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.

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

September 8

Speaker(s): Jason Vickers; "Spirit and Structure: A Wesleyan Vision for Church Renewal"
Reflections by Rev. Elmer O'Brien

Time: Starts at 9:00 a.m.

Place:
Corl Lounge: Breakfast, Dedication, and Celebration
Precious Blood: Convocation
Thie Fellowship Hall: Common Meal

Conatct: JoAnn Wagner
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On Wednesday, September 8, United will celebrate the beginning of our 140th Academic year with Opening Convocation, a Celebration of Donors and Volunteers and the Dedication of the Elmer and Betty O'Brien Library.

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:
$300 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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May 24 – 26, 2011

Christ Centered Preaching in an Age of Apostasy

Preacher(s): Dr. Charles E. Booth, Dr. James Earl Massey, and Dr. Joel Gregory

Speaker(s): Stanley E. Harris, Dr. Wendy Deichmann Edwards, Dr. Harold Hudson, Mayor Michael B. ColemanDr. Rita Twiggs, Dr. John Kinney Dean, Dr. Cleophus J. LaRue, Francis Landey Patton, Dr. Carolyn Ann Knight, Dr. William Houston Curtis, Dr. Evans E. Crawford, Bishop Walter Scott Thomas, Dr. Harold Carter, Dr. Cynthia L. Hale, Dr. Harold A. Carter, Sr., and Dr. Robert Smith

Time:
schedule

Place: Sessions are at the Renaissance Hotel, Downtown Columbus. Worship is held at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, Downtown Columbus

CEUs: TBD

Cost: TBD

Contact: Harold Hudson
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