The Ninety-Eighth Commencement Asbury Theological Seminary

The Ninety-Eighth Commencement asbury theological seminary

May 21-22, 2021 Wilmore, Kentucky The Ninety-Eighth Commencement

May 21-22, 2021

Asbury Theological Seminary

The Sherman Thomas Student Center Wilmore, Kentucky The 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 afternoon

Marshal 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

Seminary Singers Ensemble

Accompanist Mrs. Julie Tennent

Director Rev. Daniel K ey

Jay Endicott Mary Katherine Graetz Daniel Johnson Sarah Michel Elywyn Murray Sydney Nelson Rebecca Ray Abraham Ruffcorn The 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 Party Postgraduate 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 Network

Recognition 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 Philosophy The 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 Kappa MARK 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 Kappa AYOBAMIJI 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 Kappa Candidates 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 Kappa SHIVRAJ 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 Kappa

Graduate Commencement Ceremony Saturday, The Twenty-Second of May Two Thousand Twenty One Eleven o’clock in the morning

Sherman Thomas Student Center Marshal 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

Seminary Singers Ensemble

Accompanist Mrs. Julie Tennent

Director Rev. Daniel K ey

Jay Endicott Mary Katherine Graetz Daniel Johnson Sarah Michel Elywyn Murray Sydney Nelson Rebecca Ray Abraham Ruffcorn The Academic Procession

The Crucifer

The Scripture Bearer

The Academic Marshal

The Faculty of the Seminary

The Platform Party Graduate 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

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 Network Recognition of Honors ��Dr. Douglas K. Matthews Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs

Presentation of Graduates...... Dr. Ellen Marmon Professor of Christian Discipleship

Presenting of Certificates

Conferring of Academic Degrees Master of Arts Master of Divinity The 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.

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 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 Kappa Intercultural 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 Kappa SARAH 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 Kappa Candidates 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 Kappa JESSICA 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 Kappa DONALD 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

*Theta Phi ◊Eta Beta Rho ^Gamma Rho Kappa