Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) Program
The Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) is the highest professional degree for men and women already successfully engaged in ministry. This program enables leaders in Christian ministry to increase their effectiveness in the church, parachurch organization or mission in which they minister. Graduates of this program will have improved their skills and understandings in a specialized area of ministry to such an extent that they can impact their congregation or community more powerfully for God.
I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge and competent to instruct one another.
--- Romans 15:14, NIV
This May, we celebrate 65 new D.Min. graduates! A list of their names and thesis-project titles is below.
--- Romans 15:14, NIV
This May, we celebrate 65 new D.Min. graduates! A list of their names and thesis-project titles is below.
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Graduate Name |
Thesis-Project Title |
Specific Track |
| Marcus Bourbon | Friendship Development Among Single Adults in a Megachurch | Arrow Leadership |
| Margaret Benton Buckley Doll | Leadership Training and Development for Cross-Cultural Engagments in the Bible Translation Task: A Narrative Strategy | Christian Leadership |
| Stephen L. Woodworth | I Became Your Father: Rediscovering the Father Metaphor for Pastoral Ministry in the Twenty-First Century | Christian Leadership |
| W. Thomas McWilliams | Member Care for Salvation Army Officials and their Families | Christian Leadership |
| Javier Gomez Marrero | Utilizando los Salmos en el Consejo Pastoral a la Persona con Sentimientos Depresivos | Liderazgo Pastoral |
| Luisa Morales de Paez | Diferencia en la Satisfaccion Martial en Parejas de Matrimonios Que Participan de un Programa Educativo de Prevencion Primaria de Divorcio | Liderazgo Pastoral |
| Robert W. Samsel | The Prodigal Daughter: Pastoral Counseling of a Traditional Family of a Lesbian Daughter | Marriage and Family Counseling |
| Joonhyuk Lim | Marriage and Family Thearpy for Korean Immigrant Families in the U.S. | Marriage and Family Counseling |
| Carolyn F. Sinclair | Family Systems Approach to Marriage Therapy | Marriage and Family Counseling |
| Saul Maldonado | Socially-Responsive Ministries: A Renewing Vision for Hispanic American Baptist Churches of Los Angeles, California | Ministry in Complex Urban Settings |
| Yvonne W. Huneycutt | Adapting the Historical Section of the Perspectives Course into Particular Global Contexts | Missions and Cross-Cultural Studies |
| Philip Edmund Stucky | Multiplying Churches among German Immigrant Communities in Urban South Brazil | Missions and Cross-Cultural Studies |
| Steve S Sherman | Trinitarian Missional Matrix: Forming a Community of Integrated Faith, Learning, and Mission | Missions and Cross-Cultural Studies |
| Tom Schwind | The Great Commission to Parents: Discipling Our Children | Outreach and Discipleship |
| Connie Ast Caldwell | Addressing Biblical Illiteracy: A Response to a Growing Concern in the Christian Church | Pastoral Skills |
| Albert L. Downing | A Chaplain's Prespective on Deployment and Its Impact on Suicide | Pastoral Skills |
| Carlos Jay Sibley | A Local Church Plan for Helping a Person Recognize and Confirm Their Call to Ministry | Pastoral Skills |
| Craig Larry Ferderer | A Strategy for Leading High School Students at Northview Bible Church to Make Vocational Decisions That Reflects their Commitment to Jesus Christ | Pastoral Skills |
| Denise Ann Myers | Preaching First Person Narrative Sermons to Unchurched or Marginalized Females | Pastoral Skills |
| Diane Marie Carter | A Calling to Serve: A Manual to Equip Lay Leaders for Ministry and Pastoral Care | Pastoral Skills |
| Gary Lawrence Cowper | An Analysis of the Relationship between Physical Exercise and the Spiritual Life of Clergy | Pastoral Skills |
| Gene Alan Cassady | Developing a Course to Teach Congregants to Intrepret Scripture | Pastoral Skills |
| Mardochee Nadoumngar | Mobilizing the Chadian Church to Understand and Treat Alcoholism | Pastoral Skills |
| Steve Daniel Braswell | Let All God's Children Come? Welcoming into the Church Families with Children Who Have Developmental Disabilities | Pastoral Skills |
| Timothy Paul Philabaum | Confirmation: Strengthening the Faith Formation of Adolescents and Their Parents: Contextualizing Luther's Catechism for a Local Lutheran Congregation | Pastoral Skills |
| Young Ho Hwang | An Academic Course on Spiritual Formation: Understanding, Developing, and Implementing a Strategy for Spiritual Growth of Students in a Christian Higher Education Institution | Pastoral Skills |
| Benjamin Heath Walton | Enhancing Hermeneutical Accuracy for the Preaching of Old Testament Narratives Using 2 Samuel 11-12 as a Case Study | Preaching the Literary Forms of the Bible |
| Cheryl Elizabeth Fletcher | Preaching Morality without Preaching Moralism to Young Adults | Preaching: From the Study to the Pulpit |
| Everildo Isael Mendez | El Ministerio Publico Entre los Hispanos Pobres de Santa Barbara, CA: Un Estudio de Caso de la Iglesia Boutista Nueva Jerusalem | Public Ministry of the Hispanic Church |
| Scott Mitchell Harding | Feed My Lambs: Transformation through Living into the Biblical Imperatives of Poverty Alleviation | Revival and Reform |
| C. Ronald Riley | Revival and Renewal of the Mind: The Life and Thoughts of Carl F.H. Henry | Revival and Reform |
| Curtis Anthony Dean, Jr. | Don't Forsake the Past: Reclaiming the History and Heritage of Baptist Life and Thought in Colonial North Carolina | Revival and Reform |
| David Patton Beaty | Communion with God: Learning from Robert Murray M'Cheyne | Revival and Reform |
| David Todd Wood | The Eccentric Vicar of Everton: John Berridge, Revival and the Life of Pastoral Ministry | Revival and Reform |
| James Scott Harrell | Church Replanting in Mainline Churches: Vision Casting and Equipping Evangelical Church Replanters | Revival and Reform |
| Pamela Wentworth Morrison | Ministry with Recovering Addicts and Ex-Offenders: A Wesleyan Approach to Reducing Recidivism | Revival and Reform |
| Paul Markus Simpson | Connecting to the Cloud: Isaac Backus' Model for Renewal in Today's Church | Revival and Reform |
| Timothy Gray Sapp | A Christ Centered Renewal: The Growth of the Moravian Church Southern Province from 1877-1930 | Revival and Reform |
| Ruth W. Blais | The Transformating Effects of the Incarnate Word via Lectio Divina within Individuals in the Salvation Army | Spiritual Formation for Ministry Leaders |
| Adam Lee Feldman | Addressing the Spiritual Formation Needs of a New Church: Current Realties, Future Opportunities and Formative Curriculum | Spiritual Formation for Ministry Leaders |
| Bonnie L. Prizio | My Yoke Is Easy and My Burden, Light: Redeeming the Language of Submission for Women Survivors of Abuse in a New England Congregation | Spiritual Formation for Ministry Leaders |
| Daniel John Schlueter | Spiritual Formation in the Majority World: Luther W. New Jr. Theological College in Dehradun, India | Spiritual Formation for Ministry Leaders |
| Douglas Lawrence Mitts | Spiritual Formation for Contagious Kingdom Expansion: A Journey with Greater Europe Mission | Spiritual Formation for Ministry Leaders |
| Katherine Mills Johnson | Lectio Divina as a Catalyst for Spiritual Growth: A Case Study among Mature Believers | Spiritual Formation for Ministry Leaders |
| Leslie Darrell Rust | Prayerful Preparation: Elder Education as Spiritual Formation | Spiritual Formation for Ministry Leaders |
| Katherine Kyte Horvath | Living into Biblical Community through Heathly Conflict Resolution | Spiritual Renewal in a Postmodern World |
| Kenneth Atchison | Preaching in English Where Multiple Language Groups Are Present | The Preacher and the Message |
| Andri Kosasih | Preaching Miracle Stories of the Gospel in Chinese-Indonesian Context | The Preacher and the Message |
| Dennis Kendall Andrews | Politics and the Expository Sermon: Addressing Issues While Preaching Biblically and Ethically | The Preacher and the Message |
| Donald Plumstead Marshall | Teaching the Big Picture of the OT in One 90 Minute Seminar | The Preacher and the Message |
| Gideon Andrew Thompson | Prayer Agreement: A Strategy for Multigenerational Church Health and Growth | The Preacher and the Message |
| John Edward Bell | A Study of University-Oriented Churches | The Preacher and the Message |
| Lorna P. Graham | How to Preach to Teens about Homosexual Practice in a Tolerant World | The Preacher and the Message |
| Matthew Lee Burt | Biblical Preaching in an Age of Mission | The Preacher and the Message |
| Michael J. Boyle | A Preventative Ministry for Pastoral Burnout: A Study of Elijah in 1 Kings 19 | The Preacher and the Message |
| Nancy Cubitt | Politics and Pulpit: Guidelines for Pastors on How to Preach before Elections | The Preacher and the Message |
| Paunel Muresan | Homiletics Workshop for Romanian Lay Ministers Preaching in National and International Mission Context | The Preacher and the Message |
| Robert D Hutchinson | A Homiletic Approach on Death & Dying for Aging Christians | The Preacher and the Message |
| Ronald Nathan Leasure | A Methodology for Preaching to Contemporary Christians with Pharisaical Tendencies | The Preacher and the Message |
| Timothy John Leary | Biblical Preaching for the University: A Training for New College Ministers on Campus | The Preacher and the Message |
| William Bertram Dunn | Using the Bigger Idea in Philippians to Understand the Big Ideas | The Preacher and the Message |
| Conrade Kian-Seng Yap | The Sabbath as a Stairway of Trust: Glimpsing the Heavenly through Earthly Rest (A Model for Sabbath Keeping) | Workplace Leadership and Business Ethics |
| Jonathan Wayne Feathers | A Change Process for West Waynesboro Church of Christ | Workplace Leadership and Business Ethics |
| James Ezra Motes | A Working Faith: Examining the Christian Faith at Work | Workplace Leadership and Business Ethics |
