Hill Country School of Leadership

2012 Hill Country School of Leadership Courses are offered on a 9 week trimester basis:

2012 Winter Trimester …………….January 10 through March 6

If you have not taken classes at Hill Country School of  Leadership before,

Please click here to print out an HCSOL  Enrollment Form

Click here for a 2012 Winter Trimester Registration Form

Mail forms to:

Hill Country Church, 1401 Davis Lane, San Marcos, TX  78666

or Fax to: 512-392-5429

For more information call the Hill Country Church office at 512-353-5322.

Certificates of Completion Requirements

Two different levels of Completion Certificates will be issued:

• Advanced Ministry Training
  24 Courses
• Practical Biblical Studies
  12 Courses

Course Schedule

2012 Winter Trimester

Course Descriptions

History of the Church – Part 2

This course will study church history from 1000 AD through the 19th century.   The student will learn about the ascendancy of Roman Catholicism, the Dark Ages, the Crusades, the Reformation and Reformers, the establishment of Christianity in North America, the Great Awakenings, and early revivalists.

Cornerstones of Christianity

This class will encompass the key, core doctrines that make up the pillars of our faith in Jesus.  A proper understanding of these essentials is paramount to transferring our faith, without error, to future generations.  The Trinity, Deity of Jesus, work of the Holy Spirit, Word of God, nature of man, and salvation will be covered.

2011 Spring Trimester Teachers

Scott Moneyhon

Scott was saved in 1981 while serving in the US Marine Corp in southern California. After 8 years of service to our country, Scott moved to San Marcos, TX, where he met and married his wife Susan. Scott has taught adult Bible and Sunday School classes for over 25 years. Scott is a graduate of Texas State University and currently teaches history at Regents School of Austin, a classical, Christian, private school. Scott is an uncommon teacher with an unusual grasp of history, worldviews, and the scripture. Scott and Susan have 2 daughters and have been members of Hill Country Church for over 20 years.

Tom Ray

Tom and Cathy Ray have been married and in the ministry since 1981. Tom gave his life to the Lord while a student at Southwest Texas State University and Cathy was part of the Jesus Movement and Charismatic Renewal that swept through San Marcos High School in the seventies and helped birth Hill Country Church. Tom went on to graduate from SWTSU and Hill Country Bible College and Cathy graduated from Oral Roberts University. Fresh out of Bible College and newly married, the Rays moved to Telluride, CO, where they pastored for 17 years. In 1998, after the births of their 4 children and many years in a mountain community, they moved back to San Marcos to help pastor their old home church – Hill Country.  Now, thirteen years later, the Lord is transitioning the Ray’s ministry to help train the next generation of Godly leaders for tomorrow’s church.

Jim Darnell

Long time San Marcos resident, Jim Darnell, has served many years as a pastor and taught the Word in four Bible Colleges.  He has ministered as a teacher, church planter, news columnist, conference speaker, and host of a weekly TV show heard across the south called “God’s Great Outdoors”.  He has also served as President of the Liberty Fellowship of Churches (a southeastern US association of churches).  Jim graduated with a Bachelors Degree from Lamar University and then earned a Theology Degree at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and has a Masters Degree from Texas State University.  He has been married to his wife Beth for 50 years.  The Darnells have three children of which his two sons are both pastors.

Tim Darnell

Tim is a graduate of International Bible College in San Antonio, TX, and served Oasis Community Church with Dennis Goldsworthy-Davis for nine years in a leadership internship position and then as an elder of the church.  In 2003 Tim moved with his family to San Marcos to take a position at Hill Country Church.  Tim is now associate pastor, elder, member of HCCS school board, and leader of HCC’s College Ministry.  Tim is a gifted speaker and teacher of the Word, and has a passion for the demonstration of God’s Kingdom here on earth.  Tim & his wife Elisabeth have been married 16 years and have 2 children.