Glenn and Linda Timmons to coordinate pastoral excellence initiative.

Linda and Glenn Timmons have been appointed coordinators for the Sustaining Pastoral Excellence initiative of the Brethren Academy for Ministerial Leadership, a ministry training partnership of the General Board and Bethany Theological Seminary. As coordinators they will provide leadership for the Vital Pastor Program and the Advanced Foundations of Church Leadership program, made possible by a grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. They will begin in late April at the academy offices in Richmond, Ind.

Glenn Timmons served the General Board as executive director of Congregational Life Ministries and executive of Parish Ministries from 1992 until his retirement in 2003. He also has pastored four Church of the Brethren congregations. Linda Timmons has served the Association of Brethren Caregivers as administrative assistant since 1997, and previously served as coordinator of recruitment for Brethren Volunteer Service, managed a SERRV gift shop, and has been a lay minister of Christian Education at Highland Avenue Church of the Brethren, Elgin, Ill.

To learn more about the Vital Pastor and Advanced Foundations programs, visit www.bethanyseminary.edu/pastoralexcellencemain.htm. To learn more about the Lilly Endowment initiative, visit www.pastoralexcellence.org.

Source: Newsline 4/02/2004 top