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SUMMARY:The Warren Dennis Metro-Urban Lecture 2019
DESCRIPTION:The City as classroom: emerging pedagogies in Urban Ministry.\n \nUrban Ministry finds its fullest meaning within the context of Metropolitan Ministry: a vision and practice that considers and engages a myriad of systems that impact life in an ever-changing and increasingly urban world. Today’s urban contexts –local\, national and global-are diverse\, complex\, pluralistic\, entrepreneurial\, innovative\, trendsetting and growing. Ministries/social agencies within urban contexts and programs in urban ministry\, need to make the city their classroom\, i.e. to know the cultures and environments around them\, interrogate their interactions and relationships with the communities they serve and affirm the multi-religious and multicultural dynamics that shape these communities and those around the word. \nHow do urban pastors\, practitioners and social agencies develop a vision and daily practice that are contextually relevant\, historically grounded\, culturally competent\, pastoral in nature\, global in outlook and prophetic in witness? This lecture will address these questions and provide innovative strategies for doing ministry in 21st century metro-urban contexts. \nJanice McLean-Farrell\, Ph.D.\nLecture given by: \nJanice McLean-Farrell\, Ph.D.\nDirck Romeyn Assistant Professor of Metro-Urban Ministry \n  \n\nObjectives of the lecture are: \n\nRevisit what does it means to be metro urban in the 21st century\nDiscuss what it means to take the city as a classroom and examine some of the new ideas and strategies this elicits for doing ministry in an increasingly urbanized world.\nInterrogate how 21st century urban contexts shape the global church.\nExplore the significance of partnering with other social agencies/institutions/not-for-profits organization in conducting ministry that speaks to the lived realities in contemporary global cities.\n\n\n  \nFollowing the lecture will be three respondents:\n\n\n\n\nDr. Bill Levering\nSenior Pastor\, First Reformed Church\, Schenectady\, NY\n\n\n\nRev. Dr. Patricia Sealy\nPastor of Mott Haven Reformed Church\, Bronx\, NY\n\n\n\nDr. Warren Dennis\nDirck Romeyn Professor Emeritus of Metro-Urban Ministry\, NBTS\n\n\n\n  \n\nAll are welcome! \nAdmission is free but registration is requested; to RSVP\, please email events@nbts.edu. \n\nClick the image below to download a PDF of the flyer.  \nAbout The Warren L. Dennis Annual Metro-Urban Lecture Series \n\n\n\n\nThe New Brunswick Theological Seminary Warren L. Dennis Annual Metro-Urban Lecture Series is intended to help revitalize the study and practice of urban ministry in theological education in North America. \nPrograms for urban ministry in theological education have often focused on specific skills or strategies that define cities in terms of their deficiencies. Cities have been seen as places of poverty\, violence and oppression that are in need of outside intervention in the form of missions or evangelism. The work of churches\, other religious institutions\, communities and the broader context of urban life (corporations\, financial institutions\, hospitals\, entertainment\, legal systems and law enforcement\, universities\, transportation system\, etc.) have too often been ignored in these educational models. As a result\, many of the traditional approaches to urban ministry in theological education have become increasingly ineffective. \nInstitutions of theological education must establish an urban ministry body of knowledge that connects faculty\, students and pastors to the systemic realities and challenges faced in our inner city neighborhoods. The Warren L. Dennis Metro-Urban Lecture Series will strive to develop new models for urban learning and leadership training\, and to provide new resources for teaching urban ministry in theological education that reflect more inclusive concerns and commitments. The lecture series will challenge seminaries to assume greater public responsibility for helping urban congregations and other private and not-for-profit institutions shape the character of effective urban ministry in this new century. \n  \n\nAbout Warren L. Dennis \n\n\n\n\nOn the occasion of his retirement in May 2015\, Warren Dennis was honored with a resolution from the Seminary Board of Trustees naming him Professor Emeritus of New Brunswick Theological Seminary. Dennis served as The Dirck Romeyn Professor of Metro-Urban Ministry and Director of Doctoral Ministry at NBTS from 1992-2015. He developed an urban concentration in NBTS’ \nMaster of Theological Studies and Master of Divinity degree programs\, and he established the first Doctor \nof Ministry in Metro-Urban Ministry degree for professional clergy development. He is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church USA. Prior to coming to New Brunswick in 1992\, he served for eight years as the Associate Executive for Metropolitan Ministries and Mission for the Presbytery of Detroit\, supporting 92 churches and four campus ministries. From 1980 to 1985\, he was pastor of First and Olivet Presbyterian Church\, a multiracial congregation in Wilmington\, Delaware\, specializing in inner-city ministry in culturally diverse neighborhoods. \nAs a retirement gift\, former students of Dennis established the Warren L. Dennis Lecture in Metro-Urban Ministry Endowment to ensure his legacy lives on in a new and tangible way. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://nbts.edu/events/warren-dennis-metro-urban-lecture-2019/
LOCATION:35 SEMINARY PLACE\, NEW BRUNSWICK\, NJ\, 08901\, United States
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