The School of Theology and Ministry at IWU offers many majors where students form a community within their studies and foster relationships with each other.
Some of the programs one can get a degree in are children and family ministries, global ministries, pastoral counseling and care, theology and philosophy, worship arts, and youth ministries.
The School of Theology and Ministry also offers second majors and fifteen minors.
Dr. DJ Coleman also says there is also a graduate program that many students end up going into after their undergraduate.
“You can get a masters in practical theology and an accelerated master of divinity as well,” Coleman said.
Coleman makes the point that the faculty want to train people for effective ministry in a world that is to come.
“The real beauty of the School of Theology and Ministry are the faculty here. We have incredible faculty who have lots of really good experience,” Coleman said.
Coleman volunteers at the Grant County Jail to minister to inmates and invites students to come with him. Coleman asks the questions, “How do we partner with God in the work that God is doing in the world?”
This is Coleman’s third year working at Indiana Wesleyan University.
Paige McSeveney is a junior at Indiana Wesleyan University and studies pastoral counseling and care.
“The School of Theology and Ministry has been a place of community. It’s been a place where I’ve been able to find a lot of people who share the same values as me while learning the same things as me,” McSeveney said.
McSeveney said this school offers events to build community and become closer with faculty while growing in their relationship with God.
Randy Bailey is a junior at Indiana Wesleyan University and studies pastoral and youth ministry. Bailey said this school really prepares students for the industry.
“I think they’ve created a really healthy community of people who really are excited to go into ministry. It’s a good network of pastors or future pastors, as well as professors that really care about your learning,” Bailey said.
Bailey said one of his biggest takeaways of being in this school is how he is really scratching the surface and has much more to learn.
“I can tell that there is so much more to know.”
Bailey hopes to gain religious training on how to become the best pastor he can be and how to teach people about the Bible and about their faith the best he can.
