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n to offer Bicentennial Preaching Program
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Andover Newton announces that as part of its 200th anniversary celebrations it is offering a major program on great preaching in America. While some of the most widely recognized names in American preaching will participate, this series will also highlight some new and emerging voices we believe represent the future of the art.
Special classes for students and a Masters Class for area clergy will be offered in conjunction with the worship services. These classes will offer participants the opportunity to discuss both inspiration and technique with the guest preachers.
The series will be led by Rev Bill Turpie, producer and host of The Great Preachers series on Odyssey and Hallmark Channels. Turpie will be joined by Rev. Martin Copenhaver (see below); and Rev. Burns Stanfield, Adjunct Professor of Preaching and Pastor of South Boston Presbyterian Church.
The series will open with a special program featuring Rev. Peter Gomes, the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in The Memorial Church at Harvard University. Widely considered to be one of America's most distinguished preachers, Gomes will preach at the 1:00PM November 7th worship service in Wilson Chapel and then stay on for a facilitated dialogue with all those in attendance. The Gomes program is free of charge.
In January Andover Newton will offer a special two part program entitled: "Is preaching still relevant? A dying art or voice of hope for the future?" Each of the two programs will feature a nationally recognized preacher followed by a special panel to engage the preachers on their craft and the relevancy of preaching in the 21st century. The first program (January 8) will feature Rev. Dr. Wil Willimon Methodist Bishop and former Dean of the Chapel at Duke University. With Guest Panel to include Rev. Liz Walker, Dr. Greg Mobley, and others. The second program (January 15) will feature Rev. Dr. Martin Copenhaver, Senior Minister of Wellesley Congregational Church in Wellesley, MA. Copenhaver has written two books, Living Faith While Holding Doubts, and to Begin at the Beginning: an Introduction to the Christian Faith, and he serves as an advisory editor of "The Pulpit Digest." With a guest panel to include Dr. Kirk Jones and others.
January Special Program
Is preaching still relevant? A dying art or voice of hope for the future?
January 8 Part One with Rev. Dr. Wil Willimon Methodist Bishop and former Dean of the Chapel at Duke University. With Guest Panel to include Rev. Liz Walker, Dr. Greg Mobley, and others.
January 15 Part Two with Rev. Dr. Martin Copenhaver, Senior Minister of Wellesley Congregational Church in Wellesley, MA.
Spring program
February 13 Rev. Liz Myer Boulton, Senior Pastor, Hope Church, Jamaica Plain, MA
February 20 Rev. Gary Smith, Senior Minister, First Parish in Concord, Concord, MA
February 27 Rev. Lillian Daniel, Minister of First Congregational Church of Glen Ellyn, IL, author of Telling it like it is: Reclaiming the Practice of Testimony
March 5 Rev. Heidi Newmark, Minister, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, New York, and Author Breathing Space
March 12 Rev. Dr. Gary Simpson, Senior Minister, Concord Baptist Church of Christ, New York, and Assistant Professor of Preaching, Drew University.
April 16 Rev. Kyle Childress, Senior Minister, Austin Heights Baptist Church in Nacogdoches, TX
All Worship Services will be held at 1PM in the Wilson Chapel
and are open to the public
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Great Preacher Biographies
Rev. Peter Gomes November
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Since 1970 he has served in The Memorial Church, Harvard University; and since 1974 as Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Pusey Minister in The Memorial Church.
Widely regarded as one of America's most distinguished preachers, Professor Gomes fulfills preaching and lecturing engagements throughout America and the British Isles. In 2007 he preached at the Inauguration of Deval L. Patrick as Governor of Massachusetts; in 2005 he presented a series of sermons in St. Edmundsbury Cathedral, England, in the presence of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall; in 2000 he delivered The University Sermon before The University of Cambridge, England, and The Millennial Sermon in Canterbury Cathedral, England; and in 1998 he presented The Beecher Lectures on Preaching, in Yale Divinity School. Named Clergy of the Year in 1998 by Religion in American Life, Professor Gomes participated in the presidential inaugurations of Ronald Wilson Reagan and of George Herbert Walker Bush. His New York Times and national best-selling books, The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart, (1996); and Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living (1998), were published by William Morrow and Company, Inc.; The Good Life: Truths That Last in Times of Need was published in 2002 by HarperSanFrancisco, which published Strength for the Journey: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living in spring 2003. In 2005, The Backward Glance and the Forward Look was published by WordTech. He has also published ten volumes of sermons as well as numerous articles and papers.
A member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and of the Faculty of Divinity of Harvard University, Professor Gomes holds degrees from Bates College (A.B., 1965), and from the Harvard Divinity School (S.T.B.,1968); and thirty-six honorary degrees.
Will
Willimon January 8
Rev. William H. Willimon was elected in July 2004 as Bishop of The United Methodist Church. He leads the 157,000 Methodists and 792 pastors in North Alabama. For twenty years he was Dean of the Chapel and Professor of Christian Ministry at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.
Rev. Willimon is a graduate of Wofford College (B.A., 1968), Yale Divinity School (M.Div., 1971) and Emory University (S.T.D., 1973). He has served as pastor of churches in Georgia and South Carolina. He has been awarded ten honorary degrees and was named as the first Distinguished Alumnus of Yale Divinity School in 1992. He also serves on the faculties of Birmingham-Southern College as Visiting Distinguished Professor and as Visiting Research Professor at Duke Univeristy Divinity School.
He is the author of nearly sixty books, translated into eight languages. His Worship as Pastoral Care was selected as one of the ten most useful books for pastors in 1979 by the Academy of Parish Clergy. Over a million copies of his books have been sold. In 1996, an international survey conducted by Baylor University named him one of the Twelve Most Effective Preachers in the English-speaking world.
Martin Copenhaver January 15
Rev. Copenhaver is a magna cum laude graduate of Dickinson College and received his Master of Divinity from Yale Divinity School in 1980. Rev. Copenhaver served churches in Phoenix, Arizona, Burlington, Vermont and Westport, Connecticut before becoming Senior Pastor of Wellesley Congregational Church in 1994. He is the author of four books: Living Faith While Holding Doubts; To Begin at the Beginning: An Introduction to the Christian Faith; Good News in Exile (co-authored with Anthony B. Robinson and William Willimon); and Words for the Journey: Letters to Our Teenagers About Life and Faith (co-authored with Anthony B. Robinson). He is currently working on a new book about Christian practices.
Liz Myer Boulton February 13
Rev. Myer is a graduate of the University of Chicago Divinity School. She has served as a Global Mission Intern in Port-au- Prince, Haiti, a chaplain at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, and an Associate Pastor at St. Andrew Christian Church (DOC) in Olathe, Kansas. Now residing in Roslindale, she leads Hope Church, a vital and growing congregation.
Rev. Gary Smith February 13
A native of Maine, Gary came to the First Parish of Concord, MA in 1988 after serving congregations in Middletown, Connecticut and Bangor, Maine, as well as a stint at our Unitarian Universalist Association headquarters in Boston. He has been President of the national Ministers Association and is currently teaching a seminar in preaching at Harvard Divinity School.
Lillian
Daniel February 27
Lillian Daniel became Senior Minister of First Congregational Church of Glen Ellyn, Illinois after serving churches in Cheshire and New Haven, Connecticut and earning her Doctorate of Ministry from Hartford Seminary in 2004. A graduate of Bryn Mawr College and Yale Divinity School, she was ordained in 1993. Rev. Daniel has taught preaching to seminarians at Yale Divinity School and Chicago Theological Seminary. She is a frequent contributor to Christian Century, writes for preaching periodicals such as the Journal for Preachers and the Biblical Preaching Journal, and has a regular spirituality column in the United Church News. She is the author of Tell It Like It Is: Reclaiming the Practice of Testimony.
Heidi Neumark March 5
Heidi B. Neumark currently serves as the pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan. Prior to Trinity Lutheran, she was pastor of Transfiguration Lutheran Church in the South Bronx.
Rev. Neumark's experiences in the South Bronx inspired her 2004 Wilbur Award winning book, Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx. Receiving her Master of Divinity degree from Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, she was honored with their Distinguished Alumni Award in 1998.
During her seminary training, she studied in Argentina and worked with Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel. Her pastoral internship in Jersey City was followed by an urban residency at a church in Hoboken. All of the congregations Neumark has served have been multicultural and bilingual (English/Spanish).
Gary Simpson March 12
Rev. Gary V. Simpson is the Senior Pastor of Concord Baptist Church, Brooklyn, NY. He preached his first sermon at the age of fifteen at the Southfield Community Baptist Church in Ohio. Rev. Simpson was ordained at age 20 by the Eastern Union Missionary Baptist Association in August, 1983. After a BA in Religion and Black Studies from Denison University (1984), and a Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York (1987), he earned a Doctor of Ministry degree from United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio (1995). This renowned preacher has shared God's Word extensively at churches and conventions throughout the United States; Panama City; the Republic of Panama; Pune, India; and the Bahamas.
He has also preached at Harvard Divinity School, Union and Drew Theological Seminaries, Morehouse and Manchester Colleges, and Denison University; served as Adjunct Professor at New Brunswick Theological Seminary; lectured at Union (New York) and Princeton (New Jersey) Theological Seminaries; gave the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Lectures, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany,1997; and the Howard Moody Lecture at Union, 2004.
In 2002, he was chosen by the Lilly Endowment of Indianapolis, Indiana to create and implement a Pastoral Residency Program for young seminary graduates at the Church. Rev. Simpson currently serves as Assistant Professor of Homiletics at Drew University Theological Seminary.
Kyle Childress April 16
Kyle Childress has served as the pastor of Austin Heights Baptist Church in Nacogdoches, an East Texas college town, since 1989. Austin Heights Baptist is a small congregation affiliated with the Alliance of Baptists, the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, the Baptist World Alliance, and the Baptist General Convention of Texas. It is also a partner church with the Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America.
Kyle is a graduate of Baylor University and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and has pursued further study at Duke University Divinity School. A frequent contributor to Christian Century and a recent recipient of a Lilly Foundation grant for Clergy Renewal, Kyle spent his sabbatical in England reading and visiting parishes led by pastors who are known for both their preaching and writing skills.
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Updated December 21, 2007