Fort Smith Times

Central Presbyterian Church issued the following announcement on May 20.

Aponte will assume his new role as dean on June 1

A host of ministry colleagues and friends gathered Thursday at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary to honor the Rev. Dr. Edwin David Aponte and his wife Laura and to thank Aponte for his outstanding leadership as executive director of the Louisville Institute as he departs for a new position at Drew University in Madison, N.J.

Aponte, a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), leaves the Louisville Institute after seven years to serve Drew as the new dean of its theological school. His term will begin on June 1.

“This was a calling for us to come to Louisville, Kentucky, to serve the Louisville Institute,” Aponte told the gathering. “After having previously served for two terms on the Institute’s Advisory Board, which I thought was one of the best things I’ve ever done, I knew there was a time when that would come to an end. Little did I know that I would be invited back to serve as executive director.”

The Louisville Institute, funded by the Religion Division of Lilly Endowment Inc., “awards grants and fellowships to those who lead and study North American religious institutions, practices, and movements, advancing scholarship to strengthen church, academy, and wider society.”

In addition to his work with the Louisville Institute, Aponte, a graduate of Gordon College, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Temple University, also served as a research professor of religion and culture at Louisville Seminary.

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Source: Central Presbyterian Church