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Bethel Seminary

Admissions & Recruitment Staff

 

New York Center

First Baptist Church of Flushing
142-10 Sanford Avenue
Flushing, NY 11355

718.539.6822, ext. 218
718.939.9136 (fax)
Classes are held on Mondays and Saturdays. Click here for map and directions.
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Michael Herbert
Center Director
hermica@bethel.edu

Michael Herbert has been the New York center director since July 2007. He was born in London of Barbadian and Trinidadian parents. He has also lived in Barbados, West Indies. He graduated from Texas A&M University-Commerce with a BBA in Accounting and from Bethel Seminary of the East with a Master of Divinity. 

Michael and his family moved to New York City in August 1999 to serve as pastoral staff for a multiethnic church plant in Harlem, N.Y. He has had extensive ministry and marketplace work experience as an assistant pastor, campus minister, auditor, and manager. 

Before working for Bethel Seminary, he was the director of compliance with the Princeton Review SES department in Manhattan, N.Y. In his spare time Michael enjoys doing Pilates and cooking (with his wife Sonja), reading, weight lifting, and bicycle riding with his kids.

Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Center

First Baptist Church of Glenarden
3600 Brightseat Road
Landover, MD 20785-2414

301.386.9415 (office)

703.930.6924 (cell) preferred

301.386.6270 (fax)
Esther Gordon, Director

Beverly Little, Recruiter

Classes are held on Thursdays and Fridays. Click here for map and directions.


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Beverly is a licensed minister at the First Baptist Church of Glenarden under the leadership of Pastor John K. Jenkins, Sr. She serves as Assistant Director of Family Life ministries and is a recruiter for Bethel Seminary of the East - DC Metro Center. She is also currently working on her Master of Arts in Theological Studies at Bethel Seminary. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Hampton University adn a Masters in Business Administration from Old Dominion University out of Norfolk, VA. Professionally she served as an executive at a Fortune 50 comany and brings that experience into her ministry. Beverly is happily married to Ulysses Little Jr. They have one son and one daughter.

Beverly Little
Recruiter
beverly-hodges@bethel.edu
 

New England Center

Faith Baptist Church
22 Faith Avenue
Auburn, MA 01501-1806

508.272.7422
508.839.5657(fax)
Classes are held primarily on Thursdays; some Saturday classes are also offered. Click here for map and directions.
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Noel Sherry
Center Director
nsherry@bethel.edu

Noel currently serves as the center director for Bethel Seminary of the East in New England, and is also an adjunct faculty member at Eastern Nazarene College and the University of Phoenix. He came to Christ through the influence of a chaplain, after being wounded in action during an army tour in Vietnam. His undergraduate studies were completed at Gordon College, and he received a Masters in Religious Education at Gordon-Conwell Seminary. 

Noel has served in youth ministry and as an associate pastor in four New England churches. He also worked as a corporate chaplain before accepting a position with Eastern Nazarene College, Adult Studies. Noel is passionate about presenting to others reasons and evidence for belief in Christ, and how Christianity answers the perennial philosophical questions of life.

Noel and his wife, Ingelise, reside in Grafton, Mass., and have three grown children and two grandchildren, all living in the Boston area.

Philadelphia Center

Chelten Baptist Church
1901 North Limekiln Pike
Dresher, PA 19025

215.659.1000 (office)

215.421.1746 (cell) preferred

215.641.4801 (fax)

Tyrone Perkins , Director

Kathy Tacconi, Recruiter

Classes are held primarily on Tuesdays; some Saturday classes are also offered. Click here for map and directions.
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Kathy Tacconi
Recruiter

kathy-tacconi@bethel.edu