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1.Cohort Personnel

Name: Robert D. Eshelman

Address: 20 Lauren Lane - Ephrata, PA 17522

Phone Numbers:

(H) 717-738-0486
(W) 717-733-1229
(C) 717-203-3934

E-mail address - reshelman@ephratabrethren.org

Congregation being served - Ephrata Church of the Brethren

District: Atlantic N.E.

Education completed: High School - The complete13course Brethren Academy Program. Education will never be complete.

Year Ordination – 2005

Years of Pastoral Experience: Approximately 9 months in my present fulltime position as Minister of Congregational Care & Middle School Ministries and 4.0 years in my part time position as Director of Middle School Ministries. Licensed to the Ministry in June of 2000. Worked as a volunteer middle school youth advisor for the Ephrata Church and the Atlantic N.E. Middle School Advisory board from 1996. -2002. Conferences: “Creating a Safe Place, A Community Response to Family Violence”(2005), “Renewing the Church, Reclaiming the Gospel” (2005) New Windsor, Maryland Ministry Formation (2005)

Presently enrolled in the EXCEL Program at Elizabethtown College to complete my Bachelor Degree in Religious Studies. I am in the final stages of completing the following areas in my Training in Ministry Program (TRIM): Polity and the Church, Brethren Experience, scheduled for September 12-16, and the Work Experience element of this course of study. Member of the newly formed Ephrata Youth Aid Panel with completion of 8-weeks of seminars and course study followed by certification. Completed the 13 courses in the Brethren Academy Program

Minister of Congregational Care/Director of Middle School Ministries: I have a pretty wide range from 10 years old to 99 and everyone in between as a mission field. My ministry comprises of visitation (home and hospital), coordinate the Senior Adult Fellowship Ministry, and Directing the Middle School Ministries our congregation. Direct the weekly out reach ministry Youth Club for children in the 4th through 8th grades. Create opportunities for adults and senior high youth leaders to share their gifts with the community through the Youth Club ministry. Provide support and over see the Sonshine Club out reach children’s ministry held on a weekly basis as well. Provide assistance to the senior pastor in preaching, teaching, funerals, weddings, anointing, etc.