The Florida Dunnam Affinity Group
A group for graduates of the Florida Dunnam Campus. For more information contact Eric Shepard. eric@pensys.org
Rev. Eric Shepard, Chair
Rev. Eric Shepard is currently a Doctor of Ministry student at Asbury Theological Seminary. Apart from this current degree of study, Eric also received his Master of Divinity from Asbury Seminary’s Florida Dunham Campus in 2008, a Master of Arts in Education from Tufts University in 1974 and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Ithaca College in 1970.
Eric is currently serving as senior pastor at the Sharon/Smyrna charge of the United Methodist Church at Abbeville and Lowndesville, South Carolina. He is married to Diane. They have four children and six grandchildren.
Mr. Greg Kannon, Vice Chair
Greg Kannon has been part of the Asbury Theological Seminary family since 2000. He graduated in the first class of the Florida Dunham Campus in 2003 with a Master of Divinity. Currently he is part of The Orlando Fellowship Team and serves as the Central Florida District Leader in the Free Methodist Church.
In 2003, Greg became a minister at Northland, a church distributed in Longwood, Fla., where he helped develop and launch three multisite locations. In 2006, he moved to help launch another church plant in the Orlando area. Greg then joined the Asbury Seminary Development Team and worked in the Southeast region until 2009. He also began teaching as an adjunct professor in Mentored Ministry at the Florida Dunham Campus in 2006. He is a founding member and serves on the board of two organizations: The Orlando Fellowship and also Samaritan Village, Inc.
He lives in Winter Garden, Fla. and enjoys reading, golfing, traveling, water skiing, scuba diving, and snow skiing. Kannon was married to an Asbury Seminary alumna and pastor, Kelly Kannon for 15 years until her death in early 2010.
