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Theme, Speakers, Schedule, Honoring Dr. Krych, Housing, Register The Theme: How important is learning to the mission of your congregation? Does your congregation understand learning as an essential part of growing disciples? Why are teaching and learning in the forefront of today’s missional congregations? These questions will help us explore how learning leads the way in helping congregations grow in mission. Leading scholars in the field of Christian Education will sort through these questions. Dr. Norma Cook Everist, Wartburg Theological Seminary, will focus on the importance of being “grounded theologically” as the beginning of mission. Dr. Richard Osmer, Princeton Theological Seminary, will delve into teaching ministry in missional congregations.
Norma Cook Everist is Professor of Church and Ministry at Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa. She has served at Wartburg for 29 years. Prior to that, she taught at Yale Divinity School for three years. She edited the volume, Christian Education as Evangelism (2007), which was written by the professors of Christian Education at the seminaries of the ELCA and ELCIC (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada), and in which the Rev. Margaret Krych, PhD wrote the chapter, What are the Theological Foundations of Education and Evangelism? Her most recent books are Open the Doors and See All the People: Stories of Church Identity and Vocation (2005), and Transforming Leadership (2007) with Craig Nessan.
His publications include: A Teachable Spirit: Recovering the Teaching Office of the Church (Westminster John Knox Press, 1990)
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To honor Dr. Krych’s remarkable career, the theme of Convocation 2008 will be Learning as Congregational Mission to coincide with Dr. Krych’s field of study in Christian education and theology. In May 1977, Dr. Krych became the first woman to serve full-time on the faculty of The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (LTSP). She was engaged to teach Christian Education and Theology, having specialized in Systematic Theology as she earned a PhD with honors from Princeton Seminary. Dr. Krych also became the first woman tenured in a Lutheran seminary in the United States. Dr. Krych has directed the seminary’s Advanced-Level Degree Programs (Graduate School) since 1997. Her energies have been the lynchpin in a graduate school program that has nearly doubled in size over the past 10 years, with 190 students currently enrolled in the program. The PhD degree was initiated under her direction in the fall of 2005. By dedicating the 2008 Convocation in her honor, the seminary recognizes Dr. Krych’s academic achievements and her selfless dedication to the hundreds of students she has mentored and inspired during her tenure at LTSP.
Holiday Inn, Hotel and Conference Centere Discounted room rate: $89.00 until Monday, April 14 If you have any questions about the Spring Convocation, please contact Ellen Anderson, Director of Alumni/ae Relations, at eanderson@ltsp.edu, (215) 248-7301 or (800) 286-4616, ext. 7301 [Register] [return to the top of the page]
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Richard Osmer is Princeton Theological Seminary’s Thomas W. Synnott Professor of Christian Education. He holds an MDiv from Yale University and a PhD from Emory University. His interests include the teaching ministry of congregations, practical theology, and interdisciplinary thinking, and his courses cover educational psychology and practical theology, children’s literature in Christian moral education, confirmation and catechism, and the social functions of religion, ethics, and education in theories of modernity and postmodernity. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he chairs the Committee to Write New Catechisms for the Presbyterian Church (USA). 
Jessicah Krey Duckworth is the associate professor of Christian Formation and Teaching at Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC. She is completing her PhD program in Practical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. She holds her MDiv from The Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. 
After 30 years of dedicated service, the Rev. Dr. Margaret A. Krych, Charles F. Norton Professor of Christian Education and Theology, Associate Dean of Graduate Education, and Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program for the Eastern Cluster of Lutheran Seminaries, will retire April 30.