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OUR CALLING
Today the future is bright. In covenant with the Reformed Church in America, Western Theological Seminary is forming culturally-engaged leaders who will empower, renew, and plant congregations and ministries that participate in God’s ongoing redemptive work in the world. Support Our Work. admissions@westernsem.edu. Toll-free:800.392.8554.
FACULTY/STAFF DIRECTORY 101 E 13th St Holland, MI 49423 | 800.392.8554 | admissions@westernsem.eduSUZANNE MCDONALD
Suzanne McDonald. Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology. Suzanne McDonald was born and brought up in Australia and came to faith as an undergraduate through studying English 16th & 17th century literature. After postgraduate studies in literature at Oxford, she lived in the UK from 1998 until 2007. While there, she began trainingfor
THE EUGENE PETERSON CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN IMAGINATION The Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination exists to promote the pastoral theology of Eugene Peterson for future scholarship, the health of pastors and the Church’s renewed imagination.The center will steward the Peterson papers and archives, promote robust learning, create generative models for pastoral formation and provide resources to encourage pastors for sustainable, GEORGE R. HUNSBERGER George R. Hunsberger. Professor of Missiology. George Hunsberger came to Western in 1989. He was the coordinator of the Gospel and Our Culture Network in North America from its beginning in 1987 through 2010, and has served as both secretary-treasurer and president of the American Society of Missiology. Dr. Hunsberger is an ordained ministerin
RIDDER CHURCH RENEWAL Intended for congregations committed to making deep change to reach God’s preferred future, Ridder Church Renewal is an intensive, two-year process that includes leadership development for pastors and a team of six lay leaders from their church. In 2007, WTS began offering Ridder Church Renewal through the support of a leadership endowment established by former seminary President Dr. HermanWINN COLLIER
Winn Collier. Director of the Eugene Peterson Center and Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Christian Imagination. Winn loves the church and beauty and all the things that make up being human in God’s verdant, sacred world. A pastor for over 25 years, Winn was the founding pastor of All Souls in Charlottesville, Virginia, andalso
CHUCK DEGROAT
Chuck DeGroat. Chuck is committed to spiritual and emotional formation for the sake of mission. His experience is represented in a fluid combination of pastoral ministry and seminary training for 20 years. He has served several church plants as a teaching pastor and has started two church-based clinical counseling centers.TIMOTHY L. BROWN
Timothy Brown brought twenty years of preaching and pastoral experience to the task of teaching homiletics when he arrived at Western Theological Seminary in 1995. After 13 years of inspiring and teaching the next generation of pastors to preach the Word, he accepted the call to lead the seminary as president, starting in Julyof 2008.
WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYESPAÑOLOUR CALLINGACADEMICSADMISSIONSCOMMUNITYCONTINUING ED Western faculty are widely published and academically distinguished, with doctoral degrees from the likes of Duke, Harvard, and Princeton. As importantly, our professors are deeply involved in congregational ministry – and several offer the unique perspectivesOUR CALLING
Today the future is bright. In covenant with the Reformed Church in America, Western Theological Seminary is forming culturally-engaged leaders who will empower, renew, and plant congregations and ministries that participate in God’s ongoing redemptive work in the world. Support Our Work. admissions@westernsem.edu. Toll-free:800.392.8554.
FACULTY/STAFF DIRECTORY 101 E 13th St Holland, MI 49423 | 800.392.8554 | admissions@westernsem.eduSUZANNE MCDONALD
Suzanne McDonald. Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology. Suzanne McDonald was born and brought up in Australia and came to faith as an undergraduate through studying English 16th & 17th century literature. After postgraduate studies in literature at Oxford, she lived in the UK from 1998 until 2007. While there, she began trainingfor
THE EUGENE PETERSON CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN IMAGINATION The Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination exists to promote the pastoral theology of Eugene Peterson for future scholarship, the health of pastors and the Church’s renewed imagination.The center will steward the Peterson papers and archives, promote robust learning, create generative models for pastoral formation and provide resources to encourage pastors for sustainable, GEORGE R. HUNSBERGER George R. Hunsberger. Professor of Missiology. George Hunsberger came to Western in 1989. He was the coordinator of the Gospel and Our Culture Network in North America from its beginning in 1987 through 2010, and has served as both secretary-treasurer and president of the American Society of Missiology. Dr. Hunsberger is an ordained ministerin
RIDDER CHURCH RENEWAL Intended for congregations committed to making deep change to reach God’s preferred future, Ridder Church Renewal is an intensive, two-year process that includes leadership development for pastors and a team of six lay leaders from their church. In 2007, WTS began offering Ridder Church Renewal through the support of a leadership endowment established by former seminary President Dr. HermanWINN COLLIER
Winn Collier. Director of the Eugene Peterson Center and Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Christian Imagination. Winn loves the church and beauty and all the things that make up being human in God’s verdant, sacred world. A pastor for over 25 years, Winn was the founding pastor of All Souls in Charlottesville, Virginia, andalso
CHUCK DEGROAT
Chuck DeGroat. Chuck is committed to spiritual and emotional formation for the sake of mission. His experience is represented in a fluid combination of pastoral ministry and seminary training for 20 years. He has served several church plants as a teaching pastor and has started two church-based clinical counseling centers.TIMOTHY L. BROWN
Timothy Brown brought twenty years of preaching and pastoral experience to the task of teaching homiletics when he arrived at Western Theological Seminary in 1995. After 13 years of inspiring and teaching the next generation of pastors to preach the Word, he accepted the call to lead the seminary as president, starting in Julyof 2008.
OUR CALLING
Today the future is bright. In covenant with the Reformed Church in America, Western Theological Seminary is forming culturally-engaged leaders who will empower, renew, and plant congregations and ministries that participate in God’s ongoing redemptive work in the world. Support Our Work. admissions@westernsem.edu. Toll-free:800.392.8554.
DEGREES | WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Accreditations. Western Theological Seminary is accredited by the Commission on Accrediting of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. The M.Div., D.Min., M.A. and Th.M. degrees are approved by the ATS. WTS is approved for a Comprehensive Distance Education Program. Copies of the ATS standards and the FACULTY/STAFF DIRECTORY 101 E 13th St Holland, MI 49423 | 800.392.8554 | admissions@westernsem.edu PASTORING THROUGH A PANDEMIC A few of our alumni and friends were pastoring churches in hard-hit areas at the start of the pandemic. The first major COVID-19 outbreak in the United States was in Kirkland, WA in a nursing home very close to the church led by Rev. Dan Claus ‘14. “At the classis meeting in early March, we all decided to shut down for two weeks, thinking ALUMNI | WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Download and complete this transcript request form and mail it to. Registrar. Western Theological Seminary. 101 E. 13 th St., Holland, MI 49423. You may also fax this request to 616-392-8889 along with payment to a credit card. (Fill out the credit card info on the transcript request form, or call the Registrar at 616-392-8555, x120to relay
BENJAMIN T. CONNER
Benjamin T. Conner. Professor of Practical Theology. Director of the Graduate Certificate in Disability and Ministry. Dr. Benjamin T. Conner had been involved in youth ministry in some capacity for over twenty years before coming to Western. He has served the Church in congregations and through Young Life staff. He currently serves onYoung
KYLE J. A. SMALL
Kyle J. A. Small. Professor of Church Leadership and Research & Learning Director for Churches in Mission. Kyle is the Professor of Church Leadership. He is an ordained pastor (originally in the Evangelical Covenant Church and now in the Reformed Church in America). He and his wife, Lindsay, served as co-pastors for more than12 years.
DAVID KOMLINE
David Komline has deep family roots in the RCA and is excited about teaching for a school that is evangelical, ecumenical, and Reformed. These three traditions have strongly shaped him, as one might infer from his educational background, which includes a BA from Wheaton College, an MDiv from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a PhD from the University of Notre Dame.JAMES V. BROWNSON
Dr. Brownson served Western eight years as Academic Dean and has contributed significantly to recent revisions in Western’s M.Div. curriculum. He is deeply involved in service to the Reformed Church in America, both in theological scholarship and in theological education. He is a long-standing member of the Gospel and Our Culture Network and THE SACRED ART OF WRITING Year Three: Our third year will explore the short story, while providing extended space for workshopping writing projects. Potential reading might include Zadie Smith’s Intimations, Andre Dubus’ Selected Stories, James Baldwin’s Notes of a Native Son, George Saunders’ Tenth of December, and Brian Doyle’s One Long River of Song. [year three will include our writers’ workshop retreat WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYESPAÑOLOUR CALLINGACADEMICSADMISSIONSCOMMUNITYCONTINUING ED Western faculty are widely published and academically distinguished, with doctoral degrees from the likes of Duke, Harvard, and Princeton. As importantly, our professors are deeply involved in congregational ministry – and several offer the unique perspectives FACULTY/STAFF DIRECTORY 101 E 13th St Holland, MI 49423 | 800.392.8554 | admissions@westernsem.edu GEORGE R. HUNSBERGER George R. Hunsberger. Professor of Missiology. George Hunsberger came to Western in 1989. He was the coordinator of the Gospel and Our Culture Network in North America from its beginning in 1987 through 2010, and has served as both secretary-treasurer and president of the American Society of Missiology. Dr. Hunsberger is an ordained ministerin
THE EUGENE PETERSON CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN IMAGINATION The Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination exists to promote the pastoral theology of Eugene Peterson for future scholarship, the health of pastors and the Church’s renewed imagination.The center will steward the Peterson papers and archives, promote robust learning, create generative models for pastoral formation and provide resources to encourage pastors for sustainable,SUZANNE MCDONALD
Suzanne McDonald. Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology. Suzanne McDonald was born and brought up in Australia and came to faith as an undergraduate through studying English 16th & 17th century literature. After postgraduate studies in literature at Oxford, she lived in the UK from 1998 until 2007. While there, she began trainingfor
BENJAMIN T. CONNER
Benjamin T. Conner. Professor of Practical Theology. Director of the Graduate Certificate in Disability and Ministry. Dr. Benjamin T. Conner had been involved in youth ministry in some capacity for over twenty years before coming to Western. He has served the Church in congregations and through Young Life staff. He currently serves onYoung
CHUCK DEGROAT
Chuck DeGroat. Chuck is committed to spiritual and emotional formation for the sake of mission. His experience is represented in a fluid combination of pastoral ministry and seminary training for 20 years. He has served several church plants as a teaching pastor and has started two church-based clinical counseling centers.KYLE J. A. SMALL
Kyle J. A. Small. Professor of Church Leadership and Research & Learning Director for Churches in Mission. Kyle is the Professor of Church Leadership. He is an ordained pastor (originally in the Evangelical Covenant Church and now in the Reformed Church in America). He and his wife, Lindsay, served as co-pastors for more than12 years.
JAMES V. BROWNSON
Dr. Brownson served Western eight years as Academic Dean and has contributed significantly to recent revisions in Western’s M.Div. curriculum. He is deeply involved in service to the Reformed Church in America, both in theological scholarship and in theological education. He is a long-standing member of the Gospel and Our Culture Network and RIDDER CHURCH RENEWAL Intended for congregations committed to making deep change to reach God’s preferred future, Ridder Church Renewal is an intensive, two-year process that includes leadership development for pastors and a team of six lay leaders from their church. In 2007, WTS began offering Ridder Church Renewal through the support of a leadership endowment established by former seminary President Dr. Herman WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYESPAÑOLOUR CALLINGACADEMICSADMISSIONSCOMMUNITYCONTINUING ED Western faculty are widely published and academically distinguished, with doctoral degrees from the likes of Duke, Harvard, and Princeton. As importantly, our professors are deeply involved in congregational ministry – and several offer the unique perspectives FACULTY/STAFF DIRECTORY 101 E 13th St Holland, MI 49423 | 800.392.8554 | admissions@westernsem.edu GEORGE R. HUNSBERGER George R. Hunsberger. Professor of Missiology. George Hunsberger came to Western in 1989. He was the coordinator of the Gospel and Our Culture Network in North America from its beginning in 1987 through 2010, and has served as both secretary-treasurer and president of the American Society of Missiology. Dr. Hunsberger is an ordained ministerin
THE EUGENE PETERSON CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN IMAGINATION The Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination exists to promote the pastoral theology of Eugene Peterson for future scholarship, the health of pastors and the Church’s renewed imagination.The center will steward the Peterson papers and archives, promote robust learning, create generative models for pastoral formation and provide resources to encourage pastors for sustainable,SUZANNE MCDONALD
Suzanne McDonald. Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology. Suzanne McDonald was born and brought up in Australia and came to faith as an undergraduate through studying English 16th & 17th century literature. After postgraduate studies in literature at Oxford, she lived in the UK from 1998 until 2007. While there, she began trainingfor
BENJAMIN T. CONNER
Benjamin T. Conner. Professor of Practical Theology. Director of the Graduate Certificate in Disability and Ministry. Dr. Benjamin T. Conner had been involved in youth ministry in some capacity for over twenty years before coming to Western. He has served the Church in congregations and through Young Life staff. He currently serves onYoung
CHUCK DEGROAT
Chuck DeGroat. Chuck is committed to spiritual and emotional formation for the sake of mission. His experience is represented in a fluid combination of pastoral ministry and seminary training for 20 years. He has served several church plants as a teaching pastor and has started two church-based clinical counseling centers.KYLE J. A. SMALL
Kyle J. A. Small. Professor of Church Leadership and Research & Learning Director for Churches in Mission. Kyle is the Professor of Church Leadership. He is an ordained pastor (originally in the Evangelical Covenant Church and now in the Reformed Church in America). He and his wife, Lindsay, served as co-pastors for more than12 years.
JAMES V. BROWNSON
Dr. Brownson served Western eight years as Academic Dean and has contributed significantly to recent revisions in Western’s M.Div. curriculum. He is deeply involved in service to the Reformed Church in America, both in theological scholarship and in theological education. He is a long-standing member of the Gospel and Our Culture Network and RIDDER CHURCH RENEWAL Intended for congregations committed to making deep change to reach God’s preferred future, Ridder Church Renewal is an intensive, two-year process that includes leadership development for pastors and a team of six lay leaders from their church. In 2007, WTS began offering Ridder Church Renewal through the support of a leadership endowment established by former seminary President Dr. Herman CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 UPDATES JUNE 2021 101 E 13th St Holland, MI 49423 | 800.392.8554 | admissions@westernsem.eduSTUDENT SERVICES
Download and complete this transcript request form and mail it to Registrar, Western Theological Seminary 101 E. 13th St., Holland, MI 49423. You may also fax this request to 616-392-8889 along with payment to a credit card. (Fill out the credit card info on the transcript request form or call the Registrar at 616-392-8555, x120 torelay your
MAY 10, 2021 COMMENCEMENT AND ALUMNI DAY Monday, May 10, 2021 Schedule: Due to restrictions and precautions from the pandemic, all events will be different this year, and some are canceled. See below for details. The reunion classes from last year (1960, 70, 80, 90, 2000) are joining us, as well as graduates from the Class of 2020. PASTORING THROUGH A PANDEMIC A few of our alumni and friends were pastoring churches in hard-hit areas at the start of the pandemic. The first major COVID-19 outbreak in the United States was in Kirkland, WA in a nursing home very close to the church led by Rev. Dan Claus ‘14. “At the classis meeting in early March, we all decided to shut down for two weeks, thinking CENTER FOR DISABILITY AND MINISTRY 1. The Graduate Certificate in Disability and Ministry The GCDM program is a package of credit-bearing, transcripted courses available through Western Theological Seminary’s distance learning program that prepares men and women called by God to lead the church in mission by giving them the knowledge and skills that will enable them to lead congregations, ministries, schools, colleges and THE ONLY DISABILITY & MINISTRY PROGRAM Western Theological Seminary’s Graduate Certificate in Disability and Ministry is the first program of its kind. Certificate students take six core curriculum courses and 4-5 elective courses, a total of 24 credit hours, in order to deepen their awareness of issues particular to disabilities and to increase their competency in ministering to and with the entire body of Christ.KYLE J. A. SMALL
Kyle J. A. Small. Professor of Church Leadership and Research & Learning Director for Churches in Mission. Kyle is the Professor of Church Leadership. He is an ordained pastor (originally in the Evangelical Covenant Church and now in the Reformed Church in America). He and his wife, Lindsay, served as co-pastors for more than12 years.
FELIX THEONUGRAHA
Felix Theonugraha. Dr. Theonugraha is an ordained minister in the Reformed Church in America who last served as Vice President for Student Life and University Services at Trinity International University in Deerfield, Illinois. A pastor’s son who first felt a call to ministry at age nine, Felix Theonugraha was born in Indonesiato Chinese
RON RIENSTRA
Ron Rienstra. Professor of Preaching and Worship Arts. Since his ordination in the RCA in 1993, Ron Rienstra has lived and ministered at educational institutions in Iowa (Central College), Michigan (Calvin College), and California (Fuller Seminary), pursuing his primary interest: helping preachers, congregations, worship teams, andindividuals
RIDDER CHURCH RENEWAL Intended for congregations committed to making deep change to reach God’s preferred future, Ridder Church Renewal is an intensive, two-year process that includes leadership development for pastors and a team of six lay leaders from their church. In 2007, WTS began offering Ridder Church Renewal through the support of a leadership endowment established by former seminary President Dr. Herman WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYESPAÑOLOUR CALLINGACADEMICSADMISSIONSCOMMUNITYCONTINUING ED Western faculty are widely published and academically distinguished, with doctoral degrees from the likes of Duke, Harvard, and Princeton. As importantly, our professors are deeply involved in congregational ministry – and several offer the unique perspectives FACULTY/STAFF DIRECTORY 101 E 13th St Holland, MI 49423 | 800.392.8554 | admissions@westernsem.edu GEORGE R. HUNSBERGER George R. Hunsberger. Professor of Missiology. George Hunsberger came to Western in 1989. He was the coordinator of the Gospel and Our Culture Network in North America from its beginning in 1987 through 2010, and has served as both secretary-treasurer and president of the American Society of Missiology. Dr. Hunsberger is an ordained ministerin
CENTER FOR DISABILITY AND MINISTRY 1. The Graduate Certificate in Disability and Ministry The GCDM program is a package of credit-bearing, transcripted courses available through Western Theological Seminary’s distance learning program that prepares men and women called by God to lead the church in mission by giving them the knowledge and skills that will enable them to lead congregations, ministries, schools, colleges and THE EUGENE PETERSON CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN IMAGINATIONEUGENE PETERSON BIOGRAPHYEUGENE PETERSON BOOKSEUGENE PETERSON BOOKSTHE MESSAGE EUGENEPETERSON
The Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination exists to promote the pastoral theology of Eugene Peterson for future scholarship, the health of pastors and the Church’s renewed imagination.The center will steward the Peterson papers and archives, promote robust learning, create generative models for pastoral formation and provide resources to encourage pastors for sustainable,BENJAMIN T. CONNER
Benjamin T. Conner. Professor of Practical Theology. Director of the Graduate Certificate in Disability and Ministry. Dr. Benjamin T. Conner had been involved in youth ministry in some capacity for over twenty years before coming to Western. He has served the Church in congregations and through Young Life staff. He currently serves onYoung
SUZANNE MCDONALD
Suzanne McDonald. Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology. Suzanne McDonald was born and brought up in Australia and came to faith as an undergraduate through studying English 16th & 17th century literature. After postgraduate studies in literature at Oxford, she lived in the UK from 1998 until 2007. While there, she began trainingfor
EMPLOYMENT | WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Western Theological Seminary is rooted in the historic Christian faith and seeks to be Reformed, evangelical, and ecumenical in its focus. With a full time faculty of 20, it offers four degree programs: the M.Div. in both residential and distance-learning formats, an M.A., aTh.M., and a D.Min.
RIDDER CHURCH RENEWAL Intended for congregations committed to making deep change to reach God’s preferred future, Ridder Church Renewal is an intensive, two-year process that includes leadership development for pastors and a team of six lay leaders from their church. In 2007, WTS began offering Ridder Church Renewal through the support of a leadership endowment established by former seminary President Dr. HermanCHUCK DEGROAT
Chuck DeGroat. Chuck is committed to spiritual and emotional formation for the sake of mission. His experience is represented in a fluid combination of pastoral ministry and seminary training for 20 years. He has served several church plants as a teaching pastor and has started two church-based clinical counseling centers. WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYESPAÑOLOUR CALLINGACADEMICSADMISSIONSCOMMUNITYCONTINUING ED Western faculty are widely published and academically distinguished, with doctoral degrees from the likes of Duke, Harvard, and Princeton. As importantly, our professors are deeply involved in congregational ministry – and several offer the unique perspectives FACULTY/STAFF DIRECTORY 101 E 13th St Holland, MI 49423 | 800.392.8554 | admissions@westernsem.edu GEORGE R. HUNSBERGER George R. Hunsberger. Professor of Missiology. George Hunsberger came to Western in 1989. He was the coordinator of the Gospel and Our Culture Network in North America from its beginning in 1987 through 2010, and has served as both secretary-treasurer and president of the American Society of Missiology. Dr. Hunsberger is an ordained ministerin
CENTER FOR DISABILITY AND MINISTRY 1. The Graduate Certificate in Disability and Ministry The GCDM program is a package of credit-bearing, transcripted courses available through Western Theological Seminary’s distance learning program that prepares men and women called by God to lead the church in mission by giving them the knowledge and skills that will enable them to lead congregations, ministries, schools, colleges and THE EUGENE PETERSON CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN IMAGINATIONEUGENE PETERSON BIOGRAPHYEUGENE PETERSON BOOKSEUGENE PETERSON BOOKSTHE MESSAGE EUGENEPETERSON
The Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination exists to promote the pastoral theology of Eugene Peterson for future scholarship, the health of pastors and the Church’s renewed imagination.The center will steward the Peterson papers and archives, promote robust learning, create generative models for pastoral formation and provide resources to encourage pastors for sustainable,BENJAMIN T. CONNER
Benjamin T. Conner. Professor of Practical Theology. Director of the Graduate Certificate in Disability and Ministry. Dr. Benjamin T. Conner had been involved in youth ministry in some capacity for over twenty years before coming to Western. He has served the Church in congregations and through Young Life staff. He currently serves onYoung
SUZANNE MCDONALD
Suzanne McDonald. Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology. Suzanne McDonald was born and brought up in Australia and came to faith as an undergraduate through studying English 16th & 17th century literature. After postgraduate studies in literature at Oxford, she lived in the UK from 1998 until 2007. While there, she began trainingfor
EMPLOYMENT | WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Western Theological Seminary is rooted in the historic Christian faith and seeks to be Reformed, evangelical, and ecumenical in its focus. With a full time faculty of 20, it offers four degree programs: the M.Div. in both residential and distance-learning formats, an M.A., aTh.M., and a D.Min.
RIDDER CHURCH RENEWAL Intended for congregations committed to making deep change to reach God’s preferred future, Ridder Church Renewal is an intensive, two-year process that includes leadership development for pastors and a team of six lay leaders from their church. In 2007, WTS began offering Ridder Church Renewal through the support of a leadership endowment established by former seminary President Dr. HermanCHUCK DEGROAT
Chuck DeGroat. Chuck is committed to spiritual and emotional formation for the sake of mission. His experience is represented in a fluid combination of pastoral ministry and seminary training for 20 years. He has served several church plants as a teaching pastor and has started two church-based clinical counseling centers. DEGREES | WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Accreditations. Western Theological Seminary is accredited by the Commission on Accrediting of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. The M.Div., D.Min., M.A. and Th.M. degrees are approved by the ATS. WTS is approved for a Comprehensive Distance Education Program. Copies of the ATS standards and the CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 UPDATES JUNE 2021 101 E 13th St Holland, MI 49423 | 800.392.8554 | admissions@westernsem.eduSTUDENT SERVICES
Download and complete this transcript request form and mail it to Registrar, Western Theological Seminary 101 E. 13th St., Holland, MI 49423. You may also fax this request to 616-392-8889 along with payment to a credit card. (Fill out the credit card info on the transcript request form or call the Registrar at 616-392-8555, x120 torelay your
FACULTY/STAFF DIRECTORY 101 E 13th St Holland, MI 49423 | 800.392.8554 | admissions@westernsem.eduMISSION & VISION
Western Theological Seminary is committed to the admission and education of students without discrimination on the basis of sex. Throughout Scripture, we see God calling and appointing women to teach, preach, and lead God’s people. We uphold the biblical witness as we prepare women and men to lead the church in mission. MAY 10, 2021 COMMENCEMENT AND ALUMNI DAY Monday, May 10, 2021 Schedule: Due to restrictions and precautions from the pandemic, all events will be different this year, and some are canceled. See below for details. The reunion classes from last year (1960, 70, 80, 90, 2000) are joining us, as well as graduates from the Class of 2020. COVID-19 PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE PLAN COVID-19 PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE PLAN Western Theological Seminary takes the health and safety of our employees extremely seriously. Withthe
CENTER FOR DISABILITY AND MINISTRY 1. The Graduate Certificate in Disability and Ministry The GCDM program is a package of credit-bearing, transcripted courses available through Western Theological Seminary’s distance learning program that prepares men and women called by God to lead the church in mission by giving them the knowledge and skills that will enable them to lead congregations, ministries, schools, colleges and EMPLOYMENT | WESTERN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY Western Theological Seminary is rooted in the historic Christian faith and seeks to be Reformed, evangelical, and ecumenical in its focus. With a full time faculty of 20, it offers four degree programs: the M.Div. in both residential and distance-learning formats, an M.A., aTh.M., and a D.Min.
TIMOTHY L. BROWN
Timothy Brown brought twenty years of preaching and pastoral experience to the task of teaching homiletics when he arrived at Western Theological Seminary in 1995. After 13 years of inspiring and teaching the next generation of pastors to preach the Word, he accepted the call to lead the seminary as president, starting in Julyof 2008.
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