Teaching, preaching, counseling
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ROGER D. BEAR
Terre Haute, IN 47802
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https://www.facebook.com/roger.bear.92
Born, April 30, 1952
Married since September 2, 1978 to Rose Lynn Alldridge Bear, BA Blue Mountain College, MRE SWBTS
COMMENT: I have been retired from collegiate ministry and sports chaplaincy since May of 2018 and have been doing family and marriage counseling part-time since January, 2019. Our only daughter, son-in-law, and three grandchildren live in Jamestown, N.C. and we would like to live closer. My gifts/talents are in working with people: listening, encouraging, interacting, and so forth. I am an extrovert but most enjoy being the catalyst for others talking about their own lives, experiences, dreams.
EXPERIENCE:
NOVEMBER 2018 – PRESENT, COUNSELOR WITH COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN COUNSELING
Specializing in pre-marriage and marriage counseling.
MAY 1984 – JULY 1, 2018, DIRECTOR, Baptist collegiate ministry
Collegiate ministry and mission work with college students at Indiana State University, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, St. Mary of the Woods College, and Ivy Tech in Terre Haute, Indiana. Overlapping in this time was 18 years in ministry with athletes, particularly the ISU football team.
AUGUST 2012 – MAY 2013, ESL INSTRUCTOR AT INTERLINK LANGUAGE CENTER, INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY Taught English as a Second Language to International Students preparing to pass their TOEFL exam.
AUGUST 1984 – MAY 1987, SACRED HEART CATHOLIC SCHOOL Taught grades five and seven full time for two years and half-time for a third, concurrent with my first few years with Baptist Collegiate Ministry.
JULY 1974 – MAY 1979, sunman-dearborn school corporation
Middle and High School English Teacher, Journalism Teacher/Newspaper Advisor, Junior High Football Coach
EDUCATION
MAY 1974 B.A., ENGLISH EDUCATION – PURDUE UNIVERSITY
AUGUST 1978 M.A., EDUCATION – PURDUE UNIVERSITY
MAY 1983 M.DIV. – SOUTHWESTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY (FT. WORTH, TEXAS)
SKILLS
Teaching, listening, encouraging, counseling, preaching. I am conversive in a wide spectrum of interests and disciplines
from literature to the outdoors. Leading and engaging people in wholesome laughter and joy.
ACTIVITIES
I have a passion for the outdoors, especially rivers, lakes, and oceans. I cherish good literature and reading. My wife, Rose, and I have traveled to several areas of the U.S. as we have involved college students in mission/ministry activities (inner city, disaster relief, construction, outreach). Together with groups of students we have made repeat trips to Uruguay, S.A. I have additionally accompanied students to Honduras, Belarus (White Russia), and India and have made three trips to teach in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. I am a fair carpenter, an adequate mechanic, and below-average cook. I can and have taught English as a Second Language (ESL) for three terms with InterLink, the English Language School formerly at Indiana State University.
REFERENCES
Dr. Jim Evans – Founder and Director of Community Christian Counseling, Terre Haute, Indiana
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Coach Brian Cabral – Former NFL player, Division I Football Coach, Retired
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Jennifer Cobbs – Office of Career Services and Employer Relations, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
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Freda Luers -- Retired Director of Student Affairs, Indiana State University
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Jan Tyler – Assistant Guidance Counselor at South Dearborn High School, Aurora, Indiana
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