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>PC(USA) seminary news

>by Jerry L. Van Marter
>Presbyterian News Service

DECATUR, GA - The Board of Trustees of Columbia Theological
Seminary [www.ctsnet.edu] has elected a search committee
for the selection and recommendation to the board of a new
president.

The Rev. Lee W. Bowman, pastor of First Presbyterian
Church, Lexington, KY, will chair the committee. She is a
graduate of Mary Baldwin College, Union Theological
Seminary-Presbyterian School of Christian Education in
Virginia, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the
University of  Virginia.

The search committee includes three other trustees who are
pastors: William G. Jones, First Presbyterian Church,
Brownsville, TN; Steve Montgomery, Idlewild Presbyterian
Church, Memphis, TN; and  J. Todd Speed, pastor of Decatur
(GA) Presbyterian Church. All three are Columbia graduates.

Ordained elders serving on the committee are Ann D.
Cousins, North Avenue Presbyterian Church, Atlanta; Claire
Cross, Peachtree Presbyterian Church, Atlanta; John F.
"Sandy" Smith, First Presbyterian Church, Atlanta; and Lois
M. Stroman, Washington Street Presbyterian Church, Dublin,
GA.

>All are members of the Board of Trustees.

Columbia's faculty is represented on the committee by
Rodger Nishioka, associate professor of Christian
education, and Christine Roy Yoder, associate professor of
Old Testament language, literature, and exegesis.

Jamison Collier will represent Columbia's students on the
committee.

William Scheu, chair of the seminary's Board of Trustees
and an elder at Riverside Presbyterian Church,
Jacksonville, FL, will serve as an ex-officio member of the
committee.

Confidential inquiries about the search process and
nominations should be sent to Lee Bowman
[bowmanl@fpclex.org] or to her attention at First
Presbyterian Church, 171 Market Street, Lexington, KY
40507.

SAN ANSELMO, CA - World-renowned missiologist Volker Küster
visited San Francisco Theological Seminary
[http://web.sfts.edu] recently and spoke on "The Many Faces
of Jesus Christ in Third World Christian Art."  Küster, who
specializes in intercultural theology, is a professor at
the Protestant Theological University, Kampen, the
Netherlands.

Just as Western art has incorporated pre- and

extra-Christian semiotics to transmit Gospel concepts in
visual media for centuries, Küster showed representations
of contemporary non-Western art depicting faith concepts
using the idioms found in other cultures. Küster pointed
out that elements of Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism and African
traditional religions have been appropriated by various
artists to transmit the liberating message of Christ in
forms that are unfamiliar to average American viewers, but
would be immediately understood by Christians from these
other cultures.

Küster was trained as a theologian at the University of
Heidelberg and is an ordained minister in the Evangelical
Church of the Palatinate in Germany, a united church of
Lutheran and Reformed Christians.  He has lectured widely
in Europe, Asia and Africa. His visit was co-sponsored by
the H. Eugene Farlough Chair in African American
Christianity and the seminary's World Christianity Program.

AUSTIN, TX - Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
[www.austinseminary.edu] has added four new trustees to its
governing board: Jeffrey K. Richard of Austin; the Reverend
Teresa Chavez Sauceda of San Francisco; Anne Vickery
Stevenson of Houston; and The Rev. Karl B. Travis of Fort
Worth, TX.

Richard is president and CEO of the Austin Area Urban
League, where he manages the operations of approximately
one dozen educational, housing, and employment training
programs. A graduate of the John F. Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard University, he served in various
positions at the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce from
2002-2005.

Sauceda has been an advocate, author, and teacher on race
issues for over 30 years. From 2003-2008, she served as
associate for Racial Justice and Advocacy in the
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).  She received her M.Div. from
Austin Seminary and her Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological
Union in Berkeley, CA.

Stevenson has served as a community advocate in health and
women's issues since 1981.  A graduate of the University of
Houston, she has taught school and worked in the banking
industry in addition to the public health field. She was a
member of First Presbyterian Church in Houston for 34 years
and is a member of Memorial Drive United Methodist Church
in Houston.

Travis became pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Fort
Worth in 2007.  He's also served congregations in Grosse
Ile, MI, Roswell, NM, and Clermiston, Scotland. He is a
frequent conference speaker and preacher around the country
and has served at all levels of the PC(USA). He's a
graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio and the
University of Edinburgh.

PRINCETON, NJ - Allan Anderson, professor of global
Pentecostal studies and director of the Center for
Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies at the University of
Birmingham in England, will deliver Princeton Theological
Seminary's [www.ptsem.edu] annual Students' Lectureship on
Missions Dec. 1-2.

His lectures are entitled "The Missionary Nature of Early
Pentecostalism" and will explore the mission practices and
beliefs of Pentecostals in the first two decades of the
twentieth century.

Anderson was raised in Zimbabwe by missionary parents. He
earned his B.Th., M.Th., and Th.D at the University of
South Africa. He spent twenty-three years as a missionary
and theological educator in southern Africa before moving
to Birmingham in 1995 to take up his present post.

He is the author of Spreading Fires: The Missionary Nature
of Early Pentecostalism (Orbis, 2007); An Introduction to
Pentecostalism (Cambridge University Press, 2004); African
Reformation: African Initiated Christianity in the 20th
Century (Africa World Press, 2001); and Zion and Pentecost:
The Spirituality and Experience of Pentecostals and
Zionists/Apostolics in South Africa (University of South
Africa Press, 2000).

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