NORTH JACKSON CHURCH OF CHRIST MISSIONS
Howell Ferguson
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NORTH JACKSON CHURCH OF CHRIST MISSIONS
Howell Ferguson
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Howell Ferguson was born and
reared in Memphis, Tennessee. His wife, Mary (Leath) was born in Montgomery,
AL, but her father retired from the Air Force and settled in Memphis where
Mary spent most of her childhood years. They were married in 1983 and
have three children - Sarah, Seth, and Nathan. Howell has been a gospel
preacher for 22 years and has done local work in Tennessee, Mississippi, and
Kentucky. The Fergusons also served as foreign missionaries in Arusha,
Tanzania in East Africa for a little over 3 years, returning in April 2003.
While in Arusha, Howell taught regularly in the Andrew Connally School of
Preaching. Howell is a 1984 graduate of Memphis School of Preaching, and
received his BS degree at Freed-Hardeman University in 1992. Currently he is
pursuing a masters degree from Bear Valley Bible Institute of Denver.
Howell serves as a foreign
extension coordinator for the Bear Valley Bible Institute of Denver. While
the Fergusons reside in Madison County, Howell's sponsoring congregation is
the Westside church of Christ, Brownsville, TN. His current role involves
serving as the academic dean for the Chimala Bible College undergraduate
program, in Southern Tanzania. Bear Valley's foreign extension program has
the goal of establishing 75 schools of preaching around the world in the next
50 years. The foreign extension preacher training program is under the
oversight of the elders of the Bear Valley church of Christ, Denver,
Colorado. These men strongly believe that training local brethren in sound
doctrine to become strong church leaders, preachers, elders, evangelists, etc.
is essential to producing autonomous, self-supporting, and self-propagating
churches around the world.
Howell's duties involve raising funds for student support, textbooks, etc., coordinating trips for short course teachers, overseeing the academic operations of the Chimala Bible College, preparing and teaching short courses in the Chimala Bible College and other foreign extension schools, updating BV elders, director, and extension director, reporting to supporting churches, recruiting new supporters, and publishing a monthly newsletter. Howell plans to make on the average of five over-seas trips per year. He is always happy to have someone to join him to visit the Bear Valley foreign extension schools. Bear Valley also has other schools of preaching in Kramatorsk, Ukraine; Arusha and Moshi, Tanzania; and has plans for more schools in Chennai, India; Lima, Peru; Santiago, Chile; and Panama. More information is available by visiting Bear Valley's website: http://www.bvbid.org .
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