Denver Seminary

150 Dr. McCormack is ordained by the American Baptist Churches, USA and is a retired air force chaplain with twenty-two years of experience in military chaplaincy, during which she pastored in five states and three foreign countries. She has experience as a hospital, police, prison, NASCAR, drag racing, crisis and trauma, and industrial chaplain. She has served as consultant to the U.S. Army chaplaincy on mentoring, was a subject matter expert to the U.S. Navy Chaplaincy on Institutional Excellence, and the U.S. Air Force chief of chaplains' Leaving a Legacy mentoring team. Her counseling expertise is in the area of brief therapy, crisis, trauma, and disaster work. She is on the faculty of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Training Institute, training others in disaster response. Dr. McCormack is also a member of the Billy Graham Association's rapid response team and serves as the team liaison for Denver Seminary's Crisis Incident Stress Management Team (CISM). Dr. McCormack is a board certified chaplain with the Association of Professional Chaplains and is in the process of becoming a supervisor in the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education. She held the position of vice president of chaplaincy for Marketplace Samaritan, Inc., a non-profit organization that places chaplains in business settings. She is a frequent presenter at professional and denominational organizations and seminars and has contributed articles on chaplaincy and counseling topics to several journals and magazines, as well as co-authoring The Work of the Chaplain. Email: jan.mccormack@denverseminary.edu Phone: 303-762-6947 Alemayehu Mekonnen Dr. Alemayehu Mekonnen joined the faculty in 2008 and is associate professor of missions. He holds a PhD in Intercultural Studies, an MA in Missions, and an MA in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary; an MA in Cross-Cultural Communication from Assemblies of God Graduate School of Theology, and a BTh from East Africa School of Theology. For the last several years, Dr. Mekonnen has worked with the Evangelical Free Church of America International Mission (now called Reach Global). He has also taught at Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology. As associate professor of missiology and chair of the missions department, he provided the leadership to develop a missions emphasis within the MA, MDiv, and MTh degrees, as well as developing an MA program in Islamic Studies. Dr. Mekonnen has published Culture Change in Ethiopia: An Evangelical Perspective, as well as three theological books in the Amharic language, the national language of Ethiopia. For the last three decades, he has served as an evangelist, pastor, teacher, and missionary. Email: alex.mekonnen@denverseminary.edu Phone: 303-357-5810

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