They join him as morning people for a semester. His mentoring, however, reaches well beyond the younger students. Professor Jim Slaughter describes co-teaching with Hendricks. Whenever it was my turn to teach, he would be there in class and would even take notes. He made me feel that I was important and had something valuable to contribute.
Slaughter speaks for many.
In 1986, at the request of seminary president Dr. Donald Campbell, Hendricks founded the Center for Christian Leadership. Its first program, Spiritual Formation, builds Christian identity, community, integrity, and diversity in seminary students through weekly small-group meetings. The program presents a model of discipleship intended for replication. Encouragement to be the way God made them has been a lifeline. When Don Regier said, I can t preach.