One of my seminary professors, Dr. Francis M. DuBose, a depart in Community Missions, died in a minute. Below is DuBose's death autograph published in the Colonize crate of Chance, the magazine for alumni and friends of Blond Picture Seminary:
Francis M. DuBose, retired guru of missions and over and done controller of capital church studies at Blond Log on Baptist Theological Institution, died at his home in San Francisco of age-related natural causes, on Saturday, June 20, 2009.
"Dr. DuBose uncommon the way Blond Log on viewed its direct as an capital seminary and was
a depart in leading Southern Baptists to espouse ministry in the municipal," understood Blond Log on Baptist Theological Institution Travel Jeff Iorg. "We thank God for his donation."
"Francis DuBose put Blond Log on Institution on the map as far as international business and capital missions were kind," understood Dr. Strain Durst, Examiner of Blond Log on Seminary's eCampus and Instructor of Gone Theology. "Dr. DuBose has used up us a donation in his published works, How Churches Cultivate in an Community Den, The God Who Sends, and Classics of Christian Duty."
Durst described how in 1974 DuBose initiated an annual Community Encoding Sprint, which was thought annually for inert 25 excitement. "For four days, pastors, directors of missions, and students assembled under his mentorship to use San Francisco and Oakland as a living lab for learning how to walk off cities for the gospel in the midst of their complexities of ancestral distinction, monetary crises, and honest challenges."
"Dr. DuBose lived a truly determination for the municipal, particularly the municipal of San Francisco," understood William O. Crews, Travel Emeritus of Blond Log on Institution. "I mettle always find again unique motivated powerfully one time he would quote lingo he had in print about the municipal. From a lineage see, Francis was an encourager to me in my size as Travel. I mettle always be indebted for his record to the Institution and to my own life."
"Blond Log on Institution has been distinct as a very well 'missions' seminary," understood Dwight Honeycutt, retired William A. Carleton Instructor of Cathedral Notation at Blond Log on Institution. "That is a important part of Francis DuBose's donation. Into the collegiality of nation-state circles, Francis cool the messenger observation previously us. Not one to unsophisticatedly imagine about missions, his whole life was busy with fly who wanted the strain of monitor that Francis was always developed to transport. His was an splendidly enchanting, educational and fertile life."
DuBose, distinct as "The Minder of the Township," attached the nation-state of Blond Log on Institution in 1966. In 1971, he became guru of missions and controller of capital church studies. In 1979, he was awaited controller of the Den Duty Intermediate (now The David and Accept Kim Aim of Worldly Missions). He was uncensored upper guru of missions in 1992 in consider of his official retirement, and continued to teach in the ancient 1990s.
Dr. Linda Bergquist, church planting messenger with the California Southern Baptist Tradition and North American Duty Governing body, as well as an supplement guru at Blond Log on Institution, recalled that Dr. and Mrs. DuBose volunteered for close to 40 excitement at the Minion Highway Baptist Intermediate in San Francisco. "Everything they did, they did together," she noted. "They are whichever our heroes!
"Francis and Dorothy DuBose chose the municipal. They through it their home, and they gave it their lives," Bergquist explained. "They were austere busy, activistic San Franciscans who, even in retirement, chose to alive end the ministry principal they cherished and ministered with for 40 excitement."
Dr. DuBose was a extensive guru and a extensive farseeing. I attended his classes in capital missions and wise person far off from him about ministering in the municipal. Dr. DuBose was a extensive encourager and he provided me with the control I wanted to present my ministry in San Francisco.
At the time I was in seminary, I began a ministry in the company of the Brazilians and Portuguese in the Bay Draw. My ministry was specific on the Portuguese oral communication community that lived in Oakland and San Francisco, the two cities which became Dubose's living lab.
Equally I wearing in San Francisco, dowry was no congealed Baptist work in the company of the Brazilians and Portuguese. I find again dialect with Dr. DuBose on how to go about beginning a brand-new work in the municipal and he graciously gave me many textile that served as the lipstick for my work. Equally I used up California, dowry was an congealed Brazilian Baptist church in San Francisco anywhere many Brazilians came to study the Bible and praise the Lord.
Many excitement ago, dissimilar seminary guru, in a out of the usual run of things context, asked his class: "Can the municipal be saved?" Dr. DuBose would have no vexation in answering that wariness in the explicit.
"Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. They mettle rest from their trudge, for their actions mettle roadway them" (Expos 14:13).
Claude Mariottini
Instructor of Old Gravestone
