FRANCIS “Pancho” HOBBES

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Professional Experience

Capitol Hill Church of Christ S. Oklahoma City, OK 2007-2021 Minister

• Lead local outreach efforts (SPAN & ENGL) in church gatherings and in the community

• Create and deliver weekly bilingual messages and develop bilingual adult Bible-class curriculum

• Conduct pastoral residential, prison, and hospital visits

• Direct the church’s benevolence ministry allocation and disbursements

• Bilingual pastoral counseling & crisis intervention in the disadvantaged, at-risk world of S. OKC.

• Organize and present at national church conferences

• Launched new English as a Second Language (ESL) program; coordinate volunteer teacher rotation with local Christian university

• Recruit, train, and mentor team of volunteers for inner-city ministry

• Interface with leadership and members of sponsor congregation (Edmond, OK). Lighthouse Medical Clinic S. Oklahoma City, OK 2007-2021 Chaplain

• Facilitate/translate communication (SPAN & ENGL) between Clinic director & Clinic patients

• Conduct pastoral residential and hospital visits of Clinic patients

• Lead bilingual (SPAN & ENGL) private Bible studies and counseling for Clinic patients Parkway Church of Christ Sacramento, CA 1997-2007 Senior Minister

• Create and deliver in public weekly Bible messages

• Develop adult Bible class curriculum and lead classes

• Spearhead and oversee launch of new home-based cell group meetings

• Deliver lectures at regional Spanish-language Christian seminars

• Organized church member town-hall meetings on civic and electoral affairs The Churches of Christ Quetzaltenango, Guatemala 1986-1997 Missionary-Church Planter

• Planted new congregations in Llanos del Pinal (Maya-Quiché), Quetzaltenango (Spanish)

• Lecture at regional/national Christian conferences (Spanish and Maya-Quiché)

• Write and publish instructional booklet (in Spanish) for beginning church assembly leaders

• Collaborate with Wycliffe Bible translation project (from Spanish into Maya-Quiché)

• Host, assist, and translate for visiting U.S. medical mission teams Clínica Cristiana SW Guatemala 1983-1984

Community Development Worker

• Direct agriculture-extension programs: soil conservation, veterinary, horticulture, & aqua-culture

• Trained agricultural community-development workers in the mountain areas Education

Fuller Theological Seminary Palo Alto, CA 1997-2006

• Master of Arts in Theology

University of Maryland College Park, MD 1978-1982

• Bachelor of Science in Fisheries Management

SKILLS

• Written and spoken Spanish-language fluency

• Proficient in written and spoken New Testament Greek and Maya-Quiché

• Professional public speaker: bilingual and racially mixed cultural populations

• Communicate complex matters in clear terms to broad audiences

• Advanced writing skills

• Microsoft Office Suite

Activities

• Board of Directors: Health Talents, International 2011-present

• Conexiones, Great City Missions Antigua, Guatemala 2016 & 2018

• Medical Mission Trip, Health Talents International Guatemala 2004, 2008, 2014, 2019 o Team chaplain & speaker at summer orientation program for missionary medical students

• Visiting Missionary Oklahoma Christian University Fall 1996 Semester

• Board of Directors, Inter-American School, Inter-American [missionary] School Quetzaltenango, Guatemala 1992-1996

• Home-Schooling Dad 1997-2007

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