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s June Alliman Yoder, response for each sermon. “If the preacher is going to
professor of commu- Her goal was to give the say something, the preacher
nication and preach- kind of feedback that would must first listen—listen to
ing, retires from 27 years of be an honest critique of the the Holy Spirit, listen to the
teaching at AMBS, are there sermon and also would text, listen to the congrega-
Spring 2009 still things she is learning encourage and support the tion.” June’s dissertation
Volume 19 Issue 2 as she listens to students’ student. was centered on this topic
sermons? Over 27 years, June also and it has been at the core
“Oh yes,” she says. “Oh, led workshops and the of her teaching all through
yes. Yes!” Preaching Institute for pas- her work at AMBS and in
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AMBS: A place of learning “I have been ministered tors across the United States the church.
for all to,” June says. “I can’t and Canada. She says she What that means for
believe I was so honored to has taught a generation of listeners in the congregation
3 have this job.” pastors, probably some- is this: “If God has spoken
George R. Brunk to serve as Early in her tenure at where between 700 and to the preacher and the
interim president AMBS, she team-taught 1,000.