Denver Seminary

Eddie met the Navigators at Texas A & M and enjoyed four years of spiritual mentoring with them before graduating from Texas A & M in 1978 with a B.S. degree in Zoology, PreMedicine.  He taught chemistry at Navasota High School (Texas), then joined the staff of The Navigators and moved to the University of Illinois for staff training in 1980.

Eddie’s varied ministry experiences include student ministry at Tuskegee Institute (Alabama) and Memphis State University (Tennessee), church ministry as Pastor of Discipleship at Lamar Terrace Baptist Church (Memphis) and helping plant Crown of Love Evangelical Free Church (Chicago) (a Spanish-speaking church). Eddie is a graduate of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, where he completed the Master of Arts degree in New Testament.  Eddie’s interest in intercultural ministry led him to Moscow, Russia where he served as In-country Training Director for the CoMission.

Eddie served as Vice President of Diversity of the US Navigators for ten years before stepping into his current role as Senior Vice President and Associate Director, US Field Ministries.

Eddie loves languages, especially Spanish, Russian and German.  He also enjoys the ocean, and scuba diving.

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Anthony was born and raised in Park Hill - an urban neighborhood in Denver, Colorado which was the heart of a gang war that received national attention. In fact, 1993 was deemed Denver's infamous "summer of violence." The neighborhood wasn't all bad, though; it was filled with working people, good neighbors, and beautiful scenery. He spent much of his early years searching for meaning and love in this conflicted environment.

He began following Jesus Christ at Colorado State University (CSU) and soon after God called him to be a "builder" of the Church in urban America. Anthony has since helped start and lead several ministries. He helped pioneer a U.S. Navigator ministry for students of color at CSU named Equip (EQ) while serving as the College and Career Pastor at First Baptist Church.

He currently serves as the Discipleship Pastor at Wellspring Church. In addition, he is very active in local and national associations. He is a member of the Christian Community Development Association's (CCDA) fourth leadership cohort which gathers to dream about justice, faith, and the future of CCDA while learning from the pioneers of Christian social movements. He is also a member of the Colorado Black Chamber of Commerce. Anthony is a writer, a spoken word artist, and a thinker. He is married to his beautiful bride, Erika, and they are proud parents of their son, Micah.

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Jeff Johnsen, D.Min., has been the executive director of Mile High Ministries in Denver, Colorado, since 1987.  He was on the pastoral staff of Bear Valley Church in Lakewood for 9 years. Among other things, MHM has done transitional housing for homeless families, small businesses development, alternative education, street outreach among homeless teens, and a legal aid clinic. 

Jeff has lived in northeast Denver’s Whittier neighborhood for 20 years, and raised his family there.

Jeff’s has a bachelor’s degree in history from Colorado State University (1982), a master’s degree in community development from the University of Colorado at Denver (1987), and a doctor of ministry in Transformational Urban Leadership at Bakke Graduate University, in Seattle, Washington (2007).

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Dr. Lewis has been a member of the Denver Community since 1991, coming to us from the Washington, DC Metropolitan area via Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Berkeley, California.  She came to the Metro Denver community with human services and community-based empowerment as a Godly call.  Armed with a  Bachelors, three Masters, a Ph.D. and D.Min. degrees, she has transformed her academic career and community mobilization into the Center for Community Excellence and Social Justice. 

She utilizes this Center in partnership with Sojourner United Church Ministries and the American Pathways University to honor human dignity through spirituality, education, and empowerment.  Through the Center’s Behavior Services Institute, one may receive drug and alcohol rehabilitation, individual and group counseling, marriage education/counseling and therapy, grief therapy, behavioral, emotional, cognitive interventions unique to children/youth, and HIV/AIDS faith-based harm-reduction technical assistance and training. 

The Center’s Public Policy Institute houses the Conference of Minority Public Administrators and the Colorado Council for the Education of Black Children.  She is the author of various journal articles and book chapters including a sermon in Ella Pearson Mitchell’s, Those Preaching Women Volume III.  Her most recent literary endeavors include the contribution of two chapters in a three volume series entitled The Black Church and Public Life and a chapter in the published volume, Raising the Bottom:  Promoting Marriage in the African American Community.

Most recently, Dr. Lewis is partnered with the FBCC, AAHMI and local entities in the development of the American Association for Strengthening Families and Communities for the Denver Metropolitan area.

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Dr. H. Malcolm Newton, a native son of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He is the founding President of The Urban Tikkun Centre, Denver Institute of Urban Studies and Adult College, American Global Academy, and the Centre for Urban Research and Environmental Technology.  He is also the Founding Chairman of the Board for American Pathways University. Recently, he has been appointed as Vice President of the American Association of Blacks In Energy (Denver AABE Chapter). He is a graduate of Cheyney University (HBCU), Dallas Seminary, Harvard University and has done post-graduate studies at Oxford University and the University of Cape Town, South Africa.  Former founding Director of Globalization Program and former Assistant Professor of World Christianity at Denver Seminary. He is the author of three books, including, “Can The Black Family Be Saved?” and his forthcoming books are “The Urban Kingdom of God” and “Green Faith.”

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