Doctor of Ministry

A little about our dissertations. So far in our doctor of ministry / dissertation journeys we have not said a whole lot about our specific topics. However, we just noticed that Asbury’s current proposal’s page now lists our dissertation proposal topics: Joleen: The Integrated Small Group: Bible Study, Community, Ministry, and Mission Randy: Leadership Communication: … Read more

We both received “provisional passes” on our proposal hearings. As you may know, we were at Asbury in Kentucky this week for our long-anticipated proposal hearings. We both received provisional passes, which basically means that we’ve been given the green light to move forward on our dissertation work but that we both need to further … Read more

Reflections on our Asbury experience while we’re in Kentucky for proposal hearings. We’re here at Asbury this week for our proposal hearings (more on those in a later post). Once we receive the green light from our dissertation committees, we will each begin our respective ministry projects. We hope to spend the next 2-3 months … Read more

On Wednesday, we mailed corrected copies of our proposal drafts to the D.Min. office! Yesterday was our deadline to mail the drafts so that our dissertation committee members (3 each) will have around 10 days to prepare for our hearings (Randy’s on 9/24 and Joleen’s on 9/26). We had our proposal drafts edited by the … Read more

We all tend to put off doing things we either don’t want to do or we know will take a lot of energy! I began my message on Sunday by saying, “Hello. My name is Randy and I am a procrastinator!” I was holding a copy of my edited proposal draft, which we wrote about … Read more

We got our proposal edits back; now we must make lots of corrections! Last week we received our proposal drafts back from the editor at Asbury. Even though our mentor describes our work as “clean” (in terms of writing, grammar, etc.), there is still a lot of red! (Thanks, Judy! 😀 ). The red marks … Read more

Our proposal hearings have been scheduled for the last week of September in Wilmore, KY. Finally, we have our proposal hearings scheduled at Asbury. Randy’s will be Monday, 24 September 2007 and Joleen’s will be Wednesday, 26 September 2007. We’ll leave following a special, annual gathering of both of our charges (we get to do … Read more

A thumbnail sketch of the rest of the dissertation journey. We just posted an Adoption Timeline so we thought now we’ll post what the timeline looks like for finishing our dissertations. Our proposal hearings are currently being scheduled at the D.Min. office at Asbury. They’re expected to be in late September. Between now and then … Read more

We’ve reached an important milestone in the dissertation-writing journey. We finally talked with our faculty mentor, Dr. Russell West, earlier this week. Fortunately, we only had minor revisions to make before submitting our proposal drafts (chapters 1-3, out of 5), which went out in yesterday’s mail. This submission sets a number of things in motion, … Read more

Great ideas we picked up from our courses at Asbury. Now that we’ve completed our coursework phase in the doctor of ministry program at Asbury Theological Seminary, we’ve picked up some great teaching ideas along the way. Here are several things we’d consider doing (assuming one week on campus) … Worship Emphasis Many of our … Read more