Erskine Florida Preaching Conference
10 am – Session 1
10:45 am – Break
11 a.m. – Session 2
11:45 a.m. – Lunch
1 p.m. – Session 3
1:45 p.m. – Closing Remarks
Dr. Kyle E. Sims serves as Associate Vice President for External Relations at Erskine College and as an adjunct professor of preaching at Erskine. He also serves as Principal Clerk of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARPC) Synod and as a Senior Policy Advisor with the National Clergy Council. In addition, he is the supply pastor of Salem Black River Presbyterian (Brick) Church in Mayesville, South Carolina.
Kyle and his wife, Kelly, have four children, two children-in-law, and one grandson.
Dr. Seth J. Nelson (Ph.D., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, M.Div., Westminster Theological Seminary) is the Dean of Erskine Theological Seminary and serves as Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology and Educational Leadership. He is an ordained minister in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARPC), having previously served for ten years in pastoral ministry in two local congregations in Philadelphia and Norfolk, VA. He loves to teach and pastor (new and developing) pastors, by exploring together how to facilitate the formation of Kingdom-hearted, gospel-loving disciples of Jesus Christ. His research explores how seminary faculty serve as facilitators of their student’s whole-person transformation toward maturity in Christ. Seth lives in Greenville, SC, with his wife, Heather, and their twin teenage daughters.
Dr. Nathan Eshelman is the pastor of Orlando Reformed Presbyterian Church (RPCNA) in Orlando, Florida. He pursued theological studies at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, where he earned both a Master of Divinity and a Master of Theology in post-Reformation historical theology. He also holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Reformed Presbyterian Theological Seminary. Before accepting the call to Orlando in 2021, he served for twelve years as pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles. Nathan is the author of I Have a Confession: The What and Why of the Westminster Confession of Faith and Worthy: The Worship of God, co-host of The Jerusalem Chamber podcast, and a regular contributor to Gentle Reformation and other Reformed publications. His ministry is marked by a love for confessional Reformed theology, expository preaching, church history, church planting, and the ordinary means of grace. He and his wife, Lydia, have five children.
