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Four Professors Join North Park Seminary Staff
CHICAGO, IL (March 29, 2006) - North Park Theological Seminary has announced
the hiring of four professors.
The new professors include Stephen Chester, associate professor of New
Testament; Max J. Lee, assistant professor of New Testament; Michelle
Clifton-Soderstrom, assistant professor in Theology and Ethics; and
Michael A. Van Horn, associate professor of Theology and Worship.
Chester is currently a lecturer in New Testament and Greek at
International Christian College (ICC) in Glasgow, Scotland, as well as
an honorary lecturer in the Department of Divinity and Religious Studies
of the University of Aberdeen.
He earned his doctoral degree at the University of Glasgow. Ordained in
the Church of Scotland, he has been active in urban ministry in Glasgow
since 1988. He led a team at ICC to develop a Master of Theology program
in Urban Ministry.
Chester was on staff at the Ruchazie Parish Church in 1988-89 working
with youth and the community. He has been an active member of the church
since then. He also has served as assistant minister at Burnside Parish
Church. He is married with two children.
Lee currently is a visiting assistant professor of New Testament at
Wheaton College. He previously has taught at Westmont College and Fuller
Theological Seminary.
He earned his doctoral degree at Fuller. He has been active in diverse
ministries since 1989. Currently he is preaching regularly at the
Chinese Christian Mandarin Church of Willowbrook and the Evangelical
Free Church of Naperville outside Chicago.
Lee was a short-term missionary in Tokyo, Japan, on staff at campus
ministries at the University of California-Berkeley, San Francisco State
University, UCLA, USC, U.C. Irvine, Caltech and U.C. Riverside. He also
served as a youth pastor and leader of Bible studies and discipleship
groups at Berkland Baptist Church in Los Angeles. Lee is married with
two children.
Clifton-Soderstrom is the new assistant professor of theology and
ethics. She has been teaching at the seminary, though not on a tenure track.
She earned her doctoral degree at Loyola University in Chicago, where
she also has been a guest lecturer. She also has given talks in the
areas of politics, medicine and justice.
Clifton-Soderstrom has extensive experience in the health care field,
including working with seniors and persons with disabilities. She also
has done short-term work at a women's clinic in Ghana.
She has been an active member of North Park Covenant Church and
currently serves as a deacon. Clifton-Soderstrom also has been involved
in youth, children and family ministries at numerous Evangelical
Covenant Churches and camps. She is married with two children.
Van Horn currently is senior pastor at Trinity Church (Evangelical
Covenant) in Livonia, Michigan, where he has served since 1995. He also
has taught full-time at Cornerstone University and Grand Rapids
Theological Seminary. He has taught part-time at William Tyndale College
and done adjunct work at Ashland Theological Seminary.
He serves on the Church Music and Worship Commission for the Evangelical
Covenant Church.
Ordained in the Baptist church, Van Horn has been active in ministry
since 1988. He was pastor of a United Methodist congregation in Twin
Lake, Michigan from 1988-1990.
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