<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:30:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>ANTS Student E-News</title><description/><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/index.htm</link><managingEditor>Andover Newton News</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>479</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-7121135914911596893</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-08T17:30:10.808-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Friday, February 8, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- NEW ANTS WEBSITE TO GO LIVE!&lt;br&gt;- Worship and Preaching Job Search&lt;br&gt;- New Testament Job Search&lt;br&gt;- &amp;#161;Habla espa&amp;#241;ol!&lt;br&gt;- Answered prayers: A lathe lost.a lathe found&lt;br&gt;- Upcoming ESF Events&lt;br&gt;- Chapel News (February 10th-16th)&lt;br&gt;- Justice and Peace Fellowship&lt;br&gt;- Between Places: The Spiritual in Art&lt;br&gt;- Book Study with Prof. Mark Heim&lt;br&gt;- Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;- Join the Evangelical Fellowship at Andover Newton on Connect!&lt;br&gt;- Join the UCC Fellowship at ANTS on Connect!&lt;br&gt;- Financial aid info&lt;br&gt;- Intramurals at ANTS&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;Spring 2008 &lt;br&gt;Courses Closed&lt;br&gt;CHRS720 - [ELCHRS] Life as Pilgrimage&lt;br&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;ETHI 780-With Head and Heart&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;Spring 2008&lt;br&gt;Courses Canceled&lt;br&gt;P3 OLDT 512&lt;br&gt;WOTA 776 Creation Spirituality Penfold&lt;br&gt;NEWT 709 Exegesis: Matthew Pregeant&lt;br&gt;HIST 628 Women Leaders Coolman&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;NEW ANTS WEBSITE TO GO LIVE!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Over the weekend, the long-awaited new website will go live. The&lt;br&gt;expanded goal of the new site is to help the outside world discover&lt;br&gt;and support Andover Newton, in addition to providing the information&lt;br&gt;the Andover Newton community is accustomed to finding. We have tried&lt;br&gt;to streamline and upgrade navigation and services, and further&lt;br&gt;enhancements will be rolled out over the coming months. We hope you&amp;#39;ll&lt;br&gt;take time to explore it, and we truly appreciate all the help we&amp;#39;ve&lt;br&gt;received in putting the new site together (more than 30 people&lt;br&gt;contributed feedback!).&lt;p&gt;We&amp;#39;ve tried to make the launch as painless as possible. Hopefully,&lt;br&gt;you&amp;#39;ll find the site intuitive and easy to use. Please take a few&lt;br&gt;moments to surf the site and discover where your favorite sections are&lt;br&gt;now located. However, if you have difficulty finding things, you might&lt;br&gt;try the Search function, which is greatly improved over the old search&lt;br&gt;system. You&amp;#39;ll find a Search box at the top of each screen. Links for&lt;br&gt;Webmail&lt;br&gt;and Connect are in the footer on every page as well as in the &lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Current Students - Online Resources&amp;quot; section.&lt;p&gt;Content updates in cooperation with senior administration are ongoing&lt;br&gt;and will continue over the next few months. In a site as large and&lt;br&gt;complex as this, there may be a few errors, despite our best efforts.&lt;br&gt;We ask for the help and indulgence of the Andover Newton community in&lt;br&gt;discovering them. We all want to make this a great website! Please&lt;br&gt;direct all feedback to webteam@ants.edu. If you find an error, please&lt;br&gt;forward the relevant page address along with your comment, by copying&lt;br&gt;and pasting it from your browser&amp;#39;s address bar (it starts with&lt;br&gt;http://). That way we can most quickly find and correct it.&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your support during this exciting transition.&lt;br&gt; -- the web team&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Worship and Preaching Job Search&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Worship and Preaching Job Search Committee is pleased to announce a&lt;br&gt;finalist for the Faculty Position in Worship and Preaching and Director&lt;br&gt;of the Wilson Chapel.  The Reverend Dr. Kay Lynn Northcutt will be on&lt;br&gt;campus for final interviews February 13th and 14th.  Dr. Northcutt&amp;#39;s&lt;br&gt;public lecture is Wednesday, February 13th, from 12:00-1:00 pm in the&lt;br&gt;Berkeley room and all are encouraged to attend. Student&amp;#39;s have the&lt;br&gt;opportunity to meet and interact with Kay on Thursday, February 14th,&lt;br&gt;from 11:30 am  to 1:00 pm in the new student lounge. Copies of Dr.&lt;br&gt;Northcutt&amp;#39;s CV are available to review in W210. Feedback is welcome to&lt;br&gt;any member of the search committee.  Dean Herzog - wherzog@ants.edu,&lt;br&gt;Professor Pazmi&amp;#241;o- rpazmino@ants.edu, Professor Drummond-&lt;br&gt;sdrummond@ants.edu, Professor Valentin- bvalentin@ants.edu, Andy&lt;br&gt;Edwards- aewards@ants.edu,  Tempest Brevard- tbrevard@ants.edu. &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;New Testament Job Search&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;On Monday, February 11, 2008, the New Testament Search Committee will&lt;br&gt;welcome Demetrius Williams, a Professor of New Testament at Marquette&lt;br&gt;University and a finalist for the New Testament position here at ANTS,&lt;br&gt;to campus.  Similar to the interview process for Mr. Lee, all students&lt;br&gt;are invited to attend a luncheon with Demetrius Williams that will be&lt;br&gt;held at 12:00 p.m. and then attend a lecture presented by Dr. Williams&lt;br&gt;at 1:00 p.m. in the Berkeley Room.  Because student input is valued in&lt;br&gt;the process of selecting a new professor to join the ANTS community, we&lt;br&gt;hope all students who are interested and available will make an effort&lt;br&gt;to attend these two events.&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions or comments on the above, please do not&lt;br&gt;hesitate to contact Joel Kemp at jkemp@ants.edu.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;&amp;#161;Habla espa&amp;#241;ol!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Ay guey, having a tough time to find someone to speak Spanish? &amp;#161;No te&lt;br&gt;preocupes!&lt;p&gt;The Latin American Fellowship is pleased to announce that Andover&lt;br&gt;Newton now has a designated time and place for folks to come and speak&lt;br&gt;Spanish. The small dining room in the cafeteria has been reserved for&lt;br&gt;Tuesday, 2/12/08, from 11:30am to 1:00pm (in other words, during lunch).&lt;br&gt;We plan to make this a regular event, so if you are feeling the need to&lt;br&gt;come and practice your Spanish, or even just want to listen to some&lt;br&gt;Spanish, be sure to come. For more information, contact Jason Boyd&lt;br&gt;(JBoyd@ants.edu). Please come -- it&amp;#39;ll be muy buena onda! &amp;#161;Nos&lt;br&gt;vemos!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Answered prayers: A lathe lost.a lathe found&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Three weeks ago, my son-in-law, Don, lost his wood lathe in a&lt;br&gt;devastating&lt;br&gt;fire. With no means to support my daughter Rachel and their sons Silas&lt;br&gt;and&lt;br&gt;Ry, prospects were mighty bleak. Through the miracle of eBay (!) a&lt;br&gt;replacement lathe was located in Miami and it was delivered to their&lt;br&gt;barn&lt;br&gt;last Wednesday. Like her predecessor Big Bertha, Sweet Loretta also&lt;br&gt;weights&lt;br&gt;in at 2 tons and is 14 feet long. Maneuvering her through the snow and&lt;br&gt;into&lt;br&gt;the sliding barn door was no easy task. It took the efforts of 8 men,&lt;br&gt;my&lt;br&gt;daughter and a bucket loader to settle her in. Although we praise God&lt;br&gt;that&lt;br&gt;she arrived, until the electrical service is updated, the lathe cannot&lt;br&gt;yet&lt;br&gt;be used, hence there is still no income for my family. I ask for your&lt;br&gt;continued prayers. &lt;p&gt;Friends of Rachel and Don have set up a relief account at the local&lt;br&gt;bank:&lt;p&gt;Allard Fire Fund, Lake Sunapee Savings, P.O. Box 326, Bradford, NH&lt;br&gt;03221. &lt;p&gt;Many thanks and many blessings, Sherry Thomas.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Upcoming ESF Events&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Episcopal Student Fellowship will gather for lunch and conversation&lt;br&gt;in the small dining room on Tuesday, March 26th at 12pm.  All are&lt;br&gt;welcome.  &lt;p&gt;Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in the Episcopal tradition on&lt;br&gt;Tuesday, February 26th at 1pm in Wilson Chapel.  The Reverend William&lt;br&gt;Bergmann, Chair of the Board of Examining Chaplains for the Diocese of&lt;br&gt;Western Massachusetts, will officiate.  All are welcome.  &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Chapel News (February 10th-16th)&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Reflections at MORNING PRAYER for the coming week (Feb. 10-16) will  &lt;br&gt;be offered by:&lt;br&gt;Monday: Ned Allyn Parker&lt;br&gt;Tuesday: Burton Bagby&lt;br&gt;Wednesday: Doreen Oughton&lt;br&gt;Thursday: Rhonda Myers&lt;br&gt;Friday: Jason Boyd&lt;br&gt;Morning Worship begins at 8:30 am and ends in time to get to class.&lt;p&gt;EVENING PRAYER (COMPLINE) in the Episcopal tradition:&lt;br&gt;Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays - 9:00-9:15 p.m.&lt;br&gt;Prayer Room, downstairs in the Wilson Chapel&lt;br&gt;Hosted by the Episcopal Student Fellowship&lt;p&gt;As part of the Great Preaching Series, Rev. Liz Meyer Boulton will be &lt;p&gt;sharing the message at WEDNESDAY COMMUNITY CHAPEL, which gathers  &lt;br&gt;every Wednesday of the academic year @ 1:00pm.&lt;p&gt;Wednesday Choir Practice will be held at 12:40pm in the sanctuary.&lt;p&gt;The Black Student Fellowship will be holding worship Thursday,  &lt;br&gt;February 14th, at which Rev. Everette Frye, Sr. will be preaching.&lt;p&gt;The Korean Evangelical meets twice weekly in the lower sanctuary in  &lt;br&gt;the Wilson Chapel.  Bible study is at 7:30 pm on Wednesdays and  &lt;br&gt;worship is Sunday mornings at 11:30am.&lt;p&gt;Take advantage of the community forum at Morning Prayer and think  &lt;br&gt;about offering a short reflection to your friends and family here on  &lt;br&gt;campus.  It&amp;#39;s been a beautiful and uplifting experience.  With  &lt;br&gt;questions regarding worship in the Wilson Chapel, and upcoming  &lt;br&gt;events, please contact Ned Parker at NParker@ants.edu.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Justice and Peace Fellowship&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;ANTS students for Justice and Peace are invited to dinner on Monday,&lt;br&gt;February 11th from 5:00 to 6:00 in the ANTS cafeteria.  We welcome all&lt;br&gt;who are interested in being involved with the issues of Justice and&lt;br&gt;Peace on campus and are investigating how we may be able to effect an&lt;br&gt;enduring justice through radical love in our community and beyond.  We&lt;br&gt;will discuss actions already planned such as the upcoming ANTS Peace&lt;br&gt;Week in March and actions yet to be fully envisioned.&lt;p&gt;For questions or if you cannot make it but would like to be added to&lt;br&gt;the Peace Fellowship Mailing list, please contact Kurt Walker at&lt;br&gt;kwalker@ANTS.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Between Places: The Spiritual in Art&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Presenting Film and Video works by The School of the Museum of Fine&lt;br&gt;Arts community members:&lt;p&gt;Krista Caballero&lt;br&gt;Micheal Collins&lt;br&gt;Faith Johnson (ANTS artist in residency)&lt;br&gt;Taraka Larson&lt;br&gt;Kathy Rugh&lt;br&gt;Amelia Saint Peter Blair&lt;br&gt;Karen Schiff (former ANTS artist in residency)&lt;p&gt;February 21, Thursday 7pm&lt;p&gt;At: The Meetinghouse Center for the Arts and Theology&lt;p&gt;Join us for a casual evening of Film, Video, and sharing between the&lt;br&gt;SMFA and ANTS community. Plus�?�Free Snacks!!&lt;p&gt;Sponsored by the Worship, Theology,&lt;br&gt;and the Arts Program&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Book Study with Prof. Mark Heim&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;THEOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION&lt;br&gt;First baptist Church of Newton cordially invites you to a Book Study&lt;br&gt;with Andover Newton Professor&lt;br&gt;and member of FBC Newton, Mark Heim and his book, &amp;quot;Saved from&lt;br&gt;Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;Date: March 2, 9, and 16 during Sunday school in the chapel.&lt;br&gt;Please contact Mary Jane Ott for further Information and to sign up.&lt;br&gt;email:&lt;br&gt;smjott@aol.com or phone: 617-527-1812&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Fellow Students,&lt;p&gt;Andover Newton will be holding its Conference on Ministries/Spring Open&lt;br&gt;House on February 22nd and 23rd and we need your help.&lt;p&gt;We all know that discerning a call to seminary is an exciting, scary&lt;br&gt;and overwhelming process.  Your invitation to a member of your home&lt;br&gt;church, a member of your field education congregation, or any member&lt;br&gt;inside of and outside of your faith tradition to attend our Conference&lt;br&gt;on Ministries could be all that she or he needs to take the next step&lt;br&gt;and respond to God&amp;#39;s call.  So, we are asking you to do just that -&lt;br&gt;offer an invitation to anyone seeking to respond to a deeper call,&lt;br&gt;anyone looking to feed a hunger for intellectual exploration and&lt;br&gt;spiritual growth to visit your seminary on February 22nd and 23rd.&lt;p&gt;Participants in our Conference on Ministries will have the opportunity&lt;br&gt;to meet our faculty, staff, Deans and President Carter, attend sample&lt;br&gt;classes, interact with current students in small groups, tour the&lt;br&gt;campus, participate in roundtable discussions on life after college as&lt;br&gt;well as the transition back to school, worship, and listen to some great&lt;br&gt;gospel music while in fellowship with our community.&lt;p&gt;The Conference on Ministries is a wonderful opportunity for prospective&lt;br&gt;students to share stories and experiences, meet extraordinary people,&lt;br&gt;and receive answers to their questions about Andover Newton and a&lt;br&gt;theological vocation.  Attached is a flyer with information on the event&lt;br&gt;and below is a link to the online registration form.  Housing is&lt;br&gt;available for students traveling from a distance.  Please pass on the&lt;br&gt;information and invite someone to respond to their call at your seminary&lt;br&gt;- Andover Newton.&lt;p&gt;Blessings,&lt;br&gt;Sean&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sean Porter&lt;br&gt;Director of Recruitment &amp;amp; Admission&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 ext. 313&lt;br&gt;1-800-964-2687&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Join the Evangelical Fellowship at Andover Newton on Connect!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;To join the Evangelical Fellowship at Andover Newton, sign on to&lt;br&gt;Connect and add us to your group list.  &lt;p&gt;We are exploring how to be both progressive and evangelical. We are&lt;br&gt;hosting nationally recognized preacher the Rev. Dr. Tony Campolo April&lt;br&gt;14 as part of this exploration. Many of you may have heard that Tony&lt;br&gt;wore a rainbow stole when he preached to over 18,000 people last week at&lt;br&gt;the New Baptist Covenant Celebration in Atlanta.&lt;p&gt;Planning and meeting announcements are posted and emailed to members&lt;br&gt;through Connect.  Only activities of general interest are announced&lt;br&gt;through E-News.  If you have any questions contact bbagby@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Join the UCC Fellowship at ANTS on Connect!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;To join the UCC Fellowship at ANTS, sign on to Connect and add us to&lt;br&gt;your group list.  Planning and meeting announcements are posted and&lt;br&gt;emailed to members through Connect.  Only activities of general interest&lt;br&gt;are announced through E-News.  If you have any questions contact&lt;br&gt;cstasko@ants.edu , ehalstead@ants.edu or dhollis@ants.edu .&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Financial aid info&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Financial Aid Information:&lt;p&gt;Northern Baptist Education Society Scholarships-Spring Semester:&lt;br&gt;Rev. Roger Spinney will be hosting a dinner at the Walker Center on&lt;br&gt;March 7 for students who received Northern Baptist Scholarships in the&lt;br&gt;fall. Students should have received an invitation and scholarship&lt;br&gt;application for the spring semester. The financial aid office needs to&lt;br&gt;complete a section of the application. Please drop off the application&lt;br&gt;by February 22, so the application can be completed and returned to Rev.&lt;br&gt;Spinney prior to March 7.  New ABC students wishing to apply for a&lt;br&gt;scholarship will need to pick up the application from the financial aid&lt;br&gt;office and will need to meet with Rev. Spinney before March 7.&lt;p&gt;Colonial Clergy Scholarships for 2008-2009:&lt;br&gt;The Colonial Clergy will be awarding scholarships for the 2008-2009&lt;br&gt;award year. MDIV students who plan a church ministry in the manner of&lt;br&gt;the Colonial Clergy may apply for a scholarship. Students need to submit&lt;br&gt;a one page letter, writing about their school life and their family, how&lt;br&gt;summer work relates to their studies, financial need, and future plans.&lt;br&gt;Please submit letters to the financial aid office by February 22, 2008.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Armstrong/Voss Scholarship for 2008-2009:&lt;br&gt;$2000 scholarship. Student must be in-care of the Minnesota Conference,&lt;br&gt;United Church of Christ. Application available in the financial aid&lt;br&gt;office. Scholarship deadline February 15, 2008.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Intramurals at ANTS&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Liz Miller will be coachin ANTS intramurals, and will be taking down&lt;br&gt;names for try outs for the hop scotch team.&lt;p&gt;Seriously, let Liz know if you are interesting in kick ball, softball,&lt;br&gt;or soccer for this spring, and possibly playing with other BTI schools. &lt;br&gt;The tentative name for the team is the ANTS Carpenters.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/02/ants-student-e-news-friday-february-8.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-6783696223002430687</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-07T16:43:58.467-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Thursday, February 7, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- Cafeteria News (updated)&lt;br&gt;- Worship and Preaching Job Search&lt;br&gt;- New Testament Job Search&lt;br&gt;- &amp;quot;War, Madness, and Delusion&amp;quot; opening reception&lt;br&gt;- News from Calob Rundell&lt;br&gt;- Upcoming ESF Events&lt;br&gt;- Chapel News February 3rd-9th&lt;br&gt;- Multicultural Festival Friday, Feb. 8!&lt;br&gt;- Call for volunteers&lt;br&gt;- Baptism&lt;br&gt;- Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;- Recycling Information&lt;br&gt;- Join the UCC Fellowship at ANTS on Connect!&lt;br&gt;- Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;Spring 2008 &lt;br&gt;Courses Closed&lt;br&gt;CHRS720 - [ELCHRS] Life as Pilgrimage&lt;br&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;ETHI 780-With Head and Heart&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;Spring 2008&lt;br&gt;Courses Canceled&lt;br&gt;P3 OLDT 512&lt;br&gt;WOTA 776 Creation Spirituality Penfold&lt;br&gt;NEWT 709 Exegesis: Matthew Pregeant&lt;br&gt;HIST 628 Women Leaders Coolman&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Cafeteria News&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;I would like to Welcome everyone back to  the cafeteria! Regular hours&lt;br&gt;will be back in full swing on Monday February 4th.&lt;p&gt;Breakfast -Tuesday through Thursday 7:30-10:00.&lt;br&gt;Lunch- Monday through Thursday 11:30-1:30.&lt;br&gt;Dinner- Monday through Thursday 4:30-6:30.&lt;p&gt;Please check out our website for weekly specials and menus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.antsdining.com"&gt;www.antsdining.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hours of operation for smart cart in Upper Noyes Monday through&lt;br&gt;Thursday  1:30-4:30 Friday&amp;#39;s 8:30-4:30.&lt;p&gt;The Dining Hall will be open all day for beverages and snacks, between&lt;br&gt;meals.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions please do not hesitate to call me at x303&lt;p&gt;Employment: An opportunity has come to fill a space in the cafeteria.&lt;br&gt;We are seeking an employee to work 21 hours a week, running a cash&lt;br&gt;register and serving food. please call Liz in the cafeteria for more&lt;br&gt;information 617 964-1100 x303&lt;p&gt;Elizabeth Bostwick&lt;br&gt;Food Service Director&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Worship and Preaching Job Search&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Worship and Preaching Job Search Committee is pleased to announce a&lt;br&gt;finalist for the Faculty Position in Worship and Preaching and Director&lt;br&gt;of the Wilson Chapel.  The Reverend Dr. Christian Scharen will be on&lt;br&gt;campus for final interviews February 6th and 7th.  Dr. Scharen&amp;#39;s public&lt;br&gt;lecture is Wednesday, February 6th, from 12:00-1:00 pm in the Berkeley&lt;br&gt;room and all are encouraged to attend. Student&amp;#39;s have the opportunity to&lt;br&gt;meet and interact with Chris on Thursday, February 7th, from 11:30 am &lt;br&gt;to 1:00 pm in the new student lounge. Copies of Dr. Scharen&amp;#39;s CV are&lt;br&gt;available to review in W210. Feedback is welcome to any member of the&lt;br&gt;search committee.  Dean Herzog - wherzog@ants.edu, Professor Pazmi&amp;#241;o-&lt;br&gt;rpazmino@ants.edu, Professor Drummond- sdrummond@ants.edu, Professor&lt;br&gt;Valentin- bvalentin@ants.edu, Andy Edwards- aewards@ants.edu, Tempest&lt;br&gt;Brevard- tbrevard@ants.edu.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Worship and Preaching Job Search Committee is pleased to announce a&lt;br&gt;finalist for the Faculty Position in Worship and Preaching and Director&lt;br&gt;of the Wilson Chapel.  The Reverend Dr. Kay Lynn Northcutt will be on&lt;br&gt;campus for final interviews February 13th and 14th.  Dr. Northcutt&amp;#39;s&lt;br&gt;public lecture is Wednesday, February 13th, from 12:00-1:00 pm in the&lt;br&gt;Berkeley room and all are encouraged to attend. Student&amp;#39;s have the&lt;br&gt;opportunity to meet and interact with Kay on Thursday, February 14th,&lt;br&gt;from 11:30 am  to 1:00 pm in the new student lounge. Copies of Dr.&lt;br&gt;Northcutt&amp;#39;s CV are available to review in W210. Feedback is welcome to&lt;br&gt;any member of the search committee.  Dean Herzog - wherzog@ants.edu,&lt;br&gt;Professor Pazmi&amp;#241;o- rpazmino@ants.edu, Professor Drummond-&lt;br&gt;sdrummond@ants.edu, Professor Valentin- bvalentin@ants.edu, Andy&lt;br&gt;Edwards- aewards@ants.edu,  Tempest Brevard- tbrevard@ants.edu. &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;New Testament Job Search&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;On February 7, 2008, the New Testament Search Committee will welcome&lt;br&gt;Simon Lee, a doctoral candidate in New Testament from Harvard Divinity&lt;br&gt;School and a finalist for the New Testament position here at ANTS, to&lt;br&gt;campus.  In connection with his interview, all students are invited to&lt;br&gt;attend a luncheon with Simon Lee that will be held at 12:00 p.m. and&lt;br&gt;then hear him lecture at 1:00 p.m. in the Berkeley Room.&lt;p&gt;On Monday, February 11, 2008, the New Testament Search Committee will&lt;br&gt;welcome Demetrius Williams, a Professor of New Testament at Marquette&lt;br&gt;University and a finalist for the New Testament position here at ANTS,&lt;br&gt;to campus.  Similar to the interview process for Mr. Lee, all students&lt;br&gt;are invited to attend a luncheon with Demetrius Williams that will be&lt;br&gt;held at 12:00 p.m. and then attend a lecture presented by Dr. Williams&lt;br&gt;at 1:00 p.m. in the Berkeley Room.  Because student input is valued in&lt;br&gt;the process of selecting a new professor to join the ANTS community, we&lt;br&gt;hope all students who are interested and available will make an effort&lt;br&gt;to attend these two events.&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions or comments on the above, please do not&lt;br&gt;hesitate to contact Joel Kemp at jkemp@ants.edu.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;War, Madness, and Delusion&amp;quot; opening reception&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;WAR, MADNESS, and DELUSION&lt;br&gt;A Juried Exhibit at Andover Newton&lt;br&gt;February 7 through April 15, 2008 &lt;p&gt;Opening Reception for War, Madness, and Delusion&lt;br&gt;Thursday, February 7, 5:00 - 8:00 pm in the&lt;br&gt;Meetinghouse Gallery. All are welcome.&lt;p&gt;This powerful exhibit is on display in the&lt;br&gt;Meetinghouse and Wilson Chapel Galleries. Addressing&lt;br&gt;the experience and contested morality of war in our&lt;br&gt;times, with works from 33 selected artists confronting&lt;br&gt;the nature and meaning of war, and the challenges of&lt;br&gt;peacemaking in the midst of conflict.&lt;p&gt;March 13: Special Symposium featuring Bill Schultz,&lt;br&gt;former executive director of Amnesty International&lt;br&gt;USA, with exhibiting artists, activists, politicians&lt;br&gt;and veterans.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;News from Calob Rundell&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton student Calob Rundell writes:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Today was cold and wet in the Baghdad area.  Not near as cold as&lt;br&gt;winter in New England or Colorado, but cold for a place that will be 120&lt;br&gt;in the summer.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m writing you as the newest, lowest ranking Non-Commissioned Officer&lt;br&gt;in the Army.  Today I was &amp;quot;advanced&amp;quot; (not promoted because I still make&lt;br&gt;the same pay) from Specialist to Corporal.  I&amp;#39;m also the company&amp;#39;s&lt;br&gt;current &amp;quot;Hero of the Month&amp;quot; for serving as my platoon&amp;#39;s rotating team&lt;br&gt;leader. &lt;p&gt;Things continue to be quiet for us and we hope they stay that way.&lt;br&gt;Thank you to everyone who was written or sent packages.  It means a&lt;br&gt;great deal to get anything in the mail.&lt;p&gt;Peace out;&lt;p&gt;Calob Rundell&lt;br&gt;calob.rundell@us.army.mil&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.calobrundell.com"&gt;www.calobrundell.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;SPC Rundell, Calob L&lt;br&gt;972 MP Co&lt;br&gt;FOB Freedom&lt;br&gt;APO AE 09348&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Upcoming ESF Events&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Episcopal Student Fellowship will gather for lunch and conversation&lt;br&gt;in the small dining room on Tuesday, March 26th at 12pm.  All are&lt;br&gt;welcome.  &lt;p&gt;Holy Eucharist will be celebrated in the Episcopal tradition on&lt;br&gt;Tuesday, March 26th at 1pm in Wilson Chapel.  The Reverend William&lt;br&gt;Bergmann, Chair of the Board of Examining Chaplains for the Diocese of&lt;br&gt;Western Massachusetts, will officiate.  All are welcome.  &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Chapel News February 3rd-9th&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Welcome back everyone!&lt;br&gt;Morning Worship is from 8:30-8:50 am, Monday through Friday.&lt;br&gt;The Liturgists/Homilists for the week of February 3-9 are:&lt;p&gt;Monday: Ned Allyn Parker&lt;br&gt;Tuesday: John Brock&lt;br&gt;Wednesday: Carmen Emerson and Bill Gural&lt;br&gt;Thursday: Liz Garrigan-Byerly and Kurt Walker&lt;br&gt;Friday: Jason Boyd and Ian Holland&lt;p&gt;Each liturgist and homilist share from their own faith traditions,&lt;br&gt;fostering interfaith worship services on campus.  These Services are&lt;br&gt;open to the entire Andover Newton Community.&lt;p&gt;Wednesday Community Chapel for February 6th will be led by Burns&lt;br&gt;Stanfield and the message will be offered by President Nick Carter.&lt;p&gt;Keep your eyes open for &amp;quot;Chapel Notes,&amp;quot; a weekly newsletter and&lt;br&gt;calendar of worship events on campus.  If you would like to participate&lt;br&gt;in worship or add anything to this regular ENews announcement or Chapel&lt;br&gt;Notes, please contact Ned Allyn Parker at: NParker@ants.edu.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Multicultural Festival Friday, Feb. 8!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Come one and all to the annual Andover Newton Multicultural Festival. &lt;br&gt;Friday, Feb. 8, 6:00 pm in the Meeting House.  Bring a dish that&lt;br&gt;represents your heritage or just come--we&amp;#39;ll have plenty for everyone. &lt;br&gt;Please consider sharing music, poetry, dance, or whatever might reflect&lt;br&gt;your heritage.  This event is co-sponsored by the international students&lt;br&gt;at Andover Newton and my office.  I hope many of you will be with us!&lt;p&gt;Nancy Nienhuis&lt;br&gt;Dean of Students&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Call for volunteers&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;On May 10th Andover Newton is going to host a major conference on the&lt;br&gt;future of mission as part of our Bicentennial celebration.  The title of&lt;br&gt;the event is &amp;quot;The Majority Speaks: Global Perspectives on Mission in&lt;br&gt;the 21st Century&amp;quot;.   Some of the key program elements for this event&lt;br&gt;are:  a keynote speaker and panel presentations from 2/3 World&lt;br&gt;representatives, discussion groups with international guests for lay&lt;br&gt;leaders and pastors, to showcase &amp;quot;best practice&amp;quot; missional programs,&lt;br&gt;to have 20 workshops on mission programs and resources, to exhibit&lt;br&gt;information on leading programs and agencies, to have a special&lt;br&gt;missional worship service and registration.  &lt;p&gt;As you can see we have a full day of activities planned and will need&lt;br&gt;the help of volunteers with mailings, registration, worship, exhibits&lt;br&gt;and displays, transportation, promotion, hosting guests and clean up. &lt;br&gt;If you have a couple of hours to spare between now and May 10th and&lt;br&gt;would like to give us a hand please contact Rev. Miriam Baez at&lt;br&gt;mbaez@ants.edu or at (617) 964- 1100 x280.  &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Baptism&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;This Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008 will be the baptism of our baby daughter,&lt;br&gt;Symphanie Eirena.  Any of our friends here in the ANTS community are&lt;br&gt;welcome to attend.  It will be at Hope Church, 5.30 pm.&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;br&gt;~Dusty&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Fellow Students,&lt;p&gt;Andover Newton will be holding its Conference on Ministries/Spring Open&lt;br&gt;House on February 22nd and 23rd and we need your help.&lt;p&gt;We all know that discerning a call to seminary is an exciting, scary&lt;br&gt;and overwhelming process.  Your invitation to a member of your home&lt;br&gt;church, a member of your field education congregation, or any member&lt;br&gt;inside of and outside of your faith tradition to attend our Conference&lt;br&gt;on Ministries could be all that she or he needs to take the next step&lt;br&gt;and respond to God&amp;#39;s call.  So, we are asking you to do just that -&lt;br&gt;offer an invitation to anyone seeking to respond to a deeper call,&lt;br&gt;anyone looking to feed a hunger for intellectual exploration and&lt;br&gt;spiritual growth to visit your seminary on February 22nd and 23rd.&lt;p&gt;Participants in our Conference on Ministries will have the opportunity&lt;br&gt;to meet our faculty, staff, Deans and President Carter, attend sample&lt;br&gt;classes, interact with current students in small groups, tour the&lt;br&gt;campus, participate in roundtable discussions on life after college as&lt;br&gt;well as the transition back to school, worship, and listen to some great&lt;br&gt;gospel music while in fellowship with our community.&lt;p&gt;The Conference on Ministries is a wonderful opportunity for prospective&lt;br&gt;students to share stories and experiences, meet extraordinary people,&lt;br&gt;and receive answers to their questions about Andover Newton and a&lt;br&gt;theological vocation.  Attached is a flyer with information on the event&lt;br&gt;and below is a link to the online registration form.  Housing is&lt;br&gt;available for students traveling from a distance.  Please pass on the&lt;br&gt;information and invite someone to respond to their call at your seminary&lt;br&gt;- Andover Newton.&lt;p&gt;Blessings,&lt;br&gt;Sean&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sean Porter&lt;br&gt;Director of Recruitment &amp;amp; Admission&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 ext. 313&lt;br&gt;1-800-964-2687&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Recycling Information&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;As you know, our recycling options on campus have expanded.&lt;br&gt;Hallelujah!&lt;br&gt;However, it is important that we recycle properly; when the wrong items&lt;br&gt;are&lt;br&gt;in a bin, the companies throw out the entire bin! Please note what is&lt;br&gt;acceptable and what is not (there has been confusion around whether&lt;br&gt;the&lt;br&gt;commingled bin takes cardboard--it DOES NOT. This has been confirmed by&lt;br&gt;the&lt;br&gt;company). Thank you!&lt;p&gt;Commingled Bin&lt;br&gt;- Metals (steel food/soup cans, aluminum cans,  aluminum foil and&lt;br&gt;trays,&lt;br&gt;empty aerosol cans, empty and dry paint cans)&lt;br&gt;- Glass (cear bottles, green and brown bottles, plate glass)&lt;br&gt;- Plastics&lt;br&gt;#1 (PET) plastic containers (soda bottles&lt;br&gt;#2 (HDPE) plastic containers (milk jugs, laundry detergent bottles)&lt;br&gt;#3 (PVC) plastic containers (shampoo bottles)&lt;br&gt;#4 (LDPE) plastic containers (margarine tubs)&lt;br&gt;#5 (PP) plastic containers (yogurt cups)&lt;br&gt;- Cardboard milk and juice cartons (no other kind)&lt;p&gt;- NO cardboard, trash, oil or hazardous chemicals, propane tanks,&lt;br&gt;regulated medical waste, food waste, foam cups or foam plates, paper&lt;br&gt;cups or&lt;br&gt;paper plates, plastic bags or plastic wraps, wood waste, rubber waste,&lt;br&gt;textiles&lt;p&gt;All containers must be rinsed prior to recycling.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Paper Bin&lt;br&gt;- All computer paper, magazines, newspapers, junk mail and the like&lt;br&gt;- No cardboard or phonebooks&lt;br&gt;- Please DO NOT place the paper in plastic bags&lt;p&gt;--The Emerging Ecology Fellowship&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Join the UCC Fellowship at ANTS on Connect!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;To join the UCC Fellowship at ANTS, sign on to Connect and add us to&lt;br&gt;your group list.  Planning and meeting announcements are posted and&lt;br&gt;emailed to members through Connect.  Only activities of general interest&lt;br&gt;are announced through E-News.  If you have any questions contact&lt;br&gt;cstasko@ants.edu , ehalstead@ants.edu or dhollis@ants.edu .&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Just a reminder:  I&amp;#39;m happy to work with you on anything you might be&lt;br&gt;writing.  &lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m on campus Tuesdays 10 to 3, and alternate Thursdays 12 to 3, in&lt;br&gt;Worcester 302, and will also be here two Mondays:  Feb. 11 and March 3. &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Drop in if you like, but it&amp;#39;s better to email me for an appointment. &lt;br&gt; And yes, we can work by phone and email, once we&amp;#39;ve met in person.  &lt;p&gt;Also note: The small lunchtime writing groups are getting going again,&lt;br&gt;on Tuesday and Thursday.  We welcome a few more people.  Email me for&lt;br&gt;details.  &lt;p&gt;I look forward to working with you!&lt;p&gt;Helen Snively  &lt;br&gt;ANTS Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;tutor@ants.edu   &lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x 282</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/02/ants-student-e-news-thursday-february-7.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-625150559987167710</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:07:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-05T16:07:38.809-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Tuesday, February 5, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- Cafeteria News (updated)&lt;br&gt;- Worship and Preaching Job Search&lt;br&gt;- &amp;quot;War, Madness, and Delusion&amp;quot; opening reception&lt;br&gt;- News from Calob Rundell&lt;br&gt;- METHODIST STUDENT FELLOWSHIP &lt;br&gt;- Chapel News February 3rd-9th&lt;br&gt;- Multicultural Festival Friday, Feb. 8!&lt;br&gt;- Call for volunteers&lt;br&gt;- Baptism&lt;br&gt;- Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;- Open Table Election Night Potluck-Alert #3&lt;br&gt;- Baptist - February 6 meeting&lt;br&gt;- Recycling Information&lt;br&gt;- Join the UCC Fellowship at ANTS on Connect!&lt;br&gt;- Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;Spring 2008 &lt;br&gt;Courses Closed&lt;br&gt;CHRS720 - [ELCHRS] Life as Pilgrimage&lt;br&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;ETHI 780-With Head and Heart&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;Spring 2008&lt;br&gt;Courses Canceled&lt;br&gt;P3 OLDT 512&lt;br&gt;WOTA 776 Creation Spirituality Penfold&lt;br&gt;NEWT 709 Exegesis: Matthew Pregeant&lt;br&gt;HIST 628 Women Leaders Coolman&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Cafeteria News&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;I would like to Welcome everyone back to  the cafeteria! Regular hours&lt;br&gt;will be back in full swing on Monday February 4th.&lt;p&gt;Breakfast -Tuesday through Thursday 7:30-10:00.&lt;br&gt;Lunch- Monday through Thursday 11:30-1:30.&lt;br&gt;Dinner- Monday through Thursday 4:30-6:30.&lt;p&gt;Please check out our website for weekly specials and menus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.antsdining.com"&gt;www.antsdining.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hours of operation for smart cart in Upper Noyes Monday through&lt;br&gt;Thursday  1:30-4:30 Friday&amp;#39;s 8:30-4:30.&lt;p&gt;The Dining Hall will be open all day for beverages and snacks, between&lt;br&gt;meals.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions please do not hesitate to call me at x303&lt;p&gt;Employment: An opportunity has come to fill a space in the cafeteria.&lt;br&gt;We are seeking an employee to work 21 hours a week, running a cash&lt;br&gt;register and serving food. please call Liz in the cafeteria for more&lt;br&gt;information 617 964-1100 x303&lt;p&gt;Elizabeth Bostwick&lt;br&gt;Food Service Director&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Worship and Preaching Job Search&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Worship and Preaching Job Search Committee is pleased to announce a&lt;br&gt;finalist for the Faculty Position in Worship and Preaching and Director&lt;br&gt;of the Wilson Chapel.  The Reverend Dr. Christian Scharen will be on&lt;br&gt;campus for final interviews February 6th and 7th.  Dr. Scharen&amp;#39;s public&lt;br&gt;lecture is Wednesday, February 6th, from 12:00-1:00 pm in the Berkeley&lt;br&gt;room and all are encouraged to attend. Student&amp;#39;s have the opportunity to&lt;br&gt;meet and interact with Chris on Thursday, February 7th, from 11:30 am &lt;br&gt;to 1:00 pm in the new student lounge. Copies of Dr. Scharen&amp;#39;s CV are&lt;br&gt;available to review in W210. Feedback is welcome to any member of the&lt;br&gt;search committee.  Dean Herzog - wherzog@ants.edu, Professor Pazmi&amp;#241;o-&lt;br&gt;rpazmino@ants.edu, Professor Drummond- sdrummond@ants.edu, Professor&lt;br&gt;Valentin- bvalentin@ants.edu, Andy Edwards- aewards@ants.edu, Tempest&lt;br&gt;Brevard- tbrevard@ants.edu.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Worship and Preaching Job Search Committee is pleased to announce a&lt;br&gt;finalist for the Faculty Position in Worship and Preaching and Director&lt;br&gt;of the Wilson Chapel.  The Reverend Dr. Kay Lynn Northcutt will be on&lt;br&gt;campus for final interviews February 13th and 14th.  Dr. Northcutt&amp;#39;s&lt;br&gt;public lecture is Wednesday, February 13th, from 12:00-1:00 pm in the&lt;br&gt;Berkeley room and all are encouraged to attend. Student&amp;#39;s have the&lt;br&gt;opportunity to meet and interact with Kay on Thursday, February 14th,&lt;br&gt;from 11:30 am  to 1:00 pm in the new student lounge. Copies of Dr.&lt;br&gt;Northcutt&amp;#39;s CV are available to review in W210. Feedback is welcome to&lt;br&gt;any member of the search committee.  Dean Herzog - wherzog@ants.edu,&lt;br&gt;Professor Pazmi&amp;#241;o- rpazmino@ants.edu, Professor Drummond-&lt;br&gt;sdrummond@ants.edu, Professor Valentin- bvalentin@ants.edu, Andy&lt;br&gt;Edwards- aewards@ants.edu,  Tempest Brevard- tbrevard@ants.edu. &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;War, Madness, and Delusion&amp;quot; opening reception&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;WAR, MADNESS, and DELUSION&lt;br&gt;A Juried Exhibit at Andover Newton&lt;br&gt;February 7 through April 15, 2008 &lt;p&gt;Opening Reception for War, Madness, and Delusion&lt;br&gt;Thursday, February 7, 5:00 - 8:00 pm in the&lt;br&gt;Meetinghouse Gallery. All are welcome.&lt;p&gt;This powerful exhibit is on display in the&lt;br&gt;Meetinghouse and Wilson Chapel Galleries. Addressing&lt;br&gt;the experience and contested morality of war in our&lt;br&gt;times, with works from 33 selected artists confronting&lt;br&gt;the nature and meaning of war, and the challenges of&lt;br&gt;peacemaking in the midst of conflict.&lt;p&gt;March 13: Special Symposium featuring Bill Schultz,&lt;br&gt;former executive director of Amnesty International&lt;br&gt;USA, with exhibiting artists, activists, politicians&lt;br&gt;and veterans.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;News from Calob Rundell&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton student Calob Rundell writes:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Today was cold and wet in the Baghdad area.  Not near as cold as&lt;br&gt;winter in New England or Colorado, but cold for a place that will be 120&lt;br&gt;in the summer.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m writing you as the newest, lowest ranking Non-Commissioned Officer&lt;br&gt;in the Army.  Today I was &amp;quot;advanced&amp;quot; (not promoted because I still make&lt;br&gt;the same pay) from Specialist to Corporal.  I&amp;#39;m also the company&amp;#39;s&lt;br&gt;current &amp;quot;Hero of the Month&amp;quot; for serving as my platoon&amp;#39;s rotating team&lt;br&gt;leader. &lt;p&gt;Things continue to be quiet for us and we hope they stay that way.&lt;br&gt;Thank you to everyone who was written or sent packages.  It means a&lt;br&gt;great deal to get anything in the mail.&lt;p&gt;Peace out;&lt;p&gt;Calob Rundell&lt;br&gt;calob.rundell@us.army.mil&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.calobrundell.com"&gt;www.calobrundell.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;SPC Rundell, Calob L&lt;br&gt;972 MP Co&lt;br&gt;FOB Freedom&lt;br&gt;APO AE 09348&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;METHODIST STUDENT FELLOWSHIP&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;On Wednesday, Febrary 6th there will be a Methodist Student Fellowship&lt;br&gt;to be held in the dinning hall at 12:00 noon.  This meeting is open to&lt;br&gt;the&lt;br&gt;entire ANTS community. For further information contact bsmith@ants.edu&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Chapel News February 3rd-9th&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Welcome back everyone!&lt;br&gt;Morning Worship is from 8:30-8:50 am, Monday through Friday.&lt;br&gt;The Liturgists/Homilists for the week of February 3-9 are:&lt;p&gt;Monday: Ned Allyn Parker&lt;br&gt;Tuesday: John Brock&lt;br&gt;Wednesday: Carmen Emerson and Bill Gural&lt;br&gt;Thursday: Liz Garrigan-Byerly and Kurt Walker&lt;br&gt;Friday: Jason Boyd and Ian Holland&lt;p&gt;Each liturgist and homilist share from their own faith traditions,&lt;br&gt;fostering interfaith worship services on campus.  These Services are&lt;br&gt;open to the entire Andover Newton Community.&lt;p&gt;Wednesday Community Chapel for February 6th will be led by Burns&lt;br&gt;Stanfield and the message will be offered by President Nick Carter.&lt;p&gt;Keep your eyes open for &amp;quot;Chapel Notes,&amp;quot; a weekly newsletter and&lt;br&gt;calendar of worship events on campus.  If you would like to participate&lt;br&gt;in worship or add anything to this regular ENews announcement or Chapel&lt;br&gt;Notes, please contact Ned Allyn Parker at: NParker@ants.edu.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ash Wednesday:&lt;p&gt;Join us at Morning Worship for an Ash Wednesday service, this&lt;br&gt;Wednesday, February 6th at 8:30 am.  Carmen Emerson will be our&lt;br&gt;liturgist for the morning and Bill Gural will be our Homilist.&lt;p&gt;At the end of the service we will process outside for the imposition of&lt;br&gt;ashes.  Faculty, staff and students are all equally encouraged to come.&lt;p&gt;take care&lt;br&gt;ned&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Multicultural Festival Friday, Feb. 8!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Come one and all to the annual Andover Newton Multicultural Festival. &lt;br&gt;Friday, Feb. 8, 6:00 pm in the Meeting House.  Bring a dish that&lt;br&gt;represents your heritage or just come--we&amp;#39;ll have plenty for everyone. &lt;br&gt;Please consider sharing music, poetry, dance, or whatever might reflect&lt;br&gt;your heritage.  This event is co-sponsored by the international students&lt;br&gt;at Andover Newton and my office.  I hope many of you will be with us!&lt;p&gt;Nancy Nienhuis&lt;br&gt;Dean of Students&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Call for volunteers&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;On May 10th Andover Newton is going to host a major conference on the&lt;br&gt;future of mission as part of our Bicentennial celebration.  The title of&lt;br&gt;the event is &amp;quot;The Majority Speaks: Global Perspectives on Mission in&lt;br&gt;the 21st Century&amp;quot;.   Some of the key program elements for this event&lt;br&gt;are:  a keynote speaker and panel presentations from 2/3 World&lt;br&gt;representatives, discussion groups with international guests for lay&lt;br&gt;leaders and pastors, to showcase &amp;quot;best practice&amp;quot; missional programs,&lt;br&gt;to have 20 workshops on mission programs and resources, to exhibit&lt;br&gt;information on leading programs and agencies, to have a special&lt;br&gt;missional worship service and registration.  &lt;p&gt;As you can see we have a full day of activities planned and will need&lt;br&gt;the help of volunteers with mailings, registration, worship, exhibits&lt;br&gt;and displays, transportation, promotion, hosting guests and clean up. &lt;br&gt;If you have a couple of hours to spare between now and May 10th and&lt;br&gt;would like to give us a hand please contact Rev. Miriam Baez at&lt;br&gt;mbaez@ants.edu or at (617) 964- 1100 x280.  &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Baptism&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;This Sunday, Feb. 10, 2008 will be the baptism of our baby daughter,&lt;br&gt;Symphanie Eirena.  Any of our friends here in the ANTS community are&lt;br&gt;welcome to attend.  It will be at Hope Church, 5.30 pm.&lt;p&gt;Thanks&lt;br&gt;~Dusty&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Fellow Students,&lt;p&gt;Andover Newton will be holding its Conference on Ministries/Spring Open&lt;br&gt;House on February 22nd and 23rd and we need your help.&lt;p&gt;We all know that discerning a call to seminary is an exciting, scary&lt;br&gt;and overwhelming process.  Your invitation to a member of your home&lt;br&gt;church, a member of your field education congregation, or any member&lt;br&gt;inside of and outside of your faith tradition to attend our Conference&lt;br&gt;on Ministries could be all that she or he needs to take the next step&lt;br&gt;and respond to God&amp;#39;s call.  So, we are asking you to do just that -&lt;br&gt;offer an invitation to anyone seeking to respond to a deeper call,&lt;br&gt;anyone looking to feed a hunger for intellectual exploration and&lt;br&gt;spiritual growth to visit your seminary on February 22nd and 23rd.&lt;p&gt;Participants in our Conference on Ministries will have the opportunity&lt;br&gt;to meet our faculty, staff, Deans and President Carter, attend sample&lt;br&gt;classes, interact with current students in small groups, tour the&lt;br&gt;campus, participate in roundtable discussions on life after college as&lt;br&gt;well as the transition back to school, worship, and listen to some great&lt;br&gt;gospel music while in fellowship with our community.&lt;p&gt;The Conference on Ministries is a wonderful opportunity for prospective&lt;br&gt;students to share stories and experiences, meet extraordinary people,&lt;br&gt;and receive answers to their questions about Andover Newton and a&lt;br&gt;theological vocation.  Attached is a flyer with information on the event&lt;br&gt;and below is a link to the online registration form.  Housing is&lt;br&gt;available for students traveling from a distance.  Please pass on the&lt;br&gt;information and invite someone to respond to their call at your seminary&lt;br&gt;- Andover Newton.&lt;p&gt;Blessings,&lt;br&gt;Sean&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sean Porter&lt;br&gt;Director of Recruitment &amp;amp; Admission&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 ext. 313&lt;br&gt;1-800-964-2687&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Open Table Election Night Potluck-Alert #3&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Tuesday, February 5, 2008&lt;p&gt;Celebrate the election process in community: come to the Open Table&lt;br&gt;Super&lt;br&gt;Tuesday Potluck&lt;p&gt;What? - Potluck meal to be shared in communion &lt;br&gt;Where? - 40 Cypress Street, Newton Centre (corner Braeland/Cypress,&lt;br&gt;bottom of Herrick)&lt;br&gt;When? - Tuesday, February 5 from 6PM until we all go home&lt;br&gt;Who? - All ANTS students, faculty and staff&lt;br&gt;Why? - Good news and bad news deserves to be celebrated and mourned in&lt;br&gt;fellowship&lt;br&gt;How? - We will track the party results in the 24 states and territories&lt;br&gt;in blue and red.&lt;p&gt;Interested? Please contact Sherry Thomas at &lt;br&gt;&amp;lt;mailto:shthomas2@comcast.net&gt;&lt;br&gt;shthomas2@comcast.net. Don&amp;#39;t forget to vote!!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Baptist - February 6 meeting&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The staff members at The American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts&lt;br&gt;(TABCOM) are interested in strengthening their connection with the&lt;br&gt;Baptist students at Andover Newton. This includes all Baptist&lt;br&gt;students,&lt;br&gt;not just ABC students from Massachusetts. In fact, anyone who likes to&lt;br&gt;fellowship with Baptists is welcome.&lt;p&gt;Our first visit will be Wed., Feb. 6 from Rev. Jim Sinclair, Area&lt;br&gt;Minister.&lt;br&gt;We&amp;#39;ll meet in the cafeteria from approximately 11:30am until just&lt;br&gt;before&lt;br&gt;Chapel.&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to contact me if you have questions.&lt;br&gt;~emily&lt;p&gt;Emily Leavitt&lt;br&gt;Coordinator, Baptist Fellowship Group&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Recycling Information&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;As you know, our recycling options on campus have expanded.&lt;br&gt;Hallelujah!&lt;br&gt;However, it is important that we recycle properly; when the wrong items&lt;br&gt;are&lt;br&gt;in a bin, the companies throw out the entire bin! Please note what is&lt;br&gt;acceptable and what is not (there has been confusion around whether&lt;br&gt;the&lt;br&gt;commingled bin takes cardboard--it DOES NOT. This has been confirmed by&lt;br&gt;the&lt;br&gt;company). Thank you!&lt;p&gt;Commingled Bin&lt;br&gt;- Metals (steel food/soup cans, aluminum cans,  aluminum foil and&lt;br&gt;trays,&lt;br&gt;empty aerosol cans, empty and dry paint cans)&lt;br&gt;- Glass (cear bottles, green and brown bottles, plate glass)&lt;br&gt;- Plastics&lt;br&gt;#1 (PET) plastic containers (soda bottles&lt;br&gt;#2 (HDPE) plastic containers (milk jugs, laundry detergent bottles)&lt;br&gt;#3 (PVC) plastic containers (shampoo bottles)&lt;br&gt;#4 (LDPE) plastic containers (margarine tubs)&lt;br&gt;#5 (PP) plastic containers (yogurt cups)&lt;br&gt;- Cardboard milk and juice cartons (no other kind)&lt;p&gt;- NO cardboard, trash, oil or hazardous chemicals, propane tanks,&lt;br&gt;regulated medical waste, food waste, foam cups or foam plates, paper&lt;br&gt;cups or&lt;br&gt;paper plates, plastic bags or plastic wraps, wood waste, rubber waste,&lt;br&gt;textiles&lt;p&gt;All containers must be rinsed prior to recycling.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Paper Bin&lt;br&gt;- All computer paper, magazines, newspapers, junk mail and the like&lt;br&gt;- No cardboard or phonebooks&lt;br&gt;- Please DO NOT place the paper in plastic bags&lt;p&gt;--The Emerging Ecology Fellowship&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Join the UCC Fellowship at ANTS on Connect!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;To join the UCC Fellowship at ANTS, sign on to Connect and add us to&lt;br&gt;your group list.  Planning and meeting announcements are posted and&lt;br&gt;emailed to members through Connect.  Only activities of general interest&lt;br&gt;are announced through E-News.  If you have any questions contact&lt;br&gt;cstasko@ants.edu , ehalstead@ants.edu or dhollis@ants.edu .&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Just a reminder:  I&amp;#39;m happy to work with you on anything you might be&lt;br&gt;writing.  &lt;p&gt;I&amp;#39;m on campus Tuesdays 10 to 3, and alternate Thursdays 12 to 3, in&lt;br&gt;Worcester 302, and will also be here two Mondays:  Feb. 11 and March 3. &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Drop in if you like, but it&amp;#39;s better to email me for an appointment. &lt;br&gt; And yes, we can work by phone and email, once we&amp;#39;ve met in person.  &lt;p&gt;Also note: The small lunchtime writing groups are getting going again,&lt;br&gt;on Tuesday and Thursday.  We welcome a few more people.  Email me for&lt;br&gt;details.  &lt;p&gt;I look forward to working with you!&lt;p&gt;Helen Snively  &lt;br&gt;ANTS Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;tutor@ants.edu   &lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x 282</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/02/ants-student-e-news-tuesday-february-5.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-4983066810611566674</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-02-01T17:10:39.719-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Friday, February 1, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- Cafeteria News (updated)&lt;br&gt;- Worship and Preaching Job Search&lt;br&gt;- Paid volunteer needed&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office (Updated info on INTE 764)&lt;br&gt;- METHODIST STUDENT FELLOWSHIP &lt;br&gt;- Chapel News February 3rd-9th&lt;br&gt;- library notice&lt;br&gt;- Call for volunteers&lt;br&gt;- How to Check Your Grades on Connect!&lt;br&gt;- Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;- Open Table Election Night Potluck-Alert #2&lt;br&gt;- Baptist - February 6 meeting&lt;br&gt;- The UCC Fellowship Remembers Nikki Kirby&lt;br&gt;- Can Poetry Save a Life?&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Cafeteria News&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;I would like to Welcome everyone back to  the cafeteria! Regular hours&lt;br&gt;will be back in full swing on Monday February 4th.&lt;p&gt;Breakfast -Tuesday through Thursday 7:30-10:00.&lt;br&gt;Lunch- Monday through Thursday 11:30-1:30.&lt;br&gt;Dinner- Monday through Thursday 4:30-6:30.&lt;p&gt;Please check out our website for weekly specials and menus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.antsdining.com"&gt;www.antsdining.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hours of operation for smart cart in Upper Noyes Monday through&lt;br&gt;Thursday  1:30-4:30 Friday&amp;#39;s 8:30-4:30.&lt;p&gt;The Dining Hall will be open all day for beverages and snacks, between&lt;br&gt;meals.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions please do not hesitate to call me at x303&lt;p&gt;Note: Thursday January 31 the cafe will be open for Breakfast&lt;br&gt;7:30-9:00, Lunch 11:30-1:30, and Dinner 4:30-6:30 Thursday night menu&lt;br&gt;will be; Chicken Italiano, Broccoli alfredo, and Herbed fettucine.&lt;p&gt;Employment: An opportunity has come to fill a space in the cafeteria.&lt;br&gt;We are seeking an employee to work 21 hours a week, running a cash&lt;br&gt;register and serving food. please call Liz in the cafeteria for more&lt;br&gt;information 617 964-1100 x303&lt;p&gt;Elizabeth Bostwick&lt;br&gt;Food Service Director&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Worship and Preaching Job Search&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Worship and Preaching Job Search Committee is pleased to announce a&lt;br&gt;finalist for the Faculty Position in Worship and Preaching and Director&lt;br&gt;of the Wilson Chapel.  The Reverend Dr. Christian Scharen will be on&lt;br&gt;campus for final interviews February 6th and 7th.  Dr. Scharen&amp;#39;s public&lt;br&gt;lecture is Wednesday, February 6th, from 12:00-1:00 pm in the Berkeley&lt;br&gt;room and all are encouraged to attend. Student&amp;#39;s have the opportunity to&lt;br&gt;meet and interact with Chris on Thursday, February 7th, from 11:30 am &lt;br&gt;to 1:00 pm in the new student lounge. Copies of Dr. Scharen&amp;#39;s CV are&lt;br&gt;available to review in W210. Feedback is welcome to any member of the&lt;br&gt;search committee.  Dean Herzog - wherzog@ants.edu, Professor Pazmi&amp;#241;o-&lt;br&gt;rpazmino@ants.edu, Professor Drummond- sdrummond@ants.edu, Professor&lt;br&gt;Valentin- bvalentin@ants.edu, Andy Edwards- aewards@ants.edu, Tempest&lt;br&gt;Brevard- tbrevard@ants.edu.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Worship and Preaching Job Search Committee is pleased to announce a&lt;br&gt;finalist for the Faculty Position in Worship and Preaching and Director&lt;br&gt;of the Wilson Chapel.  The Reverend Dr. Kay Lynn Northcutt will be on&lt;br&gt;campus for final interviews February 13th and 14th.  Dr. Northcutt&amp;#39;s&lt;br&gt;public lecture is Wednesday, February 13th, from 12:00-1:00 pm in the&lt;br&gt;Berkeley room and all are encouraged to attend. Student&amp;#39;s have the&lt;br&gt;opportunity to meet and interact with Kay on Thursday, February 14th,&lt;br&gt;from 11:30 am  to 1:00 pm in the new student lounge. Copies of Dr.&lt;br&gt;Northcutt&amp;#39;s CV are available to review in W210. Feedback is welcome to&lt;br&gt;any member of the search committee.  Dean Herzog - wherzog@ants.edu,&lt;br&gt;Professor Pazmi&amp;#241;o- rpazmino@ants.edu, Professor Drummond-&lt;br&gt;sdrummond@ants.edu, Professor Valentin- bvalentin@ants.edu, Andy&lt;br&gt;Edwards- aewards@ants.edu,  Tempest Brevard- tbrevard@ants.edu. &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Paid volunteer needed&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Woodbury Management Workshop is seeking an individual to drive&lt;br&gt;guest speaker Diana Butler Bass from Cambridge to campus on Thursday,&lt;br&gt;February 7th and Friday, February 8th at 8:00 am.  A stipend will be&lt;br&gt;provided. Please contact Jen Walker at 617-964-1100 x316 or&lt;br&gt;jwalker@ants.edu for more information or to offer your services. &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office (Updated info on INTE 764)&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The INTE 764- Intro. to Contemporary Islam course starts tomorrow,&lt;br&gt;Wednesday, January 30.  Class will meet at Hebrew College, room 102-103,&lt;br&gt;lower level.&lt;p&gt;Spring 2008 &lt;br&gt;Courses Closed&lt;br&gt;CHRS720 - [ELCHRS] Life as Pilgrimage&lt;br&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;ETHI 780-With Head and Heart&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;Spring 2008&lt;br&gt;Courses Canceled&lt;br&gt;P3 OLDT 512&lt;br&gt;WOTA 776 Creation Spirituality Penfold&lt;br&gt;NEWT 709 Exegesis: Matthew Pregeant&lt;br&gt;HIST 628 Women Leaders Coolman&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;METHODIST STUDENT FELLOWSHIP&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;On Wednesday, Febrary 6th there will be a Methodist Student Fellowship&lt;br&gt;to be held in the dinning hall at 12:00 noon.  This meeting is open to&lt;br&gt;the&lt;br&gt;entire ANTS community. For further information contact bsmith@ants.edu&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Chapel News February 3rd-9th&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Welcome back everyone!&lt;br&gt;Morning Worship is from 8:30-8:50 am, Monday through Friday.&lt;br&gt;The Liturgists/Homilists for the week of February 3-9 are:&lt;p&gt;Monday: Ned Allyn Parker&lt;br&gt;Tuesday: John Brock&lt;br&gt;Wednesday: Carmen Emerson and Bill Gural&lt;br&gt;Thursday: Liz Garrigan-Byerly and Kurt Walker&lt;br&gt;Friday: Jason Boyd and Ian Holland&lt;p&gt;Each liturgist and homilist share from their own faith traditions,&lt;br&gt;fostering interfaith worship services on campus.  These Services are&lt;br&gt;open to the entire Andover Newton Community.&lt;p&gt;Wednesday Community Chapel for February 6th will be led by Burns&lt;br&gt;Stanfield and the message will be offered by President Nick Carter.&lt;p&gt;Keep your eyes open for &amp;quot;Chapel Notes,&amp;quot; a weekly newsletter and&lt;br&gt;calendar of worship events on campus.  If you would like to participate&lt;br&gt;in worship or add anything to this regular ENews announcement or Chapel&lt;br&gt;Notes, please contact Ned Allyn Parker at: NParker@ants.edu. &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;library notice&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Routine upgrade work for the library catalog system is scheduled 11:00&lt;br&gt;p.m.-7:00 a.m., February 1-2.  Night owls take note: the library catalog&lt;br&gt;will not be available during that time period.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Call for volunteers&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;On May 10th Andover Newton is going to host a major conference on the&lt;br&gt;future of mission as part of our Bicentennial celebration.  The title of&lt;br&gt;the event is &amp;quot;The Majority Speaks: Global Perspectives on Mission in&lt;br&gt;the 21st Century&amp;quot;.   Some of the key program elements for this event&lt;br&gt;are:  a keynote speaker and panel presentations from 2/3 World&lt;br&gt;representatives, discussion groups with international guests for lay&lt;br&gt;leaders and pastors, to showcase &amp;quot;best practice&amp;quot; missional programs,&lt;br&gt;to have 20 workshops on mission programs and resources, to exhibit&lt;br&gt;information on leading programs and agencies, to have a special&lt;br&gt;missional worship service and registration.  &lt;p&gt;As you can see we have a full day of activities planned and will need&lt;br&gt;the help of volunteers with mailings, registration, worship, exhibits&lt;br&gt;and displays, transportation, promotion, hosting guests and clean up. &lt;br&gt;If you have a couple of hours to spare between now and May 10th and&lt;br&gt;would like to give us a hand please contact Rev. Miriam Baez at&lt;br&gt;mbaez@ants.edu or at (617) 964- 1100 x280.  &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;How to Check Your Grades on Connect!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;1) Log in to Connect!&lt;br&gt;2) Click on the &amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; tab&lt;br&gt;3) In the navigation panel on the left, click on &amp;quot;Grade Report and&lt;br&gt;Transcript&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;4) In &amp;quot;Grade Report&amp;quot;, change &amp;quot;Term:&amp;quot; to the term whose grades you wish&lt;br&gt;to see&lt;br&gt;5) Click on &amp;quot;View Final Grade Report&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions, please call the Help Desk at 617-964-1100&lt;br&gt;x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Fellow Students,&lt;p&gt;Andover Newton will be holding its Conference on Ministries/Spring Open&lt;br&gt;House on February 22nd and 23rd and we need your help.&lt;p&gt;We all know that discerning a call to seminary is an exciting, scary&lt;br&gt;and overwhelming process.  Your invitation to a member of your home&lt;br&gt;church, a member of your field education congregation, or any member&lt;br&gt;inside of and outside of your faith tradition to attend our Conference&lt;br&gt;on Ministries could be all that she or he needs to take the next step&lt;br&gt;and respond to God&amp;#39;s call.  So, we are asking you to do just that -&lt;br&gt;offer an invitation to anyone seeking to respond to a deeper call,&lt;br&gt;anyone looking to feed a hunger for intellectual exploration and&lt;br&gt;spiritual growth to visit your seminary on February 22nd and 23rd.&lt;p&gt;Participants in our Conference on Ministries will have the opportunity&lt;br&gt;to meet our faculty, staff, Deans and President Carter, attend sample&lt;br&gt;classes, interact with current students in small groups, tour the&lt;br&gt;campus, participate in roundtable discussions on life after college as&lt;br&gt;well as the transition back to school, worship, and listen to some great&lt;br&gt;gospel music while in fellowship with our community.&lt;p&gt;The Conference on Ministries is a wonderful opportunity for prospective&lt;br&gt;students to share stories and experiences, meet extraordinary people,&lt;br&gt;and receive answers to their questions about Andover Newton and a&lt;br&gt;theological vocation.  Attached is a flyer with information on the event&lt;br&gt;and below is a link to the online registration form.  Housing is&lt;br&gt;available for students traveling from a distance.  Please pass on the&lt;br&gt;information and invite someone to respond to their call at your seminary&lt;br&gt;- Andover Newton.&lt;p&gt;Blessings,&lt;br&gt;Sean&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sean Porter&lt;br&gt;Director of Recruitment &amp;amp; Admission&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 ext. 313&lt;br&gt;1-800-964-2687&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Open Table Election Night Potluck-Alert #2&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Tuesday, February 5, 2008&lt;p&gt;Celebrate the election process in community: come to the Open Table&lt;br&gt;Super&lt;br&gt;Tuesday Potluck&lt;p&gt;What? - Potluck meal to be shared in communion &lt;br&gt;Where? - 40 Cypress Street, Newton Centre (corner Braeland/Cypress,&lt;br&gt;bottom of Herrick)&lt;br&gt;When? - Tuesday, February 5 from 6PM until we all go home&lt;br&gt;Who? - All ANTS students, faculty and staff&lt;br&gt;Why? - Good news and bad news deserves to be celebrated and mourned in&lt;br&gt;fellowship&lt;br&gt;How? - We will track the party results in the 24 states and territories&lt;br&gt;in blue and red.&lt;p&gt;Interested? Please contact Sherry Thomas at &lt;br&gt;&amp;lt;mailto:shthomas2@comcast.net&gt;&lt;br&gt;shthomas2@comcast.net. Don&amp;#39;t forget to vote!!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Baptist - February 6 meeting&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The staff members at The American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts&lt;br&gt;(TABCOM) are interested in strengthening their connection with the&lt;br&gt;Baptist students at Andover Newton. This includes all Baptist&lt;br&gt;students,&lt;br&gt;not just ABC students from Massachusetts. In fact, anyone who likes to&lt;br&gt;fellowship with Baptists is welcome.&lt;p&gt;Our first visit will be Wed., Feb. 6 from Rev. Jim Sinclair, Area&lt;br&gt;Minister.&lt;br&gt;We&amp;#39;ll meet in the cafeteria from approximately 11:30am until just&lt;br&gt;before&lt;br&gt;Chapel.&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to contact me if you have questions.&lt;br&gt;~emily&lt;p&gt;Emily Leavitt&lt;br&gt;Coordinator, Baptist Fellowship Group&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The UCC Fellowship Remembers Nikki Kirby&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;This year&amp;#39;s Shrove Tuesday Pancake Dinner will be held in memory of&lt;br&gt;Nikki Kirby, beloved ANTS alum who died suddenly last October.  &lt;p&gt;To make the event worthy of this honor, its focus will be two things&lt;br&gt;for which Nikki cares deeply: fellowship and feeding the hungry.  So,&lt;br&gt;this year&amp;#39;s event will be a pancake serving marathon combined with an&lt;br&gt;appeal to stock the food pantry in the Student Center in Upper Noyes.&lt;p&gt;UCC Fellowship members and other volunteers will serve pancakes in the&lt;br&gt;Student Center nightly from Friday, Feb. 1 through Tuesday, Feb. 5:&lt;p&gt;Friday: 9:00 - 10:00&lt;br&gt;Saturday: 8:30 - 10:00&lt;br&gt;Sunday: In lieu of pancakes, enjoy the Super Bowl party in the Student&lt;br&gt;Center&lt;br&gt;Monday: 8:30 - 10:00&lt;br&gt;Tuesday: 8:30 - 10:00&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;All are welcome to gather for fellowship and we are asking those who&lt;br&gt;are able to bring donations to the food pantry.  It is our hope that by&lt;br&gt;Ash Wednesday, the pantry will be filled with healthy foods and we will&lt;br&gt;improve our practice of maintaining it.  &lt;p&gt;All students, faculty, staff and campus residents are welcome to attend&lt;br&gt;UCC Fellowship events!&lt;p&gt;To read more about hunger at ANTS and join an online forum, go to the&lt;br&gt;UCC Fellowship Forum on its public page in Connect. &lt;p&gt;Email cstasko@ants.edu with questions or to volunteer to help with this&lt;br&gt;event.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Can Poetry Save a Life?&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;In her third collection of poems, Susan Deborah King bears witness to&lt;br&gt;the soul&amp;#39;s transformation in the wake of a breast cancer diagnosis and&lt;br&gt;subsequent mastectomy.  The act of writing her latest collection of&lt;br&gt;poetry, One-Breasted Woman, was an essential part of her recovery.  A&lt;br&gt;teacher of writing, a former Presbyterian minister and psychotherapist,&lt;br&gt;King leads retreats on creativity and spirituality.&lt;p&gt;Come meet &amp;quot;Sam&amp;quot; King at the Andover Newton Bookstore on Friday evening,&lt;br&gt;February 1 at 7 pm as she reads from her latest book.  Bring your&lt;br&gt;friends.  Light refreshments will be served.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/02/ants-student-e-news-friday-february-1.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-6357754306729002785</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-30T16:45:06.640-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Wednesday, January 30, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- Cafeteria News (updated)&lt;br&gt;- Worship and Preaching Job Search&lt;br&gt;- Paid volunteer needed&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office (Updated info on INTE 764)&lt;br&gt;- METHODIST STUDENT FELLOWSHIP &lt;br&gt;- Chapel News&lt;br&gt;- Focus the Nation&lt;br&gt;- Call for volunteers&lt;br&gt;- How to Check Your Grades on Connect!&lt;br&gt;- Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;- Open Table Election Night Potluck-Alert #2&lt;br&gt;- Baptist - February 6 meeting&lt;br&gt;- Greening the Curriculum at ANTS&lt;br&gt;- The UCC Fellowship Remembers Nikki Kirby&lt;br&gt;- Can Poetry Save a Life?&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Cafeteria News&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;I would like to Welcome everyone back to  the cafeteria! Regular hours&lt;br&gt;will be back in full swing on Monday February 4th.&lt;p&gt;Breakfast -Tuesday through Thursday 7:30-10:00.&lt;br&gt;Lunch- Monday through Thursday 11:30-1:30.&lt;br&gt;Dinner- Monday through Thursday 4:30-6:30.&lt;p&gt;Please check out our website for weekly specials and menus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.antsdining.com"&gt;www.antsdining.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Please Welcome back Sheela in the student lounge for our smart market&lt;br&gt;cart, She will be  serving beverages, sandwich&amp;#39;s, salad&amp;#39;s, and dessert.&lt;br&gt;Hours of operation Monday through Thursday  1:30-4:30 Friday&amp;#39;s&lt;br&gt;8:30-4:30.&lt;p&gt;The Dining Hall will be open all day for beverages and snacks, between&lt;br&gt;meals.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions please do not hesitate to call me at x303&lt;p&gt;Note: Thursday January 31 the cafe will be open for Breakfast&lt;br&gt;7:30-9:00, Lunch 11:30-1:30, and Dinner 4:30-6:30 Thursday night menu&lt;br&gt;will be; Chicken Italiano, Broccoli alfredo, and Herbed fettucine.&lt;p&gt;Employment: An opportunity has come to fill a space in the cafeteria.&lt;br&gt;We are seeking an employee to work 21 hours a week, running a cash&lt;br&gt;register and serving food. please call Liz in the cafeteria for more&lt;br&gt;information 617 964-1100 x303&lt;p&gt;Elizabeth Bostwick&lt;br&gt;Food Service Director&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Worship and Preaching Job Search&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Worship and Preaching Job Search Committee is pleased to announce a&lt;br&gt;finalist for the Faculty Position in Worship and Preaching and Director&lt;br&gt;of the Wilson Chapel.  The Reverend Dr. Christian Scharen will be on&lt;br&gt;campus for final interviews February 6th and 7th.  Dr. Scharen&amp;#39;s public&lt;br&gt;lecture is Wednesday, February 6th, from 12:00-1:00 pm in the Berkeley&lt;br&gt;room and all are encouraged to attend. Student&amp;#39;s have the opportunity to&lt;br&gt;meet and interact with Chris on Thursday, February 7th, from 11:30 am &lt;br&gt;to 1:00 pm in the new student lounge. Copies of Dr. Scharen&amp;#39;s CV are&lt;br&gt;available to review in W210. Feedback is welcome to any member of the&lt;br&gt;search committee.  Dean Herzog - wherzog@ants.edu, Professor Pazmi&amp;#241;o-&lt;br&gt;rpazmino@ants.edu, Professor Drummond- sdrummond@ants.edu, Professor&lt;br&gt;Valentin- bvalentin@ants.edu, Andy Edwards- aewards@ants.edu, Tempest&lt;br&gt;Brevard- tbrevard@ants.edu.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Worship and Preaching Job Search Committee is pleased to announce a&lt;br&gt;finalist for the Faculty Position in Worship and Preaching and Director&lt;br&gt;of the Wilson Chapel.  The Reverend Dr. Kay Lynn Northcutt will be on&lt;br&gt;campus for final interviews February 13th and 14th.  Dr. Northcutt&amp;#39;s&lt;br&gt;public lecture is Wednesday, February 13th, from 12:00-1:00 pm in the&lt;br&gt;Berkeley room and all are encouraged to attend. Student&amp;#39;s have the&lt;br&gt;opportunity to meet and interact with Kay on Thursday, February 14th,&lt;br&gt;from 11:30 am  to 1:00 pm in the new student lounge. Copies of Dr.&lt;br&gt;Northcutt&amp;#39;s CV are available to review in W210. Feedback is welcome to&lt;br&gt;any member of the search committee.  Dean Herzog - wherzog@ants.edu,&lt;br&gt;Professor Pazmi&amp;#241;o- rpazmino@ants.edu, Professor Drummond-&lt;br&gt;sdrummond@ants.edu, Professor Valentin- bvalentin@ants.edu, Andy&lt;br&gt;Edwards- aewards@ants.edu,  Tempest Brevard- tbrevard@ants.edu. &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Paid volunteer needed&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Woodbury Management Workshop is seeking an individual to drive&lt;br&gt;guest speaker Diana Butler Bass from Cambridge to campus on Thursday,&lt;br&gt;February 7th and Friday, February 8th at 8:00 am.  A stipend will be&lt;br&gt;provided. Please contact Jen Walker at 617-964-1100 x316 or&lt;br&gt;jwalker@ants.edu for more information or to offer your services. &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office (Updated info on INTE 764)&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The INTE 764- Intro. to Contemporary Islam course starts tomorrow,&lt;br&gt;Wednesday, January 30.  Class will meet at Hebrew College, room 102-103,&lt;br&gt;lower level.&lt;p&gt;Spring 2008 &lt;br&gt;Courses Closed&lt;br&gt;CHRS720 - [ELCHRS] Life as Pilgrimage&lt;br&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;ETHI 780-With Head and Heart&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;Spring 2008&lt;br&gt;Courses Canceled&lt;br&gt;P3 OLDT 512&lt;br&gt;WOTA 776 Creation Spirituality Penfold&lt;br&gt;NEWT 709 Exegesis: Matthew Pregeant&lt;br&gt;HIST 628 Women Leaders Coolman&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;METHODIST STUDENT FELLOWSHIP&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;On Wednesday, Febrary 6th there will be a Methodist Student Fellowship&lt;br&gt;to be held in the dinning hall at 12:00 noon.  This meeting is open to&lt;br&gt;the&lt;br&gt;entire ANTS community. For further information contact bsmith@ants.edu&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Chapel News (updated)&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;A couple of initial dates to keep in mind:&lt;p&gt;Morning worship will begin on the first day of classes, here is the&lt;br&gt;schedule:&lt;p&gt;Thursday, January 31: &lt;br&gt;8:00am Music and Meditation&lt;br&gt;8:30am Worship with a Homily offered by Judy Brandon as a part of the&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Focus the Nation&amp;quot; event&lt;p&gt;Friday, February 1:&lt;br&gt;8:00am Music and Meditation&lt;br&gt;8:30am Worship with a Homily offered by Ned Allyn Parker&lt;p&gt;Our first Wednesday Community Chapel service will be on February 6th&lt;br&gt;and lead by Burns Stanfield, with the message offered by President Nick&lt;br&gt;Carter.&lt;p&gt;The Andover Newton Community Choir will meet on Wednesday at 12:40 for&lt;br&gt;rehearsal with Burns in the Wilson Chapel.  Everyone is invited to&lt;br&gt;participate.&lt;p&gt;Ned Allyn Parker&lt;br&gt;Admission Counselor / Chapel Steward&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Focus the Nation&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Focus the Nation--Today and Tomorrow!&lt;br&gt;See Schedule of Events below&lt;p&gt;ANTS joins over 1300 other educational, religious, and civic&lt;br&gt;organizations for a  National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions.&lt;br&gt;As we learn more about global warming, we will learn more about the&lt;br&gt;connections between the Earth and our faith.&lt;p&gt;Wednesday, Jan. 30&lt;br&gt;7:30 p.m. Opening Prayer and Gathering Upper Noyes Student Lounge&lt;br&gt;8:00 �?? 9:00 p.m. Watch &amp;quot;The 2% Solution,&amp;quot; live from Earth Day&lt;br&gt;T.V. (Bring your cell phone to vote on climate change solutions!)&lt;p&gt;Thursday, Jan. 31&lt;br&gt;8:00 a.m. Chapel is Open for Meditation&lt;br&gt;8:30 a.m. Eco Morning Worship&lt;p&gt;12:00 - 1:00 p.m. ANTS Community Forum: &amp;quot;Greening the Curriculum&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;	with Dean Herzog and Rev. Dr. Mary Westfall&lt;br&gt;	Learn about coming changes; share your ideas&lt;br&gt;	Upper Noyes Student Lounge &lt;p&gt;1:00-2:00 p.m. Eco Worship in the UU tradition&lt;br&gt;	Wilson Chapel&lt;p&gt;5:00-6:00 p.m. Gratitude Dinner in the cafeteria&lt;br&gt;	Simple prayers for the earth enhance our regular dinner fare&lt;p&gt;6:00-10:00 p.m. &amp;quot;For the Beauty of the Earth&amp;quot; in the Meeting House&lt;br&gt;	6-9 pm: Art Night: make your own recycled paper and prayer&lt;br&gt;beads&lt;br&gt;        6-8 pm: Walk the labyrinth and reflect on the beauty of the&lt;br&gt;earth&lt;br&gt;        8-8:30 pm: Live Native American drumming&lt;br&gt;        8:30-9 pm: Creation Ritual based on Psalm 104&lt;br&gt;        9-10 pm: Candlelight vigil: Meeting House to Wilson Chapel&lt;p&gt;All day in the lobby of Davis:&lt;br&gt;Come sit a spell at the letter-writing table. &lt;br&gt;Tell your mayor, governor, and senators how you feel about global&lt;br&gt;climate change;&lt;br&gt;Express your gratitude to the ANTS Trustees for their sustainability&lt;br&gt;initiatives.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Call for volunteers&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;On May 10th Andover Newton is going to host a major conference on the&lt;br&gt;future of mission as part of our Bicentennial celebration.  The title of&lt;br&gt;the event is &amp;quot;The Majority Speaks: Global Perspectives on Mission in&lt;br&gt;the 21st Century&amp;quot;.   Some of the key program elements for this event&lt;br&gt;are:  a keynote speaker and panel presentations from 2/3 World&lt;br&gt;representatives, discussion groups with international guests for lay&lt;br&gt;leaders and pastors, to showcase &amp;quot;best practice&amp;quot; missional programs,&lt;br&gt;to have 20 workshops on mission programs and resources, to exhibit&lt;br&gt;information on leading programs and agencies, to have a special&lt;br&gt;missional worship service and registration.  &lt;p&gt;As you can see we have a full day of activities planned and will need&lt;br&gt;the help of volunteers with mailings, registration, worship, exhibits&lt;br&gt;and displays, transportation, promotion, hosting guests and clean up. &lt;br&gt;If you have a couple of hours to spare between now and May 10th and&lt;br&gt;would like to give us a hand please contact Rev. Miriam Baez at&lt;br&gt;mbaez@ants.edu or at (617) 964- 1100 x280.  &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;How to Check Your Grades on Connect!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;1) Log in to Connect!&lt;br&gt;2) Click on the &amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; tab&lt;br&gt;3) In the navigation panel on the left, click on &amp;quot;Grade Report and&lt;br&gt;Transcript&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;4) In &amp;quot;Grade Report&amp;quot;, change &amp;quot;Term:&amp;quot; to the term whose grades you wish&lt;br&gt;to see&lt;br&gt;5) Click on &amp;quot;View Final Grade Report&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions, please call the Help Desk at 617-964-1100&lt;br&gt;x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Fellow Students,&lt;p&gt;Andover Newton will be holding its Conference on Ministries/Spring Open&lt;br&gt;House on February 22nd and 23rd and we need your help.&lt;p&gt;We all know that discerning a call to seminary is an exciting, scary&lt;br&gt;and overwhelming process.  Your invitation to a member of your home&lt;br&gt;church, a member of your field education congregation, or any member&lt;br&gt;inside of and outside of your faith tradition to attend our Conference&lt;br&gt;on Ministries could be all that she or he needs to take the next step&lt;br&gt;and respond to God&amp;#39;s call.  So, we are asking you to do just that -&lt;br&gt;offer an invitation to anyone seeking to respond to a deeper call,&lt;br&gt;anyone looking to feed a hunger for intellectual exploration and&lt;br&gt;spiritual growth to visit your seminary on February 22nd and 23rd.&lt;p&gt;Participants in our Conference on Ministries will have the opportunity&lt;br&gt;to meet our faculty, staff, Deans and President Carter, attend sample&lt;br&gt;classes, interact with current students in small groups, tour the&lt;br&gt;campus, participate in roundtable discussions on life after college as&lt;br&gt;well as the transition back to school, worship, and listen to some great&lt;br&gt;gospel music while in fellowship with our community.&lt;p&gt;The Conference on Ministries is a wonderful opportunity for prospective&lt;br&gt;students to share stories and experiences, meet extraordinary people,&lt;br&gt;and receive answers to their questions about Andover Newton and a&lt;br&gt;theological vocation.  Attached is a flyer with information on the event&lt;br&gt;and below is a link to the online registration form.  Housing is&lt;br&gt;available for students traveling from a distance.  Please pass on the&lt;br&gt;information and invite someone to respond to their call at your seminary&lt;br&gt;- Andover Newton.&lt;p&gt;Blessings,&lt;br&gt;Sean&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sean Porter&lt;br&gt;Director of Recruitment &amp;amp; Admission&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 ext. 313&lt;br&gt;1-800-964-2687&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Open Table Election Night Potluck-Alert #2&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Tuesday, February 5, 2008&lt;p&gt;Celebrate the election process in community: come to the Open Table&lt;br&gt;Super&lt;br&gt;Tuesday Potluck&lt;p&gt;What? - Potluck meal to be shared in communion &lt;br&gt;Where? - 40 Cypress Street, Newton Centre (corner Braeland/Cypress,&lt;br&gt;bottom of Herrick)&lt;br&gt;When? - Tuesday, February 5 from 6PM until we all go home&lt;br&gt;Who? - All ANTS students, faculty and staff&lt;br&gt;Why? - Good news and bad news deserves to be celebrated and mourned in&lt;br&gt;fellowship&lt;br&gt;How? - We will track the party results in the 24 states and territories&lt;br&gt;in blue and red.&lt;p&gt;Interested? Please contact Sherry Thomas at &lt;br&gt;&amp;lt;mailto:shthomas2@comcast.net&gt;&lt;br&gt;shthomas2@comcast.net. Don&amp;#39;t forget to vote!!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Baptist - February 6 meeting&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The staff members at The American Baptist Churches of Massachusetts&lt;br&gt;(TABCOM) are interested in strengthening their connection with the&lt;br&gt;Baptist students at Andover Newton. This includes all Baptist&lt;br&gt;students,&lt;br&gt;not just ABC students from Massachusetts. In fact, anyone who likes to&lt;br&gt;fellowship with Baptists is welcome.&lt;p&gt;Our first visit will be Wed., Feb. 6 from Rev. Jim Sinclair, Area&lt;br&gt;Minister.&lt;br&gt;We&amp;#39;ll meet in the cafeteria from approximately 11:30am until just&lt;br&gt;before&lt;br&gt;Chapel.&lt;p&gt;Please feel free to contact me if you have questions.&lt;br&gt;~emily&lt;p&gt;Emily Leavitt&lt;br&gt;Coordinator, Baptist Fellowship Group&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Greening the Curriculum at ANTS&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please join us&lt;br&gt;Thursday, Jan. 31 &lt;br&gt;Noon til 1 PM&lt;br&gt;Student Lounge in Upper Noyes&lt;p&gt;for a Community Forum on &amp;quot;Greening the Curriculum.&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;Dean Herzog and Rev. Mary Westfall will lead a discussion on&lt;br&gt;integrating ecology and earth care into the curriculum at ANTS.&lt;br&gt;Hope to see you there!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The UCC Fellowship Remembers Nikki Kirby&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;This year&amp;#39;s Shrove Tuesday Pancake Dinner will be held in memory of&lt;br&gt;Nikki Kirby, beloved ANTS alum who died suddenly last October.  &lt;p&gt;To make the event worthy of this honor, its focus will be two things&lt;br&gt;for which Nikki cares deeply: fellowship and feeding the hungry.  So,&lt;br&gt;this year&amp;#39;s event will be a pancake serving marathon combined with an&lt;br&gt;appeal to stock the food pantry in the Student Center in Upper Noyes.&lt;p&gt;UCC Fellowship members and other volunteers will serve pancakes in the&lt;br&gt;Student Center nightly from Friday, Feb. 1 through Tuesday, Feb. 5:&lt;p&gt;Friday: 9:00 - 10:00&lt;br&gt;Saturday: 8:30 - 10:00&lt;br&gt;Sunday: In lieu of pancakes, enjoy the Super Bowl party in the Student&lt;br&gt;Center&lt;br&gt;Monday: 8:30 - 10:00&lt;br&gt;Tuesday: 8:30 - 10:00&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt;All are welcome to gather for fellowship and we are asking those who&lt;br&gt;are able to bring donations to the food pantry.  It is our hope that by&lt;br&gt;Ash Wednesday, the pantry will be filled with healthy foods and we will&lt;br&gt;improve our practice of maintaining it.  &lt;p&gt;All students, faculty, staff and campus residents are welcome to attend&lt;br&gt;UCC Fellowship events!&lt;p&gt;To read more about hunger at ANTS and join an online forum, go to the&lt;br&gt;UCC Fellowship Forum on its public page in Connect. &lt;p&gt;Email cstasko@ants.edu with questions or to volunteer to help with this&lt;br&gt;event.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Can Poetry Save a Life?&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;In her third collection of poems, Susan Deborah King bears witness to&lt;br&gt;the soul&amp;#39;s transformation in the wake of a breast cancer diagnosis and&lt;br&gt;subsequent mastectomy.  The act of writing her latest collection of&lt;br&gt;poetry, One-Breasted Woman, was an essential part of her recovery.  A&lt;br&gt;teacher of writing, a former Presbyterian minister and psychotherapist,&lt;br&gt;King leads retreats on creativity and spirituality.&lt;p&gt;Come meet &amp;quot;Sam&amp;quot; King at the Andover Newton Bookstore on Friday evening,&lt;br&gt;February 1 at 7 pm as she reads from her latest book.  Bring your&lt;br&gt;friends.  Light refreshments will be served.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/ants-student-e-news-wednesday-january_30.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-455696710772525287</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-29T16:09:18.950-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Tuesday, January 29, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- Cafeteria News&lt;br&gt;- Worship and Preaching Job Search&lt;br&gt;- For the Beauty of the Earth&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office (Updated info on INTE 764)&lt;br&gt;- METHODIST STUDENT FELLOWSHIP &lt;br&gt;- Chapel News&lt;br&gt;- Multicultural Festival, Feb. 8!&lt;br&gt;- Call for volunteers&lt;br&gt;- How to Check Your Grades on Connect!&lt;br&gt;- Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;- Open Table Election Night Potluck-Alert #2&lt;br&gt;- Retreat for New Clergy, Newly Seasoned Clergy and Graduating&lt;br&gt;Seminarians&lt;br&gt;- Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;- AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;br&gt;- Can Poetry Save a Life?&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Cafeteria News&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;I would like to Welcome everyone back to  the cafeteria! Regular hours&lt;br&gt;will be back in full swing on Monday February 4th.&lt;p&gt;Breakfast -Tuesday through Thursday 7:30-10:00.&lt;br&gt;Lunch- Monday through Thursday 11:30-1:30.&lt;br&gt;Dinner- Monday through Thursday 4:30-6:30.&lt;p&gt;Please check out our website for weekly specials and menus.&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.antsdining.com"&gt;www.antsdining.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Please Welcome back Sheela in the student lounge for our smart market&lt;br&gt;cart, She will be  serving beverages, sandwich&amp;#39;s, salad&amp;#39;s, and dessert.&lt;br&gt;Hours of operation Monday through Thursday  1:30-4:30 Friday&amp;#39;s&lt;br&gt;8:30-4:30.&lt;p&gt;The Dining Hall will be open all day for beverages and snacks, between&lt;br&gt;meals.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions please do not hesitate to call me at x303&lt;p&gt;Note: Thursday January 31 the cafe will be open for Breakfast&lt;br&gt;7:30-9:00, Lunch 11:30-1:30, and Dinner 4:30-6:30 Thursday night menu&lt;br&gt;will be; Chicken Italiano, Broccoli alfredo, and Herbed fettucine.&lt;p&gt;Employment: An opportunity has come to fill a space in the cafeteria.&lt;br&gt;We are seeking an employee to work 21 hours a week, running a cash&lt;br&gt;register and serving food. please call Liz in the cafeteria for more&lt;br&gt;information 617 964-1100 x303&lt;p&gt;Elizabeth Bostwick&lt;br&gt;Food Service Director&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Worship and Preaching Job Search&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Worship and Preaching Job Search Committee is pleased to announce a&lt;br&gt;finalist for the Faculty Position in Worship and Preaching and Director&lt;br&gt;of the Wilson Chapel.  The Reverend Dr. Christian Scharen will be on&lt;br&gt;campus for final interviews February 6th and 7th.  Dr. Scharen&amp;#39;s public&lt;br&gt;lecture is Wednesday, February 6th, from 12:00-1:00 pm in the Berkeley&lt;br&gt;room and all are encouraged to attend. Student&amp;#39;s have the opportunity to&lt;br&gt;meet and interact with Chris on Thursday, February 7th, from 11:30 am &lt;br&gt;to 1:00 pm in the new student lounge. Copies of Dr. Scharen&amp;#39;s CV are&lt;br&gt;available to review in W210. Feedback is welcome to any member of the&lt;br&gt;search committee.  Dean Herzog - wherzog@ants.edu, Professor Pazmi&amp;#241;o-&lt;br&gt;rpazmino@ants.edu, Professor Drummond- sdrummond@ants.edu, Professor&lt;br&gt;Valentin- bvalentin@ants.edu, Andy Edwards- aewards@ants.edu, Tempest&lt;br&gt;Brevard- tbrevard@ants.edu.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Worship and Preaching Job Search Committee is pleased to announce a&lt;br&gt;finalist for the Faculty Position in Worship and Preaching and Director&lt;br&gt;of the Wilson Chapel.  The Reverend Dr. Kay Lynn Northcutt will be on&lt;br&gt;campus for final interviews February 13th and 14th.  Dr. Northcutt&amp;#39;s&lt;br&gt;public lecture is Wednesday, February 13th, from 12:00-1:00 pm in the&lt;br&gt;Berkeley room and all are encouraged to attend. Student&amp;#39;s have the&lt;br&gt;opportunity to meet and interact with Kay on Thursday, February 14th,&lt;br&gt;from 11:30 am  to 1:00 pm in the new student lounge. Copies of Dr.&lt;br&gt;Northcutt&amp;#39;s CV are available to review in W210. Feedback is welcome to&lt;br&gt;any member of the search committee.  Dean Herzog - wherzog@ants.edu,&lt;br&gt;Professor Pazmi&amp;#241;o- rpazmino@ants.edu, Professor Drummond-&lt;br&gt;sdrummond@ants.edu, Professor Valentin- bvalentin@ants.edu, Andy&lt;br&gt;Edwards- aewards@ants.edu,  Tempest Brevard- tbrevard@ants.edu. &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;For the Beauty of the Earth&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;For the Beauty of the Earth &lt;br&gt;Thursday, January 31, 2008&lt;br&gt;6-10 PM in the Meeting House&lt;p&gt;As part of &amp;quot;Focus the Nation&amp;quot; at ANTS, we invite you to an evening&lt;br&gt;of reverence, gratitude, and affirmation of universal responsibility for&lt;br&gt;ecological integrity and justice expressed through art, music, ritual,&lt;br&gt;and a candlelight vigil&lt;p&gt;ANTS joins over 1,300 other educational, religious, and  civic&lt;br&gt;organizations to &amp;quot;Focus the Nation&amp;quot; on climate change. As we learn&lt;br&gt;more about global warming, we learn more about the connections between&lt;br&gt;the Earth and our faith &lt;p&gt;Schedule of Activities:&lt;br&gt;Wednesday, January 30 &lt;br&gt;8 pm Screening of &amp;quot;The 2% Solution&amp;quot;  (Student Lounge)&lt;p&gt;Thursday, January 31 &lt;br&gt;8:30 am Eco Morning Worship (Chapel)&lt;br&gt;12:00 - 1:00 pm &amp;quot;Greening the Curriculum&amp;quot; Forum with Dean Herzog&lt;br&gt;and Rev. Mary Westfall  (Student Lounge) &lt;br&gt;1:00 - 2:00 pm   Eco Worship in the UU tradition (Chapel)&lt;br&gt;5:00 - 6:00 pm   Gratitude Dinner (Cafeteria) &lt;br&gt;6:00 - 10:00 pm  &amp;quot;For the Beauty of the Earth&amp;quot; (Meeting House)&lt;br&gt;All Day  Letter-writing table in Davis Lobby. &lt;p&gt;For more information:   Christina Ray at cray@ants.edu   Tempest&lt;br&gt;Brevard at tbrevard@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office (Updated info on INTE 764)&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The INTE 764- Intro. to Contemporary Islam course starts tomorrow,&lt;br&gt;Wednesday, January 30.  Class will meet at Hebrew College, room 102-103,&lt;br&gt;lower level.&lt;p&gt;Spring 2008 &lt;br&gt;Courses Closed&lt;br&gt;CHRS720 - [ELCHRS] Life as Pilgrimage&lt;br&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;ETHI 780-With Head and Heart&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;Spring 2008&lt;br&gt;Courses Canceled&lt;br&gt;P3 OLDT 512&lt;br&gt;WOTA 776 Creation Spirituality Penfold&lt;br&gt;NEWT 709 Exegesis: Matthew Pregeant&lt;br&gt;HIST 628 Women Leaders Coolman&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;METHODIST STUDENT FELLOWSHIP&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;On Wednesday, Febrary 6th there will be a Methodist Student Fellowship&lt;br&gt;to be held in the dinning hall at 12:00 noon.  This meeting is open to&lt;br&gt;the&lt;br&gt;entire ANTS community. For further information contact bsmith@ants.edu&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Chapel News&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Hi All&lt;p&gt;Big things will be happening in the Chapel this semester.  I look&lt;br&gt;forward to our entire community coming learning and worshiping together&lt;br&gt;over the coming semester.&lt;p&gt;A couple of initial dates to keep in mind:&lt;p&gt;Morning worship will begin on the first day of classes, here is the&lt;br&gt;schedule:&lt;p&gt;Thursday, January 31: &lt;br&gt;8:00am Music and Meditation&lt;br&gt;8:30am Worship with a Homily offered by Judy Brandon as a part of the&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Focus the Nation&amp;quot; event&lt;p&gt;Friday, February 1:&lt;br&gt;8:00am Music and Meditation&lt;br&gt;8:30am Worship with a Homily offered by Ned Allyn Parker&lt;p&gt;Our first Wednesday Community Chapel service will be on February 6th&lt;br&gt;and lead by Burns Stanfield, with the message offered by President Nick&lt;br&gt;Carter.&lt;p&gt;Ned Allyn Parker&lt;br&gt;Admission Counselor / Chapel Steward&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Multicultural Festival, Feb. 8!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please Save the Date!&lt;p&gt;I am writing to invite you to once again participate in the annual&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton &amp;quot;Multicultural Festival.&amp;quot;   This year the festival will&lt;br&gt;be on Friday, Feb. 8, beginning around 5:30 p.m. in the Meeting House. &lt;br&gt;I hope that many of you will come.&lt;p&gt;We have a new staff member in the Admissions Office at Andover Newton,&lt;br&gt;Agnieszka Cram (she goes by Aga).  Aga is going to spend part of her&lt;br&gt;time working with me to support international students and to help with&lt;br&gt;the Multicultural Festival.  If you would like to present something from&lt;br&gt;your background (poem, music, whatever) please let Aga know and she&amp;#39;ll&lt;br&gt;add you to the program. You may email Aga at agacram@gmail.com.  In any&lt;br&gt;case, I hope all of you will come!&lt;p&gt;For those of you who were able to be with us last year you might recall&lt;br&gt;that it was a wonderful celebration of the diversity of cultures that is&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton!  Many of you shared something and it was a great evening&lt;br&gt;for everyone.  I hope you will be able to do so again.  We want to&lt;br&gt;celebrate our heritage, regardless of where we might come from.  This&lt;br&gt;will also be a pot-luck once again, so I encourage you to bring&lt;br&gt;something that reflects some component of your culture.  I will also&lt;br&gt;supply food through my office so if you don&amp;#39;t have time to cook, please&lt;br&gt;come anyway!&lt;p&gt;Nancy Nienhuis&lt;br&gt;Dean of Students and Community Life&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Call for volunteers&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;On May 10th Andover Newton is going to host a major conference on the&lt;br&gt;future of mission as part of our Bicentennial celebration.  The title of&lt;br&gt;the event is &amp;quot;The Majority Speaks: Global Perspectives on Mission in&lt;br&gt;the 21st Century&amp;quot;.   Some of the key program elements for this event&lt;br&gt;are:  a keynote speaker and panel presentations from 2/3 World&lt;br&gt;representatives, discussion groups with international guests for lay&lt;br&gt;leaders and pastors, to showcase &amp;quot;best practice&amp;quot; missional programs,&lt;br&gt;to have 20 workshops on mission programs and resources, to exhibit&lt;br&gt;information on leading programs and agencies, to have a special&lt;br&gt;missional worship service and registration.  &lt;p&gt;As you can see we have a full day of activities planned and will need&lt;br&gt;the help of volunteers with mailings, registration, worship, exhibits&lt;br&gt;and displays, transportation, promotion, hosting guests and clean up. &lt;br&gt;If you have a couple of hours to spare between now and May 10th and&lt;br&gt;would like to give us a hand please contact Rev. Miriam Baez at&lt;br&gt;mbaez@ants.edu or at (617) 964- 1100 x280.  &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;How to Check Your Grades on Connect!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;1) Log in to Connect!&lt;br&gt;2) Click on the &amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; tab&lt;br&gt;3) In the navigation panel on the left, click on &amp;quot;Grade Report and&lt;br&gt;Transcript&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;4) In &amp;quot;Grade Report&amp;quot;, change &amp;quot;Term:&amp;quot; to the term whose grades you wish&lt;br&gt;to see&lt;br&gt;5) Click on &amp;quot;View Final Grade Report&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions, please call the Help Desk at 617-964-1100&lt;br&gt;x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Fellow Students,&lt;p&gt;Andover Newton will be holding its Conference on Ministries/Spring Open&lt;br&gt;House on February 22nd and 23rd and we need your help.&lt;p&gt;We all know that discerning a call to seminary is an exciting, scary&lt;br&gt;and overwhelming process.  Your invitation to a member of your home&lt;br&gt;church, a member of your field education congregation, or any member&lt;br&gt;inside of and outside of your faith tradition to attend our Conference&lt;br&gt;on Ministries could be all that she or he needs to take the next step&lt;br&gt;and respond to God&amp;#39;s call.  So, we are asking you to do just that -&lt;br&gt;offer an invitation to anyone seeking to respond to a deeper call,&lt;br&gt;anyone looking to feed a hunger for intellectual exploration and&lt;br&gt;spiritual growth to visit your seminary on February 22nd and 23rd.&lt;p&gt;Participants in our Conference on Ministries will have the opportunity&lt;br&gt;to meet our faculty, staff, Deans and President Carter, attend sample&lt;br&gt;classes, interact with current students in small groups, tour the&lt;br&gt;campus, participate in roundtable discussions on life after college as&lt;br&gt;well as the transition back to school, worship, and listen to some great&lt;br&gt;gospel music while in fellowship with our community.&lt;p&gt;The Conference on Ministries is a wonderful opportunity for prospective&lt;br&gt;students to share stories and experiences, meet extraordinary people,&lt;br&gt;and receive answers to their questions about Andover Newton and a&lt;br&gt;theological vocation.  Attached is a flyer with information on the event&lt;br&gt;and below is a link to the online registration form.  Housing is&lt;br&gt;available for students traveling from a distance.  Please pass on the&lt;br&gt;information and invite someone to respond to their call at your seminary&lt;br&gt;- Andover Newton.&lt;p&gt;Blessings,&lt;br&gt;Sean&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sean Porter&lt;br&gt;Director of Recruitment &amp;amp; Admission&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 ext. 313&lt;br&gt;1-800-964-2687&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Open Table Election Night Potluck-Alert #2&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Tuesday, February 5, 2008&lt;p&gt;Celebrate the election process in community: come to the Open Table&lt;br&gt;Super&lt;br&gt;Tuesday Potluck&lt;p&gt;What? - Potluck meal to be shared in communion &lt;br&gt;Where? - 40 Cypress Street, Newton Centre (corner Braeland/Cypress,&lt;br&gt;bottom of Herrick)&lt;br&gt;When? - Tuesday, February 5 from 6PM until we all go home&lt;br&gt;Who? - All ANTS students, faculty and staff&lt;br&gt;Why? - Good news and bad news deserves to be celebrated and mourned in&lt;br&gt;fellowship&lt;br&gt;How? - We will track the party results in the 24 states and territories&lt;br&gt;in blue and red.&lt;p&gt;Interested? Please contact Sherry Thomas at &lt;br&gt;&amp;lt;mailto:shthomas2@comcast.net&gt;&lt;br&gt;shthomas2@comcast.net. Don&amp;#39;t forget to vote!!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Retreat for New Clergy, Newly Seasoned Clergy and Graduating&lt;br&gt;Seminarians&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;This Odd and Wondrous Calling: A Retreat at Craigville Conference&lt;br&gt;Center on Cape Cod for New Clergy, Newly Seasoned Clergy (3-5 years),&lt;br&gt;and Graduating Seminarians&lt;p&gt;June 5 and 6, 2008 with Martin Copenhaver, Lillian Daniel, and Chris&lt;br&gt;Braudaway-Bauman&lt;p&gt;The fee for the retreat, $120, covers the cost of four meals, an&lt;br&gt;overnight stay, linens and towels.  All other costs are covered by&lt;br&gt;grants from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., the Louisville Institute, and&lt;br&gt;Our&lt;br&gt;Church&amp;#39;s Wider Mission.&lt;p&gt;*Please RSVP no later than February 15, 2008. The full fee is due no&lt;br&gt;later than April 15, 2008. &lt;p&gt;Some scholarship assistance is available. Contact Kris LoFrumento, &lt;br&gt;lofrumentok@macucc.org for more info or with any questions.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;February 8 and 9, 2008&lt;br&gt;Grace Chapel,  59 Worthen Road in Lexington, MA&lt;p&gt;The Institute for Deaf Ministry Development, Inc. (IFDMD) is sponsoring&lt;br&gt;a two-day training (6-9 pm on Friday &amp;amp; Saturday 9 am - 4 pm on Saturday)&lt;br&gt;that will focus on ways to increase auditory memory capacity in order to&lt;br&gt;produce the equivalent message in American Sign Language (ASL). This&lt;br&gt;skill-building workshop will include hands-on practice and work in small&lt;br&gt;groups. The certified instructor is Diane Fowler, who has been&lt;br&gt;interpreting professionally since 1990. &lt;p&gt;The registration fee of $125 on or before January 25, otherwise $150&lt;br&gt;and includes Friday and Saturday meals and workshop materials. Space&lt;br&gt;limited to 25. Participants who need a sign language interpreter must&lt;br&gt;make their request by January 25. &lt;p&gt;For registration form and more information, email &amp;lt;IDMD4@hotmail.com&amp;gt;.&lt;br&gt;This training is also sponsored by BU Interpreter Education Center,&lt;br&gt;D.E.A.F., Inc. and Grace Chapel. CEUs or ACET credits are available&lt;br&gt;through Northeastern University Regional Interpreter Education Center.&lt;br&gt;More information may be available from IDMD4@hotmail.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Congregation Or Yisrael Presents AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD&lt;br&gt;SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;p&gt;Monday evening February 11, 2008, 7:30 PM Wilson Chapel&lt;p&gt;Listen to a dynamic, enthusiastic, insightful and charismatic teacher!&lt;br&gt;His topic is The Ever-Alive&lt;br&gt;Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Importance for the Understanding of the Bible,&lt;br&gt;Early Judaism, and the Birth of Christianity.  Internationally renowned&lt;br&gt;teacher, author and lecturer, Dr. Paul is recognized for his expertise&lt;br&gt;in&lt;br&gt;Bible. He is Bible Department Chairman at Hebrew University and Dead&lt;br&gt;Sea Scrolls Foundation Chairman&lt;br&gt;in Jerusalem.  You will have the opportunity to talk with Dr. Paul&lt;br&gt;during dessert and coffee.&lt;p&gt;25 seats are being saved for students, staff and faculty of Andover&lt;br&gt;Newton.  If you would like to reserve space, please RSVP no later than&lt;br&gt;February 4, 2008 to AODowd@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Can Poetry Save a Life?&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;In her third collection of poems, Susan Deborah King bears witness to&lt;br&gt;the soul&amp;#39;s transformation in the wake of a breast cancer diagnosis and&lt;br&gt;subsequent mastectomy.  The act of writing her latest collection of&lt;br&gt;poetry, One-Breasted Woman, was an essential part of her recovery.  A&lt;br&gt;teacher of writing, a former Presbyterian minister and psychotherapist,&lt;br&gt;King leads retreats on creativity and spirituality.&lt;p&gt;Come meet &amp;quot;Sam&amp;quot; King at the Andover Newton Bookstore on Friday evening,&lt;br&gt;February 1 at 7 pm as she reads from her latest book.  Bring your&lt;br&gt;friends.  Light refreshments will be served.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/ants-student-e-news-tuesday-january-29.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-7616258209237168962</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-28T16:18:01.877-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Monday, January 28, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- For the Beauty of the Earth&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office&lt;br&gt;- METHODIST STUDENT FELLOWSHIP &lt;br&gt;- Chapel News&lt;br&gt;- Multicultural Festival, Feb. 8!&lt;br&gt;- Call for volunteers&lt;br&gt;- How to Check Your Grades on Connect!&lt;br&gt;- Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;- Open Table Election Night Potluck-Alert #2&lt;br&gt;- Course Announcement-an Update&lt;br&gt;- Retreat for New Clergy, Newly Seasoned Clergy and Graduating&lt;br&gt;Seminarians&lt;br&gt;- Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;- AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;br&gt;- Can Poetry Save a Life?&lt;br&gt;- Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;For the Beauty of the Earth&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;For the Beauty of the Earth &lt;br&gt;Thursday, January 31, 2008&lt;br&gt;6-10 PM in the Meeting House&lt;p&gt;As part of &amp;quot;Focus the Nation&amp;quot; at ANTS, we invite you to an evening&lt;br&gt;of reverence, gratitude, and affirmation of universal responsibility for&lt;br&gt;ecological integrity and justice expressed through art, music, ritual,&lt;br&gt;and a candlelight vigil&lt;p&gt;ANTS joins over 1,300 other educational, religious, and  civic&lt;br&gt;organizations to &amp;quot;Focus the Nation&amp;quot; on climate change. As we learn&lt;br&gt;more about global warming, we learn more about the connections between&lt;br&gt;the Earth and our faith &lt;p&gt;Schedule of Activities:&lt;br&gt;Wednesday, January 30 &lt;br&gt;8 pm Screening of &amp;quot;The 2% Solution&amp;quot;  (Student Lounge)&lt;p&gt;Thursday, January 31 &lt;br&gt;8:30 am Eco Morning Worship (Chapel)&lt;br&gt;12:00 - 1:00 pm &amp;quot;Greening the Curriculum&amp;quot; Forum with Dean Herzog&lt;br&gt;and Rev. Mary Westfall  (Student Lounge) &lt;br&gt;1:00 - 2:00 pm   Eco Worship in the UU tradition (Chapel)&lt;br&gt;5:00 - 6:00 pm   Gratitude Dinner (Cafeteria) &lt;br&gt;6:00 - 10:00 pm  &amp;quot;For the Beauty of the Earth&amp;quot; (Meeting House)&lt;br&gt;All Day  Letter-writing table in Davis Lobby. &lt;p&gt;For more information:   Christina Ray at cray@ants.edu   Tempest&lt;br&gt;Brevard at tbrevard@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 &lt;p&gt;Courses Closed&lt;br&gt;CHRS720 - [ELCHRS] Life as Pilgrimage&lt;br&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;ETHI 780-With Head and Heart&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;Canceled&lt;br&gt;P3 OLDT 512&lt;br&gt;WOTA 776 Creation Spirituality Penfold&lt;br&gt;NEWT 709 Exegesis: Matthew Pregeant&lt;br&gt;HIST 628 Women Leaders Coolman&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;METHODIST STUDENT FELLOWSHIP&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;On Wednesday, Febrary 6th there will be a Methodist Student Fellowship&lt;br&gt;to be held in the dinning hall at 12:00 noon.  This meeting is open to&lt;br&gt;the&lt;br&gt;entire ANTS community. For further information contact bsmith@ants.edu&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Chapel News&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Hi All&lt;p&gt;Big things will be happening in the Chapel this semester.  I look&lt;br&gt;forward to our entire community coming learning and worshiping together&lt;br&gt;over the coming semester.&lt;p&gt;A couple of initial dates to keep in mind:&lt;p&gt;Morning worship will begin on the first day of classes, here is the&lt;br&gt;schedule:&lt;p&gt;Thursday, January 31: &lt;br&gt;8:00am Music and Meditation&lt;br&gt;8:30am Worship with a Homily offered by Judy Brandon as a part of the&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Focus the Nation&amp;quot; event&lt;p&gt;Friday, February 1:&lt;br&gt;8:00am Music and Meditation&lt;br&gt;8:30am Worship with a Homily offered by Ned Allyn Parker&lt;p&gt;Our first Wednesday Community Chapel service will be on February 6th&lt;br&gt;and lead by Burns Stanfield, with the message offered by President Nick&lt;br&gt;Carter.&lt;p&gt;Ned Allyn Parker&lt;br&gt;Admission Counselor / Chapel Steward&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Multicultural Festival, Feb. 8!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please Save the Date!&lt;p&gt;I am writing to invite you to once again participate in the annual&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton &amp;quot;Multicultural Festival.&amp;quot;   This year the festival will&lt;br&gt;be on Friday, Feb. 8, beginning around 5:30 p.m. in the Meeting House. &lt;br&gt;I hope that many of you will come.&lt;p&gt;We have a new staff member in the Admissions Office at Andover Newton,&lt;br&gt;Agnieszka Cram (she goes by Aga).  Aga is going to spend part of her&lt;br&gt;time working with me to support international students and to help with&lt;br&gt;the Multicultural Festival.  If you would like to present something from&lt;br&gt;your background (poem, music, whatever) please let Aga know and she&amp;#39;ll&lt;br&gt;add you to the program. You may email Aga at agacram@gmail.com.  In any&lt;br&gt;case, I hope all of you will come!&lt;p&gt;For those of you who were able to be with us last year you might recall&lt;br&gt;that it was a wonderful celebration of the diversity of cultures that is&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton!  Many of you shared something and it was a great evening&lt;br&gt;for everyone.  I hope you will be able to do so again.  We want to&lt;br&gt;celebrate our heritage, regardless of where we might come from.  This&lt;br&gt;will also be a pot-luck once again, so I encourage you to bring&lt;br&gt;something that reflects some component of your culture.  I will also&lt;br&gt;supply food through my office so if you don&amp;#39;t have time to cook, please&lt;br&gt;come anyway!&lt;p&gt;Nancy Nienhuis&lt;br&gt;Dean of Students and Community Life&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Call for volunteers&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;On May 10th Andover Newton is going to host a major conference on the&lt;br&gt;future of mission as part of our Bicentennial celebration.  The title of&lt;br&gt;the event is &amp;quot;The Majority Speaks: Global Perspectives on Mission in&lt;br&gt;the 21st Century&amp;quot;.   Some of the key program elements for this event&lt;br&gt;are:  a keynote speaker and panel presentations from 2/3 World&lt;br&gt;representatives, discussion groups with international guests for lay&lt;br&gt;leaders and pastors, to showcase &amp;quot;best practice&amp;quot; missional programs,&lt;br&gt;to have 20 workshops on mission programs and resources, to exhibit&lt;br&gt;information on leading programs and agencies, to have a special&lt;br&gt;missional worship service and registration.  &lt;p&gt;As you can see we have a full day of activities planned and will need&lt;br&gt;the help of volunteers with mailings, registration, worship, exhibits&lt;br&gt;and displays, transportation, promotion, hosting guests and clean up. &lt;br&gt;If you have a couple of hours to spare between now and May 10th and&lt;br&gt;would like to give us a hand please contact Rev. Miriam Baez at&lt;br&gt;mbaez@ants.edu or at (617) 964- 1100 x280.  &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;How to Check Your Grades on Connect!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;1) Log in to Connect!&lt;br&gt;2) Click on the &amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; tab&lt;br&gt;3) In the navigation panel on the left, click on &amp;quot;Grade Report and&lt;br&gt;Transcript&amp;quot;&lt;br&gt;4) In &amp;quot;Grade Report&amp;quot;, change &amp;quot;Term:&amp;quot; to the term whose grades you wish&lt;br&gt;to see&lt;br&gt;5) Click on &amp;quot;View Final Grade Report&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;If you have any questions, please call the Help Desk at 617-964-1100&lt;br&gt;x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Fellow Students,&lt;p&gt;Andover Newton will be holding its Conference on Ministries/Spring Open&lt;br&gt;House on February 22nd and 23rd and we need your help.&lt;p&gt;We all know that discerning a call to seminary is an exciting, scary&lt;br&gt;and overwhelming process.  Your invitation to a member of your home&lt;br&gt;church, a member of your field education congregation, or any member&lt;br&gt;inside of and outside of your faith tradition to attend our Conference&lt;br&gt;on Ministries could be all that she or he needs to take the next step&lt;br&gt;and respond to God&amp;#39;s call.  So, we are asking you to do just that -&lt;br&gt;offer an invitation to anyone seeking to respond to a deeper call,&lt;br&gt;anyone looking to feed a hunger for intellectual exploration and&lt;br&gt;spiritual growth to visit your seminary on February 22nd and 23rd.&lt;p&gt;Participants in our Conference on Ministries will have the opportunity&lt;br&gt;to meet our faculty, staff, Deans and President Carter, attend sample&lt;br&gt;classes, interact with current students in small groups, tour the&lt;br&gt;campus, participate in roundtable discussions on life after college as&lt;br&gt;well as the transition back to school, worship, and listen to some great&lt;br&gt;gospel music while in fellowship with our community.&lt;p&gt;The Conference on Ministries is a wonderful opportunity for prospective&lt;br&gt;students to share stories and experiences, meet extraordinary people,&lt;br&gt;and receive answers to their questions about Andover Newton and a&lt;br&gt;theological vocation.  Attached is a flyer with information on the event&lt;br&gt;and below is a link to the online registration form.  Housing is&lt;br&gt;available for students traveling from a distance.  Please pass on the&lt;br&gt;information and invite someone to respond to their call at your seminary&lt;br&gt;- Andover Newton.&lt;p&gt;Blessings,&lt;br&gt;Sean&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sean Porter&lt;br&gt;Director of Recruitment &amp;amp; Admission&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 ext. 313&lt;br&gt;1-800-964-2687&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Open Table Election Night Potluck-Alert #2&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Tuesday, February 5, 2008&lt;p&gt;Celebrate the election process in community: come to the Open Table&lt;br&gt;Super&lt;br&gt;Tuesday Potluck&lt;p&gt;What? - Potluck meal to be shared in communion &lt;br&gt;Where? - 40 Cypress Street, Newton Centre (corner Braeland/Cypress,&lt;br&gt;bottom of Herrick)&lt;br&gt;When? - Tuesday, February 5 from 6PM until we all go home&lt;br&gt;Who? - All ANTS students, faculty and staff&lt;br&gt;Why? - Good news and bad news deserves to be celebrated and mourned in&lt;br&gt;fellowship&lt;br&gt;How? - We will track the party results in the 24 states and territories&lt;br&gt;in blue and red.&lt;p&gt;Interested? Please contact Sherry Thomas at &lt;br&gt;&amp;lt;mailto:shthomas2@comcast.net&gt;&lt;br&gt;shthomas2@comcast.net. Don&amp;#39;t forget to vote!!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt; Course Announcement-an Update&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring course &lt;p&gt;Registration is open for MDiv students. This course does NOT fulfill&lt;br&gt;your CMLE requirement. It will count as an upper level Ministerial&lt;br&gt;Practice or a general elective.&lt;p&gt;CMLE 752/852S&lt;br&gt;Interim Ministry: Theory and Practice&lt;br&gt;Thursdays, beginning January 31 from 2:00-5:00 PM for Ministers in the&lt;br&gt;Vicinity/ DMin students&lt;p&gt;Transitions between pastors is a unique time in the life of a&lt;br&gt;congregation. In more recent times this period is getting special&lt;br&gt;attention because of the issues faced when one pastor leaves and before&lt;br&gt;another arrives. An interim period well handled can help prepare the way&lt;br&gt;for the new pastor in such a way that she/he does not become in fact an&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Interim&amp;quot; even though called as the &amp;quot;Settled Pastor.&amp;quot; &lt;p&gt;To help churches move through this period it has been recognized that&lt;br&gt;special skills are needed so that those who serve as interim pastors can&lt;br&gt;more effectively lead. Denominations have begun to do more to prepare&lt;br&gt;both congregations and pastors for this period. Denominations in the&lt;br&gt;Free Church tradition have long used interims, but are now beginning to&lt;br&gt;set standards and offer training. The American Baptist Churches of&lt;br&gt;Massachusetts, the Unitarian Universalist Interim Ministers Guild and&lt;br&gt;the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ have all&lt;br&gt;expressed satisfaction that this course syllabus addresses the issues&lt;br&gt;and demands of interim ministry in a comprehensive way, offering skill&lt;br&gt;sets the interim minister will need. In addition, we are aware that&lt;br&gt;those denominations that fall into the connectional system are taking a&lt;br&gt;serious look at the importance of the interim period and the skills&lt;br&gt;required to help such congregations.&lt;p&gt;The team members have considerable experience as pastors, interim&lt;br&gt;pastors in a number of denominations, and as teachers at Andover Newton.&lt;br&gt;It is their intention to bring those experiences to the classroom. The&lt;br&gt;course has been designed to appeal to those doing Interim Ministry as&lt;br&gt;well as those who are exploring the possibilities of Interim Ministry as&lt;br&gt;a calling.  This course will NOT fulfill the CMLE requirement.&lt;p&gt;For MIV registration please fill out the MIV form&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/MIVappreg.pdf"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/MIVappreg.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Retreat for New Clergy, Newly Seasoned Clergy and Graduating&lt;br&gt;Seminarians&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;This Odd and Wondrous Calling: A Retreat at Craigville Conference&lt;br&gt;Center on Cape Cod for New Clergy, Newly Seasoned Clergy (3-5 years),&lt;br&gt;and Graduating Seminarians&lt;p&gt;June 5 and 6, 2008 with Martin Copenhaver, Lillian Daniel, and Chris&lt;br&gt;Braudaway-Bauman&lt;p&gt;The fee for the retreat, $120, covers the cost of four meals, an&lt;br&gt;overnight stay, linens and towels.  All other costs are covered by&lt;br&gt;grants from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., the Louisville Institute, and&lt;br&gt;Our&lt;br&gt;Church&amp;#39;s Wider Mission.&lt;p&gt;*Please RSVP no later than February 15, 2008. The full fee is due no&lt;br&gt;later than April 15, 2008. &lt;p&gt;Some scholarship assistance is available. Contact Kris LoFrumento, &lt;br&gt;lofrumentok@macucc.org for more info or with any questions.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;February 8 and 9, 2008&lt;br&gt;Grace Chapel,  59 Worthen Road in Lexington, MA&lt;p&gt;The Institute for Deaf Ministry Development, Inc. (IFDMD) is sponsoring&lt;br&gt;a two-day training (6-9 pm on Friday &amp;amp; Saturday 9 am - 4 pm on Saturday)&lt;br&gt;that will focus on ways to increase auditory memory capacity in order to&lt;br&gt;produce the equivalent message in American Sign Language (ASL). This&lt;br&gt;skill-building workshop will include hands-on practice and work in small&lt;br&gt;groups. The certified instructor is Diane Fowler, who has been&lt;br&gt;interpreting professionally since 1990. &lt;p&gt;The registration fee of $125 on or before January 25, otherwise $150&lt;br&gt;and includes Friday and Saturday meals and workshop materials. Space&lt;br&gt;limited to 25. Participants who need a sign language interpreter must&lt;br&gt;make their request by January 25. &lt;p&gt;For registration form and more information, email &amp;lt;IDMD4@hotmail.com&amp;gt;.&lt;br&gt;This training is also sponsored by BU Interpreter Education Center,&lt;br&gt;D.E.A.F., Inc. and Grace Chapel. CEUs or ACET credits are available&lt;br&gt;through Northeastern University Regional Interpreter Education Center.&lt;br&gt;More information may be available from IDMD4@hotmail.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Congregation Or Yisrael Presents AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD&lt;br&gt;SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;p&gt;Monday evening February 11, 2008, 7:30 PM Wilson Chapel&lt;p&gt;Listen to a dynamic, enthusiastic, insightful and charismatic teacher!&lt;br&gt;His topic is The Ever-Alive&lt;br&gt;Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Importance for the Understanding of the Bible,&lt;br&gt;Early Judaism, and the Birth of Christianity.  Internationally renowned&lt;br&gt;teacher, author and lecturer, Dr. Paul is recognized for his expertise&lt;br&gt;in&lt;br&gt;Bible. He is Bible Department Chairman at Hebrew University and Dead&lt;br&gt;Sea Scrolls Foundation Chairman&lt;br&gt;in Jerusalem.  You will have the opportunity to talk with Dr. Paul&lt;br&gt;during dessert and coffee.&lt;p&gt;25 seats are being saved for students, staff and faculty of Andover&lt;br&gt;Newton.  If you would like to reserve space, please RSVP no later than&lt;br&gt;February 4, 2008 to AODowd@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Can Poetry Save a Life?&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;In her third collection of poems, Susan Deborah King bears witness to&lt;br&gt;the soul&amp;#39;s transformation in the wake of a breast cancer diagnosis and&lt;br&gt;subsequent mastectomy.  The act of writing her latest collection of&lt;br&gt;poetry, One-Breasted Woman, was an essential part of her recovery.  A&lt;br&gt;teacher of writing, a former Presbyterian minister and psychotherapist,&lt;br&gt;King leads retreats on creativity and spirituality.&lt;p&gt;Come meet &amp;quot;Sam&amp;quot; King at the Andover Newton Bookstore on Friday evening,&lt;br&gt;February 1 at 7 pm as she reads from her latest book.  Bring your&lt;br&gt;friends.  Light refreshments will be served.  &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s coming! Save the dates!&lt;p&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship, &lt;br&gt;June 22-25, 2008&lt;p&gt;Our Hearts Ablaze: Encountering Christ, &lt;br&gt;Renewing Holy Ground&lt;p&gt;Keynote presenters include:&lt;p&gt;Marty Haugen, a composer of liturgical music for both&lt;br&gt;Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. He has&lt;br&gt;had over 400 compositions published by GIA, Augsburg&lt;br&gt;Fortress and various other publishers. For the past 25&lt;br&gt;years he has presented workshops and concerts across&lt;br&gt;North America and in Europe, the Pacific Rim, Asia and&lt;br&gt;Central America for church musicians and anyone&lt;br&gt;interested in the renewal of worship.&lt;p&gt;Susan Briehl, a Lutheran pastor for 25 years is an&lt;br&gt;associate with the Valparaiso Project on Education and&lt;br&gt;the Formation of People in Faith.  Her writings&lt;br&gt;include: Come, Lord Jesus, devotions for Advent,&lt;br&gt;Christmas and Epiphany, Turn my Heart: a Sacred&lt;br&gt;Journey from Brokenness to Healing, (with Marty&lt;br&gt;Haugen) and several liturgical and hymn texts.&lt;p&gt;Watch for future mailings and brochures about details&lt;br&gt;of registration, credits, daily schedules, etc.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/ants-student-e-news-monday-january-28.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-4972883657624073881</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 21:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-25T16:50:18.378-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Friday, January 25, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- For the Beauty of the Earth&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office&lt;br&gt;- Chapel News&lt;br&gt;- Multicultural Festival, Feb. 8!&lt;br&gt;- Ellis Oliver Ordination&lt;br&gt;- Job Opening in the Mail Room&lt;br&gt;- Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;- Open Table Election Night Potluck-Alert #1&lt;br&gt;- Course Announcement-an Update&lt;br&gt;- Retreat for New Clergy, Newly Seasoned Clergy and Graduating&lt;br&gt;Seminarians&lt;br&gt;- Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;- AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;br&gt;- Can Poetry Save a Life?&lt;br&gt;- Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;For the Beauty of the Earth&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;For the Beauty of the Earth &lt;br&gt;Thursday, January 31, 2008&lt;br&gt;6-10 PM in the Meeting House&lt;p&gt;As part of &amp;quot;Focus the Nation&amp;quot; at ANTS, we invite you to an evening&lt;br&gt;of reverence, gratitude, and affirmation of universal responsibility for&lt;br&gt;ecological integrity and justice expressed through art, music, ritual,&lt;br&gt;and a candlelight vigil&lt;p&gt;ANTS joins over 1,300 other educational, religious, and  civic&lt;br&gt;organizations to &amp;quot;Focus the Nation&amp;quot; on climate change. As we learn&lt;br&gt;more about global warming, we learn more about the connections between&lt;br&gt;the Earth and our faith &lt;p&gt;Schedule of Activities:&lt;br&gt;Wednesday, January 30 &lt;br&gt;8 pm Screening of &amp;quot;The 2% Solution&amp;quot;  (Student Lounge)&lt;p&gt;Thursday, January 31 &lt;br&gt;8:30 am Eco Morning Worship (Chapel)&lt;br&gt;12:00 - 1:00 pm &amp;quot;Greening the Curriculum&amp;quot; Forum with Dean Herzog&lt;br&gt;and Rev. Mary Westfall  (Student Lounge) &lt;br&gt;1:00 - 2:00 pm   Eco Worship in the UU tradition (Chapel)&lt;br&gt;5:00 - 6:00 pm   Gratitude Dinner (Cafeteria) &lt;br&gt;6:00 - 10:00 pm  &amp;quot;For the Beauty of the Earth&amp;quot; (Meeting House)&lt;br&gt;All Day  Letter-writing table in Davis Lobby. &lt;p&gt;For more information:   Christina Ray at cray@ants.edu   Tempest&lt;br&gt;Brevard at tbrevard@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 &lt;p&gt;Courses Closed&lt;br&gt;CHRS720 - [ELCHRS] Life as Pilgrimage&lt;br&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;ETHI 780-With Head and Heart&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;Canceled&lt;br&gt;P3 OLDT 512&lt;br&gt;WOTA 776 Creation Spirituality Penfold&lt;br&gt;NEWT 709 Exegesis: Matthew Pregeant&lt;br&gt;HIST 628 Women Leaders Coolman&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Chapel News&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Hi All&lt;p&gt;Big things will be happening in the Chapel this semester.  I look&lt;br&gt;forward to our entire community coming learning and worshiping together&lt;br&gt;over the coming semester.&lt;p&gt;A couple of initial dates to keep in mind:&lt;p&gt;Morning worship will begin on the first day of classes, here is the&lt;br&gt;schedule:&lt;p&gt;Thursday, January 31: &lt;br&gt;8:00am Music and Meditation&lt;br&gt;8:30am Worship with a Homily offered by Judy Brandon as a part of the&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Focus the Nation&amp;quot; event&lt;p&gt;Friday, February 1:&lt;br&gt;8:00am Music and Meditation&lt;br&gt;8:30am Worship with a Homily offered by Ned Allyn Parker&lt;p&gt;Our first Wednesday Community Chapel service will be on February 6th&lt;br&gt;and lead by Burns Stanfield, with the message offered by President Nick&lt;br&gt;Carter.&lt;p&gt;Ned Allyn Parker&lt;br&gt;Admission Counselor / Chapel Steward&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Multicultural Festival, Feb. 8!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please Save the Date!&lt;p&gt;I am writing to invite you to once again participate in the annual&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton &amp;quot;Multicultural Festival.&amp;quot;   This year the festival will&lt;br&gt;be on Friday, Feb. 8, beginning around 5:30 p.m. in the Meeting House. &lt;br&gt;I hope that many of you will come.&lt;p&gt;We have a new staff member in the Admissions Office at Andover Newton,&lt;br&gt;Agnieszka Cram (she goes by Aga).  Aga is going to spend part of her&lt;br&gt;time working with me to support international students and to help with&lt;br&gt;the Multicultural Festival.  If you would like to present something from&lt;br&gt;your background (poem, music, whatever) please let Aga know and she&amp;#39;ll&lt;br&gt;add you to the program. You may email Aga at agacram@gmail.com.  In any&lt;br&gt;case, I hope all of you will come!&lt;p&gt;For those of you who were able to be with us last year you might recall&lt;br&gt;that it was a wonderful celebration of the diversity of cultures that is&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton!  Many of you shared something and it was a great evening&lt;br&gt;for everyone.  I hope you will be able to do so again.  We want to&lt;br&gt;celebrate our heritage, regardless of where we might come from.  This&lt;br&gt;will also be a pot-luck once again, so I encourage you to bring&lt;br&gt;something that reflects some component of your culture.  I will also&lt;br&gt;supply food through my office so if you don&amp;#39;t have time to cook, please&lt;br&gt;come anyway!&lt;p&gt;Nancy Nienhuis&lt;br&gt;Dean of Students and Community Life&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Ellis Oliver Ordination&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Ellis Oliver (Ollie) Jones, M.Div. 2006, has been called by the people &lt;br&gt;of Faith Lutheran Church, East Hartford, Connecticut, to serve as their&lt;br&gt;pastor.  He will be ordained into the ministry of Word and Sacrament in&lt;br&gt;the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, on Sunday, January 27th, at&lt;br&gt;4pm at Trinity Lutheran Church, 170 Old Westford Rd, Chelmsford, MA&lt;br&gt;01824, (978) 256-6300.  All are welcome!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Job Opening in the Mail Room&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Mailroom Clerk&lt;p&gt;There is an opening for a mailroom clerk on the ANTS campus for the&lt;br&gt;spring semester.  The job entails sorting and delivering mail on campus&lt;br&gt;and handing out packages to students two days a week from 11 to 4.  If&lt;br&gt;you are interested, please send a short biography and your student&lt;br&gt;schedule to: housing@ants.edu    Please use &amp;quot;Mail Room Clerk&amp;quot; in the&lt;br&gt;subject line.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Fellow Students,&lt;p&gt;Andover Newton will be holding its Conference on Ministries/Spring Open&lt;br&gt;House on February 22nd and 23rd and we need your help.&lt;p&gt;We all know that discerning a call to seminary is an exciting, scary&lt;br&gt;and overwhelming process.  Your invitation to a member of your home&lt;br&gt;church, a member of your field education congregation, or any member&lt;br&gt;inside of and outside of your faith tradition to attend our Conference&lt;br&gt;on Ministries could be all that she or he needs to take the next step&lt;br&gt;and respond to God&amp;#39;s call.  So, we are asking you to do just that -&lt;br&gt;offer an invitation to anyone seeking to respond to a deeper call,&lt;br&gt;anyone looking to feed a hunger for intellectual exploration and&lt;br&gt;spiritual growth to visit your seminary on February 22nd and 23rd.&lt;p&gt;Participants in our Conference on Ministries will have the opportunity&lt;br&gt;to meet our faculty, staff, Deans and President Carter, attend sample&lt;br&gt;classes, interact with current students in small groups, tour the&lt;br&gt;campus, participate in roundtable discussions on life after college as&lt;br&gt;well as the transition back to school, worship, and listen to some great&lt;br&gt;gospel music while in fellowship with our community.&lt;p&gt;The Conference on Ministries is a wonderful opportunity for prospective&lt;br&gt;students to share stories and experiences, meet extraordinary people,&lt;br&gt;and receive answers to their questions about Andover Newton and a&lt;br&gt;theological vocation.  Attached is a flyer with information on the event&lt;br&gt;and below is a link to the online registration form.  Housing is&lt;br&gt;available for students traveling from a distance.  Please pass on the&lt;br&gt;information and invite someone to respond to their call at your seminary&lt;br&gt;- Andover Newton.&lt;p&gt;Blessings,&lt;br&gt;Sean&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sean Porter&lt;br&gt;Director of Recruitment &amp;amp; Admission&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 ext. 313&lt;br&gt;1-800-964-2687&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Open Table Election Night Potluck-Alert #1&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Tuesday, February 5, 2008&lt;p&gt;Celebrate the election process in community: come to the Open Table&lt;br&gt;Super Tuesday Potluck&lt;p&gt;What? - Potluck meal to be shared in communion &lt;br&gt;Where? - 40 Cypress Street, Newton Centre (corner Braeland/Cypress,&lt;br&gt;bottom of Herrick)&lt;br&gt;When? -  Tuesday, February 5 from 6PM until we all go home&lt;br&gt;Who? - All ANTS students, faculty and staff&lt;br&gt;Why? - Good news and bad news deserves to be celebrated and mourned in&lt;br&gt;fellowship&lt;br&gt;How? - We will track the party results in the 24 states and territories&lt;br&gt;in blue and red.&lt;p&gt;Interested? Please contact Sherry Thomas at shthomas2@comcast.net.&lt;br&gt;Don&amp;#39;t&lt;br&gt;forget to vote!!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt; Course Announcement-an Update&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring course &lt;p&gt;Registration is open for MDiv students. This course does NOT fulfill&lt;br&gt;your CMLE requirement. It will count as an upper level Ministerial&lt;br&gt;Practice or a general elective.&lt;p&gt;CMLE 752/852S&lt;br&gt;Interim Ministry: Theory and Practice&lt;br&gt;Thursdays, beginning January 31 from 2:00-5:00 PM for Ministers in the&lt;br&gt;Vicinity/ DMin students&lt;p&gt;Transitions between pastors is a unique time in the life of a&lt;br&gt;congregation. In more recent times this period is getting special&lt;br&gt;attention because of the issues faced when one pastor leaves and before&lt;br&gt;another arrives. An interim period well handled can help prepare the way&lt;br&gt;for the new pastor in such a way that she/he does not become in fact an&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Interim&amp;quot; even though called as the &amp;quot;Settled Pastor.&amp;quot; &lt;p&gt;To help churches move through this period it has been recognized that&lt;br&gt;special skills are needed so that those who serve as interim pastors can&lt;br&gt;more effectively lead. Denominations have begun to do more to prepare&lt;br&gt;both congregations and pastors for this period. Denominations in the&lt;br&gt;Free Church tradition have long used interims, but are now beginning to&lt;br&gt;set standards and offer training. The American Baptist Churches of&lt;br&gt;Massachusetts, the Unitarian Universalist Interim Ministers Guild and&lt;br&gt;the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ have all&lt;br&gt;expressed satisfaction that this course syllabus addresses the issues&lt;br&gt;and demands of interim ministry in a comprehensive way, offering skill&lt;br&gt;sets the interim minister will need. In addition, we are aware that&lt;br&gt;those denominations that fall into the connectional system are taking a&lt;br&gt;serious look at the importance of the interim period and the skills&lt;br&gt;required to help such congregations.&lt;p&gt;The team members have considerable experience as pastors, interim&lt;br&gt;pastors in a number of denominations, and as teachers at Andover Newton.&lt;br&gt;It is their intention to bring those experiences to the classroom. The&lt;br&gt;course has been designed to appeal to those doing Interim Ministry as&lt;br&gt;well as those who are exploring the possibilities of Interim Ministry as&lt;br&gt;a calling.  This course will NOT fulfill the CMLE requirement.&lt;p&gt;For MIV registration please fill out the MIV form&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/MIVappreg.pdf"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/MIVappreg.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Retreat for New Clergy, Newly Seasoned Clergy and Graduating&lt;br&gt;Seminarians&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;This Odd and Wondrous Calling: A Retreat at Craigville Conference&lt;br&gt;Center on Cape Cod for New Clergy, Newly Seasoned Clergy (3-5 years),&lt;br&gt;and Graduating Seminarians&lt;p&gt;June 5 and 6, 2008 with Martin Copenhaver, Lillian Daniel, and Chris&lt;br&gt;Braudaway-Bauman&lt;p&gt;The fee for the retreat, $120, covers the cost of four meals, an&lt;br&gt;overnight stay, linens and towels.  All other costs are covered by&lt;br&gt;grants from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., the Louisville Institute, and&lt;br&gt;Our&lt;br&gt;Church&amp;#39;s Wider Mission.&lt;p&gt;*Please RSVP no later than February 15, 2008. The full fee is due no&lt;br&gt;later than April 15, 2008. &lt;p&gt;Some scholarship assistance is available. Contact Kris LoFrumento, &lt;br&gt;lofrumentok@macucc.org for more info or with any questions.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;February 8 and 9, 2008&lt;br&gt;Grace Chapel,  59 Worthen Road in Lexington, MA&lt;p&gt;The Institute for Deaf Ministry Development, Inc. (IFDMD) is sponsoring&lt;br&gt;a two-day training (6-9 pm on Friday &amp;amp; Saturday 9 am - 4 pm on Saturday)&lt;br&gt;that will focus on ways to increase auditory memory capacity in order to&lt;br&gt;produce the equivalent message in American Sign Language (ASL). This&lt;br&gt;skill-building workshop will include hands-on practice and work in small&lt;br&gt;groups. The certified instructor is Diane Fowler, who has been&lt;br&gt;interpreting professionally since 1990. &lt;p&gt;The registration fee of $125 on or before January 25, otherwise $150&lt;br&gt;and includes Friday and Saturday meals and workshop materials. Space&lt;br&gt;limited to 25. Participants who need a sign language interpreter must&lt;br&gt;make their request by January 25. &lt;p&gt;For registration form and more information, email &amp;lt;IDMD4@hotmail.com&amp;gt;.&lt;br&gt;This training is also sponsored by BU Interpreter Education Center,&lt;br&gt;D.E.A.F., Inc. and Grace Chapel. CEUs or ACET credits are available&lt;br&gt;through Northeastern University Regional Interpreter Education Center.&lt;br&gt;More information may be available from IDMD4@hotmail.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Congregation Or Yisrael Presents AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD&lt;br&gt;SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;p&gt;Monday evening February 11, 2008, 7:30 PM Wilson Chapel&lt;p&gt;Listen to a dynamic, enthusiastic, insightful and charismatic teacher!&lt;br&gt;His topic is The Ever-Alive&lt;br&gt;Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Importance for the Understanding of the Bible,&lt;br&gt;Early Judaism, and the Birth of Christianity.  Internationally renowned&lt;br&gt;teacher, author and lecturer, Dr. Paul is recognized for his expertise&lt;br&gt;in&lt;br&gt;Bible. He is Bible Department Chairman at Hebrew University and Dead&lt;br&gt;Sea Scrolls Foundation Chairman&lt;br&gt;in Jerusalem.  You will have the opportunity to talk with Dr. Paul&lt;br&gt;during dessert and coffee.&lt;p&gt;25 seats are being saved for students, staff and faculty of Andover&lt;br&gt;Newton.  If you would like to reserve space, please RSVP no later than&lt;br&gt;February 4, 2008 to AODowd@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Can Poetry Save a Life?&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;In her third collection of poems, Susan Deborah King bears witness to&lt;br&gt;the soul&amp;#39;s transformation in the wake of a breast cancer diagnosis and&lt;br&gt;subsequent mastectomy.  The act of writing her latest collection of&lt;br&gt;poetry, One-Breasted Woman, was an essential part of her recovery.  A&lt;br&gt;teacher of writing, a former Presbyterian minister and psychotherapist,&lt;br&gt;King leads retreats on creativity and spirituality.&lt;p&gt;Come meet &amp;quot;Sam&amp;quot; King at the Andover Newton Bookstore on Friday evening,&lt;br&gt;February 1 at 7 pm as she reads from her latest book.  Bring your&lt;br&gt;friends.  Light refreshments will be served.  &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s coming! Save the dates!&lt;p&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship, &lt;br&gt;June 22-25, 2008&lt;p&gt;Our Hearts Ablaze: Encountering Christ, &lt;br&gt;Renewing Holy Ground&lt;p&gt;Keynote presenters include:&lt;p&gt;Marty Haugen, a composer of liturgical music for both&lt;br&gt;Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. He has&lt;br&gt;had over 400 compositions published by GIA, Augsburg&lt;br&gt;Fortress and various other publishers. For the past 25&lt;br&gt;years he has presented workshops and concerts across&lt;br&gt;North America and in Europe, the Pacific Rim, Asia and&lt;br&gt;Central America for church musicians and anyone&lt;br&gt;interested in the renewal of worship.&lt;p&gt;Susan Briehl, a Lutheran pastor for 25 years is an&lt;br&gt;associate with the Valparaiso Project on Education and&lt;br&gt;the Formation of People in Faith.  Her writings&lt;br&gt;include: Come, Lord Jesus, devotions for Advent,&lt;br&gt;Christmas and Epiphany, Turn my Heart: a Sacred&lt;br&gt;Journey from Brokenness to Healing, (with Marty&lt;br&gt;Haugen) and several liturgical and hymn texts.&lt;p&gt;Watch for future mailings and brochures about details&lt;br&gt;of registration, credits, daily schedules, etc.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/ants-student-e-news-friday-january-25.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-1230481348559771844</guid><pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-24T16:28:10.760-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Thursday, January 24, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- APPLETON-CHASE NEEDS YOUR HELP!!&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office&lt;br&gt;- Chapel News&lt;br&gt;- Multicultural Festival, Feb. 8!&lt;br&gt;- Ellis Oliver Ordination&lt;br&gt;- Job Opening in the Mail Room&lt;br&gt;- Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;- Open Table Election Night Potluck-Alert #1&lt;br&gt;- Course Announcement-an Update&lt;br&gt;- Retreat for New Clergy, Newly Seasoned Clergy and Graduating&lt;br&gt;Seminarians&lt;br&gt;- Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;- AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;br&gt;- Can Poetry Save a Life?&lt;br&gt;- Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;- UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;APPLETON-CHASE NEEDS YOUR HELP!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;This coming Wednesday &amp;amp; Thursday (January 23 &amp;amp; 24) we will be priming&lt;br&gt;and painting the basement lounge of Appleton-Chase. Please come and join&lt;br&gt;in as we will need as many helping hands as possible! We will begin&lt;br&gt;around 11 and finishing up (hopefully) around 5 each day. Pizza and beer&lt;br&gt;will be provided to those who can help!! &lt;p&gt;If you have any questions please contact Ruth Edens at REdens@ants.edu&lt;br&gt;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 &lt;p&gt;Courses Closed&lt;br&gt;CHRS720 - [ELCHRS] Life as Pilgrimage&lt;br&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;ETHI 780-With Head and Heart&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;Canceled&lt;br&gt;P3 OLDT 512&lt;br&gt;WOTA 776 Creation Spirituality Penfold&lt;br&gt;NEWT 709 Exegesis: Matthew Pregeant&lt;br&gt;HIST 628 Women Leaders Coolman&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Chapel News&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Hi All&lt;p&gt;Big things will be happening in the Chapel this semester.  I look&lt;br&gt;forward to our entire community coming learning and worshiping together&lt;br&gt;over the coming semester.&lt;p&gt;A couple of initial dates to keep in mind:&lt;p&gt;Morning worship will begin on the first day of classes, here is the&lt;br&gt;schedule:&lt;p&gt;Thursday, January 31: &lt;br&gt;8:00am Music and Meditation&lt;br&gt;8:30am Worship with a Homily offered by Judy Brandon as a part of the&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Focus the Nation&amp;quot; event&lt;p&gt;Friday, February 1:&lt;br&gt;8:00am Music and Meditation&lt;br&gt;8:30am Worship with a Homily offered by Ned Allyn Parker&lt;p&gt;Our first Wednesday Community Chapel service will be on February 6th&lt;br&gt;and lead by Burns Stanfield, with the message offered by President Nick&lt;br&gt;Carter.&lt;p&gt;Ned Allyn Parker&lt;br&gt;Admission Counselor / Chapel Steward&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Multicultural Festival, Feb. 8!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please Save the Date!&lt;p&gt;I am writing to invite you to once again participate in the annual&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton &amp;quot;Multicultural Festival.&amp;quot;   This year the festival will&lt;br&gt;be on Friday, Feb. 8, beginning around 5:30 p.m. in the Meeting House. &lt;br&gt;I hope that many of you will come.&lt;p&gt;We have a new staff member in the Admissions Office at Andover Newton,&lt;br&gt;Agnieszka Cram (she goes by Aga).  Aga is going to spend part of her&lt;br&gt;time working with me to support international students and to help with&lt;br&gt;the Multicultural Festival.  If you would like to present something from&lt;br&gt;your background (poem, music, whatever) please let Aga know and she&amp;#39;ll&lt;br&gt;add you to the program. You may email Aga at agacram@gmail.com.  In any&lt;br&gt;case, I hope all of you will come!&lt;p&gt;For those of you who were able to be with us last year you might recall&lt;br&gt;that it was a wonderful celebration of the diversity of cultures that is&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton!  Many of you shared something and it was a great evening&lt;br&gt;for everyone.  I hope you will be able to do so again.  We want to&lt;br&gt;celebrate our heritage, regardless of where we might come from.  This&lt;br&gt;will also be a pot-luck once again, so I encourage you to bring&lt;br&gt;something that reflects some component of your culture.  I will also&lt;br&gt;supply food through my office so if you don&amp;#39;t have time to cook, please&lt;br&gt;come anyway!&lt;p&gt;Nancy Nienhuis&lt;br&gt;Dean of Students and Community Life&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Ellis Oliver Ordination&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Ellis Oliver (Ollie) Jones, M.Div. 2006, has been called by the people &lt;br&gt;of Faith Lutheran Church, East Hartford, Connecticut, to serve as their&lt;br&gt;pastor.  He will be ordained into the ministry of Word and Sacrament in&lt;br&gt;the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, on Sunday, January 27th, at&lt;br&gt;4pm at Trinity Lutheran Church, 170 Old Westford Rd, Chelmsford, MA&lt;br&gt;01824, (978) 256-6300.  All are welcome!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Job Opening in the Mail Room&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Mailroom Clerk&lt;p&gt;There is an opening for a mailroom clerk on the ANTS campus for the&lt;br&gt;spring semester.  The job entails sorting and delivering mail on campus&lt;br&gt;and handing out packages to students two days a week from 11 to 4.  If&lt;br&gt;you are interested, please send a short biography and your student&lt;br&gt;schedule to: housing@ants.edu    Please use &amp;quot;Mail Room Clerk&amp;quot; in the&lt;br&gt;subject line.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Fellow Students,&lt;p&gt;Andover Newton will be holding its Conference on Ministries/Spring Open&lt;br&gt;House on February 22nd and 23rd and we need your help.&lt;p&gt;We all know that discerning a call to seminary is an exciting, scary&lt;br&gt;and overwhelming process.  Your invitation to a member of your home&lt;br&gt;church, a member of your field education congregation, or any member&lt;br&gt;inside of and outside of your faith tradition to attend our Conference&lt;br&gt;on Ministries could be all that she or he needs to take the next step&lt;br&gt;and respond to God&amp;#39;s call.  So, we are asking you to do just that -&lt;br&gt;offer an invitation to anyone seeking to respond to a deeper call,&lt;br&gt;anyone looking to feed a hunger for intellectual exploration and&lt;br&gt;spiritual growth to visit your seminary on February 22nd and 23rd.&lt;p&gt;Participants in our Conference on Ministries will have the opportunity&lt;br&gt;to meet our faculty, staff, Deans and President Carter, attend sample&lt;br&gt;classes, interact with current students in small groups, tour the&lt;br&gt;campus, participate in roundtable discussions on life after college as&lt;br&gt;well as the transition back to school, worship, and listen to some great&lt;br&gt;gospel music while in fellowship with our community.&lt;p&gt;The Conference on Ministries is a wonderful opportunity for prospective&lt;br&gt;students to share stories and experiences, meet extraordinary people,&lt;br&gt;and receive answers to their questions about Andover Newton and a&lt;br&gt;theological vocation.  Attached is a flyer with information on the event&lt;br&gt;and below is a link to the online registration form.  Housing is&lt;br&gt;available for students traveling from a distance.  Please pass on the&lt;br&gt;information and invite someone to respond to their call at your seminary&lt;br&gt;- Andover Newton.&lt;p&gt;Blessings,&lt;br&gt;Sean&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sean Porter&lt;br&gt;Director of Recruitment &amp;amp; Admission&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 ext. 313&lt;br&gt;1-800-964-2687&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Open Table Election Night Potluck-Alert #1&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Tuesday, February 5, 2008&lt;p&gt;Celebrate the election process in community: come to the Open Table&lt;br&gt;Super Tuesday Potluck&lt;p&gt;What? - Potluck meal to be shared in communion &lt;br&gt;Where? - 40 Cypress Street, Newton Centre (corner Braeland/Cypress,&lt;br&gt;bottom of Herrick)&lt;br&gt;When? -  Tuesday, February 5 from 6PM until we all go home&lt;br&gt;Who? - All ANTS students, faculty and staff&lt;br&gt;Why? - Good news and bad news deserves to be celebrated and mourned in&lt;br&gt;fellowship&lt;br&gt;How? - We will track the party results in the 24 states and territories&lt;br&gt;in blue and red.&lt;p&gt;Interested? Please contact Sherry Thomas at shthomas2@comcast.net.&lt;br&gt;Don&amp;#39;t&lt;br&gt;forget to vote!!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt; Course Announcement-an Update&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring course &lt;p&gt;Registration is open for MDiv students. This course does NOT fulfill&lt;br&gt;your CMLE requirement. It will count as an upper level Ministerial&lt;br&gt;Practice or a general elective.&lt;p&gt;CMLE 752/852S&lt;br&gt;Interim Ministry: Theory and Practice&lt;br&gt;Thursdays, beginning January 31 from 2:00-5:00 PM for Ministers in the&lt;br&gt;Vicinity/ DMin students&lt;p&gt;Transitions between pastors is a unique time in the life of a&lt;br&gt;congregation. In more recent times this period is getting special&lt;br&gt;attention because of the issues faced when one pastor leaves and before&lt;br&gt;another arrives. An interim period well handled can help prepare the way&lt;br&gt;for the new pastor in such a way that she/he does not become in fact an&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Interim&amp;quot; even though called as the &amp;quot;Settled Pastor.&amp;quot; &lt;p&gt;To help churches move through this period it has been recognized that&lt;br&gt;special skills are needed so that those who serve as interim pastors can&lt;br&gt;more effectively lead. Denominations have begun to do more to prepare&lt;br&gt;both congregations and pastors for this period. Denominations in the&lt;br&gt;Free Church tradition have long used interims, but are now beginning to&lt;br&gt;set standards and offer training. The American Baptist Churches of&lt;br&gt;Massachusetts, the Unitarian Universalist Interim Ministers Guild and&lt;br&gt;the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ have all&lt;br&gt;expressed satisfaction that this course syllabus addresses the issues&lt;br&gt;and demands of interim ministry in a comprehensive way, offering skill&lt;br&gt;sets the interim minister will need. In addition, we are aware that&lt;br&gt;those denominations that fall into the connectional system are taking a&lt;br&gt;serious look at the importance of the interim period and the skills&lt;br&gt;required to help such congregations.&lt;p&gt;The team members have considerable experience as pastors, interim&lt;br&gt;pastors in a number of denominations, and as teachers at Andover Newton.&lt;br&gt;It is their intention to bring those experiences to the classroom. The&lt;br&gt;course has been designed to appeal to those doing Interim Ministry as&lt;br&gt;well as those who are exploring the possibilities of Interim Ministry as&lt;br&gt;a calling.  This course will NOT fulfill the CMLE requirement.&lt;p&gt;For MIV registration please fill out the MIV form&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/MIVappreg.pdf"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/MIVappreg.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Retreat for New Clergy, Newly Seasoned Clergy and Graduating&lt;br&gt;Seminarians&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;This Odd and Wondrous Calling: A Retreat at Craigville Conference&lt;br&gt;Center on Cape Cod for New Clergy, Newly Seasoned Clergy (3-5 years),&lt;br&gt;and Graduating Seminarians&lt;p&gt;June 5 and 6, 2008 with Martin Copenhaver, Lillian Daniel, and Chris&lt;br&gt;Braudaway-Bauman&lt;p&gt;The fee for the retreat, $120, covers the cost of four meals, an&lt;br&gt;overnight stay, linens and towels.  All other costs are covered by&lt;br&gt;grants from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., the Louisville Institute, and&lt;br&gt;Our&lt;br&gt;Church&amp;#39;s Wider Mission.&lt;p&gt;*Please RSVP no later than February 15, 2008. The full fee is due no&lt;br&gt;later than April 15, 2008. &lt;p&gt;Some scholarship assistance is available. Contact Kris LoFrumento, &lt;br&gt;lofrumentok@macucc.org for more info or with any questions.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;February 8 and 9, 2008&lt;br&gt;Grace Chapel,  59 Worthen Road in Lexington, MA&lt;p&gt;The Institute for Deaf Ministry Development, Inc. (IFDMD) is sponsoring&lt;br&gt;a two-day training (6-9 pm on Friday &amp;amp; Saturday 9 am - 4 pm on Saturday)&lt;br&gt;that will focus on ways to increase auditory memory capacity in order to&lt;br&gt;produce the equivalent message in American Sign Language (ASL). This&lt;br&gt;skill-building workshop will include hands-on practice and work in small&lt;br&gt;groups. The certified instructor is Diane Fowler, who has been&lt;br&gt;interpreting professionally since 1990. &lt;p&gt;The registration fee of $125 on or before January 25, otherwise $150&lt;br&gt;and includes Friday and Saturday meals and workshop materials. Space&lt;br&gt;limited to 25. Participants who need a sign language interpreter must&lt;br&gt;make their request by January 25. &lt;p&gt;For registration form and more information, email &amp;lt;IDMD4@hotmail.com&amp;gt;.&lt;br&gt;This training is also sponsored by BU Interpreter Education Center,&lt;br&gt;D.E.A.F., Inc. and Grace Chapel. CEUs or ACET credits are available&lt;br&gt;through Northeastern University Regional Interpreter Education Center.&lt;br&gt;More information may be available from IDMD4@hotmail.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Congregation Or Yisrael Presents AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD&lt;br&gt;SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;p&gt;Monday evening February 11, 2008, 7:30 PM Wilson Chapel&lt;p&gt;Listen to a dynamic, enthusiastic, insightful and charismatic teacher!&lt;br&gt;His topic is The Ever-Alive&lt;br&gt;Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Importance for the Understanding of the Bible,&lt;br&gt;Early Judaism, and the Birth of Christianity.  Internationally renowned&lt;br&gt;teacher, author and lecturer, Dr. Paul is recognized for his expertise&lt;br&gt;in&lt;br&gt;Bible. He is Bible Department Chairman at Hebrew University and Dead&lt;br&gt;Sea Scrolls Foundation Chairman&lt;br&gt;in Jerusalem.  You will have the opportunity to talk with Dr. Paul&lt;br&gt;during dessert and coffee.&lt;p&gt;25 seats are being saved for students, staff and faculty of Andover&lt;br&gt;Newton.  If you would like to reserve space, please RSVP no later than&lt;br&gt;February 4, 2008 to AODowd@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Can Poetry Save a Life?&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;In her third collection of poems, Susan Deborah King bears witness to&lt;br&gt;the soul&amp;#39;s transformation in the wake of a breast cancer diagnosis and&lt;br&gt;subsequent mastectomy.  The act of writing her latest collection of&lt;br&gt;poetry, One-Breasted Woman, was an essential part of her recovery.  A&lt;br&gt;teacher of writing, a former Presbyterian minister and psychotherapist,&lt;br&gt;King leads retreats on creativity and spirituality.&lt;br&gt;Come meet &amp;quot;Sam&amp;quot; King at the Andover Newton Bookstore on Friday evening,&lt;br&gt;February 1 at 7 pm as she reads from her latest book.  Bring your&lt;br&gt;friends.  Light refreshments will be served.  &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s coming! Save the dates!&lt;p&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship, &lt;br&gt;June 22-25, 2008&lt;p&gt;Our Hearts Ablaze: Encountering Christ, &lt;br&gt;Renewing Holy Ground&lt;p&gt;Keynote presenters include:&lt;p&gt;Marty Haugen, a composer of liturgical music for both&lt;br&gt;Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. He has&lt;br&gt;had over 400 compositions published by GIA, Augsburg&lt;br&gt;Fortress and various other publishers. For the past 25&lt;br&gt;years he has presented workshops and concerts across&lt;br&gt;North America and in Europe, the Pacific Rim, Asia and&lt;br&gt;Central America for church musicians and anyone&lt;br&gt;interested in the renewal of worship.&lt;p&gt;Susan Briehl, a Lutheran pastor for 25 years is an&lt;br&gt;associate with the Valparaiso Project on Education and&lt;br&gt;the Formation of People in Faith.  Her writings&lt;br&gt;include: Come, Lord Jesus, devotions for Advent,&lt;br&gt;Christmas and Epiphany, Turn my Heart: a Sacred&lt;br&gt;Journey from Brokenness to Healing, (with Marty&lt;br&gt;Haugen) and several liturgical and hymn texts.&lt;p&gt;Watch for future mailings and brochures about details&lt;br&gt;of registration, credits, daily schedules, etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;br&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;The Sacred Journey: Leading a Congregation Through Lent&lt;br&gt;Saturday, January 26, 2008   9:00 am - 4:00 pm&lt;br&gt;$40 includes lunch&lt;p&gt;How does your congregation observe the season of Lent? &lt;p&gt;In this workshop, led by Shelley Stackhouse, we will explore both&lt;br&gt;ancient and new traditions for walking the journey through Lent on&lt;br&gt;Sunday mornings. We will also discuss other possible observances in&lt;br&gt;worship, prayer and other disciplines that might happen throughout the&lt;br&gt;week. &lt;br&gt;Since the journey has a destination, if not an ending, we will also&lt;br&gt;focus on how to celebrate Palm Sunday and shape a rhythm of worship&lt;br&gt;through the other Holy Week services culminating in Easter. &lt;p&gt;See the website for a flyer and registration form.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/ants-student-e-news-thursday-january-24.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-4340140085858332990</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-23T17:23:49.369-05:00</atom:updated><title>E-news: Special Announcement (Power outage)</title><description>We have just received notice from our electricity provider (NSTAR) that they are going to be making improvements to their system, but in order to do so, they may need to interrupt electrical service for short periods of time on Thursday morning, January 24 between the hours of Midnight and 6:00am.  They say these interruptions will only occur a couple of times during this time span and should only last about 30 minutes. &lt;p&gt;B&amp;amp;G</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/e-news-special-announcement-power.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-3904753968313650056</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-23T17:22:09.492-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Wednesday, January 23, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- APPLETON-CHASE NEEDS YOUR HELP!!&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office&lt;br&gt;- Chapel News&lt;br&gt;- Multicultural Festival, Feb. 8!&lt;br&gt;- Ellis Oliver Ordination&lt;br&gt;- Job Opening in the Mail Room&lt;br&gt;- Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;- Open Table Election Night Potluck-Alert #1&lt;br&gt;- Course Announcement-an Update&lt;br&gt;- Retreat for New Clergy, Newly Seasoned Clergy and Graduating&lt;br&gt;Seminarians&lt;br&gt;- Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;- AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;br&gt;- Interruption of electrical service&lt;br&gt;- Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;- UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;APPLETON-CHASE NEEDS YOUR HELP!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;This coming Wednesday &amp;amp; Thursday (January 23 &amp;amp; 24) we will be priming&lt;br&gt;and painting the basement lounge of Appleton-Chase. Please come and join&lt;br&gt;in as we will need as many helping hands as possible! We will begin&lt;br&gt;around 11 and finishing up (hopefully) around 5 each day. Pizza and beer&lt;br&gt;will be provided to those who can help!! &lt;p&gt;If you have any questions please contact Ruth Edens at REdens@ants.edu&lt;br&gt;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Courses Closed&lt;p&gt;CHRS720  -    [ELCHRS] Life as Pilgrimage&lt;br&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;ETHI 780-With Head and Heart&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;P3 OLDT 512- Section Canceled&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Chapel News&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Hi All&lt;p&gt;Big things will be happening in the Chapel this semester.  I look&lt;br&gt;forward to our entire community coming learning and worshiping together&lt;br&gt;over the coming semester.&lt;p&gt;A couple of initial dates to keep in mind:&lt;p&gt;Morning worship will begin on the first day of classes, here is the&lt;br&gt;schedule:&lt;p&gt;Thursday, January 31: &lt;br&gt;8:00am Music and Meditation&lt;br&gt;8:30am Worship with a Homily offered by Judy Brandon as a part of the&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Focus the Nation&amp;quot; event&lt;p&gt;Friday, February 1:&lt;br&gt;8:00am Music and Meditation&lt;br&gt;8:30am Worship with a Homily offered by Ned Allyn Parker&lt;p&gt;Our first Wednesday Community Chapel service will be on February 6th&lt;br&gt;and lead by Burns Stanfield, with the message offered by President Nick&lt;br&gt;Carter.&lt;p&gt;Ned Allyn Parker&lt;br&gt;Admission Counselor / Chapel Steward&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Multicultural Festival, Feb. 8!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please Save the Date!&lt;p&gt;I am writing to invite you to once again participate in the annual&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton &amp;quot;Multicultural Festival.&amp;quot;   This year the festival will&lt;br&gt;be on Friday, Feb. 8, beginning around 5:30 p.m. in the Meeting House. &lt;br&gt;I hope that many of you will come.&lt;p&gt;We have a new staff member in the Admissions Office at Andover Newton,&lt;br&gt;Agnieszka Cram (she goes by Aga).  Aga is going to spend part of her&lt;br&gt;time working with me to support international students and to help with&lt;br&gt;the Multicultural Festival.  If you would like to present something from&lt;br&gt;your background (poem, music, whatever) please let Aga know and she&amp;#39;ll&lt;br&gt;add you to the program. You may email Aga at agacram@gmail.com.  In any&lt;br&gt;case, I hope all of you will come!&lt;p&gt;For those of you who were able to be with us last year you might recall&lt;br&gt;that it was a wonderful celebration of the diversity of cultures that is&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton!  Many of you shared something and it was a great evening&lt;br&gt;for everyone.  I hope you will be able to do so again.  We want to&lt;br&gt;celebrate our heritage, regardless of where we might come from.  This&lt;br&gt;will also be a pot-luck once again, so I encourage you to bring&lt;br&gt;something that reflects some component of your culture.  I will also&lt;br&gt;supply food through my office so if you don&amp;#39;t have time to cook, please&lt;br&gt;come anyway!&lt;p&gt;Nancy Nienhuis&lt;br&gt;Dean of Students and Community Life&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Ellis Oliver Ordination&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Ellis Oliver (Ollie) Jones, M.Div. 2006, has been called by the people &lt;br&gt;of Faith Lutheran Church, East Hartford, Connecticut, to serve as their&lt;br&gt;pastor.  He will be ordained into the ministry of Word and Sacrament in&lt;br&gt;the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, on Sunday, January 27th, at&lt;br&gt;4pm at Trinity Lutheran Church, 170 Old Westford Rd, Chelmsford, MA&lt;br&gt;01824, (978) 256-6300.  All are welcome!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Job Opening in the Mail Room&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Mailroom Clerk&lt;p&gt;There is an opening for a mailroom clerk on the ANTS campus for the&lt;br&gt;spring semester.  The job entails sorting and delivering mail on campus&lt;br&gt;and handing out packages to students two days a week from 11 to 4.  If&lt;br&gt;you are interested, please send a short biography and your student&lt;br&gt;schedule to: housing@ants.edu    Please use &amp;quot;Mail Room Clerk&amp;quot; in the&lt;br&gt;subject line.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Fellow Students,&lt;p&gt;Andover Newton will be holding its Conference on Ministries/Spring Open&lt;br&gt;House on February 22nd and 23rd and we need your help.&lt;p&gt;We all know that discerning a call to seminary is an exciting, scary&lt;br&gt;and overwhelming process.  Your invitation to a member of your home&lt;br&gt;church, a member of your field education congregation, or any member&lt;br&gt;inside of and outside of your faith tradition to attend our Conference&lt;br&gt;on Ministries could be all that she or he needs to take the next step&lt;br&gt;and respond to God&amp;#39;s call.  So, we are asking you to do just that -&lt;br&gt;offer an invitation to anyone seeking to respond to a deeper call,&lt;br&gt;anyone looking to feed a hunger for intellectual exploration and&lt;br&gt;spiritual growth to visit your seminary on February 22nd and 23rd.&lt;p&gt;Participants in our Conference on Ministries will have the opportunity&lt;br&gt;to meet our faculty, staff, Deans and President Carter, attend sample&lt;br&gt;classes, interact with current students in small groups, tour the&lt;br&gt;campus, participate in roundtable discussions on life after college as&lt;br&gt;well as the transition back to school, worship, and listen to some great&lt;br&gt;gospel music while in fellowship with our community.&lt;p&gt;The Conference on Ministries is a wonderful opportunity for prospective&lt;br&gt;students to share stories and experiences, meet extraordinary people,&lt;br&gt;and receive answers to their questions about Andover Newton and a&lt;br&gt;theological vocation.  Attached is a flyer with information on the event&lt;br&gt;and below is a link to the online registration form.  Housing is&lt;br&gt;available for students traveling from a distance.  Please pass on the&lt;br&gt;information and invite someone to respond to their call at your seminary&lt;br&gt;- Andover Newton.&lt;p&gt;Blessings,&lt;br&gt;Sean&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sean Porter&lt;br&gt;Director of Recruitment &amp;amp; Admission&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 ext. 313&lt;br&gt;1-800-964-2687&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Open Table Election Night Potluck-Alert #1&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Tuesday, February 5, 2008&lt;p&gt;Celebrate the election process in community: come to the Open Table&lt;br&gt;Super Tuesday Potluck&lt;p&gt;What? - Potluck meal to be shared in communion &lt;br&gt;Where? - 40 Cypress Street, Newton Centre (corner Braeland/Cypress,&lt;br&gt;bottom of Herrick)&lt;br&gt;When? -  Tuesday, February 5 from 6PM until we all go home&lt;br&gt;Who? - All ANTS students, faculty and staff&lt;br&gt;Why? - Good news and bad news deserves to be celebrated and mourned in&lt;br&gt;fellowship&lt;br&gt;How? - We will track the party results in the 24 states and territories&lt;br&gt;in blue and red.&lt;p&gt;Interested? Please contact Sherry Thomas at shthomas2@comcast.net.&lt;br&gt;Don&amp;#39;t&lt;br&gt;forget to vote!!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt; Course Announcement-an Update&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring course &lt;p&gt;Registration is open for MDiv students. This course does NOT fulfill&lt;br&gt;your CMLE requirement. It will count as an upper level Ministerial&lt;br&gt;Practice or a general elective.&lt;p&gt;CMLE 752/852S&lt;br&gt;Interim Ministry: Theory and Practice&lt;br&gt;Thursdays, beginning January 31 from 2:00-5:00 PM for Ministers in the&lt;br&gt;Vicinity/ DMin students&lt;p&gt;Transitions between pastors is a unique time in the life of a&lt;br&gt;congregation. In more recent times this period is getting special&lt;br&gt;attention because of the issues faced when one pastor leaves and before&lt;br&gt;another arrives. An interim period well handled can help prepare the way&lt;br&gt;for the new pastor in such a way that she/he does not become in fact an&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Interim&amp;quot; even though called as the &amp;quot;Settled Pastor.&amp;quot; &lt;p&gt;To help churches move through this period it has been recognized that&lt;br&gt;special skills are needed so that those who serve as interim pastors can&lt;br&gt;more effectively lead. Denominations have begun to do more to prepare&lt;br&gt;both congregations and pastors for this period. Denominations in the&lt;br&gt;Free Church tradition have long used interims, but are now beginning to&lt;br&gt;set standards and offer training. The American Baptist Churches of&lt;br&gt;Massachusetts, the Unitarian Universalist Interim Ministers Guild and&lt;br&gt;the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ have all&lt;br&gt;expressed satisfaction that this course syllabus addresses the issues&lt;br&gt;and demands of interim ministry in a comprehensive way, offering skill&lt;br&gt;sets the interim minister will need. In addition, we are aware that&lt;br&gt;those denominations that fall into the connectional system are taking a&lt;br&gt;serious look at the importance of the interim period and the skills&lt;br&gt;required to help such congregations.&lt;p&gt;The team members have considerable experience as pastors, interim&lt;br&gt;pastors in a number of denominations, and as teachers at Andover Newton.&lt;br&gt;It is their intention to bring those experiences to the classroom. The&lt;br&gt;course has been designed to appeal to those doing Interim Ministry as&lt;br&gt;well as those who are exploring the possibilities of Interim Ministry as&lt;br&gt;a calling.  This course will NOT fulfill the CMLE requirement.&lt;p&gt;For MIV registration please fill out the MIV form&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/MIVappreg.pdf"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/MIVappreg.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Retreat for New Clergy, Newly Seasoned Clergy and Graduating&lt;br&gt;Seminarians&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;This Odd and Wondrous Calling: A Retreat at Craigville Conference&lt;br&gt;Center on Cape Cod for New Clergy, Newly Seasoned Clergy (3-5 years),&lt;br&gt;and Graduating Seminarians&lt;p&gt;June 5 and 6, 2008 with Martin Copenhaver, Lillian Daniel, and Chris&lt;br&gt;Braudaway-Bauman&lt;p&gt;The fee for the retreat, $120, covers the cost of four meals, an&lt;br&gt;overnight stay, linens and towels.  All other costs are covered by&lt;br&gt;grants from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., the Louisville Institute, and&lt;br&gt;Our&lt;br&gt;Church&amp;#39;s Wider Mission.&lt;p&gt;*Please RSVP no later than February 15, 2008. The full fee is due no&lt;br&gt;later than April 15, 2008. &lt;p&gt;Some scholarship assistance is available. Contact Kris LoFrumento, &lt;br&gt;lofrumentok@macucc.org for more info or with any questions.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;February 8 and 9, 2008&lt;br&gt;Grace Chapel,  59 Worthen Road in Lexington, MA&lt;p&gt;The Institute for Deaf Ministry Development, Inc. (IFDMD) is sponsoring&lt;br&gt;a two-day training (6-9 pm on Friday &amp;amp; Saturday 9 am - 4 pm on Saturday)&lt;br&gt;that will focus on ways to increase auditory memory capacity in order to&lt;br&gt;produce the equivalent message in American Sign Language (ASL). This&lt;br&gt;skill-building workshop will include hands-on practice and work in small&lt;br&gt;groups. The certified instructor is Diane Fowler, who has been&lt;br&gt;interpreting professionally since 1990. &lt;p&gt;The registration fee of $125 on or before January 25, otherwise $150&lt;br&gt;and includes Friday and Saturday meals and workshop materials. Space&lt;br&gt;limited to 25. Participants who need a sign language interpreter must&lt;br&gt;make their request by January 25. &lt;p&gt;For registration form and more information, email &amp;lt;IDMD4@hotmail.com&amp;gt;.&lt;br&gt;This training is also sponsored by BU Interpreter Education Center,&lt;br&gt;D.E.A.F., Inc. and Grace Chapel. CEUs or ACET credits are available&lt;br&gt;through Northeastern University Regional Interpreter Education Center.&lt;br&gt;More information may be available from IDMD4@hotmail.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Congregation Or Yisrael Presents AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD&lt;br&gt;SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;p&gt;Monday evening February 11, 2008, 7:30 PM Wilson Chapel&lt;p&gt;Listen to a dynamic, enthusiastic, insightful and charismatic teacher!&lt;br&gt;His topic is The Ever-Alive&lt;br&gt;Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Importance for the Understanding of the Bible,&lt;br&gt;Early Judaism, and the Birth of Christianity.  Internationally renowned&lt;br&gt;teacher, author and lecturer, Dr. Paul is recognized for his expertise&lt;br&gt;in&lt;br&gt;Bible. He is Bible Department Chairman at Hebrew University and Dead&lt;br&gt;Sea Scrolls Foundation Chairman&lt;br&gt;in Jerusalem.  You will have the opportunity to talk with Dr. Paul&lt;br&gt;during dessert and coffee.&lt;p&gt;25 seats are being saved for students, staff and faculty of Andover&lt;br&gt;Newton.  If you would like to reserve space, please RSVP no later than&lt;br&gt;February 4, 2008 to AODowd@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Interruption of electrical service&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;We have just received notice from our electricity provider (NSTAR) that&lt;br&gt;they are going to be making improvements to their system, but in order&lt;br&gt;to do so, they may need to interrupt electrical service for short&lt;br&gt;periods of time on Thursday morning, January 24 between the hours of&lt;br&gt;Midnight and 6:00am.  They say these interruptions will only occur a&lt;br&gt;couple of times during this time span and should only last about 30&lt;br&gt;minutes.  &lt;p&gt;Building &amp;amp; Grounds &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s coming! Save the dates!&lt;p&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship, &lt;br&gt;June 22-25, 2008&lt;p&gt;Our Hearts Ablaze: Encountering Christ, &lt;br&gt;Renewing Holy Ground&lt;p&gt;Keynote presenters include:&lt;p&gt;Marty Haugen, a composer of liturgical music for both&lt;br&gt;Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. He has&lt;br&gt;had over 400 compositions published by GIA, Augsburg&lt;br&gt;Fortress and various other publishers. For the past 25&lt;br&gt;years he has presented workshops and concerts across&lt;br&gt;North America and in Europe, the Pacific Rim, Asia and&lt;br&gt;Central America for church musicians and anyone&lt;br&gt;interested in the renewal of worship.&lt;p&gt;Susan Briehl, a Lutheran pastor for 25 years is an&lt;br&gt;associate with the Valparaiso Project on Education and&lt;br&gt;the Formation of People in Faith.  Her writings&lt;br&gt;include: Come, Lord Jesus, devotions for Advent,&lt;br&gt;Christmas and Epiphany, Turn my Heart: a Sacred&lt;br&gt;Journey from Brokenness to Healing, (with Marty&lt;br&gt;Haugen) and several liturgical and hymn texts.&lt;p&gt;Watch for future mailings and brochures about details&lt;br&gt;of registration, credits, daily schedules, etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;br&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;The Sacred Journey: Leading a Congregation Through Lent&lt;br&gt;Saturday, January 26, 2008   9:00 am - 4:00 pm&lt;br&gt;$40 includes lunch&lt;p&gt;How does your congregation observe the season of Lent? &lt;p&gt;In this workshop, led by Shelley Stackhouse, we will explore both&lt;br&gt;ancient and new traditions for walking the journey through Lent on&lt;br&gt;Sunday mornings. We will also discuss other possible observances in&lt;br&gt;worship, prayer and other disciplines that might happen throughout the&lt;br&gt;week. &lt;br&gt;Since the journey has a destination, if not an ending, we will also&lt;br&gt;focus on how to celebrate Palm Sunday and shape a rhythm of worship&lt;br&gt;through the other Holy Week services culminating in Easter. &lt;p&gt;See the website for a flyer and registration form.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/ants-student-e-news-wednesday-january_23.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-6641243369440444808</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-22T16:34:28.834-05:00</atom:updated><title>Special Announcement - Conference on Ministries</title><description>Fellow Students,&lt;p&gt;Andover Newton will be holding its Conference on Ministries/Spring Open House on February 22nd and 23rd and we need your help.&lt;p&gt;We all know that discerning a call to seminary is an exciting, scary and overwhelming process.  Your invitation to a member of your home church, a member of your field education congregation, or any member inside of and outside of your faith tradition to attend our Conference on Ministries could be all that she or he needs to take the next step and respond to God&amp;#39;s call.  So, we are asking you to do just that - offer an invitation to anyone seeking to respond to a deeper call, anyone looking to feed a hunger for intellectual exploration and spiritual growth to visit your seminary on February 22nd and 23rd.&lt;p&gt;Participants in our Conference on Ministries will have the opportunity to meet our faculty, staff, Deans and President Carter, attend sample classes, interact with current students in small groups, tour the campus, participate in roundtable discussions on life after college as well as the transition back to school, worship, and listen to some great gospel music while in fellowship with our community.&lt;p&gt;The Conference on Ministries is a wonderful opportunity for prospective students to share stories and experiences, meet extraordinary people, and receive answers to their questions about Andover Newton and a theological vocation.  Attached is a flyer with information on the event and below is a link to the online registration form.  Housing is available for students traveling from a distance.  Please pass on the information and invite someone to respond to their call at your seminary - Andover Newton.&lt;p&gt;Blessings,&lt;br&gt;Sean&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sean Porter&lt;br&gt;Director of Recruitment &amp;amp; Admission&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 ext. 313&lt;br&gt;1-800-964-2687</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/special-announcement-conference-on.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-18070168370087063</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 21:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-22T16:31:57.590-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Tuesday, January 22, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- APPLETON-CHASE NEEDS YOUR HELP!!&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office&lt;br&gt;- Multicultural Festival, Feb. 8!&lt;br&gt;- Ellis Oliver Ordination&lt;br&gt;- Job Opening in the Mail Room&lt;br&gt;- Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;- Open Table Election Night Potluck-Alert #1&lt;br&gt;- Course Announcement-an Update&lt;br&gt;- Art Night&lt;br&gt;- Wilson Chapel wins award&lt;br&gt;- One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;- Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;- AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;br&gt;- Interruption of electrical service&lt;br&gt;- Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;- Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;- UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;APPLETON-CHASE NEEDS YOUR HELP!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;This coming Wednesday &amp;amp; Thursday (January 23 &amp;amp; 24) we will be priming&lt;br&gt;and painting the basement lounge of Appleton-Chase. Please come and join&lt;br&gt;in as we will need as many helping hands as possible! We will begin&lt;br&gt;around 11 and finishing up (hopefully) around 5 each day. Pizza and beer&lt;br&gt;will be provided to those who can help!! &lt;p&gt;If you have any questions please contact Ruth Edens at REdens@ants.edu&lt;br&gt;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The following courses have low enrollment and by next Wednesday,&lt;br&gt;January 23, the Dean&amp;#39;s office will decide if the courses will be&lt;br&gt;canceled.&lt;p&gt;WOTA 776 Creation Spirituality Penfold&lt;br&gt;NEWT 709 Exegesis: Matthew   Pregeant&lt;br&gt;HIST 628   Women Leaders       Coolman&lt;p&gt;Spring 2008 Courses Closed&lt;p&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;P3 OLDT 512- Section Canceled&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Multicultural Festival, Feb. 8!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please Save the Date!&lt;p&gt;I am writing to invite you to once again participate in the annual&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton &amp;quot;Multicultural Festival.&amp;quot;   This year the festival will&lt;br&gt;be on Friday, Feb. 8, beginning around 5:30 p.m. in the Meeting House. &lt;br&gt;I hope that many of you will come.&lt;p&gt;We have a new staff member in the Admissions Office at Andover Newton,&lt;br&gt;Agnieszka Cram (she goes by Aga).  Aga is going to spend part of her&lt;br&gt;time working with me to support international students and to help with&lt;br&gt;the Multicultural Festival.  If you would like to present something from&lt;br&gt;your background (poem, music, whatever) please let Aga know and she&amp;#39;ll&lt;br&gt;add you to the program. You may email Aga at agacram@gmail.com.  In any&lt;br&gt;case, I hope all of you will come!&lt;p&gt;For those of you who were able to be with us last year you might recall&lt;br&gt;that it was a wonderful celebration of the diversity of cultures that is&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton!  Many of you shared something and it was a great evening&lt;br&gt;for everyone.  I hope you will be able to do so again.  We want to&lt;br&gt;celebrate our heritage, regardless of where we might come from.  This&lt;br&gt;will also be a pot-luck once again, so I encourage you to bring&lt;br&gt;something that reflects some component of your culture.  I will also&lt;br&gt;supply food through my office so if you don&amp;#39;t have time to cook, please&lt;br&gt;come anyway!&lt;p&gt;Nancy Nienhuis&lt;br&gt;Dean of Students and Community Life&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Ellis Oliver Ordination&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Ellis Oliver (Ollie) Jones, M.Div. 2006, has been called by the people &lt;br&gt;of Faith Lutheran Church, East Hartford, Connecticut, to serve as their&lt;br&gt;pastor.  He will be ordained into the ministry of Word and Sacrament in&lt;br&gt;the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, on Sunday, January 27th, at&lt;br&gt;4pm at Trinity Lutheran Church, 170 Old Westford Rd, Chelmsford, MA&lt;br&gt;01824, (978) 256-6300.  All are welcome!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Job Opening in the Mail Room&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Mailroom Clerk&lt;p&gt;There is an opening for a mailroom clerk on the ANTS campus for the&lt;br&gt;spring semester.  The job entails sorting and delivering mail on campus&lt;br&gt;and handing out packages to students two days a week from 11 to 4.  If&lt;br&gt;you are interested, please send a short biography and your student&lt;br&gt;schedule to: housing@ants.edu    Please use &amp;quot;Mail Room Clerk&amp;quot; in the&lt;br&gt;subject line.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Conference on Ministries&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Fellow Students,&lt;p&gt;Andover Newton will be holding its Conference on Ministries/Spring Open&lt;br&gt;House on February 22nd and 23rd and we need your help.&lt;p&gt;We all know that discerning a call to seminary is an exciting, scary&lt;br&gt;and overwhelming process.  Your invitation to a member of your home&lt;br&gt;church, a member of your field education congregation, or any member&lt;br&gt;inside of and outside of your faith tradition to attend our Conference&lt;br&gt;on Ministries could be all that she or he needs to take the next step&lt;br&gt;and respond to God&amp;#39;s call.  So, we are asking you to do just that -&lt;br&gt;offer an invitation to anyone seeking to respond to a deeper call,&lt;br&gt;anyone looking to feed a hunger for intellectual exploration and&lt;br&gt;spiritual growth to visit your seminary on February 22nd and 23rd.&lt;p&gt;Participants in our Conference on Ministries will have the opportunity&lt;br&gt;to meet our faculty, staff, Deans and President Carter, attend sample&lt;br&gt;classes, interact with current students in small groups, tour the&lt;br&gt;campus, participate in roundtable discussions on life after college as&lt;br&gt;well as the transition back to school, worship, and listen to some great&lt;br&gt;gospel music while in fellowship with our community.&lt;p&gt;The Conference on Ministries is a wonderful opportunity for prospective&lt;br&gt;students to share stories and experiences, meet extraordinary people,&lt;br&gt;and receive answers to their questions about Andover Newton and a&lt;br&gt;theological vocation.  Attached is a flyer with information on the event&lt;br&gt;and below is a link to the online registration form.  Housing is&lt;br&gt;available for students traveling from a distance.  Please pass on the&lt;br&gt;information and invite someone to respond to their call at your seminary&lt;br&gt;- Andover Newton.&lt;p&gt;Blessings,&lt;br&gt;Sean&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/admissions/events/conference_on_ministry.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Sean Porter&lt;br&gt;Director of Recruitment &amp;amp; Admission&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 ext. 313&lt;br&gt;1-800-964-2687&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Open Table Election Night Potluck-Alert #1&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Tuesday, February 5, 2008&lt;p&gt;Celebrate the election process in community: come to the Open Table&lt;br&gt;Super Tuesday Potluck&lt;p&gt;What? - Potluck meal to be shared in communion &lt;br&gt;Where? - 40 Cypress Street, Newton Centre (corner Braeland/Cypress,&lt;br&gt;bottom of Herrick)&lt;br&gt;When? -  Tuesday, February 5 from 6PM until we all go home&lt;br&gt;Who? - All ANTS students, faculty and staff&lt;br&gt;Why? - Good news and bad news deserves to be celebrated and mourned in&lt;br&gt;fellowship&lt;br&gt;How? - We will track the party results in the 24 states and territories&lt;br&gt;in blue and red.&lt;p&gt;Interested? Please contact Sherry Thomas at shthomas2@comcast.net.&lt;br&gt;Don&amp;#39;t&lt;br&gt;forget to vote!!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt; Course Announcement-an Update&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring course &lt;p&gt;Registration is open for MDiv students. This course does NOT fulfill&lt;br&gt;your CMLE requirement. It will count as an upper level Ministerial&lt;br&gt;Practice or a general elective.&lt;p&gt;CMLE 752/852S&lt;br&gt;Interim Ministry: Theory and Practice&lt;br&gt;Thursdays, beginning January 31 from 2:00-5:00 PM for Ministers in the&lt;br&gt;Vicinity/ DMin students&lt;p&gt;Transitions between pastors is a unique time in the life of a&lt;br&gt;congregation. In more recent times this period is getting special&lt;br&gt;attention because of the issues faced when one pastor leaves and before&lt;br&gt;another arrives. An interim period well handled can help prepare the way&lt;br&gt;for the new pastor in such a way that she/he does not become in fact an&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Interim&amp;quot; even though called as the &amp;quot;Settled Pastor.&amp;quot; &lt;p&gt;To help churches move through this period it has been recognized that&lt;br&gt;special skills are needed so that those who serve as interim pastors can&lt;br&gt;more effectively lead. Denominations have begun to do more to prepare&lt;br&gt;both congregations and pastors for this period. Denominations in the&lt;br&gt;Free Church tradition have long used interims, but are now beginning to&lt;br&gt;set standards and offer training. The American Baptist Churches of&lt;br&gt;Massachusetts, the Unitarian Universalist Interim Ministers Guild and&lt;br&gt;the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ have all&lt;br&gt;expressed satisfaction that this course syllabus addresses the issues&lt;br&gt;and demands of interim ministry in a comprehensive way, offering skill&lt;br&gt;sets the interim minister will need. In addition, we are aware that&lt;br&gt;those denominations that fall into the connectional system are taking a&lt;br&gt;serious look at the importance of the interim period and the skills&lt;br&gt;required to help such congregations.&lt;p&gt;The team members have considerable experience as pastors, interim&lt;br&gt;pastors in a number of denominations, and as teachers at Andover Newton.&lt;br&gt;It is their intention to bring those experiences to the classroom. The&lt;br&gt;course has been designed to appeal to those doing Interim Ministry as&lt;br&gt;well as those who are exploring the possibilities of Interim Ministry as&lt;br&gt;a calling.  This course will NOT fulfill the CMLE requirement.&lt;p&gt;For MIV registration please fill out the MIV form&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/MIVappreg.pdf"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/MIVappreg.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Art Night&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Art Night continues throughout January term.&lt;br&gt;All are welcome (even if you don&amp;#39;t consider yourself&lt;br&gt;to be an artist)&lt;br&gt;This is a drop-in open studio opportunity to explore&lt;br&gt;art in a safe, no rules atmosphere.&lt;p&gt;Every Thursday night from 7-10 pm &lt;br&gt;in the lower studio of the Meetinghouse.&lt;p&gt;All materials provided. Fun and fellowship.&lt;br&gt;Free will donation.&lt;p&gt;Questions?&lt;br&gt;Contact Joy (Resident Teaching Artist) at&lt;br&gt;joyful_i_am@yahoo.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Wilson Chapel wins award&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From hundreds of nominated projects, Andover Newton Theological School&lt;br&gt;- Wilson Chapel has been chosen as a Building of America project and&lt;br&gt;will be featured in the upcoming Real Estate &amp;amp; Construction Review-2008&lt;br&gt;New England Edition. Each Building of America project is highlighted in&lt;br&gt;a case study that intertwines the words of the project&amp;#39;s&lt;br&gt;owner/developer, consultants, architects and contractors to explain how&lt;br&gt;the teams worked together to design and build one of the region&amp;#39;s most&lt;br&gt;important, innovative or unique new construction or renovation projects.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Real Estate &amp;amp; Construction Review has been published by&lt;br&gt;Construction Communications since 1997. Each edition is published&lt;br&gt;annually and features the region&amp;#39;s top projects as determined by our&lt;br&gt;editorial board. The publication is read and referenced by leaders&lt;br&gt;within the region&amp;#39;s local governments, economic development groups,&lt;br&gt;financial institutions, owners, architects and contractors. Each edition&lt;br&gt;will also be available online at &lt;a href="http://www.constructionreviews.com"&gt;www.constructionreviews.com&lt;/a&gt;. The&lt;br&gt;website, accessed by industry leaders and decision makers throughout the&lt;br&gt;country, combines more than 30,000 links and millions of searches each&lt;br&gt;year. In January 2008 the company will begin a massive public relations&lt;br&gt;campaign utilizing PR Newswire. The campaign is designed to bring&lt;br&gt;millions of new viewers to the website. &lt;p&gt;We want to be sure that interviews will be available from the&lt;br&gt;owner/developer, architects, construction managers and/or general&lt;br&gt;contractors for the Andover Newton Theological School - Wilson Chapel&lt;br&gt;project. The writer assigned to this case study will be in contact with&lt;br&gt;your organization within the next few months. If you have any questions&lt;br&gt;or comments, feel free to contact Julie Zulch any time at 248-945-4700&lt;br&gt;ext. 115 or  jzulch@constructionreviews.com. We look forward to working&lt;br&gt;with you. &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;PREPARE/ENRICH &lt;p&gt;Pre-Marital/Marital Counseling Program&lt;br&gt;Saturday, March 8, 2008, 8:30AM - 4:30 PM  &lt;br&gt;Tuition: $175 includes all materials. &lt;br&gt;Berkeley Room (next to Kendall Hall), Andover-Newton Theological School&lt;p&gt;Directions at www.ants.edu; parking available behind building. &lt;p&gt;Professional seminar director Rev. Robin Zucker teaches students,&lt;br&gt;clergy and counselors to use a series of respected, religion-neutral&lt;br&gt;counseling programs with pre-marital and marital couples. This seminar&lt;br&gt;will expand ministerial competencies, and enrich your counseling and&lt;br&gt;ministry practice for years to come.  BYO Lunch; light breakfast&lt;br&gt;provided. Information and registration links at:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flowingforce.com"&gt;http://www.flowingforce.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Contact the Rev, Zucker at flowingforce@comcast.net, 978-369-0260&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;February 8 and 9, 2008&lt;br&gt;Grace Chapel,  59 Worthen Road in Lexington, MA&lt;p&gt;The Institute for Deaf Ministry Development, Inc. (IFDMD) is sponsoring&lt;br&gt;a two-day training (6-9 pm on Friday &amp;amp; Saturday 9 am - 4 pm on Saturday)&lt;br&gt;that will focus on ways to increase auditory memory capacity in order to&lt;br&gt;produce the equivalent message in American Sign Language (ASL). This&lt;br&gt;skill-building workshop will include hands-on practice and work in small&lt;br&gt;groups. The certified instructor is Diane Fowler, who has been&lt;br&gt;interpreting professionally since 1990. &lt;p&gt;The registration fee of $125 on or before January 25, otherwise $150&lt;br&gt;and includes Friday and Saturday meals and workshop materials. Space&lt;br&gt;limited to 25. Participants who need a sign language interpreter must&lt;br&gt;make their request by January 25. &lt;p&gt;For registration form and more information, email &amp;lt;IDMD4@hotmail.com&amp;gt;.&lt;br&gt;This training is also sponsored by BU Interpreter Education Center,&lt;br&gt;D.E.A.F., Inc. and Grace Chapel. CEUs or ACET credits are available&lt;br&gt;through Northeastern University Regional Interpreter Education Center.&lt;br&gt;More information may be available from IDMD4@hotmail.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Congregation Or Yisrael Presents AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD&lt;br&gt;SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;p&gt;Monday evening February 11, 2008, 7:30 PM Wilson Chapel&lt;p&gt;Listen to a dynamic, enthusiastic, insightful and charismatic teacher!&lt;br&gt;His topic is The Ever-Alive&lt;br&gt;Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Importance for the Understanding of the Bible,&lt;br&gt;Early Judaism, and the Birth of Christianity.  Internationally renowned&lt;br&gt;teacher, author and lecturer, Dr. Paul is recognized for his expertise&lt;br&gt;in&lt;br&gt;Bible. He is Bible Department Chairman at Hebrew University and Dead&lt;br&gt;Sea Scrolls Foundation Chairman&lt;br&gt;in Jerusalem.  You will have the opportunity to talk with Dr. Paul&lt;br&gt;during dessert and coffee.&lt;p&gt;25 seats are being saved for students, staff and faculty of Andover&lt;br&gt;Newton.  If you would like to reserve space, please RSVP no later than&lt;br&gt;February 4, 2008 to AODowd@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Interruption of electrical service&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;We have just received notice from our electricity provider (NSTAR) that&lt;br&gt;they are going to be making improvements to their system, but in order&lt;br&gt;to do so, they may need to interrupt electrical service for short&lt;br&gt;periods of time on Thursday morning, January 24 between the hours of&lt;br&gt;Midnight and 6:00am.  They say these interruptions will only occur a&lt;br&gt;couple of times during this time span and should only last about 30&lt;br&gt;minutes.  &lt;p&gt;Building &amp;amp; Grounds &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s coming! Save the dates!&lt;p&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship, &lt;br&gt;June 22-25, 2008&lt;p&gt;Our Hearts Ablaze: Encountering Christ, &lt;br&gt;Renewing Holy Ground&lt;p&gt;Keynote presenters include:&lt;p&gt;Marty Haugen, a composer of liturgical music for both&lt;br&gt;Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. He has&lt;br&gt;had over 400 compositions published by GIA, Augsburg&lt;br&gt;Fortress and various other publishers. For the past 25&lt;br&gt;years he has presented workshops and concerts across&lt;br&gt;North America and in Europe, the Pacific Rim, Asia and&lt;br&gt;Central America for church musicians and anyone&lt;br&gt;interested in the renewal of worship.&lt;p&gt;Susan Briehl, a Lutheran pastor for 25 years is an&lt;br&gt;associate with the Valparaiso Project on Education and&lt;br&gt;the Formation of People in Faith.  Her writings&lt;br&gt;include: Come, Lord Jesus, devotions for Advent,&lt;br&gt;Christmas and Epiphany, Turn my Heart: a Sacred&lt;br&gt;Journey from Brokenness to Healing, (with Marty&lt;br&gt;Haugen) and several liturgical and hymn texts.&lt;p&gt;Watch for future mailings and brochures about details&lt;br&gt;of registration, credits, daily schedules, etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The bookstore is open its regular hours Mon.-Thurs. 9 am - 6 pm, Fri. 9&lt;br&gt;am - 4 pm throughout January so you can purchase books for Winterim and&lt;br&gt;have them shipped to you after you leave campus.  Spring textbooks will&lt;br&gt;begin arriving in early January.  &lt;p&gt;Many Winterim texts are already in; others are arriving daily.  If you&lt;br&gt;want to get a head start on your reading, contact us and we&amp;#39;ll get you&lt;br&gt;going.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;br&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;The Sacred Journey: Leading a Congregation Through Lent&lt;br&gt;Saturday, January 26, 2008   9:00 am - 4:00 pm&lt;br&gt;$40 includes lunch&lt;p&gt;How does your congregation observe the season of Lent? &lt;p&gt;In this workshop, led by Shelley Stackhouse, we will explore both&lt;br&gt;ancient and new traditions for walking the journey through Lent on&lt;br&gt;Sunday mornings. We will also discuss other possible observances in&lt;br&gt;worship, prayer and other disciplines that might happen throughout the&lt;br&gt;week. &lt;br&gt;Since the journey has a destination, if not an ending, we will also&lt;br&gt;focus on how to celebrate Palm Sunday and shape a rhythm of worship&lt;br&gt;through the other Holy Week services culminating in Easter. &lt;p&gt;See the website for a flyer and registration form.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/ants-student-e-news-tuesday-january-22.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-4284009952563056531</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-18T16:23:22.481-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Friday, January 18, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- APPLETON-CHASE NEEDS YOUR HELP!!&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office&lt;br&gt;- Update on Kurt Walker&lt;br&gt;- Kevin Goldenbogen&amp;#39;s Ordination&lt;br&gt;- Job Opening in the Mail Room&lt;br&gt;- Library schedule notice &lt;br&gt;- Course Announcement-an Update&lt;br&gt;- Art Night&lt;br&gt;- Wilson Chapel wins award&lt;br&gt;- One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;- Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;- AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;- Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;- Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;- UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;APPLETON-CHASE NEEDS YOUR HELP!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;This coming Wednesday &amp;amp; Thursday (January 23 &amp;amp; 24) we will be priming&lt;br&gt;and painting the basement lounge of Appleton-Chase. Please come and join&lt;br&gt;in as we will need as many helping hands as possible! We will begin&lt;br&gt;around 11 and finishing up (hopefully) around 5 each day. Pizza and beer&lt;br&gt;will be provided to those who can help!! &lt;p&gt;If you have any questions please contact Ruth Edens at REdens@ants.edu&lt;br&gt;.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The following courses have low enrollment and by next Wednesday,&lt;br&gt;January 23, the Dean&amp;#39;s office will decide if the courses will be&lt;br&gt;canceled.&lt;p&gt;WOTA 776 Creation Spirituality Penfold&lt;br&gt;NEWT 709 Exegesis: Matthew   Pregeant&lt;br&gt;HIST 628   Women Leaders       Coolman&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Update on Kurt Walker&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Hello Friends,&lt;p&gt;After being in the hospital from late last Friday evening until Monday&lt;br&gt;morning , I am feeling better than before I left.  I take some comfort&lt;br&gt;in knowing that this infection most certainly took hold the day before I&lt;br&gt;left but I mistook it for a bug that had been traveling through the&lt;br&gt;family.  Indeed, the infection was brought on by a strain of bacteria&lt;br&gt;that is common everywhere.  I am having a wonderful time here in&lt;br&gt;(Madurai) talking to students and faculty at the Tamil Nadu Theological&lt;br&gt;Seminary about their experiences of Christianity here in India and have&lt;br&gt;had my liturgical world opened up immensely in this beautifully&lt;br&gt;pluralistic environment.  I will be meeting up with the rest of the&lt;br&gt;group in Chennai (Madras) tomorrow morning (Friday, 1/18).  I think I&lt;br&gt;can speak for all when I say that we have had a most wonderful and truly&lt;br&gt;immersive experience here and could not have asked for a more&lt;br&gt;academically and spiritually enriching experience.&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your prayers and your concerns and blessings of peace to&lt;br&gt;all,&lt;p&gt;Kurt&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Kevin Goldenbogen&amp;#39;s Ordination&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Andover Newton community is cordially invited to the ordination of&lt;br&gt;Kevin Goldenbogen, January 20th at 3:00 pm in the First Congregational&lt;br&gt;Church of Kittery, Maine.  He has been called to the United Church of&lt;br&gt;Underhill in Underhill, VT, and actually began pastoring there on&lt;br&gt;January 6.  If you cannot be with him in person Kevin asks that you keep&lt;br&gt;him in your prayers.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Job Opening in the Mail Room&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Mailroom Clerk&lt;p&gt;There is an opening for a mailroom clerk on the ANTS campus for the&lt;br&gt;spring semester.  The job entails sorting and delivering mail on campus&lt;br&gt;and handing out packages to students two days a week from 11 to 4.  If&lt;br&gt;you are interested, please send a short biography and your student&lt;br&gt;schedule to: housing@ants.edu    Please use &amp;quot;Mail Room Clerk&amp;quot; in the&lt;br&gt;subject line.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Library schedule notice&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please note the following holiday schedule:&lt;br&gt;Saturday, Jan 19    open 1:00-5:00 p.m.&lt;br&gt;Sunday, Jan 20      closed&lt;br&gt;Monday, Jan 21     closed, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt; Course Announcement-an Update&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring course &lt;p&gt;Registration is open for MDiv students. This course does NOT fulfill&lt;br&gt;your CMLE requirement. It will count as an upper level Ministerial&lt;br&gt;Practice or a general elective.&lt;p&gt;CMLE 752/852S&lt;br&gt;Interim Ministry: Theory and Practice&lt;br&gt;Thursdays, beginning January 31 from 2:00-5:00 PM for Ministers in the&lt;br&gt;Vicinity/ DMin students&lt;p&gt;Transitions between pastors is a unique time in the life of a&lt;br&gt;congregation. In more recent times this period is getting special&lt;br&gt;attention because of the issues faced when one pastor leaves and before&lt;br&gt;another arrives. An interim period well handled can help prepare the way&lt;br&gt;for the new pastor in such a way that she/he does not become in fact an&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Interim&amp;quot; even though called as the &amp;quot;Settled Pastor.&amp;quot; &lt;p&gt;To help churches move through this period it has been recognized that&lt;br&gt;special skills are needed so that those who serve as interim pastors can&lt;br&gt;more effectively lead. Denominations have begun to do more to prepare&lt;br&gt;both congregations and pastors for this period. Denominations in the&lt;br&gt;Free Church tradition have long used interims, but are now beginning to&lt;br&gt;set standards and offer training. The American Baptist Churches of&lt;br&gt;Massachusetts, the Unitarian Universalist Interim Ministers Guild and&lt;br&gt;the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ have all&lt;br&gt;expressed satisfaction that this course syllabus addresses the issues&lt;br&gt;and demands of interim ministry in a comprehensive way, offering skill&lt;br&gt;sets the interim minister will need. In addition, we are aware that&lt;br&gt;those denominations that fall into the connectional system are taking a&lt;br&gt;serious look at the importance of the interim period and the skills&lt;br&gt;required to help such congregations.&lt;p&gt;The team members have considerable experience as pastors, interim&lt;br&gt;pastors in a number of denominations, and as teachers at Andover Newton.&lt;br&gt;It is their intention to bring those experiences to the classroom. The&lt;br&gt;course has been designed to appeal to those doing Interim Ministry as&lt;br&gt;well as those who are exploring the possibilities of Interim Ministry as&lt;br&gt;a calling.  This course will NOT fulfill the CMLE requirement.&lt;p&gt;For MIV registration please fill out the MIV form&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/MIVappreg.pdf"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/MIVappreg.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Art Night&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Art Night continues throughout January term.&lt;br&gt;All are welcome (even if you don&amp;#39;t consider yourself&lt;br&gt;to be an artist)&lt;br&gt;This is a drop-in open studio opportunity to explore&lt;br&gt;art in a safe, no rules atmosphere.&lt;p&gt;Every Thursday night from 7-10 pm &lt;br&gt;in the lower studio of the Meetinghouse.&lt;p&gt;All materials provided. Fun and fellowship.&lt;br&gt;Free will donation.&lt;p&gt;Questions?&lt;br&gt;Contact Joy (Resident Teaching Artist) at&lt;br&gt;joyful_i_am@yahoo.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Wilson Chapel wins award&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From hundreds of nominated projects, Andover Newton Theological School&lt;br&gt;- Wilson Chapel has been chosen as a Building of America project and&lt;br&gt;will be featured in the upcoming Real Estate &amp;amp; Construction Review-2008&lt;br&gt;New England Edition. Each Building of America project is highlighted in&lt;br&gt;a case study that intertwines the words of the project&amp;#39;s&lt;br&gt;owner/developer, consultants, architects and contractors to explain how&lt;br&gt;the teams worked together to design and build one of the region&amp;#39;s most&lt;br&gt;important, innovative or unique new construction or renovation projects.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Real Estate &amp;amp; Construction Review has been published by&lt;br&gt;Construction Communications since 1997. Each edition is published&lt;br&gt;annually and features the region&amp;#39;s top projects as determined by our&lt;br&gt;editorial board. The publication is read and referenced by leaders&lt;br&gt;within the region&amp;#39;s local governments, economic development groups,&lt;br&gt;financial institutions, owners, architects and contractors. Each edition&lt;br&gt;will also be available online at &lt;a href="http://www.constructionreviews.com"&gt;www.constructionreviews.com&lt;/a&gt;. The&lt;br&gt;website, accessed by industry leaders and decision makers throughout the&lt;br&gt;country, combines more than 30,000 links and millions of searches each&lt;br&gt;year. In January 2008 the company will begin a massive public relations&lt;br&gt;campaign utilizing PR Newswire. The campaign is designed to bring&lt;br&gt;millions of new viewers to the website. &lt;p&gt;We want to be sure that interviews will be available from the&lt;br&gt;owner/developer, architects, construction managers and/or general&lt;br&gt;contractors for the Andover Newton Theological School - Wilson Chapel&lt;br&gt;project. The writer assigned to this case study will be in contact with&lt;br&gt;your organization within the next few months. If you have any questions&lt;br&gt;or comments, feel free to contact Julie Zulch any time at 248-945-4700&lt;br&gt;ext. 115 or  jzulch@constructionreviews.com. We look forward to working&lt;br&gt;with you. &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;PREPARE/ENRICH &lt;p&gt;Pre-Marital/Marital Counseling Program&lt;br&gt;Saturday, March 8, 2008, 8:30AM - 4:30 PM  &lt;br&gt;Tuition: $175 includes all materials. &lt;br&gt;Berkeley Room (next to Kendall Hall), Andover-Newton Theological School&lt;p&gt;Directions at www.ants.edu; parking available behind building. &lt;p&gt;Professional seminar director Rev. Robin Zucker teaches students,&lt;br&gt;clergy and counselors to use a series of respected, religion-neutral&lt;br&gt;counseling programs with pre-marital and marital couples. This seminar&lt;br&gt;will expand ministerial competencies, and enrich your counseling and&lt;br&gt;ministry practice for years to come.  BYO Lunch; light breakfast&lt;br&gt;provided. Information and registration links at:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flowingforce.com"&gt;http://www.flowingforce.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Contact the Rev, Zucker at flowingforce@comcast.net, 978-369-0260&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;February 8 and 9, 2008&lt;br&gt;Grace Chapel,  59 Worthen Road in Lexington, MA&lt;p&gt;The Institute for Deaf Ministry Development, Inc. (IFDMD) is sponsoring&lt;br&gt;a two-day training (6-9 pm on Friday &amp;amp; Saturday 9 am - 4 pm on Saturday)&lt;br&gt;that will focus on ways to increase auditory memory capacity in order to&lt;br&gt;produce the equivalent message in American Sign Language (ASL). This&lt;br&gt;skill-building workshop will include hands-on practice and work in small&lt;br&gt;groups. The certified instructor is Diane Fowler, who has been&lt;br&gt;interpreting professionally since 1990. &lt;p&gt;The registration fee of $125 on or before January 25, otherwise $150&lt;br&gt;and includes Friday and Saturday meals and workshop materials. Space&lt;br&gt;limited to 25. Participants who need a sign language interpreter must&lt;br&gt;make their request by January 25. &lt;p&gt;For registration form and more information, email &amp;lt;IDMD4@hotmail.com&amp;gt;.&lt;br&gt;This training is also sponsored by BU Interpreter Education Center,&lt;br&gt;D.E.A.F., Inc. and Grace Chapel. CEUs or ACET credits are available&lt;br&gt;through Northeastern University Regional Interpreter Education Center.&lt;br&gt;More information may be available from IDMD4@hotmail.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Congregation Or Yisrael Presents AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD&lt;br&gt;SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;p&gt;Monday evening February 11, 2008, 7:30 PM Wilson Chapel&lt;p&gt;Listen to a dynamic, enthusiastic, insightful and charismatic teacher!&lt;br&gt;His topic is The Ever-Alive&lt;br&gt;Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Importance for the Understanding of the Bible,&lt;br&gt;Early Judaism, and the Birth of Christianity.  Internationally renowned&lt;br&gt;teacher, author and lecturer, Dr. Paul is recognized for his expertise&lt;br&gt;in&lt;br&gt;Bible. He is Bible Department Chairman at Hebrew University and Dead&lt;br&gt;Sea Scrolls Foundation Chairman&lt;br&gt;in Jerusalem.  You will have the opportunity to talk with Dr. Paul&lt;br&gt;during dessert and coffee.&lt;p&gt;25 seats are being saved for students, staff and faculty of Andover&lt;br&gt;Newton.  If you would like to reserve space, please RSVP no later than&lt;br&gt;February 4, 2008 to AODowd@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Courses Closed&lt;p&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;P3 OLDT 512- Section Canceled&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s coming! Save the dates!&lt;p&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship, &lt;br&gt;June 22-25, 2008&lt;p&gt;Our Hearts Ablaze: Encountering Christ, &lt;br&gt;Renewing Holy Ground&lt;p&gt;Keynote presenters include:&lt;p&gt;Marty Haugen, a composer of liturgical music for both&lt;br&gt;Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. He has&lt;br&gt;had over 400 compositions published by GIA, Augsburg&lt;br&gt;Fortress and various other publishers. For the past 25&lt;br&gt;years he has presented workshops and concerts across&lt;br&gt;North America and in Europe, the Pacific Rim, Asia and&lt;br&gt;Central America for church musicians and anyone&lt;br&gt;interested in the renewal of worship.&lt;p&gt;Susan Briehl, a Lutheran pastor for 25 years is an&lt;br&gt;associate with the Valparaiso Project on Education and&lt;br&gt;the Formation of People in Faith.  Her writings&lt;br&gt;include: Come, Lord Jesus, devotions for Advent,&lt;br&gt;Christmas and Epiphany, Turn my Heart: a Sacred&lt;br&gt;Journey from Brokenness to Healing, (with Marty&lt;br&gt;Haugen) and several liturgical and hymn texts.&lt;p&gt;Watch for future mailings and brochures about details&lt;br&gt;of registration, credits, daily schedules, etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The bookstore is open its regular hours Mon.-Thurs. 9 am - 6 pm, Fri. 9&lt;br&gt;am - 4 pm throughout January so you can purchase books for Winterim and&lt;br&gt;have them shipped to you after you leave campus.  Spring textbooks will&lt;br&gt;begin arriving in early January.  &lt;p&gt;Many Winterim texts are already in; others are arriving daily.  If you&lt;br&gt;want to get a head start on your reading, contact us and we&amp;#39;ll get you&lt;br&gt;going.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;br&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;The Sacred Journey: Leading a Congregation Through Lent&lt;br&gt;Saturday, January 26, 2008   9:00 am - 4:00 pm&lt;br&gt;$40 includes lunch&lt;p&gt;How does your congregation observe the season of Lent? &lt;p&gt;In this workshop, led by Shelley Stackhouse, we will explore both&lt;br&gt;ancient and new traditions for walking the journey through Lent on&lt;br&gt;Sunday mornings. We will also discuss other possible observances in&lt;br&gt;worship, prayer and other disciplines that might happen throughout the&lt;br&gt;week. &lt;br&gt;Since the journey has a destination, if not an ending, we will also&lt;br&gt;focus on how to celebrate Palm Sunday and shape a rhythm of worship&lt;br&gt;through the other Holy Week services culminating in Easter. &lt;p&gt;See the website for a flyer and registration form.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/ants-student-e-news-friday-january-18.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-8325942413482636653</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-17T16:05:35.461-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Thursday, January 17, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office&lt;br&gt;- Update on Kurt Walker&lt;br&gt;- Job Opening in the Mail Room&lt;br&gt;- Library schedule notice &lt;br&gt;- Course Announcement&lt;br&gt;- Art Night&lt;br&gt;- Wilson Chapel wins award&lt;br&gt;- One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;- Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;- AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;- Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;- Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;- UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The following courses have low enrollment and by next Wednesday,&lt;br&gt;January 23, the Dean&amp;#39;s office will decide if the courses will be&lt;br&gt;canceled.&lt;p&gt;WOTA 776 Creation Spirituality Penfold&lt;br&gt;NEWT 709 Exegesis: Matthew   Pregeant&lt;br&gt;HIST 628   Women Leaders       Coolman&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Update on Kurt Walker&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Hello Friends,&lt;p&gt;After being in the hospital from late last Friday evening until Monday&lt;br&gt;morning , I am feeling better than before I left.  I take some comfort&lt;br&gt;in knowing that this infection most certainly took hold the day before I&lt;br&gt;left but I mistook it for a bug that had been traveling through the&lt;br&gt;family.  Indeed, the infection was brought on by a strain of bacteria&lt;br&gt;that is common everywhere.  I am having a wonderful time here in&lt;br&gt;(Madurai) talking to students and faculty at the Tamil Nadu Theological&lt;br&gt;Seminary about their experiences of Christianity here in India and have&lt;br&gt;had my liturgical world opened up immensely in this beautifully&lt;br&gt;pluralistic environment.  I will be meeting up with the rest of the&lt;br&gt;group in Chennai (Madras) tomorrow morning (Friday, 1/18).  I think I&lt;br&gt;can speak for all when I say that we have had a most wonderful and truly&lt;br&gt;immersive experience here and could not have asked for a more&lt;br&gt;academically and spiritually enriching experience.&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your prayers and your concerns and blessings of peace to&lt;br&gt;all,&lt;p&gt;Kurt&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Job Opening in the Mail Room&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Mailroom Clerk&lt;p&gt;There is an opening for a mailroom clerk on the ANTS campus for the&lt;br&gt;spring semester.  The job entails sorting and delivering mail on campus&lt;br&gt;and handing out packages to students two days a week from 11 to 4.  If&lt;br&gt;you are interested, please send a short biography and your student&lt;br&gt;schedule to: housing@ants.edu    Please use &amp;quot;Mail Room Clerk&amp;quot; in the&lt;br&gt;subject line.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Library schedule notice&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please note the following holiday schedule:&lt;br&gt;Saturday, Jan 19    open 1:00-5:00 p.m.&lt;br&gt;Sunday, Jan 20      closed&lt;br&gt;Monday, Jan 21     closed, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Course Announcement&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring course for Ministers-in-the-Vicinity:&lt;p&gt;CMLE 852S&lt;br&gt;Interim Ministry: Theory and Practice&lt;br&gt;Thursdays, beginning January 31 from 2:00-5:00 PM For Ministers in the&lt;br&gt;Vicinity&lt;p&gt;Transitions between pastors is a unique time in the life of a&lt;br&gt;congregation. In more recent times this period is getting special&lt;br&gt;attention because of the issues faced when one pastor leaves and before&lt;br&gt;another arrives. An interim period well handled can help prepare the way&lt;br&gt;for the new pastor in such a way that she/he does not become in fact an&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Interim&amp;quot; even though called as the &amp;quot;Settled Pastor.&amp;quot; &lt;p&gt;To help churches move through this period it has been recognized that&lt;br&gt;special skills are needed so that those who serve as interim pastors can&lt;br&gt;more effectively lead. Denominations have begun to do more to prepare&lt;br&gt;both congregations and pastors for this period. Denominations in the&lt;br&gt;Free Church tradition have long used interims, but are now beginning to&lt;br&gt;set standards and offer training. The American Baptist Churches of&lt;br&gt;Massachusetts, the Unitarian Universalist Interim Ministers Guild and&lt;br&gt;the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ have all&lt;br&gt;expressed satisfaction that this course syllabus addresses the issues&lt;br&gt;and demands of interim ministry in a comprehensive way, offering skill&lt;br&gt;sets the interim minister will need. In addition, we are aware that&lt;br&gt;those denominations that fall into the connectional system are taking a&lt;br&gt;serious look at the importance of the interim period and the skills&lt;br&gt;required to help such congregations.&lt;p&gt;The team members have considerable experience as pastors, interim&lt;br&gt;pastors in a number of denominations, and as teachers at Andover Newton.&lt;br&gt;It is their intention to bring those experiences to the classroom. The&lt;br&gt;course has been designed to appeal to those doing Interim Ministry as&lt;br&gt;well as those who are exploring the possibilities of Interim Ministry as&lt;br&gt;a calling. &lt;p&gt;For registration please fill out the MIV form&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/MIVappreg.pdf"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/MIVappreg.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Art Night&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Art Night continues throughout January term.&lt;br&gt;All are welcome (even if you don&amp;#39;t consider yourself&lt;br&gt;to be an artist)&lt;br&gt;This is a drop-in open studio opportunity to explore&lt;br&gt;art in a safe, no rules atmosphere.&lt;p&gt;Every Thursday night from 7-10 pm &lt;br&gt;in the lower studio of the Meetinghouse.&lt;p&gt;All materials provided. Fun and fellowship.&lt;br&gt;Free will donation.&lt;p&gt;Questions?&lt;br&gt;Contact Joy (Resident Teaching Artist) at&lt;br&gt;joyful_i_am@yahoo.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Wilson Chapel wins award&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From hundreds of nominated projects, Andover Newton Theological School&lt;br&gt;- Wilson Chapel has been chosen as a Building of America project and&lt;br&gt;will be featured in the upcoming Real Estate &amp;amp; Construction Review-2008&lt;br&gt;New England Edition. Each Building of America project is highlighted in&lt;br&gt;a case study that intertwines the words of the project&amp;#39;s&lt;br&gt;owner/developer, consultants, architects and contractors to explain how&lt;br&gt;the teams worked together to design and build one of the region&amp;#39;s most&lt;br&gt;important, innovative or unique new construction or renovation projects.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Real Estate &amp;amp; Construction Review has been published by&lt;br&gt;Construction Communications since 1997. Each edition is published&lt;br&gt;annually and features the region&amp;#39;s top projects as determined by our&lt;br&gt;editorial board. The publication is read and referenced by leaders&lt;br&gt;within the region&amp;#39;s local governments, economic development groups,&lt;br&gt;financial institutions, owners, architects and contractors. Each edition&lt;br&gt;will also be available online at &lt;a href="http://www.constructionreviews.com"&gt;www.constructionreviews.com&lt;/a&gt;. The&lt;br&gt;website, accessed by industry leaders and decision makers throughout the&lt;br&gt;country, combines more than 30,000 links and millions of searches each&lt;br&gt;year. In January 2008 the company will begin a massive public relations&lt;br&gt;campaign utilizing PR Newswire. The campaign is designed to bring&lt;br&gt;millions of new viewers to the website. &lt;p&gt;We want to be sure that interviews will be available from the&lt;br&gt;owner/developer, architects, construction managers and/or general&lt;br&gt;contractors for the Andover Newton Theological School - Wilson Chapel&lt;br&gt;project. The writer assigned to this case study will be in contact with&lt;br&gt;your organization within the next few months. If you have any questions&lt;br&gt;or comments, feel free to contact Julie Zulch any time at 248-945-4700&lt;br&gt;ext. 115 or  jzulch@constructionreviews.com. We look forward to working&lt;br&gt;with you. &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;PREPARE/ENRICH &lt;p&gt;Pre-Marital/Marital Counseling Program&lt;br&gt;Saturday, March 8, 2008, 8:30AM - 4:30 PM  &lt;br&gt;Tuition: $175 includes all materials. &lt;br&gt;Berkeley Room (next to Kendall Hall), Andover-Newton Theological School&lt;p&gt;Directions at www.ants.edu; parking available behind building. &lt;p&gt;Professional seminar director Rev. Robin Zucker teaches students,&lt;br&gt;clergy and counselors to use a series of respected, religion-neutral&lt;br&gt;counseling programs with pre-marital and marital couples. This seminar&lt;br&gt;will expand ministerial competencies, and enrich your counseling and&lt;br&gt;ministry practice for years to come.  BYO Lunch; light breakfast&lt;br&gt;provided. Information and registration links at:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flowingforce.com"&gt;http://www.flowingforce.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Contact the Rev, Zucker at flowingforce@comcast.net, 978-369-0260&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;February 8 and 9, 2008&lt;br&gt;Grace Chapel,  59 Worthen Road in Lexington, MA&lt;p&gt;The Institute for Deaf Ministry Development, Inc. (IFDMD) is sponsoring&lt;br&gt;a two-day training (6-9 pm on Friday &amp;amp; Saturday 9 am - 4 pm on Saturday)&lt;br&gt;that will focus on ways to increase auditory memory capacity in order to&lt;br&gt;produce the equivalent message in American Sign Language (ASL). This&lt;br&gt;skill-building workshop will include hands-on practice and work in small&lt;br&gt;groups. The certified instructor is Diane Fowler, who has been&lt;br&gt;interpreting professionally since 1990. &lt;p&gt;The registration fee of $125 on or before January 25, otherwise $150&lt;br&gt;and includes Friday and Saturday meals and workshop materials. Space&lt;br&gt;limited to 25. Participants who need a sign language interpreter must&lt;br&gt;make their request by January 25. &lt;p&gt;For registration form and more information, email &amp;lt;IDMD4@hotmail.com&amp;gt;.&lt;br&gt;This training is also sponsored by BU Interpreter Education Center,&lt;br&gt;D.E.A.F., Inc. and Grace Chapel. CEUs or ACET credits are available&lt;br&gt;through Northeastern University Regional Interpreter Education Center.&lt;br&gt;More information may be available from IDMD4@hotmail.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Congregation Or Yisrael Presents AN EVENING WITH DR. SHALOM PAUL DEAD&lt;br&gt;SEA SCROLLS SCHOLAR&lt;p&gt;Monday evening February 11, 2008, 7:30 PM Wilson Chapel&lt;p&gt;Listen to a dynamic, enthusiastic, insightful and charismatic teacher!&lt;br&gt;His topic is The Ever-Alive&lt;br&gt;Dead Sea Scrolls: Their Importance for the Understanding of the Bible,&lt;br&gt;Early Judaism, and the Birth of Christianity.  Internationally renowned&lt;br&gt;teacher, author and lecturer, Dr. Paul is recognized for his expertise&lt;br&gt;in&lt;br&gt;Bible. He is Bible Department Chairman at Hebrew University and Dead&lt;br&gt;Sea Scrolls Foundation Chairman&lt;br&gt;in Jerusalem.  You will have the opportunity to talk with Dr. Paul&lt;br&gt;during dessert and coffee.&lt;p&gt;25 seats are being saved for students, staff and faculty of Andover&lt;br&gt;Newton.  If you would like to reserve space, please RSVP no later than&lt;br&gt;February 4, 2008 to AODowd@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Courses Closed&lt;p&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;P3 OLDT 512- Section Canceled&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s coming! Save the dates!&lt;p&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship, &lt;br&gt;June 22-25, 2008&lt;p&gt;Our Hearts Ablaze: Encountering Christ, &lt;br&gt;Renewing Holy Ground&lt;p&gt;Keynote presenters include:&lt;p&gt;Marty Haugen, a composer of liturgical music for both&lt;br&gt;Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. He has&lt;br&gt;had over 400 compositions published by GIA, Augsburg&lt;br&gt;Fortress and various other publishers. For the past 25&lt;br&gt;years he has presented workshops and concerts across&lt;br&gt;North America and in Europe, the Pacific Rim, Asia and&lt;br&gt;Central America for church musicians and anyone&lt;br&gt;interested in the renewal of worship.&lt;p&gt;Susan Briehl, a Lutheran pastor for 25 years is an&lt;br&gt;associate with the Valparaiso Project on Education and&lt;br&gt;the Formation of People in Faith.  Her writings&lt;br&gt;include: Come, Lord Jesus, devotions for Advent,&lt;br&gt;Christmas and Epiphany, Turn my Heart: a Sacred&lt;br&gt;Journey from Brokenness to Healing, (with Marty&lt;br&gt;Haugen) and several liturgical and hymn texts.&lt;p&gt;Watch for future mailings and brochures about details&lt;br&gt;of registration, credits, daily schedules, etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The bookstore is open its regular hours Mon.-Thurs. 9 am - 6 pm, Fri. 9&lt;br&gt;am - 4 pm throughout January so you can purchase books for Winterim and&lt;br&gt;have them shipped to you after you leave campus.  Spring textbooks will&lt;br&gt;begin arriving in early January.  &lt;p&gt;Many Winterim texts are already in; others are arriving daily.  If you&lt;br&gt;want to get a head start on your reading, contact us and we&amp;#39;ll get you&lt;br&gt;going.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;br&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;The Sacred Journey: Leading a Congregation Through Lent&lt;br&gt;Saturday, January 26, 2008   9:00 am - 4:00 pm&lt;br&gt;$40 includes lunch&lt;p&gt;How does your congregation observe the season of Lent? &lt;p&gt;In this workshop, led by Shelley Stackhouse, we will explore both&lt;br&gt;ancient and new traditions for walking the journey through Lent on&lt;br&gt;Sunday mornings. We will also discuss other possible observances in&lt;br&gt;worship, prayer and other disciplines that might happen throughout the&lt;br&gt;week. &lt;br&gt;Since the journey has a destination, if not an ending, we will also&lt;br&gt;focus on how to celebrate Palm Sunday and shape a rhythm of worship&lt;br&gt;through the other Holy Week services culminating in Easter. &lt;p&gt;See the website for a flyer and registration form.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/ants-student-e-news-thursday-january-17.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-2566162794517638293</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-16T16:51:01.664-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Wednesday, January 16, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office&lt;br&gt;- Prayer request&lt;br&gt;- Prayer request&lt;br&gt;- Discounted tickets for the BSO &lt;br&gt;- Course Announcement&lt;br&gt;- Art Night&lt;br&gt;- Wilson Chapel wins award&lt;br&gt;- One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;- Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;- Financial Aid Opportunity for those pursuing doctoral study&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;- Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;- Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;- UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s office&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The following courses have low enrollment and by next Wednesday,&lt;br&gt;January 23, the Dean&amp;#39;s office will decide if the courses will be&lt;br&gt;canceled.&lt;p&gt;WOTA 776 Creation Spirituality Penfold&lt;br&gt;NEWT 709 Exegesis: Matthew   Pregeant&lt;br&gt;HIST 628   Women Leaders       Coolman&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Prayer request&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please keep Kurt Walker in your prayers.  While traveling in India, he&lt;br&gt;has become ill with a serious kidney infection. He has been in the&lt;br&gt;hospital for a few days and is about to be released. He will be staying&lt;br&gt;in the city of Madurai at the Tamil Nadu Theological Seminary for the&lt;br&gt;duration of the trip. He will be resting and building up strength for&lt;br&gt;the trip home on the 19th.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Prayer request&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please keep Rachel de Thomas and Don Allard in your thoughts and&lt;br&gt;prayers.  Rachel is Sherry Thomas&amp;#39; daughter and Don is Rachel&amp;#39;s husband.&lt;br&gt; They recently lost a shop to fire, one where Don had the bulk of his&lt;br&gt;major woodworking equipment for his business.  Among the things they&lt;br&gt;lost was an irreplaceable 14 foot, 2 ton, century old lathe on which Don&lt;br&gt;made all the balusters for the recent major renovation of Trinity Church&lt;br&gt;in Boston. It&amp;#39;s a devastating loss financially, as the equipment was not&lt;br&gt;insured.  Please keep Rachel, Don, and Sherry in your thoughts and&lt;br&gt;prayers as they begin to pull their lives back together in the wake of&lt;br&gt;this devastating loss.&lt;p&gt;Nancy Nienhuis&lt;br&gt;Dean of Students and Community Life&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Discounted tickets for the BSO&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;I have access to discounted tickets for the BSO&amp;#39;s upcoming performances&lt;br&gt;of Elgar&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;Dream of Gerontius&amp;quot;.  This is a beautiful faith-filled piece&lt;br&gt;that explores the journey from death to judgement to purgatory. As a&lt;br&gt;bonus, I will be singing (in the chorus)! The tickets are typically&lt;br&gt;$30-$114 but I can get them for 50% off.  The tickets are available for&lt;br&gt;Thursday, January 24th @ 8:00 pm or Saturday, January 26th @ 8:00 pm. If&lt;br&gt;you are interested in getting tickets, let me know! jwalker@ants.edu  &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Course Announcement&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring course for Ministers-in-the-Vicinity:&lt;p&gt;CMLE 852S&lt;br&gt;Interim Ministry: Theory and Practice&lt;br&gt;Thursdays, beginning January 31 from 2:00-5:00 PM For Ministers in the&lt;br&gt;Vicinity&lt;p&gt;Transitions between pastors is a unique time in the life of a&lt;br&gt;congregation. In more recent times this period is getting special&lt;br&gt;attention because of the issues faced when one pastor leaves and before&lt;br&gt;another arrives. An interim period well handled can help prepare the way&lt;br&gt;for the new pastor in such a way that she/he does not become in fact an&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Interim&amp;quot; even though called as the &amp;quot;Settled Pastor.&amp;quot; &lt;p&gt;To help churches move through this period it has been recognized that&lt;br&gt;special skills are needed so that those who serve as interim pastors can&lt;br&gt;more effectively lead. Denominations have begun to do more to prepare&lt;br&gt;both congregations and pastors for this period. Denominations in the&lt;br&gt;Free Church tradition have long used interims, but are now beginning to&lt;br&gt;set standards and offer training. The American Baptist Churches of&lt;br&gt;Massachusetts, the Unitarian Universalist Interim Ministers Guild and&lt;br&gt;the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ have all&lt;br&gt;expressed satisfaction that this course syllabus addresses the issues&lt;br&gt;and demands of interim ministry in a comprehensive way, offering skill&lt;br&gt;sets the interim minister will need. In addition, we are aware that&lt;br&gt;those denominations that fall into the connectional system are taking a&lt;br&gt;serious look at the importance of the interim period and the skills&lt;br&gt;required to help such congregations.&lt;p&gt;The team members have considerable experience as pastors, interim&lt;br&gt;pastors in a number of denominations, and as teachers at Andover Newton.&lt;br&gt;It is their intention to bring those experiences to the classroom. The&lt;br&gt;course has been designed to appeal to those doing Interim Ministry as&lt;br&gt;well as those who are exploring the possibilities of Interim Ministry as&lt;br&gt;a calling. &lt;p&gt;For registration please fill out the MIV form&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/MIVappreg.pdf"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/MIVappreg.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Art Night&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Art Night continues throughout January term.&lt;br&gt;All are welcome (even if you don&amp;#39;t consider yourself&lt;br&gt;to be an artist)&lt;br&gt;This is a drop-in open studio opportunity to explore&lt;br&gt;art in a safe, no rules atmosphere.&lt;p&gt;Every Thursday night from 7-10 pm &lt;br&gt;in the lower studio of the Meetinghouse.&lt;p&gt;All materials provided. Fun and fellowship.&lt;br&gt;Free will donation.&lt;p&gt;Questions?&lt;br&gt;Contact Joy (Resident Teaching Artist) at&lt;br&gt;joyful_i_am@yahoo.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Wilson Chapel wins award&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From hundreds of nominated projects, Andover Newton Theological School&lt;br&gt;- Wilson Chapel has been chosen as a Building of America project and&lt;br&gt;will be featured in the upcoming Real Estate &amp;amp; Construction Review-2008&lt;br&gt;New England Edition. Each Building of America project is highlighted in&lt;br&gt;a case study that intertwines the words of the project&amp;#39;s&lt;br&gt;owner/developer, consultants, architects and contractors to explain how&lt;br&gt;the teams worked together to design and build one of the region&amp;#39;s most&lt;br&gt;important, innovative or unique new construction or renovation projects.&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;The Real Estate &amp;amp; Construction Review has been published by&lt;br&gt;Construction Communications since 1997. Each edition is published&lt;br&gt;annually and features the region&amp;#39;s top projects as determined by our&lt;br&gt;editorial board. The publication is read and referenced by leaders&lt;br&gt;within the region&amp;#39;s local governments, economic development groups,&lt;br&gt;financial institutions, owners, architects and contractors. Each edition&lt;br&gt;will also be available online at &lt;a href="http://www.constructionreviews.com"&gt;www.constructionreviews.com&lt;/a&gt;. The&lt;br&gt;website, accessed by industry leaders and decision makers throughout the&lt;br&gt;country, combines more than 30,000 links and millions of searches each&lt;br&gt;year. In January 2008 the company will begin a massive public relations&lt;br&gt;campaign utilizing PR Newswire. The campaign is designed to bring&lt;br&gt;millions of new viewers to the website. &lt;p&gt;We want to be sure that interviews will be available from the&lt;br&gt;owner/developer, architects, construction managers and/or general&lt;br&gt;contractors for the Andover Newton Theological School - Wilson Chapel&lt;br&gt;project. The writer assigned to this case study will be in contact with&lt;br&gt;your organization within the next few months. If you have any questions&lt;br&gt;or comments, feel free to contact Julie Zulch any time at 248-945-4700&lt;br&gt;ext. 115 or  jzulch@constructionreviews.com. We look forward to working&lt;br&gt;with you. &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;PREPARE/ENRICH &lt;p&gt;Pre-Marital/Marital Counseling Program&lt;br&gt;Saturday, March 8, 2008, 8:30AM - 4:30 PM  &lt;br&gt;Tuition: $175 includes all materials. &lt;br&gt;Berkeley Room (next to Kendall Hall), Andover-Newton Theological School&lt;p&gt;Directions at www.ants.edu; parking available behind building. &lt;p&gt;Professional seminar director Rev. Robin Zucker teaches students,&lt;br&gt;clergy and counselors to use a series of respected, religion-neutral&lt;br&gt;counseling programs with pre-marital and marital couples. This seminar&lt;br&gt;will expand ministerial competencies, and enrich your counseling and&lt;br&gt;ministry practice for years to come.  BYO Lunch; light breakfast&lt;br&gt;provided. Information and registration links at:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flowingforce.com"&gt;http://www.flowingforce.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Contact the Rev, Zucker at flowingforce@comcast.net, 978-369-0260&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;February 8 and 9, 2008&lt;br&gt;Grace Chapel,  59 Worthen Road in Lexington, MA&lt;p&gt;The Institute for Deaf Ministry Development, Inc. (IFDMD) is sponsoring&lt;br&gt;a two-day training (6-9 pm on Friday &amp;amp; Saturday 9 am - 4 pm on Saturday)&lt;br&gt;that will focus on ways to increase auditory memory capacity in order to&lt;br&gt;produce the equivalent message in American Sign Language (ASL). This&lt;br&gt;skill-building workshop will include hands-on practice and work in small&lt;br&gt;groups. The certified instructor is Diane Fowler, who has been&lt;br&gt;interpreting professionally since 1990. &lt;p&gt;The registration fee of $125 on or before January 25, otherwise $150&lt;br&gt;and includes Friday and Saturday meals and workshop materials. Space&lt;br&gt;limited to 25. Participants who need a sign language interpreter must&lt;br&gt;make their request by January 25. &lt;p&gt;For registration form and more information, email &amp;lt;IDMD4@hotmail.com&amp;gt;.&lt;br&gt;This training is also sponsored by BU Interpreter Education Center,&lt;br&gt;D.E.A.F., Inc. and Grace Chapel. CEUs or ACET credits are available&lt;br&gt;through Northeastern University Regional Interpreter Education Center.&lt;br&gt;More information may be available from IDMD4@hotmail.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Financial Aid Opportunity for those pursuing doctoral study&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Fund for Theological Education (FTE) offers doctoral fellowships&lt;br&gt;for racial/ethnic students in religion, biblical studies, and theology.&lt;br&gt;African-American, Asian-American, Native American and Hispanic students&lt;br&gt;pursuing a call to scholarship and teaching in those fields maybe&lt;br&gt;eligible. Students must be enrolled in a doctoral program (Ph.D. or&lt;br&gt;Th.D. only, D.Min. programs are not eligible) and meet other criteria.&lt;br&gt;For more information visit &lt;a href="http://www.thefund.org"&gt;www.thefund.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Courses Closed&lt;p&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;P3 OLDT 512- Section Canceled&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s coming! Save the dates!&lt;p&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship, &lt;br&gt;June 22-25, 2008&lt;p&gt;Our Hearts Ablaze: Encountering Christ, &lt;br&gt;Renewing Holy Ground&lt;p&gt;Keynote presenters include:&lt;p&gt;Marty Haugen, a composer of liturgical music for both&lt;br&gt;Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. He has&lt;br&gt;had over 400 compositions published by GIA, Augsburg&lt;br&gt;Fortress and various other publishers. For the past 25&lt;br&gt;years he has presented workshops and concerts across&lt;br&gt;North America and in Europe, the Pacific Rim, Asia and&lt;br&gt;Central America for church musicians and anyone&lt;br&gt;interested in the renewal of worship.&lt;p&gt;Susan Briehl, a Lutheran pastor for 25 years is an&lt;br&gt;associate with the Valparaiso Project on Education and&lt;br&gt;the Formation of People in Faith.  Her writings&lt;br&gt;include: Come, Lord Jesus, devotions for Advent,&lt;br&gt;Christmas and Epiphany, Turn my Heart: a Sacred&lt;br&gt;Journey from Brokenness to Healing, (with Marty&lt;br&gt;Haugen) and several liturgical and hymn texts.&lt;p&gt;Watch for future mailings and brochures about details&lt;br&gt;of registration, credits, daily schedules, etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The bookstore is open its regular hours Mon.-Thurs. 9 am - 6 pm, Fri. 9&lt;br&gt;am - 4 pm throughout January so you can purchase books for Winterim and&lt;br&gt;have them shipped to you after you leave campus.  Spring textbooks will&lt;br&gt;begin arriving in early January.  &lt;p&gt;Many Winterim texts are already in; others are arriving daily.  If you&lt;br&gt;want to get a head start on your reading, contact us and we&amp;#39;ll get you&lt;br&gt;going.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;br&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;The Sacred Journey: Leading a Congregation Through Lent&lt;br&gt;Saturday, January 26, 2008   9:00 am - 4:00 pm&lt;br&gt;$40 includes lunch&lt;p&gt;How does your congregation observe the season of Lent? &lt;p&gt;In this workshop, led by Shelley Stackhouse, we will explore both&lt;br&gt;ancient and new traditions for walking the journey through Lent on&lt;br&gt;Sunday mornings. We will also discuss other possible observances in&lt;br&gt;worship, prayer and other disciplines that might happen throughout the&lt;br&gt;week. &lt;br&gt;Since the journey has a destination, if not an ending, we will also&lt;br&gt;focus on how to celebrate Palm Sunday and shape a rhythm of worship&lt;br&gt;through the other Holy Week services culminating in Easter. &lt;p&gt;See the website for a flyer and registration form.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/ants-student-e-news-wednesday-january_16.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-6962573907093174778</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-15T16:18:45.471-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Tuesday, January 15, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- Prayer request&lt;br&gt;- Prayer request&lt;br&gt;- Course Announcement&lt;br&gt;- Art Night&lt;br&gt;- Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;- One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;- Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;- Cafateria opening&lt;br&gt;- Financial Aid Opportunity for those pursuing doctoral study&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;- Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;- Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;- UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Prayer request&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please keep Kurt Walker in your prayers.  While traveling in India, he&lt;br&gt;has become ill with a serious kidney infection. He has been in the&lt;br&gt;hospital for a few days and is about to be released. He will be staying&lt;br&gt;in the city of Madurai at the Tamil Nadu Theological Seminary for the&lt;br&gt;duration of the trip. He will be resting and building up strength for&lt;br&gt;the trip home on the 19th.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Prayer request&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please keep Rachel de Thomas and Don Allard in your thoughts and&lt;br&gt;prayers.  Rachel is Sherry Thomas&amp;#39; daughter and Don is Rachel&amp;#39;s husband.&lt;br&gt; They recently lost a shop to fire, one where Don had the bulk of his&lt;br&gt;major woodworking equipment for his business.  Among the things they&lt;br&gt;lost was an irreplaceable 14 foot, 2 ton, century old lathe on which Don&lt;br&gt;made all the balusters for the recent major renovation of Trinity Church&lt;br&gt;in Boston. It&amp;#39;s a devastating loss financially, as the equipment was not&lt;br&gt;insured.  Please keep Rachel, Don, and Sherry in your thoughts and&lt;br&gt;prayers as they begin to pull their lives back together in the wake of&lt;br&gt;this devastating loss.&lt;p&gt;Nancy Nienhuis&lt;br&gt;Dean of Students and Community Life&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Course Announcement&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring course for Ministers-in-the-Vicinity:&lt;p&gt;CMLE 852S&lt;br&gt;Interim Ministry: Theory and Practice&lt;br&gt;Thursdays, beginning January 31 from 2:00-5:00 PM For Ministers in the&lt;br&gt;Vicinity&lt;p&gt;Transitions between pastors is a unique time in the life of a&lt;br&gt;congregation. In more recent times this period is getting special&lt;br&gt;attention because of the issues faced when one pastor leaves and before&lt;br&gt;another arrives. An interim period well handled can help prepare the way&lt;br&gt;for the new pastor in such a way that she/he does not become in fact an&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Interim&amp;quot; even though called as the &amp;quot;Settled Pastor.&amp;quot; &lt;p&gt;To help churches move through this period it has been recognized that&lt;br&gt;special skills are needed so that those who serve as interim pastors can&lt;br&gt;more effectively lead. Denominations have begun to do more to prepare&lt;br&gt;both congregations and pastors for this period. Denominations in the&lt;br&gt;Free Church tradition have long used interims, but are now beginning to&lt;br&gt;set standards and offer training. The American Baptist Churches of&lt;br&gt;Massachusetts, the Unitarian Universalist Interim Ministers Guild and&lt;br&gt;the Massachusetts Conference of the United Church of Christ have all&lt;br&gt;expressed satisfaction that this course syllabus addresses the issues&lt;br&gt;and demands of interim ministry in a comprehensive way, offering skill&lt;br&gt;sets the interim minister will need. In addition, we are aware that&lt;br&gt;those denominations that fall into the connectional system are taking a&lt;br&gt;serious look at the importance of the interim period and the skills&lt;br&gt;required to help such congregations.&lt;p&gt;The team members have considerable experience as pastors, interim&lt;br&gt;pastors in a number of denominations, and as teachers at Andover Newton.&lt;br&gt;It is their intention to bring those experiences to the classroom. The&lt;br&gt;course has been designed to appeal to those doing Interim Ministry as&lt;br&gt;well as those who are exploring the possibilities of Interim Ministry as&lt;br&gt;a calling. &lt;p&gt;For registration please fill out the MIV form&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/MIVappreg.pdf"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/student/registrar/forms/MIVappreg.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Art Night&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Art Night continues throughout January term.&lt;br&gt;All are welcome (even if you don&amp;#39;t consider yourself&lt;br&gt;to be an artist)&lt;br&gt;This is a drop-in open studio opportunity to explore&lt;br&gt;art in a safe, no rules atmosphere.&lt;p&gt;Every Thursday night from 7-10 pm &lt;br&gt;in the lower studio of the Meetinghouse.&lt;p&gt;All materials provided. Fun and fellowship.&lt;br&gt;Free will donation.&lt;p&gt;Questions?&lt;br&gt;Contact Joy (Resident Teaching Artist) at&lt;br&gt;joyful_i_am@yahoo.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Just a reminder that I&amp;#39;ll be on campus from 10 to 3 on Tuesday January&lt;br&gt;15 would be happy to meet with you.  Other dates in January might also&lt;br&gt;be possible.  &lt;p&gt;In February, the midday writing groups will likely continue on both&lt;br&gt;Tuesday and Thursday.  &lt;p&gt;In the meantime, I&amp;#39;m happy to comment on your work via email, if we&amp;#39;ve&lt;br&gt;already met. &lt;p&gt;Looking forward to seeing you in the new year.&lt;p&gt;Helen Snively&lt;br&gt;ANTS writing tutor&lt;br&gt;Worcester 302&lt;br&gt;Tutor@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;PREPARE/ENRICH &lt;p&gt;Pre-Marital/Marital Counseling Program&lt;br&gt;Saturday, March 8, 2008, 8:30AM - 4:30 PM  &lt;br&gt;Tuition: $175 includes all materials. &lt;br&gt;Berkeley Room (next to Kendall Hall), Andover-Newton Theological School&lt;p&gt;Directions at www.ants.edu; parking available behind building. &lt;p&gt;Professional seminar director Rev. Robin Zucker teaches students,&lt;br&gt;clergy and counselors to use a series of respected, religion-neutral&lt;br&gt;counseling programs with pre-marital and marital couples. This seminar&lt;br&gt;will expand ministerial competencies, and enrich your counseling and&lt;br&gt;ministry practice for years to come.  BYO Lunch; light breakfast&lt;br&gt;provided. Information and registration links at:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flowingforce.com"&gt;http://www.flowingforce.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Contact the Rev, Zucker at flowingforce@comcast.net, 978-369-0260&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Workshop for Church Sign Language Interpreters&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;February 8 and 9, 2008&lt;br&gt;Grace Chapel,  59 Worthen Road in Lexington, MA&lt;p&gt;The Institute for Deaf Ministry Development, Inc. (IFDMD) is sponsoring&lt;br&gt;a two-day training (6-9 pm on Friday &amp;amp; Saturday 9 am - 4 pm on Saturday)&lt;br&gt;that will focus on ways to increase auditory memory capacity in order to&lt;br&gt;produce the equivalent message in American Sign Language (ASL). This&lt;br&gt;skill-building workshop will include hands-on practice and work in small&lt;br&gt;groups. The certified instructor is Diane Fowler, who has been&lt;br&gt;interpreting professionally since 1990. &lt;p&gt;The registration fee of $125 on or before January 25, otherwise $150&lt;br&gt;and includes Friday and Saturday meals and workshop materials. Space&lt;br&gt;limited to 25. Participants who need a sign language interpreter must&lt;br&gt;make their request by January 25. &lt;p&gt;For registration form and more information, email &amp;lt;IDMD4@hotmail.com&amp;gt;.&lt;br&gt;This training is also sponsored by BU Interpreter Education Center,&lt;br&gt;D.E.A.F., Inc. and Grace Chapel. CEUs or ACET credits are available&lt;br&gt;through Northeastern University Regional Interpreter Education Center.&lt;br&gt;More information may be available from IDMD4@hotmail.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Cafateria opening&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Starting January 4th Please come and enjoy breakfast and lunch in the&lt;br&gt;cafeteria. we will be open Monday through Friday from 7:30-1:30&lt;br&gt;Continental Breakfast is served from 7:30- 9:30 including Monday. cost&lt;br&gt;will be $4.00 all you can eat&lt;br&gt;Lunch is served from 11:30-1:30 lunch will be salad bar, make your own&lt;br&gt;sandwhiches, and hot soup. we will have a daily special hot sandwhich&lt;br&gt;item. The cost for lunch will be $5.75 all you can eat.&lt;br&gt;beverages and snacks available all day!&lt;p&gt;if you have any questions please call Liz @ext 303&lt;br&gt;or check out our web page for the weekly menu &lt;a href="http://www.antsdining.com"&gt;www.antsdining.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Financial Aid Opportunity for those pursuing doctoral study&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Fund for Theological Education (FTE) offers doctoral fellowships&lt;br&gt;for racial/ethnic students in religion, biblical studies, and theology.&lt;br&gt;African-American, Asian-American, Native American and Hispanic students&lt;br&gt;pursuing a call to scholarship and teaching in those fields maybe&lt;br&gt;eligible. Students must be enrolled in a doctoral program (Ph.D. or&lt;br&gt;Th.D. only, D.Min. programs are not eligible) and meet other criteria.&lt;br&gt;For more information visit &lt;a href="http://www.thefund.org"&gt;www.thefund.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Courses Closed&lt;p&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;P3 OLDT 512- Section Canceled&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s coming! Save the dates!&lt;p&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship, &lt;br&gt;June 22-25, 2008&lt;p&gt;Our Hearts Ablaze: Encountering Christ, &lt;br&gt;Renewing Holy Ground&lt;p&gt;Keynote presenters include:&lt;p&gt;Marty Haugen, a composer of liturgical music for both&lt;br&gt;Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. He has&lt;br&gt;had over 400 compositions published by GIA, Augsburg&lt;br&gt;Fortress and various other publishers. For the past 25&lt;br&gt;years he has presented workshops and concerts across&lt;br&gt;North America and in Europe, the Pacific Rim, Asia and&lt;br&gt;Central America for church musicians and anyone&lt;br&gt;interested in the renewal of worship.&lt;p&gt;Susan Briehl, a Lutheran pastor for 25 years is an&lt;br&gt;associate with the Valparaiso Project on Education and&lt;br&gt;the Formation of People in Faith.  Her writings&lt;br&gt;include: Come, Lord Jesus, devotions for Advent,&lt;br&gt;Christmas and Epiphany, Turn my Heart: a Sacred&lt;br&gt;Journey from Brokenness to Healing, (with Marty&lt;br&gt;Haugen) and several liturgical and hymn texts.&lt;p&gt;Watch for future mailings and brochures about details&lt;br&gt;of registration, credits, daily schedules, etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The bookstore is open its regular hours Mon.-Thurs. 9 am - 6 pm, Fri. 9&lt;br&gt;am - 4 pm throughout January so you can purchase books for Winterim and&lt;br&gt;have them shipped to you after you leave campus.  Spring textbooks will&lt;br&gt;begin arriving in early January.  &lt;p&gt;Many Winterim texts are already in; others are arriving daily.  If you&lt;br&gt;want to get a head start on your reading, contact us and we&amp;#39;ll get you&lt;br&gt;going.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;br&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;The Sacred Journey: Leading a Congregation Through Lent&lt;br&gt;Saturday, January 26, 2008   9:00 am - 4:00 pm&lt;br&gt;$40 includes lunch&lt;p&gt;How does your congregation observe the season of Lent? &lt;p&gt;In this workshop, led by Shelley Stackhouse, we will explore both&lt;br&gt;ancient and new traditions for walking the journey through Lent on&lt;br&gt;Sunday mornings. We will also discuss other possible observances in&lt;br&gt;worship, prayer and other disciplines that might happen throughout the&lt;br&gt;week. &lt;br&gt;Since the journey has a destination, if not an ending, we will also&lt;br&gt;focus on how to celebrate Palm Sunday and shape a rhythm of worship&lt;br&gt;through the other Holy Week services culminating in Easter. &lt;p&gt;See the website for a flyer and registration form.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/ants-student-e-news-tuesday-january-15.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-537042023215686996</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-11T16:04:37.623-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Friday, January 11, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- Prayer request&lt;br&gt;- Art Night&lt;br&gt;- Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;- One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;- Focus the Nation event on Jan. 31&lt;br&gt;- Cafateria opening&lt;br&gt;- Financial Aid Opportunity for those pursuing doctoral study&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;- Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;- Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;- UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Prayer request&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please keep Rachel de Thomas and Don Allard in your thoughts and&lt;br&gt;prayers.  Rachel is Sherry Thomas&amp;#39; daughter and Don is Rachel&amp;#39;s husband.&lt;br&gt; They recently lost a shop to fire, one where Don had the bulk of his&lt;br&gt;major woodworking equipment for his business.  Among the things they&lt;br&gt;lost was an irreplaceable 14 foot, 2 ton, century old lathe on which Don&lt;br&gt;made all the balusters for the recent major renovation of Trinity Church&lt;br&gt;in Boston. It&amp;#39;s a devastating loss financially, as the equipment was not&lt;br&gt;insured.  Please keep Rachel, Don, and Sherry in your thoughts and&lt;br&gt;prayers as they begin to pull their lives back together in the wake of&lt;br&gt;this devastating loss.&lt;p&gt;Nancy Nienhuis&lt;br&gt;Dean of Students and Community Life&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Art Night&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Art Night continues throughout January term.&lt;br&gt;All are welcome (even if you don&amp;#39;t consider yourself&lt;br&gt;to be an artist)&lt;br&gt;This is a drop-in open studio opportunity to explore&lt;br&gt;art in a safe, no rules atmosphere.&lt;p&gt;Every Thursday night from 7-10 pm &lt;br&gt;in the lower studio of the Meetinghouse.&lt;p&gt;All materials provided. Fun and fellowship.&lt;br&gt;Free will donation.&lt;p&gt;Questions?&lt;br&gt;Contact Joy (Resident Teaching Artist) at&lt;br&gt;joyful_i_am@yahoo.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Just a reminder that I&amp;#39;ll be on campus from 10 to 3 on Tuesday January&lt;br&gt;15 would be happy to meet with you.  Other dates in January might also&lt;br&gt;be possible.  &lt;p&gt;In February, the midday writing groups will likely continue on both&lt;br&gt;Tuesday and Thursday.  &lt;p&gt;In the meantime, I&amp;#39;m happy to comment on your work via email, if we&amp;#39;ve&lt;br&gt;already met. &lt;p&gt;Looking forward to seeing you in the new year.&lt;p&gt;Helen Snively&lt;br&gt;ANTS writing tutor&lt;br&gt;Worcester 302&lt;br&gt;Tutor@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;PREPARE/ENRICH &lt;p&gt;Pre-Marital/Marital Counseling Program&lt;br&gt;Saturday, March 8, 2008, 8:30AM - 4:30 PM  &lt;br&gt;Tuition: $175 includes all materials. &lt;br&gt;Berkeley Room (next to Kendall Hall), Andover-Newton Theological School&lt;p&gt;Directions at www.ants.edu; parking available behind building. &lt;p&gt;Professional seminar director Rev. Robin Zucker teaches students,&lt;br&gt;clergy and counselors to use a series of respected, religion-neutral&lt;br&gt;counseling programs with pre-marital and marital couples. This seminar&lt;br&gt;will expand ministerial competencies, and enrich your counseling and&lt;br&gt;ministry practice for years to come.  BYO Lunch; light breakfast&lt;br&gt;provided. Information and registration links at:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flowingforce.com"&gt;http://www.flowingforce.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Contact the Rev, Zucker at flowingforce@comcast.net, 978-369-0260&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Focus the Nation event on Jan. 31&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Focus the Nation: A National Teach-in to Raise Awareness about Global&lt;br&gt;Climate Change&lt;p&gt;On Thursday, Jan. 31-the first day of the Spring semester-the ANTS&lt;br&gt;community will be participating in Focus the Nation (check out&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.focusthenation.org"&gt;www.focusthenation.org&lt;/a&gt;). Community forums, special worship services,&lt;br&gt;an interfaith sacred meal, and an all-night prayer vigil will help us&lt;br&gt;place the issue of global climate change in our own context here at&lt;br&gt;ANTS. We will learn together about what connects our faith to the&lt;br&gt;environment, and what it means to be spiritual leaders in a time of&lt;br&gt;ecological crisis.&lt;p&gt;We invite you to participate! &lt;br&gt;*Check out the Emerging Ecology Fellowship&amp;#39;s website over the&lt;br&gt;holidays for updates.&lt;br&gt;*Contact Tempest Brevard  &amp;lt;tbrevard@ants.edu&amp;gt;  or Christina Ray &lt;br&gt;&amp;lt;cray@ants.edu&amp;gt;  to get involved.&lt;br&gt;*Show up and help Focus the Nation. Activities will be occurring from&lt;br&gt;the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 30 until morning worship on Friday, Feb.&lt;br&gt;1.&lt;br&gt;Hope to see you there!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Cafateria opening&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Starting January 4th Please come and enjoy breakfast and lunch in the&lt;br&gt;cafeteria. we will be open Monday through Friday from 7:30-1:30&lt;br&gt;Continental Breakfast is served from 7:30- 9:30 including Monday. cost&lt;br&gt;will be $4.00 all you can eat&lt;br&gt;Lunch is served from 11:30-1:30 lunch will be salad bar, make your own&lt;br&gt;sandwhiches, and hot soup. we will have a daily special hot sandwhich&lt;br&gt;item. The cost for lunch will be $5.75 all you can eat.&lt;br&gt;beverages and snacks available all day!&lt;p&gt;if you have any questions please call Liz @ext 303&lt;br&gt;or check out our web page for the weekly menu &lt;a href="http://www.antsdining.com"&gt;www.antsdining.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Financial Aid Opportunity for those pursuing doctoral study&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Fund for Theological Education (FTE) offers doctoral fellowships&lt;br&gt;for racial/ethnic students in religion, biblical studies, and theology.&lt;br&gt;African-American, Asian-American, Native American and Hispanic students&lt;br&gt;pursuing a call to scholarship and teaching in those fields maybe&lt;br&gt;eligible. Students must be enrolled in a doctoral program (Ph.D. or&lt;br&gt;Th.D. only, D.Min. programs are not eligible) and meet other criteria.&lt;br&gt;For more information visit &lt;a href="http://www.thefund.org"&gt;www.thefund.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Courses Closed&lt;p&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;P3 OLDT 512- Section Canceled&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s coming! Save the dates!&lt;p&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship, &lt;br&gt;June 22-25, 2008&lt;p&gt;Our Hearts Ablaze: Encountering Christ, &lt;br&gt;Renewing Holy Ground&lt;p&gt;Keynote presenters include:&lt;p&gt;Marty Haugen, a composer of liturgical music for both&lt;br&gt;Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. He has&lt;br&gt;had over 400 compositions published by GIA, Augsburg&lt;br&gt;Fortress and various other publishers. For the past 25&lt;br&gt;years he has presented workshops and concerts across&lt;br&gt;North America and in Europe, the Pacific Rim, Asia and&lt;br&gt;Central America for church musicians and anyone&lt;br&gt;interested in the renewal of worship.&lt;p&gt;Susan Briehl, a Lutheran pastor for 25 years is an&lt;br&gt;associate with the Valparaiso Project on Education and&lt;br&gt;the Formation of People in Faith.  Her writings&lt;br&gt;include: Come, Lord Jesus, devotions for Advent,&lt;br&gt;Christmas and Epiphany, Turn my Heart: a Sacred&lt;br&gt;Journey from Brokenness to Healing, (with Marty&lt;br&gt;Haugen) and several liturgical and hymn texts.&lt;p&gt;Watch for future mailings and brochures about details&lt;br&gt;of registration, credits, daily schedules, etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The bookstore is open its regular hours Mon.-Thurs. 9 am - 6 pm, Fri. 9&lt;br&gt;am - 4 pm throughout January so you can purchase books for Winterim and&lt;br&gt;have them shipped to you after you leave campus.  Spring textbooks will&lt;br&gt;begin arriving in early January.  &lt;p&gt;Many Winterim texts are already in; others are arriving daily.  If you&lt;br&gt;want to get a head start on your reading, contact us and we&amp;#39;ll get you&lt;br&gt;going.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;br&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;The Sacred Journey: Leading a Congregation Through Lent&lt;br&gt;Saturday, January 26, 2008   9:00 am - 4:00 pm&lt;br&gt;$40 includes lunch&lt;p&gt;How does your congregation observe the season of Lent? &lt;p&gt;In this workshop, led by Shelley Stackhouse, we will explore both&lt;br&gt;ancient and new traditions for walking the journey through Lent on&lt;br&gt;Sunday mornings. We will also discuss other possible observances in&lt;br&gt;worship, prayer and other disciplines that might happen throughout the&lt;br&gt;week. &lt;br&gt;Since the journey has a destination, if not an ending, we will also&lt;br&gt;focus on how to celebrate Palm Sunday and shape a rhythm of worship&lt;br&gt;through the other Holy Week services culminating in Easter. &lt;p&gt;See the website for a flyer and registration form.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/ants-student-e-news-friday-january-11.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-2539972191672321198</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-10T17:02:08.625-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Thursday, January 10, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- Prayer request&lt;br&gt;- Art Night&lt;br&gt;- Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;- One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;- Focus the Nation event on Jan. 31&lt;br&gt;- Cafateria opening&lt;br&gt;- Financial Aid Opportunity for those pursuing doctoral study&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;- Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;- Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;- UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Prayer request&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please keep Rachel de Thomas and Don Allard in your thoughts and&lt;br&gt;prayers.  Rachel is Sherry Thomas&amp;#39; daughter and Don is Rachel&amp;#39;s husband.&lt;br&gt; They recently lost a shop to fire, one where Don had the bulk of his&lt;br&gt;major woodworking equipment for his business.  Among the things they&lt;br&gt;lost was an irreplaceable 14 foot, 2 ton, century old lathe on which Don&lt;br&gt;made all the balusters for the recent major renovation of Trinity Church&lt;br&gt;in Boston. It&amp;#39;s a devastating loss financially, as the equipment was not&lt;br&gt;insured.  Please keep Rachel, Don, and Sherry in your thoughts and&lt;br&gt;prayers as they begin to pull their lives back together in the wake of&lt;br&gt;this devastating loss.&lt;p&gt;Nancy Nienhuis&lt;br&gt;Dean of Students and Community Life&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Art Night&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Art Night continues throughout January term.&lt;br&gt;All are welcome (even if you don&amp;#39;t consider yourself&lt;br&gt;to be an artist)&lt;br&gt;This is a drop-in open studio opportunity to explore&lt;br&gt;art in a safe, no rules atmosphere.&lt;p&gt;Every Thursday night from 7-10 pm &lt;br&gt;in the lower studio of the Meetinghouse.&lt;p&gt;All materials provided. Fun and fellowship.&lt;br&gt;Free will donation.&lt;p&gt;Questions?&lt;br&gt;Contact Joy (Resident Teaching Artist) at&lt;br&gt;joyful_i_am@yahoo.com.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Just a reminder that I&amp;#39;ll be on campus from 10 to 3 on Tuesday January&lt;br&gt;15 would be happy to meet with you.  Other dates in January might also&lt;br&gt;be possible.  &lt;p&gt;In February, the midday writing groups will likely continue on both&lt;br&gt;Tuesday and Thursday.  &lt;p&gt;In the meantime, I&amp;#39;m happy to comment on your work via email, if we&amp;#39;ve&lt;br&gt;already met. &lt;p&gt;Looking forward to seeing you in the new year.&lt;p&gt;Helen Snively&lt;br&gt;ANTS writing tutor&lt;br&gt;Worcester 302&lt;br&gt;Tutor@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;PREPARE/ENRICH &lt;p&gt;Pre-Marital/Marital Counseling Program&lt;br&gt;Saturday, March 8, 2008, 8:30AM - 4:30 PM  &lt;br&gt;Tuition: $175 includes all materials. &lt;br&gt;Berkeley Room (next to Kendall Hall), Andover-Newton Theological School&lt;p&gt;Directions at www.ants.edu; parking available behind building. &lt;p&gt;Professional seminar director Rev. Robin Zucker teaches students,&lt;br&gt;clergy and counselors to use a series of respected, religion-neutral&lt;br&gt;counseling programs with pre-marital and marital couples. This seminar&lt;br&gt;will expand ministerial competencies, and enrich your counseling and&lt;br&gt;ministry practice for years to come.  BYO Lunch; light breakfast&lt;br&gt;provided. Information and registration links at:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flowingforce.com"&gt;http://www.flowingforce.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Contact the Rev, Zucker at flowingforce@comcast.net, 978-369-0260&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Focus the Nation event on Jan. 31&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Focus the Nation: A National Teach-in to Raise Awareness about Global&lt;br&gt;Climate Change&lt;p&gt;On Thursday, Jan. 31-the first day of the Spring semester-the ANTS&lt;br&gt;community will be participating in Focus the Nation (check out&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.focusthenation.org"&gt;www.focusthenation.org&lt;/a&gt;). Community forums, special worship services,&lt;br&gt;an interfaith sacred meal, and an all-night prayer vigil will help us&lt;br&gt;place the issue of global climate change in our own context here at&lt;br&gt;ANTS. We will learn together about what connects our faith to the&lt;br&gt;environment, and what it means to be spiritual leaders in a time of&lt;br&gt;ecological crisis.&lt;p&gt;We invite you to participate! &lt;br&gt;*Check out the Emerging Ecology Fellowship&amp;#39;s website over the&lt;br&gt;holidays for updates.&lt;br&gt;*Contact Tempest Brevard  &amp;lt;tbrevard@ants.edu&amp;gt;  or Christina Ray &lt;br&gt;&amp;lt;cray@ants.edu&amp;gt;  to get involved.&lt;br&gt;*Show up and help Focus the Nation. Activities will be occurring from&lt;br&gt;the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 30 until morning worship on Friday, Feb.&lt;br&gt;1.&lt;br&gt;Hope to see you there!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Cafateria opening&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Starting January 4th Please come and enjoy breakfast and lunch in the&lt;br&gt;cafeteria. we will be open Monday through Friday from 7:30-1:30&lt;br&gt;Continental Breakfast is served from 7:30- 9:30 including Monday. cost&lt;br&gt;will be $4.00 all you can eat&lt;br&gt;Lunch is served from 11:30-1:30 lunch will be salad bar, make your own&lt;br&gt;sandwhiches, and hot soup. we will have a daily special hot sandwhich&lt;br&gt;item. The cost for lunch will be $5.75 all you can eat.&lt;br&gt;beverages and snacks available all day!&lt;p&gt;if you have any questions please call Liz @ext 303&lt;br&gt;or check out our web page for the weekly menu &lt;a href="http://www.antsdining.com"&gt;www.antsdining.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Financial Aid Opportunity for those pursuing doctoral study&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Fund for Theological Education (FTE) offers doctoral fellowships&lt;br&gt;for racial/ethnic students in religion, biblical studies, and theology.&lt;br&gt;African-American, Asian-American, Native American and Hispanic students&lt;br&gt;pursuing a call to scholarship and teaching in those fields maybe&lt;br&gt;eligible. Students must be enrolled in a doctoral program (Ph.D. or&lt;br&gt;Th.D. only, D.Min. programs are not eligible) and meet other criteria.&lt;br&gt;For more information visit &lt;a href="http://www.thefund.org"&gt;www.thefund.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Courses Closed&lt;p&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;P3 OLDT 512- Section Canceled&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s coming! Save the dates!&lt;p&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship, &lt;br&gt;June 22-25, 2008&lt;p&gt;Our Hearts Ablaze: Encountering Christ, &lt;br&gt;Renewing Holy Ground&lt;p&gt;Keynote presenters include:&lt;p&gt;Marty Haugen, a composer of liturgical music for both&lt;br&gt;Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. He has&lt;br&gt;had over 400 compositions published by GIA, Augsburg&lt;br&gt;Fortress and various other publishers. For the past 25&lt;br&gt;years he has presented workshops and concerts across&lt;br&gt;North America and in Europe, the Pacific Rim, Asia and&lt;br&gt;Central America for church musicians and anyone&lt;br&gt;interested in the renewal of worship.&lt;p&gt;Susan Briehl, a Lutheran pastor for 25 years is an&lt;br&gt;associate with the Valparaiso Project on Education and&lt;br&gt;the Formation of People in Faith.  Her writings&lt;br&gt;include: Come, Lord Jesus, devotions for Advent,&lt;br&gt;Christmas and Epiphany, Turn my Heart: a Sacred&lt;br&gt;Journey from Brokenness to Healing, (with Marty&lt;br&gt;Haugen) and several liturgical and hymn texts.&lt;p&gt;Watch for future mailings and brochures about details&lt;br&gt;of registration, credits, daily schedules, etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The bookstore is open its regular hours Mon.-Thurs. 9 am - 6 pm, Fri. 9&lt;br&gt;am - 4 pm throughout January so you can purchase books for Winterim and&lt;br&gt;have them shipped to you after you leave campus.  Spring textbooks will&lt;br&gt;begin arriving in early January.  &lt;p&gt;Many Winterim texts are already in; others are arriving daily.  If you&lt;br&gt;want to get a head start on your reading, contact us and we&amp;#39;ll get you&lt;br&gt;going.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;br&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;The Sacred Journey: Leading a Congregation Through Lent&lt;br&gt;Saturday, January 26, 2008   9:00 am - 4:00 pm&lt;br&gt;$40 includes lunch&lt;p&gt;How does your congregation observe the season of Lent? &lt;p&gt;In this workshop, led by Shelley Stackhouse, we will explore both&lt;br&gt;ancient and new traditions for walking the journey through Lent on&lt;br&gt;Sunday mornings. We will also discuss other possible observances in&lt;br&gt;worship, prayer and other disciplines that might happen throughout the&lt;br&gt;week. &lt;br&gt;Since the journey has a destination, if not an ending, we will also&lt;br&gt;focus on how to celebrate Palm Sunday and shape a rhythm of worship&lt;br&gt;through the other Holy Week services culminating in Easter. &lt;p&gt;See the website for a flyer and registration form.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/ants-student-e-news-thursday-january-10.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-3747838086911611616</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-09T16:16:44.997-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Wednesday, January 09, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- COURSE TIME CHANGE&lt;br&gt;- Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;- Students for Commencement Committee&lt;br&gt;- One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;- Focus the Nation event on Jan. 31&lt;br&gt;- Cafateria opening&lt;br&gt;- Financial Aid Opportunity for those pursuing doctoral study&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;- Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;- Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;- UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;COURSE TIME CHANGE&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please note: The time for OLDT 648S - Psalms and Worship in Israel -&lt;br&gt;has been changed from Tuesday evenings to Tuesday afternoons from 2:00 -&lt;br&gt;4:50 pm. This change was not accurately reflected in some sources.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Just a reminder that I&amp;#39;ll be on campus from 10 to 3 on Tuesday January&lt;br&gt;15 would be happy to meet with you.  Other dates in January might also&lt;br&gt;be possible.  &lt;p&gt;In February, the midday writing groups will likely continue on both&lt;br&gt;Tuesday and Thursday.  &lt;p&gt;In the meantime, I&amp;#39;m happy to comment on your work via email, if we&amp;#39;ve&lt;br&gt;already met. &lt;p&gt;Looking forward to seeing you in the new year.&lt;p&gt;Helen Snively&lt;br&gt;ANTS writing tutor&lt;br&gt;Worcester 302&lt;br&gt;Tutor@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Students for Commencement Committee&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Even though it&amp;#39;s only January, the Commencement Committee will begin&lt;br&gt;meeting soon.  I am looking for a few graduating seniors and other&lt;br&gt;students to serve on this committee.  If you are interested, please&lt;br&gt;contact me right away.  We work hard, have a good time, and would love&lt;br&gt;to have you with us!&lt;p&gt;Happy New Year,&lt;p&gt;Nancy Nienhuis&lt;br&gt;Dean of Students and Community Life&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;PREPARE/ENRICH &lt;p&gt;Pre-Marital/Marital Counseling Program&lt;br&gt;Saturday, March 8, 2008, 8:30AM - 4:30 PM  &lt;br&gt;Tuition: $175 includes all materials. &lt;br&gt;Berkeley Room (next to Kendall Hall), Andover-Newton Theological School&lt;p&gt;Directions at www.ants.edu; parking available behind building. &lt;p&gt;Professional seminar director Rev. Robin Zucker teaches students,&lt;br&gt;clergy and counselors to use a series of respected, religion-neutral&lt;br&gt;counseling programs with pre-marital and marital couples. This seminar&lt;br&gt;will expand ministerial competencies, and enrich your counseling and&lt;br&gt;ministry practice for years to come.  BYO Lunch; light breakfast&lt;br&gt;provided. Information and registration links at:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flowingforce.com"&gt;http://www.flowingforce.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Contact the Rev, Zucker at flowingforce@comcast.net, 978-369-0260&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Focus the Nation event on Jan. 31&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Focus the Nation: A National Teach-in to Raise Awareness about Global&lt;br&gt;Climate Change&lt;p&gt;On Thursday, Jan. 31-the first day of the Spring semester-the ANTS&lt;br&gt;community will be participating in Focus the Nation (check out&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.focusthenation.org"&gt;www.focusthenation.org&lt;/a&gt;). Community forums, special worship services,&lt;br&gt;an interfaith sacred meal, and an all-night prayer vigil will help us&lt;br&gt;place the issue of global climate change in our own context here at&lt;br&gt;ANTS. We will learn together about what connects our faith to the&lt;br&gt;environment, and what it means to be spiritual leaders in a time of&lt;br&gt;ecological crisis.&lt;p&gt;We invite you to participate! &lt;br&gt;*Check out the Emerging Ecology Fellowship&amp;#39;s website over the&lt;br&gt;holidays for updates.&lt;br&gt;*Contact Tempest Brevard  &amp;lt;tbrevard@ants.edu&amp;gt;  or Christina Ray &lt;br&gt;&amp;lt;cray@ants.edu&amp;gt;  to get involved.&lt;br&gt;*Show up and help Focus the Nation. Activities will be occurring from&lt;br&gt;the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 30 until morning worship on Friday, Feb.&lt;br&gt;1.&lt;br&gt;Hope to see you there!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Cafateria opening&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Starting January 4th Please come and enjoy breakfast and lunch in the&lt;br&gt;cafeteria. we will be open Monday through Friday from 7:30-1:30&lt;br&gt;Continental Breakfast is served from 7:30- 9:30 including Monday. cost&lt;br&gt;will be $4.00 all you can eat&lt;br&gt;Lunch is served from 11:30-1:30 lunch will be salad bar, make your own&lt;br&gt;sandwhiches, and hot soup. we will have a daily special hot sandwhich&lt;br&gt;item. The cost for lunch will be $5.75 all you can eat.&lt;br&gt;beverages and snacks available all day!&lt;p&gt;if you have any questions please call Liz @ext 303&lt;br&gt;or check out our web page for the weekly menu &lt;a href="http://www.antsdining.com"&gt;www.antsdining.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Financial Aid Opportunity for those pursuing doctoral study&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Fund for Theological Education (FTE) offers doctoral fellowships&lt;br&gt;for racial/ethnic students in religion, biblical studies, and theology.&lt;br&gt;African-American, Asian-American, Native American and Hispanic students&lt;br&gt;pursuing a call to scholarship and teaching in those fields maybe&lt;br&gt;eligible. Students must be enrolled in a doctoral program (Ph.D. or&lt;br&gt;Th.D. only, D.Min. programs are not eligible) and meet other criteria.&lt;br&gt;For more information visit &lt;a href="http://www.thefund.org"&gt;www.thefund.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Courses Closed&lt;p&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;P3 OLDT 512- Section Canceled&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s coming! Save the dates!&lt;p&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship, &lt;br&gt;June 22-25, 2008&lt;p&gt;Our Hearts Ablaze: Encountering Christ, &lt;br&gt;Renewing Holy Ground&lt;p&gt;Keynote presenters include:&lt;p&gt;Marty Haugen, a composer of liturgical music for both&lt;br&gt;Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. He has&lt;br&gt;had over 400 compositions published by GIA, Augsburg&lt;br&gt;Fortress and various other publishers. For the past 25&lt;br&gt;years he has presented workshops and concerts across&lt;br&gt;North America and in Europe, the Pacific Rim, Asia and&lt;br&gt;Central America for church musicians and anyone&lt;br&gt;interested in the renewal of worship.&lt;p&gt;Susan Briehl, a Lutheran pastor for 25 years is an&lt;br&gt;associate with the Valparaiso Project on Education and&lt;br&gt;the Formation of People in Faith.  Her writings&lt;br&gt;include: Come, Lord Jesus, devotions for Advent,&lt;br&gt;Christmas and Epiphany, Turn my Heart: a Sacred&lt;br&gt;Journey from Brokenness to Healing, (with Marty&lt;br&gt;Haugen) and several liturgical and hymn texts.&lt;p&gt;Watch for future mailings and brochures about details&lt;br&gt;of registration, credits, daily schedules, etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The bookstore is open its regular hours Mon.-Thurs. 9 am - 6 pm, Fri. 9&lt;br&gt;am - 4 pm throughout January so you can purchase books for Winterim and&lt;br&gt;have them shipped to you after you leave campus.  Spring textbooks will&lt;br&gt;begin arriving in early January.  &lt;p&gt;Many Winterim texts are already in; others are arriving daily.  If you&lt;br&gt;want to get a head start on your reading, contact us and we&amp;#39;ll get you&lt;br&gt;going.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;br&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;The Sacred Journey: Leading a Congregation Through Lent&lt;br&gt;Saturday, January 26, 2008   9:00 am - 4:00 pm&lt;br&gt;$40 includes lunch&lt;p&gt;How does your congregation observe the season of Lent? &lt;p&gt;In this workshop, led by Shelley Stackhouse, we will explore both&lt;br&gt;ancient and new traditions for walking the journey through Lent on&lt;br&gt;Sunday mornings. We will also discuss other possible observances in&lt;br&gt;worship, prayer and other disciplines that might happen throughout the&lt;br&gt;week. &lt;br&gt;Since the journey has a destination, if not an ending, we will also&lt;br&gt;focus on how to celebrate Palm Sunday and shape a rhythm of worship&lt;br&gt;through the other Holy Week services culminating in Easter. &lt;p&gt;See the website for a flyer and registration form.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/ants-student-e-news-wednesday-january_09.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-5809857020385566449</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-08T16:12:18.817-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Tuesday, January 08, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- Prayer Request&lt;br&gt;- COURSE TIME CHANGE&lt;br&gt;- Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;- Students for Commencement Committee&lt;br&gt;- One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;- Focus the Nation event on Jan. 31&lt;br&gt;- Cafateria opening&lt;br&gt;- Financial Aid Opportunity for those pursuing doctoral study&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;- Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;- Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;- UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Prayer Request&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please hold Erica Baron in your thoughts and prayers as she recovers&lt;br&gt;from a car accident on New Year&amp;#39;s Day.  She was hit by a car while&lt;br&gt;checking on the safety of other drivers after a minor ice-related&lt;br&gt;accident.  Her left ankle was broken and right leg was cut.  Fortunately&lt;br&gt;she was not hurt seriously and all others involved in the accident were&lt;br&gt;unharmed.  She would appreciate your prayers as she heals.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;COURSE TIME CHANGE&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please note: The time for OLDT 648S - Psalms and Worship in Israel -&lt;br&gt;has been changed from Tuesday evenings to Tuesday afternoons from 2:00 -&lt;br&gt;4:50 pm. This change was not accurately reflected in some sources.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Just a reminder that I&amp;#39;ll be on campus from 10 to 3 on Tuesday January&lt;br&gt;15 would be happy to meet with you.  Other dates in January might also&lt;br&gt;be possible.  &lt;p&gt;In February, the midday writing groups will likely continue on both&lt;br&gt;Tuesday and Thursday.  &lt;p&gt;In the meantime, I&amp;#39;m happy to comment on your work via email, if we&amp;#39;ve&lt;br&gt;already met. &lt;p&gt;Looking forward to seeing you in the new year.&lt;p&gt;Helen Snively&lt;br&gt;ANTS writing tutor&lt;br&gt;Worcester 302&lt;br&gt;Tutor@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Students for Commencement Committee&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Even though it&amp;#39;s only January, the Commencement Committee will begin&lt;br&gt;meeting soon.  I am looking for a few graduating seniors and other&lt;br&gt;students to serve on this committee.  If you are interested, please&lt;br&gt;contact me right away.  We work hard, have a good time, and would love&lt;br&gt;to have you with us!&lt;p&gt;Happy New Year,&lt;p&gt;Nancy Nienhuis&lt;br&gt;Dean of Students and Community Life&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;PREPARE/ENRICH &lt;p&gt;Pre-Marital/Marital Counseling Program&lt;br&gt;Saturday, March 8, 2008, 8:30AM - 4:30 PM  &lt;br&gt;Tuition: $175 includes all materials. &lt;br&gt;Berkeley Room (next to Kendall Hall), Andover-Newton Theological School&lt;p&gt;Directions at www.ants.edu; parking available behind building. &lt;p&gt;Professional seminar director Rev. Robin Zucker teaches students,&lt;br&gt;clergy and counselors to use a series of respected, religion-neutral&lt;br&gt;counseling programs with pre-marital and marital couples. This seminar&lt;br&gt;will expand ministerial competencies, and enrich your counseling and&lt;br&gt;ministry practice for years to come.  BYO Lunch; light breakfast&lt;br&gt;provided. Information and registration links at:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flowingforce.com"&gt;http://www.flowingforce.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;Contact the Rev, Zucker at flowingforce@comcast.net, 978-369-0260&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Focus the Nation event on Jan. 31&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Focus the Nation: A National Teach-in to Raise Awareness about Global&lt;br&gt;Climate Change&lt;p&gt;On Thursday, Jan. 31-the first day of the Spring semester-the ANTS&lt;br&gt;community will be participating in Focus the Nation (check out&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.focusthenation.org"&gt;www.focusthenation.org&lt;/a&gt;). Community forums, special worship services,&lt;br&gt;an interfaith sacred meal, and an all-night prayer vigil will help us&lt;br&gt;place the issue of global climate change in our own context here at&lt;br&gt;ANTS. We will learn together about what connects our faith to the&lt;br&gt;environment, and what it means to be spiritual leaders in a time of&lt;br&gt;ecological crisis.&lt;p&gt;We invite you to participate! &lt;br&gt;*Check out the Emerging Ecology Fellowship&amp;#39;s website over the&lt;br&gt;holidays for updates.&lt;br&gt;*Contact Tempest Brevard  &amp;lt;tbrevard@ants.edu&amp;gt;  or Christina Ray &lt;br&gt;&amp;lt;cray@ants.edu&amp;gt;  to get involved.&lt;br&gt;*Show up and help Focus the Nation. Activities will be occurring from&lt;br&gt;the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 30 until morning worship on Friday, Feb.&lt;br&gt;1.&lt;br&gt;Hope to see you there!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Cafateria opening&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Starting January 4th Please come and enjoy breakfast and lunch in the&lt;br&gt;cafeteria. we will be open Monday through Friday from 7:30-1:30&lt;br&gt;Continental Breakfast is served from 7:30- 9:30 including Monday. cost&lt;br&gt;will be $4.00 all you can eat&lt;br&gt;Lunch is served from 11:30-1:30 lunch will be salad bar, make your own&lt;br&gt;sandwhiches, and hot soup. we will have a daily special hot sandwhich&lt;br&gt;item. The cost for lunch will be $5.75 all you can eat.&lt;br&gt;beverages and snacks available all day!&lt;p&gt;if you have any questions please call Liz @ext 303&lt;br&gt;or check out our web page for the weekly menu &lt;a href="http://www.antsdining.com"&gt;www.antsdining.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Financial Aid Opportunity for those pursuing doctoral study&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Fund for Theological Education (FTE) offers doctoral fellowships&lt;br&gt;for racial/ethnic students in religion, biblical studies, and theology.&lt;br&gt;African-American, Asian-American, Native American and Hispanic students&lt;br&gt;pursuing a call to scholarship and teaching in those fields maybe&lt;br&gt;eligible. Students must be enrolled in a doctoral program (Ph.D. or&lt;br&gt;Th.D. only, D.Min. programs are not eligible) and meet other criteria.&lt;br&gt;For more information visit &lt;a href="http://www.thefund.org"&gt;www.thefund.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Courses Closed&lt;p&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;P3 OLDT 512- Section Canceled&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s coming! Save the dates!&lt;p&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship, &lt;br&gt;June 22-25, 2008&lt;p&gt;Our Hearts Ablaze: Encountering Christ, &lt;br&gt;Renewing Holy Ground&lt;p&gt;Keynote presenters include:&lt;p&gt;Marty Haugen, a composer of liturgical music for both&lt;br&gt;Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. He has&lt;br&gt;had over 400 compositions published by GIA, Augsburg&lt;br&gt;Fortress and various other publishers. For the past 25&lt;br&gt;years he has presented workshops and concerts across&lt;br&gt;North America and in Europe, the Pacific Rim, Asia and&lt;br&gt;Central America for church musicians and anyone&lt;br&gt;interested in the renewal of worship.&lt;p&gt;Susan Briehl, a Lutheran pastor for 25 years is an&lt;br&gt;associate with the Valparaiso Project on Education and&lt;br&gt;the Formation of People in Faith.  Her writings&lt;br&gt;include: Come, Lord Jesus, devotions for Advent,&lt;br&gt;Christmas and Epiphany, Turn my Heart: a Sacred&lt;br&gt;Journey from Brokenness to Healing, (with Marty&lt;br&gt;Haugen) and several liturgical and hymn texts.&lt;p&gt;Watch for future mailings and brochures about details&lt;br&gt;of registration, credits, daily schedules, etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The bookstore is open its regular hours Mon.-Thurs. 9 am - 6 pm, Fri. 9&lt;br&gt;am - 4 pm throughout January so you can purchase books for Winterim and&lt;br&gt;have them shipped to you after you leave campus.  Spring textbooks will&lt;br&gt;begin arriving in early January.  &lt;p&gt;Many Winterim texts are already in; others are arriving daily.  If you&lt;br&gt;want to get a head start on your reading, contact us and we&amp;#39;ll get you&lt;br&gt;going.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;br&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;The Sacred Journey: Leading a Congregation Through Lent&lt;br&gt;Saturday, January 26, 2008   9:00 am - 4:00 pm&lt;br&gt;$40 includes lunch&lt;p&gt;How does your congregation observe the season of Lent? &lt;p&gt;In this workshop, led by Shelley Stackhouse, we will explore both&lt;br&gt;ancient and new traditions for walking the journey through Lent on&lt;br&gt;Sunday mornings. We will also discuss other possible observances in&lt;br&gt;worship, prayer and other disciplines that might happen throughout the&lt;br&gt;week. &lt;br&gt;Since the journey has a destination, if not an ending, we will also&lt;br&gt;focus on how to celebrate Palm Sunday and shape a rhythm of worship&lt;br&gt;through the other Holy Week services culminating in Easter. &lt;p&gt;See the website for a flyer and registration form.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/ants-student-e-news-tuesday-january-08.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-3734574926557120199</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-07T18:03:03.347-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Monday, January 07, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- Prayer Request&lt;br&gt;- COURSE TIME CHANGE&lt;br&gt;- Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;- Students for Commencement Committee&lt;br&gt;- Is Preaching Still Relevant? Part One of a Two-Part Series&lt;br&gt;- Order Your Semester T-Pass&lt;br&gt;- Focus the Nation event on Jan. 31&lt;br&gt;- Cafateria opening&lt;br&gt;- Financial Aid Opportunity for those pursuing doctoral study&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;- Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;- Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;- UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Prayer Request&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please hold Erica Baron in your thoughts and prayers as she recovers&lt;br&gt;from a car accident on New Year&amp;#39;s Day.  She was hit by a car while&lt;br&gt;checking on the safety of other drivers after a minor ice-related&lt;br&gt;accident.  Her left ankle was broken and right leg was cut.  Fortunately&lt;br&gt;she was not hurt seriously and all others involved in the accident were&lt;br&gt;unharmed.  She would appreciate your prayers as she heals.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;COURSE TIME CHANGE&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please note: The time for OLDT 648S - Psalms and Worship in Israel -&lt;br&gt;has been changed from Tuesday evenings to Tuesday afternoons from 2:00 -&lt;br&gt;4:50 pm. This change was not accurately reflected in some sources.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Just a reminder that I&amp;#39;ll be on campus from 10 to 3 on the two Tuesdays&lt;br&gt;of Winterim--January 8 and 15--and would be happy to meet with you. &lt;br&gt;Other dates in January might also be possible.  &lt;p&gt;In February, the midday writing groups will likely continue on both&lt;br&gt;Tuesday and Thursday.  &lt;p&gt;In the meantime, I&amp;#39;m happy to comment on your work via email, if we&amp;#39;ve&lt;br&gt;already met. &lt;p&gt;Looking forward to seeing you in the new year.&lt;p&gt;Helen Snively&lt;br&gt;ANTS writing tutor&lt;br&gt;Worcester 302&lt;br&gt;Tutor@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Students for Commencement Committee&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Even though it&amp;#39;s only January, the Commencement Committee will begin&lt;br&gt;meeting soon.  I am looking for a few graduating seniors and other&lt;br&gt;students to serve on this committee.  If you are interested, please&lt;br&gt;contact me right away.  We work hard, have a good time, and would love&lt;br&gt;to have you with us!&lt;p&gt;Happy New Year,&lt;p&gt;Nancy Nienhuis&lt;br&gt;Dean of Students and Community Life&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Is Preaching Still Relevant? Part One of a Two-Part Series&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Is Preaching Still Relevant? Part One of a Two-Part Series&lt;br&gt;Tuesday, January 8 with The Reverend Wil Willimon&lt;br&gt;1:00pm- Chapel Service and Panel Discussion (Dr. Greg Mobley, Rev. Liz&lt;br&gt;Walker, and Alex Beam)   Open to All&lt;br&gt;2:15pm- Subscription Masters Class for Clergy with Rev. Willimon&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Order Your Semester T-Pass&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Students,&lt;p&gt;If you would like to order a T-pass for the Spring semester, please get&lt;br&gt;your order in to the Housing Office, Worcester 101, by Tuesday January&lt;br&gt;8, 2008.  Passes are available at an 11% discount.  For more information&lt;br&gt;on cost, please visit the Andover Newton website:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/student/forms/MBTA_Monthly_Pass_Info.pdf"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/student/forms/MBTA_Monthly_Pass_Info.pdf&lt;/a&gt; . Order&lt;br&gt;forms may be picked up from the Housing Office or downloaded from the&lt;br&gt;web: &lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/student/forms/MBTA_Semester_Pass_Order_Form.pdf"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/student/forms/MBTA_Semester_Pass_Order_Form.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions, please contact Amelia O&amp;#39;Dowd in the Housing&lt;br&gt;Office.&lt;p&gt;Amelia O&amp;#39;Dowd&lt;br&gt;Housing &amp;amp; Facilities Coordinator&lt;br&gt;voice: 617-964-1100 x261&lt;br&gt;fax: 617-965-3528&lt;br&gt;email: AODowd@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Focus the Nation event on Jan. 31&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Focus the Nation: A National Teach-in to Raise Awareness about Global&lt;br&gt;Climate Change&lt;p&gt;On Thursday, Jan. 31-the first day of the Spring semester-the ANTS&lt;br&gt;community will be participating in Focus the Nation (check out&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.focusthenation.org"&gt;www.focusthenation.org&lt;/a&gt;). Community forums, special worship services,&lt;br&gt;an interfaith sacred meal, and an all-night prayer vigil will help us&lt;br&gt;place the issue of global climate change in our own context here at&lt;br&gt;ANTS. We will learn together about what connects our faith to the&lt;br&gt;environment, and what it means to be spiritual leaders in a time of&lt;br&gt;ecological crisis.&lt;p&gt;We invite you to participate! &lt;br&gt;*Check out the Emerging Ecology Fellowship&amp;#39;s website over the&lt;br&gt;holidays for updates.&lt;br&gt;*Contact Tempest Brevard  &amp;lt;tbrevard@ants.edu&amp;gt;  or Christina Ray &lt;br&gt;&amp;lt;cray@ants.edu&amp;gt;  to get involved.&lt;br&gt;*Show up and help Focus the Nation. Activities will be occurring from&lt;br&gt;the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 30 until morning worship on Friday, Feb.&lt;br&gt;1.&lt;br&gt;Hope to see you there!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Cafateria opening&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Starting January 4th Please come and enjoy breakfast and lunch in the&lt;br&gt;cafeteria. we will be open Monday through Friday from 7:30-1:30&lt;br&gt;Continental Breakfast is served from 7:30- 9:30 including Monday. cost&lt;br&gt;will be $4.00 all you can eat&lt;br&gt;Lunch is served from 11:30-1:30 lunch will be salad bar, make your own&lt;br&gt;sandwhiches, and hot soup. we will have a daily special hot sandwhich&lt;br&gt;item. The cost for lunch will be $5.75 all you can eat.&lt;br&gt;beverages and snacks available all day!&lt;p&gt;if you have any questions please call Liz @ext 303&lt;br&gt;or check out our web page for the weekly menu &lt;a href="http://www.antsdining.com"&gt;www.antsdining.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Financial Aid Opportunity for those pursuing doctoral study&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Fund for Theological Education (FTE) offers doctoral fellowships&lt;br&gt;for racial/ethnic students in religion, biblical studies, and theology.&lt;br&gt;African-American, Asian-American, Native American and Hispanic students&lt;br&gt;pursuing a call to scholarship and teaching in those fields maybe&lt;br&gt;eligible. Students must be enrolled in a doctoral program (Ph.D. or&lt;br&gt;Th.D. only, D.Min. programs are not eligible) and meet other criteria.&lt;br&gt;For more information visit &lt;a href="http://www.thefund.org"&gt;www.thefund.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Courses Closed&lt;p&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;P3 OLDT 512- Section Canceled&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s coming! Save the dates!&lt;p&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship, &lt;br&gt;June 22-25, 2008&lt;p&gt;Our Hearts Ablaze: Encountering Christ, &lt;br&gt;Renewing Holy Ground&lt;p&gt;Keynote presenters include:&lt;p&gt;Marty Haugen, a composer of liturgical music for both&lt;br&gt;Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. He has&lt;br&gt;had over 400 compositions published by GIA, Augsburg&lt;br&gt;Fortress and various other publishers. For the past 25&lt;br&gt;years he has presented workshops and concerts across&lt;br&gt;North America and in Europe, the Pacific Rim, Asia and&lt;br&gt;Central America for church musicians and anyone&lt;br&gt;interested in the renewal of worship.&lt;p&gt;Susan Briehl, a Lutheran pastor for 25 years is an&lt;br&gt;associate with the Valparaiso Project on Education and&lt;br&gt;the Formation of People in Faith.  Her writings&lt;br&gt;include: Come, Lord Jesus, devotions for Advent,&lt;br&gt;Christmas and Epiphany, Turn my Heart: a Sacred&lt;br&gt;Journey from Brokenness to Healing, (with Marty&lt;br&gt;Haugen) and several liturgical and hymn texts.&lt;p&gt;Watch for future mailings and brochures about details&lt;br&gt;of registration, credits, daily schedules, etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The bookstore is open its regular hours Mon.-Thurs. 9 am - 6 pm, Fri. 9&lt;br&gt;am - 4 pm throughout December and January so you can purchase books for&lt;br&gt;Winterim and have them shipped to you after you leave campus.  Spring&lt;br&gt;textbooks will begin arriving in early January.  &lt;p&gt;Many Winterim texts are already in; others are arriving daily.  If you&lt;br&gt;want to get a head start on your reading, contact us and we&amp;#39;ll get you&lt;br&gt;going.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;br&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;The Sacred Journey: Leading a Congregation Through Lent&lt;br&gt;Saturday, January 26, 2008   9:00 am - 4:00 pm&lt;br&gt;$40 includes lunch&lt;p&gt;How does your congregation observe the season of Lent? &lt;p&gt;In this workshop, led by Shelley Stackhouse, we will explore both&lt;br&gt;ancient and new traditions for walking the journey through Lent on&lt;br&gt;Sunday mornings. We will also discuss other possible observances in&lt;br&gt;worship, prayer and other disciplines that might happen throughout the&lt;br&gt;week. &lt;br&gt;Since the journey has a destination, if not an ending, we will also&lt;br&gt;focus on how to celebrate Palm Sunday and shape a rhythm of worship&lt;br&gt;through the other Holy Week services culminating in Easter. &lt;p&gt;See the website for a flyer and registration form.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/ants-student-e-news-monday-january-07.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-8180455099731143099</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-05T15:24:50.768-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Friday, January 05, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- Prayer Request&lt;br&gt;- COURSE TIME CHANGE&lt;br&gt;- Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;- Students for Commencement Committee&lt;br&gt;- Is Preaching Still Relevant? Part One of a Two-Part Series&lt;br&gt;- Order Your Semester T-Pass&lt;br&gt;- Focus the Nation event on Jan. 31&lt;br&gt;- Cafateria opening&lt;br&gt;- Financial Aid Opportunity for those pursuing doctoral study&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;- Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;- Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;- UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during registration,&lt;br&gt;should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened due to&lt;br&gt;add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is February&lt;br&gt;15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main page&lt;br&gt;of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Prayer Request&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please hold Erica Baron in your thoughts and prayers as she recovers&lt;br&gt;from a car accident on New Year&amp;#39;s Day.  She was hit by a car while&lt;br&gt;checking on the safety of other drivers after a minor ice-related&lt;br&gt;accident.  Her left ankle was broken and right leg was cut.  Fortunately&lt;br&gt;she was not hurt seriously and all others involved in the accident were&lt;br&gt;unharmed.  She would appreciate your prayers as she heals.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;COURSE TIME CHANGE&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Please note: The time for OLDT 648S - Psalms and Worship in Israel - has&lt;br&gt;been changed from Tuesday evenings to Tuesday afternoons from 2:00 -&lt;br&gt;4:50 pm. This change was not accurately reflected in some sources.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Just a reminder that I&amp;#39;ll be on campus from 10 to 3 on the two Tuesdays&lt;br&gt;of Winterim--January 8 and 15--and would be happy to meet with you. &lt;br&gt;Other dates in January might also be possible.  &lt;p&gt;In February, the midday writing groups will likely continue on both&lt;br&gt;Tuesday and Thursday.  &lt;p&gt;In the meantime, I&amp;#39;m happy to comment on your work via email, if we&amp;#39;ve&lt;br&gt;already met. &lt;p&gt;Looking forward to seeing you in the new year.&lt;p&gt;Helen Snively&lt;br&gt;ANTS writing tutor&lt;br&gt;Worcester 302&lt;br&gt;Tutor@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Students for Commencement Committee&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Even though it&amp;#39;s only January, the Commencement Committee will begin&lt;br&gt;meeting soon.  I am looking for a few graduating seniors and other&lt;br&gt;students to serve on this committee.  If you are interested, please&lt;br&gt;contact me right away.  We work hard, have a good time, and would love&lt;br&gt;to have you with us!&lt;p&gt;Happy New Year,&lt;p&gt;Nancy Nienhuis&lt;br&gt;Dean of Students and Community Life&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Is Preaching Still Relevant? PaTuesday, January 8 with The Reverend Wil Willimon&lt;br&gt;1:00pm- Chapel Service and Panel Discussion (Dr. Greg Mobley, Rev. Liz&lt;br&gt;Walker, and Alex Beam)   Open to All&lt;br&gt;2:15pm- Subscription Masters Class for Clergy with Rev. Willimon&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Order Your Semester T-Pass&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Students,&lt;p&gt;If you would like to order a T-pass for the Spring semester, please get&lt;br&gt;your order in to the Housing Office, Worcester 101, by Tuesday January&lt;br&gt;8, 2008.  Passes are available at an 11% discount.  For more information&lt;br&gt;on cost, please visit the Andover Newton website:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/student/forms/MBTA_Monthly_Pass_Info.pdf"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/student/forms/MBTA_Monthly_Pass_Info.pdf&lt;/a&gt; . Order&lt;br&gt;forms may be picked up from the Housing Office or downloaded from the&lt;br&gt;web: &lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/student/forms/MBTA_Semester_Pass_Order_Form.pdf"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/student/forms/MBTA_Semester_Pass_Order_Form.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions, please contact Amelia O&amp;#39;Dowd in the Housing&lt;br&gt;Office.&lt;p&gt;Amelia O&amp;#39;Dowd&lt;br&gt;Housing &amp;amp; Facilities Coordinator&lt;br&gt;voice: 617-964-1100 x261&lt;br&gt;fax: 617-965-3528&lt;br&gt;email: AODowd@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Focus the Nation event on Jan. 31&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Focus the Nation: A National Teach-in to Raise Awareness about Global&lt;br&gt;Climate Change&lt;p&gt;On Thursday, Jan. 31-the first day of the Spring semester-the ANTS&lt;br&gt;community will be participating in Focus the Nation (check out&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.focusthenation.org"&gt;www.focusthenation.org&lt;/a&gt;). Community forums, special worship services, an&lt;br&gt;interfaith sacred meal, and an all-night prayer vigil will help us place&lt;br&gt;the issue of global climate change in our own context here at ANTS. We&lt;br&gt;will learn together about what connects our faith to the environment,&lt;br&gt;and what it means to be spiritual leaders in a time of ecological&lt;br&gt;crisis.&lt;p&gt;We invite you to participate! &lt;br&gt;*Check out the Emerging Ecology Fellowship&amp;#39;s website over the holidays&lt;br&gt;for updates.&lt;br&gt;*Contact Tempest Brevard  &amp;lt;tbrevard@ants.edu&amp;gt;  or Christina Ray &lt;br&gt;&amp;lt;cray@ants.edu&amp;gt;  to get involved.&lt;br&gt;*Show up and help Focus the Nation. Activities will be occurring from&lt;br&gt;the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 30 until morning worship on Friday, Feb.&lt;br&gt;1.&lt;br&gt;Hope to see you there!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Cafateria opening&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Starting January 4th Please come and enjoy breakfast and lunch in the&lt;br&gt;cafeteria. we will be open Monday through Friday from 7:30-1:30&lt;br&gt;Continental Breakfast is served from 7:30- 9:30 including Monday. cost&lt;br&gt;will be $4.00 all you can eat&lt;br&gt;Lunch is served from 11:30-1:30 lunch will be salad bar, make your own&lt;br&gt;sandwhiches, and hot soup. we will have a daily special hot sandwhich&lt;br&gt;item. The cost for lunch will be $5.75 all you can eat.&lt;br&gt;beverages and snacks available all day!&lt;p&gt;if you have any questions please call Liz @ext 303&lt;br&gt;or check out our web page for the weekly menu &lt;a href="http://www.antsdining.com"&gt;www.antsdining.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Financial Aid Opportunity for those pursuing doctoral study&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Fund for Theological Education (FTE) offers doctoral fellowships for&lt;br&gt;racial/ethnic students in religion, biblical studies, and theology.&lt;br&gt;African-American, Asian-American, Native American and Hispanic students&lt;br&gt;pursuing a call to scholarship and teaching in those fields maybe&lt;br&gt;eligible. Students must be enrolled in a doctoral program (Ph.D. or&lt;br&gt;Th.D. only, D.Min. programs are not eligible) and meet other criteria.&lt;br&gt;For more information visit &lt;a href="http://www.thefund.org"&gt;www.thefund.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office - Course Closings&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Courses Closed&lt;p&gt;CMPR 601- Christian Preaching&lt;br&gt;PSYC 726- Idolatry or Illness:Pastoral Care/Counseling with Addictions&lt;br&gt;PSYF 684- Love Through the Seasons of Death&lt;p&gt;P3 OLDT 512- Section Canceled&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s coming! Save the dates!&lt;p&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship, &lt;br&gt;June 22-25, 2008&lt;p&gt;Our Hearts Ablaze: Encountering Christ, &lt;br&gt;Renewing Holy Ground&lt;p&gt;Keynote presenters include:&lt;p&gt;Marty Haugen, a composer of liturgical music for both&lt;br&gt;Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. He has&lt;br&gt;had over 400 compositions pyears he has presented workshops and concerts across&lt;br&gt;North America and in Europe, the Pacific Rim, Asia and&lt;br&gt;Central America for church musicians and anyone&lt;br&gt;interested in the renewal of worship.&lt;p&gt;Susan Briehl, a Lutheran pastor for 25 years is an&lt;br&gt;associate with the Valparaiso Project on Education and&lt;br&gt;the Formation of People in Faith.  Her writings&lt;br&gt;include: Come, Lord Jesus, devotions for Advent,&lt;br&gt;Christmas and Epiphany, Turn my Heart: a Sacred&lt;br&gt;Journey from Brokenness to Healing, (with Marty&lt;br&gt;Haugen) and several liturgical and hymn texts.&lt;p&gt;Watch for future mailings and brochures about details&lt;br&gt;of registration, credits, daily schedules, etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Bookstore hours for January&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The bookstore is open its regular hours Mon.-Thurs. 9 am - 6 pm, Fri. 9&lt;br&gt;am - 4 pm throughout December and January so you can purchase books for&lt;br&gt;Winterim and have them shipped to you after you leave campus.  Spring&lt;br&gt;textbooks will begin arriving in early January.  &lt;p&gt;Many Winterim texts are already in; others are arriving daily.  If you&lt;br&gt;want to get a head start on your reading, contact us and we&amp;#39;ll get you&lt;br&gt;going.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;br&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;The Sacred Journey: Leading a Congregation Through Lent&lt;br&gt;Saturday, January 26, 2008   9:00 am - 4:00 pm&lt;br&gt;$40 includes lunch&lt;p&gt;How does your congregation observe the season of Lent? &lt;p&gt;In this workshop, led by Shelley Stackhouse, we will explore both&lt;br&gt;ancient and new traditions for walking the journey through Lent on&lt;br&gt;Sunday mornings. We will also discuss other possible observances in&lt;br&gt;worship, prayer and other disciplines that might happen throughout the&lt;br&gt;week. &lt;br&gt;Since the journey has a destination, if not an ending, we will also&lt;br&gt;focus on how to celebrate Palm Sunday and shape a rhythm of worship&lt;br&gt;through the other Holy Week services culminating in Easter. &lt;p&gt;See the website for a flyer and registration form.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/ants-student-e-news-friday-january-05.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-4563428921740520976</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-01-02T16:33:34.541-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Wednesday, January 02, 2008</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;- Students for Commencement Committee&lt;br&gt;- Is Preaching Still Relevant? Part One of a Two-Part Series&lt;br&gt;- Order Your Semester T-Pass&lt;br&gt;- Focus the Nation event on Jan. 31&lt;br&gt;- Cafeteria January Hours&lt;br&gt;- Library schedule notice&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office&lt;br&gt;- Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;- Bookstore hours for December and January&lt;br&gt;- UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Continues On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It is still possible to register for Spring 2008 classes. There will be&lt;br&gt;a late fee charged for new registrations, but not for those who have&lt;br&gt;already registered and are now changing their schedule. &lt;p&gt;Any students who were closed out of courses earlier during&lt;br&gt;registration, should recheck the courses to see if they have reopened&lt;br&gt;due to add/drops. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main&lt;br&gt;page of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Just a reminder that I&amp;#39;ll be on campus from 10 to 3 on the two Tuesdays&lt;br&gt;of Winterim--January 8 and 15--and would be happy to meet with you. &lt;br&gt;Other dates in January might also be possible.  &lt;p&gt;In February, the midday writing groups will likely continue on both&lt;br&gt;Tuesday and Thursday.  &lt;p&gt;In the meantime, I&amp;#39;m happy to comment on your work via email, if we&amp;#39;ve&lt;br&gt;already met. &lt;p&gt;Looking forward to seeing you in the new year.&lt;p&gt;Helen Snively&lt;br&gt;ANTS writing tutor&lt;br&gt;Worcester 302&lt;br&gt;Tutor@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Students for Commencement Committee&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Even though it&amp;#39;s only January, the Commencement Committee will begin&lt;br&gt;meeting soon.  I am looking for a few graduating seniors and other&lt;br&gt;students to serve on this committee.  If you are interested, please&lt;br&gt;contact me right away.  We work hard, have a good time, and would love&lt;br&gt;to have you with us!&lt;p&gt;Happy New Year,&lt;p&gt;Nancy Nienhuis&lt;br&gt;Dean of Students and Community Life&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Is Preaching Still Relevant? Part One of a Two-Part Series&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Is Preaching Still Relevant? Part One of a Two-Part Series&lt;br&gt;Tuesday, January 8 with The Reverend Wil Willimon&lt;br&gt;1:00pm- Chapel Service and Panel Discussion (Dr. Greg Mobley, Rev. Liz&lt;br&gt;Walker, and Alex Beam)   Open to All&lt;br&gt;2:15pm- Subscription Masters Class for Clergy with Rev. Willimon&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Order Your Semester T-Pass&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Students,&lt;p&gt;If you would like to order a T-pass for the Spring semester, please get&lt;br&gt;your order in to the Housing Office, Worcester 101, by Tuesday January&lt;br&gt;8, 2008.  Passes are available at an 11% discount.  For more information&lt;br&gt;on cost, please visit the Andover Newton website:&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/student/forms/MBTA_Monthly_Pass_Info.pdf"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/student/forms/MBTA_Monthly_Pass_Info.pdf&lt;/a&gt; . Order&lt;br&gt;forms may be picked up from the Housing Office or downloaded from the&lt;br&gt;web: &lt;a href="http://www.ants.edu/student/forms/MBTA_Semester_Pass_Order_Form.pdf"&gt;http://www.ants.edu/student/forms/MBTA_Semester_Pass_Order_Form.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions, please contact Amelia O&amp;#39;Dowd in the Housing&lt;br&gt;Office.&lt;p&gt;Amelia O&amp;#39;Dowd&lt;br&gt;Housing &amp;amp; Facilities Coordinator&lt;br&gt;voice: 617-964-1100 x261&lt;br&gt;fax: 617-965-3528&lt;br&gt;email: AODowd@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Focus the Nation event on Jan. 31&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Focus the Nation: A National Teach-in to Raise Awareness about Global&lt;br&gt;Climate Change&lt;p&gt;On Thursday, Jan. 31-the first day of the Spring semester-the ANTS&lt;br&gt;community will be participating in Focus the Nation (check out&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.focusthenation.org"&gt;www.focusthenation.org&lt;/a&gt;). Community forums, special worship services,&lt;br&gt;an interfaith sacred meal, and an all-night prayer vigil will help us&lt;br&gt;place the issue of global climate change in our own context here at&lt;br&gt;ANTS. We will learn together about what connects our faith to the&lt;br&gt;environment, and what it means to be spiritual leaders in a time of&lt;br&gt;ecological crisis.&lt;p&gt;We invite you to participate! &lt;br&gt;*Check out the Emerging Ecology Fellowship&amp;#39;s website over the&lt;br&gt;holidays for updates.&lt;br&gt;*Contact Tempest Brevard  &amp;lt;tbrevard@ants.edu&amp;gt;  or Christina Ray &lt;br&gt;&amp;lt;cray@ants.edu&amp;gt;  to get involved.&lt;br&gt;*Show up and help Focus the Nation. Activities will be occurring from&lt;br&gt;the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 30 until morning worship on Friday, Feb.&lt;br&gt;1.&lt;br&gt;Hope to see you there!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Cafeteria January Hours&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The cafeteria will be open starting January 7th. Hours of operation are&lt;br&gt;Monday Through Friday 7:30am-1:30pm.&lt;br&gt;Continental breakfast from 7:30-9:00&lt;br&gt;coffee and beverages available all day&lt;br&gt;lunch served from 11:30-1:30&lt;br&gt;breakfast is $4.00&lt;br&gt;lunch is $5.75 soup, salad bar, and sandwich only.&lt;p&gt;The student lounge smart market cart will be closed until February&lt;br&gt;4th.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Library schedule notice&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Library schedule December 15 - January 4 is:&lt;p&gt;Monday-Friday       8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.&lt;br&gt;Saturday-Sunday   closed&lt;p&gt;The Library will be closed December 24-25 and January 1.&lt;br&gt;The regular academic term schedule resumes Saturday, January 5.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;SPRING 2008, all* ANTS registrations must be completed online at the&lt;br&gt;following &lt;br&gt;Connect Website &lt;a href="https://connect.ants.edu/"&gt;https://connect.ants.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you cannot complete registration online, paper registration forms&lt;br&gt;may be picked up in the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office or by sending a&lt;br&gt;self-address, stamped envelope to:&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;br&gt;210 Herrick Road&lt;br&gt;Newton Centre, MA 02459&lt;br&gt;Attn: Registrar&lt;br&gt;Priority registration, especially for Seniors�?�, cannot be guaranteed&lt;br&gt;when using paper registration forms. &lt;br&gt;�?�Seniors are designated by # credits earned as follows: &lt;br&gt;MA &amp;gt;= 24, MDiv &amp;gt;= 60, STM &amp;gt;= 12, DMin &amp;gt;= 15&lt;br&gt;Registration dates are as follows:&lt;br&gt;December 10 - 14:  Seniors&lt;br&gt;December15 - 28:    All Other Students&lt;br&gt;After December 28: Late fees apply&lt;br&gt;December 29 -February 15:Add/Drop Period&lt;p&gt;* Students who are &lt;br&gt;1) Currently on probation, &lt;br&gt;2) Need to register on-leave, or&lt;br&gt;3) Need to register for special directed study courses or CPE &lt;br&gt;Must contact the Registrar directly at: NAguila@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;How to Register for Field Education, Second Required Semester **&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;1. Register for CMFE 601Y (1.5 credits) in the spring. &lt;br&gt;2. Register for one regular (3 credit) Spring course that is designated&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;P3&amp;quot; for the Professor-Practitioner Program. This course will meet&lt;br&gt;the related curricular requirement. &lt;br&gt;3. In addition, register for that course&amp;#39;s P3 section, which carries&lt;br&gt;an additional 1.5 credits. &lt;br&gt;4. If you are unable to take any of the P3 courses/sections, you may&lt;br&gt;register for the stand-alone Integrative Seminar, CMFE 621. To receive&lt;br&gt;permission to pursue this option, you must submit a curriculum worksheet&lt;br&gt;or transcript to Sarah Drummond and, in most cases, meet with her.&lt;br&gt;5.**Must enroll ON LINE in ONE required orientation session, which&lt;br&gt;focuses on boundaries training:  &lt;br&gt;Orientation Session Day/ Time&lt;br&gt;CMFE01  February 4, 6-8:50 p.m.&lt;br&gt;CMFE02  February 5, 9-11:50 a.m.&lt;br&gt;CMFE03  February 5, 2-4:50 p.m.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s coming! Save the dates!&lt;p&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship, &lt;br&gt;June 22-25, 2008&lt;p&gt;Our Hearts Ablaze: Encountering Christ, &lt;br&gt;Renewing Holy Ground&lt;p&gt;Keynote presenters include:&lt;p&gt;Marty Haugen, a composer of liturgical music for both&lt;br&gt;Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. He has&lt;br&gt;had over 400 compositions published by GIA, Augsburg&lt;br&gt;Fortress and various other publishers. For the past 25&lt;br&gt;years he has presented workshops and concerts across&lt;br&gt;North America and in Europe, the Pacific Rim, Asia and&lt;br&gt;Central America for church musicians and anyone&lt;br&gt;interested in the renewal of worship.&lt;p&gt;Susan Briehl, a Lutheran pastor for 25 years is an&lt;br&gt;associate with the Valparaiso Project on Education and&lt;br&gt;the Formation of People in Faith.  Her writings&lt;br&gt;include: Come, Lord Jesus, devotions for Advent,&lt;br&gt;Christmas and Epiphany, Turn my Heart: a Sacred&lt;br&gt;Journey from Brokenness to Healing, (with Marty&lt;br&gt;Haugen) and several liturgical and hymn texts.&lt;p&gt;Watch for future mailings and brochures about details&lt;br&gt;of registration, credits, daily schedules, etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Bookstore hours for December and January&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The bookstore is open its regular hours Mon.-Thurs. 9 am - 6 pm, Fri. 9&lt;br&gt;am - 4 pm throughout December and January so you can purchase books for&lt;br&gt;Winterim and have them shipped to you after you leave campus.  Spring&lt;br&gt;textbooks will begin arriving in early January.  &lt;p&gt;Many Winterim texts are already in; others are arriving daily.  If you&lt;br&gt;want to get a head start on your reading, contact us and we&amp;#39;ll get you&lt;br&gt;going.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;br&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;The Sacred Journey: Leading a Congregation Through Lent&lt;br&gt;Saturday, January 26, 2008   9:00 am - 4:00 pm&lt;br&gt;$40 includes lunch&lt;p&gt;How does your congregation observe the season of Lent? &lt;p&gt;In this workshop, led by Shelley Stackhouse, we will explore both&lt;br&gt;ancient and new traditions for walking the journey through Lent on&lt;br&gt;Sunday mornings. We will also discuss other possible observances in&lt;br&gt;worship, prayer and other disciplines that might happen throughout the&lt;br&gt;week. &lt;br&gt;Since the journey has a destination, if not an ending, we will also&lt;br&gt;focus on how to celebrate Palm Sunday and shape a rhythm of worship&lt;br&gt;through the other Holy Week services culminating in Easter. &lt;p&gt;See the website for a flyer and registration form.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2008/01/ants-student-e-news-wednesday-january.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14602520.post-240636331855048648</guid><pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 21:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2007-12-27T16:53:34.735-05:00</atom:updated><title>ANTS Student E-News - Thursday, December 27, 2007</title><description>In this message:&lt;p&gt;- Spring 2008 Registration Is On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;- Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;- New Recycling Bin on Campus!&lt;br&gt;- One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;- Focus the Nation event on Jan. 31&lt;br&gt;- Cafeteria January Hours&lt;br&gt;- Library schedule notice&lt;br&gt;- From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office&lt;br&gt;- Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;- Bookstore hours for December and January&lt;br&gt;- UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring 2008 Registration Is On Connect!!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Spring Registration for seniors begins on December 10th, 2007 and for&lt;br&gt;all students on December 15th, 2007.  Registration will continue until&lt;br&gt;December 28th, 2007. The final add/drop date for Spring Registration is&lt;br&gt;February 15th, 2008.&lt;p&gt;Please note that Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration will be completed on Connect!&lt;p&gt;You can access Connect at &lt;a href="http://connect.ants.edu"&gt;http://connect.ants.edu&lt;/a&gt; using your Username&lt;br&gt;and Password. This Username and Password are the same ones that you used&lt;br&gt;for Fall and Winter Registration on Connect. If you do not have your&lt;br&gt;Username and Password for Connect, please call the Help Desk at&lt;br&gt;617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;There are detailed instructions for Online Registration on the main page&lt;br&gt;of the Student tab in Connect. Once you have logged in, click on&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;Student&amp;quot; at the top of the page. You will be redirected to a page&lt;br&gt;containing the directions for Registration, Online Bill Payment, and the&lt;br&gt;Online Add/Drop procedures. Follow these instructions for registration.&lt;p&gt;PLEASE NOTE: Your Spring &amp;#39;08 Registration is not complete and will not&lt;br&gt;be finalized until you have filled out the Spring 2008 Registration and&lt;br&gt;Services Confirmation Form.&lt;br&gt;If you have any questions about this process that are not answered in&lt;br&gt;the Registration Instructions found on the Student Page in Connect,&lt;br&gt;please contact the Help Desk at 617-964-1100 x314.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Message from the Writing Tutor&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Just a reminder that I&amp;#39;ll be on campus from 10 to 3 on the two Tuesdays&lt;br&gt;of Winterim--January 8 and 15--and would be happy to meet with you. &lt;br&gt;Other dates in January might also be possible.  &lt;p&gt;In February, the midday writing groups will likely continue on both&lt;br&gt;Tuesday and Thursday.  &lt;p&gt;In the meantime, I&amp;#39;m happy to comment on your work via email, if we&amp;#39;ve&lt;br&gt;already met. &lt;p&gt;Looking forward to seeing you in the new year.&lt;p&gt;Helen Snively&lt;br&gt;ANTS writing tutor&lt;br&gt;Worcester 302&lt;br&gt;Tutor@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;New Recycling Bin on Campus!&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;We now have a new recycling bin on campus that takes mixed items of&lt;br&gt;metal, glass, and plastic.  The list of what&amp;#39;s acceptable follows below.&lt;br&gt; The new container is right next to the paper recycling bin and is&lt;br&gt;painted bright green.  Please only deposit items on the list, and clean&lt;br&gt;everything before putting it in the bin.  Special thanks to Frank at B&amp;amp;G&lt;br&gt;for making this happen.&lt;p&gt;Nancy Nienhuis&lt;br&gt;Dean of Students and Community Life&lt;p&gt;YES:&lt;br&gt;Metals:&lt;br&gt;    Steel food/soup cans&lt;br&gt;    Aluminum cans&lt;br&gt;    Aluminum foil and trays&lt;br&gt;    Empty aerosol cans&lt;br&gt;    Empty and dry paint cans&lt;p&gt;Glass:&lt;br&gt;    Clear bottles&lt;br&gt;    Green and brown bottles&lt;br&gt;    Plate glass&lt;p&gt;Plastics (Please remember that most items numbered 3-5 don&amp;#39;t actually&lt;br&gt;get recycled but are shipped to 2/3 world countries that are paid to&lt;br&gt;take them, so when at all possible avoid purchasing items in such&lt;br&gt;containers.):&lt;br&gt;    #1 (PET) plastic containers (soda bottles)&lt;br&gt;    #2 (HDPE) plastic containers (milk jugs, laundry detergent bottles)&lt;br&gt;    #3 (PVC) plastic containers (shampoo bottles)&lt;br&gt;    #4 (LDPE) plastic containers (margarine tubs)&lt;br&gt;    #5 (PP) plastic containers (yogurt cups)&lt;p&gt;Cardboard milk and juice cartons&lt;br&gt;Drink boxes&lt;p&gt;NO:&lt;br&gt;TRASH&lt;br&gt;Oil or hazardous chemicals&lt;br&gt;Propane tanks&lt;br&gt;Regulated medical waste&lt;br&gt;Food waste&lt;br&gt;Foam cups or foam plates&lt;br&gt;Paper cups or paper plates&lt;br&gt;Plastic bags or plastic wraps&lt;br&gt;Wood waste&lt;br&gt;Rubber waste&lt;br&gt;Textiles&lt;p&gt;All containers must be rinsed prior to recycling.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;One Day Training for Ministers&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;PRTuition: $175 includes all materials. &lt;br&gt;Berkeley Room (next to Kendall Hall), Andover-Newton Theological School &lt;p&gt;Directions at www.ants.edu; parking available behind building. &lt;br&gt;Professional seminar director Rev. Robin Zucker teaches students, clergy&lt;br&gt;and counselors to use a series of respected, religion-neutral counseling&lt;br&gt;programs with pre-marital and marital couples. This seminar will expand&lt;br&gt;ministerial competencies, and enrich your counseling and ministry&lt;br&gt;practice for years to come.  BYO Lunch; light breakfast provided.&lt;br&gt;Information and registration links at: &lt;a href="http://www.flowingforce.com"&gt;http://www.flowingforce.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;Contact the Rev, Zucker at flowingforce@comcast.net, 978-369-0260&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Focus the Nation event on Jan. 31&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Focus the Nation: A National Teach-in to Raise Awareness about Global&lt;br&gt;Climate Change&lt;p&gt;On Thursday, Jan. 31-the first day of the Spring semester-the ANTS&lt;br&gt;community will be participating in Focus the Nation (check out&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.focusthenation.org"&gt;www.focusthenation.org&lt;/a&gt;). Community forums, special worship services, an&lt;br&gt;interfaith sacred meal, and an all-night prayer vigil will help us place&lt;br&gt;the issue of global climate change in our own context here at ANTS. We&lt;br&gt;will learn together about what connects our faith to the environment,&lt;br&gt;and what it means to be spiritual leaders in a time of ecological&lt;br&gt;crisis.&lt;p&gt;We invite you to participate! &lt;br&gt;*Check out the Emerging Ecology Fellowship&amp;#39;s website over the holidays&lt;br&gt;for updates.&lt;br&gt;*Contact Tempest Brevard  &amp;lt;tbrevard@ants.edu&amp;gt;  or Christina Ray &lt;br&gt;&amp;lt;cray@ants.edu&amp;gt;  to get involved.&lt;br&gt;*Show up and help Focus the Nation. Activities will be occurring from&lt;br&gt;the evening of Wednesday, Jan. 30 until morning worship on Friday, Feb.&lt;br&gt;1.&lt;br&gt;Hope to see you there!&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Cafeteria January Hours&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The cafeteria will be open starting January 7th. Hours of operation are&lt;br&gt;Monday Through Friday 7:30am-1:30pm.&lt;br&gt;Continental breakfast from 7:30-9:00&lt;br&gt;coffee and beverages available all day&lt;br&gt;lunch served from 11:30-1:30&lt;br&gt;breakfast is $4.00&lt;br&gt;lunch is $5.75 soup, salad bar, and sandwich only.&lt;p&gt;The student lounge smart market cart will be closed until February 4th.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Library schedule notice&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The Library schedule December 15 - January 4 is:&lt;p&gt;Monday-Friday       8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.&lt;br&gt;Saturday-Sunday   closed&lt;p&gt;The Library will be closed December 24-25 and January 1.&lt;br&gt;The regular academic term schedule resumes Saturday, January 5.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;From the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;SPRING 2008, all* ANTS registrations must be completed online at the&lt;br&gt;following &lt;br&gt;Connect Website &lt;a href="https://connect.ants.edu/"&gt;https://connect.ants.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you cannot complete registration online, paper registration forms may&lt;br&gt;be picked up in the Registrar&amp;#39;s Office or by sending a self-address,&lt;br&gt;stamped envelope to:&lt;br&gt;Andover Newton Theological School&lt;br&gt;210 Herrick Road&lt;br&gt;Newton Centre, MA 02459&lt;br&gt;Attn: Registrar&lt;br&gt;Priority registration, especially for Seniors�?�, cannot be guaranteed&lt;br&gt;when using paper registration forms. &lt;br&gt;�?�Seniors are designated by # credits earned as follows: &lt;br&gt;MA &amp;gt;= 24, MDiv &amp;gt;= 60, STM &amp;gt;= 12, DMin &amp;gt;= 15&lt;br&gt;Registration dates are as follows:&lt;br&gt;December 10 - 14:  Seniors&lt;br&gt;December15 - 28:    All Other Students&lt;br&gt;After December 28: Late fees apply&lt;br&gt;December 29 -February 15:Add/Drop Period&lt;p&gt;* Students who are &lt;br&gt;1) Currently on probation, &lt;br&gt;2) Need to register on-leave, or&lt;br&gt;3) Need to register for special directed study courses or CPE &lt;br&gt;Must contact the Registrar directly at: NAguila@ants.edu &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;How to Register for Field Education, Second Required Semester **&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;1. Register for CMFE 601Y (1.5 credits) in the spring. &lt;br&gt;2. Register for one regular (3 credit) Spring course that is designated&lt;br&gt;&amp;quot;P3&amp;quot; for the Professor-Practitioner Program. This course will meet&lt;br&gt;the related curricular requirement. &lt;br&gt;3. In addition, register for that course&amp;#39;s P3 section, which carries an&lt;br&gt;additional 1.5 credits. &lt;br&gt;4. If you are unable to take any of the P3 courses/sections, you may&lt;br&gt;rpermission to pursue this option, you must submit a curriculum worksheet&lt;br&gt;or transcript to Sarah Drummond and, in most cases, meet with her.&lt;br&gt;5.**Must enroll ON LINE in ONE required orientation session, which&lt;br&gt;focuses on boundaries training:  &lt;br&gt;Orientation Session Day/ Time&lt;br&gt;CMFE01  February 4, 6-8:50 p.m.&lt;br&gt;CMFE02  February 5, 9-11:50 a.m.&lt;br&gt;CMFE03  February 5, 2-4:50 p.m.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;It&amp;#39;s coming! Save the dates!&lt;p&gt;Summer Institute in Art and Worship, &lt;br&gt;June 22-25, 2008&lt;p&gt;Our Hearts Ablaze: Encountering Christ, &lt;br&gt;Renewing Holy Ground&lt;p&gt;Keynote presenters include:&lt;p&gt;Marty Haugen, a composer of liturgical music for both&lt;br&gt;Roman Catholic and Protestant congregations. He has&lt;br&gt;had over 400 compositions published by GIA, Augsburg&lt;br&gt;Fortress and various other publishers. For the past 25&lt;br&gt;years he has presented workshops and concerts across&lt;br&gt;North America and in Europe, the Pacific Rim, Asia and&lt;br&gt;Central America for church musicians and anyone&lt;br&gt;interested in the renewal of worship.&lt;p&gt;Susan Briehl, a Lutheran pastor for 25 years is an&lt;br&gt;associate with the Valparaiso Project on Education and&lt;br&gt;the Formation of People in Faith.  Her writings&lt;br&gt;include: Come, Lord Jesus, devotions for Advent,&lt;br&gt;Christmas and Epiphany, Turn my Heart: a Sacred&lt;br&gt;Journey from Brokenness to Healing, (with Marty&lt;br&gt;Haugen) and several liturgical and hymn texts.&lt;p&gt;Watch for future mailings and brochures about details&lt;br&gt;of registration, credits, daily schedules, etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;Bookstore hours for December and January&lt;br&gt;------------------------&lt;br&gt;The bookstore is open its regular hours Mon.-Thurs. 9 am - 6 pm, Fri. 9&lt;br&gt;am - 4 pm throughout December and January so you can purchase books for&lt;br&gt;Winterim and have them shipped to you after you leave campus.  Spring&lt;br&gt;textbooks will begin arriving in early January.&lt;p&gt;The store will close Dec. 24 and 25, as well as the afternoon of Dec. 31&lt;br&gt;and New Year&amp;#39;s Day.  &lt;p&gt;Many Winterim texts are already in; others are arriving daily.  If you&lt;br&gt;want to get a head start on your reading, contact us and we&amp;#39;ll get you&lt;br&gt;going.&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;UPCOMING WORKSHOP - MAKE YOUR PLANS NOW!&lt;br&gt;----------------------&lt;br&gt;The Sacred Journey: Leading a Congregation Through Lent&lt;br&gt;Saturday, January 26, 2008   9:00 am - 4:00 pm&lt;br&gt;$40 includes lunch&lt;p&gt;How does your congregation observe the season of Lent? &lt;p&gt;In this workshop, led by Shelley Stackhouse, we will explore both&lt;br&gt;ancient and new traditions for walking the journey through Lent on&lt;br&gt;Sunday mornings. We will also discuss other possible observances in&lt;br&gt;worship, prayer and other disciplines that might happen throughout the&lt;br&gt;week. &lt;br&gt;Since the journey has a destination, if not an ending, we will also&lt;br&gt;focus on how to celebrate Palm Sunday and shape a rhythm of worship&lt;br&gt;through the other Holy Week services culminating in Easter. &lt;p&gt;See the website for a flyer and registration form.</description><link>http://www.ants.edu/enews/2007/12/ants-student-e-news-thursday-december_27.html</link><author>Andover Newton News</author></item></channel></rss>