Lorraine Ste-Marie (Saint Paul University)
Chair
Lorraine Ste-Marie is an assistant professor of practical theology at Saint Paul University in Ottawa, where she teaches in graduate programs in both the Faculty of Human Sciences and the Faculty of Theology. She is currently Acting Director of the Doctor of Ministry Degree Program. She completed her Doctor of Ministry Degree at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Her expertise is in pastoral leadership education and theological reflection that supports the development of reflective praxis. Lorraine is formerly the Director of the Centre for Ministry Formation at Saint Paul University. She has served in leadership roles in parish ministry as well as on a number of diocesan commissions in the Archdiocese of Ottawa. She is trained as a process developmental coach through the InterDevelopMental Institute in Medford, MA and acts as resource person and facilitator in sessions for developing vision-based leadership. Her research in practical theology focuses on higher education and pastoral leadership formation as adult development. Some of her research has been funded through a grant from the Association for Theological Field Education (ATFE) as well as internal grants from Saint Paul University. Lorraine’s publications include a book entitled Beyond Words: A New Language for a Changing Church (Novalis 2008), a chapter on “Language and Leadership” in M. Floding, editor, Welcome to Theological Field Education, (Alban Publications, 2010), and an article on “Adult Development and Theological Field Education” in the 2011 edition (Volume 31) of Reflective Practice: Formation and Supervision in Ministry.
Alice Rogers (Candler School of Theology, Emory University)
Vice Chair
Rev. Dr. P. Alice Rogers is Assistant Professor in the Practice of Congregational Leadership at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, where she also serves as the Director of the Teaching Parish Program and Director of the Contextual Education II Program. An ordained elder in the North Georgia Conference of The United Methodist Church, Rogers served as the pastor of rural, urban, and suburban local churches for seventeen years. Her current work focuses on ministry in the small membership church, vocational discernment for ordained ministry, planning Christian worship, and contextual education. Education: DMin, Emory University, 1998, MDiv, Duke University, 1986, BA, Converse College, 1983 Publications: Equipping the Saints: Best Practices in Contextual Theological Education (Pilgrim Press, 2010), co-editor, Contextualizing Theological Education (Pilgrim Press, 2008), co-editor
Joe Bush (Wesley Theological Seminary)
Treasurer
Joseph E. Bush taught in the area of Ministry in Church & Society at the ecumenical Pacific Theological College in the Republic of Fiji and at the Presbyterian School of Ministry in Dunedin, New Zealand, where he was also responsible for field education. He has continued to teach field education and religious leadership in the United States at United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities and in his current position as Director of Practice in Ministry and Mission for Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC. An ordained United Methodist minister, he is the author of several articles in social ethics, environmental ethics, professional ethics, and pastoral ministry. His book Gentle Shepherding was named one of the top ten for 2006 by the Academy of Parish Clergy.
Tom Fuller (Beeson Divinity School, Samford University)
Secretary
Tom Fuller serves as Director of Ministry Leadership Development, Placement, and Assessment at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, in Birmingham, Alabama. In that role, he teaches courses on ministry leadership, directs the Ministry Leadership Development (field education) program, coordinates the school’s placement services, and leads the school in assessment of institutional effectiveness. Fuller began his work at BDS in 2000, after 12 years of service as pastor of American Baptist and Southern Baptist churches in Alabama and Indiana. He has attended ATFE biennial consultations since 2001. From 2009-11, he served on the ATFE Research and Publications Committee. Tom is also active in the Evangelical caucus (EATFE) of ATFE, having served previously as president and as host to a biennial meeting. In 2008, he contributed a chapter in Preparing Ministry Leaders: A Practical Guide to Field Education. His research interests include student engagement in graduate theological education and assessment of student learning in theological education. Tom is an ordained minister in the Baptist tradition, and continues to preach and teach itinerantly. He has three daughters.
Laura Tuach (Havard Divinity School)
Communications
Trudy Stringer (Vanderbilt University Divinity School)
Member-at-Large
Rosanne Swanson (Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago)
Member-at-Large
Tracy Hartman (Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond)
Local Arrangements Coordinator
Tracy Hartman is the Daniel O. Aleshire professor of Homiletics and Practical Theology at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, VA. She directs that seminary’s internship and D.Min. programs and teaches in the area of preaching. She holds the B.A., Carson-Newman College; M.Div., Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond; Ph.D., Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education
Professor Hartman was a member of the first class of M. Div. students at BTSR and won the Miller Award for Academic Achievement upon her graduation in 1995. Her graduate work at Union included ground-breaking research into the relationship between parish setting and preaching style for women pastors.
Dr. Hartman is the author of Letting the Other Speak: Proclaiming the Stories of Biblical Women and she is a regular contributor to preaching and liturgical resources. She is active in Baptist life and has served as staff member and interim pastor to several Virginia churches and enjoys preaching throughout the region.
Betty Mills (Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond)
Local Arrangements Coordinator
Betty Pugh Mills, a native Virginian, is the pastor of Grace Baptist Church, an American Baptist Congregation where she has served since July of 1990. She has also been an adjunctive faculty member at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond for 18 of those years, primarily working with supervision of students in her setting and practicum groups that are in other ministry settings as part of the Christian Ministry I and II curriculums. She has also done a course in preaching and Introduction to Ministerial Identity. Se has degrees from The University of Richmond, Andover Newton Theological School and the School of Theology at Virginia Union University. Her gifts and skills include preaching, worship leadership, and the multitasking nature of parish ministry. The seminary environment is also a great addition to the challenges of training the next generation and she finds great learning for herself in these contexts of theological reflection. She lives in Newport News, Va, though pastors in Richmond, so has worked out a ministry based on commuting, email and cell phones. Welcome to the new world of technology. She enjoys tennis, racquetball, and yard work; and most of all spending time with her husband who is getting used to not ever really having a weekend. She has enjoyed the diversity and collaborative spirit of the ATFE events and is excited about being part hosting the event in January of 2013.
Beth O’Brien (Western Kentucky University)
Meeting Specialist