Rev. Barbara Ettinger
Rev. Barbara Ettinger serves as the Associate Superintendent in the East Coast Conference of the Evangelical Covenant Church, where she focuses on leader formation and development of pastors from Maine to Virginia. She brings a rich array of ministry and life experience to all she does. Barbara has served as the national manager of theological formation and as a missionary to college students with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. She also has served in parish ministry, church planting, women’s ministry, and as a retreat and conference speaker and preacher.
Barbara is a certified Mastery Coach Trainer with Creative Results Management and is a sought after coach, speaker, and trainer. She enthusiastically welcomes any opportunity to walk alongside pastors who are redefining or discovering their vocational identity or who find themselves at new junctures in their life and ministry. Barbara holds a masters degree in Communication from the University of Michigan and earned her seminary degree from Bethel Seminary. She presently is enrolled at Fuller in a DMin in Leader Formation. Barbara and her husband Jeff have two adult sons who live in far flung places across the globe, giving the Ettingers a great excuse to travel when there isn’t a worldwide pandemic going on.