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Rural Ministry Program
Developed by the seminary’s Center for Lifelong Learning, the Rural Ministry Program includes a fellowship and conference. This program is funded by generous gifts from individuals and congregations. The fellowship is awarded annually to a pastor or commissioned lay pastor serving a congregation in a rural setting. The program also provides for up to 12 Rural Ministry Scholars who are awarded tuition grants to attend the conference.
Marilyn Wullschleger, the pastor of three small Presbyterian congregations near Marysville, KS, is the first recipient of the Rural Ministry Fellowship. The fellowship begins in Fall 2007 and will provide Wullschleger with financial support to attend Lifelong Learning events during the year. She in turn will provide leadership for the “Strengthening Rural Ministry” conference to be held at the seminary May 6-8, 2008.
Marilyn Wullschleger
Born in Kansas, Wullschleger grew up as the child of “home missionaries” in Appalachia. She earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Kentucky and established herself as a clinical researcher and medical editor at both her alma mater and with the Humana Heart Institute in Louisville, KY. Called to ministry, she completed her M.Div. degree in 1996 at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, VA, then received a call to be a pastor in her home state.
Strengthening Rural Ministry Conference
To be held May 6-8, 2008, on the seminary campus, the conference
features L. Shannon Jung, Professor of Town and Country Ministries
at the Saint Paul School of Theology in Kansas City, MO. Dr. Jung
is the author of several books on rural ministry in congregations,
as well as books on sharing food and world hunger.
Rural Ministry Conference information/online registration.
Information about the 2008-2009 Fellowship application process will be available in spring 2008.
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