ETS 40th Annual Fall Convocation is 8/31/17

We are overjoyed!! The Rev. Dr. Kevin Turman, Sr. Pastor of Second Baptist Church of Detroit is the speaker for the ETS_Detroit 40th Annual Fall #Convocation.

All are welcome to attend this free event!
We look forward to you joining us
Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 6PM
Sermon Title: “Serving the Present Age”
Please RSVP at http://bit.ly/ETS40thConvocation

Biography of the Reverend Doctor Kevin M. Turman
Having obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in American Government at Harvard College, and a Master’s Degree in Divinity from Yale Divinity School.  Rev. Turman’s first pastorate was the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Boston, MA, from 1982 until 1988, when he began serving Second Baptist. Rev. Turman was elected to the Executive Board of the Detroit Urban League in 1989, serving until mobilized to active duty in the U.S. Navy in 1990, in support of Operation Desert Storm.

In 1991, Rev. Turman returned to Second Baptist, to his ministry, and to community service.  In ensuing years Rev. Turman has been elected: Chairman of the Board of the Detroit Metropolitan Jail Ministry; Chair of the Metropolitan Detroit Council of Churches; President of the Michigan Progressive Baptist Convention; President of the Gamaliel Foundation Council of President; President of the Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength – (MOSES), and currently serves as Board Chairman of the Harriet Tubman Center for Community Organizing.  He has been the Chair of the Board of Downtown Outreach since 1990.

Rev. Turman worked with community leaders to push Congress to renew the Voting Rights Act.  In 2007, Dr. Turman was elected the Vice-President of American Baptists in Michigan and its President in 2008.  In 2011 Dr. Turman was elected President of the Metropolitan Detroit Association of American Baptist Churches.  In 2016 Dr. Turman unsuccessfully ran for the Detroit School Board.

Rev. Turman married the former Denise Thomas, R.N. MSN, Toledo, OH in June of 1980.  They are the proud parents of two sons; Rev. Theodore, born in 1984, who is currently the pastor of First Baptist, Detroit and Benjamin, born in 1992, and one grandson, Gavin Christopher Turman, born in 2010.

 

Ecumenical Theological Seminary August 2, 2017 Letter to the Community

To the Members of the Ecumenical Theological Seminary Community,

I hope that this summer has provided you with opportunities for rest and relaxation.  For many of us in ministry circles, the summer is a season of transition and change.  Following graduation in June, many of our alumni begin new chapters leading churches and chaplaincies, moving on to fulfill their calling and vocation.

I wanted to write to you about a number of important academic changes at Ecumenical Theological Seminary, with transitions on our faculty and a new track within our Doctor of Ministry program.

Departing ETS is Dr. Hannah Hofheinz, Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology and Church History.  Although she was with us for just one year following her doctoral work at Harvard and life in Turkey, Dr. Hofheinz made significant contributions to our seminary, and we will miss her dearly.  We wish Dr. Hofheinz well in her new work as Instructor in Religion at the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, one of the premier boarding schools in the United States.

Joining the Faculty at ETS is the Rev. Dr. Constance Banks Simon as Assistant Professor of Christian Education.  An ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, she received her B.A. and M.Ed. from the University of Miami, the Ed.D. from Atlanta University, and the M.Div. from Ecumenical Theological Seminary.  Currently serving as the Minister of Education at Fellowship Chapel in Detroit, she brings a deep and broad background in education to ETS, having served for fifteen years directing educational programs with the Michigan Department of Corrections, twelve years with public schools in Georgia and Ohio, and as the Division Chairperson for the School of Education at Tougaloo College in Mississippi.  Welcome back to your alma mater, Professor Simon!

Elaine Elizabeth Belz is joining ETS as Adjunct Professor of 

Systematic  Theology.  A  graduate of the University of Michigan, Ms. Belz began her theological education at Ecumenical Theological Seminary before going on for her M.A. at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, where she currently is completing her Ph.D. in theological aesthetics.  An Episcopalian, she currently serves as Senior Warden at The Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Detroit.

In addition, I am pleased to announce that our upcoming August Emergent Week of the Doctor of Ministry program will include a new track within the D.Min. for Certified Professional Education and Leadership in Ministry, designed for people who have completed training or are training to be C.P.E. (Clinical Pastoral Education) Supervisors.  Ecumenical Theological Seminary is one of four seminaries in the United States that are partnering with the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE) to provide this pairing of a doctoral degree program alongside their supervisory training.  This new track will be overseen by Dr. Urias Beverly, Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling and Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program.  Four new doctoral students from throughout the country are joining this program in August, and we already are accepting applications for more to join this D.Min. track in January 2018.

Thank you for your letters and emails and phone calls regarding ETS.  I am grateful to all of you who are active as alumni and friends, students and faculty of this outstanding theological school.  I look forward to providing you with more updates about the seminary as we prepare for our opening Convocation for the 2017-2018 academic year on Thursday, August 31^st! We welcome you to join us, please RSVP at http://bit.ly/ETS40thConvocation.

May peace be with us all,

The Rev. Dr. Stephen Butler Murray

President and Professor of Systematic Theology and Preaching

Ecumenical Theological Seminary, Detroit, Michigan

smurray@etseminary.edu

39th Annual Fall Convocation is September 1st at 6PM

The Student Life Committee,
ETS Board of Directors, Faculty and Staff Cordially invite you to attend the

Ecumenical Theological Seminary’s 

39th Annual Fall Convocation

Thursday, September 1, 2016

6:00PM —7:30PM

 

Convocation Speaker
The Rev. Dr. Kenneth E. Harris
Professor of Biblical Studies, Ecumenical Theological Seminary
Senior Pastor, Detroit Bible Tabernacle Church

 

The 39th Annual Fall Convocation will be held in the Sanctuary of

Ecumenical Theological Seminary

The Rev. Dr. Stephen Butler Murray, President

2930 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, 48201

313.831.5200

 

http://bit.ly/39thConvocation
by August 30th or visit
www.etseminary.edu