Ms. Janet Carlson

Investment consultant, Roseville, Minnesota
B.S. (Education), University of Minnesota
Masters course work, University of Minnesota

Ms. Carlson has worked in education as a teacher (elementary and college level) and administrator, as well as in real estate and financial services.  She is founder and former president of Family Trust, Inc. and Trust Financial Group. Janet and her husband John (a retired pastor) were instrumental in establishing and are active in the work of the Shepherd’s Foundation (a ministry in Ukraine) and the Starfish Foundation (a ministry to single mothers in inner city St. Paul). She serves on the Trustee and the Foundation Boards of Missionary Aviation Fellowship, and remains active in her local church. Janet and her husband John have 2 children and 4 grandchildren.

Dr. Melva Costen

B.A. (Education), Johnson C. Smith University
M.A.T.M. (Teaching Music), University of North Carolina
Ph.D. (Curriculum and Instruction), Georgia State University
Honorary doctorates (Litt.D.) from Wilson College and Erskine College

Dr. Costen is a widely recognized authority on music and worship. She has just retired as the Helmar Emil Nielsen Professor of Music and Worship at the Interdenominational Theological Seminary in Atlanta and is a visiting professor at Yale Divinity School for Fall 2007. She is the author of several books, including African American Christian Worship, which is widely used by theological seminaries. Melva's latest book is titled Somewhere I Heard...! Worship and Celebrations in African American Traditions and is forthcoming from Geneva Press. Dr. Costen chaired the committee that created the 1990 PC(USA) hymnal.

The Rev’d Dr. C. Wayne Freeberg

Dr. Freeberg is an ordained Pastor assigned to Christ the Redeemer Cathedral Church in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. He serves as Chair of Education and Ministry for the Diocese. In addition, he is President of CWF Consulting, working with religious and distance education colleges and universities.

Dr. Freeberg holds a post-doctoral certificate in Leadership from Harvard University and a certificate in Distance Education from Penn State University. His academic degrees include a doctorate from Indiana University, masters degrees from Valparaiso University and New York University, and the bachelors degree from the State University of New York, along with six honorary doctoral degrees. Prior to ordination, he served Governors Askew, Graham, Martinez, Chiles and Bush as the chief administrative officer for Florida's Board of Independent Colleges and Universities.  Wayne and his daughter, Diana, live in St. Augustine, Florida, where Diana is a sophomore at Nease High School.

Dr. James R. Hart

B.M. (Sacred Music), Oral Roberts University
M.M. (Performance), University of Tulsa
D.W.S. The Robert E. Webber Institute for Worship Studies

Dr. Hart continues to serve as the Director of Music and Arts Ministries at New Grace Church, Orange Park. His influence and assistance was instrumental in the establishing of the IWS Florida campus.

Jim initially served as Dean of Students, and, at Bob Webber's request and with the full support of the Board, faculty and staff, was appointed as the school's second president in June 2007.

Dr. John Lindsell, Chairman of the Board

Ed.M. & Ed.D. (Administration, Planning, and Social Policy), Harvard Univ.
M.T.S. (Church History), Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
A.B. (English Literature), Wheaton College

Dr. Lindsell is Headmaster at the St. James School in Montgomery, Alabama. He also teaches on finances in nonprofit organizations in Harvard’s Summer School. Previously John worked as the Headmaster and CFO at Westminster Schools of Augusta, Georgia and also as the Assistant Superintendent for Finance for the Merrimack School District in New Hampshire.  Dr. Lindsell serves his local community of Montgomery on various committees.

Mr. Matthew Price

B.A. (English), Mt. Vernon College
M.A. (Church History and Communication Theory), Wheaton College

Mr. Price has served in various roles in the publishing business for over 20 years including business owner, author, publisher, marketing and sales director, producer, and consultant. He developed multiple curriculum resources and textbooks as vice-president and publisher of Abbott-Martyn Press and has had nineteen books published by eight different publishers. Matt has been honored as a publisher with 3 Gold Medallion Awards (one for Robert Webber's The Complete Library of Christian Worship) and an Angel Award for producing the video I Am Wonderfully Made. Mr. Price is the Executive Director of the Institute for GIS Studies (GIS, Geographic Information System, is a computer system that records, stores, and analyzes information about the features that make up the earth’s surface).

The Rev’d Dr. Tim Roberts

B.A. (Philosophy & Religion), Flagler College
M.Div. Princeton Theological Seminary

D.Min. Columbia Theological Seminary

Dr. Roberts has served in churches in Tampa, Florida and Norfolk, Virginia, and has been the pastor of Orange Park Presbyterian Church since 2003.  His church (IWS’s neighbor) graciously provides education space for our master’s classes. 

Tim and his wife Staci have 3 children.

The Rev’d Dr. R. Wayne Stacy

B.A. Palm Beach Atlantic University
M.Div., Ph.D. Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Dr. Stacy serves as Intentional Interim/Transitional Pastor offering consultation and help to congregations in transition. He has pastored churches in Florida, Indiana, Missouri, and North Carolina, taught at Palm Beach Atlantic University, St. Vincent dePaul Regional Roman Catholic Seminary, and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, served as professor and Dean of the Divinity School, Gardner-Webb University.

Dr. Stacy has has written three books the latest of which is Where Jesus Walked: a Spiritual Journey through the Holy Land.

Joanne Lindsell Webber

B.A. (Education), Wheaton College
M.P.A. (Masters in Public Administration), Northeastern University, Boston, MA
J.D., John Marshall Law School, Chicago, IL

Dr. Webber worked in education, social work, and law in the public sector for 30 years, and has been retired since 1997. 

She resides in the home she and Bob built at Bethany Beach in Sawyer, Michigan.

The Rev’d Dr. Luder G. Whitlock, Jr.

Dr. Whitlock is a graduate of the University of Florida, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Vanderbilt University (D.Min.). He served as the president of Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando for 23 years, and was the Executive Director of The New Geneva Study Bible and The Spirit of the Reformation Study Bible.

Dr. Whitlock is the Executive Director of The Trinity Forum, an organization that serves leaders around the world.

He and his wife, Mary Lou, have three grown children and eleven grandchildren.