Ed Willmington has been named the Director of the newly established Fred Bock Institute of Music, part of the Brehm Center for Worship, Theology and the Arts at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.
Ed has a BA in Church Music and Conducting (Bethel College); and an MM in Composition and DMA in Composition, both from the University of Arizona. He comes to the Bock Institute after serving for 22 years as the Pastor of Worship and Music at Scottsdale Bible Church in Scottsdale, Arizona. Ed is the composer/arranger of more than 100 published works and served on the Advisory Board for the Hymnal for Worship and Celebration.
Plans are under way to build a worship center that will house the Fred Bock Institute and provide classrooms and rehearsal space on the Fuller Campus. “The general goal is to establish resources and training opportunities for present and future worship leaders in the church,” Willmington said as he discussed his new assignment. Ed also has a burden for the often strained relations between worship leaders and pastors, and plans a unique program to mentor present and future worship leaders.