Pastor / Worship Leader

COVER LETTER

Search Committee:

I am very interested to learn more about your opening in ministry. My wife, Nita, and I are currently full-time church staff in Salt Lake City. Before Utah, we served as Korean-based missionaries, teaching students from over 30 countries for more than 10 years. During that time, we also pastored international and military expat congregations. Our mission work included short-term ministries in Africa, China, Japan, and the Philippines. Our young sons were raised on the mission field. Our youngest is attending Bible college in hopes to become a military chaplain. His brother is already in the Army. Obviously, the years of missionary and military ministry have impacted our sons’ life choices.

In 2011 Nita and I moved to Utah to help another pastor to plant a new church. Here, we have seen God’s provision and blessing in this new effort. We are privileged to have been a part of all the outreach events, park services, street evangelism, home visitations, and community service ministries. The year was transitional for us, from Asian to Western culture and from missions work to domestic pastoring. Today, we are slightly more Westernized and hopefully better prepared for the next long-term ministry. The church in Utah is positioned for future growth, and our work here is concluding. Now, we are seeking God’s next challenging assignment.

Please consider our heart to serve and make a difference, as you assess our experience and qualifications for the ministry you are resourcing.

Grateful for Grace,

Kurtes Quesinberry

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PASTORAL POSITIONS

2011 – 2012 (present) Hope Unlimited Community Church, Kearns, Utah

(Full time) Associate Pastor of Worship and Administration

- Premier Accomplishments:

+ Authored and organized the combination of adult and youth churches to create one

fast-paced, family-friendly worship hour

+ Produced lay-friendly, graduate-level Bible exegesis-hermeneutics classes and

taught Bible interpretation in practical weekly application classes

+ Transitioned musical worship to hymnody-contemporary; combining the energy of

and repertoire of current airplay worship with the heart and heritage of updated hymns

- Responsible for:

+ Organizing, rehearsing, and leading all congregational worship and worship events

+ Daily administration of HUCC offices

+ On-site liaison to the K-12 private school for non-traditional learners

+ Community relations, and evangelism

+ Web presence for HUCC

+ Authoring the majority of HUCC correspondence for the senior pastor’s signature

2000-1985 Chaplain Corps U.S. Army

(Full time) Military Chaplain (active duty)

- Senior pastor to congregations of 400 - 500 attenders

- Unit chaplain, serving at brigade and battalion levels for U.S. Army and Joint Forces

units

- Founding pastor of “The Rock” successful church growth prototype military outreach

- Supervising chaplain, mentoring dozens of chaplains and lay ministers

- Counselor to unchurched and other-faith service members and families

- Chapel facilities manager, accountable for physical resources approaching 8-digit

dollar figures

- Advisor to the unit commander in all matters of faith, ethics, and intercultural religion

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2011 – 2001 Torch Trinity Graduate University Seoul, Korea

(Full time) Chair of the Practical Theology Department (www.ttgst.ac.kr)

- Premier Accomplishments:

+ Instituted the Theology of Worship as a core MDiv requirement

+ Instituted the 6-semester Spiritual Formation requirement for all students

- Responsible for:

+ Departmental programming, faculty supervision, and adjunct resourcing

+ Over 25% of all MDiv required curriculum

+ All curriculum in areas of Biblical Preaching, Pastoral Leadership, Church and

Society, Worship Practice and Theology, Spiritual Formation, and all other areas of

practical theology and sub-department disciplines

+ Interdepartmental resource coordination

- Professor of Homiletics and Worship Theology

- Committee Membership:

+ Academic and Admissions Committee (chair and member)

+ Chapel (chaplain, co-chaplain, and vice chaplain)

+ Disciplinary Committee (chair and member)

+ Student Life Committee (member)

2002-2000 Antioch Missions International Suji, Korea

(Part Time) Professor of Religious Studies

EDUCATION:

2008 Asia Baptist Graduate Theological Seminary, Hong Kong

ThD (Doctor of Theology) History and Implications of Korean Homiletics

- MAJOR: Missiology and Homiletics

- MINOR: Historical Systematic Theology

- DISSERTATION: “A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DOMINANT HOMILETIC PRINCIPLES OF SELECTED

NINETEENTH CENTURY WESTERN PREACHERS AND DOMINANT HOMILETIC PRINCIPLES IN

TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY KOREAN SEMINARIES”

1985 Fuller Theological Seminary Pasadena, CA

MDiv (Master of Divinity) Pastoral studies

(Completed MDiv simultaneously with undergraduate work below)

1985 University of the State of New York Albany, NY

BS Psych

1984 Northwest Institute of Behavioral Science Tacoma, WA

Graduate Certificate Program in Crisis and Confrontational Counseling

TEACHING HISTORY (graduate level seminary)

WORSHIP AND FORMATION

Worship Theology in the New Testament

Worship Assessment and Development

Worship Leadership

Theology of Pastoral Leadership

Worship and the Church

(History and Praxis)

Foundations of Spiritual Formation

Christian Formation in Ministry

HOMILETICS

Effective Communication

Persuasive Homiletics

Expository Homiletics

Homiletics Practicum

INTERCULTURAL STUDIES

Creative Access Communications

Global Church Development

Planting International Congregations

WRITING AND COMPREHENSION

Hermeneutics and Interpretation

Post Grad Research and Writing

Post Grad Interdisciplinary Seminar

CHURCH HEALTH AND SOCIETY

Church and Society

Pastoral Care and Counseling

Introduction to Ministry

Church and Evangelism

Church Growth (Health)

PUBLICATIONS

“Son Buddhist and Neo-Confucian Silhouettes in Early Korean Homiletics,” Asia Pacific Journal of Intercultural Studies, vol 6, no 1

(2010).

“Accessing Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Therapy for Grief Counseling,” Torch Trinity Journal 10, no. 1 (2010).

“Influences Diminishing Nineteenth Century Korean Isolationism for Western Evangelism” Asia Pacific Journal of Intercultural

Studies, vol 4, no 1 (2008).

“Defining Sin Process: A comparison of Philosophical, Spiritual, and Christian Concepts of Sin,” Torch Trinity Journal 9, no 1 (2006).

“A Hellenist Form Criticism of Ephesians 1:3-14: Subject-Type Isolation and Categorization in the Pauline Text,” Torch Trinity

Journal 8, no. 1 (2005).

“Actualized Contextualization: Balance of the Gospel Changing the Context Against the Context of Speaking the Gospel,” Torch

Trinity Journal 7, no. 1 (2004).

“The Old, Old Story: A New Impact on Modern and Postmodern Homiletics,” Torch Trinity Journal 5, no. 1 (2003).

“Communicating the Gospel: The Transparent Pastor,” Torch Trinity Journal 4, no. 1 (2001).

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