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Meet the cohort.

We welcome the 2026-2027 cohort of twenty Preaching Fellows!

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  • Devin Ames, Wheeling, West Virginia

  • Jeff Backer, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

  • Caroline Barnett, Kansas City, Missouri

  • Doug Basler, Urbandale, Iowa

  • Jay Bowers, High Point, North Carolina

  • Ben Cherland, Red Lodge, Montana

  • Patty Dhar, Greenwich, Connecticut

  • Chris Enstad, Golden Valley, Minnesota

  • Nathan Hilkert, Athens, Georgia

  • Brett Holmes, Beaumont, Texas

  • Herbie Miller, Charleston, South Carolina

  • Jared Moore, St. Louis, Missouri

  • Josh Munnikhuysen, Culpeper, Virginia

  • Kate Murphy, Huntersville, North Carolina

  • Kendall Potter, York, Pennsylvania

  • Will Ryan, Columbia, Missouri

  • Ariel Stephens, St. Louis, Missouri

  • Kyle Tennant, Ft. Wayne, Indiana

  • Bradley Varnell, Houston, Texas

  • Drew Yamamoto, San Francisco, California

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The 2026-2027 cohort of the Preaching Fellows arrives from sixteen states and a cross section of denominations and traditions:

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  • Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)

  • Cooperative Baptist Fellowship

  • Episcopal Church

  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

  • Non-denominational church

  • Presbyterian Church, USA​​

  • Reformed Church in America

  • United Methodist Church​

 

In spite of their different backgrounds, each one is committed to delivering a keen-edged word from God that points to Christ's benefits given from the cross to all those L-word sinners (with a nod to Robert Farrar Capon): the last, the least, the lost, the leper, the languishing, the (l)broken, the (l)dying, and the (l)dead.

The Iowa Preachers Project at Grand View University gratefully partners with Mockingbird  Ministries and is the recipient of generous funding from the Compelling Preaching Initiative of Lilly Endowment Inc.

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