蜜桃传媒 has hired a new director for the . Scott McClelland is heading the off-campus program he describes as a 鈥渕aturity accelerator鈥� for students.
The San Francisco program began in 1971 and operates in a 108-year old house near Golden Gate Park. There are 22 students enrolled this semester.
Although San Francisco is less than 47 square miles, McClelland says the city by the bay offers the best kind of experience students can have to enhance their 蜜桃传媒 education.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a place that has some of the widest diversity of wealth and poverty that you鈥檒l ever see,鈥� he says. 鈥淚n the midst of all those delights, there鈥檚 also tremendous despair.鈥�
As for the homeless, McClelland says it鈥檚 not hard to find them.
鈥淭hey鈥檙e right out in front of us at Fell and Lyon Street,鈥� he says.
鈥淪ome of the internships are dealing exactly with those folks,鈥� McClelland says. 鈥淪ome are working in the higher financial market. Wherever they鈥檙e interning, students are going to break up encrusted soil, learn, grow, develop and put feet to their faith.鈥�
That鈥檚 one of the draws for students who enroll in the urban program, to work in a quality internship and practice their faith.
Before coming to the urban program, McClelland served as executive director of International Neighbors in Seattle, a parachurch organization that reaches out to international students in the Puget Sound area.
He earned a bachelor鈥檚 and a master鈥檚 degree from Wheaton College in Illinois as well as a master鈥檚 degree in theology from Westminster Theological Seminary. He received his doctorate in New Testament from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He has taught at Kings College in New York and mostly recently at Fuller Theological Seminary in Southern California, Seattle and Menlo Park. He is an ordained minister in the Evangelical Free Church of America and has spent 15 years doing pastoral work.
Scott and his wife, Louise, have been married 29 years and have two grown children.