Guest Preacher Rev. Dr. Frank Yamada

The Rev. Dr. Frank M. Yamada is the guest preacher at the Chapel's 11:00 a.m. service on Sunday, April 28.

Rev. Dr. Yamada began as executive director of the Association of Theological Schools in July 2017. He oversees the work of both the Association and the Commission on Accrediting. Prior to the Association of Theological Schools, he joined the McCormick faculty in 2008 as associate professor of Hebrew Bible and director of the Center for Asian American Ministries. In 2011, he was elected as McCormick’s tenth president—the first Asian American to lead a Presbyterian Church (USA) seminary. His tenure there was marked by increasing diversity in McCormick’s student body and creative engagement with the shifting realities of theological education. Yamada previously had taught Hebrew Bible/Old Testament for nine years at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. A graduate of Southern California College, Yamada earned his master of divinity and doctor of philosophy from Princeton Theological Seminary. He is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church, USA and has written and spoken on the future of the church and theological education.

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