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Jane Eesley is the senior pastor of First United Methodist Church of
DeKalb. Before coming to DeKalb, she served as associate pastor of
Community United Methodist Church in Naperville, Illinois for eight
years. She served in the Mission Intern Program of the General Board of
Global Ministries of The United Methodist Church from 1990 through 1993.
As a
Mission Intern, she was assigned to 16-mnonth stints with the Infant
Welfare Centre in Arab East Jerusalem, then the Methodist Federation for
Social Action in New York. Since then, she has taught extensively on
Christians in the Middle East, the Israel-Palestine conflict, and
interfaith relations, including teaching the "Creating Interfaith
Community Study" in Schools of Christian Mission.
She holds a B.A. (Phi
Beta Kappa) and M.A. in English literature from Northwestern University,
and in 1996 she graduated from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
in Evanston, where she received the Hoyt Hickman Award for Liturgical
Theory and Practice. In August of 2004, she participated in a two-week
trip to Senegal where she provided training for leaders of the new
United Methodist congregations there.
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