Office Phone: 724-297-5152
mporterdcp@comcast.net

Disciplines/Field of Instruction

• Associate Professor of Adult Education
• Teach primarily in the following majors: Christian Ministry Leadership; Human Resources; Organizational Development

Degrees Received

• D.Min. Urban Mission 2009, Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia, PA)
• D.Ed. Counselor Education 1994, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• M.Div. 1979, Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia, PA)
• B.A. 1975, Grove City College

Courses Taught

• HRS 440 Dynamics of Group and Organizational Behavior
• HRS 430 Organizational Analysis
• HRS 432 Research and Resources
• HRS 434 Research Methods
• HRS 436 Data Analysis and Display
• HRS 438 Organizational Change
• HRS 441 Business and Interpersonal Communication
• HRS 442 Values & Ethical Decision Making
• BBL 408 Faith Perspectives
• HMT 411 Humanities
• CMN 401 Principles of Christian Community
• CMN 403 Personal Leadership Assessment and Development
• CMN 404 Old Testament Principles for Ministry
• CMN 407 New Testament Principles for Ministry
• CMN 409 Theology of Family Ministry
• CMN 410 Leadership for Mission and Ministry
• CMN 416 Theology and Practice of Evangelism

Presentations/Publications

• Assessing Geneva College’s Degree Completion Program (Community Ministry Major), 2009
• A Demographic and Motivational Profile of the Volunteers Who Serve in the Chestnut Ridge Chapter of the American Red Cross, 1994

Affiliations

• International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education
• Evangelical Theological Society
• Evangelical Missiological Society
• International Society for Frontier Missions
• Association of Professors of Mission

Miscellaneous

• Member of the Pittsburgh Presbytery of the Presbyterian Church in America
• Things I enjoy: spending time with my family, traveling, reading, gardening, golf, snorkeling