The Robert G. and Nellie B. den Dulk Lectures on Pastoral Ministry were endowed by friends of WSC and by the den Dulks in 1993. In appreciation for the den Dulks‘ 30-year service to the Westminster Seminaries in Pennsylvania and California and in recognition of their passion for the preparation of pastors to preach the Word of God faithfully and powerfully, WSC designated the proceeds of this endowment to bring an experienced pastor to the campus each year to encourage students and offer wise counsel regarding the rigors and joys of shepherding Christ’s flock.
Westminster Seminary California (WSC) will hold its annual Robert G. and Nellie B. den Dulk Lectures on Pastoral Ministry on Thursday and Friday, March 20 and 21, 2025. Rev. Eric Hausler is the featured speaker and will give two lectures during this series. The den Dulk Lectures are open to the public and will be livestreamed.
Lecture 1: The Needed Eyesight of a Church Planting Pastor at 10 a.m. on Thursday 2 Corinthians 5:16 – Developing evangelistic eyesight
Lecture 2: The Rearview Mirror of a Church Planting Pastor at 10 a.m. on Friday Philippians 4:9 – Lessons learned looking back over 35 years
Pastor Eric R. Hausler is a church-planter/pastor in Naples, Florida at Christ the King Presbyterian Church (OPC). He was born and raised in Iowa City, Iowa and met his wife of 37 years, Donna, in an introductory Bible study on Calvinism (!) while working with Haitian refugees in Miami, Florida the summer of 1982. He received a B.A. in International Politics and Latin American Studies from the University of Kansas in 1983, having also studied abroad for a semester in the Republic of Haiti, and he received an M.Div. from Westminster Seminary in California in 1989. Eric was ordained in the PCA in 1990 and served two PCA churches in South Florida before accepting a call to be a church planter for the OPC. In 1998 he moved his wife and four young sons to the Grand Rapids, Michigan area where they lived for 15 years to plant, establish and shepherd Redeemer Presbyterian Church (OPC) of Ada, MI. The Hauslers returned as empty-nesters to South Florida in the summer of 2013 accepting a call from the Presbytery of the South of the OPC for a “parachute drop” church plant in Naples, Florida, combined with a call from the OPC’s Committee on Foreign Missions as a part-time missionary to Haiti. That church-planting work was organized in 2018 and is now called Christ the King Presbyterian Church. Eric has introduced many people to cross-cultural ministry through short-term mission trips to Appalachia, Czech Republic, France, French Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Poland, Slovakia, and the Turks and Caicos Islands. His wife Donna works as the administrator of the chaplain’s office at the Collier County (Naples) Jail and leads women’s Bible studies at Christ the King Presbyterian Church. Besides pastoral ministry, Eric also loves to cook, swim, read, talk to perfect strangers and proclaim the Gospel to inmates in the Naples Jail Center.
