Wesley Theological Seminary 2022 Annual Report

2022 Annual Report CALLING

On the cover: After two years of restrictions, friends and family were able to celebrate the 2022 commencement in person at National Cathedral in Washington, D.C.

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FEATURES

9 Formation: Images of the Body by Tobi Kahn Artist finds strangeness and unfamiliarity in the most intimate subjects.

10 New Faces at Wesley Meet our two new professors starting this fall.

12 Our Love Must Be Sincere Bishop LaTrelle Easterling’s challenge for the Class of 2022.

16 Back from a Land Down Under Dr. Sathianathan “Sathi” Clarke returns from sabbatical to serve as Interim Dean.

DEPARTMENTS

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From the President Leading seminaries and denominations to a more hopeful future.

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Forty-Five Hundred News and views of the Wesley Community.

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18 2022 Annual Report Celebrating the generosity of the Wesley Community.

FROM THE PRESIDENT

FROM THE PRESIDENT

WhenI entered seminary 40 years ago, the brochure headline was from Romans 10:14: “How can they hear without a preacher?” Because the people who supported Wesley then, some still among the donors listed here, went to church every Sunday and wanted to help prepare the next generation of preachers. Later, we began to speak of Wesley as a “church-based seminary” to make sure the gathering of students, faculty and funds was for the vitality of congregations and their ministries.

We were preaching to the choir; our case was taken for granted. But now, so much is changing, and many systems seem to be failing, so the role of every institution, governmental and non-governmental, secular and sacred, has to answer two questions: “Why does the world need you?” And, “What are you doing to adapt?” My answer to the first is: The congregations, community service agencies and legions of Christians trying to live their faith in the world constitute a vital infrastructure of civil society; a robust supply chain of compassion, trustworthiness and hope. This is because we try to meet a higher standard. As Micah 6 puts it: “What does the Lord require? To do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with your God.” As Jesus commands, “You are the salt of the earth.” Maybe that should be our brochure headline.

But we also have to answer, “What are we doing to adapt?” We are becoming one of the first comprehensive seminaries. This transformation is being made possible by a series

of extraordinary grants from the Lilly Endowment. The first is a commissioned interdenominational study of the “Changing Nature of Religious Professionals” mapping the variety of leadership roles and educational needs in American churches. To reach these men and women, we are implementing a series of steps in Lilly’s “Pathways Initiative” to develop a sustainable business plan and proofs of concept for an expanded role for seminaries beyond the graduate school model to prepare the various forms of pastoral leadership emerging in our research. We will maintain the quality and improve access to our master’s programs while also developing a suite of non-degree certificates and continuing education opportunities for those who have not been well served by traditional seminaries. This comes at a major inflection point for Christianity and will enable Wesley to accomplish our mission and to lead other seminaries and denominations to a more hopeful future.

I write this letter in late July in a very tough and uncertain time for the church, the country and the world as we face challenges on multiple fronts. The reason I have been able to describe a confident and cleareyed focus on the future for Wesley is because of the generosity of the people listed in these pages. Not only are they helping us through these tough few years with annual support, but they have also funded research, built the endowment and made planned gifts that provide the solid foundation for our future. This is the reason we are

so grateful for reaching our Only at Wesley campaign goal a year early. We are in a strong position to change and adapt.

Here’s what should not change. Seminaries impart wisdom and foster courage. Wisdom is the ability to perceive the difference between the way things are and the way God intends them to be. Courage is the willingness to speak and act as disciples of Christ in favor of the kingdom come. Essential to that is a community of high-quality students and scholar/teachers. Beyond the classroom, Wesley offers what I think of as a communion in our diversity. Let me describe what that is like. There is a hymn we often sing in chapel written by the contemporary Gospel songwriter Kirk Franklin called, I Need You to Survive. As we sing, we look across the aisles and over our differences: “I need you, you need me, we’re all a part of God’s body…I’ll pray for you, you pray for me. I love you, I need you to survive.” When I look at the women and men who are singing and pointing, I know the market will never highly value this kind of community or their call to ministry. And so, I write with gratitude for all those listed in this Annual Report for their guidance and support to help our community be the salt of the earth.

Rev. Dr. David McAllister-Wilson

Bloom! The

Chapel Visuals class, led by Community Arts Coordinator Jessie Houff, incorporated Lent and Easter visuals in the chapel for multiple services. The community was invited to “bury” something and in the following week some blossomed into new life. Student Jo Schonewolf reflected, “In burial, we witness transformation. We invite you to meditate on the disruptive, vibrant, living, breathing complexity of the world to come, when God’s love lives in all hearts, compared to the inkling we have of what that world will look like as we live in the already and not yet. We invite you to find holiness everywhere.”

SOCIETY OF JOHN WESLEY

PROF. LUCY HOGAN RETIREMENT CELEBRATED

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Society of John Wesley Award of Merit recognizes and honors the significant contributions of alumni through sacrificial leadership to God, the church and Wesley Theological Seminary. Any Wesley alumni or alumnae who graduated at least five years prior to the date of presentation is eligible for the award. The awardee is determined by living members of the Society of John Wesley, and the 2022 recipient is Reverend Dr. Dong Chan Park, MDiv '93 and DMin '99.

Rev. Dr. Dong Chan Park is serving Wesley as the president of the Wesley Korean Graduates’ Association, partner faculty, and a member of the Wesley Asia Council. As senior pastor at The Ilsan Kwanglim Church with 8,000 members, he has led thousands of projects for Korea and the world, including North Korea, and the ecumenical movement.

Vice President for International Relations Dr. Kyunglim Shin Lee shares, “Rev. Dr. Dong Chan Park is an excellent role model for pastors and missionaries, with integrity, outstanding leadership, faithfulness, and love. Seeing him loved, respected, and followed by many people in many countries has been a great joy. A true leader for God’s people.”

Congratulations, Rev. Dr. Dong Chan Park!

5K FOR MILITARY CHAPLAINS

WesleyAdmissions Recruiter, Elizabeth Pruchnicki and Special Assistant to the President, Jim Driscoll ran in the VAUMC 5K Run/Walk held during the Annual Conference of the Virginia Conference of The United Methodist Church. The event was both an inperson and a virtual race for runners to join from all over the world.

All proceeds of this event went towards the Virginia Annual Conference Offering, one half of which was given to Wesley’s Doctor of Ministry in Military Chaplaincy scholarship program. Wesley’s Military Chaplains serve all over the world nurturing and caring for the spiritual needs of service members and their families.

In total, the Virginia Annual Conference offering raised over $100,000 for Wesley’s Military Chaplain students!

By Dr. Bruce Birch

OnApril 19, 2022 the Wesley community gathered to hear Prof. Lucy Hogan preach in Oxnam Chapel and to celebrate her long service to Wesley in the Refectory afterwards. This celebration had been scheduled almost two years earlier but delayed by the closures and adjustments made necessary by the COVID-19 crisis.

Prof. Hogan first came to Wesley as a Doctor of Ministry student in 1984 where the focus of her thesis was on preaching. She was already an ordained Episcopal priest in the Diocese of Washington. She completed this degree in 1987, but even before this her talent had been recognized by preaching Professors Stookey and McClain, and she began teaching adjunct courses in homiletics in 1986. It was the beginning of a 34 year career of service to the Wesley community.

While teaching part-time at Wesley, Prof. Hogan added to her credentials by completing a PhD program in 1995 at the University of Maryland in the Department of Speech with special emphasis in rhetorical history, theory, and practice. She became a full-time

member of the Wesley faculty in 1994 and was promoted to become the Hugh Latimer Elderdice Professor of Preaching and Worship in 2001. Over her many years at Wesley she taught courses in both homiletics and worship, served terms as Chapel Elder, and became a beloved mentor to many students. She was a trusted leader on faculty committees, and she co-wrote one of Wesley’s decennial accreditation self-studies. She also served with distinction on many Middle States Commission on Higher Education accreditation teams as a Site Team Evaluator.

Prof. Hogan rose to become one of the most respected figures in the field of homiletics, both nationally and internationally. She is the author, co-author or editor of eight books and dozens of articles and book chapters. She has been the President of both Societas Homiletica (the international professional homiletics society, 2008-2010), and the Academy of Homiletics (the national professional homiletics organization, 2014-2016). Only a handful of persons have ever been accorded both of these honors. In 2021 the Academy of Homiletics awarded her its Lifetime Achievement Award.

Few faculty members in the history of Wesley Theological Seminary have served the community so long and so well. She now lives in retirement in Frederick, MD, but will continue as a valued Professor Emerita, and we hope she will not be a stranger to the Wesley campus.

CHANGING OF THE CHAIRS

After12 years of service, The Reverend Tom Berlin, Senior Pastor of Floris United Methodist Church, presided over his last meeting as Chair of the Board of Governors on May 10, 2022.

President David McAllister-Wilson shared, “Tom and this board have enabled Wesley to persevere –more than that – to thrive through unprecedented challenges to the institution of the church, the seminary, and the denomination. Tom made it look easy to lead a group of 40 extraordinary leaders from all walks of life who serve on our board. Tom has represented us to the church and the church to Wesley.”

Rev. Berlin shared, “A United Methodist Seminary can only serve students and the church when the administration, staff, faculty and board all commit to pull in the same direction. I am so grateful to witness the generous and wise ways Wesley

board members contributed to this common ministry during my tenure as the chair. Their love of the church and desire to see clergy and laity receive excellent theological instruction encourage me and give me hope in our future.”

The Incoming Chair of the Board Monica Hargrove shared, “I am honored to serve as Chair as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an important time of transition in all aspects of life, and especially for the church! I look forward to working with the administration, faculty, staff, alumni and my fellow Wesley board members to serve this present age, our calling to fulfill. We share a common interest in ensuring that Wesley continues to provide excellent theological instruction, as well as to conduct important and timely research, both of which can provide important insights on enhanced ways for the church to fulfill its mission during such a time as this.”

The love of the church and desire to see clergy and laity receive excellent theological instruction encourage me and give me hope in our future.

Rev. Tom Berlin Chair, Board of Governors 2010-2022

CHARTER GRADUATES OF GLOBAL DOORWAY MA

Bymid-Summer 2020 it was clear that no International (F1) students would be allowed to join the fall entering class. In fact, almost 100% of the Seminary’s fall curriculum migrated online using Blackboard and Zoom. So a decision was made to select a group of students to study from their home countries toward our 36-academic hour Master of Arts program. The Global Doorway MA began with ten candidates – four from China and six from various African countries. At the May 2022 Commencement Service, the first four of these students were recognized for completing their Master of Arts degree entirely online.

Oluwafemi “Femi” Oluwasegun Akinrinsoye is an Assistant Lecturer at Banyan Theological Seminary, KarimLamido, Taraba State of Nigeria. He became a United Methodist after his participation in Youth Service Corp and was encouraged to study at Wesley by The Rev. John Pena Auta, (DMin 2015). Femi’s teaching at a United Methodistrelated school in Nigeria means that his study in our MA will be multiplied by his teaching at Banyan.

Fernando Candumbo de Castro, Sr. lives in Luanda, Angola and is a graduate of the UMC Africa University in Zimbabwe. He began his Global Doorway MA studies as a way to meet ordination requirements for Deacon in the Angola Annual Conference of the UMC. Despite timezones and distances, during his study at Wesley, Fernando participated as an elected member of the Student Council. In addition to completing the Master of Arts, he also met the requirements for the Certificate in Child and Youth Ministry and Advocacy.

The other two candidates who completed the MA, Gloria and Robert, are current church leaders in Beijing, China. While our Global Doorway Masters of Arts graduates could not attend in person, they were able to participate in our live-stream of the services from the National Cathedral.

REV. DR. TRAVIS HELMS

The Luce Center is thrilled to announce the appointment of Rev. Dr. Travis Helms as creativein-residence for the coming academic year.

Travis comes to us as the founder and curator of the LOGOS Poetry Collective, a liturgically inflected reading series that gathers online and in person, and as co-director of EcoTheo Collective. He is the author of Blowing Clover, Falling Rain: a theological commentary on the poetic canon of the ‘American Religion’ (Wipf & Stock, 2020). His poetry and essays have been published in, or are forthcoming in, Image Journal, Poetry Northwest, New Haven Review, The Austin American-Statesman, and North American Review, among other venues. Travis lives in Jackson, WY with his family, where he serves as an associate priest at St. John’s Episcopal Church.

As creative-in-residence, Travis will be spending one week each term on Wesley’s campus. During each of these visits, he will be working closely with Luce Center Assistant Director Dr. Devon Abts to deliver an exciting program of public events, including poetry readings, workshops, and lectures. He will also be facilitating one off-campus LOGOS reading each term as part of a joint venture with the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, thanks to a generous grant secured by Dr. Abts.

Travis launched the LOGOS Collective in 2017 as a reading community under the mission statement of “evoking transcendence through poetry, ritual, and conversation.” As Travis explains, “Our hope has always been to cultivate a space in which people – especially people who would never otherwise

darken a church door – can experience a deep sense of connection with one another and the sacred.”

“What excites me most about this residency at Wesley and the Luce Center is not just giving students and faculty a chance to experience LOGOS’ liturgically inflected poetry reading format first-hand, but also having a chance to engage in conversations with students around their curiosities and passions, as they relate to contextual ministry. In workshops, classrooms, and on campus, I am eager to explore alongside students how the Spirit may be guiding them in cultivating missional imagination in new and life-giving ways.”

Travis’s autumn residency will take place October 17–21. Please visit the Wesley Theological Seminary website for further details about events he will be leading during this first campus visit.

HOURLY APOCALYPSE

Sweep up the leaves that have been gathering. Now pile, bag them: let them burn.

Mists of wistfulness envelop me in waking angst — against again the fall — and gauze the almost autumn trees, which all this week, it seems unceasingly, have been shedding their unnecessary layers in flagrancies of green.

Silence all the iambs. Perish the erasures in this yard, this home, this day to day you won’t stop reading like a text or making life be read by.

Let all these things you plant dismantle you — their entropies impetal you. (& water, every month of every year, the lawn.)

Everything within you — lashed against the wall or trellis, cut through by the pick-axe, or raked at with your little trowel — must bow.

WE ARE ALL GOD’S POEMS

Smoke coaxed from incense, babbling of birds and beasts ascending in the east each evening, rinsing the horizon rim wider and more brightly, leavening the west. Confess a pain still aching in the veins, a signature unregistered deep down in the bone and loam of things.

I have no right to write about these things, I think. Mists of wistfulness and waking angst alight against again the fall — and, over it all: a quiet luminescence wanting to elide the whiteness effloresces. Smoke stoked from incense, bones of beasts, the pressured freshness, yes, the feeling of your fingers in the ground, making traceless shapes within the dust, hieroglyphing each of the myths we’ve lost, we’ve missed. Sin, for the desert saints, was taken from a term for archery: the mark we miss, not some ancient influenza stinking in our genes. Dream distances. Speak peace. The heart, when it finally breaks, breaks softly: a wake of tears, the motor of the boat switched off: the surface of a blue balloon pushed past the stress that it can bear: the garish glare of gums from a barely aware infant, who’s yet to cut a tooth. She wants to bite it to oblivion, my daughter, flourishing the bouquet of balloons an aunt has gifted her like a flaming sword. Or like Goethe’s last words upon his deathbed: more light. Or Hopkins’: I am so happy (twice).

I loved my life. Or whatever words, by God, we are holding to and with and forth — inside this hard, unending, this everything-upending sleight of night.

By Rev. Dr. Travis Helms 2022-23 Creative-in-Residence

FORMATION: IMAGES OF THE BODY BY TOBI KAHN

By Aaron Rosen, PhD Director, Henry Luce III Center for the Arts & Religion

Asa painter, Tobi Kahn is fascinated by the edges of abstraction.  The surfaces of his paintings swell with forms that can appear both macrocosmic and microcosmic, as if depicting the contours of a distant nebula or a cell dividing under a microscope.  In 2019, Kahn set himself yet another challenge, taking up the figure as subject for his paintings and works on paper for the first time in more than thirty years.  The results are the several dozen dazzling works featured in the Images of the Body exhibition in spring and summer 2022 at the Henry Luce III Center for the Arts & Religion.

Kahn’s paintings continue to tread the border between abstraction and figuration, as he has done throughout his career, but in these new works he forces himself to find strangeness and unfamiliarity in the most intimate subjects, standing right before him.  His figures stretch their limbs with the elegance of dancers, but beyond that it is difficult—and often impossible—to establish any

identifying characteristics, whether religious, ethnic, sexual or otherwise.  Like Amedeo Modigliani, Kahn has a gift for creating images of people which are simultaneously someone and everyone.

In his words, the artist seeks to capture a “liminal moment, before the apprehension of gender and sexuality, an uncertain moment filled with possibility.”  This is not an effort to evade or ignore struggles for recognition by communities who have long been marginalized because of difference. Instead, it is a call to acknowledge a common wellspring of dignity, beneath the surface, which flows into and animates all bodies, each in their own way.

In Jewish terms, Kahn’s figure paintings gesture towards the neshamah, the soul breathed into human bodies by the divine. Indeed, it may not be a stretch to think of Kahn’s paintings, painstakingly created by applying myriad, translucent layers of gesso, modeling paste, and handmixed acrylics, as a form of breathing

upon the canvas. The slow genesis of these works, evident in their subtly textured surfaces, invites the viewer to slow their own senses down to appreciate them, to let their own breaths harmonize with the rhythms of the forms before them.

This kind of contemplation can be reparative at multiple levels. “I’ve really always been interested in healing,” says Kahn, “in how art takes the viewer to a deeper, more meditative place.” This commitment to healing—tikkun in Hebrew—resonates across religious and spiritual traditions, especially in the teachings of the Catholic monk Thomas Merton and the Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh. Both recognized the connection between meditation and justice, the way in which locating inner stillness can foster peace in the wider world.

At a time of profound uncertainty, inequity, and illness, Kahn’s figures remind us that—should we be willing to stretch ourselves—tranquility is always within reach.

NEW FACES AT WESLEY THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

AsWesley continues to prioritize innovation and building a next generation faculty that understands deeply the global needs for theological education, we welcome Lucila Crena as Assistant Professor in Christian Ethics and Public Theology and Hyemin (Joanne) Na as Assistant Professor of Worship, Media and Culture and Chapel Elder.

In addition to deepening faculty expertise in public theology and worship, Professor Crena, originally from Argentina, and Professor Na, originally from Korea, will be the Wesley’s first tenure-track Latina and Asian women professors.

“I am very pleased to announce these two appointments to the Wesley faculty,” said Wesley President David McAllister-Wilson.

“They each bring unique energy and scholarship to our community and are rising stars in theological education. I want to sit in on their classes. I was particularly gratified to hear the enthusiasm of the students involved in the interview process.”

“The research interests of Professors Hyemin Na and Lucila Crena are an excellent fit for the Wesley community, the church and the world,” said Academic Dean Phil Wingeier-Rayo, Ph.D. “Professor Na’s title will be Assistant Professor of Worship, Media and Culture and she will train leaders on liturgics

and apply it practically to the current opportunities for digital ministry, both in the classroom and as our seminary’s Chapel Elder. As Assistant Professor of Ethics and Public Theology, Professor Crena will be a central resource for Wesley’s Center for Public Theology and Community Engagement Institute— in addition to teaching the National Capital Experience for Seminarians.”

Professor Lucila Crena joins Wesley’s faculty from the Candler School of Theology at Emory University, where she was the Managing Director of the “Theological Education between the Times” project and Instructor in

Lucila Crena

Theology, Ethics, and Culture. Her commitment to innovation in theological education was honed as founding faculty for the new MA in Theology, Leadership, and Society program at Regent College (Vancouver, BC, Canada) and at Comunidad de Estudios Teológicos Interdisciplinarios (CETI, in San José, Costa Rica), where she was faculty liaison during the course redesign of CETI’s MA program for its North American accreditation process.

Professor Crena has also previously served as an instructor at Wesley, and her areas of academic interest include Christian Theology & Ethics;

Moral, Social, and Political Thought; Latin American and Latinx Theologies/ Ethics; Environmental Ethics; and Prophecy and Theopolitics.

Professor Creana holds a BA in Economics with highest honors from Emory University, a MTS from Regent College (Vancouver, Canada) and will defend her PhD in Theology, Ethics, and Culture dissertation at the University of Virginia this Fall.

“I am delighted to join the vibrant and creative scholarly community at Wesley, which is at the forefront of theological education,” said Crena. “Wesley students, faculty, and staff are together asking the pressing questions of the faith, and constantly expanding the community of who is invited to ask and answer those questions. I’m thrilled to become a part of this institution.”

Professor Hyemin (Joanne) Na was previously Assistant Professor of Religion, Media and Culture at Drew Theological School and is a Louisville Institute Post-doctoral Fellow.

She holds an AB in Visual and Environmental Studies summa cum laude from Harvard University, an MDiv from Garrett-Evangelical

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Theological Seminary Theta Alpha Kappa honors and will defend her PhD in Religion dissertation this Fall at Emory University.

Professor Na’s recent academic conferences show her interest in the interplay of technology, faith and culture with papers on “The Smartphone as Religious Relic: An Object Lesson in Surveillance, Bureaucracy, and the Gospel of Progress in Korean Protestant Christianity in Global Korea,” “Megachurch Branding in a Global Korea: A Church Brand Story and Its Images,” and “Digital Productions of the Sacred: A Korean Megachurch and Its Racialized Visual Culture.”

“I am drawn to Wesley Theological Seminary for its commitment to cultivating prophetic voices that address the centers of power,” said Professor Na on the announcement of her appointment. “I look forward to joining the diverse faculty, staff, and students at Wesley to continue such work, exploring how the mundane practices of faith communities can lead to reimaginations of the status quo.”

Welcome Professors Crena and Na to the Wesley community!

Hyemin (Joanna) Na

OUR LOVE MUST BE SINCERE

By Bishop LaTrelle Easterling

We are sharing a condensed version of Bishop Easterling’s profound commencement speech to the Class of 2022. It is best viewed online so you can experience her passionate delivery. Scan the QR code at the end of the article and go to 1:17:00 to watch.

Typically, commencement addresses are wrapped in humor, lightheartedness and wit, but this is not a typical graduation ceremony nor season. While Ecclesiastes extols that there is nothing new under the sun, that does not mean that the weight of any particular season or circumstance is without effect.

Wesley Theological Seminary Class of Two Thousand and Twenty-Two you are leaving the safety of the classroom and entering the world of human experience in a particularly peculiar and tender time. You as a community sit in grief and mourning having experienced a grievous loss. The United States just by some reports cross the threshold of one million COVID deaths last week. Wars are raging across the globe. We are witnessing the collateral carnage of those wars. Human agency, autonomy, and our right to privacy are once again being debated.

In what to many feels like a dystopian daymare. Truth is attacked as being the lie, lies are proffered as corrected truth, and censorship conceals the hand of those responsible for our nation’s worst atrocities. Political polarization is extremely high, while human harmony is incredibly low. Denominations continue to struggle Theologically and Christologically. Even as our sanctuaries are still draped in white for Easter time. We are living in the grips of Good Friday world. And beloved, you who sit, draped in these caps and gowns – you are the ones God has chosen to lead us into our future.

I have come to learn that if you want to find the most poignant and refined wisdom someone has to offer, look for what they’ve written later in life. Many, though shamefully not all, gain deeper insight at their thoughts simmer and are seasoned in the crucible of experience. The book, The Essential Martin Luther

What word can ground us in this moment?

What word can prepare you as you set out to lead in these unparalleled times?

King Jr. contains his most important speeches and sermons most of which were written in Dr. King’s latter days. Scripture says that even Jesus grew in wisdom and stature. Well, the text that was just so profoundly read in our hearing from Romans (12; 1-13) was written late in Paul’s ministry and decidedly seen as his richest most powerful contribution to Christianity and to the world. It is his magnum opus. The themes are myriad, and some which say debatable, but one overarching message is clear – God’s righteousness. And that righteousness finding its apex in love.

earth, God’s tend to me is clear, God desires that we are loved into fullness and freedom.

Class of 2022, you have achieved great feats of thesis writing of dissertation defense; you’ve mastered divinity (ha!), studied the greats, and passed enough tests (I’ll tell the whole truth) you’ve passed enough tests to have degrees conferred upon you this day.

But now the challenge, is to leave these hallowed halls to love sincerely, to hate what is evil, and cling to what is good. Each day you will have the opportunity, no the PRIVILEGE, to rise and to be devoted to one another and to all of humanity with love. Never thinking more highly of yourself than you ought.

We are both the recipient of and then expected to be the vessel of that love. And in the word of Paul “our love must be sincere.” The word love is bantered about so freely in our lexicon is almost without definition and distinction, but I agree with Bell Hooks who in All About Love writes, “Love is the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.” It cannot co-exist with abuse of any kind. And love is, as love does.

Now, at first that might sound like sophomoric until we understand that spiritual growth means helping others to achieve wholeness, abundant life, and the fulfilment of the purpose for which they were created. And I don’t know about you, but as I read the holy writ from the Exodus from Egypt to the new heaven and the new

Graduates, we need, the world needs, and now that we want play around in more space, the cosmos needs leaders prepared to offer a cruciform life. A life shaped and formed and informed and motivated by this agape love. William Sloan Coffin reminds us of God’s love we can say two things. It is poured out universally for everyone from the Pope to the loneliest person on the planet and secondly, God’s love doesn’t seek value, it creates value. It is not because we have value that we are loved, no but because we are loved that we have value. Our value is a gift not an achievement.

Beloved, I want us to be really clear. This love is not incipit, nor it is mere vapid sentimentality. This love is a force. It has power. The power to transform, to tear down strong holds, and heal our broken world.

There is no greater force in heaven or on earth than pursuing righteousness and justice than divine love.

Perhaps one of the best ways to understand the power of this love is to realize how hard some work to wrest this teaching from us. The forces of evil working in our society today have tried to flip the script and recast gentleness, compassion, and empathy as weakness, passivity, and gullibility. This is not by happenstance, beloved, this is by design. Let us ask ourselves why these forces are working so hard to disparage the characteristics of love. Well, I say it because the ones who animate this evil knows the power of true love, knows it down to its very xenium. Do we not understand that love is so transformative, so redeeming, so miraculous that it vanquishes all darkness and what the darkness has gone to evil it’s got no place to hide.

The love of which Paul speaks crosses boundaries, transcends divisions, and creates new bonds.

Class of 2022, until we do the hard work, until we aren’t afraid to tell the truth, until we break down the barriers, we deny ourselves the beauty of justice and freedom for everybody. Love must be sincere, hate what is evil, cling to what is good, be devoted to one another in mutual affection.

Wherever and however, you are called to employ the knowledge, the wisdom, the skills that you have obtained the gift of holistic agape love will be needed. We have seen the inequities in medicine as the pandemic ravage communities of color and the poor. We are watching the safeguards of our justice system unravel before our very eyes. The news media and social media platforms are increasingly becoming echo chambers reenforcing the status quo when what we really need

is incisive analysis and hard truths. Bullying bravado and brazenness are being held in the public square when what we really need is less hubris and more humility. Too many pulpits are filled by pacifiers rather than prophets ready to build golden calves over and against proclaiming the liberating Word of God. Yet, beloved all is redeemable not because of who we are but because we are vessels of the extravagant mercy, grace, and love of all mighty God.

The world needs leaders who know the source and who are ready to lead with love, discipline, and resilience and as I said at the beginning, we know graduates that this is a difficult time. You will not always get it right. You will fail. When you do – get up, confess it, make amends, learn from it, and get back at it. You will disappoint, and you will be disappointed. When it

happens, remind yourself of who and whose you are. Open up those sacred texts, read it again and then get back at it. You will get tired because as my 22-year-old son said after about six weeks on his first real job, “Mom, adulting sucks.” When it happens, breathe deeply, rest yourself for a while and then get back at it.

Class of 2022, you have demonstrated by your ways and your actions that you intend to rise up. We need you to rise up with the love that is sincere. We need you to rise up and hate what is evil. The world needs you to rise up and cling to what is good. And if you get weary, WHEN you get weary, remember all we need is hope and for that we’ve got each other and the love that will not let us go.

BACK FROM A LAND DOWN UNDER

Dr.Sathianathan “Sathi” Clarke, known by his students to be a “beloved professor,” is returning to Wesley this fall as the Interim Dean of Faculty after a year’s sabbatical in Australia. Former Dean Dr. Phil Wingeier-Rayo will continue to serve at Wesley by returning to the classroom as the Professor of World Christianity, Missiology and Methodist Studies.

For the last seventeen years, Dr. Clarke (Bishop Sundo Kim Chair of World Christianity) has taught and lectured on World Christianity, systematic theology, postcolonial mission, and interreligious dialogue in India, United States, Australia, United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Korea, South Africa, and Liberia.

Dr. Clarke corresponded with the new Vice President for Development Angela Willingham via e-mail for this article.

AW: There is so much excitement about you returning to Wesley. How did you spend the last year on your sabbatical?

SC: It’s been a challenging year Down Under. In June 2021, we thought we were dodging the restraints imposed by COVID-19 in the USA to enter the freedoms boasted by Australia. But the virus got ahead of us! So, Prema and I spent the first six months being in and out of hotel quarantine, lockdowns, and home isolations.

On the bright side, we were stuck in the same house in Canberra with our three grandsons between the ages of 6 and 3 years. Considering we had not seen them for two years; this was indeed immensely fulfilling. The rest of the six months was more professionally productive even as we tried to spend time getting to know our other two grandchildren in Sydney. Being involved in the life of the United Theological College in Parramatta NSW from January 2022 on was rewarding while I completed an edited book titled Gandhi’s Truths in an Age of Fundamentalism and Nationalism (Fortress Press, March 2022). I was privileged to lead seminars, offer Bible studies, and give mission addresses to clergy and candidates training for ministry in the Uniting Church of Australia. Once the library opened in February, I was also able to get back to writing my book on Theology for World Christianity

DR. SATHI CLARKE

SATHI CLARKE

AW: Your time sounds like it was fulfilling personally, professionally, and spiritually – especially your time with your family. How has family influenced your calling to serve?

SC: My parents were devoted to God and the Church. My father (Sundar Clarke) was a priest of the Church of South India, eventually consecrated as Bishop of Madras. Both my parents were compassionate Christians passionately in love with Jesus and also in love with all those that Christ brought to them, especially the poor and excluded ones. They proclaimed the Gospel of Christ with joy in a country where Christianity was a small minority (less than 3 percent).

My father and mother (Clara) always lived believing that costly discipleship is the pathway to Christian leadership. This has greatly influenced my own vocation as a theological teacher and Church leader.

AW: It sounds like you have a clear passion for service.

Yes, I do have a passion for service. My joy as a Christian emanates from the entwinned nature of service to God and service to human beings. This, I believe, is the uniqueness of the Jesus Way. Service to the Great and Almighty God cannot but be expressed apart from being of service to the least and meek among us. God’s dream of a new heaven and

new earth proclaimed by Jesus Christ promises that the poor will occupy the kingdom of God (Lk 6: 20) and the meek will inherit the earth (Mt 5:5).

AW: We are so grateful you are returning this fall. How did you come to Wesley the first time?

In 2002-2003 I came to the USA from Bengaluru, India, to teach as a visiting professor. In the fall I taught at Wesley Theological Seminary and in the spring at Harvard Divinity School. Both institutions offer their own unique opportunities. Just before heading back to India, I had an unexpected (providential) encounter with Dean Bruce Birch at Penn station in NYC. I told him I

was confused about an offer from a university to teach World Christianity. In my conversation, I told him my vocation was tied up with the formation of hearts on fire to serve as leader-disciples rather than be involved in forging minds with fiery ideas to become theologian-scholars. I indicated that Wesley had given me the blessed refreshment I needed on my sabbatical. It was for me a fertile place where minds were enlightened by hearts “strangely warmed.” Dean Birch later told me that he went straight to the phone and called President David McAlister-Wilson of a potential recruit. It took less than a month for Bruce Birch to send me a note of enquiry. While pondering over the cost of leaving a fulfilling theological position in India and moving away from my elderly parents, I had a serious health scare that almost got me. I had a pulmonary embolism in October 2003 that had me in the ICU for a few days. Amazingly, the first telephone call I received when I came home from the hospital was from Bishop James and Eunice Mathews. He was a resident Bishop at Wesley and his wife was the daughter of the legendary evangelist to India Dr E. Stanley Jones. Their message to me was the other providential nudge that confirmed where I might find my next academic home for the next 17 years. “We need someone like you from India as a missionary

theologian in our national capital,” they said. And they ended the call saying, “please consider bringing the aroma of Indian spirituality to Wesley Theological Seminary.” That day Prema and I decided to say yes to Wesley.

My move to Wesley in January 2005 was made possible by the generous financial support of Bill and Mary Gibb. They not only gifted the equivalent of my first year’s salary to Wesley but more importantly they accompanied us as friends on our sojourn in the DMV. Bill and Mary became our close friends. For the last 17 years we have dined together in our respective homes every two-weeks. They shared in meals with our family, and Wesley faculty and students. They also kept giving liberally to Wesley. Bill died in 2018 but our intimate friendship with Mary continues. Instead of having meals twice a month we have talked with her as often while on Sabbatical in Australia. I must not fail to mention Bishop Sundo Kim (WTS 1971) from Kwanglim Church in Seoul (KMC) who gave his alma mater an endowment gift in 2008 to inaugurate the chair for World Christianity. Bishop Sundo has welcomed me several times to his Church, which is one of the largest Methodist churches in the world, and has continued to support me across the oceans with his prayer and encouragement.

AW: Over the past several decades you have had a front row seat to the evolving nature of a seminary education – what do you think the future holds for Wesley?

Theological seminaries that are Church-based and mission-shaped are faced with some serious challenges. Let me name two of them. The divisions in our Churches stemming from how we deal with race and sexuality has bred hurt and hate. It has led to diffidence among young disciples to serve God’s world through the Church. Also, because of the fear of taking on student debt in a world that is in financial uncertainty, tuitiondependent seminaries like Wesley are losing out to university-secured and endowment-prosperous theological schools. Yet, Wesley has consistently spurned the temptation to simply survive. Rather it has embraced the calling to thrive because of trust in a purposeful God who has gathered together a band of differently-enabled faculty, staff, administrators, students, Board of Governors, and donors to heal and transform the world. I believe that if we work together knowing that faith, hope, and love are gifts from God that we receive, reflect upon, and employ on the Jesus Way, Wesley will be that anointed place from which our city, the nation, and the world will be blessed.

Yet, Wesley has consistently spurned the temptation to simply survive. Rather it has embraced the calling to thrive because of trust in a purposeful God who has gathered together a band of differently-enabled faculty, staff, administrators, students, Board of Governors, and donors to heal and transform the world.

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countries represented include the United States, Angola, China, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Korea.

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men and women in deployments around the world earned the Military Chaplains Doctorate of Ministry.

2022 Revenue and Expenses

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charter graduates of the Global Doorways program earned their Master's of Arts entirely online.

– President David McAllister-Wilson

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OUR DONORS

The following lists celebrate the cumulative giving during Wesley Theological Seminary’s 2022 Fiscal Year (July 30, 2021 to June 30, 2022). Thank you to our loyal donors for your continued support!

GOVERNOR’S CIRCLE

$100,000 and above

Catherine Good Abbott, ‘06 and Ernie Abbott

The Lilly Endowment, Incorporated

SED Thriving Congregations Initiative

The Estate of Rev. Dr. Raymond F. Wrenn

PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE

$25,000-$99,999

American University United Methodist Campus Ministry

Robert F. Browning and Suzanne Fossett Browning*

Nora Leake Cameron, ‘02

Martha A. Carr

General James E. Cartwright, USMC (Ret.) and Sandee Cartwright

The Chandler FundCommunity Foundation

The Helen P. Denit Trust Fieldstead and Company

Floris United Methodist Church

The Foundation for Evangelism Mary Gibb

Shelley C. Jennings and Tom Jennings

The Family of Cliff and Camille Kendall

Robert Kettler and Charlotte Kettler

Bishop Chung Suk Kim and Jeong Hee Han

Roland S. Kircher, Jr.

Eunice Knowles

Kwanglim Methodist Church

Francine D. Maestri, ‘16 and Bruno Maestri

Joan Paddock Maxwell, ‘05 and David O. Maxwell

Marshall McClean

John and Paula Millian Barbara Miner, ‘11, ‘14 and Martin Miner

Morris A. Range

The Rollins-Luetkemeyer Foundation, Inc. Todd Stottlemyer

The Estate of George E. Tutwiler

Lynn Stanton-Hoyle, ‘86, ‘05 and Dale Stanton-Hoyle

Templeton Religion Trust

The Estate of Col. Sandra Smith Whitt

SEMINARY CIRCLE $5,000-$9,999

DEAN’S CIRCLE $10,000-$24,999

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

The JK Bae Foundation

Geoffrey D. Brown Alan G. Cannon

George H. Carpenter, ‘65

Ransom E. Casey-Rutland and Helen E. Casey-Rutland

The Community Foundation of the Eastern Shore, Inc.

James David Dake and Dotty Dake

John H. Dalton and Margaret Dalton

Robert K. Dawson and Susan Dawson

Jane S. Deland, ‘96

John M. Derrick, Jr., and Linda Derrick

Dennis M. Dickison and Nancy Dickison

The General Board of Global Ministries of the UMC

The Estate of Thomas C. Horsey

Hyepin Christine Im, ‘05

Deborah Iwig and Bill Iwig

Byung Hak Kim and Eunja Kim Duane Little and Dasha Little

Mary Frances Barr Mason, ‘89, ‘08 and William Mason

David F. McAllister-Wilson, ‘88, ‘01 and Drema McAllisterWilson, ‘86

The Magee Christian Education Foundation

Ann Albrecht Michel, ‘00, ‘11 and Scott D. Michel

The Estate of Kathleen Mitchell

Kerry Morse

Sung Sook Park

Rebecca Parker

The Perdue Kresge Developmental Grant Program

Gregory A. Prince and JaLynn Prince

Leonard F. Sjogren, ‘76 Helen C. Smith and Gordon V. Smith

Earl W. Stafford and Amanda Stafford

Conrad V. Aschenbach and Lois Aschenbach Timothy Ray Baer, ‘80, ‘03 and Ann Baer

Sueng-Lin Baik , ‘03, ‘16 Jean Balcom

Betty Stanley Beene and William Beene Kenneth Bentsen and Tamra K. Bentsen

Leslianne Braunstein, ‘01

William G. Brown, ‘95 and Michelle Pahl Brown, ‘96 Linda H. Cannon

Kenneth E. Chadwick and Melanie Dunn-Chadwick

Je Dong Chai and Myung Chai

Andrew Denham

David Sanford Deutsch, ‘10 and Stephanie Deutsch Bishop LaTrelle Miller Easterling

Epworth House Committee

Sally A. Firestone

Gilbert Alexander Fleming and Debbie Fleming

Margaret Gardner, ‘21 and David L. Gardner

The Glatfelter Memorial Scholarship Trust

Monica R. Hargrove, ‘03 Thomas Hefner

W. Thomas Hershey and Beth Hershey

Lucy Lind Hogan, ‘87

AUTUMN HANNA VANDEHEI Fourth-Year Seminarian, MTS

Autumn is a member of the Episcopal Church’s Expert Committee on Just War and Military Chaplains, focusing on Iraq and Afghanistan veterans. She says, “I am passionate about Civil Rights and the need to offer corrections to conventional history by highlighting the role of the African American Church in US History and correcting the conventional political wisdom that the Black Church is a monolith.”

Wesley's academic programs were what attracted her to study here. Being able to see through her childhood experience and fragile family situation to explore and appreciate the diversity and flexibility. “Studying at Wesley has inspired and undergirded my ministry and enriched my understanding of the Jewish and Christian commitment to the poor, oppressed, and traumatized. Wherever these people are, is where the Church should be.”

Ashley Bernard Hoover, ‘08 and Josetta Roxanne Hoover, ‘08, ‘15

Hungarian Reformed Church, DC

Kenneth A. Huntsman and Marcia Klein Huntsman, ‘10

Kyunglim Shin Lee, ‘93 and Seung-Woo Lee

Watson K. Leese and Ida M. Leese

G. D. Lewis and Shirley S. Lewis

Michael McCurry, ‘13 and Debra McCurry

Donna Cochran McLarty and Thomas F. McLarty, III

Edward J. Miller, Jr. Montgomery Hills Baptist Church

Charles E. Moore, Jr., and Carol Hoerichs Moore

The Patterson Memorial Association

Annie Lou Robinson

Robert W. Schaefer and Elaine Schaefer

Sindo Central Methodist Church

Cindy Skarbek and Edward F. Skarbek

Gaye Smith, ‘80, ‘94 and Theodore W. Smith

David Y. Sohn and Kim M Sohn Autumn Hanna VandeHei and James Jim VandeHei

Wabash College

Lovett Weems, Jr., ‘72 and Emily Weems

Edward Whitfield and Connie Harriman

Edward P. Winkler, ‘00 and Nina Winkler

Judith G. F. Worthington, ‘04 and John Ogram

VISIONARIES

$2,500-$4,999

Augusta Korean Methodist Church, Inc.

John Patrick Baker

Bruce C. Birch and Susan Raye Halse, ‘88

Michael T. Bradfield, ‘03, ‘78 and Maile Bradfield

Gwendolyn Butler

Kasongo Butler, ‘20

Robert T. Casey and Marilyn Casey

ChungCheong Annual Conference of Korean Methodist Church Deborah Chusmir and Michael Chusmir

Carol Thompson Cole and Curtis Cole

Jacqueline W. Coston and Otis D. Coston, Jr.

Kenda Creasy Dean, ‘88 and Kevin Dean

Stanley A. Dubowski, ‘01 First Korean UMC of Cherry Hill Michael R. Ford and Susan Ford Edward M. Frederick and Annamae Frederick

Edwin F. Hann, III, ‘71 and Carol Freeman Hann, ‘71 Mary Louise Hartman, ‘17 and Cliff Sloan

Harvest Korean Methodist Church

Indianapolis Center for Congregations, Inc.

Bradley R. James and Annie James

Patricia B. Jelinek, ‘73, ‘80*

Gui Jong Jeong and Eun Soon Kim

Jacqueline Jones-Smith, ‘04 and Joshua I. Smith

The Virgil Jordan Trust Danny C. Kim

Korean Community Church of New Jersey

Korean Madisonville United Methodist Church Korean United Methodist Church of Detroit

The Lord’s Church of Montgomery UMC Beth Ann Ludlum, ‘12, ‘19 and Mark Fleury

John R. Millian and Velaska Millian Charles Randall Nuckolls and Suzanne Nuckolls

Oncheonjeil Methodist Church John Ronald Owens, ‘80 Fredrick C. Powell and Becky Powell

Talmadge Roberts and Mary E. Roberts

Sungkwang Church

Tampa Korean United Methodist Church

Frank E. Trotter, ‘73, ‘75

James Gordon Vaughter, ‘09 and Elinor Vaughter

Susan S. Vogel

Leslie Annett Wiley, ‘19

The Willson Lectureship Fund

Tim Yu and Sung Yu

BENEFACTORS

$1,000-$2,499

Patricia Lynn Abell, ‘13 Alabama West Florida Conference UMC Aldersgate United Methodist Church

Chip Aldridge, Jr., ‘85, ‘95 David C. Allen and Elizabeth Allen

Robert Bruce Anderson Lloyd, Jr., ‘06 and Lisa Anderson-Lloyd, ‘16 Anonymous Donor Lois A. Aroian, ‘09

Jonathan E. Baker, ‘75, ‘90 and Donna Baker

The Baltimore-Washington Conference of the UMC

Thomas M. Beall, Jr., ‘77 Andy Bender

Julian D. Berlin and Nancy Berlin

Thomas M. Berlin and Karen Loughry Berlin Jane Long Betz George Y. Birdsong Marlene Blevins

Ronald E. Braxton, ‘09 John Patrick Brown, Jr., Esq., and Anita Brown

Jo Ann Browning and Grainger Browning, Jr. Karen F. Bunnell, ‘87

Bishop Kenneth L. Carder, ‘65 Ray W. Chamberlain, Jr. and Martha Chamberlain Yosuke Chikamoto

Bishop Young Jin Cho, ‘82, ‘85 and Kiok Chang Cho, ‘89

Oh Young Choi and Hyunok Choi

John F. Clardy, III and Christine Baker Clardy, ‘15 Alice B. Clark

Sathianathan Clarke and Prema Clarke

Cynthia L. Coleman and David Reeves

Robert B. Coutts and Ingrid Coutts

Marian Sams Crane, ‘06, ‘19 and Jeffrey Crane

James R. Driscoll, ‘85, ‘96 and Katheryn Driscoll

Jean Karen Dudek, ‘09 and Paul M. Dudek

Edwin H. Eichler and Wanda Eichler

Marti English and Robert English Boyd B. Etter, ‘82

Jerry M. Eyster and Joan Eyster

Edward L. Federico, Jr., and Sue Federico

Betty J. Forbes and Stanley Owen Forbes, Sr. Malcolm Larry Frazier, ‘00, ‘06 Harold Garman and Janet Lois Garman

Brenda M. Girton-Mitchell, Esq., ‘04 and James A. Mitchell

Delbert Glover and Linda Grenz

Kevin G. Goodwin and Karen Goodwin

Randall Gordon and Barbara Gordon

Eileen M. Guenther and Roy J. Guenther

James Gulley, ‘71 and Nancy Kay Gulley

Donald H. Hadley and Margaret Hadley

Rebecca Jennifer Hamm, ‘10 and Scott Hamm

Stanley E. Harrison and Doris A. Harrison

Thomas E. Hart, ‘70 and Pauline Hart

Harold V. Hartley, III, ‘83

Nancy Steakley Hildebrand, ‘07 Tom Holman, ‘75

Charles Anthony Hunt, ‘93 and Lisa Elaine Hunt

Russell C. Hurd, ‘79 and Patricia M. Hurd

Diana L. Hynson, ‘77, ‘85

Oran Glen Irvin, ‘73

Thomas Glenn James, ‘10 and Jennifer James, ‘13

Charles R. Jenkins, Sr. Mary Miller Johnston and William D. Johnston

Joye F. Jones, ‘95

Rockwell F. Jones and Melissa Lollar Jones Nam Won Kang, ‘05 and Ileen Yim

Janet H. Kelley

Edward E. Kester, ‘74 and Susan Keirn Kester, ‘82, ‘84

John Kiser

Michael Knipe

Mary E. Kraus, ‘80

Loretta Ann Lacy, ‘06

David Robert Lambert, ‘06 and Deborah Lambert

JoAnn Sybill Lawson

Asa Jerome Lee, ‘07 and Chenda D. Innis Lee, ‘08

Bishop Sharma D. Lewis Eric J. Lindner and Ellen J. Lindner

Jodi Lynn Lingan, ‘15 and Robert Lingan

M. Kathleen Nolen-Martin and Frederick E. Martin, III Elizabeth Jean Norcross, ‘05, ‘11 and Clint Stretch

David Guy Norton, ‘20 and Belinda Norton

The James Vincent Oliver Memorial Fund

Young Whan Park and Sun Kyung Park

Lewis A. Parks, ‘73 and Margaret Parks

Jeffrey Pehl, ‘15 and Silvia Wang, ‘15 Peniel Korean Church

Julie Andrews Petersmeyer, ‘03 and Gregg Petersmeyer

The Estate of June B. Plummer

Artie Lanier Polk, ‘08

Stephen Allen Proctor, ‘88, ‘99

Kären Marie Rasmussen, ‘10 Vernon D. Renshaw, ‘85 and Maria Andita H. Barcelo, ‘01

Joy R. Samuels, ‘96, ‘06 and Mark Samuels

James M. Sanborn and Emilie Sanborn Carole Schauer

Cynthia Kay Schneider, ‘04

Mary Waldron

Richard O. Walker, III and Deborah Camalier Walker

Joel Leslie Walther, ‘11 and Megan Jo Crumm Walther, ‘11

Robert E. White, Jr., ‘70 and Melissa White

Valerie E. Wilson, ‘92 Phil Wingeier-Rayo and Diana Wingeie-Rayo

J. Philip Wogaman and Carolyn Wogaman

Jerry Maddox Woodbery, Jr., ‘12 and Carol E. Woodbery

Carla Works and Nick J. Works, ‘13, ‘20

Rebecca Abts Wright, ‘76

Amy Danielle Yarnall, ‘01 and Ray Yarnall

Carol Cosens Yocum, ‘75 and Dennis Yocum, ‘75

Jean Young

CIRCUIT RIDER III $500-$999

Mele Taumoepeau Aho, ‘22 Aldersgate UMW in Alexandria, VA

Carletta Allen, ‘96, ‘09

Cassy Núñez is a Licensed Local Pastor in the Texas Annual Conference and is serving as a Student-Pastor in the Baltimore-Washington UMC Conference while completing her Master of Divinity degree. “Pastor Cassy” was appointed in 2021 to Salem Hispanic United Methodist Church in Baltimore. Previously she was Associate Pastor at Bering Memorial UMC in Houston with a focus on outreach to the Hispanic/Latinx and LGBTQIA+ communities and leadership on their Immigration Taskforce. She says “Wesley Seminary has been very confirming of my approaches to contextual theology. A couple of classes which have made a significant difference to my understanding that a building is not necessary to experience community – of being the body of Christ in the world. My worship class with Dr. Cotto recognized that liturgy happens outside the church walls. I’ve been encouraged by Dr. Devon Abts to keep naming how the space outside the church is just as sacred as where we stand to preach in the pulpit.”

Mary Alice Love, ‘75

Connie Mack Lovvorn, ‘66

Michele Manning, ‘03

Dana Martens

Laura Ann Martin, ‘82, ‘87

Sam William Marullo, ‘10 and Susan M. Marullo

Marvin H. McCallum, ‘61 and Joyce McCallum

Sylva McCulloh

William R. McKenney, ‘18 Daniel Mejia, ‘01, ‘20 and Michelle R. Mejia, ‘11

Douglas Mercer, ‘68 and Barbara Mercer

Earl L. Mielke and Mildred Kinney Meilke

Ianther M. Mills, ‘97, ‘03 Nadine Miller and Robert E. Miller

Mishonda Monique Mosley, ‘08, ‘12

Susan Avery Mulholland, ‘18 and Mark Mulholland Camille Cook Murray, ‘15

The Estate of Emma R. Myers

William Hall Schneider, ‘20 Victor Schwartz

C. Dennis Shaw, ‘99, ‘12 and Marilyn White Mary Short

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Mike Sipple and Patti Sipple

Ronald LeVant Slaughter, ‘18 and Kyla Trinette Slaughter Marlin L. Snider, ‘77, ‘89 and Brenda Snider

Victoria J. Starnes, ‘90 and John D. Ewald

Bishop Sandra Lynn Steiner Ball, ‘03 and Barry Douglas Steiner Ball, ‘17 E. Allen Stewart, ‘77 and Angelica Knight Stewart, ‘22

Nancy Peterson Stewart, ‘89 and Steele F. Stewart

Christina K. Suerdieck, ‘90 Charlotte Ann Sydnor, ‘94 and Calvin H. Sydnor, III Diane Tachmindji

John B. Tate, Jr., ‘88 and Barbara Tate

John W. Taylor and Sally Taylor Melinda Thompson, ‘07 Larry O. Tingle, ‘68, ‘84 and Nancy Tingle

John W. Van Tine, ‘73 and Virginia Van Tine

Rob E. Vaughn, Jr., ‘78 and Bane Vaughn

Dale L. Vroman, ‘74

Kathryn M. Andrews

Carol J. Armstrong-Moore, ‘85, ‘13

Baltimore-Washington Conference UMW

Kip Bernard Banks, Sr., ‘20

Frank L. Barkley, Jr. Lynne Blennerhassett

Lawrence W. Buxton, ‘96 and Beverly Mease-Buxton

The Norman E. and Helen G. Cale Trust

Sara Jo Chaney, ‘10

Stacey L. Cole Wilson, ‘03 and Wayne Wilson

Doris Cooney*

Jan Naylor Cope, ‘07 and John R. Cope, ‘01

William Wallace Culp, III, ‘14

Helen Weems Daley and Thomas M. Daley

Carl Darrow and Mimi Darrow

Bishop Leah Denyatta Daughtry, ‘12

Beryl Evangeline Dennis, ‘05, ‘18

Sherri Dickerson

Karen M. Dize, ‘02 and Noah B. Dize

Jane B. Donovan, ‘05, ‘10 and Graeme Donovan

R. Franklin Gillis, Jr., ‘67

David A. Griswold, ‘12

Linda J. Harris, ‘88

CASSANDRA (CASSY) NÚÑEZ

Current MDiv Student Pastor

2022 ANNUAL

Sara Hale Henry and Austin H. Henry

Carl E. Hill, ‘65

Greg W. Hill, ‘76 and Rosemary Hill

Laura Holmes

Kathleen R. Hutchens and Philip Hutchens

Immanuel Presbyterian Church

Mary E. Jacobson, ‘79 Suzanne Junod, ‘21

Jane Fisher Khoury, ‘08

Philip David King, ‘19

Megan Gerard Klose, ‘14 Jae Seong Lee, ‘19

Robert W. Martin and Doris Martin

Marta L. Mathatas, ‘77

Marcus Matthews, ‘74 and Barbara Matthews

Mary Clark Moschella and Douglas L. Clark

Emily Peck

Carl E. Price, ‘59

Robert M. Price, ‘79, ‘84

Allyn Rieke, ‘77

Kye Moo Ryu, ‘08, ‘13 and Esther Jeong, ‘08

Suzanne Schmidt, ‘11 and Daniel Davis

Henry F. Schwarzmann, ‘73 Sara Elizabeth Sheppard, ‘12

William Antoni Sinkfield and Kristy Sinkfield

Bruce E. Smith

R. Kendall Soulen and Allison Rutland Soulen, Esq. Barbara Stanton

Thomas E. Starnes and Barbara C. Davis

Carol Steuart

Leonard Steuart, III Martha Catherine Tamsberg, ‘00

Barbara R. Thompson

Terri Thompson

James E. Victor, Jr., ‘09 and Vanessa Victor

William H. Walker

Dwight E. Whitlock, Jr., ‘62

Ursula M. Wilder, ‘06 and Dennis Wilder

Angela Willingham and Mike Willingham

Elizabeth A. S. Wright, ‘85

Josiah Ulysses Young and Pamela Young

CIRCUIT RIDER II

$250-$499

Larry E. Adams, ‘97

Marilyn Marie Aklin, ‘12

Margaret L. Baker, ‘13

Brenda J. Biler, ‘87

Nathaniel L. Bishop, ‘05 and Sylvia Bishop

Dan Blaylock and Parki Blaylock

Jeanette Marie Block, ‘06 and Ronald M Block

Ronald E. Bowyer, ‘79, ‘05 Carolyn Kolbe Bray, ‘83, ‘90

Florence Fisackerly Brooks, ‘94 and N. Burton Brooks Clarence Rutherford Brown, Jr., ‘12 Theodore J. Brown

Anne D. Camalier

Robert F. Clark

Erma Cobb

David S. Cooney, ‘80 and Robin Cooney

Richard Clayton Crawford

Edwin C. DeLong, ‘68

Carroll A. Doggett, ‘78 and Nan M. Doggett, ‘78* Denise Dombkowski Hopkins Mark Elder

Natalie Maxwell Fenimore, ‘10, ‘18

Peter Bruce Fontneau, ‘11 Ruth Elizabeth Frey, ‘93

Thomas Eugene Frost, ‘09, ‘16 and Carol I. Frost

Susan S. Garrett, ‘81, ‘87 Noelle Giguere and John Badertscher Verle B. Hammond and Eleanor Hammond

Linda Sue Harrison, ‘04

Cynthia Conwell Hill Dopp, ‘11 Kerry Ruth Hunter, ‘94 and David Hobart Hunter, ‘03 Gregory K. Jackson, ‘71 and Marianna Jackson Lee Jackson

Barbara T. Julian, ‘95

William Aram Kachadorian, ‘99 Robert F. Kohler, ‘04 Maria C. Kollar

Michael S. Koppel

Lisa Anne Kruse-Safford, ‘96

Albert K. Lane, III, ‘81

Jean H. Lee, ‘16 and Jay H. Lee Young Tae Lee, ‘08 and A. Hyun Lee, ‘08

Leesburg United Methodist Church

Steven Jay Masters, ‘07, ‘17 and Karlene Masters

Eugene W. Matthews, ‘78

Thomas A. Maurer, ‘77

Denise Giacomozzi May, ‘86 Audrey Melissa McDowell, ‘18 Jay E. Moyer and Terry Moyer Kevin J. Mulqueen, ‘11 Karen L Lee Munson

Clarence E. Neth, ‘61 and Joan Neth

Mark Olson

Robert A. Patterson, ‘65

Coralyn H. Pinkney, ‘88, ‘98

F Douglas Powe, Jr. and Sherri E. Wood-Powe Clay Risk

Eric Sanford

John Earl Scott, ‘20

Joe D. Sergent, ‘61

Yonce Logan Shelton, ‘02 and Johanna Shelton

Larry G. Snodgrass, ‘65

Andrew Song

St. James United Methodist Church

John C. Stewart, ‘77

The Estate of Laurence Hull Stookey Susan E. Swanson

Carolyn B. Tilley, ‘10

Timothy Ting, ‘73, ‘75, ‘76

Peter Manning Vaughn, ‘97 and Carole H. Vaughn Daniel Wang and Mengru Wang

PASTOR OLIVIA GROSS MDiv ‘22

Olivia has been the pastor at Mount Zion United Methodist Church since serving there during her Practice in Ministry and Mission. She is on the ordination track for Elder while working full-time as the District Administrator for the Greater Washington District in The Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church.

In 2022, Olivia received the Harry Hosier Spirit Award from Wesley. The Harry Hosier Spirit award is bestowed each year to 13 UMC Seminaries and to an African American graduating student who exemplifies the spirit of Harry Hosier, expressed in what is described as his “Elocution of faith: I sing by faith, pray by faith, preach by faith, and do everything by faith; without faith in the Lord Jesus Christ I can do nothing.”

Reflecting on her experience at Wesley, “it was a building block to a good foundation of learning Hebrew Bible and New Testament scriptures and spiritual formation became the glue that held it all together.”

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Dale M. Weatherspoon, ‘99, ‘13 and Deborah V. Dow Weatherspoon, ‘97

Daniel Weaver

Peter Weaver

KL Wells

J. William Werner, ‘69

Alonza Bernard Williams, ‘13

Randal R. Wisbey, ‘90

Harold B. Wright, II, ‘91

Jeffrey Joseph Zalatoris, ‘19

CIRCUIT RIDER I $100-$249

Daniel Phillips Abbott, ‘77

Venessa Acham

Emmanuel Victor AcquaahHarrison, ‘85, ‘00

Lauren Allen

Logan Kathleen Alley, ‘03 and Tara Cressler Morrow, ‘05

AmazonSmile Foundation

America’s Charities

Melvin Amerson

Thomas E. Anderman, ‘52

Christopher Anderson

Edwin A. Ankeny, ‘61

Patricia Annett

Anonymous Donor Robert Argot, ‘01

Joseph E. Arnold, ‘06 and Scott Cooper

Paul D. Arnold, ‘74

Abby Gail Auman, ‘06 and Seth Auman, ‘05

Sally C. Avignone, ‘08

Hyun S. Bae, ‘96

Mabel C. Baker

Ernestine Howell Battle, ‘08

Marshal Alan Baughcum, ‘05

George Kimmich Beach, ‘85

Laura Beaver Beaver Hamrick, ‘02

Ruby S. Belk

G. Richard Bell, ‘71

Paul Bruce Benzler and Sylvia Benzler

Lindsay Louise Biddle, ‘89, ‘19

Judith L. Birch, ‘87

The Estate of Paul E. Blackwood

Michelle Rene Bodle, ‘22

Karen Sue Boehk, ‘04

James Patrick Bohanan, ‘19 John Bohman

George Raymond Botic and Pamela B. Botic

Lillian L. Boyd, ‘13

Bryan L. Branson

Thomas C. Brickhouse and Betty H. Brickhouse

Bryan Langford Brooks, ‘18

Fred R. Brooks, Jr., and Alice P. Brooks

Ann Brown and Thomas Brown, Jr., ‘73*

Carole B. Brown, ‘00 and Thomas Brown

Katherine Elizabeth Brown, ‘06 Susan Carlson Browning, ‘13 Robert Buchenauer

Mary Miller Bullis, ‘82 and Paul Bullis

Cynthia Horn Burkert, ‘03 and John Burkert

Kim K. Capps, ‘84

Vernice Carney, ‘97

Bernice B. Carr

Warren B. Cederholm, Jr., ‘85

James E. Chance, ‘68

James Matthews Charlton Jalene Cynthia Chase, ‘04, ‘12

Steven T. Cherry, ‘78

Lon B. Chesnutt and Evelyn Chesnutt

Hazel Christopher Judy Yangmi Chung, ‘15

Robert S. Clegg, ‘18

William C. Coale and Sharon S. Coale

Gregory Alan Coates, ‘87

Roger L. Colby, ‘73 and Dorothy Colby

Cheryl Coleman Hall, ‘14 Lovena June Conklin

Gary S. Cornell, ‘66 and Margaret McCready Cornell, ‘64

Hilary W. Costello, Jr., ‘95

Nelson Robert Cowan, ‘14 and Samantha Cowan

Jean Marie Coyle, ‘00, ‘01

R. Frederick Crider, Jr., ‘75 and Diane A.W. Crider, ‘82 Clarafrancie Cromer Sowers, ‘13

Angella Current-Felder Alison Daifuku

John C. Dailey, ‘89 and Frances C. Dailey, ‘90

Joseph W. Daniels, Jr., ‘00

Josephine Ann Daspro, ‘99

Deborah Y. Davids

Creed Shelton Davis, Jr., ‘96

Cherie Lynn Dearth, ‘11

Richard R. Delillio, ‘80

Daryl William Densford, ‘21

Alyssa Densham, ‘22

James L. Ditto, ‘72, ‘78

Joan S. Dodson, ‘07

Sally Badgley Dolch, ‘06, ‘10

Michael K. Doran, ‘15

Sean Patrick Drummond, ‘08 and Beth E. Drummond

Nancy S. Duerling, ‘03 and Craig Duerling

Sarah Helene Duggin, ‘09

Eileen Schneider Dumire, ‘76 Macary Dumorin

Wallace S. DuPont

David E. Dutcher, ‘72 and Lois Dutcher

Douglas Mason Dwyer, ‘97

Brand Wesley Eaton, ‘99, ‘09

David Eichelberger, ‘76 Joseph T. Eldridge, ‘04 and Maria Otero

Rick Elgendy

Kenneth W. Ellison, ‘92

Shirley A. Evans, ‘01

Matthias James Everhope, ‘22

John W. Eyster, ‘66

Alexis S. Fathbruckner, ‘84, ‘92

Michael L. Feely, ‘91

Judith G. Fender, ‘95, ‘02

Tara Janine Fentress, ‘12

Claire L. Fiedler, ‘81

Charles E. Fine

First United Methodist Church

Rachel Meredith Fisher, ‘01 and Samuel Fisher

Thelma Fisher

Carol Carpenter Follett, ‘17 and Alan R. Follett, ‘13

Doris M. Ford

Charles DeBois Fowler, III, ‘07

David Robert Fronk, ‘13

Pat A. Futato, ‘13

Anne McCorkle Garrett, ‘07 and Joseph F. Garrett

James E. Gascoine, ‘83

Pamela Gates

Richard H. Gentzler, Jr., ‘76 and Marilyn Gentzler

Patrice Gerideau, ‘17

Suzanne Denise Gibson, ‘02

Phil D. Gilliland, ‘06, ‘14

Eileen Annette Gilmer, ‘18, ‘21

Give Likely Foundation, Inc Donna Jean Goltry, ‘14

Arthur J. Gotjen, ‘77

David Edman Gray, ‘04, ‘09 and Bridget Gray

Gerard A. Green, Jr., ‘88

Joseph Christopher Greene, ‘17 Geraldine A. Grieff

Carroll R. Gunkel, ‘61

Karen E. Gutowski

Thaddeus David Hackett, ‘97

Willis F. Haller, ‘72, ‘75 Youtha C. Hardman-Cromwell

Jeri Lee Harrell, ‘89

Robert Lee Harris, ‘72

Denise Casem Hasneh, ‘85

Meghan Eldridge Hatcher, ‘19 and Corey L. Hatcher

Kenneth B. Hawes, ‘94

Annie C. Hawkins

Harriet Celeste Heath, ‘93, ‘09

Basil A. Hensley, ‘60

Chad Michael Herndon, ‘22

John L. Herritt Renn, ‘88 and Donna L. Herritt Renn, ‘96

George Christopher Hesterberg

Ann E. Hicks, ‘09

Gail S. Hicks, ‘97

Gregory Higgins

Larry Lawrence Hollar, ‘94 and Karen M. Cassedy, ‘95

Marsha Davie Holliday, ‘16 and George D. Holliday

Andrew Hudgins, ‘18 and Kelly Hudgins

Gary L. Hulme, ‘82, ‘90

Stephen Walter Humphrey, ‘99, ‘16

Joan Furr Hurder

Morse Robert Jackson, ‘90

Virginia T. Jarratt

Jan C. Jenkins, ‘12

Joan H. Jensen and Eric C. Jensen

Nora M. Jerzak, ‘95

Theon Lemure Johnson III, III, ‘09

Harlee Johnson, Jr., ‘14, ‘18

Margaret E. Johnson

Peggy Ann Johnson, ‘93

Peggy R. Johnson

Robin Brent Johnson, ‘92

Matthew W. Jones, IV, ‘79, ‘96

Virginia U. Jones

Vivian L. Jones, ‘95

Tracey M. Jordan

Sharon Gibson Judge and Thomas J. Judge

Renee R. Kalil

Sarah Bryson Kalish, ‘11

Clarence A. Kaylor

Ann Elizabeth Keeler and Matthew C. Dinkel

Howard A. Kerstetter, ‘57

Danny J. Kesner, ‘83

Edward H. Kicklighter and M. Jo Kicklighter

David E. Kidd, ‘64

Yunah Kim

Laura Ellen King, ‘07

Barbara E. Kiss

Jonathan A. Klenklen

Kathleen H. Kohl, ‘86

Keith L. Kreutziger and Sarah S. Kreutziger

Gerald F. Kuester, ‘03, ‘08

Christine Kumar, ‘21

Diana Kunkel

Pamela N. Lamborne

Easten Law, ‘14

Dennis Eugene Lawton, ‘96

The Virginia B. Layfield

Memorial Endowment

William Anthony Layman, ‘70

Vincent Wayne Leaver, ‘73, ‘74

Louis D. Leone, ‘63

Benita Edrena Lewis, ‘07

Julie A. Lewis, ‘13

Janet Lighthall and Kent A. Lighthall, ‘62*

J. T. Limbaugh

Howard R. Lindsey, ‘66 John Lipscomb and Martha M. Lipscomb

Helen B. Lockwood, ‘02

Kathryn Loizeaux, ‘95

David E. Lough, ‘77

Lan Lu, ‘02 and Martin Platt Brooks, ‘07, ‘15

Marilyn E. Lundberg and Clair A. Lundberg, ‘62*

Walter A. Lundy

Thomas William Malcolm, ‘77, ‘05 and Stephanie Malcolm

Yardley M. Manfuso

Glenda Mangano

Jonathan Manier

Geraldine D. Manning, ‘96, ‘09

Doreen A. Mannion, ‘11

Pamela Jean Marsh, ‘02, ‘11

John T. Martin, Jr., ‘76 and Marianne R. Martin

Charles N. Mason, Jr., ‘56, ‘62

Judy C. Matheny, ‘70

Russell L. Matteson

Ronald M. McCauley, ‘62

Lisa Lavelle McKee, ‘96 and John S. McKee, ‘95

P. Thomas McKelvey, ‘70 and Karen D. McKelvey

Beth Elaine McKinney, ‘19

Margaret McNaughton, ‘99

Sheila C. McNeill-Lee, ‘98 Chris Mead and Laura Lewis Mead

Diane Elizabeth Melson, ‘03 Vollie Melson and Maggie Melson

Martha Pruett Meredith, ‘09 Kathie L. Metz

Katherine Elizabeth Miksa, ‘17

Duane E. Miller, ‘72 and Diana Miller

Inga L. Miller

Robert H. Miller

Jane Ann Mitchell, ‘97, ‘07 Nehemias J. Molina

Gloria Jean Montgomery, ‘20

Bishop Cynthia Michelle Moore-Koikoi, ‘07 and Raphael K. Koikoi, ‘16

Raymond T. Moreland, Jr., ‘70, ‘73

Dennis Carter Morgan, ‘20

Mochel H. Morris, ‘16

Daniel Moseler

Linda Watkins Motter, ‘11

Mount Zion United Methodist Women

Mt. Harmony/Lower Marlboro Unity UMW

Celeste Myers, ‘20

Mallory Cameron Naake, ‘17 Lois M. Nangle Network for Good DeAnn Lizzie Newhouse, ‘20

Marjorie R. Nohowel Stephen Nohowel and Joyce Nohowel

Laura M. Norvell, ‘13, ‘20 and David Matthew Norvell, ‘21

William Edward Olewiler, ‘80, ‘09

Robin Jane Olson, ‘10 and Christopher Evans

James Randall Orndorff, ‘96 and Lee Ann Orndorff

David Ortigoza

Michael K. Owens, ‘03

Thomas A. Page, ‘69 and MaryLou Troutman

Marjorie E. Palmer, ‘96

Juan Julio Paredes

Eloise Park

Constance Alwine Paulson, ‘84 and Wesley Paulson

Joseph Perry, ‘20

Ralph I. Petersberger and Helen Petersberger

Carolyn R. Pflug

Shantha Pitta

Philip Pohl, ‘99

Ida Powell

Benjamin Pratt, ‘66, ‘83 and Judith Pratt

Elizabeth Lee Pruchnicki, ‘20

Charles Edward Pruitt, ‘68 and Portia Pruitt

Tracy A. Radosevic, ‘05

Jeffrey A. Raffauf, ‘82, ‘13

Donald W. Raffensperger, ‘76

Jane R. Ramsey

Joseph Ranager, ‘10 and Rebecca Ranager

Nina H. Reeves

Gretchen Mary Rehberg, ‘14

Stephanie Remington

Nelson R. Reppert, ‘64*

Amos S. Rideout, Jr., ‘69 Carl B. Rife, ‘73

W. Harlan Rittgers, ‘64 Edgardo Rivera

Jill Anne Robinson, ‘19

Mary E. Robinson, ‘21

Stephen Robison, ‘75, ‘89

Julie Ann Rosensteel, ‘11

Nancy Lorraine Russell, ‘10 and Lawrence Robert Russell, ‘02

Raymond E. Ruth, ‘91

Denise Ryles-McKoy

Carroll L. Saussy and Frank A. Molony

Barbara A. Saxe, ‘95

Joseph Alvin Scahill, ‘67

Kristin Grassel Schmidt, ‘10 and Christian Schmidt

Kathryn Schnur

Robert R. Scholz and Josie Scholz

Gerhardt H. Schrage

Corinne Scott and David C. Scott*

Donna Jeanne Scott, ‘98

Leigh Ann Shaw, ‘10

Phillip W. Sheets, ‘78

Robert R. Shettler, ‘97 Gregory Shipley

Bonnie L. Shively, ‘97 Raymond C. Shockley

James M. Shopshire, Sr., and Ramonia L. Lee, ‘89, ‘00

Lawrence A. Shulman and Roberta F. Shulman

Candace Ruth Shultis, ‘04

Silver Spring UMW

Candice Yeary Sloan, ‘15

Elizabeth Marie Small, ‘06

William Blake Smarr, ‘20

Errol G. Smith, ‘62, ‘73

Helen Steiner Smith, ‘06

Rudy L. Smith, ‘72

Larry Smoose

Robert K. Smyth, ‘58*

Deborah Sokolove, ‘98 and Glen Yakushiji

St. John’s United Methodist Church

Mark Wesley Stamm, ‘84

Barbara Stapleton

Thomas C. Starnes, ‘65 and Waveline T. Starnes*

Alfred E. Statesman, ‘79

Anne Stewart, ‘74 and Donald S. Stewart, Jr. Carole K. Stockberger, ‘95

Robert E. Stump, ‘86

Barbara Vivian Suffecool, ‘17

William Roy Summerhill, Jr., ‘76

James R. Sunderland, Jr., ‘72

Andrew David Sutton, ‘11

Mary L. Swierenga, ‘88

Michael Patrick Szpak, ‘87, ‘02

Stella S. Tay, ‘95

Julie Anne Taylor, ‘95

Sandra S. W. Taylor, ‘82

Robert M. Terhune, ‘67 and Hazel Terhune, ‘66

Philip J. Thorick, ‘74 and Jane H. Thorick

NOTE TO OUR DONORS

Andrea Titcomb, ‘92

Charles W. Townsend, ‘97

Donald Treadwell

Samuel Robert Tryon, ‘20

Phyllis Marie TuckerSaunders, ‘19

James H. Tuell, ‘86

Corinne Sells Van Buren, ‘64

Anton Vanterpool

Rudolph H. Waddy, ‘05

Betty Lawson Walters

Sue A. Walters, ‘04 and Leroy Walters

Elizabeth Ann Ward, ‘01

Harvey L. Warnick, ‘95

F. Jean Warring

Wayne Wasta, ‘58 and Phyllis Wasta

Barbara Watts, ‘09

Dawn Michele Wayman, ‘22

Donald L. Weaver and Jane Weaver

Robert Weaver

Michael E. Webb, ‘06 and Susan Webb

Nancy J. Webb, ‘72, ‘77

Rosemary G. Welch, ‘95

Melanie Anne WeldonSoiset, ‘10

Deborah Crenshaw Westbrook, ‘05 and Robert L. Ashbaugh

Sondra Ely Wheeler and Thomas Wheeler

C. Noel White, ‘65

Roy M. White

Debra Mae Whitten, ‘03

Stephanie H. Willett, ‘20

Gertie Thomas Williams, ‘96

Susan V. Williams

Georgia Anne Wilson, ‘18

Larry G. Wiltrout, ‘86

Douglas Wingeier

Roy Winkel

Betsy Hensen Witte, ‘79

Frances Gwinn Wolf, ‘80

Fred D. Wood, III, ‘79, ‘85

Thomas R. Wussow and Mary Ann Wussow

Jennifer Zieske

Those graduates who made gifts of $500 or more are members of the 1882 Society.

Class years indicate when a graduate received a degree from Wesley.

* Indicates a donor who passed this fiscal year.

Did we miss your name? We made every effort to ensure the accuracy of our Annual Report. Donor lists include gifts made from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022. If we made an error, please accept our apologies and contact us at 202-885-8630 so we may correct our records.

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KOREAN ENDOWMENT FUND

Wesley Theological Seminary, in cooperation with the Korean Wesley Foundation, is building an endowed fund to provide scholarship assistance for those called to serve Korean and Korean-American churches. We give thanks for all gifts to this special fund.

The following are scholarships, donated in memory or in honor of, for which gifts were made during the past fiscal year.

Mr. Je Dong Chai and Mrs. Myung Chai

Bishop Young Jin Cho (MDV ’82, DMN ’85) and Mrs. Kiok Chang Cho (MTS ’89) in memory of Dr. and Mrs. Byung Kyu Chun

Mr. Oh Young Choi and Mrs. Hyunok Park

Mr. Jong-Joon Chun in memory of Mrs. Christine Chambers-Chun

The Rev. Nam Won Kang (MDV ’05) and Mrs. Ileen Yim

Mr. Danny C. Kim

Kwanglim Methodist Church of Seoul, South Korea

Mrs. Sung Sook Park

Peniel Korean Church

Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak Kim and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of Minjung Kang

Harvest Korean Methodist Church

The following are scholarships, donated in memory or in honor of, for which one or more units of $15,000 have been completed through 2022. Multiple $15,000 units are indicated in parentheses.

Dr. Sei Hyun Ahn and Mrs. Eunsook Ahn

Mrs. Jai Soon Bae in memory of Gi Sun Bae

The late Mr. Jong Hwan Bae and Mrs. Sungim Huh

Dr. Sung Ho Bae and Mrs. Kwang Hee Bae in honor of Ok Joon Park

Dr. and Mrs. Paul Sangyong Cha

Dr. and Mrs. Kyung Suk Chae

Mr. Je Dong Chai and Mrs. Myung Chai

Mrs. Grace Sun Hae Chang in memory of Yong Soon Kae

Mrs. Grace Sun Hae Chang in memory of Du Kyung Kim

The late Mr. Charlie Chay and Mrs. Kuhye Chong Chay

Mrs. Keum Nang Cheung

The late Mrs. Won Sung Cheung

The late Mrs. Ok Hyun Chi

Dr. Byoung S. Cho and Mrs. Helen H. Cho

Mrs. Een Shoon Cho in memory of Seong Hoh Cho

Mr. Kwan Sik Cho and Mrs. Young Ae Kim in honor of Doo Han Cho

Bishop Young Jin Cho (MDV ’82, DMN ’85) and Mrs. Kiok Chang Cho (MTS ’89) in memory of Dr. and Mrs. Byung Kyu Chun

Mr. Bong Jin Choe

Mrs. Minja Kim Choe and Mr. Yong Ho Choe in memory of Elder Jung Ok Roh

Mr. Daniel B. K. Choi and Mrs. Pyoungran Choi

The Rev. Ei-Woo Choi and Mrs. Boon Deuk Hwang (2)

Mr. Jason Sung Kul Choi

Mr. Oh Young Choi and Mrs. Hyunok Park in honor of Keunwon and Heewon Choi

Mr. Sang Pil Choi and Mrs. Suk Rang Huh

Mr. Jung Yong Chu in memory of Bong Ki Choi and So Deuk Park

Anonymous Donors in honor of Bishop Young Jin Cho (2)

Mr. Jong-Joon Chun and the late Mrs. Christine Chambers-Chun in honor of Seong Gu Chu and Gil Young Yu

Mr. Jong-Joon Chun in memory of Mrs. Christine Chambers-Chun Mrs. Bok Hee Han

The Family of Mr. Sung You Hong in memory of The Rev. Dae Hee Park Mr. In Chul Hwang in honor of Hyo Soon Chang

Mr. Gui Jong Jeong and Mrs. Eun Soon Kim

Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of Moon Ok Kim and Jung Nam Lee

Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of Bo Jung Kim and Soon Young Kim

Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of Sang Gyun Kim

Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in memory of Dong Hwee Kim and SooHee Ko

Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in memory of Bo Jung Kim

Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in memory of The Rev. Dae Hee Park (2)

Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of Soyeon K. Hong Family

Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of The Rev. Dr. Kyunglim Shin Lee

Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of Somin K. Lee Family

Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of Don Koo Lee Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of Moonbong Scholarship Foundation (3)

Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in memory of The Rev. Yongjo Ha

Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in memory of Soon Young Kim

Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of Jungshik Park Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of Rachael Lee Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of Danielle Lee Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of Carolyn Hong Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of Minjung Son Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of Allison Hong Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of Jacob Hong Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of Noah Taehwan Kim

Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of The Rev. Dr. Chang Hyon Pak

Moonbong Foundation: Mr. Byung Hak Kim and Mrs. Eunja Kim in honor of Minjung Kang

Mr. Byung Ki Kim and The Rev. Dr. Chul Ki Kim (MTS ’02, DMN ’16) in honor of Soon Rye Lee

Dr. Danny C. Kim (4)

Mr. Ellary K. Kim and Mrs. Mihae Kim in memory of David Chung Sik Kim

The Rev. Ki Bok Kim (MRE ’70) and Mrs. Young Soon Jung

Mr. Seog Gweon Kim (2)

Mrs. Julie Hae Won Kim and Mr. Shin Yong Kim in honor of Geena and Jacqueline Kim

Mrs. Julie Hae Won Kim in honor of Mr. Shin Yong Kim

Bishop Sundo Kim (MRE ’70) (2)

Dr. Yongshik Kim and Mrs. Sa Eun Kim

Mrs. Young Mi Kim in memory of Won Il Kim

Elder Hyuktae Kwon in memory of Elder Hyungsuk Kang

Bishop Oh Suh Kwon

Mr. Kyung-Soo Lee

Mr. Martin Y. Lee and Mrs. Linda J. Lee

Dr. Sontaek Lee and Dr. Grace Lee

The late Rev. Dr. T. Samuel Lee in memory of Sarah Cho Lee

The Rev. Seung Woo Lee and The Rev. Dr. Kyunglim Shin Lee (DMN ’93) in memory of Soon Kyung Cha

Mr. Hyung Jun Lim and Mrs. Yesoo Kim in honor of Pomelo

Mr. and Mrs. Sun Jae Lim

Dr. Dai Ok Moon and Mrs. Sunnie Moon in honor of The Rev. Dr. Kyunglim Shin Lee

Dr. Dai Ok Moon and Mrs. Sunnie Moon

The late Mr. Dong Il Pai and Mrs. Kathy Pai

Mr. Soo Won Pak and the late Mrs. Sung E. Pak in honor of Victor Pak

Mr. Soo Won Pak and the late Mrs. Sung E. Pak in honor of Peter Pak

Mr. Changak Park and Mrs. Jinbun Mun in memory of Mrs. Byung Jeong Choi

Mr. Choong Hyun Park and Mrs. Youngsook Cho Park in memory of Chi Ho Yun

The late Mr. Chul Run Park in memory of Jun Park

The late Rev. Dae Hee Park (MRE ’62) and Mrs. Sung Sook Park in memory of The Rev. Andrew Whang

The late Rev. Dae Hee Park (MRE ’62) and Mrs. Sung Sook Park in memory Yong Sun Park

Mr. Jae Woong Park in memory of Yong Sung Park Mrs. Sung Sook Park

Mr. Young Whan Park and Mrs. Sun Kyung Auh Park

Mrs. Sungun Ro in honor of David Lim

Mr. Davey T. Shin and Mrs. Jong Nam Kim

Mr. Davey T. Shin and Mr. James Shin in memory of Mrs. Jong Nam Kim

Ms. Kyung Hee Shin (2)

Mr. Soo Il Shin and Mrs. Myung Hee Shin

Mr. Richard Y. Sunwoo and Mrs. Penny Sunwoo

Mr. and Mrs. Hee Kyun Yang in honor of Seung Won and Seung Yup and Hea Won Yang

Mrs. Shin Ja Lee in memory of Mr. In Chan Yang

Mrs. Ok Hee Yang in honor of The Family of Yang

Mr. Jay Yu and Mrs. Eunyong Yu

Mrs. Jeannie Yu and the late Mr. Victor Yu in honor of Yoon Kyung Choi

Mrs. Jeannie Yu and the late Mr. Victor Yu in honor of Yoon and Michael Uh

Aiea Korean United Methodist Church (The Rev. Hoyong Kim / The Rev. Jonathan Lee)

Anyang Methodist Church (The Rev. Dr. Yong Tack Rim (DMN ’09))

Bupyeong Methodist Church (The Rev. Eun Pa Hong / The Rev. Woong Seok Son)

Delaware Korean United Methodist Church (The Rev. Jong Nam Song)

Eden Korean United Methodist Church (The Rev. Chi Bon Jang / The Rev. YoSeop Shin (MTS ’05))

Emmaus United Methodist Church of Stratford Hills (The Rev. Dr. Chul Ki Kim (MTS ’02, DMN ’16))

Eun Pyung Methodist Church and Bishop Young Hun Kim in memory of The Rev. Sung Youl Yoon

Eun Pyung Methodist Church (Bishop Young Hun Kim / The Rev. Dong Hyun Kim) (2)

First Korean United Methodist Church of Cherry Hill (The Rev. Han Seung Koh / The Rev. Ilyoung Kim)

Holy Flames Methodist Church (Bishop Yong Jai Jun / The Rev. Sung Hoon Kong) (2) 120

Ilsan Kwanglim Methodist Church (The Rev. Dr. Dong Chan Park (MDV ’93, DMN ‘99))

Jinkwan Methodist Church (The Rev. Hyeonsik Lee) (2)

Kang Reung Central Korean Methodist Church (Bishop Chul Lee)

Korean Christian Business Men’s Committee of Hawaii in memory of The Rev. Dae Hee Park

Korean United Methodist Church of South Florida Silver Mission (The Rev. Dr. Chan Young Jang (MTS ’00, DMN ’04) / The Rev. Chul Goo Lee)

Korean United Methodist Church of South Florida United Methodist Women (The Rev. Dr. Chan Young Jang (MTS ’00, DMN ’04) / The Rev. Chul Goo Lee)

Kwanglim Methodist Church (Bishop Chung Suk Kim) (19)

Manna Methodist Church of Los Angeles (The Rev. Ki Sung Song / The Rev. Kang Sik Nam)

Meal Al Church (The Rev. Ki Seo Park / The Rev. Sung Chan Auh)

Myung Seong Methodist Church (The Rev. Byung Ryul Min / The Rev. Samuel Kim)

PaiKwang Methodist Church (The Rev. Bang Nam Hwang / The Rev. Hak Sung Lee)

South Korea and a member of the Korean Central Presbyterian Church in D.C. She received the 2021 Missioner-In-Residence award from Epworth House last fall. Yein graduated from Handong Global University with a double major in Visual Communication Design and Products Design.

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What inspired this second-generation seminarian to study at Wesley? “When I came to D.C. several years ago, I never imagined my father’s school would become my school.” Her father is Rev. Dr. Deuk Soo Kim, DMin ’09.

"Since I was young, I have had a chance to go on mission trips to other countries including Japan, the Philippines, and Vietnam. While watching doctors and others use their talents, I began to dream of doing God’s work using my talent.” Yein found her home at Wesley since she could study both theology and the arts while taking extra courses at American University.

What’s after graduation? “I am still praying about what I will do after graduation, but I am hoping to do the work with experience from Wesley, and I know God will lead me as always.”

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Salisbury Korean United Methodist Church (The Rev. Dr. Sueng Lin Baik (MTS ’03, DMN ’16))

Songnae Central Methodist Church (The late Rev. Jong Soon Kim / The Rev. Jin Soo Park)

Tampa Korean United Methodist Church (The Rev. Dr. Sueng Lin Baik (MTS ’03, DMN ’16))

The following donors collectively contributed at least one $15,000 endowment unit in honor or memory of a specific individual or organization.

In Memory of The Rev. Jacob S. Kim

Anna Circle

Mr. and Mrs. Dae Wook Chang

The Rev. and Mrs. Young Jin Cho

Mrs. Shin Ae Choi

The late Dr. Byungkyu and Mrs. Sunghok Chun

Mr. and Mrs. Chu Il Chun

The late Mr. Du Shun Gim and Mrs. Im-Ja Gim

Mr. and Mrs. Gee B. Hahn

Mrs. Young Ja Hahn

Mr. and Mrs. Gi Bin Han

Mrs. Alice H. Kim

Mr. and Mrs. Chong Soo Kim

Mr. Hui Ki Kim

Mr. Ung Soo Kim

Mr. and Mrs. Yun C. Kim

Dr. Hesung Chun Koh

Mrs. Yong Soo Lee Koh

Dr. Hyo Keun Lee

Mrs. Hyun Wha Oh

Mr. and Mrs. Peter C. Oh

Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Pang

Dr. and Mrs. Cheol Park

Mr. Woo Young and Mrs. Kai Rim Park

Mr. and Mrs. Young Whan Park

Dr. and Mrs. Yo Taik Song

Mr. Key H. Yang

Mr. and Mrs. Seungkil Yang

In Memory of The Rev. Dr. T. Samuel Lee

Mr. Hyung Sig and Mrs. Mi Kyung Lee

The Rev. K. Samuel Lee

The late Rev. Dr. T. Samuel Lee

Mrs. Nam Sook Lee

In Memory of Jae Hong Lim

Zion Methodist Church

The Family of Jae Hong Lim

In Memory of Chi Ho Yun

Ms. Myung Hi Yun Cho

Mr. Won Hyo and Mrs. Saung Sook Cho

Mr. Ho Jin and Mrs. Grace Choi

Mr. Tai Jin and Mrs. Maria Park Chung

Mr. Walter and Mrs. Tai Sun Kanarczyk

Mr. Peter and Mrs. Ann Kim

Dr. C. K. and Mrs. K. Yun Lowe

Mr. Jae Whi and Mrs. Joon Hee Oh

Mr. Choong Hyun and Mrs. Youngsook C. Park

Ms. Younghi Yun Whisnant

Mr. Chungsun and Mrs. Young Ju Yun

Mr. Jang Sun and Mrs. Kay H. Yun Ms. Kisun Yun

In Honor of National Korean United Methodist Church

Ms. In Sook Bae

The late Mr. Peter Ran Choe

The late Ms. Hyung Sook Choi

Mr. and Mrs. Sung Yong Choi

The late Ms. Nak Sang Chung

Ms. Bok Hee Han

Mr. and Mrs. Eui Keun Kim

Mr. and Mrs. Jang Sik Kim

Mrs. Sun Ja Kim

Mr. and Mrs. Bon Sam Koo

The late Mr. Hee Dong Kwak

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew S. Lee

The late Mr. Chul Ho and Mrs. Jae Sook Lee

The Rev. Seung Woo and The Rev. Dr. Kyunglim Shin Lee

Mr. and Mrs. Chang H. Lie

Mr. and Mrs. Sung Ho Lim

The late Ms. Bok Woo Nam

Mr. Davey T. Shin

Mr. and Mrs. Min Hyun Shin

Mr. and Mrs. Corn S. Song

The late Mr. Duk Chang Sun and the late Mrs. Young-Ae Choi Picture?

REV. RASHAWN HALL Third-Year Seminarian, MDiv.

RaShawn was recently ordained in The National Baptist Convention USA and began serving in March as a pastor at Eureka Missionary Baptist Church in Calhoun County, Georgia. He enjoys his pastoral calling and was recognized on Rural Leader’s 2022 list of Forty under 40 Honorees. Rural Leader highlights “real people who live, work, and play in small communities nationally and abroad.”

Wesley’s diversity and close-knit community are the most notable aspects of Rashawn’s seminary experience. “I find it formative in my journey after college and leaving home to be among people from around the world with rich perspectives.”

“The level of rigorous [study] that pushes beyond the limit of ourselves and challenges us to a new high, that love molds me. Also, what Wesley teaches tends to be relevant in response to world events. Wesley continues to speak to injustices and what happens in our world today.”

GIFTS IN HONOR OF & GIFTS IN MEMORY OF

GIFTS IN HONOR OF

We give thanks for the witness and faith of those who have been honored with gifts in support of Wesley’s life and mission.

Venessa Acham

Millard and Lenard Allen

The Rev. Dr. Patricia Allen

Thomas M. Berlin

Dr. Bruce Birch

Leslianne Braunstein

The Rev. Martin P. Brooks

Ronald E. Braxton

Karen F. Bunnell

GIFTS IN MEMORY OF

The Rev. Cynthia H. Burkert

Bishop Young Jin Cho

Erma Cobb

Betsy Crawford

The Rev. Wallace Culp, Jr.

The Rev. Lawrence A. Davies Alyssa Densham

Dr. Denise Dombkowski Hopkins

Jack E. Giguere

Dr. Youth Hardman-Cromwell

The Rev. V. Joel Hawthorne

The Rev. Hannah Starnes Van Meter Youngsook Kang Myung J. Kim

Jonathan A. Klenklen

Dr. Michael S. Koppel

Dr. G. Douglass Lewis

Thomas William Malcolm

The Rev. Dr. David McAllisterWilson, ‘88,’01 and The Rev. Drema McAllister-Wilson, ‘86

ANNUAL

We give thanks for the life and faith of those who have been memorialized with gifts to support Wesley’s enduring mission.

The Rev. Lynn Arthur Brown, ’03

Suzanne Fossett Browning

The Rev. Glen Cannon

Douglas R. Chandler

Doug Cooney

Doris Cooney

Charles and Judy Denham

Dr. Earl Ferguson

Dr. Blanche R. Hammond

Hugh Hardin

Dr. Lowell Hazzard

Kevin Hogan Helen Irby

Yak Soo Kim

Dr. Sandor Kiss

Ms. Iman Agnes Kiss

Steven C. Lambert, Esq. Dr. Ellis Larsen

Wesley Maxwell Lawton

Mr. Joe Lewis

Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Lewis, Sr. Dr. James C. Logan

Dr. Clair Lundberg

Virginia L. Martens

The Rev. Dr. William B. McClain

Lawrence and Marolyn Morse

J. Edward Moyer

A. C and Claire S. Myers

The Rev. Dae Hee Park

James Bobby Payne

Mary Martha Platenkamp

Louise Haney Preston

The Rev. Dr. W. McCarl Roberts

Clifford and Mary Reeves

The Rev. Matthew Richard Schnur

The Rev. Dr. Thomas C. Short

The Board of Governors

Marvin H. McCallum, ’61 Lewis A. Parks

Tracy A. Radosevic

Larry Rasmussen

Sharon H. Ringe

The Rev. Suzanne Rudiselle

Ms. Carroll L. Saussy

Tazyana Maro Shevchenko

William Antoni Sinkfield

The Rev. Thomas C. Starnes

The Rev. Victoria Starnes

The Rev. Dr. Walter Shropshire, Jr.

Dr. Terry Sinclair

Dr. Donald S. Stanton

Dr. Waveline Starnes

Dr. Laurence Hull Stookey

Charlotte B. Taylor

Rev. Adrienne Terry

Dorothy Thurber

David Reeves Tucker

Evangelist Hallie Mae Tucker

Rev. Rees F. Warring

Juanita Mae New Witherspoon

The Rev. Dr. Raymond F. Wrenn

The Rev. Edward H. Wright ‘53

Dr. V. Sue Zabel

HERITAGE CIRCLE

The Heritage Circle honors those who have invested in the future of Wesley Theological Seminary by including Wesley in their estate planning through bequests, trusts, annuities, gift bonds and other enduring gifts.

John Francis Abel, Jr., ‘98

William D. Aldridge, Jr., ‘85, ‘95

Kathryn M. Andrews

Michael W. Armstrong, ‘90 and Judy Y. Armstrong

Paul D. Arnold, ‘74

Lois A. Aroian, ‘09

Jonathan E. Baker, ‘75, ‘90 and Donna Baker

Josephine C. Baker and Isham O. Baker

Jean Balcom and David A. Balcom, ‘59 A. Catharine Bealor, ‘89 and Ben Bealor

Betty Stanley Beene and William Beene

Donna M. Hennessey Bennett, ‘80 and John Bennett

Jane Long Betz

John Beyer and Jinny Beyer

Bruce C. Birch and Susan Raye Halse, ‘88 Anna Marie Black

Ethel Wolfe Born

Richard Lee Bowers, ‘91 and Phyllis M. Bowers, ‘95

Michael T. Bradfield, ‘03, ‘78 and Maile Bradfield

Geoffrey D. Brown

Thomas Brown, Jr., ‘73 and Ann Brown

M. Loren Bullock and Jean Bullock

Lawrence W. Buxton, ‘96 and Beverly Mease-Buxton

Nora Leake Cameron, ‘02 and Juan M. Cameron

Bishop Kenneth L. Carder, ‘65 George H. Carpenter, ‘65 and Jayne Carpenter

William E. Chatfield and Luella Chatfield Lon B. Chesnutt and Evelyn Chesnutt Deborah Chusmir and Michael Chusmir

David S. Cooney, ‘80 and Robin Cooney

Doris Cooney and Douglas A. Cooney

Olivia R. Costango, ‘98

Richard Barkley Craig, ‘82 and Peggy Craig Marian Sams Crane, ‘06, ‘19 and Jeffrey Crane

William Wallace Culp, III, ‘14

James David Dake and Dotty Dake

John H. Dalton and Margaret Dalton Keith A. Davis and Cindy Davis Marguerite Davis, ‘95 Robin Dease, ‘10, ‘98 James William DeMoss, ‘67 John M. Derrick, Jr. and Linda Derrick Carroll A. Doggett, ‘78 and Nan M. Doggett, ‘78 Annette P. Dorrance

Stanley A. Dubowski, ‘01

Nancy S. Duerling, ‘03 and Craig Duerling Peggy Dutton and M. William Dutton, Jr. Curtis Christian Ehrgott, ‘05 and Susan Ehrgott

Rachel Meredith Fisher, ‘01 and Samuel Fisher

Simone Fitzgibbon

Abigail Elizabeth Foerster, ‘98

Betty J. Forbes and Stanley Owen Forbes, Sr. Michael R. Ford and Susan Ford

Gail A. Fray and Raymond C. Fray

Edward M. Frederick and Annamae Frederick

John Wayne Fulton, ‘08

Barbara R. Galloway, ‘05

Richard H. Gentzler, Jr., ‘76 and Marilyn Gentzler

Mary Gibb and William T. Gibb Suzanne Denise Gibson, ‘02

Parmalee Prentice Gilbert and Becky Gilbert

Betty R. Goen

Kevin G. Goodwin and Karen Goodwin

Donald H. Hadley and Margaret Hadley

Nancy C. Hajek and Albert Hajek

Clifford L. Harrison and Dottie Harrison

Doris A. Harrison and Stanley E. Harrison

Thomas E. Hart, ‘70 and Pauline Hart

Harold V. Hartley, III, ‘83

Serving at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, Chaplain Yisahar Izak is the chaplain for 508th Military Police Battalion and Staff Wellness Clinician for the Northwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility. He is also the Senior Rabbi for the Jewish Community at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, ministering to Jewish personnel in all military branches across Washington and Oregon.

Izak’s prior work as a service member drew him to the military chaplain ministry. He came through Wesley’s partnership with the Army Chaplaincy’s Clinical Pastoral Education fellowship program. His decision to attend and study at a non-Jewish establishment grew from the appreciation of diversity and inclusivity he has experienced while serving with United Methodist Chaplains in the Army. He says this experience “has been pleasant and rewarding. Hearing that Wesley is a Methodist School eased my anxiety and fear of unexpected or aggressive confrontation.”

Nothing surprised Izak; nevertheless, he was the only minister in his cohort not belonging to the Christian faith. “The instructors were very inclusive and diverse in the material used and their presentations...I felt comfortable.” Furthermore, Izak said that “the forum postings and discussions following replies of others were very productive, respectful, open to diverse perspectives, and engaging.” The engagement gave Izak the courage to explore questions without fear, as well as learn more about his faith. Rabbi Izak’s goal is to provide pastoral care in clinical settings and become a certified educator through the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education (ACPE).

RABBI YISAHAR AARON IZAK DMin ’22

James F. Hawkins, ‘88 and Kathleen V. Hawkins

Thomas Hefner and Jean C. Hefner

Sara Hale Henry and Austin H. Henry Paul L. Herring, ‘62 and Eleanor J. Herring

Carl E. Hill, ‘65

Larry Lawrence Hollar, ‘94 and Karen M. Cassedy, ‘95

T. Mac Hood, ‘64

Martha B. Hunt

Kathleen R. Hutchens and Philip Hutchens

Bill Iwig and Deborah Iwig

Mary E. Jacobson, ‘79

Ann Myrece James and Bill James Bradley R. James and Annie James Patricia B. Jelinek, ‘73, ‘80

C. Sherfy Jones

Jeanne-Renee Jones, ‘00

Joye F. Jones, ‘95

Edward W. Kelley, Jr. and Janet H. Kelley

Barbara A. Kenley, ‘98 and C. Robert Kenley

Edith Kirk and Chester Kirk, ‘65

Eunice Knowles and James M. Knowles

Mary E. Kraus, ‘80

Dale W. Krider

Jefferson S. Labala, ‘92 and Hilderia Labala Patricia Ladnier

Allie Latimer

JoAnn Sybill Lawson

William Anthony Layman, ‘70

Family of Shin-Ja Lee and In Chan Yang Karl Dennis Lehman, ‘90

G. Douglass Lewis and Shirley S. Lewis

Douglas Eugene Liston, ‘05, ‘95 and Judith A. Liston

Thomas William Malcolm, ‘05, ‘77 and Stephanie Malcolm

Cynthia Marshall and William J. Marshall, ‘93

Laura Ann Martin, ‘82, ‘87

David F. McAllister-Wilson, ‘01, ‘88 and Drema McAllister-Wilson, ‘86

Marvin H. McCallum, ‘61 and Joyce McCallum

Robert McKinley, III, ‘74

Ruth Ann Russell Melick, ‘85

Vollie Melson and Maggie Melson

Douglas Mercer, ‘68 and Barbara Mercer

Rick Lee Miller, ‘85, ‘98 and Sarah A. Miller

Kenneth Y. Millian and Alva Millian Darrell V. Mitchell, ‘55

The Estate of Kathleen Mitchell

Raymond T. Moreland, Jr., ‘70, ‘73

Jay E. Moyer and Terry Moyer

John S. Mullen, ‘66

Elizabeth Jean Norcross, ‘05, ‘11 and Clint Stretch

R. David Oertel, ‘67

William Edward Olewiler, ‘09, ‘80, ‘81 and Nancy P. Olewiler

Vivian W. Otto

John S. Park, ‘59 and Mary Jane Park

Sung Sook Park and Dae Hee Park, ‘62

Paula Marie Payne, ‘91 Cecil-Ray Penn, ‘73

Wayne Perry, ‘74 and Donna Perry

Phyllis S. Piluso, ‘95

Morris A. Range and Edie Range

William L. Renfro and Sandy Renfro Sharon H. Ringe

Talmadge Roberts and Mary E. Roberts

Michaele S. Russell, ‘80, ‘84

James M. Sanborn and Emilie Sanborn

Jay A. Saxe, ‘60 and Nancy Saxe

Robert W. Schaefer and Elaine Schaefer Carole Schauer

Walter M. Schell, ‘58 and Marian Schell Olivia Schwartz and Tommy Schwartz Henry F. Schwarzmann, ‘73

James A. Scott, ‘76

C. Dennis Shaw, ‘12, ‘99 and Marilyn White

Sara Elizabeth Sheppard, ‘12

Rochelle Ann Shoemaker, ‘97

Thomas C. Short, ‘61 and Mary Short

Leonard F. Sjogren, ‘76

Donald R. Slaybaugh, Jr., ‘83

Errol G. Smith, ‘62, ‘73

Gaye Smith, ‘80, ‘94 and Theodore W. Smith Marlin L. Snider, ‘77, ‘89 and Brenda Snider Margrit Snyder and Carl E. Snyder, Jr. David Thomas St. Clair, ‘80

Jean Blanton Stein

Laurence Hull Stookey

Marjorie H. Suchocki

Diane E. D. Summerhill, ‘86

Charles E. Swadley, ‘78

E. Bruce Swain

Martha Catherine Tamsberg, ‘00

Barbara R. Thompson

Christina Tridel

The Estate of George E. Tutwiler

Phyllis Tyler, ‘71

Corinne Sells Van Buren, ‘64

C. Harry Wahmann Trust

Mary Waldron and Billy Ball

Lawrence H. Wayman, ‘71 and Flora Obayashi-Wayman

Kenneth E. Whetzel, ‘60 and Charlotte Whetzel

Sandra Smith Whitt

William R. Wilson, ‘53

Edward P. Winkler, ‘00 and Nina Winkler

Julie A. Wood, ‘01

Raymond F. Wrenn

Jean Young and Frank W. Young

Richard Young and Frances Young William D. Young, III, ‘67

LEADERSHIP

BOARD OF GOVERNORS 2021-2022

Dr. Monica R. Hargrove, ‘03, Chair

Mr. Charles Randall Nuckolls, Vice Chair

The Rev. Amy Danielle Yarnall, ‘01, Secretary

The Rev. Barbara Miner, ‘11, ‘14, Assistant Secretary

The Rev. Catherine Good Abbott, ‘06

The Rev. Dr. Sueng-Lin Baik, ‘03, ‘16

The Rev. Dr. Kip Bernard Banks, Sr., ‘20

The Rev. Thomas M. Berlin

Mr. Geoffrey D. Brown

The Rev. Dr. Jo Ann Browning

General James E. Cartwright, USMC (Ret.)

Dr. Ransom E. Casey-Rutland

The Rev. Dr. Stacey L. Cole Wilson, ‘03

Mrs. Carol Thompson Cole

The Rev. Dr. Marian Sams Crane, ‘06, ‘19

Bishop Leah Denyatta Daughtry, ‘12

The Honorable Robert K. Dawson

The Rev. Dr. Kenda Creasy Dean, ‘88

Dr. Gilbert Alexander Fleming

Mrs. Margaret Gardner, ‘21

The Rev. Dr. Rebecca Jennifer Hamm, ‘10

The Rev. Dr. Charles Anthony Hunt, ‘93

The Rev. Dr. Louis J. Hutchinson, III, ‘08, ‘12

Ms. Shelley C. Jennings

The Rev. Dr. Rockwell F. Jones

Mr. Robert Kettler

Bishop Chung Suk Kim

Bishop Sharma D. Lewis

Mrs. Francine D. Maestri, ‘16

The Rev. Daniel Mejia, ‘01, ‘20

Mr. Charles E. Moore, Jr.

Ms. Rebecca Parker

Dr. Gregory A. Prince

Mrs. Cindy Skarbek

The Rev. Dr. Ronald LeVant Slaughter, ‘18

Mr. Andrew Song

Mr. Todd Stottlemyer

The Rev. Dr. James E. Victor, Jr., ‘09

The Rev. Dr. Jerry Maddox Woodbery, Jr., ‘12

Ex-Officio

Bishop LaTrelle Miller Easterling

The Rev. Dr. David F. McAllister-Wilson, ‘88, ‘01

BOARD OF GOVERNORS EMERITI 2021-2022

The Rev. Dr. Jonathan E. Baker, ‘75, ‘90

Dr. Betty Stanley Beene

Mrs. Jane Long Betz

Ms. Nora Leake Cameron, ‘02

The Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Carder, ‘65

Mrs. Martha A. Carr

Mrs. Jacqueline W. Coston

Mr. Robert B. Coutts

The Honorable John H. Dalton

Mr. Charles R. Dashiell, Jr.

Mr. John M. Derrick, Jr.

Mr. Edward L. Federico, Jr.

Mrs. Betty J. Forbes

The Rev. Brenda M. Girton-Mitchell, Esq., ‘04

Mrs. Doris A. Harrison

The Rev. Dr. H. Beecher Hicks, Jr.

Mr. Kenneth A. Huntsman

The Rev. Dr. Chan-Young Jang, ‘00, ‘04

The Honorable Mary Miller Johnston

The Rev. Dr. Mary E. Kraus, ‘80

Dr. G. Douglass Lewis

The Rev. Dr. William C. Logan, ‘64, ‘68

The Honorable Robert L. Mallett

Chaplain Joan Paddock Maxwell, ‘05

Mr. Michael McCurry, ‘13

The Rev. Lisa Lavelle McKee, ‘96

Mr. Earl L. Mielke

Mr. Kenneth Y. Millian

The Rev. Dr. Robert L. Parsons, ‘68, ‘80

Bishop Joe E. Pennel, Jr.

Mr. Fredrick C. Powell

Mr. Talmadge Roberts

Mrs. Helen C. Smith

The Rev. Dr. Marlin L. Snider, ‘77, ‘89

Mr. Earl W. Stafford

The Rev. Dr. E. Allen Stewart, ‘77

Mrs. Mary Waldron

The Honorable Edward Whitfield

The Rev. Carol Cosens Yocum, ‘75

STEERING COMMITTEES AND ADVISORY GROUPS 2021-2022

Lewis Center for Church Leadership

Dr. Ransom E. Casey-Rutland, President

Mr. Scott Fassbach

Dr. Delbert Glover

Dr. G. Douglass Lewis

Mr. John R. Millian

The Rev. Dr. Camille Cook Murray, ‘15

Mr. Eugene Paik

Mrs. Helen C. Smith

Ex-Officio

The Rev. Dr. Beth Ann Ludlum, ‘12, ‘19

The Rev. Dr. David F. McAllister-Wilson, ‘88, ‘01

Wesley Central and South America Council

The JK Bae Foundation

(The Rev. Sungho Bae)

Hanmaeum Methodist Church (The Rev. Heyung Gun Choi)

Bethany United Methodist Church (The Rev. Suenglin Baik)

Prattville Korean United Methodist Church (The Rev. Sung-Kuk Hong)

Jinkwan Methodist Church (The Rev. Hyeonsik Lee)

Augusta Korean Methodist Church (The Rev. Il Nam Jung)

First Korean United Methodist Church of Cherry Hill (The Rev. Will Ilyoung Kim)

Korean Madisonville United Methodist Church (The Rev. Shin Sung)

Korean Community Church of NJ-UM (The Rev. Han Seung Koh)

Korean United Methodist Church of South Florida (The Rev. Chul Goo Lee)

Tampa Korean United Methodist Church (The Rev. Myunghoon Han)

The Lord’s Church of Montgomery UMC (The Rev. Hyukjae Yoo)

Korean UMC of Metro Detroit (The Rev. Eung Yong Kim)

Wesley Asia Council

Hyosung Central Methodist Church (Bishop Yun Soo Chung)

Ilsan Kwanglim Methodist Church (The Rev. Dong Chan Park)

Sungkwang Church (The Rev. Ungcheon Lee)

Sunlin Methodist Church (The Rev. Guhyun Kwon)

Oncheonjeil Methodist Church (The Rev. Deuk Soo Kim)

Hanmaeum Methodist Church (The Rev. Heyung Gun Choi)

Chuncheon Myeongseong Methodist Church (The Rev. Young Woong Lim)

Anyang Methodist Church (The Rev. Yong Tack Rim)

Kangnam Jungang Church (The Rev. Chang Young Jang)

Busan Onnuri Methodist Church (The Rev. Sung Su Park)

Epworth House Committee   Ms. Gertrude White, President

The Korean Wesley Foundation

The Rev. Dr. Sung Ho Chung, ‘15, President

CONTINUITY OF LEADERSHIP

by The Rev. Dr. Doug Lewis

2022 ANNUAL

DISCOVER & DREAM

Trinity Church Wall Street Philanthropies awarded a grant of $260,000 to the Lewis Center for Church Leadership at Wesley for the program Discover and Dream: Recapturing Vocational Identity and Reimagining Economic Vitality.

Through its Philanthropies program, Trinity collaborates in mission and ministry with churches and organizations in the United States and internationally. The Lewis Center is honored to receive this support for the program.

"Leadership,

expressed simply, is the ability to influence others to work toward particular goals.” Goals and influence are the keys. Individuals and communities are always goal directed, even when they are not exactly clear what the goal is or how to move toward it. The first task of a leader is to clarify and affirm the community’s mission and then to identify the strategic goals needed to fulfill that mission and finally to find ways to influence the community to achieve those goals.

Sounds simple: Not quite. The many members of a community all have ideas of what they want and how best to pursue them. They bring their own ideas and commitments to the table.

In an institution like a seminary a presidential leader must deal with both short-term and long-term goals both individual and corporate. Selecting which and how to support various goals in the community requires a clarity about the institution’s mission. That becomes the measuring rod and determiner of what the president should try to influence.

Most of the essential institutional goals are long-term and require influence and direction over a long period of time. A key task of presidential leadership is to

help the members of the institution to be clear about its mission and then to develop and adapt goals and strategies to achieve this mission. Significant presidential leadership can rarely be short term or individualistic.

Wesley Seminary has been unusually blessed to have two long-term presidents covering more than two decades each. Most institutions do not have such longevity in its presidential leadership. The lessons from Wesley’s history can be learned from studying and observing how basic missional goals were developed by one of the presidents and then carefully institutionalized over a longer period of time with the next president. Only such continuity of leadership allows an institution to develop and institutionalize fundamental missional goals and ground them fully in the seminary’s community and in the process shape that community’s future.

The Wesley Community is grateful for the 20 years The Rev. Dr. Doug Lewis served as President and for The Rev. Dr. David McAllister-Wilson '88, '01 and The Rev. Drema McAllister-Wilson '86 for continuing this legacy of leadership at Wesley. The year 2022 marks the 40th anniversary of David and Drema as part of the Wesley community and David's 20th year as President.

Discover & Dream empowers and equips selected African American congregations in the Washington, D.C. area to expand their vision for social impact and access the financial capital needed to realize their community goals.

This two-year program aims to increase the economic vitality and creative potential of African-American churches that leads to sustainable revitalization of churches and their surrounding communities.

Discover & Dream engages congregational teams in seminars, workshops, peer learning, and mentoring groups, providing a basis of financial competency, rooted in theological commitment toward creativity and imagination. Congregational teams apply their learnings in an experimental initiative that demonstrates their vocational identity, serves the community, and enhances their congregation’s economic vitality through viable social impact real estate development projects that can help to transform communities of color.

Throughout the program, the congregations actively participate in activities, including monthly online classes and online engagement with peer groups. Congregations also actively lead an experimental initiative that demonstrates their vocational identity, serves the community, and enhances their economic vitality.

For more information, contact Director of the Lewis Center for Church Leadership Doug Powe at dpowe@wesleyseminary.edu

President David McAllister-Wilson, Lucy Hogan, Doug Lewis, and Bruce Birch gather to celebrate Hogan’s retirement in April 2022

Lovett Weems, Doug Lewis, and David McAllister-Wilson celebrate President Lewis’s 10th anniversary in 1992

4500 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington, DC 20016

At Wesley, we develop resilient, confident leaders who are prepared to answer the call of service and lead lives of purpose and impact in churches and communities.

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SCHOLARSHIPS for our current students

INNOVATIONS to enrich program offerings

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