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Assistant Professor of World Christianities
Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics
Dr. Symmonds is the Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics. Her work sits at the intersection of Christian ethics and women, gender, and sexuality studies. She explores Black women’s embodiment, particularly the practices of liberative embodiment they craft as a method of resistance to domination and as a simulation of freedom. Dr. Symmonds’ research qualitatively engages issues around faith-based sex trafficking interventions and commercial sex work, Caribbean cultural practices such as Carnival masquerading and embodied celebration, and she theorizes how trends in popular culture around performances of race, sex, and sexuality reveal and/or conceal opportunity for ethical reflection. Her other interests include Catholic moral theology from a womanist standpoint, cultural criticism, literature as a moral genre, and the intersections of horror and religion. Dr. Symmonds identifies as Black Catholic, a religious tradition that follows the rite of the Roman Catholic Church but is driven by the spirit of Blackness in all its forms according to Black people’s diasporic origins and heritage. She is a parishioner at Our Lady of Lourdes, the Mother Church of African-American Catholics in the Archdiocese of Atlanta.
Education:
PhD, Emory University
MDiv, Emory University, Candler School of Theology
BS, Florida A&M University
Denomination: Catholic
Affiliate Professor of Worship & Seminary Musician, Affiliate Faculty
Dr. Tony McNeill, affectionately known as “Dr. T.,” is a sought-after workshop clinician, lecturer, consultant, mentor, and choral conductor. “Dr. T” serves as an Affiliate Professor of Worship and Seminary Musician (2023-2024) at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. He served as Director of Choral Activities and Chairman of the Department of Performing Arts at Clinton College in Rock Hill, SC, from 2019-2022. Dr. McNeill also served four and a half years as the Director of Worship and the Arts at Atlanta’s Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, “America’s Freedom Church.” In February 2022, Dr. McNeill was Artist-in-Residence for Covenant Presbyterian Church (Charlotte, NC). He later served as Interim Minister of Worship at Myers Park Presbyterian Church (Charlotte, NC). During the first quarter of 2023, he was Interim Minister of Music at Myers Park Baptist Church (Charlotte, NC)
In addition to his work in church worship ministry, he spends significant time in the academy. During the 2022-2023 year, he was an adjunct professor of music and worship at Campbell University (Buies Creek, NC), Clinton College, The Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta, GA), and Union Presbyterian Seminary (Charlotte, NC). Dr. McNeill has lectured for Duke Divinity School, Hampton University Ministers Conference, The Hymn Society of the United States and Canada, American Choral Directors Association, Shaw University Ministers Conference, and The Association of Partners in Christian Education (PCUSA). Dr. T. led music for the 2022 Montreat Youth Conference (Omega, Weeks 5 and 6) and was a service musician and workshop leader for the 2023 Worship and Music Conference sponsored by the Presbyterian Association of Musicians. He has curated and led worship for the American Baptist Home Mission Societies’ Space for Grace Conference, the Forum for Theological Exploration, The Black Theology and Leadership Institute at Princeton Theological Seminary, Faith Coordinating Center at Wake Forest School of Divinity, The Samuel Dewitt Proctor Conference, The National Children’s Defense Fund, and The Montreat Conference Center. He is a former member and assistant director of the renowned recording group Donald Lawrence & The Tri-City Singers.
Dr. Tony earned a bachelor of music education degree from Appalachian State University, with an emphasis in piano and choral music; a master’s degree in choral conducting from Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL); and a doctorate of worship studies from The Robert Webber Institute for Worship Studies (Jacksonville, FL). His dissertation is entitled, “From Funeral to Feast: Renewing The Celebration of Holy Communion Through Congregational Singing in African American Baptist Church, Charlotte, North Carolina.” His article “Lift Every Voice and Sing: Forming Congregations for Justice” is featured in the Augusts 2021 edition of CALL TO WORSHIP: LITURGY, MUSIC, PREACHING, AND THE ARTS, a journal published by the Presbyterian Church USA. He published “Hiding in Plain Sight: A Reflection on Leading Worship” for INSIGHTS: THE FACULTY JOURNAL OF AUSTIN PRESBYTERIAN SEMINARY (Austin, TX). He also contributed to “Going to Wait: African American Church Worship Resources—Pentecost through Advent” and “Waiting to Go: African American Church Worship Resources—Advent through Pentecost,” by James Abbington and Linda Hollies (Chicago, IL: GIA Publications, 2002 and 2003). In 2016, Dr. McNeill was also profiled in the acclaimed BET.com documentary, “Holler If You Hear Me: Black and Gay in the Church,” curated by Clay Cane.
He is a member of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians, American Choral Directors Association (ACDA), Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity. He is the Founder/Curator of THE CALL 2 WORSHIP GROUP, an online community of musicians and clergy.
Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching
Anna Carter Florence is the Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. She is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and holds degrees from Yale University (BA) and Princeton Theological Seminary (MDiv and PhD). Before joining the Columbia faculty in 1998, Anna served as an associate pastor for youth and young adults at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis.
Anna’s books include Preaching as Testimony, Inscribing the Word, and Rehearsing Scripture: Discovering God’s Word in Community, based on her 2012 Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching at Yale Divinity School. Her newest book is A is for Alabaster: 52 Reflections on the Stories of Scripture. She has also published articles and chapters in numerous books and journals, including a year’s worth of lectionary text commentaries for www.WorkingPreacher.org.
Anna’s research focuses on testimony, preaching pedagogies, and creative strategies for communities to engage and encounter the biblical text for our present context. She is a frequent preacher and teacher in the U.S. and abroad, which gives her plenty of opportunity to do what makes her happiest: sitting around a table with a group of people, a big passage of Scripture, and a big block of time to dive into it. She and her husband, the Rev. David Carter Florence, have two grown sons, Caleb and Jonah. They also have two dogs, two cats, and way too much knitting yarn.
Education:
Denomination: Presbyterian Church (USA)
Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Counseling
Chanequa Walker-Barnes is a womanist pastoral theologian, clinical psychologist, and ecumenical minister who serves as Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Care. At the core of Dr. Walker-Barnes’s work is a deep commitment to dismantling oppression and promoting justice and healing in the Christian church and the broader US society. She teaches course on pastoral care for couples and families, womanist pastoral care, mindfulness and self-care, and racial justice/reconciliation. She is the author of three books – Sacred Self Care: Daily Practices for Nurturing Our Whole Selves, I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation, and Too Heavy a Yoke: Black Women and the Burden of Strength, as well as two dozen book chapters and peer-reviewed journal articles in theology, clinical psychology, and child development. Her faith has been shaped by Methodist, Baptist, Buddhist, and evangelical social justice communities. She was ordained by an independent fellowship that holds incarnational theology, community engagement, social justice, and prophetic witness as its core values.
Education
Denomination: Post-Denominational
Areas of Expertise:
Associate Professor of Educational Ministry; Lead Professor DEdMin Program
Christine J. Hong is Associate Professor of Educational Ministry at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA. Her research includes anti-colonial and decolonial approaches to religious and interreligious education. Hong’s research interests include Asian Diasporic spiritualities, Korean Musok, and children and adolescent spiritual and theological formation among BIPOC communities. She is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and two monographs; the first is Youth, Identity, and Gender in the Korean American Church, published by Palgrave, and the second is Decolonial Futures: Intercultural and Interreligious Intelligence for Theological Education from Lexington Press. She is a frequent conference speaker and workshop leader on decolonizing religion and spirituality.
Education:
Denomination: Presbyterian Church (USA)
Senior Vice President, Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs, J. McDowell Richards Professor of Biblical Interpretation
Dr. Yoder’s research interests include Israelite and ancient Near Eastern wisdom literature; the social-historical and theological dynamics of the post-exilic period; the short stories of Ruth, Esther, and Jonah; and biblical conceptions of the moral self.
Education:
Denomination: Presbyterian Church (USA)
Director, Lifelong Learning Staff Center for Lifelong Learning
Wade P. Huie, Jr. Associate Professor of Homiletics
Jake Myers serves as the Wade P. Huie, Jr. Associate Professor of Homiletics at Columbia Theological Seminary. He’s an ordained minister of Word and Sacrament in the PC(USA).
Jake has written numerous books and essays, the latest of which is entitled “Stand-up Preaching: Homiletical Insights from Contemporary Comedians” (Cascade, 2022). He has a forthcoming book in press with Lexington Book’s Religion and Pop Culture series connecting theology and ethics with stand-up comedy, which he is co-authoring with Dr. Nicole Graham, a religious studies professor at King’s College London. He provides online homiletical resources and sermon coaching at www.preachingdr.com.
Education:
Associate Dean, Academic Programs, Affiliate Faculty
Dr. Jenn Carlier (she/they) is the Associate Dean for Academic Programs at Columbia Theological Seminary. Their research and teaching focuses on the encounter between lived experience and theology and seeks to reimagine theologies and practices that are liberative for underrepresented communities. Their research interests include queer and feminist theologies, the intersections of theology and mental health, metaphorical theology, and moral injury. Their book, Finding God in the Basement: Reimagining a Theology of Addiction and Recovery comes out in January 2026. Dr. Carlier has also written liturgies for the Feasting on the Word Worship Companion series, has published in Pastoral Psychology, and given a TheoEd Talk on their work. They have taught both introductory courses in theology and ethics, and electives such as, Queer Theologies, Theologies of Addiction, Jesus in Global Context, and Ecclesiologies in Action.
Prior to coming to Columbia Theological Seminary, Dr. Carlier served as a Louisville Post-Doctoral Fellow at Candler School of Theology where they taught courses in ethics and theology. Beyond their work in higher education, Dr. Carlier also served churches in both the US (as Stembler Fellow at First Presbyterian Church in Atlanta) and the Netherlands (as Associate for Ault Education and Youth Ministries at the American Protestant Church of The Hague). Before earning their PhD in Theological Studies from Emory University, Dr. Carlier earned an MA in English Literature from Leiden University in the Netherlands, an MA in Theological Studies from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and an MDiv from Columbia Theological Seminary. They are an avid fan of Lego, strategy board games, pickleball, and woodworking.
Education:
Benton Family Associate Professor of Christian Education and Project Director for the Wonder of Worship Grant
Dr. Dawson is interested in the fields of life course development, teaching and learning methods, the spiritual lives of children, and intergenerational learning and worship. Her current research is focused on how we can best nurture children in their worship and prayer lives. She was named Educator of the Year by the Association of Partners in Christian Education in 2015.
Dr. Dawson is available to speak on topics related to Wonder of Worship, Children’s Views on Worship and Churches’ Responses to Inclusion of Children, Intergenerational Worship, Children’s Ministry in general, Curriculum and Curriculum Writing, the Arts in Teaching and Learning, and Faith and Human Development.
Education:
Denomination: Presbyterian Church (USA)
Associate Dean, Information Services; Senior Director, John Bulow Campbell Library
Dr. Kelly Campbell is passionate about equipping people for learning and life, strategizing to develop best practices, and providing high-quality service. Kelly serves as the Associate Dean of Information Services/Senior Director of the John Bulow Campbell Library at Columbia Theological Seminary. She brings a unique breadth of experience to this role, having served in various educational and library settings, including elementary, public, and private schools and large and small public libraries. She has demonstrated success in strategic planning, organizational development, and change management. Before obtaining her Doctor of Education in Organizational Leadership from Pepperdine University, Kelly also holds a Master in Library Science and a Master of Arts in Theological Studies.
An experienced and seasoned library leader, Dr. Campbell is involved globally with theological librarians, serves on the Editorial Board of the Books@Atla Open Press, and is a community member of the American Board for Funeral Service Education Committee on Accreditation. Additionally, she is active in the Association of Theological Schools initiatives, working on global awareness and intercultural sensitivity. Her denomination is Southern Baptist, and Kelly enjoys quilting, cooking, and reading when not traveling and teaching.
Education:
Denomination: Southern Baptist
J. Erskine Love Professor of Christian Ethics and Lead Professor for the ThM Degree
Mark Douglas is an ordained PCUSA minister and the J. Erskine Love Professor of Christian Ethics at Columbia Theological Seminary, where he directs the Center for Theology and Contested Publics and is lead professor for the Master of Theology degree. His most recent books include Christian Pacifism for an Environmental Age (Cambridge UP, 2019) and Modernity, the Environment, and the Christian Just War Tradition (Cambridge UP, 2023).
J.B. Green Professor of Theology
Martha Moore-Keish is the J.B. Green Professor of Theology at Columbia Theological Seminary. She has taught at the seminary since 2004, offering classes on Christian, Reformed, comparative, and feminist theologies, as well as a range of special topics. Dr. Moore-Keish has published books on eucharistic theology and prayer, a theological commentary on the book of James, and an edited volume, Karl Barth and Comparative Theology. Her latest publication is a co-edited reference volume The T&T Clark Handbook on Sacraments and Sacramentality (2023).
After growing up and attending public school in Tallahassee, Florida, Dr. Moore-Keish went to Harvard College, where she studied comparative religions. Following her graduation, she spent a year studying ancient Indian history and culture at Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal, India. Dr. Moore-Keish then attended Union Presbyterian Seminary in Richmond, where she earned the MDiv degree and met and married her husband Chris. She earned the Ph.D. in theological studies from Emory University in 2000. Following graduation and ordination in the Presbyterian Church (USA), she worked as an Associate in the PC(USA) Office of Theology and Worship, developing liturgical resources and educational events for church leaders. From 2003-04, she served on the faculty of Yale Divinity School and the Institute for Sacred Music as Assistant Professor of Liturgical Studies.
For several years, Dr. Moore-Keish served on official ecumenical dialogues between Reformed and Roman Catholic churches, most recently as Reformed co-chair of the international ecumenical dialogue between the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) and the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. In addition to research on liturgical and sacramental theologies, she has a long-standing interest in interreligious issues, particularly Christian-Jewish relations and religions of India. A Reformed theologian committed to theology for the church, she has recently been appointed to the new PC(USA) committee to consider a new confession for the Book of Confessions.
Education:
Denomination: Presbyterian Church (USA)
Professor of Practical Theology and Pastoral Care; Lead Professor MAPT Program
Dr. Mindy McGarrah Sharp is a practical and pastoral theologian whose scholarly work reflects on diverse contexts and practices of spiritual care. A trained clinical ethics consultant, Dr. McGarrah Sharp weaves ethics and practical theology in her teaching and scholarship. Dr. McGarrah Sharp seeks to cultivate in the classroom the kinds of invitational spaces of belonging and full participation she researches and sees as not only possible but urgently needed today.
J. Davison Philips Professor of New Testament
Dr. Mitzi Smith has authored and edited eleven books, including her most recent books Not Wanting a Thing to Be the Thing: An African American Woman Biblical Scholar’s Stroke Memoir (2025) and Chloe and Her People: A Womanist Critical Reading of First Corinthians (2023). Her research interests are womanist and African American interpretation, enslavement and the NT, translation, and NT interpretation. Smith is currently completing a book on the Gospel of Luke, co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Bible, Race and Diaspora with Dr. Nadella and Dr. Luis Menéndez-Antuña. She is the host and producer of the Beyond the Womanist Classroom podcast. She enjoys water aerobics, walking, weight training, and painting.
Senior Advisor for Flourishing and Belonging
Samuel A. Cartledge Associate Professor of New Testament
Dr. Raj Nadella is the Samuel A. Cartledge Associate Professor of New Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary. His research interests include postcolonial biblical interpretation, migration and New Testament perspectives on economic justice. Nadella is the author of Dialogue Not Dogma: Many Voices in the Gospel of Luke (Bloomsbury, 2011), co-editor of Christianity and the Law of Migration (Routledge, 2021) and co-author of Postcolonialism and the Bible (Bloomsbury, forthcoming in 2024). Nadella serves on the editorial boards of Currents in Biblical Research, Review of Biblical Literature and Oxford Bibliographies Online: Biblical Studies. He has written for publications such as The Huffington Post, Sojourners, Christian Century and Working Preacher.
Dr. Nadella is a member of the Presbyterian Church (USA). He is actively involved in the academy and the Church on issues such as race, economic justice and immigration. He chairs the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)’s Committee on Underrepresented Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession (CUREMP).
Education:
Denomination: Presbyterian Church (USA)
The Peachtree Professor of Evangelism and Church Growth
Dr. Ralph Basui Watkins is widely known as “The Scholar with a Camera.” He is an artsbased researcher whose work bridges spirituality, photography, documentary film, and social justice. An accomplished author, Dr. Watkins has written eight books and contributed over thirty chapters and articles to scholarly publications. His creative portfolio includes three solo photography exhibitions and four made-for-television documentaries. His most recent project, Seeing the Future of the Church in the Rainbow, blends powerful imagery and storytelling to explore inclusion and faith. Currently, Dr. Watkins is co-authoring The Word Made Image: Scripture, Photography, and the Creativity of Justice with Dr. Bill Brown (Fortress Press, 2026). He is also completing Black Intimacy and the Black Church: A Black Preacher’s Journey to an Inclusive Love, scheduled for release by Judson Press in March 2026.
Associate Dean for Worship Life; Assistant Professor of Worship
Dr. Rebecca F. Spurrier is Associate Dean for Worship Life and Assistant Professor of Worship at Columbia Theological Seminary. She integrates a focus on disability studies and liturgical theology in the classroom with the formation of worship leaders through weekly chapel services. She is interested in a theology and practice of public worship that reflects the beauty and tension human difference brings to Christian liturgy.
Engaging ethnographic theology, disability studies, and liturgical aesthetics, her research explores the hope of human interdependence and the importance of liturgical access for religious practice and Christian community. She is the author of The Disabled Church: Human Difference and the Art of Communal Worship (Fordham University Press, 2019) and other chapters and articles on worship, disability theology, and ethnographic theology, such as “Disability, Human Difference, and the Sacramentality of Access,” in T&T Clark Companion to the Sacraments and Sacramentality and “Disabling Eschatology: Time for the Table of Our Common Pleasure,” in the journal Liturgy.
A Mennonite with commitments to ecumenical worship, her current research involves a collaborative team of researchers and writers, who are developing a liturgical resource constructively informed by the wisdom of disability experience that responds to ableism in Christian worship.
She serves as co-chair of the Ecclesial Practices Unit of the American Academy of Religion, as a member of the North American Academy of Liturgy, and as a board member of the Friendship Center at Holy Comforter Church.
Education:
Denomination: Mennonite
Director, Center for Academic Literacy
Associate Dean, Contextual Education and International Partnerships
Dr. Sue Kim Park is interested in theologies and practices of interreligious and contextual education that center lived experience and identity formation. She teaches contextual education courses that ask questions about identity, expressions and embodiment of faith, wholeness of human spirituality, and complexities of the human web. In her role as the Associate Dean of CEIP, she is always researching pedagogies of experiential and immersion courses that seek to transform one’s understanding of the self and the other.
Director of Student Financial Services
Associate Professor of Theology
Rev. Tim Hartman, PhD, is Associate Professor of Theology at Columbia Theological Seminary, near Atlanta, USA. He is the author of two books: Theology after Colonization: Kwame Bediako, Karl Barth, and the future of theological reflection (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020), Kwame Bediako: African Theology for a World Christianity (Fortress Press, 2022/Langham Publications, 2021), and is working on a third, tentatively titled, Chosen for What?: Decolonizing Divine Election. He is also an ordained minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and has served churches in Los Angeles and Baltimore. He has published essays in Modern Theology, Black Theology, Stellenbosch Theological Journal, and Cross Currents. His scholarly interests include: contemporary Christian theologies worldwide, Christology, Lived Theology (the interrelationship between religious beliefs and practices), African theologies, Election/Predestination, antiracist theologies, ecclesiology, postcolonial theologies, and the work of Karl Barth, Kwame Bediako, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and James Cone.
Associate Professor of American Religious and Cultural History; Director of MDiv Program
William Yoo is Associate Professor of American Religious and Cultural History at Columbia Theological Seminary. He has published books on African American Christianity, Asian American Christianity, Presbyterian history, and the histories of Indigenous rights activism and abolitionism in the United States. His book, What Kind of Christianity: A History of Slavery and Anti-Black Racism in the Presbyterian Church, received the 2023 Award of Excellence from the Religion Communicators Council. His most recent book is Reckoning with History: Settler Colonialism, Slavery, and the Making of American Christianity. He is presently conducting research for a book project on Reconstruction and the Civil Rights Movement.
As a teacher, preacher, and scholar, Yoo focuses on the history of racism in American Christianity. Yoo is a professor and public theologian who interprets the most challenging and urgent issues of racial justice with clarity, depth, honesty, and precision. His conviction is that deeper engagement with history aids us in more faithful and effective participation in our present ministries exhibiting God’s love, justice, grace, and righteousness. When studying the development of Christianity in the United States, he is motivated to find both beautiful moments of awe-inspiring faith and ugly episodes where it is difficult to discern the divine presence. He is a Minister of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and a member of Cherokee Presbytery. He previously served on the Board of Directors for the Presbyterian Historical Society and presently serves on the Board of Directors for the Montreat Conference Center. William and his spouse, Sarah, a middle school educator in Atlanta Public Schools, reside in Decatur, Georgia with their two teenage children and two cats.
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President
The Rev. Dr. Victor Aloyo, born in Brooklyn, N.Y., is the son of the late Esperanza Aloyo and Victorino Aloyo from Vieques, Puerto Rico. He has been married to Suzette Aloyo for over thirty-six years and is blessed with two daughters, Kayla Cristen, an aerospace engineer working in Huntsville, AL, and Alyssa Nicole, serving as a DEI administrator in Nashville, TN. Victor currently serves as the eleventh President of Columbia Theological Seminary. Previously he served as the Associate Dean of Institutional Diversity and Community Engagement at Princeton Theological Seminary and as Organizing/Lead Pastor of Iglesia Presbiteriana Nuevas Fronteras in North Plainfield, NJ. Victor received a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies and Sociology from the College of New Rochelle, a Master of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Doctorate in Executive Higher Education Administration from the University of Pennsylvania, focusing his dissertation on navigating diversity and inclusion within a framework of social justice.
As the Chief Diversity Administrator at Princeton, Dr. Aloyo was directly responsible to the seminary president on diversity, equity, and inclusive excellence. Victor served as the institution’s Primary Designated School Officer with the United States Customs and Immigration Service, the Title IX and Title VI Coordinator, and the Director of the Office of Multicultural Relations. Victor led the institution in developing a Diversity Action Blueprint detailing specific goals, objectives, and assessment criteria for all DEI and Belonging Initiatives. Victor served as Interim Director of Alumni Relations within the Advancement department, a member of the Committee on Accreditation for three cycles, Task Force on the Historical Audit on Slavery, and Long-Range Strategic Cohort. Victor also directed the Seminary’s Urban Ministry and community engagement efforts by cultivating sustainable partnerships with community organizations, educational institutions, worship centers, and community residents in the City of Trenton and Greater Mercer County.
Dr. Aloyo’s leadership responsibilities included service as Director of Urban Ministry at the New York City Mission Society, Senior and Organizing Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of The Redeemer of East Brooklyn for ten years, moderator of the Presbytery of New York City, and chair of the General Council of the New York City Presbytery. Victor also served as a member of the board of trustees of the New York Theological Seminary, the Presbyterian Camp and Conference Center in Holmes, N.Y., and the New York City Presbytery, while spearheading the organization of La Promesa Presbyterian Church in Flushing, Queens (currently Iglesia Cristiana La Promesa). Dr. Aloyo, with a cohort of elders, deacons, and young adults from churches in New York, New Jersey, Long Island, and Pennsylvania, for over thirty years, directed a youth & young adults ministry predominantly from inner-city contexts at the Presbyterian Center in Holmes, N.Y. Victor is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Presbyterian Foundation, the Evangelical Seminary of Puerto Rico, and the Covenant Architects Network. For eighteen years in Plainfield, NJ, Victor served as a field education supervisor/mentor for over sixty-three seminarians creating a unique teaching church ministry model.
Dr. Aloyo mentions that he “is blessed and humbled” in leading, with the support of the Board of Trustees, Faculty, Students, and Administrative Staff, a world-class institution serving the Southeast, the nation, and the globe. At Columbia Seminary, Dr. Aloyo posits that in collaboration, “we will continue to bring to life the Seminary’s critical mission of inspiring and challenging every student to a life of leadership and purpose for the glory of God. We will strive to embrace every story through our curriculum, policies, campus life, and virtual platforms because we belong to each other on this journey to become world changers, discoverers, explorers, curators, and stewards of God’s abundance and grace.”
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