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Jeffrey W. Barbeau

Ecclesial Service
Present Certified Candidate for Ordination, Oklahoma Annual Conference, United Methodist Church.
2005-2008 Director of Education and Spiritual Formation, Abiding Harvest United Methodist Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Responsible to organize and lead the adult education program, direct leadership of small-group life, and assist in church ministry planning and implementation.
Other Service
2004-Present Historical Theology Society.  A weekly gathering of college-age students at my home to study theological texts.  We rotate readings twice a semester (early to medieval/Reformation to modern church).  Past readings include the Didache, Ireneaus The Demonstration of Apostolic Preaching, Augustine On Genesis, a sermon from Thomas Aquinas, John Henry Newman on the development of doctrine, S. T. Coleridge's Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, and Niebuhr's Christ and Culture.