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asbury theological seminary
The Ninety-Eighth Commencement
May 21-22, 2021
Wilmore, KentuckyThe Ninety-Eighth Commencement
May 21-22, 2021
Asbury Theological Seminary
The Sherman Thomas Student Center
Wilmore, KentuckyThe President’s Cabinet
President
Timothy C. Tennent, Ph.D.
Provost and Senior Vice President President of Academic Affairs
Douglas K. Matthews, Ph.D.
Associate Provost and Vice President of Enrollment Management and Student Services
Kevin Bish, M.Ed.
Vice President of Advancement
Jay E. Mansur, C.F.S.
Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer
Bryan P. Blankenship, M.B.A.
Vice President of Formation
Donna Covington, M.A.C.L.
Academic Officers
Associate Provost Dean of Advanced Research Programs
Christine Johnson, Ph.D. Lalsangkima Pachuau, Ph.D.
Dean of the Beeson School of Practical Theology Dean of the School of Theology and Formation
Thomas F. Tumblin, Ph.D. James R. Thobaben, Ph.D.
Associate Provost and Dean of the Assistant Provost of Institutional Evaluation,
Orlando School of Ministry Assessment and Academic Administration
Brian D. Russell, Ph.D. S. Brian Yeich, Ph.D.
Dean of the School of Biblical Interpretation Dean of Library, Information,
David R. Bauer, Ph.D. and Technology Services
Paul A. Tippey, Ph.D.
Dean of the E. Stanley Jones School of World
Mission and Evangelism Registrar
Gregg A. Okesson, Ph.D. Michael A. Salmeier, D.Phil.Postgraduate Commencement Ceremony
Friday, The Twenty-First of May
Two Thousand Twenty One
Two o’clock in the afternoonMarshal of the Academic Procession Student Marshals
Bill T. Arnold, Ph.D. Robyn Florian
Paul S. Amos Professor of Doctor of Ministry Student
Old Testament Interpretation
Chelcent Fuad
The Crucifer Ph.D. Biblical Studies Student
James Bush
Doctor of Ministry Student Director of Music
Rev. Daniel Key
The Scripture Bearer Adjunct Instructor
David Chronic
Ph.D. Intercultural Studies Student Organist
Albin C. Whitworth, D.Cm.
Assistant to the Marshal
Michael A. Salmeier, D.Phil.
Registrar
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Seminary Singers Ensemble
Accompanist
Mrs. Julie Tennent
Director
Rev. Daniel Key
Jay Endicott
Mary Katherine Graetz
Daniel Johnson
Sarah Michel
Elywyn Murray
Sydney Nelson
Rebecca Ray
Abraham RuffcornThe Academic Procession
The Crucifer
The Scripture Bearer
The Academic Marshal
The Student Marshals
The Candidates for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
The Candidates for the Degree of Doctor of Ministry
The Candidates for the Degree of Master of Theology
The Faculty of the Seminary
The Platform PartyPostgraduate Commencement Ceremony
President Timothy C. Tennent, Presiding
Prelude�����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������Dr. Albin Whitworth
Organist
Processional...........................................Rigaudon����������������������������������������� Dr. Albin Whitworth
Campra Organist
Words of Welcome................................................................................ Dr. Timothy C. Tennent
President, Asbury Theological Seminary
Invocation................................................................................................. Dr. Thomas F. Tumblin
Dean of the Beeson School of Practical Theology
Hymn of Praise.................................And Can It Be............................................... Rev. Daniel Key
Charles Wesley (SAGINA) Adjunct Instructor
1. And can it be that I should gain 3. Long my imprisoned spirit lay,
An interest in the Saviour’s blood! Fast bound in sin and nature’s night;
Died he for me? who caused his pain! Thine eye diffused a quickening ray;
For me? who him to death pursued? I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;
Amazing Love! How can it be My chains fell off, my heart was free,
That thou, my God, I rose, went forth,
Shouldst die for me? And followed thee.
2. He left his Father’s throne above 4. No condemnation now I dread;
(So free, so infinite his grace!), Jesus and all in him is mine;
Emptied himself of all but love, Alive in him, my living Head,
And bled for Adam’s helpless race, And clothed in righteousness divine,
‘Tis mercy all, immense and free, Bold I approach th’ eternal throne,
For O my God, And claim the crown through
It found out me! Christ my own.
Recognition of Spouses and Families ................................................ Dr. Timothy C. Tennent
Scripture Reading. ......................2 Corinthians 4:5-15........................ Dr. Lalsangkima Pachuau
Dean of Advanced Research Programs
Anthem of Praise.........................Let it Be Said of Us ...........................Seminary Singers Ensemble
Arranged by: Mary McDonald
Address........................... “We Minister in Our Weakness”........................... Dr. Daryl McCarthy
Director, European Leadership Forum
Academic NetworkRecognition of Honors....................................................................... Dr. Douglas K. Matthews
Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs
Recognition of Honor Societies
Graduating Members of the International Honor Society of Theta Phi
Graduating Members of the Eta Beta Rho Hebrew Honor Society
Graduating Members of Leitourgia et Homiletica
Graduating Members of the Gamma Rho Kappa Honor Society
Presentation of Graduates.............................................................................. Dr. Christine Pohl
Professor Emerita
Conferring of Academic Degrees
Master of Theology
Doctor of Ministry
Doctor of PhilosophyThe Service of Consecration for the Class of 2021
Dr. Timothy C. Tennent
Presidential Charge to the Class of 2021
The Words of Affirmation and Commitment
The Call to Ministry
President: Brothers and sisters of the 2021 graduating class of Asbury Theological
Seminary, our call to discipleship is a call to transformational love.
Graduates: Hear, O Israel! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your
mind; and your neighbor as yourself.
President: We are called by Christ to embody all of the realities of the inbreaking
kingdom as we preach the gospel, serve the poor, and live in holiness.
Graduates: The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has
anointed me; He has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to
bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and
release to the prisoners; to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and
the day of vengeance of our God; and to comfort all who mourn.
President: Though in Christ we are one body, we have many members, with gifts
differing according to the grace given to us by the Holy Spirit.
Graduates: The gifts the Lord gave were that some would be apostles, some
prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the
saints for the work of ministry, for building up the Body of Christ,
until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the
Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.
President: Graduates, do you affirm in the presence of this company that you have
heard God’s call to a vocation of ministry; that you have tested that call
in reflection and ministry; and that you now stand ready to take further
steps of faithful service and mission?
Graduates: This we affirm.
President: As our mission proclaims: “Asbury Theological Seminary is a community
called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women
to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the
love of Jesus Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit, and to the glory of God the
Father.” Are you prepared to go forth as ambassadors of this message?
Graduates: Trusting in the work of Christ, we are.
President: Graduates, will you give yourself to a life of: earnest piety and
community formation; prayer, the study of the scriptures, and all the
means of grace; solidarity with the poor and marginalized, seeking
justice and offering mercy; lifelong learning; concern for the whole of
God’s creation; and mission among those who have yet to call on the
name of Jesus Christ?
Graduates: We will, the Holy Spirit being our helper.President: Members of the faculty, members of the President’s Cabinet, and
Trustees, you have heard our graduates affirm their call to active
discipleship and ministry. Will you join me in their commission by
standing with them?
President, Faculty, President’s Cabinet and Trustees stand and say:
We commission you as servants of our Lord Jesus Christ to serve Christ
in all the world, to know Him and to make Him known, to embody in
your lives the good news of the Kingdom of God, to be the church in
the world and to build up the body of those who call Him Lord. In the
name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
President: Let us pray. Almighty God, Father of all mercies, graciously behold these
your servants. Without Your help, they are helpless. Empower them
therefore with Your Holy Spirit, that they may be strong for the tasks
which lie ahead; and in all their works may they glorify Your Holy Name,
and advance Your blessed Kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
The Hymn of Dedication................Facing a Task Unfinished.............................. Rev. Daniel Key
Frank Houghton
1. Facing a task unfinished, that drives us 3. We bear the torch that, flaming, fell from the
to our knees, a need that, undiminished, hands of those who gave their lives proclaiming
rebukes our slothful ease. that Jesus died and rose.
We, who rejoice to know Thee, renew before Ours is the same commission, the same glad
Thy throne the solemn pledge we owe Thee - message ours; fired by the same ambition,
to go and make Thee known. to Thee we yield our pow’rs.
2. Where other lords beside Thee hold their We go to all the world with kingdom hope
unhindered sway; where forces that defied unfurled. No other name has power to save
Thee defy Thee still today. but Jesus Christ, the Lord.
With none to heed their crying for life,
and love, and light, unnumbered souls are 4. O Father Who sustained them, O Spirit
dying and pass into the night Who inspired, Saviour, Whose love constrained
them to toil with zeal untired.
We go to all the world with kingdom hope From cowardice defend us, from lethargy awake!
unfurled. No other name has power to save Forth on Thine errands send us to labour
but Jesus Christ, the Lord. for Thy sake.
We go to all the world with kingdom hope
unfurled. No other name has power to save
but Jesus Christ, the Lord.
Benediction............................................................................................................. Dr. David Bauer
Dean of the School of Biblical Interpretation
Recessional..........................................Trumpet Tune in C.......................... Dr. Albin Whitworth
Clarke
All degrees granted based on the satisfactory completion of the student’s work.Candidates for the Degree of
Master of Theology
Biblical Studies Intercultural Studies
*◊^ALBERTO ISAAC BONILLA-GIOVANETTI TAKANORI INOUE
*NOAH LEE CROMER MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER MARESCO
◊^MARSHALL C. JOHNS MOE MOE NYUNT
ELIA MESRICO ABDI KASIH CHRISTOPHER EUGENE ROBERSHAW
RUBIN JAMES MCCLAIN
Theological Studies
*◊^MATTHEW KELLON ROBINSON
GRAHAM ANDERSON HOPPSTOCK-MATTSON
◊BRIANA LEIGH RUSSELL
*ROBERT THOMAS WILLIAMS, JR.
Candidates for the Degree of
Doctor of Ministry
ANDRE ABA *†KAREN L. BRAY
Dissertation Project: Looking in the Mirror: Dissertation Project: Contemplative Prayer
The Integrity of the Preacher and Meditation: Their Role in Spiritual Growth
Mentor: Dr. C. Milton Lowe Mentor: Dr. Randall W. Jessen
CRISTINE CARNATE ATRERO JEFF ROBINSON BROOKS
Dissertation Project: Young Disciples in the Dissertation Project: Preaching the Gospel
Marketplace: A Marketplace-Based Discipleship to Trauma Survivors: Special Considerations,
Program of the United Methodist Young Adults Methods, and Techniques
of the Zambales District Mentor: Dr. Virginia Todd Holeman
Mentor: Dr. Chris A. Kiesling
MICHAEL R. BURNETTE, JR.
MARK AARON BENJAMIN Dissertation Project: Parable Church: How
Dissertation Project: The Discipleship Band: the Teachings of Jesus Shape the Culture of Our
Evaluating the Transformative Potential and Faith
Best Practices for Seedbed’s Model of Discipleship Mentor: Dr. Doug Oss
Bands Among Students at Asbury University
Mentor: Dr. Ellen Marmon MARK THOMAS CARTER
Dissertation Project: Developing Healthy
NOAH BOAHEN MBB Community: An Analysis of Relationships
Dissertation Project: The Impact of Between Muslim Background Believers
Mentoring Young People Aged 18 - 35 Through Mentor: Dr. A. Sue Russell
Military Chaplaincy in Ghana
Mentor: Dr. Jeff Hiatt
*Theta Phi ◊Eta Beta Rho †Leit. et. Hom. ^Gamma Rho KappaMARK JOHN CHEETHAM EDNEY JOAQUIM
Dissertation Project: Development and Dissertation Project: Fruitfulness and
Evaluation of a Wesleyan Internship Model: Ordination: Ministry Effectiveness as a
Creating a Discipleship, Renewal, and Lay Prerequisite for Ordination
Leadership Training Pathway Mentor: Dr. C. Milton Lowe
Mentor: Dr. Brian D. Russell
JOHN NJOROGE KAREITHI
CHRISTOPHER CHISALE Dissertation Project: Determining Best
Dissertation Project: The Impact of a Bi- Practices for Stopping and Reversing Widespread
Vocational Pastor: A Comparative Study on Exit of 15-19-Year-Olds From Glory Outreach
Church Health Assembly Congregations
Mentor: Dr. Tapiwa Mucherera Mentor: Dr. James C. Miller
DERRICK LAWRENCE DOHERTY WADE THOMAS KILLOUGH
Dissertation Project: Faith Perspective of First Dissertation Project: Seasons of Change:
Responders: The Impact of a Faith Community Navigating New Beginnings and Endings Within
on First Responders Pertaining to Trauma the United Methodist Church
Mentor: Dr. Anthony J. Headley Mentor: Dr. Bryan Collier
PATRICK SUGUNAKAR DOMMATI MICHAEL KOJO LARBI
Dissertation Project: Survey of the Missional Dissertation Project: 21st Century Class
Methods Modelled for Church Planting in the Meeting: Wesleyan Discipleship with Software
City of Hyderabad in Order to Determine Facilitated Blended Learning
Effective Methods for Planting Healthy Churches Mentor: Dr. Paul A. Tippey
in the Region
Mentor: Dr. Bryan Collier PAUL JAY MARZAHN
Dissertation Project: Church Planting Pastors:
JAIME ABRAHAM FABERLLE Identifying, Assessing, and Recruiting Potential
Dissertation Project: The Man Up Retreat: Church Planting Leadership
An Instrument of Defense Against Absentee Mentor: Dr. Bryan Collier
Fatherhood
Mentor: Dr. C. Milton Lowe SARAH JANE FUTCHER MCDONALD
Dissertation Project: Growing Female
ANDREW BARNES YANTIS HARGROVE Leaders: Best Practices in Identifying and
Dissertation Project: Clergy Compensation- Mentoring in the HTB Network
Setting Practices: Review of Practices in the Mentor: Dr. Stacy R. Minger
Great Plains Conference of the United Methodist
Church LEIGHTON ST. AUBIN MCFARLANE
Mentor: Dr. Thomas F. Tumblin Dissertation Project: Discipling with Purpose:
Best Practices in Light of God’s Telos for
SITHEMBISO HLOPHE Discipleship
Dissertation Project: Ministry Formation Mentor: Dr. Barbara Dobson
of Emerging Christian Leaders: Equipping
Emerging Leaders to Minister Among the LALIT KUMAR NAYAK
Marginalized Dissertation Project: Kandhamal Riot 2008:
Mentor: Dr. Thomas F. Tumblin Its Impact on Current and Future Christian
Community
ERIK L. IRELAND Mentor: Dr. Lalsangkima Pachuau
Dissertation Project: Competency-Based
Education for Ministers in the Wesleyan Church: JAMES TODD NELSON
Best Practices for Educators Dissertation Project: The Impact of Calling
Mentor: Dr. C. Milton Lowe on Discipleship
Mentor: Dr. Russell West
*Theta Phi ◊Eta Beta Rho †Leit. et. Hom. ^Gamma Rho KappaAYOBAMIJI JOSEPH OLUWAGUNNA JANNETTE WAY RUDOLPH
Dissertation Project: Now, Tomorrow is Dissertation Project: Adult Suicide: Church
Leaving Yesterday: Departure of Campus Youths Awareness, Support, and Prevention Education
from Church Mentor: Dr. Ellen Marmon
Mentor: Dr. Jeff Hiatt
RICHARD MATTHEW SCHELL
JOHNSON CHIBUEZE ONUOHA Dissertation Project: Faith And Work
Dissertation Project: A Biblically-Based Pedagogy for the 21st Century: A Consultation of
Parenting Style in Anglican Church Arochukwu the Curriculum of 210 Leaders
Mentor: Dr. Jeff Hiatt Mentor: Dr. Walter Jay Moon
SAMUEL OSAM-DUODU *MATTHEW THOMAS SEEL
Dissertation Project: U.S.-Based Ghanaian Dissertation Project: Lay Leadership
Methodist Young People: Improving Their Collaboration, Communication, and Succession
Participation in and Commitment to Church Among the Baby Boomer, Generation X, and
Mentor: Dr. C. Milton Lowe Millennial Generational Cohorts
Mentor: Dr. Thomas F. Tumblin
THAKUR PRASAD PAUDEL
Dissertation Project: The Importance of Faith SAMMY NGANGA WAINAINA
and Works in Major Christian Communities of Dissertation Project: Leadership Transition
Kathmandu Valley Test in the Church: Leadership Transition Test in
Mentor: Dr. Thomas F. Tumblin the Anglican Church of Kenya
Mentor: Dr. James C. Miller
CARLOS DARIO PERALTA
Dissertation Project: The Latino Church GEORGE DEHKONTEE WILSON, JR.
Planting Challenge: Factors That Impact Latino Dissertation Project: Equipping for Ministry:
Church Planting in Orlando, Florida, Within the Training Rural Pastors to Preach Evangelism
Encuentro Ministries Network and Discipleship in Liberia
Mentor: Dr. Iosmar Alvarez Mentor: Dr. Ellen Marmon
JOSE WILFREDO PIMENTEL MILLAN TODD A. WILSON
Dissertation Project: Engaging with New Dissertation Project: Missionary Training
Generations: Integration Among Young English- Best Practices: Equipping Church Members to Be
Speaking Hispanic Congregation Effective Missionaries in Their Own Contexts
Mentor: Dr. Ellen Marmon Mentor: Dr. Scott Nelson
PAUL MARSDEN RISLER NEGA MEAZA ZELEKE
Dissertation Project: Homiletics: Dissertation Project: Welcoming Vulnerable
Strengthening Preaching Through a Community Children Who Need Help from Today’s Church
of Practice Model Mentor: Dr. Jeff Hiatt
Mentor: Dr. Ellen Marmon
*Theta Phi ◊Eta Beta Rho †Leit. et. Hom. ^Gamma Rho KappaCandidates for the Degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
Biblical Studies DONALD MURRAY VASSER
Dissertation Project: Slaves in the Christian
LINDSAY DACOSTA ARTHUR Household: The Colossian and Ephesian
Dissertation Project: The Meaning of Haustafeln in Context
Μαθητεύσατε in the Broader Context of the Mentor: Dr. Ben Witherington III
Gospel of Matthew
Mentor: Dr. David R. Bauer JOY L. VAUGHAN
Dissertation Project: Spirit Possession in
◊^GARRETT EVAN BEST Luke-Acts and Modern Eyewitnesses: An
Dissertation Project: Imitatio Ezechielis: The Analysis of Anthropological Accounts as Evidence
Irregular Grammar of Revelation Reconsidered for the Plausibility for the Lukan Accounts
Mentor: Dr. Frederick J. Long Mentor: Dr. Craig S. Keener
TAD CARL BLACKETER ◊BENJAMIN WIGGERSHAUS
Dissertation Project: An Abundance of Good Dissertation Project: The Man of Opened
Things: Paul Ricoeur’s Cultural Imagination and Eye: Ancient Near Eastern Revelatory
a Phenomenology of Deuteronomism Convention and the Balaam Cycle
Mentor: Dr. Bill T. Arnold (Numbers 22-24)
Mentor: Dr. Bill T. Arnold
*◊^KEVIN BRIAN BURR
Dissertation Project: Incomparable?
Authenticating Criteria in Historical Jesus Intercultural Studies
Scholarship and General Historical Methodology
Mentor: Dr. Craig S. Keener BAN SEOK CHO
Dissertation Project: Being Missional,
^RYAN KRISTOPHER GIFFIN Becoming Missional: A Biblical-Theological Study
Dissertation Project: The Justification Clause of the Missional Conversion of the Church
of Phil 3:12: A Textual, Transcriptional, and Mentor: Dr. Lalsangkima Pachuau
Exegetical Analysis
Mentor: Dr. Fredrick J. Long DANIEL RICHARD HUNTER
Dissertation Project: Emerging Dimensions
◊ALISON KAY HAWANCHAK of Mission in a Global Body: Tracking and
Dissertation Project: The Hero and His Evaluating Partnerships between American
Temptress: A Re-Analysis of the Ancient Near Congregations and their Global Counterparts
Eastern Expression of the K2111 “Potiphar’s Mentor: Dr. Stephen W. Offutt
Wife Motif” in Light of Judges 16
Mentor: Dr. John A. Cook YAKUBU TANKO JAKADA
Dissertation Project: Early Christian
*◊^KEI HIRAMATSU Responses to Persecution and Their Implications
Dissertation Project: The Structure of Second for Christians in Northern Nigeria
Corinthians: Paul’s Theology of Ministry Mentor: Dr. A. Sue Russell
Mentor: Dr. David R. Bauer
*IRENE MAONEI KABETE
THOMAS MICHAEL LYONS Dissertation Project: Reframing and [Re]
Dissertation Project: Revisiting the Riddle in Presenting Evangelism in Oral Cultures: A Case
Samaria: A Social-Scientific Investigation of Spirit Study of the Harare West (MUMC) VABVUWI
Reception in Luke-Acts in Historical Perspective Choir in Zimbabwe
Mentor: Dr. Craig S. Keener Mentor: Dr. Walter Jay Moon
*Theta Phi ◊Eta Beta Rho †Leit. et. Hom. ^Gamma Rho KappaSHIVRAJ KUMAR MAHENDRA SAMUEL AYOTOLA ODUBENA
Dissertation Project: Church Planting, Dissertation Project: Migration of
Humanitarian Services, and Christian Holiness the Communicants from Anglicanism to
in Central India: A Study of the Life and Mission Pentecostalism in Nigeria
of Ernest and Phebe Ward Mentor: Dr. Philip Meadows
Mentor: Dr. Timothy C. Tennent
SUSANGELINE YALILI PATRICK
SHERYL ANN MARKS-WILLIAMS Dissertation Project: Art as a Pathway to
Dissertation Project: Ascertaining Factors God: A Historical-Theological Study of the Jesuit
Affecting Church Congregational Affiliation Mission to China in the Late Ming and Early
Among Anglophone Caribbean Immigrants in Qing Dynasties (1552-1773)
South Florida Mentor: Dr. Lalsangkima Pachuau
Mentor: Dr. Steven J. Ybarrola
GEORGE NDUATI WOKI
ANDREW DAVID MCFARLAND Dissertation Project: Spiritual Metrics:
Dissertation Project: William Carey’s Accounting for Spiritual Transformation in
Expectation for Missionary Cooperation: An International Development
Inquiry into the Significance of Interdependence Mentor: Dr. Gregg A. Okesson
in the Missionary Partnerships and Collaborative
Efforts of the First Baptist Mission in India
Mentor: Dr. Art McPhee
ZONIA LUANN MITCHELL
Dissertation Project: Giftive Mission Lives:
Verbeck, Judson, Ricci, and Timothy I
Mentor: Dr. Art McPhee
*Theta Phi ◊Eta Beta Rho †Leit. et. Hom. ^Gamma Rho KappaGraduate Commencement Ceremony
Saturday, The Twenty-Second of May
Two Thousand Twenty One
Eleven o’clock in the morning
Sherman Thomas Student CenterMarshal of the Academic Procession Student Marshals
Dr. Stephen Stratton, Ph.D. Mara Vetters
Professor of Counseling Master of Divinity Student
The Crucifer Melissa Wagner
Kunal Onkar Master of Mental Health Counseling and
Master of Divinity Student Master of Theological Studies Student
The Scripture Bearer Director of Music
Raheel Dhingra Rev. Daniel Key
Master of Mental Health Counseling Adjunct Instructor
Student
Organist
Assistant to the Marshal Albin Whitworth, D.Cm.
Michael A. Salmeier, D.Phil.
Registrar
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Seminary Singers Ensemble
Accompanist
Mrs. Julie Tennent
Director
Rev. Daniel Key
Jay Endicott
Mary Katherine Graetz
Daniel Johnson
Sarah Michel
Elywyn Murray
Sydney Nelson
Rebecca Ray
Abraham RuffcornThe Academic Procession
The Crucifer
The Scripture Bearer
The Academic Marshal
The Faculty of the Seminary
The Platform PartyGraduate Commencement Ceremony
President Timothy C. Tennent, Presiding
Prelude........................................................................................................................... Dr. Albin Whitworth
Processional........................................... Rigaudon................................................. Dr. Albin Whitworth
Campra
Words of Welcome................................................................................ Dr. Timothy C. Tennent
President, Asbury Theological Seminary
Invocation.......................................................................................................Dr. Michael Matlock
Professor of Inductive Biblical Studies,
Old Testament and Early Judaism
Hymn of Praise.................................And Can It Be............................................... Rev. Daniel Key
Charles Wesley (SAGINA) Adjunct Instructor
1. And can it be that I should gain 3. Long my imprisoned spirit lay,
An interest in the Saviour’s blood! Fast bound in sin and nature’s night;
Died he for me? who caused his pain! Thine eye diffused a quickening ray;
For me? who him to death pursued? I woke, the dungeon flamed with light;
Amazing Love! How can it be My chains fell off, my heart was free,
That thou, my God, I rose, went forth,
Shouldst die for me? And followed thee.
2. He left his Father’s throne above 4. No condemnation now I dread;
(So free, so infinite his grace!), Jesus and all in him is mine;
Emptied himself of all but love, Alive in him, my living Head,
And bled for Adam’s helpless race, And clothed in righteousness divine,
‘Tis mercy all, immense and free, Bold I approach th’ eternal throne,
For O my God, And claim the crown through
It found out me! Christ my own.
Recognition Of Spouses and Families ............................................... Dr. Timothy C. Tennent
Scripture Reading. ........................2 Corinthians 4:5-15............................. Dr. Kenneth J. Collins
Professor of Historical Theology and Wesley Studies
Anthem of Praise......................... Let it Be Said of Us .............................Seminary Singers Ensemble
Arranged by: Mary McDonald
Address........................... “We Minister in Our Weakness”........................... Dr. Daryl McCarthy
Director, European Leadership Forum
Academic NetworkRecognition of Honors���������������������������������������������������������������������� Dr. Douglas K. Matthews
Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs
Recognition of Honor Societies
Graduating Members of the International Honor Society of Theta Phi
Graduating Members of the Eta Beta Rho Hebrew Honor Society
Graduating Members of the Gamma Rho Kappa Honor Society
Presentation of Graduates.............................................................................. Dr. Ellen Marmon
Professor of Christian Discipleship
Presenting of Certificates
Conferring of Academic Degrees
Master of Arts
Master of DivinityThe Service of Consecration for the Class of 2021
Dr. Timothy C. Tennent
Presidential Charge to the Class of 2021
The Words of Affirmation and Commitment
The Call to Ministry
President: Brothers and sisters of the 2021 graduating class of Asbury Theological
Seminary, our call to discipleship is a call to transformational love.
Graduates: Hear, O Israel! You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your
mind; and your neighbor as yourself.
President: We are called by Christ to embody all of the realities of the inbreaking
kingdom as we preach the gospel, serve the poor, and live in holiness.
Graduates: The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has
anointed me; He has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to
bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and
release to the prisoners; to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and
the day of vengeance of our God; and to comfort all who mourn.
President: Though in Christ we are one body, we have many members, with gifts
differing according to the grace given to us by the Holy Spirit.
Graduates: The gifts the Lord gave were that some would be apostles, some
prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, to equip the
saints for the work of ministry, for building up the Body of Christ,
until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the
Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ.
President: Graduates, do you affirm in the presence of this company that you have
heard God’s call to a vocation of ministry; that you have tested that call
in reflection and ministry; and that you now stand ready to take further
steps of faithful service and mission?
Graduates: This we affirm.
President: As our mission proclaims: “Asbury Theological Seminary is a community
called to prepare theologically educated, sanctified, Spirit-filled men and women
to evangelize and to spread scriptural holiness throughout the world through the
love of Jesus Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit, and to the glory of God the
Father.” Are you prepared to go forth as ambassadors of this message?
Graduates: Trusting in the work of Christ, we are.
President: Graduates, will you give yourself to a life of: earnest piety and
community formation; prayer, the study of the scriptures, and all the
means of grace; solidarity with the poor and marginalized, seeking
justice and offering mercy; lifelong learning; concern for the whole of
God’s creation; and mission among those who have yet to call on the
name of Jesus Christ?Graduates: We will, the Holy Spirit being our helper.
President: Members of the faculty, members of the President’s Cabinet, and
Trustees, you have heard our graduates affirm their call to active
discipleship and ministry. Will you join me in their commission by
standing with them?
President, Faculty, President’s Cabinet and Trustees stand and say:
We commission you as servants of our Lord Jesus Christ to serve Christ
in all the world, to know Him and to make Him known, to embody in
your lives the good news of the Kingdom of God, to be the church in
the world and to build up the body of those who call Him Lord. In the
name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
President: Let us pray. Almighty God, Father of all mercies, graciously behold these
your servants. Without Your help, they are helpless. Empower them
therefore with Your Holy Spirit, that they may be strong for the tasks
which lie ahead; and in all their works may they glorify Your Holy Name,
and advance Your blessed Kingdom; through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen.
The Hymn of Dedication................Facing a Task Unfinished.............................. Rev. Daniel Key
Frank Houghton
1. Facing a task unfinished, that drives us 3. We bear the torch that, flaming, fell from the
to our knees, a need that, undiminished, hands of those who gave their lives proclaiming
rebukes our slothful ease. that Jesus died and rose.
We, who rejoice to know Thee, renew before Ours is the same commission, the same glad
Thy throne the solemn pledge we owe Thee - message ours; fired by the same ambition,
to go and make Thee known. to Thee we yield our pow’rs.
2. Where other lords beside Thee hold their We go to all the world with kingdom hope
unhindered sway; where forces that defied unfurled. No other name has power to save
Thee defy Thee still today. but Jesus Christ, the Lord.
With none to heed their crying for life,
and love, and light, unnumbered souls are 4. O Father Who sustained them, O Spirit
dying and pass into the night Who inspired, Saviour, Whose love constrained
them to toil with zeal untired.
We go to all the world with kingdom hope From cowardice defend us, from lethargy awake!
unfurled. No other name has power to save Forth on Thine errands send us to labour
but Jesus Christ, the Lord. for Thy sake.
We go to all the world with kingdom hope
unfurled. No other name has power to save
but Jesus Christ, the Lord.
Benediction................................................................................................. Dr. Stephen L. Martyn
Associate Professor of Spiritual Formation
Recessional..........................................Trumpet Tune in C.......................... Dr. Albin Whitworth
Clarke
All degrees based on the satisfactory completion of the student’s work.Candidates for the Certificates
Aging and Spirituality SHANE CORY BRITT
SARAH RUTH PERRY SANTOSH SHARMA
Christian Education Pastoral Care
BARNABAS KYUNGHWAN KIM SPENCER CHARLES KRENKE
CORIN ANDREW MCDONALD
Intercultural Studies
SETH J. MYERS Youth and Family Ministry
HANNAH JUBILEE PACKARD JACOB ELLIOTT HINZE
Leadership
DAVID LORING ADAMSON
Candidates for the Degree of
Master of Arts
Biblical Studies ◊DAVID WESLEY MASON
IAN THOMAS BARKER ◊STACY LYNN MCNEIL
*◊^ALBERTO ISAAC BONILLA-GIOVANETTI *◊^MATTHEW KELLON ROBINSON
*NOAH LEE CROMER AUSTIN DANIEL RUCKER
LINDSEY LEIGH CROSTON
Christian Ministries
RAFAEL GUSTAVO DE ALMEIDA VIANA
JULIA ELIZABETH HOLLAND
◊AUSTIN SCOTT HERBERT
MICHAEL PAUL MAYEAUX
*HANNAH LYNN HOPKINSON
KAREN BOWEN RODEN
SERGO LALANNE
SARAH ELIZABETH SEIBER
JONATHAN BENAIAH LEWIS
TIMOTHY MATTHEW WISE
YEE NGE LIN
*Theta Phi ◊Eta Beta Rho ^Gamma Rho KappaIntercultural Studies Leadership
CHRISTINE OKIYA AGINA CHARLOTTE ANNE ABEL
MEICA BENJAMIN CAMPBELL APOORVA PRASHANT BHOPE
MANIK ANTHONY GEORGE COREA SYDNIE ANN FRAUSTRO
COURTNEY ANN DUNN WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER GODBEY
JANGA LAL MAGAR JARRETT HARDEE HOWARD
MATTHEW CHRISTOPHER MARESCO SARAH MICHELLE JOHNSON
RUDY F. MARTE STONEY DEMITRI JOHNSON, JR.
ZACHARY MICHAEL MEERKREEBS CHANDLER CALEB LANDIS
JOHN MONGER VICTORIA SHADDOX MANN
TUL BAHADUR MONGER MASON ALLYSE MILES
*CIRO MORAES COSTA DE CASTRO COLETTE LANI PATTON
ALEX JESUS NUNEZ *STEPHEN MATTHEW PENNY
PADAM LAL POUDEL IVAN RAMIREZ
BHADRA RAI DEBORAH ROBINSON
RAHAR MAN RAI JOSIAH MICHAEL ROLOSON
TARA B. RAI SARAH ELIZABETH SEIBER
SAMANTHA JO ROUNDTREE LAURA NICOLE STEAGER
LINDSEY NICOLE RUSSELL
Marriage and Family Counseling
ANUGRAHA SHARMA
EARL LAMONTEZE JOHNSON
SANTOSH SHARMA
MAMI TSUTADA
LAURA NICOLE STEAGER
AARAN MAURICE TAYLOR Mental Health Counseling
JOSEPH RYAN TUCK ELZABA ANDERSON
NEGGA ABAY WOLDESEMAIT KACIE DAWN BLEDSOE
HANNAH E. COWEN
JANINE LOUISE DAMRAN
*Theta Phi ◊Eta Beta Rho ^Gamma Rho KappaSARAH YU-KYUNG HAN Spiritual Formation
RICHARD AUSTIN HUNTER JANA MARIE APPLIN
RACHEL MARIA JOYNER TRACY JEAN MOORE
CRAIG MATTHEW LADWIG
Theological Studies
CALEB STEVEN MACKEY
ZACH KEITH MONROE MARGARET FRANCES ANDREWS
EMMA FAITH MORGAN GABRIELLE DEANNA CAJA
SHELBY RHEA PARRISH QUINNE ALEXANDRA CULLINS
CAROLYN MARIE SAAD EVAN BLAKE DRYSDALE
RACHAEL ELIZABETH SHANNON LAUREN NICOLE EDGELL
*JODI DIANE SHEFFIELD GERREN THOMAS FISH
JOY JEMIMA SINGH BENJAMIN DANIEL FOSS
YAGANA YAKUBU *LAURA CATHERINE DAHL GARVERICK
*AIMEE MARIE ZIEGLER *NICHOLAS SCOTT GROUNDS
DYLAN MICHAEL JEFFERY
Ministry
JOSHUA HANKYUL LEE
JUNE CRISTY ANDERSON DORSEY REBECCA JULIE ELISABETH MARCH
DARRYL LORENZO BURRUS SARAH KATHLEEN MCGINNIS
*FRANCES CATRON CADLE LOGAN DEREK MILLER
TABITHA RACHEL HEATHCOTE SUSANNAH ELISE SEARLS
JONATHAN LEVI HUNDLEY *DAN EVAN STOLLDORF
STEVEN VAN PELT MANN *LUKE CHARLES STRASSER
JONNAH DEE POPEK VINCENT ANDREW SULLIVAN
IVAN RAMIREZ LISA MICHELLE VANDENBERGE
DYLAN MICHAEL WILSON *YING WANG
*ROBERT THOMAS WILLIAMS, JR.
Pastoral Counseling
JAMIE RYAN SVEC
*Theta Phi ◊Eta Beta Rho ^Gamma Rho KappaCandidates for the Degree of
Master of Divinity
GRACE BELLE ABBOTT DAVID LEE DAIRE
WILLIAM TRAVIS ABERCROMBIE JAMES RYAN FORD
DAVID KWAME ABUBEKR NIKOLAS ANTONIO FRAUSTRO
DAVID LORING ADAMSON NILSE FURTADO-GILLIAM
*SHAWN EMRY ALLEN JOHN J. GARGIS
STEPHEN JAY ANDREWS NATHANAEL SCOTT GIBBONS II
KAITLIN ELIZABETH BABINGTON M’KENNA LEIGH SINCLAIR GILLESPIE
RYAN KEITH BACHUSS JORGE SAMUEL GONZALEZ
BRIAN DAVID BALLINGER JOSHUA DAVID GORCZYCA
JORDAN CHASE BARRIOS JOSHUA TYLER GROCE
CONNOR MICHAEL BERG CONNOR MATTHEW GUERZINI
^NICKOLAS DEAN BETTIS ANDREW JOHN HAMMER
DAVID RUSSELL BLANCHARD BROOKE HARROWER HARTMAN
PHILIP ALLEN BLAND EDWARD ROSSWELL HELM
SHANE CORY BRITT JACOB ELLIOTT HINZE
MEGHAN ALISON BURRIS MEGAN KATHLEEN HOENIG
STEVEN WAYNE CARR SAMUEL SLADE HOGAN
PAUL LEVANT CASZATT SHELBY LYNN HOOD
BRIAN CHANGHOON CHOI MATTHEW FRANCIS HOWE
GLENN A. COLE BRIAN HAGEN JACKSON
GRAEME DAVID COLLETT ◊YOUNGWOOK JEON
LINDA LOU COOTS ◊^MARSHALL C. JOHNS
BRIAN ERIC COPLIN TEKILA SUS’ANNE MARIE JOHNSON
RANDALL NATHAN CUPP MICHAEL VASIL KELINGOS
*Theta Phi ◊Eta Beta Rho ^Gamma Rho KappaJESSICA KATERI KENNEDY SARAH GRACE PHILLIPS
COLE MICHAEL KESSINGER WESLEY CARROLL PHILLIPS
JAMES MICHAEL KING RUSSELL EDWARD POORE III
MARVIN OTIS KING, JR. JULIE HELEN RARIDAN
ZACHARY ADAM KRATZER DAVID JEREMIAH RAY
SPENCER CHARLES KRENKE MICHAEL LEWIS REXROAD
ROBIN RENEE KYEK DONNA GAIL REYNOLDS
JAMES AARON LAIBEN JEMMIE DALE REYNOLDS
DEAN WILLIAM LANE STEVEN BRIAN RING
BRYAN KEITH LASSITER CHRISTOPHER EUGENE ROBERSHAW
DO HEE LEE TIMOTHY JOHN ROBINSON
AVERY RAE LINN-AUTHENREITH SARAH ELIZABETH ROCHTE
KATHRYN MICHELLE MASTERS ◊BRIANA LEIGH RUSSELL
VICTORIA LEA MCCLARY SADIE VIRGINIA SASSER
CORIN ANDREW MCDONALD *MATTHEW CRAIG SCANDRETT
NOAH WOODROW MCGEE III JOHN ALBERT SCHNEIDER
AMY ELIZABETH MITCHELL SETH MATTHEW SCHUTTE
SEAN MONAGHAN *◊^MICHAEL THOMAS SCHWIND
CAMERON HALL MOORE REEVE RUSSELL SEGREST
TINA LOUISE MORGAN *◊^SETH ALAN SHIPMAN
*^JAY GREGORY MUELLER NICHOLAS ALEXANDER SMITH
CODY ALLAN NEAL RACHEL ELIZABETH SMITH
EVAN CHASE NESTER CHLOE SPECHT
ROBERT LEE OAKLEY, JR. *JEREMY WILSON STEWART
HANNAH JUBILEE PACKARD MASON PATRICK STEWART
JAMES ALAN PEICH *LUKE CHARLES STRASSER
*STEPHEN MATTHEW PENNY JAMIE RYAN SVEC
*Theta Phi ◊Eta Beta Rho ^Gamma Rho KappaDONALD JOHNSON TERRY
THOMAS PACE TOOLE
LEAH RENEE TRAHAN
JULIE MARIE TRUHLAR
JOSE JACO VIEIRA, JR.
MICHAELA CAITLYN WALLEY
PHILIP NATHANAEL WEBSTER
LEEANN MARIE WENDELL
STEPHANIE MICHELLE WILLIAMS
REBECCA GRIFFITH WIMBERLY
CHRISTOPHER MICHAEL WISE
JAE HYUNG YOON
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