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A Letter from CentrAL’ s Pres ident

Dear Friends of Central,

Innovation is woven into the fabric of creation. God calls into being a world suitable for the flourishing of many creatures, yet it is an unfinished world. The human commission is to be God’s partner in the continuous fashioning of our terrestrial home.

A theological school is dependent upon its capacity to innovate. The needs of churches change; the nature of mission changes; hence, the preparation for ministry changes. It is a wonderful thing to reflect on Central’s long history, and we recognize that without innovation our history would have been foreshortened. The dynamic God continues to call us forward, prompting new forms of accessible ministry preparation.

In this new season, our challenge is to Embrace Change, and Inspire Leadership. We are accomplishing this through our technologically enhanced mode of delivery, our accent on leadership development, and our recognition that we are global, personal, and horizonal.

When a seminary describes itself as global, it is a clear recognition that God is at work throughout the world and that we benefit from participating in the larger reality of global Christianity. There was a time in the colonial period when mission meant Europe and North America exported culture along with faith, often with little respect for the dignity and mores of those being evangelized. Missionaries traveled on the same ships as traders of the East India Company. Still, today's indigenous leaders hold the missionary legacy in high regard even as they long for a more contextual expression of their faith.

Theological education is personal. Every learner has value; every one bears the image of God and is suffused with the Holy Breath of God. We all desire to be known and encouraged in our unique embodiment of humanity.

Faculty members excel in knowing students and forming them as good ministers of Christ Jesus, from whom we attempt to teach everything we have learned. The character faculty bear shapes learners, and their graceful imprint endures.

As technologically enhanced theological education grows, some fear this would make it impossible to form true community and that the personal touch would be lost. Good pedagogy transcends distance, and deep connections ensue.

Horizonal may not be a word you use regularly. It often gets changed to “horizontal” with that affliction we call “autocorrect.” Horizonal means to see beyond the present, to look beyond the present horizon for what comes next. Leadership is about seeing what is coming before it is here, anticipating how we will need to change ahead of time.

Innovation is a response to the prompting of God’s Spirit who continues to nudge us toward new horizons. Thank you for making it possible to follow this nudging, historically and into the future.

Faithfully yours,

Molly T. Marshall President and Professor of Theology and Spiritual Formation

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A Letter from CentrAL’ s Pres ident

사랑하는 센트럴 가족 여러분,

혁신이란 “창조”라는 직물을 짜는 실과도 같습니다. 하나님은 아직 완성되지는 않았지만, 만물이 번성하기에 적합한 세상을 만들고 계십니다. 인간의 사명은 이 세상의 지속적인 흐름 속에서 하나님의 동역자가 되는 것입니다.

신학교에게 있어 혁신하는 능력은 매우 중요합니다. 교회들의 필요들은 변하고, 선교의 특성도 변하기 때문에, 사역에 대한 준비도 변할 수 밖에 없습니다. 센트럴의 오랜 그리고 놀라운 역사를 돌아볼 때, 우리는 혁신이 없었다면 우리의 역사도 짧아졌을 것임을 알고 있습니다. 역동적이신 하나님은 우리가 사역 준비를 위해 접근이 용이한 새로운 방식들을 개발하면서 계속해서 앞으로 나아가기를 원하십니다.

이러한 새로운 시대 속에서 우리의 도전은 변화를 포용하고, 리더십을 고양시키는 것입니다. 이를 위해 우리는 발전된 기술을 사용한 전달방식, 리더십 개발에 대한 강조, 그리고 우리는 “글로벌하고, 개인적이며, 멀리 바라본다”는 자기 인식을 통해서 이를 성취해 나가고 있습니다.

우리가 우리 자신을 글로벌 (Global)하다고 설명할 때, 그것은 하나님이 세상 속에서 일하고 계시다는 것과 우리는 글로벌 기독교라는 더 큰 현실에 참여함이 유익하다는 것에 대한 분명한 인식을 말합니다. 식민지 시대에는 선교지 사람들의 존엄성을 충분히 존중하지 못한 채, 유럽과 북미 문화를 신앙과 함께 이식하는 것을 선교라고 여기던 시기가 있었습니다. 선교사들은 동인도 회사 무역상들과 같은 배를 타고 여행했습니다. 오늘날까지도 토착 리더들은 그들의 상황에 더 어울리는 방식으로 그들의 신앙을 표현하기를 간절히 원하면서도, 선교사들이 전해준 유산을 존중하고 있습니다.

신학교육은 개인적 (Personal)입니다. 모든 배우는 이들은 가치가 있습니다. 모든 사람들은 하나님의 형상을 가지고 있고, 하나님의 거룩한 숨으로 가득 차 있습니다. 우리 모두는 각자의 독특한 인간됨 안에서 발견되기를 원하고, 격려받기를 갈망합니다.

센트럴의 교수진들은 그들이 예수께 배운 모든 것을 가르치려고 노력하면서, 학생들을 아는 일과 그들을 그리스도 예수의 훌륭한 사역자들로 양성하는 일에 탁월합니다. 그들이 품고 있는 인격이 배우는 이들에게 영향을 주고, 은혜로 가득한 그들의 흔적들은 계속 남게 될 것입니다.

기술적으로 강화된 신학교육 방식이 발달함에 따라, 어떤 이들은 이 세상이 진정한 공동체를 형성하는 것을 불가능하게 만들며, 개인적인 관계가 사라질 것이라고 염려합니다. 그러나 훌륭한 교육방법은 거리를 뛰어 넘게 하고, 깊이있는 관계들은 계속해서 일어날 수 있습니다.

“멀리 바라보는” (Horizonal)이라는 것은 흔하게 사용하는 단어는 아닐 것 입습니다. “자동교정(autocorrect)” 기능에서도 그것은 “수평적인” (horizontal)이라는 말로 바뀔 겁니다. “수평선을 바라보는” (Horizonal)이라는 것은 현재 너머에 있는 것을 보는 것, 현재 주어진 영역 너머에 있는 것을 보는 것을 의미합니다. 이처럼 리더십이란 어떤 변화가 필요할 것인가를 미리 예상하면서 오고 있는 것을 미리 보는 것과 관련되어 있습니다.

혁신이란 새로운 영역들로 향하도록 계속해서 우리를 넌지시 찔러주시는 성령의 암시에 대한 우리의 반응입니다. 역사 속에서, 그리고 미래를 향한 그분의 가르쳐주심을 따라갈 수 있도록 협력해 주심에 감사 드립니다.

Molly T. Marshall 몰리 마샬 총장

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A Letter from Central’s President 2

CommuniTea 5

Commencement 2017 6

Doctoral Studies 10

Central/ABCUSA IM 11

New Recruitment website 12

Innovative Technology 13

Central's Horizonal View 14

Money & Ministry 15

Urban Missional Institute 16

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Central ၏ မိတ္ေဆြမ်ားသို႔

ဆန္းသစ္လွပေသာတီထြင္မႈမ်ားသည္ ေလာကႀကီး၌လိုအပ္သကဲ့သို႔ ဘုရားသခင္၏ဖန္ဆင္းျခင္းသည္လည္လွပဆန္းသစ္ရန္လိုအပ္ပါသည္။ ဘုရားသခင္သည္ ဤ

ေလာကသားမ်ားအား ေအာင္ျမင္မႈမ်ားႏွင့္ ျပည့္စံုေစရန္ရည္ရြယ္ေသာ္လည္း ဤေလာက ႀကီးသည္ၿပီးျပည့္စံုျခင္းမရွိပါ။ လူသားမ်ားအတြက္စိန္ေခၚမႈမွာေလာက၌ေနစဥ္ ဘုရားသခင္ႏွင့္တဲြဖက္၍ ပိုမိုတိုးတက္ေအာင္ စဥ္ဆက္မျပတ္ျပဳလုပ္ရန္ျဖစ္သည္။

ဤက်မ္းစာေက်ာင္း၏ရပ္တည္မႈသည္ ၎၏တိုးတက္ေျပာင္းလဲေအာင္လုပ္ေဆာင္ႏိူင္ေသာစြမ္းရည္၌မူတည္ပါသည္။ အသင္းေတာ္မ်ား၏လိုအပ္ခ်က္မ်ား၊ သာသနာျပဳျခင္းသေဘာသဘာဝမ်ား ေျပာင္းလဲသကဲ့သို႔ သာသနာလုပ္ငန္း အတြက္ျပင္ဆင္ျခင္း သည္လည္း ေျပာင္းလဲလာပါသည္။ Central ၏သမိုင္းေၾကာင္းကိုျပန္လည္ထင္ဟပ္ရလွ်င္ အားရေက်နပ္ဖြယ္ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေသာ ဆန္းသစ္မႈမ်ားမရွိခဲ့လွ်င္ဤသို႔ျဖစ္မည္မဟုတ္ပါ။ အလံုးစံုကိုသိျမင္ႏိူင္ေသာ ဘုရားသခင္က ကၽြႏ္ုပ္တို႔အားေရွ႕ဆက္ေလွ်ာက္လွမ္းရန္၊ အသစ္ေသာအေတြးအေခၚမ်ားႏွင့္ သာသနာလုပ္ငန္းကို ျပင္ဆင္ရန္အလိုရွိပါသည္။

ယခုကဲ့သို႔အခ်ိန္အခါ၌ ေျပာင္းလဲမႈကိုလက္ခံၿပီး ေခါင္းေဆာင္မႈအားေကာင္းေအာင္လုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္ ကၽြႏ္ုပ္တို႔အားစိန္ေခၚေနပါသည္။ ကၽြႏ္ုပ္တို႔အေနျဖင့္ ေခတ္မွီနည္းပညာမ်ား၊ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မႈအရည္အေသြးျမႇင့္တင္ျခင္းအရာမ်ား၌ လုပ္ေဆာင္ႏိူင္ၿပီး ေလာကႀကီးႏွင့္ ဆိုင္ေသာ (Global)၊ တစ္ဦးတစ္ေယာက္စီတိုင္းႏွင့္ဆိုင္ေသာ (Personal)၊ အနာဂတ္အတြက္ေတြးဆႏိူင္ေသာ (Horizonal) အရာမ်ားကိုပါ လုပ္ေဆာင္ႏိူင္ေၾကာင္းေတြ႕ရသည္။

ဘုရားသခင္သည္ ေလာကသားမ်ားအတြက္ အၿမဲလုပ္ေဆာင္ေနသကဲ့သို႔ က်မ္းစာေက်ာင္းသည္လည္း ခရစ္ယာန္အသိုက္အဝန္းတြင္ ေလာကႀကီး (Global) အတြက္ပို၍က်ယ္ျပန္႔စြာလုပ္ေဆာင္ေနေၾကာင္းေတြ႕ရသည္။ ေရွးကိုလိုနီေခတ္အခါ၌ ဥေရာပ ႏွင့္ေျမာက္အေမရိက သားတို႔ သာသနာျပဳရာ၌ ၎တို႔၏ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈႏွင့္ယွဥ္တဲြ၍ ယံုၾကည္ျခင္းကို ေဝမွ်ခဲ့သည္။

တစ္ဘက္လူ၏ယဥ္ေက်းမႈဓေလ့ထံုးစံတို႔ကို အေလးထားျခင္း အားနည္းခဲ့သည္။ အဘယ္ေၾကာင့္ဆိုေသာ္ သာသနာျပဳတို႔သည္ အေရွ႕အိႏၵိယ ကုမၸဏီ၏ ကုန္သည္မ်ားႏွင့္ေရာလ်က္ သေဘၤာတစ္စီးတည္းသြားရေသာေၾကာင့္လည္း ပါဝင္သည္။ ေဒသခံတို႔မွာလည္း မိမိတို႔၏ ဓေလ့ထံုးစံမ်ားထက္ သာသနာျပဳတို႔၏အေမြအႏွစ္မ်ားကို ဦးစားေပးလာသည္။

ဓမၼေတြးေခၚမႈပညာရပ္သည္ လူတစ္ဦးတစ္ေယာက္စီတိုင္း (Personal) ႏွင့္သက္ဆိုင္သည္။ ေလ့လာသူတိုင္းသည္ သူ႔တန္ဖိုးႏွင့္သူရွိၿပီး လူတိုင္းသည္ ဘုရား၏ပံုသ႑ာန္ေတာ္ကိုေဆာင္ေသာေၾကာင့္ ဘုရား၏အသြင္သ႑ာန္ ေပၚလြင္ေစပါသည္။

နည္းပညာမ်ားက ဓမၼေတြးေခၚမႈမ်ားကို ပိုမိုတိုးတက္လာေစသကဲ့သို႔ အခ်ိဳ႕တို႔ကလည္း လူတစ္ဦးစီ၏ စစ္မွန္ေသာ လူ႔အသိုက္အဝန္း ကြယ္ေပ်ာက္မည္ကို စိုးရိမ္ၾကသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ သင္ၾကားမႈနည္းပညာမ်ား ပိုမိုေကာင္းမြန္၍ ဆက္သြယ္မႈစနစ္ပါထူးျခား လာသည္ ကိုေတြ႕ရသည္။

အနာဂတ္အတြက္ေတြးဆႏိူင္ေသာ(Horizonal)အရာမွာမူယခုလက္ရွိပစၥဳပၸန္ကိုေက်ာ္လြန္၍ ျမင္ႏိူင္ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မႈ ဆိုသည္မွာ ေနာက္ျဖစ္ႏိူင္ေျခရွိသည္ကို ႀကိဳတင္ျမင္၍ ဒီအေျခအေနမေရာက္ခင္ႀကိဳတင္ စီစဥ္ေျပာင္းလဲျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။

ဘုရားသခင္၏ ဝိညာဥ္ေတာ္က ဆန္းသစ္ေျပာင္းလဲျခင္း သို႔တေရြ႕ေရြ႕ပို႔ေဆာင္ေပးပါသည္။ ထို႔ခဲ့သို႔ပို႔ေဆာင္မႈကို အနာဂတ္တြင္ သမိုင္းဝင္ေအာင္ ပါဝင္လုပ္ေဆာင္မႈမ်ားအတြက္ ေက်းဇူးတင္ပါသည္။

သစၥာျဖင့္

Molly T. Marshall President and Professor of Theology and Spiritual Formation

Innovation 3.0

February 7, 2017, was Graduation Day for the FOUNDATIONS Judson Communities classes held in Oakland, California

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CommuniTea: Serving God Through InnovationClaire Chadwick (2014 MDiv), CommuniTea Cafe and Hospitality Manager

When I moved to Kansas City to begin attending Central Baptist Theological Seminary, I was, as we Christians like to say, in a valley of my life. I was in a new city, knew very few people, was at a new school, and couldn’t find a job. Eventually I was hired at the Starbucks located across the street from Central. I continued to work there during my seminary studies. Not only did I learn Dr. Molly T. Marshall’s usual drink by heart (triple grande heavy cream latte without a stopper), but so much more.

The dynamics of a coffee shop are, in many ways, parallel to that of the church. We worked together in a very tight space and saw each other often during stressful situations, which meant we had no choice but to form meaningful relationships. My Family Systems Theory classes were extraordinarily helpful in understanding and working within the coffee shop system. What I loved most were the genuine human connections that I was able to form with my fellow baristas and with loyal customers. I got to see customers get married, have children, and lose loved ones. Customers formed such bonds with us that they brought us Christmas gifts, celebrated with us, and cried when we had to move on.

I loved being able to serve others with a heart of hospitality and warmth. I could show someone the love of Christ just by being kind in a stressful situation. In what other job could I find such deep, genuine human relationships in the midst of common, ordinary living? I can think of one. A barista’s role is actually not far from that of pastor. Each has a heart to serve with love and show hospitality to strangers. (I hear some have entertained angels in such a way without realizing it!)

When I was approached by the Rev. Dr. Wallace Smith, pastor of Journey Community Church, with his new idea for opening a coffee shop church, I knew that in the midst of that valley, God had been preparing me for my own unique calling to an innovative form of ministry. Why was Starbucks the only job I could find when I first moved here? This was why. Here was a new and unique ministry where we would combine the love of coffee and tea, the ambiance of a coffee shop, the love of Jesus Christ, and the desire to serve others.

CommuniTea, a wholly separate entity, partners with Journey Community Church for ministry. CommuniTea offers space, relationship, and a chance to chat without the pressure of profit-making. We are a gathering place for a variety of individuals and groups who use this space for meeting and sharing with one another. Can we get more church-like than that?

Living and working in downtown Overland Park, Kansas, we are situated to get to know our neighbors in ways that churches often struggle to do. Instead of asking our community to come to us and worship in our sanctuary, we have created a common “sanctuary,” an everyday living, eating, and working space. We love it. We love each type of person that comes through those doors. And I know that God is working through us to be the church in this new and innovative way.

The crew at CommuniTea with Dr. Wallace Smith (2016 Central DMin) on the left and Claire Chadwick on the right.

The community enjoys space and relationships at CommuniTea.

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2017 Commencement Yields Firsts in Participation and Outstanding Scholarship

최고의 인재들을 배출한 센트럴 2017 졸업식

센트럴 신학교는 지난 5월 13일에 새 건물인 21st Century Learning Center에서 아름다운 축하의 시간을 가졌습니다. 약 350명의 참석자들이 지켜보는 가운데 올해 58명의 졸업생 중 36명이 졸업식에 참석했습니다.

이번 졸업식에서 가장 눈여겨 볼 부분 중 하나는 우수한 졸업생들의 수상 소식입니다. 성경해석, 역사, 설교, 신학, 그리고 작문상 등은 따로 설명이 필요 없는 영역들입니다. 수상자들은 각각의 영역에 해당하는 수업들에서 뛰어난 학업능력을 보여주었습니다. 평화와 정의상 (the peace and justice)과 뛰어난 사역상 (Excellence in ministry)은 그 이름과 어울리는 영역들과 관련된 상들입니다. 하지만, 이 상을 받는 이들의 이야기들은 왜 이들이 이 상을 받게 되었는지를 보다 분명하게 보여줍니다.

We had a marvelous day of celebration in our new 21st Century Learning Center on May 13. About 350 people gathered to witness the Commencement ceremony for 36 of the 58 graduates who completed their diploma and degree programs this year.

As President Molly T. Marshall reflected in her post-Commencement blog,

Though we were packed in a bit, we rejoiced in being home for the school’s 115th Commencement. Now that the most recent building project has been completed, we have space for our varied traditions: the blessing of women graduates; celebration of alum achievement; and post-graduation reception. With the addition of the Smith Courtyard, we can spill out of the building into a lovely outdoor venue.

몰리마샬 총장은 졸업식이 끝난 후 블로그를 통해 다음과 같이 말했습니다:

졸업식장이 조금 붐비기는 했지만, 115회 졸업식을 드디어 본교에서 치를 수 있게 되어 매우 기쁩니다. 건물 증측 프로젝트가 최근에 완성됨으로써, 여성동문모임, 총동문회 모임, 졸업식 후의 연회 등 전통있는 여러 모임들을 가질 수 있는 장소를 확보하게 되었습니다. Smith Courtyard도 새롭게 지어져 아름다운 야외장소로 사용할 수 있게 되었습니다.

In addition to those who were on campus for the celebration, this year – for the first time in the seminary’s history – the event was livestreamed for those who could not be in Kansas City in person. Anyone from Central’s global community could join in the celebration by logging in from their own computer or tablet.

특히 올해는 졸업식에 직접 참여한 사람들 뿐만이 아니라, 신학교 역사상 처음으로 캔사스 시티 지역에 거주하지 않는 분들을 위해 라이브 스트리밍을 통해 생중계하였습니다. 전세계에 있는 센트럴 가족들은 누구든지 컴퓨터나 노트북을 통해 졸업식에 참여할 수 있었습니다.

One of the highlights of the Commencement ceremony is the awards presented to outstanding graduates. The awards in biblical interpretation, history, preaching, theology, and writing are self-explanatory. These graduates showed expertise in their work for the courses in these disciplines. Ostensibly, the peace and justice award and the award for excellence in ministry have something to do with the subjects for which they are named; however, the stories of the recipients who received them gives more evidence for the reason these particular students were recognized.

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평화와 정의상 수상자인 Bernadette Arellano는 현재 푸드뱅크를 운영중인 비영리단체 밀워키 크리스챤 센터에서 오랫동안 일하고 있습니다. 그녀는 또한 급진주의적 포용을 실천하는 Broken Walls Christian Community라는 신앙 공동체의 일원으로 사역하고 있습니다. 또한 이 상을 수상한 김선희 (Sun Hee Kim) 전도사는 한국의 서울에서 전도사로 사역하고 있습니다. 김전도사는 사역자들의 정치적인 참여가 쉽게 받아들여지지 않는 한국의 상황에서 그리스도인으로서 최근 탄핵된 박근혜 탄핵을 위한 촛불집회에 참여해야겠다고 생각했습니다.

Peace and Justice award recipient, Bernadette Arellano, has a long history of working in non-profit work, particularly the Milwaukee Christian Center, where she currently runs the food bank. She also serves as ministry associate for Broken Walls Christian Community, a faith community that practices radical inclusivity. Sun Hee Kim, who also received this award, is a minister in Seoul, South Korea. While it is not considered acceptable for Korean ministers to be involved in political matters, Kim felt compelled, because she was a Christian, to participate in the recent candlelight demonstrations held in protest of the actions of President Park Geun-hye, who was subsequently impeached.

The McBride/Eddy award was given this year to two women and two men – one of each for the English and Korean programs.

McBride/Eddy상은 미국부와 한국부 프로그램에서 각각 2명의 여성과 남성이 수상했습니다.

Even while managing a successful business, during his last year of classes, Steve Roberts served a small rural congregation faithfully and with effectiveness. He could see the potential this small congregation had and worked hard to help them realize it. He seemed joyful in doing this ministry, and demonstrated significant commitment, giving far more time and energy than what was expected. His mentor expressed high regard for him and the ministry he was doing, and specifically mentioned his warmth, communications skills, and professionalism.

The 2017 graduating class with Central faculty in the Vier Garden on the Kansas City campus

Steve Roberts는 마지막 학년에 그의 사업을 성공적으로 운영하면서, 시골지역에 있는 작은 교회를 성실하고 훌륭하게 섬겼습니다. 그는 이 작은 회중이 가진 잠재력을 보았고, 그들이 그것을 발견할 수 있도록 열심히 사역했습니다. 그는 이 사역을 즐거워하는 것처럼 보였고, 요구된 시간이나 에너지를 넘어서는 굉장한 헌신을 보여주었습니다. 그의 멘토는 Steve와 그의 사역을 높이 평가했고, 특히 그의 따뜻함, 소통의 기술과 전문성을 구체적으로 언급했습니다.

in Kyun Woo, at 66 years of age, is a lifelong learner, who is known for his servant leadership. He serves as an assistant pastor in a Korean American church in the Kansas City area and will be ordained later this year. His very active presence in online classes and desire always to be learning something new was impressive to his classmates, even more so when they learned he was well beyond retirement age.

66세의 우인균 전도사는 섬김의 리더십을 보여주는 평생 배우기를 좋아하는 사람입니다. 그는 캔사스 시티 인근에 있는 한인교회에서 전도사로 섬기고 있고, 곧 목사 안수를 준비 중입니다. 온라인 수업에서의 매우 적극적인 참여와 항상 새로운 것을 배우려는 열심은 다른 학우들에게도 매우 인상적이었는데, 특히 학우들은 우 전도사가 은퇴할 나이가 넘었다는 것을 알았을 때 더욱 놀랐습니다.

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Geraldine Sheets-Howard

The Tennessee group of create MDiv students, who are a part of the Leadership Development for Women Initiative, met in January at Conception Abbey with Tennessee faculty and President Marshall.유예리 전도사는 캔사스로 오기 전에 선교사로서 그녀의

삶을 태국 선교를 위해 헌신했습니다. 그녀는 태국어를 배웠지만, 태국 동북부에 있는 Issan족의 미전도 종족을 섬기기 위해 라오스어를 배워야 했습니다. 그녀는 신광섭 교수의 사역의 역동성이라는 수업에서 요구하는 목회실습을 할 수 있는 한인교회를 찾기가 쉽지 않아 고민하던 중에 캔사스에 있는 라오스 교회를 알게 되었습니다. 센트럴 졸업생이며 라오스 교회의 목회자이신 테오도레 목사님은 그녀의 멘토가 되기로 하였습니다. 그녀의 과제를 마치고 나자, 그 교회의 일원으로서 그녀를 환영해주었던 라오스 교회는 유예리 전도사의 선교사로서의 경력과 배경을 고려해 그녀를 부교역자로 임명하였고, 현재는 목사 안수를 준비 중에 있습니다.

EyeRei Yoo devoted her life as a Korean missionary to Thailand before she came to Kansas. She had learned the Thai language but then found a need to learn Lao to serve the unreached people of Issan in northeast Thailand. Upon learning that she could not complete her required internship for Dr. Kwangsup Shin’s ministry dynamics class with a Korean church, she researched and discovered a Lao church in Kansas. Former Central student and pastor of the church, the Rev. Theodore “Ted” Khongmaly, agreed to be her mentor. Upon completing her assignment, the church, who welcomed her as one of their own because of her background, made her an assistant pastor, and she is currently preparing for ordination.

Finally, the presidential citation is awarded to those students who achieved the highest grade point average. Mark Harmon will begin serving in July as the Associate Pastor of Caring Ministries at Saint Andrew Christian Church (DOC) in Olathe, Kansas. In this role he will be responsible for the development, oversight, and coordination of responses to the varied care needs of the members of our members and for the community at-large. In addition, he will be working with members of the community to establish interfaith and interracial dialog with the hope of promoting reconciliation and healing.

마지막으로 총장상은 최고의 학점을 받은 학생들에게 수여됩니다. Mark Harmon 은 7월 캔사스 올레따에 있는 Saint Andrew Christian Church (DOC)에서 돌봄사역 분야를 위한 부목사로서 사역을 시작합니다. 그가 맡게 될 사역은 성도들은 물론 지역 사회 사람들의 다양한 필요들에 대해 어떻게 대응할지를 개발, 관리, 및 조정하는 사역들입니다. 또한 그는 공동체 구성원들과 협력하여 화해와 치유를 촉진하기를 소망하면서 종교간/인종간의 대화를 위한 사역도 함께 세워 나갈 계획입니다.

Dr. Pam Durso, Executive Director of Baptist Women in Ministry, gave the Commencement address, "Does This Look Like Friendship?"

Eyerei Yoo and In Kyun Woo, Korean Program, were recipients of the award for Excellence in Ministry. For more of Eyerei's story, visits the Central Scholars Reflect blog at cbts.edu.

Sun Hee Kim, Korean Program, received the Peace and Justice award.

Patti Ulrich has also been a conscientious and focused student and minister. She gave evidence of significant spiritual depth, human sensitivity, the capacity to care for others, and effective ministry. Her work in the church has been creative, theologically thoughtful, and encouraging of spiritual growth. Her mentor indicated her preaching showed deep thoughtfulness and care, and specifically mentioned her kindness and considerateness.

Patti Ulrich는 양심적이고 매우 집중력있는 학생이자 사역자였습니다. 그녀는 상당한 영적 깊이, 인간에 대한 민감함, 타인을 돌보는 능력, 그리고 효과적인 사역을 보여주었습니다. 교회 사역 속에서 그녀는 창의적이고, 신학적으로 깊이 있으며, 영적인 성장을 격려해왔습니다. 그녀의 멘토는 매우 사려깊고 돌봄이 있는 그녀의 설교를 칭찬하면서, 특히 그녀의 친절함과 동정심에 대해서 언급했습니다.

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한국부 프로그램 과정에서 디플로마를 받은 안현주 전도사 또한 총장상을 수상했습니다. 안전도사는 텍사스에 있는 어스틴 한인장로교회에서 유년부 사역을 위해 자원봉사하고 있습니다. 디플로마 과정을 마친 그녀는 가을학기에 센트럴로 다시 돌아와 목회학 석사 과정을 시작할 계획입니다.

Bernadette Arellano, CENTRAL Wisconsin, received the Peace and Justice award

Patti Ulrich, CENTRAL Ann Arbor, and Steve Roberts, Kansas City, were the recipients of the award for Excellence in Ministry.

Mark Harmon, Kansas City, and Hyung Joo Ahn, Korean Program, received the Presidential Citation for the highest gradepoint average.

This year’s award recipients include: 올해의 수상자는 다음과 같습니다:

Lorenzo Streeter Award for Excellence in Biblical Interpretation • NathanHuguley • MiHyangLee-이미향

Robert G. Torbet Award in History • CarolynParker • YoungMiJo-조영미

Philip Wendell Crannell Award for Excellence in Preaching • InsookSong-송인숙

Wheeler-Proctor Award in Theology • MarkHarmon • JeongSeongKim-김정성

Harvey E. Dana Award for Excellence in Writing • CynthiaBoyer • KyongEunLee-이경은

C. R. McBride and Katherine Willard Eddy Award for Excellence in Ministry • PattiUlrich • SteveRoberts • InKyunWoo-우인균 • EyereiYoo-유예리

Peace and Justice Award • BernadetteArellano • SunHeeKim-김선희

Presidential Citation • MarkHarmon • HyungJooAhn-안현주

Hyung Joo Ahn, who received her diploma as a part of the Korean Studies program, was also awarded the presidential citation. She volunteers in the children’s ministry of her church, the Austin Korean Presbyterian Church, in Austin, Texas, and plans to return in the fall to begin her master of divinity degree with Central.

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Central and International Ministries

renew partnership in FOUNDATIONS

Judson Communities Program

Dr. John Gravley, Vice President for Institutional Advancement

When Central was confronted with the need for theological education classes for Karen, Chin, KaChin, and other church leaders from Burma (Myanmar) now living in the US, it seemed to be a good use of resources to partner with International Ministries missionaries Duane and Marcia Binkley who were already working with many of these leaders. From the fall of 2011 the Binkleys worked as directors of this program. With their guidance, the program served over 350 students in locations throughout the US.

In a mutually supportive partnership, Central and International Ministries worked collaboratively to support this ministry. International Ministries provided the employment and assisted with their funding. Central provided the framework for the FOUNDATIONS Judson Communities ministry certificate program and helped design the actual course offerings.

Approximately one year ago, the Binkleys retired from their role with International Ministries and the leadership of the FOUNDATIONS Judson Communities program. Central worked with them to find a new director of the program, since it clearly was meeting an important need. As we worked to find a new director, we learned that International Ministries was also interested in maintaining a connection with this program.

When Central found the new director, Ms. Marlene Po, a member of the Calvary Burmese Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., International Ministries suggested a way for us to continue working together.

Central Seminary Appoints New Leader of Doctoral StudiesRobin Sandbothe, Director Of Seminary Relations

During the recent Central Seminary trustee meeting, the board voted to appoint Dr. John Sungchang Park as the Des Peres Assistant Professor of Congregational Health and Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program. His work with the seminary will begin on July 1.

Dr. Ircel Harrison, who has been serving as the interim director of the doctor of ministry program, said this about Dr. Park’s appointment:

Dr. Park brings both strong academic training and professional experience to this position. In addition, he has an approachable presence and encouraging spirit that will serve him well as he works with students and faculty.

Dr. Park, who earned his PhD in leadership studies with a ministry concentration from Dallas Baptist University in Dallas, Texas, this May, has been serving as the site director for Central Seminary’s Dallas site since 2016. He has also served as an adjunct professor for that site since 2015 and for Dallas Baptist University since 2012. Dr. Park also served as coordinator of the doctor of ministry program for Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, from 2001-2005.

In addition to teaching and administrative experience, Park has considerable ministry experience. Since 1999 he has held youth and associate pastor positions for churches in Texas and California, as well as filled the role of Executive Consultant, Marketplace Chaplains, in Plano, Texas, from 2014 to the present.

Dr. Terrell Carter, Director of Contextualized Learning and Assistant Professor of Practical Theology for Central Seminary, led the search process for the position and had this to say about Dr. Park:

I am pleased that the search process led us to Dr. Park. As we spent more time with him, it became clear that he possessed many of the traits that we hope our doctoral students would exhibit. He brings to the position a tangible enthusiasm and willingness to do what is in the best interest of the seminary, a willingness to be a life-long learner, the ability to communicate and network with multiple people groups, and a desire to be a servant leader. I think that the seminary as a whole will be blessed through his service as Director of the Doctor of Ministry program.

Dr. Park expressed enthusiasm for his new role:

I am very excited to be part of and to serve the Central community, which President Marshall recently described as global, personal, and horizonal. I want to be able to incarnate the Central spirit as the new Doctor of Ministry Director and assistant professor. I want to connect with and learn from all of my colleagues, I want to grow as a follower of the Triune God, and I want to lead through serving, communicating, and innovating.

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Dr. John Park is the newly appointed Des Peres Assistant Professor of Congregational Health and DMin Director. He is pictured here with graduates from the Dallas, TX, site of the Korean Program.

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Central ႏွစ္ျခင္းဓမၼတကၠသုိလ္ႏွင့္ႏုိင္ငံရပ္ျခားသာသနာျပဳလုပ္ငန္း၊ အေမရိကန္ႏွစ္ျခင္းအသင္းေတာ္မ်ားအဖဲြ႕ခ်ဳပ္ (IM, ABCUSA) တုိ႔ ယုဒႆန္ အေျခခံဓမၼပညာ သင္ၾကားေရးအစီအစဥ္ (FJC)အတြက္ မိတ္ဖက္သာသနာလုပ္ငန္းျပန္လည္ဆန္းသစ္ျခင္း

အေ မ ရိ က န္ ျ ပ ည္ေ ထာ င္ စု သုိ ႔ ေ ျ ပာ င္းေ ရ ႊ ႕ အေ ျ ခ ခ ် လ ် က္ ရ ွိေ သာ က ရ င္ ၊ ခ ် င္း ၊ က ခ ် င္ စသည့္တုိင္းရင္းသား အသင္းေတာ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား ဓမၼပညာဆည္းပူးႏိူင္ေရး လိုအပ္ခ်က္ကို CBTS မွျဖည့္စြမ္းေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးေသာ အေျခခံဓမၼပညာ ပို ႔ခ်ေရးအစီအစဥ္ျဖစ္သည္။ ႏုိင္ငံရပ္ျခား သာသနာျပဳမ်ားျဖစ္ေသာ Duane ႏွင့္ Marcia Binkley တုိ႔ဦးေဆာင္လ်က္ ျမန္မာတုိင္းရင္းသား ဓမၼဝန္ေဆာင္မ်ားႏွင့္ဓမၼပညာရွင္မ်ား အတူတကြပူးေပါင္းဆက္ကပ္လ်က္ ဤအစီအစဥ္ကိုစတင္ခဲ့ပါသည္။ ၂၀၁၁ခုႏွစ္မွစ၍ Binkley ဇနီးေမာင္ႏွံတုိ႔သည္ ဤအစီအစဥ္၏ တာဝန္ခံ Directors မ်ားအေနျဖင့္ ဆကက္ပခ္ဲပ့ါသည။္ ၎တုိ႔၏ဦးေဆာငမ္ႈျဖင့ ္အေမရကိနအ္ရပရ္ပမွ္ ေက်ာင္းသားေက်ာင္းသူ ၃၅၀ဦးကုိ ေမြးထုတ္ေပးႏိူင္ခဲ့ပါသည္။

CBTS ႏ ွင့္ IM တုိ ႔ ႏ ွစ္ဦးႏ ွစ္ဘက္အတူတကြပူးေပါင္း၍ ဤဓမၼပညာ ပို ႔ခ ်ေရးလုပ္ငန္းအား ပံ့ပိုးလ်က္ရွိပါသည္။ IM မွဤသာသနာလုပ္ငန္းအတြက္ အလႈေတာ္ေငြရွာေဖြပံ့ပိုးၿပီး CBTS မွ FJC အစီအစဥ္အတြက္ စည္းမ်ဥ္းစည္းကမ္း လုပ္ထုံးလုပ္နည္းႏွင့္ သင္ၾကားမႈဆိုင္ရာ လုပ္ငန္းတုိ ႔ကုိ ပံ့ပိုးပါသည္။

ဤလုပ္ငန္းအစီအစဥ္မွ လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ႏွစ္၌ Binkley ဇနီးေမာင္ႏွံတုိ႔ အနားယူခဲ့ရာ CBTS မွ Director အသစ္ရရွိေရးအတြက္ ရွာေဖြေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ့ပါသည္။ ဤကဲ့သုိ႔ Director အသစ္ရွာေဖြရာတြင္ IM သည္လည္း ဤလုပ္ငန္းအစီအစဥ္အတြက္ စိတ္ပါဝင္စားစြာ ဆက္လက္ဆက္သြယ္လုပ္ေဆာင္လိုေသာသေဘာရွိေၾကာင္းသိရွိရပါသည္။

Director အသစ္ Marlene Po (ကရာနီျမန္မာအသင္းေတာ္၊ ဝါရွင္တန္ဒီစီ) ကုိေတြ႕ရွိေသာအခါ IM မွလည္းဤလုပ္ငန္းအစီအစဥ္အတြက္ အတူတကြဆက္လက္လုပ္ေဆာင္ႏိူင္ရန္ နည္းလမ္းတစ္ရပ္ကုိ အၾကံျပဳပါသည္။ Marlene Po အား IM မွ တဲ ြဖက္သာသနာျပဳ (Associate Missionary) တစဦ္းအေနျဖင့လ္ပု္ေဆာင္ေပးရန ္ဖတ္ိေခၚကမ္းလွမ္းပါသည။္ တြဲဖက္သာသနာျပဳ အေနျဖင့ ္Marlene Po သည္ Binkley ဇနီးေမာင္ႏွံေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ့ေသာ သာသနာလုပ္ငန္းကုိဆက္လက္ရွင္သန္ရန္အတြက္ အေရးႀကီးေသာက႑ ျဖစ္သည့္ တုိင္းရင္းသား အသင္းေတာ္မ်ားမွ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားႏွင့္ဆက္သြယ္ၿပီး ေဆာင္ရြက္ရပါသည္။

ဤကဲ့သုိ ႔ အတူတကြမိတ္ဖက္သာသနာျပဳျခင္းအစီအစဥ္အားျဖင့္ CBTS မွ Marlene Po အား FJC ၏ တာဝန္ခံ Director တစ္ဦးအေနျဖင့္ တာဝန္အပ္ႏွင္းၿပီး IM မွဤတာဝန္အပ္ႏွင္းျခင္းကုိ အသိအမ ွ တ္ ျ ပ ဳ ျ ခင္းအား ျ ဖင့္ ဤလုပ္ ငန္းအစီအစဥ္ ကုိ ပ ါ ဝင္ ပံ့ ပိုးသ ြား မည္ ျ ဖ စ္ပ ါသည္ ။ အေရွ႕ေတာငအ္ာရွႏွင့ ္ဂ်ပနႏ္ိငုင္ ံေဒသဆိငုရ္ာ Director Rev. Leslie Turley မွေျပာသညမွ္ာ "ဒကီစိၥဟာ စိတ္လႈပ္ရွားစရာေကာင္းပါတယ္။ Marlene Po ကအလြန္ထူးျခားတဲ့ ပုဂၢိ ဳလ္တစ္ေယာက္ျဖစ္ၿပီး ဒီလုပ္ငန္းသာသနာကုိ ေကာင္းစြာဆက္လက္ေဆာင္ရြက္သြားႏိူင္မဲ့သူျဖစ္တယ္။ ကၽြန္မအေနနဲ ႔ ဒီမိတ္ဖက္သာသနာျပဳျခင္းကို ဆက္လက္ေဆာင္ရြက္ႏိူင္တဲ့အတြက္ အထူးဝမ္းေျမာက္မိပါတယ္။"

CBTS အေနျဖင့္လည္း ဤကဲ့သုိ႔အတူတကြမိတ္ဖက္သာသနာျပဳျခင္းကုိ ေဆာင္ရြက္ရေသာေၾကာင့္ ဝမ္းေျမာက္ဝမ္းသာျဖစ္သည္သာမက ႏွစ္ဖက္အဖဲြ႕အစည္းမ်ားအေနျဖင့္ အတူလက္တဲြပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္အားထုတ္ခြင့္ရရွိေသာေၾကာင့္ ပိုမိုတိုးတက္ထိေရာက္ေသာ အလားအလာေကာင္းမ်ားရရွိမည္ဟုယံုၾကည္ပါသည္။

They invited Ms. Po to become an Associate Missionary with International Ministries. As an Associate Missionary, Ms. Po could continue the work of the Binkleys and help maintain an important connection with the various church leaders of these ethnic communities.

In this new partnership arrangement, Ms. Po is employed by Central as the Director of the FOUDATIONS Judson Communities Program and recognized by International Ministries in support of this program. Rev. Leslie Turley, Area Director of Southeast Asia and Japan for International Ministries, said, “This is exciting! Marlene is such a wonderful person and well equipped for this area of service. I am glad we can continue this partnership.” Central is also thrilled to be able to continue this partnership, which allows the efforts of each organization to expand their reach beyond what might otherwise be possible.

Marlene Po began as the new director for the FOUNDATIONS Judson Communities program in December 2016.

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Discovering Central Just Got EasierRobin Sandbothe, Director Of Seminary Relations

For those who are seeking a way to follow God’s call and want to find a great place to become prepared, Central Seminary has launched a new one-page online recruiting site. The sole purpose of the page is to introduce Central’s academic programs. A simple design focuses prospective students on that page for basic information to get them started in the process of discerning their next steps.

Paired with digital marketing methods, the site allows prospective students to find Central easily while doing websearches around key words, such as “seminary,” “master of divinity,” “online,” or “theological curriculum.”

Through easy online forms accessed on that page or phone calls made to a dedicated admissions line, the site invites inquiries that can be tracked easily. Although Central has tracked such information along the way, this plan is more intentional and will help to provide seamless connections from initial contact to a successful student experience – one that begins even before a student is actually a student! The research generated by this data will also support a commitment to the component of the seminary’s strategic plan related to research and data analysis.

The site was launched in early March and includes general information about the seminary’s mission and values, basic degree information, how Central approaches financial support, as well as a section on frequently asked questions.

Vice President for Marketing and Community Engagement Francisco Litardo shared his vision for the new site:

This exciting partnership between the academic department and the newly created Marketing and Community Engagement role at Central will yield new opportunities to engage potential students in a dynamic way, allow us to live out a robust student success plan lifecycle, and to adjust to marketing opportunities through the use of data generated by search engine marketing.

Visit apply.cbts.edu to discover how Central is a new generation seminary that offers an innovative way of doing theological education for a new era.

Central's new recruitment website: apply.cbts.edu

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Internet-Mediated Education at Central Transcends the Traditional Online ModelNathan Huguley, Recruitment Officer

As a new generation seminary, Central is honored to be among the first seminaries to be accredited by the Association of Theological Schools to offer our Master of Divinity degree online. This makes our online Master of Divinity degree available for all approved locations and states in the U.S. and around the world – virtually anywhere with a broadband internet connection. It also means that you can complete the entire degree without ever having to come to our campus or to any of our satellite sites.

This degree is no series of depersonalized, disembodied correspondence courses, though. We have worked for several years to design a curriculum and a class structure that gives students ample opportunities to be in class with their fellow students and professors through videoconferencing technology.

With a combination of our videoconferencing infrastructure and our online learning platform, we offer hybrid classes that bring together the best aspects of online distance learning with the advantages of being in a face-to-face learning environment. Our online synchronous sessions are an integral part of each course and provide students the opportunity to dialog with their instructors and with other students face to face in real time, as though they were only across the table rather than across the country. In keeping with Central’s core value of making our programs accessible and flexible, these sessions are offered in the evenings. Most full-time professionals are able to continue to pursue their career, whether in ministry or any other field, while they complete their theological studies.

The Master of Arts (Theological Studies) degree utilizes the same format. In addition, we continue to invest in online library holdings and databases of online academic journals. In this way, the research integral to our degree programs is accessible from almost anywhere in the U.S. and abroad with a broadband internet connection. Much like the online MDiv students, MATS students will participate in hybrid classes that include both synchronous videoconferencing class meetings and asynchronous assignments.

If you are looking for an affordable, accessible, flexible, internet-mediated theological education, contact our recruitment office at 913.667.5711 or email lkraft@cbts.edu. More information is also available at apply.cbts.edu.

Nathan Huguley is a 2017 MDiv graduate of Central who participated in classes at the CENTRAL Tennessee site. He has firsthand experience with taking courses offered in the described format and has been assisting with recruitment for Central for about a year.

Our new technology in operation - cameras to capture a view of the classroom, screens to see the online students, laptop views of class online and face-to-face participants, and controls to make it all happen.

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Central’s Horizonal View dr. david May, Professor of New testamentand director of the Master of Arts (Theological Studies) degree Program

One phrase captures well a foundational characteristic of Central Seminary—“Always an eye on the horizon.” Central throughout its 116-year history has always attempted to consider thoughtfully the horizonal view, what is just over the edge of sight, in relationship to teaching, curriculum, sustainability, and innovation.

In Central’s early days, she innovated by owning and operating a farm. The pole beans, poultry, and potatoes not only helped fill students’ stomachs but also helped defray the cost for struggling ministry students. Finding creative ways to be sustainable financially has always been a hallmark of Central’s eye to the horizon.

Central also innovated by establishing in the 1930s a seminary publishing company, Central Seminary Press. Looking to find ways to disseminate knowledge and insights to minister and laity alike, Central for decades used the printed and published books to communicate foundational biblical and social values beyond the classrooms of the seminary.

In the 1980s, Central was one of the first graduate schools of theology to deliver quality theological education away from the seminary campus—a seminary without walls. This resulted in the Long Distance Learning program that used the most advance technology of the time: videos and phone conferencing. With the ever advancing (or perhaps better, the avalanche) of technology, Central has currently created one of the premier technologically-enhanced education curriculums in the country. By way of computer-mediated learning, the new Central curriculum uses methods of pedagogy and cutting edge technology for deep theological engagement and a fully-embodied experience of spiritual formation.

The innovations that Central has experimented with and embraced over the years are not changes just for the sake of change, or changes because of fleeting trends and fads. When Central changes, it has always been motivated by an underlying passion of being relevant for the contemporary needs of church and culture. A seminary that is global, personal, and horizonal, Central, with God’s mercy, Christ’s model, and the Spirit’s guidance, will continue to change and innovate for a new generation of ministers.

CentrAL's innovAtive PAth

1901 1902 1907 1923 1926 1938 1939 1941 1951 1955 1961 1966 1974 1977 1989 2006 2007 2012 2016 2017

The Kansas City Baptist Theological Seminary founded

Pratt-Journeycake Library Fund begun

First year of enrollment – 6 students, 5 men and 1 woman

First international student (from Burma) enrolled

First Voice published

Seminary moved to 741 N. 31st St., Kansas City, Kansas

Nursery started to free mothers to take seminary classes

Printing press installed

Livestock purchased – the beginning of the seminary farm

Seminary name changed to Central Baptist Theological Seminary

Extension center program launched – located in Kansas, Missouri, and Colorado

Established partnership with Myanmar Institute of Theology

Dr. May teaches an interactive online/face-to-face class using internet mediated technology.

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Financial Coaching for Ministry FormationAngela Jackson (2014 MDiv and current DMin student), Director of Money & Ministry

Meet Scotti and Amber Simpson, a married couple completing their first year of seminary. They have taken full advantage of the Money & Ministry Program services by engaging financial coaching together. Scotti and Amber value financial freedom, openness to change, service to others, purposeful happiness, and family. They have passion and desire to be of real service to the world through both their vocation and their finances, but to be truly free for the life they envision, they recognize the need to be intentional. So, they have embraced a minimalist lifestyle, set out to reduce impulsive spending, and committed to better planning, with goals of saving for a state-to-state move and eventually discharging educational debt, so that they can respond to God’s call on their lives without hesitation.

Central launched the Money & Ministry Program in January 2017. Partially funded by a grant through the Lilly Endowment, this new program offers financial coaching to all students as a complimentary service. Beyond providing a coach at no cost to our seminarians, Central offers a monetary incentive to each student who follows through with a series of three financial coaching sessions within an academic term. During the first term of the program, approximately 25 students participated in an initial conversation, and 13 of those students completed a coaching series before the term’s end. Just two weeks into a second academic term, the Money & Ministry program is currently partnering with 15 students in financial coaching.

The coach works with students as follows: 1) To clarify personal values and cast a vision for one’s financial & vocational life. 2) To assess present strengths and weaknesses, as well as examine enduring habits for good and ill. 3) To set specific and attainable goals with concrete action steps and milestone markers toward achievement based on values/vision and strengths/weaknesses. Seminarians

recognize the necessity of being prepared for the financial realms of their ministries. Some are focused on personal preparation like debt reduction and household budgeting. Others are interested in learning to lead stewardship campaigns and preach faithful sermons about money. Still others are thinking about what it means to live simply, to spend justly, and to save wisely. All are excellent topics for reflecting with a financial coach.

Amber and Scotti are great examples of the Money & Ministry Program at work. Because of their willingness to reflect on financial matters, set goals, and take action, they will be better prepared to manage their personal finances and to lead the financial realms of their future ministries.

Central’s Money & Ministry program is personal, as well as horizonal. It is just one of the ways that Central prepares men and women for seeking God, shaping church, and serving humanity.

1901 1902 1907 1923 1926 1938 1939 1941 1951 1955 1961 1966 1974 1977 1989 2006 2007 2012 2016 2017

Full academic accreditation from Association of Theological Schools

Missionary-in-Residence program established

Mobile curriculum pilot program initiated

Full accreditation from North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Long Distance Learning pilot project begun with two-way audio and one-way video

Seminary moved to present location – 6601 Monticello Rd, Shawnee, KS

Online courses added to the curriculum

Seminary expands geographically through the addition of multiple sites

Re-established partnership with Myanmar Institute of Theology

Korean Contextualized Theological Studies Program begun

Curriculum revised to include technologically mediated delivery system

Classrooms outfitted with cameras, microphones, and technology for real time internet-mediated class sessions

Amber and Scotti Simpson, CENTRAL Tennessee MDiv students

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inaugural Urban missional institute symposium & regional festival of young Preachers

October 20-21, 2017 Friday - 6:00 p.m.Saturday - 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Central seminary: 6601 Monticello Road, Shawnee, KS 66226

Connecting faith and the City for good

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URBAN MISSIONAL INSTITUTE

The inaugural biennial Urban Missional Institute Symposium will be launched on October 20 and 21 The symposium will serve as a platform for people to engage in dialogue around the ideas of faith, urbanism, a n d s o c i a l e n g a g e m e n t through the symposium theme “Connecting Faith and the City for Good ” Through lectures and presentations of papers, local and national leaders, as well as emerging scholars, wi l l address the Church’s continuing need to combat classism, racism, and sexism Also, in conjunction with the Academy of Preachers, young preachers between the ages of 16-24 will have the opportunity to contribute to the dialogue through sermons

The Urban Missional Institute seeks to foster opportunities for dialogue, research, and strategic planning between advocates, students, and scholars who seek to make positive economic and spiritual impact in their communities in the fields of urbanism and social engagement

The goal of Central Seminary’s Urban Missional Institute is to develop leaders who

are competent to advocate for “the least of these” are able to develop a prophetic theology are able to engage in relevant cultural critiques are able to practice ethical leadership