studying in the U.S. He was a researcher for the Spiritual Counterfeits Project and is the author of Crystal Clear: Understanding and Reaching New Agers. He lives in Colorado with his wife, Debbie. They have three children.

Ben Patterson is a contributing editor to Christianity Today and the Leadership Journal. He has written five books, including Serving God (The Grand Essentials), Deepening Your Conversation with God, and He Has Made Me Glad. Previously, he was dean of the chapel at Hope College in Michigan, senior pastor for two congregations and the founding pastor of Irvine Presbyterian Church in California. He is currently the Campus Pastor at Westmont College.

Dr. David Winter was the president and guiding force of Westmont College for 25 years, retiring in 2006. Under his leadership, Westmont has become both a superb Christian liberal arts college and one of the nation's leading undergraduate institutions, based on the findings of such respected organizations as the Carnegie Foundation, U.S. News and World Report and the Templeton Foundation. While president of Westmont, he was named among the 100 most effective college leaders in the U.S. based on a study funded by the Exxon Foundation. He was also a recipient of one of five President Leadership Awards and grants given nationally by the Knight Foundation.

Dr. David Winter was the president and guiding force of Westmont College for 25 years, retiring in 2006. Under his leadership, Westmont has become both a superb Christian liberal arts college and one of the nation's leading undergraduate institutions, based on the findings of such respected organizations as the Carnegie Foundation, U.S. News and World Report and the Templeton Foundation. While president of Westmont, he was named among the 100 most effective college leaders in the U.S. based on a study funded by the Exxon Foundation. He was also a recipient of one of five President Leadership Awards and grants given nationally by the Knight Foundation.

Recognized nationally and internationally as a prominent speaker and author, Rebecca Pippert is founder of Salt Shaker Ministries: a teaching/training ministry in evangelism. Having ministered extensively around the world, Becky has a global perspective on being a sensitive and effective witness for Christ whether in the Post-modern West or the Global South. She was named the Senior Advisor for Global Evangelism by Lausanne Committee for World Evangelism. And the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (a global ministry to University students) recently named Becky their Senior Trainer in Evangelism and Seeker Studies for all of Europe. Becky is the author of nine books that include the modern classic, Out of the Salt Shaker, which was named recently by Christianity Today as one of the books that has most influenced Christian thought in the past 50 years. Her book, Hope Has Its Reasons, addresses the common questions held by seekers and skeptics about faith, and her book, A Heart for God, addresses themes of how God uses suffering and trials to produce character and faith. Her 6 volume book set: Salt Shaker Resources: An Evangelism Tool Kit, won the award for Best Evangelism Resource for 2003 and the first book in that series, Talking About Jesus Without Sounding Religious, won Best Evangelism Book for 2003 by Outreach Magazine.

Siemens spent twenty-one years pioneering IFES (International Fellowship of Evangelical Students) campus fellowships in Latin America and Europe, and founded Global Opportunities, which helps missions-motivated Christians support themselves abroad as they integrate work and witness.

Siemens spent twenty-one years pioneering IFES (International Fellowship of Evangelical Students) campus fellowships in Latin America and Europe, and founded Global Opportunities, which helps missions-motivated Christians support themselves abroad as they integrate work and witness.

Dr. Bruce Lockerbie is Chairman and CEO of PAIDEIA, Inc. (pie-day-ah), a team of consultants working with schools, colleges, seminaries, churches, and other public interest institutions. He is also Chairman of the Olympus Group, which offers counsel on sports-entertainment events and programming. He holds two degrees from New York University and for thirty-four years served on the faculty of The Stony Brook School in Long Island, New York. Upon leaving the school, he was the Thomas F. Staley Foundation Scholar-in-Residence. Lockerbie is author, co-author, or editor of more than three dozen books whose topics range from aesthetics and biography to family living and popular theology. His most recent volume is Dismissing God: Modern Writers' Struggle Against Religion. A frequent lecturer, he has also contributed hundreds of articles and essays to various publications.

Dr. Bruce Lockerbie is Chairman and CEO of PAIDEIA, Inc. (pie-day-ah), a team of consultants working with schools, colleges, seminaries, churches, and other public interest institutions. He is also Chairman of the Olympus Group, which offers counsel on sports-entertainment events and programming. He holds two degrees from New York University and for thirty-four years served on the faculty of The Stony Brook School in Long Island, New York. Upon leaving the school, he was the Thomas F. Staley Foundation Scholar-in-Residence. Lockerbie is author, co-author, or editor of more than three dozen books whose topics range from aesthetics and biography to family living and popular theology. His most recent volume is Dismissing God: Modern Writers' Struggle Against Religion. A frequent lecturer, he has also contributed hundreds of articles and essays to various publications.