Author: Wayne Vanderwier

A Letter to a Colleague

A Letter to a Colleague

Posted by | Feb 1, 2021 | |

“One of the dumbest things I ever did was to purchase a 2020 planner.” So said a meme toward the end of the unrelenting insanity that was 2020. Our plans, already-scheduled arrangements to travel to many nations and teach/train hundreds of pastors through the ministry of Overseas Instruction in Counseling, were—as were the plans of everyone—completely upended in 2020. Instead of spending 75-80% of our time overseas, our pattern for more than a decade, Susie and I stayed home. Continue Reading →

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What Does Jesus Do for You When You Struggle?

What Does Jesus Do for You When You Struggle?

Posted by | Sep 7, 2020 | |

Fear. Anxiety. Uncertainty about the future. Self-sequestered. Sound familiar? As I write this, we are all still trying to understand and manage the personal, familial, and ecclesiastical impact of an international pandemic and the resulting quarantine. But the descriptors above do not relate exclusively to our circumstances in 2020. Those were the circumstances experienced by Jesus’ disciples on the evening of the day of His resurrection, an event announced to them by Mary Magdalene but not yet confirmed by their own experience (see John 20:18-29). Continue Reading →

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Joys and Challenges from Our Recently Completed Sabbatical

Joys and Challenges from Our Recently Completed Sabbatical

Posted by | Jun 15, 2020 | |

Sandwiched between the accounts of the beheading of John the Baptist and the feeding of the five thousand in Mark’s recounting of Jesus’ life and teaching is this encouragement: “Come away by yourselves and rest a while” (Mark 6:31a). The concept of coming away from assigned ministry responsibilities (Mark 6:7-13) because of the pressure of those tasks (“many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat,” v. 31b), has been formalized with the word sabbatical. However, there are a variety of definitions and applications in our day, both in academia and in church/parachurch ministry. Continue Reading →

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A Report: The OIC Leadership Transition – Complete!

Posted by | Oct 30, 2019 | |

June 10, 2006 – Overseas Instruction in Counseling (OIC) is born in a dedicatory ceremony attended by board members, local pastors, and friends and family members of the founding Executive Director, Dr. Wayne A. Vanderwier. Oct. 7, 2019 – Dr. Andrew Rogers, Assistant Professor and Program Director of Biblical Counseling at Boyce College in Louisville, KY, is installed as the new Executive Director of OIC at the Annual OIC Missionary Training Conference in Memphis, TN. In between those two dates, God has done what we could never have imagined—grown an international missions organization focused on training pastors, transforming lives, and strengthening churches around the world. This is the ministry that Andrew now leads. Continue Reading →

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