AMES, Larry Dean (Infant) AMES, Martha Margaret AMES, Sylvester James AMES DIGGINS, Joan M. ALMOND WHEATON, Edna Gladys ALT, Evelyn T. ALBRECHT, George ALBRECHT, Laurette ALBRIGHT, Alice Marie ALBRIGHT, Raymond D. AHLHELM, William Michael AIELLO NAPOLI, Theresa Rose AKERS, Patrick B. 'Toni' AHLES PENTZER, Josephine AHLHELM, Mae Ann AHLHELM, Ralph W. ADAMS, Robert Dean ADAMS, Verla Adeline ADAMS, Viola Rose 'Lanky' ADAMSON, Daniel ADAMSON, Daniel ADAMSON, Irene AHLES, Francis J. ADAMS, Baby Boy ADAMS, Catherine ADAMS, Katy Marie ADAMS, Kenneth ADAMS, Kenneth L. in Worship and Spirituality at Northern Baptist Theological Seminary in the fall of 2000.ACKER, Carol M. Myers Professor of Ministry and Director of the M.A. From 1968 to 2000 he served as Professor of Theology at Wheaton College, and was named Professor Emeritus upon his retirement in 2000. Webber was born in Congo of missionary parents, and was raised in the Philadelphia area. We exist to serve you as you serve your local church or teach in college or seminary.ĭr. If this is the kind of education you have longed for, and if you qualify for our Doctor of Worship Studies or our Master of Worship Studies, we would love to hear from you. We teach those who teach, lead those who lead and pastor those who pastor.

Training in the disciplines of worship is the goal of the Institute for Worship Studies. Worship needs a foundation in the theological disciplines, in the personal disciplines of spirituality, in the disciplines that create and sustain community, and in the disciplines that empower all the ministries of the local church. Instead, we concentrate entirely on the process of helping them become worship pastors.īeing a worship pastor in today’s complicated world is no simple matter.

We assume our students have this knowledge and skill. The Institute for Worship Studies does not offer music courses. At the Institute for Worship Studies we know this, and we are prepared to help. Most music and worship pastors are not prepared for the shift. What was once only music is now worship teaching, worship evangelism, worship spirituality and even counseling. The ministry includes more than the entire musical life of the church. But now, music and worship leadership has evolved into a pastoral ministry. Their task was to oversee a division within the church that concentrated on everything musical pertaining to public services. Formerly, a music minister or a worship leader was only in charge of music or worship leadership. Here is what I have observed in the last few decades: music ministry and worship leadership have been going through a significant change.

The Institute for Worship Studies was founded to meet this need and prepare leaders for the changing task of worship ministry. They have the music education and the skills for music and worship leadership, but they lack the knowledge of the biblical foundations, historical development, theological reflection and cultural analysis for effective worship ministry in today’s world. More and more professors of church music, music ministers of the local church and pastors realize there is a gap in their education.

The Institute for Worship Studies was founded with that question in mind. Here is a question I have heard again and again: “Where can I go to study worship-not music-but worship?” Webber Institute for Worship Studies in honor of the vision, accomplishments and contributions of Bob Webber. In January 2007, the Board of Trustees unanimously voted to change the name of IWS to the Robert E. He died April 27, 2007, at his home in Michigan. Webber founded the Institute for Worship Studies in 1998 and was its first president.

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