Where Everybody Knows Your Name: Best Practices in the Small Church
Dr. Marilyn Johns is the Director of Program Development for the Leadership Institute at Union Presbyterian Seminary. Prior to that, she worked as the Project Manager of the Summer Collegium, a Lilly Endowment project of Virginia Theological Seminary that encouraged and built up pastors of small congregations and their families. Her responsibilities included visiting small churches (about 125 over five years) in cities and towns all over the United States and Canada to preach, teach, and encourage. A Certified Christian Educator in the Presbyterian Church (USA), she earned her Doctor of Ministry degree in Ministry Development at Virginia Theological Seminary and has served as an Adjunct Instructor there. She also served as Project Coordinator for For Such a Time as This, a project of the Presbyterian Church (USA) that seeks to pair small churches in remote areas with first-call pastors.