Clayton Adams

Clayton desires to fulfill the directive Paul gave to Timothy, ”...what you have learned, commit to others who are able to teach others” (2 Tim. 2:2). As teachers of the Word of God, we have opportunities to ensure that the message of Jesus Christ is given to our generation and the next generation. Teachers, open doors for students—teaching others the truths of Jesus are the best doors to open. Clayton currently serves as a Sectional Sunday School Representative for the Arkansas District, as Associate Pastor of First Assembly of God in West Memphis, Arkansas, and has taught Sunday School for all ages for over 25 years.

Edwin Arce

Edwin currently serves as the Gospel Publishing House liaison for curriculum and ministry resources to our Hispanic Assembly of god and non Assembly of God districts and churches.

He works with all distributors and evangelical churches to promote, train, supply, and distribute Spanish/English Christian Education materials for Radiant Life/Vida Nueva curriculum and Gospel Publishing House products.

Some of his job duties are included below...

• Prepare workshops and seminars for leadership training activities.
• Work closely with distributors to promote and develop workshops and seminars that promote curriculum and resources in the U. S., Puerto Rico, Central America, and South America.
• Participate in the selection of training materials to be translated into Spanish and recommend materials that need to be developed to meet the needs of our churches and leaders.
• Participate in reviewing Spanish design and promotional materials (curriculum and literature) with Book Editing and Marketing departments.
• Keep Hispanic District Christian Education Directors (S. S.) informed of independently sponsored activities in their area that could be beneficial to their ministry.
• Develop and sustain good relationships with other evangelical denominations and leadership in order to create awareness of the importance of training.

Niurka Arce

Niurka’s passion for effective group communication and administration shines through her dedication for building leaders. Through capacity building workshops and innovative communication methods she has provided consultation and training in effective practices in group processes, planning, visioning and goal setting.

Currently, she serves as the Sunday School and Children’s Ministries Director for the Southeastern Spanish District of the Assemblies of God. Ms. Arce is an enthusiastic and knowledgeable presenter who is highly regarded for her knowledge of national trends impacting child welfare, conflict resolution, family conferencing, ethnic identity development and competent diversity management. She has provided consultation to churches, schools and non-profit organizations.

LeRoy Bartel

Dr. Bartel received his bachelor’s degree from Trinity Bible College, Ellendale, ND and a master of divinity degree and doctorate from the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary, Springfield, MO.

Dr. Bartel is an ordained minister with the Assemblies of God and has pastored churches in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Washington for over 20 years.

Dr. Bartel served the Assemblies of God as a denominational officer for five years. He held the position of National Director for the Division of Christian Education and Commissioner on Discipleship. As National Director he provided leadership for the Sunday School Department, Church School Literature, Children’s Ministries Agency, Christian School Department, and Single Adult Ministries Agency. As Commissioner on Discipleship, Rev. Bartel helped coordinate all of the discipleship initiatives, ministries and agencies of the Assemblies of God in a networking relationship.

Dr. Bartel presently serves as Dean of the College of Bible and Church Ministries at Southwestern Assemblies of God University, Waxahachie, TX. Bartel has served in a variety of roles at the University in the past: As a professor he functioned as Coordinator of Christian Education, Coordinator of Pastoral Ministries and chairman for the Division of Bible, Theology and Church Ministries. As an administrator he served as Vice President for Student Life.

Wes Bartel

Director, national Sunday School Department

General Council of the Assemblies of God

Springfield, Missouri

Wes Bartel has been active in Christian Education for over 30 years. He has held leadership positions at both the district and national levels. Wes has been a successful pastor who used Christian Education to help build and strengthen a variety of local churches. He serves on the governing board of Trinity Bible College. Wes is currently the director of the national Sunday School Department.

 

Date	Event	Location
July 5, 2008	Teacher Enrichment Clinic	Hungry Horse, MT
August 8-10, 2008	Sunday School Teacher's Training	New Bern, NC
August 22-23, 2008	All Church Ministries Conference	Griffin, Georgia
September 18-19, 2008	ACTS (Christian Schools) Conference	Pineville, LA
September 19-20, 2008	Church Ministries Convention	Pineville, LA

Tom Bougher

Tom has over 30 years of ministry experience. He has served as a Youth Pastor, a Music Pastor, and Senior Pastor, and currently serves as LIFE Group Pastor to one of the fastest growing churches in Alabama.

He enjoys the challenge of coaching volunteers and other pastors to stretch their goals and helping them implement their plans.

Tom believes,

“Too many of our churches are filled with spectators―people who come and enjoy the blessings but have not found a place to serve. We must challenge these people to not only be discipled but to take on the responsibility of discipling others. The consequences of little or no discipleship is not merely shallow Christians, it is the slow death of the church.”

Tom is an encourager. His desire is to help pastors build a team of qualified servants. His heart is to inspire, empower and enable people to become Servant-Leaders.

Wanda DeLaRosa

Wanda DeLaRosa has over 20 years of ministry experience in missions, children's ministry, administration and special events. At present Wanda pastors alongside her husband Pastor Larry DeLaRosa the newly formed church called Breakthough Worship Church in North Tampa, FL. She has worked with ministries such as Billy Graham, Gateway Christian Center, Without Walls International Church, Rodney Howard Brown, Psalty the Singing Songbook, and many more. Her special events are second to none and her administrative techniques are innovative and dynamic.

Wanda concentrates in the training of pastors and staff on church and community outreaches. She operates as a consultant, developing and enhancing faith based organization and community based efforts.

Bunny Hartzler

Bunny Hartzler presently serves as the Christian Education Department Pastor at Northland Cathedral, Kansas City, MO. She has been in ministry for 35 years in Christian Education. Her experience includes 22 years as an assistant pastor and 10 years in Christian Schools and curriculum writing. Bunny also taught full time at Missouri State University for 2 years in the Education Department, and 1 year in the National Woman’s Ministries Department. Concurrent with the above, she served as an adjunct professor in the education department at Evangel University for almost eight years.

Clancy Hayes

Clancy P. Hayes is assistant professor of practical theology at Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie, Texas.

He has served as the training coordinator for the Sunday School department of the national headquarters of the Assemblies of God. He has also been a senior pastor, high school teacher, and involved in teaching his local church.

He holds an M.A. in Bible and a M. Div. with an emphasis in Christian Education. Clancy has also authored many articles and books including Give Them What They Want and Perpetuating Truth Through Teaching.

Camilo Hernandez

Camilo currently serves as the Assistant Presbyter for the Houston Section of the Gulf Latin American District Council and as the Director for the Sunday School Department for the Eastern Conference of GLAD.

He Graduated from Latin American Institute in La Puente, California and became licensed as an Assemblies of God minister through the Pacific Latin American District in 1973. He has been ordained with the Assemblies of God since 1978.

He is now the Senior Pastor of Templo Jerusalem, a Spanish Assemblies of God Church in South Houston, TX and belongs to the Gulf Latin American District Council.

Camilo has pastored in Washington State―Quincy, and Seattle; Colorado―

Alamosa, and Fruita; Texas―Laredo, and South Houston; Missouri―Springfield, and Monett.

He also did ministry in Mexico as an Evangelist in Oaxaca Mexico, taught in a Bible School in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and worked at General Council Headquarters as the Editor of the Spanish Sunday School Curriculum for eight years.

Kevin G. O’Connor

Kevin O’Connor was saved in 1982 and involved in Sunday School soon after. He started with teaching Middlers and quickly moved to adults. It was obvious God put a call on his life. Kevin started in full time ministry in 1988, than he served as the Assistant Pastor of a large church in Rhode Island for eight years. He has served since 1996 as the Senior Pastor of Grace Chapel Assembly of God in Rumford Rhode Island.

Kevin has been involved in the Southern New England District Christian Education Department as the Rhode Island Sectional Representative since 1990.

David Satterfield

David E. Satterfield serves as Sunday School Consultant and Field Training Coordinator for the national Sunday School Department of the General Council of the Assemblies of God, Springfield, Missouri. His role is to coordinate, facilitate, and participate in designated training events sponsored by the Sunday School Department.

Satterfield served as the South Central Regional representative for Gospel Publishing House of the Assemblies of God for fifteen years. He is an experienced pastor, conference and seminar speaker, and served as a District Youth and Christian Education director. David is a graduate of Southwestern Assemblies of God College with graduate studies at Assemblies of God Theological Seminary with an emphasis on adult Christian Education.

 

Date	Event	Location
July 19, 2008	NPLAD CE Conference	Toppenish, WA
August 8-10, 2008	Sunday School Teacher's Training	New Bern, NC
August 22-23, 2008	Church Ministries Conference	Jackson, MS
September 6, 2008	Online Training: Recruiting Volunteers	www.sundayschool.ag.org
September 20, 2008	Teacher Enrichment Clinic	Milwaukee, WI
October 11, 2008	Teacher Enrichment Clinic	Shawano, WI
October 17-18, 2008	NPLAD CE Conference	Roseburg, OR

Dan Stanley

Dan Stanley, previously a resident of Barrington, RI, and Christian education teacher at Zion Bible College, has accepted the invitation to serve as the national Sunday School Department's training coordinator. Dan first sensed a desire to be more involved in discipleship during seminary, when God called him to focus his ministry on Christian education, making disciples, and helping churches become strong agencies of discipleship.

Dan brings many years of experience in discipleship, teaching, and preaching. As the new training coordinator, Dan hopes to help teachers become passionate, prepared, relational disciplers. Dan’s advice to teachers who want to improve their skills in teaching ministry: “Never be satisfied with where you’re at. When you read a training book or attend a training event, it’s not just knowledge you receive… you’re also receiving encouragement that will reenergize your teaching ministry.”

Look for training materials and resources from Dan coming soon to the Sunday School web site. Dan promises Sunday School Website visitors: “If you ask me a question about Sunday School, Christian education, or discipleship, I’ll have an answer for you 79% of the time (which just happens to be my high school grade point average). But I also promise that I’ll find an answer for you the other 21% of the time.”

Date	Event	Location
July 18-20, 2008	Christian Education Training	Jacksonville, FL
August 22-23, 2008	All Church Ministries Conference	Griffin, Georgia
August 28-31, 2008	Christian Education Conference	Guatemala City, Guatemala
September 19-21, 2008	Teacher Enrichment Clinic	Lubbock, TX
September 26-28, 2008	Teacher Enrichment Clinic	West Monroe, LA
October 24-26, 2008	Teacher Enrichment Clinic	Sioux Falls, SD

George J. Sanchez

George J. Sanchez was ordained with the Assemblies of God in 1990. He and his wife founded and pastored Hillsboro Latin Assembly of God in Hillsboro, OR (1982 – 1987). He has served as Professor of Christian Education and Business Manager at Latin American Bible Institute of California over a period of seven years, and served as a Field Consultant for Gospel Publishing House for six years. George served as District Director of Christian Education for the Pacific Latin American District of the Assemblies of God for six years. He was graduated from the Latin American Bible Institute in 1975, went on to earn a Bachelors Degree from California State University, Hayward, CA; a Masters Degree in management from the University of Wisconsin, Madison; and a Masters in Theology/Ethics from Azusa Pacific University. He presently is a Special Education teacher at a public high school and is working on a master’s degree in Education.

Larry Thomas

Larry Thomas is pastor of Southlake Assembly of God, Southlake, Texas.

Before returning to the pastorate, he served as Director of Christian Education for the North Texas District, and Training Coordinator and Administration Consultant for the national Sunday School Department. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Christian Education from Southwestern Assemblies of God University.