Students

Sarah Chamberlain ’08 and Whitney Wilkinson ’08 with the help of Christopher Hooker ’07, led and were keynote speakers for a multi-congregational youth retreat on “relationships,” at the Calvin Center, Hampton, GA…..Mary Lynn Dell (DMin ’09), associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and faculty fellow in clinical ethics at Emory University, has been awarded a Christian Faith & Life Grant by the Louisville Institute. Her project is titled “Guide Us Waking and Guard Us Sleeping: A Practical Pastoral Theology for Autism Spectrum Disorders” (to read her project abstract, see Vantage Online at www.ctsnet.edu > News and Events > Vantage)…..Karen Fleming ’08 is on the steering committee and led worship for the Southern annual recreation workshop at Bethelwoods Camp and Conference Center, York, SC…..Mary Beth Hamburger, a part-time MATS student, served as youth advisor, secretary of the Religious Education Committee, and lay service leader at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Gwinnett County, GA; led the Coming of Age program, was a member of the Weekday Ministries Committee and worked with Presbyterian Women at Eastminster Presbyterian Church, Marietta, GA; served as co-chair of the Publishing Company at Arcado Elementary School; and was a member of Spectrum, Gwinnett County’s support group for families affected by autism…..Erin Kobs ’09 is serving as full-time pastoral intern at Laurel church, Laurel, MD; taught a five-week adult Sunday school class on the meaning and practices of Sabbath; preached twice at First church, Greeneville, TN…..Michael McLaughlin ’08 preached at the Atlanta Taiwanese Presbyterian Church’s English ministry service; preached and twice led worship at Ebenezer church, Hogansville, GA…..Nancy Meehan Yao ’09 is working as a chaplain resident at Northside Hospital; preached at Henry Memorial church, Dublin, GA…..Zachary T. Roberts (DMin ’09) is serving as interim associate pastor for education and spiritual formation at First Baptist Church, Greensboro, NC, and is planting an emergent community, Dogwood Abbey, in Winston-Salem, NC.