Dr. Joe Warrington Is Honored
What happens when a professor teaches in a particular field for three decades straight? Our own Dr. Joseph Warrington, Director of Pastoral Ministries at °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï, can tell you:
Not long ago, a student in his Introduction to Christian Ministry class quoted a published author who is a former student of Dr. Warrington at °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï. What a testimony of consistent, effective ministry education!
This summer, °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï celebrated Dr. Warrington’s 30 years of service at the July Faculty Workshop. Dr. Warrington believes “a call to ministry is a call to preparation.” He has seen calls affirmed and ministers encouraged in °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï classes and says the purpose of °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï faculty is “to work together to further the cause” of preparing adults to evangelize, disciple, and minister to the world.
As a young minister in the 1980s and 1990s, Joe Warrington pastored and served as a school administrator in Los Angeles, operating an extension of °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï. Since he had been coming annually to °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï’s Colorado Springs’ campus for in-services, he was familiar with and respected by °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï leadership, and in 1993, he joined the faculty on campus. He has been teaching full time for the College ever since, leading both the Ministry Preparation Program and the Pastoral Ministries department in turn.
There is no question Dr. Warrington loves his students. He calls it a privilege to help guide called ones through ministry training and joyfully stays in contact with many well beyond graduation.
Michelle Avery, °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï Manager of Communication
Published: 10/03/2023
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