The Rev. Dr. John Martin Mann - Vitae

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Education  |  Professional Experience  |  Professional Offices Held   |  Professional Affiliations
Synod Responsibilities  |  Community Activities  |  Publications

Education

Doctor of Ministry, 1976
The Ohio Theological Consortium and Hamma Divinity School
Wittenberg University
Springfield, OH

• Thesis title: “The Training of Lay Pastoral Assistants in Campus Ministry Through the Use of the Clinical Pastoral Education Model.”

Master of Theology, 1973
Duke Divinity School
Duke University
Durham, NC

• Clinical Internship and Residency (CPE) – Central Prison, Raleigh, NC
  
• Major in pastoral psychology. Minor in historical theology
  
• Resident fellow, Graduate Center
  
• Member, University Chancellor-Provost Search Committee, 1971

Master of Divinity, 1970
Duke Divinity School
Duke University
Durham, NC

• Concentration in pastoral psychology
  
• President, Duke Divinity School Student Association, 1969-70
  
• Member, University Chancellor-Provost Search Committee, 1970

Bachelor of Arts, 1967
Clarion State College
Clarion, PA

• Double major in social sciences (psychology and sociology) and speech
  
• President, local chapter of Pi Kappa Delta, the national forensic fraternity, 1965-67. Rank of highest distinction

Professional Experience   

Senior Pastor
Trinity Lutheran Church
1992-2006

Faculty member, Post-graduate clergy seminars
Friedman, Foster
2002 –

• Natural systems family therapy and leadership

Mission initiator
Iglesia Luterana La Trinidad
Canton, OH
1999

Red Door Outreach Mission
Canton, OH
1996

Senior pastor
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Erie, PA
1982-1991

Pastor/Lutheran campus minister
First Lutheran Church/Edinboro State College
Edinboro, PA 1971-1982

Adjunct professor of religion
Thiel College
Greenville, PA
1979-1981

• Taught courses in New Testament and contemporary ethical problems

Clinical pastoral education intern year
North Carolina Department of Corrections
Central prison
Raleigh, NC

Professional Offices Held    

• Chairman, Inter-Church Ministries Committee on Continuing Education, 1985-1990
  
• Chairman, Inter-Church Ministries Committee on Finance, 1983-1984
  
• President, Inter-Church Ministries of Northwestern Pennsylvania, 1979-1981
  
• President, Ecumenical Campus Ministries of Edinboro, 1974-1975
  
• President, Edinboro Ministerial Fellowship, 1973-1974

Professional Affiliations    

• National Campus Ministry Association
  
• The Association for Clinical Pastoral Education
  
• Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities

Synod Responsibilities    

Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia/Northwestern Pennsylvania

• Member, Board of Trustees, Thiel College, 1976-1991
  
• Member, Thiel Board Executive Committee, 1979-1991
  
• Chairman, Thiel Board Student Activities Committee, 1979-1991
  
• Member, Board of Directors, Lutheran Home, Erie, PA, 1980-1991
  
• Chairman, Lutherans of Erie, City Strategy Coalition for Urban Ministry, 1990-1991
  
• Dean, Conference I, 1991
  
• Chairman, Synodical Vocations Committee, 1989-1991
  
• Chairman, Multi-synodical Church Vocations Committee, 1988-1989
  
• Member, Western PA-West V A Synod Committee on Church Vocations and Examination, 1974-1988
  
• Dean, Erie District, 1984-1988
  
• Delegate to national conventions of the LCA and ELCA, 1984, 1986, 1987
  
• Chairman, Thiel Search Committee, Vice President for Student Services, 1980

Northeastern Ohio

• Member, Ecumenical Committee, 1995-
  
• Member, Bishop's Covenant Commission, ELCA/Youngstown Diocese, 2001-
  
• Member Episcopal-Lutheran Urban Ministry Committee, 2003-
  
• Chair, Outreach Committee, 1997-2004
  
• Member, Evangelism Committee, 2004-
  
• Dean, Canton-Massillon Conference, 1998-

Community Activities    

• Founding President, UrbanArk Inc., 1995-
  
• Grant writing for UrbanArk Ministries, 85 percent successful
  
• Member, Canton Downtown Clergy Association, 1992-
  
• Stark County Interdenominational Ministerial Association, 1994-
  
• Member, Canton Interfaith Roundtable, 1994-2000
  
• South Erie Hillside Organization, Neighborhood development, 1982-1992
  
• Nesting Inn, Board of Directors and treasurer, 1990-1991
  
• Hospice of Metropolitan Erie, Chaplain team, 1984-1991
  
• Hospice of Metropolitan Erie, Board of Directors, 1989-1991
  
• Hospice of Metropolitan Erie, Nominating Committee Chairman, 1990-1991

Publications

• “An Appropriate Time to Die,” co-authored with Gregory Dell and L. Powers McCloud, Duke Divinity School Review, Spring, 1970.
  
  
• “The Use of the Clinical Pastoral Education Model in Developing Congregational Campus Ministry,” The Journal of Pastoral Care, September, 1978.
  
  
• “Campus Ministry Through a Parish Church,” Dialogue, Summer, 1979.