(The Rev.) John R. Throop, D.Min.: New Life!

Sunday, September 30, 2012

New Life!

Today I was thrilled to baptize an adult and two children. One of the children said afterward, "I have a new life!" What a wonderful way to conclude a three-year assignment as Priest-in-Charge at Trinity Episcopal Church in Portsmouth, Virginia. I helped the congregation to find focus and definition and it has grown in depth and size.

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The Rev. John R. Throop, D.Min., a native of Evanston, Illinois, John earned his B.A. with honors from the University of Chicago (1978) with a focus on pre-Reformation and Reformation history in England and Europe. Destined for law school, members of Trinity Episcopal Church in Wheaton, Illinois helped him to discern a call instead to the priesthood. He attended seminary at the School of Theology of the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, where he earned his Master of Divinity (1981). During his studies at Sewanee, he was a Scholar-in-Residence at Coventry Cathedral, England, focusing on the ministry of reconciliation. Ordained a deacon in June 1981 and then a priest in December 1981 in the Diocese of Chicago, John served parishes in the Chicago area, northern Ohio, Central Illinois, and Southern Virginia. Early in his ordained ministry, John entered a program at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, at the Institute for Christian Organizational Development. He entered the Doctor of Ministry program there, and completed his doctoral work in 1995, with a focus on strategic planning and organizational development in Christian organizations. From 1992 to 2009, John served in a bi-vocational capacity as a priest, and also as a management consultant, and did training for nonprofits, public agencies and corporations in the areas of strategic thinking/planning, financial management, and human resources development. His consulting firm worked with clients on a global scale, and provided basic non-profit/public agency management training in 22 community colleges in Illinois, Iowa, and Michigan. John is a widely published author on issues in management and in spirituality. He has a great interest in evangelism and global missions and has led short-term mission teams. He currently serves churches in Central New York. John and his wife Cindy enjoy art, movies, gardening, good food and home cooking, all music including opera and country, and they are great fans of Antiques Road Show. Their two grown daughters and son-in-law live in the Pacific Northwest. They share their home with a rescue Weimaraner dog named Addie.