Dan interviews the newest member of the Fidelis International Seminary board of advisors, Dr. John Jackson. 

Prior to joining William Jessup University as its Sixth President in March 2011, John served as the Executive Director of Thriving Churches International and as a Senior Leader of Bayside Church, Granite Bay, California. He is the Founding Pastor of LifePoint Church in Minden, Nevada, and previously was the Executive Minister of the American Baptist Churches of the Pacific Southwest (now Transformation Ministries) where he was responsible to serve more than 270 churches in four Western states. John also served as the Senior Pastor and in several staff roles at First Baptist Church of Oxnard and as the Youth Pastor at First Baptist Church of Buena Park. Dr. Jackson earned both his Ph.D. and M.A. in Educational Administration and Organizational Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara; M.A. in Theology (Christian Formation and Discipleship) at Fuller Theological Seminary; and a B.A. in Religion (Christian History and Thought) from Chapman University.  

Dr. Jackson has written and co-authored eight books: Finding Your Place in God’s Plan, God Size Your Church, Leveraging Your Communication Style, Leveraging Your Leadership Style, Pastorpreneur, High Impact Church Planting, The Right Choice – Choosing a College and Why it Matters, and The Prevailing Church.  Education: Ph.D., M.A., University of California, Santa Barbara | M.A., Fuller Theological Seminary | B.A., Chapman University  

Learn more about or register as a student with Fidelis International Seminary at: https://www.fidelisproject.com 

Music by Josh White: "Only Your Presence" from the album Pilgrim, 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DjCJfpIrRM&t=0s 

View Josh White’s music on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KTkQA8GYHDdnF85o70VoO

Dan interviews church-planter, author and missiologist, Dr. Scott Olson.   

Dr. Scott Olson is passionate about awakening kingdom dreams in people, equipping the church for service, developing leaders that start/shepherd gospel movements, and multiplying apprentices of Jesus. Scott’s served in a missional context for more than 26 years, having planted/replanted 5 churches, shepherded 3 other churches, and served as the Program Manager for My Father House family shelter (Portland, OR). He’s received a MAPS (Church Planting), M.Div. Equivalence (Trinitarian Theology), D.Min. (Missional Leadership) from Multnomah Biblical Seminary, serves as a faculty mentor for Redemption Seminary and as a web consultant for the Fidelis Project.

Dr. Scott is the author of   

"Re-Imagining the Church"  and"Eat This Book Family Challenge" and host of the Artizo podcast.  

Learn more about or register as a student with Fidelis Project. 

 Listen to Josh White on Spotify.

Dan interviews the academic dean of Fidelis, Josh Howard. 

Josh serves with Central India Christian Mission in Madhya Pradesh, India. Josh shares how God led him to serve in India, and how the message of Christ is spreading in the country of India.   

Learn more about or register as a student with Fidelis Project at: https://www.fidelisproject.com 

Learn more about Zumé (the greek term for yeast) at: https://www.zume.training 

Learn about Central India Christian Mission: https://www.indiamission.org/

Learn more about Calvary International Biblical Academy: https://www.indiamission.org/launching-leaders 

Music by Josh White: "Only Your Presence" from the album Pilgrim, 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DjCJfpIrRM

Listen to Josh on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3psLTsHajbwman1DImLX1T?si=f7332e2c456e4e64