Hill Country School of Leadership

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

2012 Spring Trimester …………….March 27 thru May 22

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 Spring 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 Spring Trimester

Course Descriptions

Church History – Modern Day Revivals

20th Century Restoration of Pentecostal Power to the Church.  For almost 1900 years the power experience of the baptism of the Holy Spirit, accompanied by speaking in tongues and other gifts, was lost to the church. We will study the outpouring of Pentecost at the beginning of the 20th century, the famous Los Angeles Azusa Street Revival, the world-wide Pentecostal mission movement, and early Pentecostal evangelists. Also, we will look at the development of Pentecostal denominations, the 1948 world-wide tent healing revivals, the Jesus Movement, the Charismatic Renewal, and subsequent revivals and waves of outpouring. Be ready for a fascinating study.

Understanding the Times – Worldview & Apologetics

These classes will look at the major worldviews that drive people’s thinking and examine ways to give a defense of the gospel and answers for life’s tough issues. We will look at the 7 most common objections to Christianity and learn to give reasoned, rational responses to some of our culture’s most volatile issues – Intelligent Design, gay marriage, abortion, etc.

2012 Spring Trimester Teachers

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.