The Reverend Jacqulyn Brown Thorpe is an adjunct faculty member at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.  She teaches Deacon Education courses for those students studying for ordained ministry in The United Methodist Church. Prior to this, she taught for eighteen years as an adjunct faculty member at Howard University School of Divinity and during that time, her corollary appointment was at North Bethesda United Methodist Church as a Deacon in Full Connection.

Jacqui's scholarly interests include deacon education, faith development and spiritual formation and church leadership. Jacqui's first book, published in 2001 by Abingdon Press was co-authored with Susan Willhauck, another Christian educator and an Associate Professor at Atlantic School of Theology, in Nova Scotia. The book's title is The Web of Women's Leadership Recasting Congregational Ministry.  Jacqui's second book is God Delivers Me A Model from Strengthening The Black Church for the 21st Century. This book was published in January, 2008 also by Abingdon Press. Jacqulyn was the senior editor and supervised this writing project. Her other published writings include numerous Bible study resources written for several denominations and essays published in The Journal of Religious Thought, a Howard University Press publication.

Jacqulyn has served on many United Methodist church boards and agencies as both a teacher and consultant in Christian religious education in many arenas.  She enjoys making spiritual bookmarks, cooking, playing the piano and thinking "out of the box." After serving as AAUW MD Past President for two years, she is now on the state board of the American Association of University Women and currently is the Children's Issues Chair. Also, she is on the Program Committee of the MD Women's Heritage Center which is scheduled to open in 2010.

 

 Recently, Jacqulyn was invited to join the Princeton Global Network which is an online business community.

This is a networking connection and her biographical statement can be viewed at www.princetonglobalnetworks.com.

 

Jacqulyn and husband, Marvin, are the parents of four adult children.  They reside in Bethesda, MD.

 

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