Chancellor

Dr. Charles D. Dorsey, Chancellor & Professor, BA, MDiv, DMin

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Dr. Charles D. Dorsey earned a full basketball scholarship to play for Oral Roberts University (ORU) in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1983. He graduated and earned his Bachelor’s Degree in telecommunications from ORU in 1986. It is at ORU where he met his future wife Dr. Lisa Dorsey of 37 years. Dr. Charles and Lisa Dorsey have owned and operated Unique Home Health Services, Inc., a healthcare company that provides skilled health services in the home for the past 28 years. Dr. Dorsey worked for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of North America for 14 years and held several positions including Human Resource Administrator managing and serving over 1,200 employees.

 

Dr. Dorsey earned a Graduate Certificate in Christian Ministry from King’s University in 2003. He participated in the Ecumenical Liturgy and Worship program sponsored by King’s University held at the Magdalen College, Oxford University, England. Dr. Dorsey earned a Masters of Divinity from the King’s University in 2005 and he earned his Doctorate of Ministry from the King’s University in 2012. Dr. Dorsey became a Licensed Minister with the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World in 1992. He became an Ordained Elder with the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World in 1995. He is now a Bishop with the Shield of Faith Fellowship of Churches, International. Dr. Charles and Dr. Lisa Dorsey founded and planted Lifeline Fellowship Christian Center on the campus of Azusa Pacific University in 2001. 

 

Dr. Dorsey assisted in city-wide prayer for the City of Azusa. He currently serves on the Chaplin staff as one of the City of Altadena Sheriff’s clergy representatives. He is also the founder of Lifeline Community Services and Economic Development Corporation which provides free food for over 250 people monthly in the San Gabriel Valley. Dr. Dorsey is the founder of Lifeline Bible College a fully accredited school of biblical learning. In 2014 he became president of the Shield of Faith Ministerial Alliance, under  the Shield of Faith Fellowship of Churches International, and he is currently completing a book entitled “Why Love.”

     

Dr. Charles and Lisa Dorsey have four Spirit-filled children, Charles Jr., Daniel, Leah, Chelsea and four adorable grandchildren Isabella, Aria, Charles III, and Zina. Dr. Charles Dorsey is leading a vibrant growing ministry now located in Altadena, California since 2004 where souls are being saved and minds renewed. In the city of Altadena, Dr. Dorsey and his church family are in the planning phase for expansion and ground breaking is in the works; to God be the Glory.

 

 

Dean

Dr. Lisa Dorsey, Dean, RN, MSN, PHN, MDiv, DPA, PhD

 

EDUCATION

PhD., Fuller Theological Seminary, 2019, Doctor of Philosophy in Theology

D.P.A., University of La Verne, 2003 – Doctor of Public Administration, Healthcare Policy

M.DIV., The King’s University (formally the King’s College and Seminary), 2005 – Graduated with Honors

Graduate Certificate in Christian Ministry, The King’s University, 2003

Certificate of Attendance, Ecumenical Liturgy and Worship, Magdalen College, Oxford University, England, 2003

M.S.N., California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1993 – Nursing Administration

Certificate in Public Health Nursing (PHN), 1993

B.S.N., Oral Roberts University, 1985 – Registered Nurse

 

 

MINISTERIAL AND VOCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

Teacher’s Assistant – Fuller Theological Seminary – Spiritual Disciplines, 2012

Teacher’s Assistant – Fuller Theological Seminary – Early Church History, 2011, 2013

Adjunct Professor, The King’s University, Early Church History, 2010

Course Design and Editor: Foundations for Ministry, Fuller Theological Seminary, 2010  

Teacher’s Assistant, Fuller Theological Seminary – Foundations of Ministry, 2006, 2007

Co-founder and staff pastor of Lifeline Fellowship Christian Center, 2001 – Present

Co-founder, Lifeline Community Services and Economic Development Corporation, 2002 – Present

Dean and Instructor of Lifeline Bible College, Lifeline Fellowship Christian Center, 2005 – Present

Member of the Executive Council of King’s Alumni – served two years.

Community Member, Azusa Pacific University, Institutional Review Board, 2006 – 2010

Steering Committee Member, Wesleyan Holiness Study Project, 2004 – 2008

President/CEO, Unique Home Health Services, Inc., 1994 – 2022

Registered Nurse – Nursing Administration, Quality/Risk Management, Critical Care, 1985-Present

 

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

 

M.Div. Studies – Graduated with Honors, National Deans List, Received the Jack W. Hayford Award for Outstanding Graduate, 2005

 

The Jerome Interpreter Award for Excellence in the Study of New Testament Greek and Biblical Hebrew, The King’s College and Seminary, 2005

 

The Jerome Pneuma Award for Exceptional Devotion to the Study of New Testament Greek, The King’s College and Seminary, 2003

 

National Dean’s List

 

 

WRITING SAMPLE

 

Dissertation

 

Leading Congregational Discernment of Praxis: A Case Study of the Use of the Name of Jesus in Water Baptism in an African-American Oneness Pentecostal Church, Fuller Theological Seminary, 2019

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Changes in Medicare Reimbursement Policies: The Impact on Access to Care, Utilization of Services, and Cost of Care in Home Health and Across the Health Care Delivery System

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Master’s Thesis

 

Effects of Diabetic Teaching on Hospital Readmission Rates, California State University, Dominguez Hills, 1993

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Published Works

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Holiness as Praxis. The Holiness Manifesto, eds. Kevin W. Mannoia and Don Thorsen, 235-236. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2008.

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Petra: An Unbroken Legacy. Hope Books, 2024. An Award Winning Book.

 

Samples of Papers Presented

 

Christology From the Margins: Fostering Ecumenical Dialogue Between Trinitarian and Oneness Pentecostals, Presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, Vanguard University, March 2022

 

Michael Walzer and the Relationship Between Religion and Democracy, Presented at the Society for Christian Ethics, Pacific Section Meeting, Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, CA, February 15, 2008

 

Voices Crying in the Wilderness, Presented at the Society for Christian Ethics, Pacific Section Meeting, Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, CA, February 15, 2008

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Sample of Unpublished Works

 

Restoring the Prophetic Voice in Postmodernism: Developing a Hybrid Model for Public Theology Utilizing the Concepts of Jürgen Habermas and Michael Walzer

 

The Praxis of Biblical Leadership

 

A Call for Multicultural Ministry

 

Toward an Ethics of Capital Punishment

 

A Theology of the Holy Spirit