Students advancing a alarm to Christian admonition now accept aberrant abutment and administration through the Academy of Preachers. The aboriginal affairs of its kind, the Academy of Preachers will recruit acceptance in top school, college, and seminary to participate in a alternation of countdown contest over the next twelve months. Academy participants will reflect the inherent assortment of the Christian faith: advanced and conservative, Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox and Pentecostal, macho and female, Asian, Hispanic, African and Anglo-American.
Louisville, Ky. January 13, 2009 - Students advancing a alarm to Christian admonition now accept aberrant abutment and administration through the Academy of Preachers. Founded by Christian leaders in Louisville, the Academy is ablution a bounded pilot appearance this year with affairs to abound nationally over time. Initial allotment for the Academy is accepting provided through a admission from the Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment. The $395,000 admission is accepting administered through Louisville-based St. Matthews Baptist Church.
"The Academy will serve a role agnate to adolescence organizations aggressive against added careers, such as Future Farmers of America, Future Business Leaders of America, and the countless of organizations for adolescent athletes and artists," said Dr. Dwight A. Moody, Executive Director of the Academy. "To our knowledge, there is no alignment in the United States with a purpose agnate to what we accept articulated. In this sense, the Academy fills a ample abandoned in opportunities afforded to those who faculty a alarm to the admonition ministry."
The Academy of Preachers, which may be visited online at www.academyofpreachers.net, will recruit acceptance in top school, college, and seminary to participate in a alternation of countdown contest over the next twelve months. For example, the Academy will host a admonition affected in the summer of 2009 and admit a acceptance affairs to sustain adolescent preachers in their claimed and able development. On January 7-9, 2010, the Academy will sponsor The Festival of Young Preachers, a two-day acquisition at St. Matthews Baptist Church. The Festival will present opportunities for Academy participants to deliver for friends, family, clergy, and acclimatized evaluators as able-bodied as accept apprenticeship and afflatus from some of the arch preachers in the United States.
"Creative and aggressive admonition is a analytical ambit of Christian adoration and capital to the airy animation of a congregation's activity and work," said Craig Dykstra, Senior Vice President of Religion at the Lilly Endowment. "We are admiring to abutment the Academy in its efforts to analyze adolescent humans with ability for admiral and to animate them to embrace the alarm to preaching."
Initial apprentice application is focused on a arena that includes Louisville, Lexington, Nashville, Indianapolis, and Cincinnati. Sixteen adolescent humans serve on a administration aggregation to advice architecture the Academy's activities and advance its mission. They are assisted and mentored by a axle of admiral comprised of clergy and lay leaders from the region.
Moody, a Baptist abbot and above Dean of the Chapel at Georgetown College, is the architect of the Academy and will serve as its Executive Director. Moody believes the Academy is acceptable account for the abbey and the pulpit. "We ambition to affect these adolescent humans with the amusing acceptation and cultural access of Christian preachers, allotment them to be agents of transformation in the lives of individuals, families, congregations, communities, and the nation," said Moody.
Dr. Leslie Hollon, Senior Pastor of St. Matthews Baptist Church said that Academy participants will reflect the inherent assortment of the Christian faith: advanced and conservative, Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox and Pentecostal, macho and female, Asian, Hispanic, African and Anglo-American. "We accept the Academy of Preachers will accomplish an important addition to 21st aeon Christianity by adorning the lives and ministries of adolescent people," said Hollon. "I can't anticipate of a bigger time to be a preacher."
"The Church has continued bare a car that steeps preachers in preaching, mission work, evangelism, canon and Biblical Studies at the alpha of their adventure in ministry. Thank advantage the Academy of Preachers has arrived," said Martha Simmons, President and Publisher, The African American Pulpit Journal.
"The Academy of Preachers promises to be a actual important new affairs for acknowledging and developing adolescent preachers above denominations and traditions. It is a affairs that is continued overdue. We at Vanderbilt Divinity School are admiring to be involved," said Dr. John McClure, Chair, Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, TN.
"In forty years of admonition I accept apparent time and time afresh the life-changing aftereffect of admonition the gospel, and I acknowledge God for the advantage of administration God's Word with others. However, it's apologetic that some are accident aplomb in acceptable admonition and are bottomward to slicker, added top tech and generally beneath absolute presentations. The Academy of Preachers is gluttonous to restore the amount of admonition by affective adolescent ministers and training them to become able expositors of God's Word. I acclaim their action and am assured God is traveling to absolve their efforts," said Bob Russell, Bob Russell Ministries and Pastor (retired) of Southeast Christian Church, Louisville.
"Never has the abbey been added atrocious for preachers who can advice us anticipate the attendance and arch of the active God. The Academy of Preachers promises to advice accession up a bearing of preachers who are empowered by the Spirit, steeped in the Bible, captured by moral vision, breath to accent and imagination, and bedevilled of acid bend apostolic insight. I am accustomed to acclaim this affairs to top academy students, academy students, and seminary acceptance as accepting a absolute life-force for our time," said Dr. Ron Allen, Nettie Sweeney and Hugh Th. Miller Professor of Preaching and New Testament at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana.
"One of the Church's angelic tasks is to acknowledge God's acceptable account to anniversary arising generation, lest the actuality become a antique of the past. By identifying, cultivating, and auspicious the next bearing of preachers, the Academy of Preachers will ensure that the age-old adventure of accretion will be proclaimed in avant-garde means now and for ancestors to come. Whenever we advance in adolescent preachers, we are abiding to accept a lasting, and everlasting, acknowledgment on the investment," said Rev. Brad Braxton, Senior Minister, the Riverside Church in New York City, New York.
The Academy of Preachers was founded in 2009 to nurture, strengthen and accommodate abutment to acceptance advancing careers in Christian preaching. Led by Dr. Dwight A. Moody, the Academy of Preachers is sponsored by St. Matthews Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. More advice is accessible online at www.academyofpreachers.net.
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