Programs: Curriculum

Seminary students need a high-quality foundation in church leadership. The Lewis Center is at the forefront of efforts to make leadership studies a higher priority in theological education, enhancing Wesley Seminary's capacity to provide students with the fundamentals of church leadership.

Dr. Lovett H. Weems, Jr., director of the Lewis Center, also serves as distinguished professor of church leadership, teaching master's level and Doctor of Ministry classes. While the Lewis Center contributes to most of the D.Min. tracks at Wesley, two new tracks have been developed since the Center's inception -- one in church leadership and the other in stewardship. The church leadership track begins every two years. The next track will begin in May, 2007.

The Lewis Center brings to Wesley's campus some of the most outstanding practitioners and theorists of church leadership. Dr. Scott Cormode of the Claremont School of Theology came to Wesley as an affiliate scholar of the Lewis Center during the 2004-5 academic year. And in October 2005, Rev. Adam Hamilton, pastor of the United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, delivered a series of campus lectures and led a conference for pastors and laity.