{"id":26602,"date":"2019-03-27T10:13:36","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:13:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tfc.edu\/?post_type=news&amp;p=26602"},"modified":"2019-03-27T10:13:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T14:13:36","slug":"griffith-earns-doctorate-in-youth-ministries","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/tfc.edu\/news\/griffith-earns-doctorate-in-youth-ministries\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffith Earns Doctorate In Youth Ministries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Rich Griffith has completed his Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) degree in Youth, Family, and Culture from Fuller Theological Seminary. Now in his third year at TFC, he serves as Assistant Professor of Youth Ministry.\u00a0 His dissertation was entitled, \u201cCountering the Criminalization of Youth: A Denominational Strategy for Developing a Holistic Ecclesiastical Approach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">Dr. Griffith also functions at TFC as the program director for the Youth Ministries major, where he teaches, advises future youth pastors, and sets goals for the program in the Ministry and Leadership Department. He serves as the Online Program Coordinator for the online ministry majors in the Department. Prior to coming to our campus, Dr. Griffith worked for twenty-four years a senior pastor and youth pastor in the United Methodist Church, in parachurch ministry, and as a chaplain assistant in the US Army. Rich is the father of two sons and the foster father of a third.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Rich Griffith has completed his Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) degree in Youth, Family, and Culture from Fuller Theological Seminary. Now in his third year at TFC, he serves as Assistant Professor of Youth Ministry.\u00a0 His dissertation was entitled, \u201cCountering the Criminalization of Youth: A Denominational Strategy for Developing a Holistic Ecclesiastical Approach.\u201d Dr. Griffith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":26604,"template":"","news_category":[11,13,19],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Griffith Earns Doctorate In Youth Ministries | Toccoa Falls College<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/tfc.edu\/news\/griffith-earns-doctorate-in-youth-ministries\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Griffith Earns Doctorate In Youth Ministries | Toccoa Falls College\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Dr. Rich Griffith has completed his Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) degree in Youth, Family, and Culture from Fuller Theological Seminary. 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