Stan serves as a visiting professor and consultant globally. He joins American Baptist missionaries and partners around the world to strengthen their work of preparing church leaders, specifically in theological formation and reflection, both formal and informal. Stan’s passion is to help others encounter the transforming message of Scripture through inductive Bible study.

Stan writes: This weekend has been an exclamation point in the experience of thankfulness I have been having lately.  In the last couple of weeks I have both completed another year of life and completed the ministry trips scheduled for 2010.  Both of these things have caused me to stop and give thanks to God.  As I received expressions of encouragement and love, it rekindled my awareness of--and gratitude for--the incredible gift of friendship.  Thank you, Lord, for enriching my life with the gift of relationships with such wonderful people over these many years!!

I also found myself filled with gratitude as I thought over the ministry opportunities of this past year:  the chance to encourage pastors and seminarians who work in the very special situation created by the Mexico-U.S. border; time with longtime friends and colleagues in El Salvador--including the sight of former students exercising leadership in the churches; multinational, multiethnic, interdenominational teaching and learning opportunities in Thailand and Kenya; seeking the Lord's wisdom with theological educators in the Czech Republic; exploring Scripture and conflict transformation in Burma; helping pastors and congregational leaders develop their own unique way of expressing the gospel in Vietnam; teaching and preaching in the U.S., southern Mexico and Nicaragua.  I am grateful to God for the chance to catch a glimpse of--and play a small role in--what God is doing in such varied contexts around the world!

• Pray for Stan as he travels throughout the world to educate and train church leaders.