| Meet our Staff |
The Rev. Dr. Jessica L. Anschutz is passionate about revitalizing congregations and creating fresh expressions of ministry. She is the co-founder of 43:19, an umbrella organization for new ministries with young adults, such as Coffee, Kids and Chaos and Theology on Tap. Before coming to PTS, Dr. Anschutz served as interim director of the Lewis Center for Church Leadership and adjunct faculty member at Wesley Theological Seminary (Washington, D.C.). She co-edited Healing Fractured Communities (Palmetto Publishing, 2024), to which she also contributed a chapter, and she has published additional works on ministry, leadership, and the future of congregational life in Leading Ideas and Reflections. An ordained elder in full connection in the New York Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church, Dr. Anschutz has more than 15 years of experience pastoring urban and suburban congregations. She served on the NYAC Board of Ordained Ministry for 12 years and as secretary of the board of directors for Alliance Africa. She has also served with Habitat for Humanity, Ozark Mission Project, Red Bird Mission Project, Faith Ministry (Mexico), and through United Methodist Volunteers in Mission in Chile, Ecuador, and Louisiana. She holds a B.A. in religious studies (Rhodes College), an M.Div. (Yale Divinity School), and a D.Min. (Wesley Theological Seminary). | 412-924-1412 |
Dr. Scott Hagley joined the Pittsburgh Seminary faculty in 2015. Formerly, he served as director of education at Forge Canada in Surrey, British Columbia, where he worked to develop curriculum for the formation of missional leaders in hubs across Canada. He also served as teaching pastor at Southside Community Church, a multi-site church in the Vancouver metro area organized around neighborhood-based missional communities. Dr. Hagley received a B.A. in youth ministry and communication from Bethel University, an M.Div. from Regent College, and a Ph.D. (with distinction) in congregational mission and leadership from Luther Seminary. His doctoral dissertation attended to the lived theology of an urban congregation in its public, evangelical, and missional dimensions. Dr. Hagley has also taught courses at Augsburg College, Rochester College, Bethel University, and Luther Seminary, and previously he was a consultant and researcher with Church Innovations Institute. His most recent book is Eat What is Set Before You: A Missiology of the Congregation in Context (Urban Loft, 2019). | 412-924-1399 |
Jessica Anschutz, Director of the Center for Adaptive and Innovative Ministry
Scott Hagley, W. Don McClure Associate Professor of World Mission and Evangelism