Consultancy

The Bresee Institute through its network of urban mission leaders provides consultancies in a variety of areas by addressing the following themes with seminars, workshops, printed materials, and tailored consultations:

Awareness Raising Urban/Compassionate Ministry
Urban/Suburban Partnerships and Collaborations
Developing and Maintaining Non-Profits
Multicultural and Multicongregational Issues
Ministering/Serving among the Poor
Urban Church Planting
Urban Community Surveys
Urban Leadership Training

Consultants

Jerry Appleby: Former Missionary, Former Pastor of Bresee Church in Pasadena, CA. Exec. Dir. Reaching Our City, Oklahoma City (Cross-Cultural, Urban, Compassionate Ministries Consultant)

David Best: Former Senior Pastor of the Lambs in NYC, Exec. Dir of Towel and Basin Ministries
(Cross-Cultural, Urban, Compassionate Ministries International and Domestic Consultant)

Dean Cowles: Senior Pastor, Columbine Hills Church, Littleton, Colorado, Former Dir. of Shepherd Community, Indianapolis, Exec. Dir. Youth Partners Net. (Urban, Urban Youth Training, Compassionate Ministries Consultant)

Dorzel King: Senior Pastor, Risen Lamb Church of the Nazarene, Kansas City, MO (African-American and Multicultural Ministries Consultant)

Brian Postlewait: Senior Pastor, Trinity Church of the Nazarene, Kansas City, KS, Urban Ministry Specialist, Washington, DC (Urban, Community Development Consultant)

Fletcher Tink: Former Missionary, Former Senior Pastor, Professor and Trainer (Cross-Cultural, Multi-congregational, Compassionate Ministries, Urban Consultant)

Some Partnering/Collaboration Institutions/Clients:

Call to Care, Columbia, South Carolina
Clergy Development Services
Kansas City Urban Youth Center
Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, KS
Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, International
Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, USA/Canada
Nazarene Theological Seminary
Mission Strategy, USA/Canada
Reaching Our City, Oklahoma City
Rescue College, North Kansas City, MO
Towel and Basin, Nashville, TN
True Light Church of the Nazarene, Kansas City, MO

Some Recent Colleges/Universities Partnerships

Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA

City Vision College, Kansas City, MO
Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA
MidAmerica Nazarene University
Mt Vernon Nazarene University
Nazarene Theological College, Manchester, England
SENDAS, San Jose, Costa Rica

Tech Mission, Boston, MA

Washington Bible College, Lanham, MD