by Chris Sims | Dec 3, 2015 | Leadership, Ministry, Missions
Are you a ‘do-it-yourself’ ministry leader or a fan of ‘doing church as a team’? I tend to be a ‘do-it-yourself’ guy in most areas of my life. It is probably a control issue. I can control the beginning, the ending and the quality of something if I do it as a...
by Chris Sims | Nov 26, 2015 | Leadership, Ministry, Missions, Theology
I wanted to plant a church as soon as it entered my mind. Instead, I got Elevator Music. When it plays, you wait. It represents a time where you are moving but you are also stationary. You are making progress – going up or down – but you do not yet have...
by Chris Sims | Nov 19, 2015 | Ministry, Missions
I remember driving over the hill in the town we had just moved to and saying to my wife, “We need to plant a church in this town.” I don’t know exactly how that thought came to dominate my mind when we were in the midst of moving but it did. Church Planting was in my...
by B. H. Carroll Theological Seminary | Oct 22, 2015 | Leadership, Missions
Dr. Jimmy Dorrell who teaches Christian Community Development Course (WMMIS 5122.111) as an adjunct professor for B.H. Carroll Theological Institute also happens to be a Troll. No not the fairytale villain who lives under a bridge (though there is a bridge involved in...
by B. H. Carroll Theological Seminary | Aug 24, 2015 | Missions, News & Events
Dr. Larry Ashlock, Director of the D.Min. program, and Dr. Karen O’Dell Bullock, Director of the Ph.D. program at Carroll Institute, recently returned from Africa where they participated in a partnership with the Nigerian Baptist Theological Seminary and Nigerian...
by Hannah Hamelwright | Jul 1, 2015 | Missions, News & Events
Journey of the Ham’s: Honduras At the end of June, my husband Chris and I went to Honduras with our church, First Baptist of Irving, Texas. There was a lot of excitement surrounding this trip because it was my husband’s first time on an overseas mission trip and our...
