United is pleased to offer a number of fully online and hybrid courses this fall, in addition to our traditional face-to-face courses. Courses may for academic credit or you may take any course without making a commitment to a program or an academic degree. Registering as a special student is the quickest and easiest way to sample what United has to offer. Some courses are also offered for Visiting Students as continuing education units.

June 25, 2010

President Wendy Deichmann Edwards is pleased to announce that the University Senate of The United Methodist Church voted June 24th to remove its Public Warning and to rescind its Embargo of Ministerial Education funds, both imposed in January. United had appealed the Senate’s action in April in advance of the Senate’s June meeting.

United and Northeastern Seminary (NES) of Rochester, NY, have developed a cooperative plan to provide seminary education for United Methodist candidates for ministry in upstate New York.  Beginning in the Fall semester of 2010, it will be possible for United Methodists in the new Upper New York Conference to take courses at Northeastern in Rochester and apply them to a Master of Divinity degree at United.

United is one of thirteen United Methodist affiliated theological schools in the United States. Northeastern is a Free Methodist institution with numerous United Methodists on its faculty and a strong desire to serve The United Methodist Church.

United’s president, Wendy Deichmann Edwards, a clergy member of the Upper New York Conference, said she is pleased the two pan-Methodist institutions can serve Upper New York in this way. “It will greatly enhance the options and the access to United Methodist theological education in the new conference,” she said. In addition to the opportunity to take courses at NES, United is also providing a wide array of courses online. In fact, beginning this fall, “a student can now earn the entire M.Div. degree with a majority of the coursework completed online, and the remainder of requirements may be fulfilled with only one week per semester in residence at the Dayton campus,” Deichmann Edwards explained.

For more information about these opportunities, please contact United’s admissions office at 1.800.322.5817 or vist the Northeastern Seminary Educational Partnership page.

UMC Certifiaction

June 2010

Instructor(s): Instructors are resident and adjunct faculty of United.

Sponsor(s): The Institute for Applied Theology (IAT)

CEU’s: 2 CEU’s are available for Visiting and Auditing students

Contact:
Director of New Student Relations
Thomas Miller
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Director of the IAT
Dr. Jacqueline Nowak
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Beginning in June 2010, United will offer two-hour master's credit courses leading to the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry's Professional Certification. Courses are three-day hybrid (both face-to-face and online) intensives in January, June and August each year. Each course in the program, in addition to providing two graduate credits, may be taken for no credit by visiting and auditing students, as well as those seeking GBHEM Paraprofessional Certification, who will come as visiting students. Non-United Methodists are welcome in the classes as well.

June 7 – Aug. 30

Instructor(s): Richard Nysse, Luther Seminary; Elizabeth Drescher, Church Divinity School of the Pacific; Jennifer McVay-Dyche, Southern Oregon University; Dr. Mary G. Beckmann, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary; and Dr. Sebastian Mahfood, Kenrick-Glennon Seminary

Sponsor(s): Distance Learning and Institute for Applied Theology

Format: Courses are held online

CEUs: 2 for each course

Register:
Dr. Jacqueline Nowak
Program Administrator
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Cost: Each course is $350. The series is $1625 (a discount of $125)

Contact: Jacqueline Nowak
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The Online Teaching and Learning Certificate program is designed for theological instructors or administrators to gain knowledge of and to begin teaching in a virtual environment.

Upon completion of the 5 courses the instructor will have the ability to confidently design, develop and teach an online course. The courses are also designed to progress through a developing schedule and if desired with minimal extra effort could allow an instructor to have a course ready for delivery in the online environment upon completion of the certificate.

United is offering a program to become certified to teach in a virtual enviornment. Courses are held online. Visit the Online Teaching and Learning Certificate Program section of the website for more details.

1871 – 2011

This fall, United Theological Seminary begins its 140th year of serving the church!

Bishop Milton Wright (Father of Wilbur and Orville Wright) was the chair of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ’s Board of Education that made the decision to found a seminary in Dayton, Ohio. Classes were first held on October 11, 1871, in the Home (Summit) Street United Brethren in Christ Church (Dayton) with eleven students enrolling. The United Brethren denomination eventually merged with the Evangelical Church and finally, in 1968, with the Methodist Church.

Today, United, as one of the 13 United Methodist seminaries, recruits, educates and nurtures faithful leaders for the mission of Jesus Christ in the world. United’s graduates number more than 5500 and represent all 31 countries and all 50 states. These graduates have served as bishops, district superintendents, pastors, Christian education directors, counselors, chaplains, and professors.

For more details about United’s history, please visit our Historical Timeline.

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Thirty of the founding pastors, district superintendents, evangelists and teachers of The United Methodist Church in Vietnam completed a course with President Wendy Deichmann Edwards July 12- 17 in Ho Chi Minh City. The pastors traveled from as far away as the Mekong Delta, five or six hours, to take the intensive course in United Methodist Doctrine at the new United Methodist Center.

The class was one of a sequence of courses the Vietnamese students hope to take from United in Vietnam in order to complete the requirements for ordination in the UMC. At least one of the students plans to enroll this fall at United in Dayton so that she may complete her degree more quickly than would otherwise be possible. Then she will return to Vietnam to serve churches in the mountainous mid-section of the country.

A  Doctor of Ministry Peer Group is also being planned for Vietnamese students who have completed masters degrees in neighboring countries.

The UMC is growing rapidly in Vietnam under the leadership of these gifted pastors. Both the United Methodist Church and the Vietnamese government require an accredited theological education for the pastors serving more than 160 churches recently planted in this country. Currently there is no UM approved school in Vietnam where the students may earn the full degree. UM missionaries Dr. Ut Van To and Rev. Karen Van To have founded Wesley Theological College, which is expected to meet this need in the future. Meanwhile, the  Van Tos, the General Board of Global Ministries, Bishop Larry Goodpaster and Bishop Bruce Ough have invited United Theological Seminary to serve as the UM approved degree granting institution for the first group of pastors to be ordained by the UMC in Vietnam.

In 2008 the General Conference of The United Methodist Church requested that the UM related theological schools in the United States focus greater attention upon international theological education. United Theological Seminary and the people of The UMC, both in Vietnam and in the United States, will be enormously blessed by this dynamic partnership!

Wendy J. Deichmann Edwards 7.16.10

August 10 – 12, 2010

Instructor(s): Rev. Dr. Richard Eslinger and Rev. Lynn Labs

Sponsor(s): Center for Worship, Preaching and the Arts; Institute for Applied Theology

Time:
8/10: 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.
8/11: 8:45 a.m. – 9 p.m.
8/12: 8:45 a.m. – Noon

Place: United Theological Seminary; Thie Fellowship Hall, Whitney Lecture Hall, Practice Chapel

CEUs: 2.0 (20 hours)

Register Online:
Click the link below to register online

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Mail-In Registration:
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Cost:
$175 for Continuing Education
Contact Registrar for Cost of 1 or 3 Master's Credit
Meals: $40 (2 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 2 dinners)

Housing: Visitor Accommodations

Contact: Rev. Brice Thomas
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The seminar will explore the role of Scripture and proclamation within the Lenten journey of spiritual renewal and new faith.  Attention will be given to an analysis of the Gospel Lessons which are the foundation of the Baptismal Lent in Year A of the Lectionary, primarily drawn from the Gospel of John.  Strategies for preaching these lessons with an interest in the spiritual renewal of the congregation and the formation of candidates for baptism will be explored. The backdrop of these explorations will be the drama of the Easter Vigil, and its distinctive Scriptures and liturgical purposes.

Aug. 16 – 20

Dr. Frank Thomas, Senior pastor of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church, Memphis, TN, will speak at United Theological Seminary’s Doctor of Ministry Intensive, held from August 16-20, 2010.

August 20 and  21, 2010

Theme: God’s Grace in My Space “Effective Strategies for Ministries with New Generations”

Instructor(s): Rev. Kelvin Sauls, Congregation Development and Racial Ethnic Ministries, GBGM, UMC

Worship Leader: Bishop C. Joseph Sprague, Retired Bishop

Leader(s): Rev. Sirchester Jackson, Senior Pastor, Mandell UMC, Chicago, IL; Miss Kendra Dunbar, Office of Youth & Young Adult Ministries, GBGM, UMC

Sponsor(s): Urban Center, Institute of Applied Theology, United Theological Seminary

Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (Fri.)
8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. (Sat.)

Place: United Theological Seminary Campus

CEUs: 1.6

Register: Rev. Michael D. Johnson
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Cost: $100.00

Contact: Rev. Michael D. Johnson
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Targeting adults who work with youth in the metro-urban context.  This convocation will equip and retool youth workers for intentional and effective ministries with youth; enable them to rethink church with youth as partners to advocate for the holistic young person; and discern innovative ways for the church to redo ministry with youth in the urban-metro context.

Sept. 18 – 19, Oct.16 – 17, Nov. 20 – 21

Instructor(s): Marilyn and Roger Evans, Co-Director, Pohly Center for Supervision and Leadership Formation

Sponsor(s): Pohly Center for Supervision and Leadership Formation

Time:
Saturdays 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Sundays 2:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Place: Salem Church of God, 6500 Southway Road, Clayton, OH 45315

CEUs: 3.0

Registration Deadline: September 10, 2010

Text: Christian Reflections on the Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner, $18.09 available at Salem’s Community Center

Cost:
$150 to IAT/Pohly Center,
$18.00 for three lunches on Saturdays

Contact: Roger Evans
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Everyone has the capacity to lead! What do effective Christian leaders do? Learn biblical ways to lead others through relationships, equipping and investing in people, and managing the challenges of change and improvement. These leadership practices can be applied to ministry teams, groups and organizations, secular jobs, and our families. The course will also examine how to merge one’s spiritual life with one’s leadership.

March 28, 2011

The first annual Light the Fire Church Renewal Conference will feature Leonard Sweet. His keynote address will be "Evangelism and Discipleship in a TGIF (Twitter, Google, iPhone, Facebook) World".

To receive alerts via Twitter, Facebook, or email when more information is available contact Jackie Nowak
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