The Seminarian’s Lay Committee wishes to extend a warm welcome to Ben Shelton, a middler at Virginia Theological Seminary, as he begins his field education component with us on Sunday, September 7th! He continues in the long line of superb VTS seminarians who have done their field ed at St. T’s. And Ben comes to us as our second participant in St. T’s priest formation program!

Over the next two academic years, Ben will be spending 12 hours each week at St. T’s. Our committee’s role during his middler and senior years is to listen, give feedback, facilitate reflection, empathize, support and challenge. It is an absolutely wonderful and rewarding experience to be able to assist seminarians in their development as a Christian minister and share our own life and faith journeys with them and each other on our committee. We will meet monthly and stay connected with him between those meetings.

We encourage all of you to welcome Ben and keep him and our Lay Committee in your prayers.

Pax,

Jerry Donahoe (Convener)
Kristin Queen Shaffer
Dave Kucharski
Ryan Winfield
Sarah Stewart
David Swanson