Welcome to ATFE!

Plan Now to Attend the 31st Biennial Consultation in San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 19-22, 2011 Learn more about Puerto Rico at www.meetpuertorico.com

2010 EATFE Biennial Consultation

January 13-17, 2010
Bethel Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota

More information and registration details can be found here: http://www.dts.edu/departments/academic/sfl/eatfe/ and here: http://sites.google.com/site/atfebiennial/

Welcome to the Association of Theological Field Educators (ATFE) website!

This site is home to the professionals at seminaries and divinity schools who guide formation for ministry through theological field education. We are an international community that is marked by an extraordinary degree of collaboration, a spirit of generosity and a commitment to professional development.

Every accredited Association of Theological Schools (ATS) seminary or divinity school requires an experiential component that provides a place to practice ministry and a corresponding space to reflect on its practice. This nexus of integration is an intended consequence carefully nurtured by the field educator. Ministry experience, theological reflection, peer engagement, the classroom, consultation, and emulation of ministry professionals are some of the important tools available to us.

ATFE nurtures the field educator. Learn more about field education here. Identify with a caucus that shares a similar tradition or theological outlook. Share employment opportunities. Attend a professional development event. Or better yet, plan one with your caucus or other field educators in your region. Best, attend the next biennial consultation with us in San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 19-22, 2011.

For further conversation explore the membership list or contact a member of the Steering Committee. I, for one, always welcome conversation with a colleague.

For the Steering Committee,

Matthew Floding, Chair