Alumni Newsletter
Under the Microscope: Lab Congregation Models for Church Development
2005 Neysa Anne Ellgren Under the Microscope: Lab Congregation Models for Church Development Three different Episcopal dioceses – Minnesota, Southeast Florida, and Los Angeles – are currently using similar laboratory models of congregational development whereby...
Worship Called To Its Senses
2005 Kenneth John Dorsch Worship Called To Its Senses: The Integration of the Spiritual and the Multi-Sensory This thesis explores the theory and praxis of worship in a postmodern context. By focusing on the experience of those in Generation-X, the thesis traces the...
A Vocation Worthy of Our Calling: Gifts Discernment and Congregational Development
2005 John Michael De Beer A Vocation Worthy of Our Calling: Gifts Discernment and Congregational Development This thesis describes a gifts discernment program at St. Martin’s-in-the-Field Episcopal Church in Severna Park, Maryland. It examines the effects of the...
A Plan for the Support of Congregations in the Diocese of New York
2005 Mark Bernard Cyr A Plan for the Support of Congregations in the Diocese of New York Every diocese has congregations that cannot fully support themselves financially. The Diocese of New York has made a unique commitment to assist many of these congregations...
Meet, Greet and Follow
2005 Wilfredo deVenza Crespo Meet, Greet and Follow: A Multi-Dimensional Unconventional Model for Faith Development And Congregational Growth in Jail This thesis examines how simple engagements, everyday crisis and chance meetings with inmates in Prison can become...
Fifteen Years in a Missional Journey of Welcome And Reconciliation Foundry United Methodist Church 1990-2005
2005 John R. Cope Fifteen Years in a Missional Journey of Welcome And Reconciliation Foundry United Methodist Church 1990-2005 This congregational thesis covers an important and historic fifteen-year period in the ministry and missional journey of an influential...