Dr. Kenneth Letterman
Dr. Kenneth (Ken) S. Letterman is currently serving
Evergreen Presbyterian Church, located across the street from Rhodes College
and home of the annual Scottish Festival the Clanjamfry, as their senior pastor.
Evergreen is a church very much involved in community ministry with
their Playschool, after school program with Snowdon Elementary School,
and community recreation programs. He
has been in Memphis for seventeen years, having
served churches in the Whitehaven community and Germantown.
Ken is currently serving on the Board of Directors for
Family Services of the Mid-South and has been active with the Crisis Center and Tennessee Suicide Network. In September of 2008 he was awarded the
Pioneer Award in Nashville in recognition of his
work in suicide prevention in Memphis and Shelby County.
He is certified in mediation and works
with churches that are experiencing conflict.
He will be teaching a course at MTS in spring of 2009 on Mediation and
Reconciliation in churches.
Ken and his wife Melinda both have Scottish roots and traveled
to Scotland in the summer of 2007, spending time on Iona. Ken also loves Celtic spirituality and has
fun teaching about Celtic knots.
His formal education includes a Doctor of Ministry from MTS,
a Master of Divinity from Columbia Theological Seminary and a Bachelor of
Science from Stetson University in Deland,
Florida.
Ken and Melinda have three children and three
grandchildren