by Anne Chanski | Jun 5, 2019 | Stories
The Beginning of My Young Life Journey My call to ministry came while I was a student at Michigan State University many decades ago. I was very interested in joining the staff of Young Life, a vibrant youth ministry I had been involved with as an adolescent and which...
by Anne Chanski | Jun 4, 2019 | Stories
“I rejoice and I tremble!” Dr. Brown is Selected As President Back in 2008 when Dr. Timothy Brown was told he had been selected as the next president of Western Theological Seminary, he thought of The Pilgrim’s Progress and Christian’s exclamation: “I...
by Anne Chanski | May 30, 2019 | Stories
Marvin Hoff, who dedicated his life to ministry in the Reformed Church of America and the church universal, died on May 26. Rev. Hoff served as the president of Western Theological Seminary from 1985 to 1994 and was the pastor of churches in Hawthorne, N.J. and Palos...
by Anne Chanski | May 28, 2019 | News
Honoring Dr. Brown and the completion of his presidency Our Board of Trustees has approved expanding the name of our preaching chair from the Henry Bast Preaching Chair to the Henry Bast – Timothy Brown Preaching Chair. The original name was established in the 1980s...
by Anne Chanski | Apr 4, 2019 | Stories
I zoomed in 400% on the above picture of Dedication Day so I could see who was in it. I never imagined doing so would make me cry, but it did. The tears welled up because of the stories of the people in the picture. On the top rung, in the middle of our excited...
