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Horwood donates one million for
theological education
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Young Clergy Initiative awards total
of seventy-five grants
NICOLE BURDAKIN
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Average debt for a United Methodist
M.Div. graduate reaches $49,303
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NEXT 2014 photo highlights
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Low-residency Course of Study in
El Salvador sees growing enrollment
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GBHEM and Discipleship Ministries
renew and expand e-readers for
theological education agreement
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Formation for Ministry in American
Methodism, now available
Photos by Joseph McBrayer
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Imagine What’s NEXT prepares
college students to dream, go, do
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United Methodist college students gather weekend of fellowship, worship, and inspiration
at Imagine What’s NEXT.
More than 680 United Methodist
college students and young adults
gathered in Denver, Colorado, for
Imagine What’s NEXT, a vocational
discernment event that challenged participants to live out the event theme,
“Dream. Go. Do.”
“I see God’s Holy Spirit pouring
itself out everywhere,” said Bishop
Minerva Carcaño, Los Angeles Area
Resident Bishop in the California-
Pacific Conference, who spoke at
opening worship of the conference.
Imagine What’s NEXT, Nov. 7-9,
was an event for young adults designed
to facilitate a fertile ground for imaginative work, focused specifically on the
spaces where church/world and
present/future meet. The event was
organized by a launch team of college
students, collegiate ministers and other
creative disciples from across the
General Board of Higher Education and Ministry
United Methodist connection, and was
sponsored by the Division of Higher
Education of the General Board of
Higher Education and Ministry.
Bishop Carcaño hoped for participants, “That you will dream for our
church, for the body of Jesus Christ,
for the whole world. That you will be
agents of God’s transformative mercy
and grace. That you will do all you
can.”
Sarah Bollinger and the B-Sides of
St. Louis, Mo.; an A Cappella Ensemble
from Wiley College in Marshall, Tex.;
a drumming group from First Tongan
UMC in San Bruno, Calif.; and JLYRIK,
a Christian hip hop artist, all contributed to worship at NEXT. Diversity
in musical worship styles was specifically cultivated to show the future and
breadth of the church.
Social media was integrated at new
depths for NEXT with the online event
platform Livecube, which allowed
students to engage directly in conversations with event speakers, sponsors,
and small groups. Participants could
earn points by using the Livecube app,
and aggregated Instagram photos and
other user-created social media were
displayed in the event space.
Ali Sokolowski, student at Florida
State University, spoke to the crowd on
pain and healing in the Christian faith.
She and Thomas Wolfe, president at
Iliff School of Theology in Denver, led
an oil anointment for participants.
“It takes one person believing in
one person to change this world,”
Sokolowski said. “You are needed.
You are called to be a wounded healer.”
Leia Williams, director of Communications and Discipleship in the
Northwest Texas Conference, told participants how she reimagined what
effective communications could look
like in churches. Williams challenged
students to consider, “If you could erase
an ineffective aspect of the church and
start from scratch, what would you
erase?”
Tyler Ward, North Central College
student; Ismail Pathan, Muslim interfaith organizer and Syracuse University
graduate; JLYRIK; and Sarah Beth
O’Brian, who spoke about activism to
raise awareness of campus sexual
assault, all shared stories of discovering
their passion or ministry.
Students also attended topic-specific
Pecha Kucha sessions led by United
Methodist students, activists, and entrepreneurs in particular fields of interest.
Pecha Kucha is a presentation style
originating in Japan in which 20 slides
are shown for 20 seconds each (6 minutes and 40 seconds in total). Designed
to spark conversation in small participant studio groups, each short
presentation challenged students to
rethink some aspect of church or
community.
Studio groups of 8-12 students met
to reflect on how worship services and
main stage speakers challenged them
to find and act on their passions.
Bridget Taylor from the Oklahoma
University Wesley, said of her studio
group experience, “We talked a lot
about individual, personal struggles,
and being surrounded by people who
aren’t judging you to discuss what’s
going on in your life, even if they’re
new people, was an amazing feeling.”
“I really loved the fact that my
group was really open to share their
testimonies and stories,” said Jakaela
Davis, student at Tuskegee University.
“I had prayed to God for confirmation
for a lot of things, and they were all
answered in this conference.”
Saturday night, students participated in a service plunge and worship
concert, led by the OU Wesley praise
band and headliner Jimmy Needham,
in downtown Denver.
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Jeff Lindstrom and Magen Dennis
from the Wesley Foundation of Kalamazoo in Michigan came to NEXT to
explore their vocational discernment.
“I’ve had a complete reimagining of
what I thought I wanted,” Dennis said.
“We came here searching for our
future together,” Lindstrom said. “We
feel more at peace in our hearts with
my working as a teacher and Magen
continuing her work with youth ministry. We can be missionaries right in
our community.”
The Rev. Vance Ross from the
Gordon Memorial United Methodist
Church in Nashville, Tenn., told students at closing worship that even
when they put their dreams into action,
they must stay attentive to God’s new
agenda, not just their individual vision
of what new ministry in the church
could look like.
“God is looking to commission
some folk to be authentic to who they
are but open to God’s call, God’s blueprint and future in a new direction,”
Ross said. “God’s looking for a church
that is looking for justice, not just for
us, but for everyone. The world is begging for that church; the world is
pleading for these disciples.”
“The world has had enough Christians,” Ross said. “We need some
disciples of Jesus.”
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assistant, Office of Communications.
Photo highlights
from NEXT
on pages 6 – 7.
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Horwood donates one million for theological education
Lifelong United Methodist, Stan Horwood made a one million dollar gift to
theological education in memory of his
wife, Elizabeth. Horwood has designated the gift for theological students
from the Rio Texas Conference who
attend Perkins School of Theology at
Southern Methodist University or
Asbury Theological Seminary.
Horwood, son of a United Methodist
pastor, said, “I fell in love with United
Methodist education, first as an undergraduate student at Southwestern
University in Georgetown, Texas, and
later at Perkins.” Circumstances caused
Stan to drop out of Perkins after studying for a year and a half, and he then
moved to Sterling City to be a part of the
Elizabeth’s family’s ranching business.
“With deep gratitude, we announce
this very significant gift to theological
education. Stan and Elizabeth have
been pillars, not only at First United
Methodist Church in Sterling City but
Photos by Donnie Reed/GBHEM
MARCIE SMECK
Horwood with a photo of his late wife Elizabeth.
also in the district and their entire
annual conference,” said Bishop James
Dorff, resident bishop of the Rio Texas
Annual Conference.
“I want to thank them on behalf of
all the students in this annual conference who will benefit from their
generosity,” Dorff continued. “Stan not
only gave a very generous gift, but he
took the opportunity to help send a
message to others that theological education and training of leaders is so
Left to right: Neil Blair, Executive Director of Institutional Advancement at GBHEM; the
Rev. Jim Noble, First United Methodist Church in Sterling City; the Rev. Dr. Kim Cape,
General Secretary of GBHEM; Stan Horwood, United Methodist philanthropist; and
Bishop Jim Dorff, Bishop of the San Antonio Episcopal Area.
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important to the church.”
The gift is split, $500,000 to the
scholarship endowment at each school.
Income from the endowments will provide scholarships to students from the
Rio Texas Conference who are called to
ministry and seek theological education. Horwood has asked that students
be selected by each school’s scholarship committee based on need and
demonstrated academic ability.
“What a great churchman Stan is;
making this gift to the new conference
shows he is aware of the strength in the
connection and how he loves The
United Methodist Church on every
level,” said GBHEM General Secretary,
Dr. Kim Cape.
Bishop Dorff also thanked Horwood
on behalf of the GBHEM board of directors, where the Bishop is president of
the board for this quadrennium. Cape
thanked Horwood for offering GBHEM
the opportunity to help him plan the
gift, “and reclaim our roots as the General Board, promoting generosity
towards theological education.”
Smeck is interim director,
Office of Communications.
Young Clergy Initiative awards total of seventy-five grants
NICOLE BURDAKIN
Over two rounds, 164 Young Clergy
Initiative grant applications were
received. Twenty-nine grants were
awarded in the first round, and fortysix grants were awarded in the second
round, bringing the total amount
awarded to approximately $5.5 million.
Grants were awarded to programs
geared toward increasing the number
of young clergy in The United
Methodist Church and supporting the
young clergy already serving in the
denomination.
Grants ranged in size from
$100,000 to $5,000. While there is a
primary recipient for each grant, all of
the applicants formed partnerships
with churches, annual conferences,
other institutions or individuals to
work on the projects.
Kim Ingram, a member of the YCI
Selection Committee, said of the diver-
sity among applicants, “We got grant
requests from a number of different
kinds of sources—local churches, districts, campus ministries, conferences,
non-profits, seminaries, United
Methodist [related] colleges, foundations, and camps.”
“There were also some exciting partnerships that are going to happen as a
result [of the YCI grants awarded,]
through campus ministries and United
Methodist [related] colleges, between
churches and campus ministries,
between seminaries and conferences,
[and] between a seminary and a college,” Ingram said. “We’re excited about
people working together.”
General Conference 2012 created
the $7 million fund to address the need
for young clergy in the UMC. While
$7 million was approved, the amount
disbursed was about $5.5 million, since
the actual funds are dependent on
payments to the World Service apportionment fund.
See the full list of grants awarded at
www.explorecalling.org/yci.
A $100,000 Young Clergy Initiative grant will fund Project Transformation Tennessee’s Church and Community Fellow-
Photos provided by Project Transformation
ship (CCF) Program to connect the ministry of emerging young adult leaders with the needs of underserved communities and
strengths of local churches in Middle Tennessee. For one year, nine fellows (young adults) commit to live in a diverse, intentional
Christian community; serve marginalized communities with the support of local churches; receive ongoing training and mentorship
from spiritual leaders; participate in weekly leadership
courses and reflection; and meet regularly with community
and church leaders to examine careers in ministry and service. “We already are celebrating how God will move in the
lives of young people through our partnership with the
Young Clergy Initiative,” said Courtney Aldrich, Project Transformation executive director.
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Average debt for a United Methodist M.Div. graduate reaches $49,303
NICOLE BURDAKIN
New findings from the General Board
of Higher Education & Ministry’s Seminary Indebtedness Task Force reveal
that the average educational debt for
United Methodist seminary graduates
has reached $49,303.
“Based on median annual conference compensation for new clergy, we
now know that many of our clergy are
well beyond the nationally recognized
critical level (10% of income) for
manageable debt,” said Allyson
Collinsworth, executive director
of GBHEM’s Office of Loans and
Scholarships.
The figure for average student debt
is calculated by combining the average
M.Div. seminary debt for UM students
($35,761) and the average undergraduate (or prior to seminary debt) for UM
students ($13,542), according to data
from 13 United Methodist theological
schools.
“Currently in the U.S., college students have a trillion dollars of
educational debt. The Task Force is
bringing our institutions and annual
conferences together to look at this
issue, which is affecting our clergy and
their families,” said Collinsworth.
Active, full-time provisional elders
and deacons with one year or less of
service in the UMC (as of July 2014)
earn a median total annual compensation (salary plus housing allowance or
parsonage amount) of $49,742 according to data collected from the General
Board of Pensions and Health Benefits.
This includes a median annual base
salary of $38,000.
"Seminary debt is keeping young,
innovative clergy from being able to
take risks in their ministry—the very
same risks, in fact, that a 21st century
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church needs to be making," said Tyler
Sit, recent seminary graduate and
church planting resident at Urban
Village Church in Chicago.
New calculations estimate the critical level of student debt for United
Methodist new full-time clergy to be
around $35,500. This figure assumes
earning the median annual compensation for new clergy, putting the FinAid
recommended 10% of gross monthly
income toward student debt and the
ability to repay the debt in a 10 year
standard plan at a 6.8% interest rate.
“Using data supplied by seminaries,
we have painted a clearer picture of the
debt facing our clergy and seminarian
students. Now we need to create discussion, cooperation, and resourcing
among the levels of the church that can
combat this problem,” said
Collinsworth.
GBHEM staff and Task Force members shared the current calculations at a
recent joint meeting of seminary financial aid directors, project managers for
Lilly Endowment grants, two seminary
presidents, and boards of ordained
ministry (BOM) staff from 18 annual
conferences. Seven UM seminaries were
among 67 across the U.S. that received
money from the Lilly Endowment as a
part of its initiative to address economic
issues facing future ministers.
Root causes discussed by
the group included the financial realities of the cost of
seminary, loan availability and
access, lack of financial literacy, process
and timing for students to identify
themselves as a candidate for ordination and additional pre-seminary debt.
Solutions brainstormed at the meeting
included creating a financial literacy
element in the group candidacy (or
vocational discernment) process to provide information on funding resources
as part of the group study. This, however, would be aimed at declared
candidates on track to be certified and
would help only those who identified
their call to ministry early.
Other ideas included a greater
emphasis at seminaries on financial
training/counseling about debt limits
and fiscal realities. Annual conferences
could partner with seminaries to
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United Methodist student loan rates hold steady
Despite the federal student loan interest rate increase on July 1, 2014, United
Methodist student loans did not.
Under legislation passed in 2013, federal student loan interest rates are tied to
the 10-year U.S. Treasury note auction and increased by 0.8 percent on July 1.
“An educated mind with a heart for Jesus Christ is the goal for every parent and
faithful member of the UMC. We strive to maintain scholarships and low interest
loans through offerings, donations and endowments from future-sighted members
to ensure our children have this opportunity,” Allyson Collinsworth said.
For more information on the UMC’s low interest student loans and scholarships,
visit: www.gbhem.org/loansandscholarships.
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NEXT 2014 Photo Highlights
MC Lewis Keys, Perkins School of Theology, leads worship.
Students schedule appointments with service programs, seminary
representatives, and internship opportunities at exhibitor PODs.
Participant free time, or “creative space,” includes a ball pit and open
mic performances.
United Methodist college students connected and networked with other
young adults that want to live out their faith.
Iliff President Thomas Wolfe tells college students, "The church is changing in radical ways. You could either watch it go or you could participate."
Students relax in prayer space sponsored by Discipleship Ministries and
assemble prayer beads for those living along the Border.
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See more photos at www.facebook.com/nextumc.
Tongan drumming group from the First Tongan UMC of San Bruno, Calif.,
kicks off morning worship on Day Two.
The Oklahoma University Wesley Praise Band performs at Trinity United
Methodist Church in downtown Denver.
The Rev. Vance Ross tells students, "The world has had enough
Christians. We need some disciples of Jesus," at closing worship.
Bishop Minerva Carcaño and the Rev. Michael McCord of GBHEM
preside over communion during opening worship.
A Cappella Ensemble from Wiley College performs on the main stage.
Photos by Joseph McBrayer
Jon Woon, The Upper Room, speaks at a Pecha Kucha session on digital
media convergence.
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Low-residency Course of Study in El Salvador
sees growing enrollment
Photo by Juan de Dios Peña
contact prospective students and
include education about regional funding in the recruitment process. Others
wanted more support from the district
committee level in the discernment
process, moving a conversation about
the reasonable maximum debt for
clergy into a local context.
Legislation approved at General
Conference 2012 recommended that
GBHEM form a Task Force to address
financial assistance and seminary debt
for certified candidates for ordained
ministry. The Seminary Indebtedness
Task Force is a subset of the GBHEM
Young Clergy Initiative.
Seminary representatives at the
meeting expressed need to receive Ministerial Education Fund checks at the
schools before students pay tuition
bills, which would avoid odd shortterm borrowing, and a hope to be
involved earlier in the ordination
process via candidacy retreats or discernment spaces. Annual conference
BOM staff spoke of the need to streamline data collection and identify persons
who are actively enrolled in a UM
seminary from each conference.
Overall, meeting participants rallied
behind a call for greater consistency
and clarity across the connection about
what debt limits are for candidacy and
ordination, as well as when credit
checks are required in that process.
Sit advised students, “Don't try to run
away from your debt. Ask questions
(and demand answers) about your
financial status until you are absolutely
confident in how you are going to
scratch out debt before it interferes
with your ministry.”
The Seminary Indebtedness Task
will give a final report to the Council
of Bishops and the Connectional Table
in 2015 and to the 2016 General
Conference.
The Course of Study in El Salvador's graduating class, May 2014.
NICOLE BURDAKIN
A campus in Ahuachapan, El Salvador,
is serving local pastors throughout Central America. Distance learning and
concentrated weeklong learning retreats
help train United Methodists from five
countries who often preach in remote
areas. This low-residency approach to
Course of Study has grown quickly in
the past few years with 110 students
actively enrolled in the program.
In May 2014, 13 students graduated
from the program and participated in a
graduation ceremony at the end of their
final on-campus training retreat.
“One of the great things about
Course of Study in El Salvador is that
we can establish relationships not only
with other students but also with our
teachers. We are in constant communication… by Facebook or email, and
others through telephone,” Estrella
Pimentel, a fourth-year student in the
program and pastor in San Pedro Sula,
Honduras, said.
Course of Study in El Salvador, the
training and education program for
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local pastors who serve a specific
appointment but do not itinerate, helps
five countries train pastors— El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras
and Costa Rica—and is sponsored by
the General Board of Higher Education
and Ministry partnering with the General Board of Global Ministries and
Duke Divinity School to make this
program possible.
Ismael Ruiz-Millán, director of the
Hispanic House of Studies and Student
Pastor Program at Duke Divinity School
and instructor at the Course of Study
since 2010, said of his experience with
the program, “My theological imagination has expanded. By being exposed to
the perspective of practitioners from five
different countries, my understanding
and practice of ministry has been challenged and transformed.”
Ruiz-Millán has taught four different
classes at the Course of Study and
assists the director of the program, the
Rev. Dr. Edgardo Colón-Emeric, in
recruitment and coordination before
and during the program.
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Photo by Juan de Dios Peña
“Through this program, I am constantly reminded that it does not require
a lot of resources to do effective ministry,” Ruiz-Millán said. “I have
witnessed how many relationships have
developed among pastors, professors
and staff. Ultimately, it is very humbling
and inspiring to see how passionate and
eager to learn all participants are to the
point to even miss a week of their jobs.”
Students in the Course of Study program meet twice per year—once in
April or May, and again in December.
A class on baptism and baptismal
renewal, a popular request in the Latin
American church, is conducted offsite
by Rio Paz, a river on the border of
Guatemala and El Salvador. Students
travel by school bus to Rio Paz, and
many experience their own baptismal
renewal as part of the class.
Katie Benjamin, a doctoral student
at Duke Divinity School and Course of
Study instructor, explained that many
students find a greater understanding of
the Wesleyan identity. “One student,”
she recalled, “memorably reported his
happiness to be able to answer the
question of where ‘the mission’ came
from.”
Methodist churches in Central
America are young, but they have long
transitioned beyond the phase where
they can be called ‘mission’ churches, as
all ministerial leadership is local. Yet for
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many in Central America, there remains
the basic question of why a church in
their community takes the name
“Metodista.”
“Who were the Wesleys? Why do we
worship and pray the way we do? What
makes us different from the larger
Catholic and Pentecostal churches in
our countries—and what connects us to
those churches? The Course of Study
program aims to deepen Central American Methodists' biblical knowledge as
well as giving them resources for thinking theologically about their tradition
and current mission.” Benjamin said.
The program began as a partnership
with United Methodist Claremont
School of Theology, but in 2010 transitioned to the leadership of Edgardo
Colón-Emeric, assistant professor of
Christian Theology at Duke Divinity
School. Professors from the U.S. and
other countries, including Mexico, Peru
and Great Britain, join the program as
instructors each year.
A large plenary class and a number
of small classes are conducted on campus during biyearly learning retreats.
Spiritual music and group musical performances are a key component of class
time. After meeting on campus, students individually carry out
“homework” in their home countries
and local churches throughout the year
to reinforce learning and to continue
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building skills in their own local
contexts.
“The program has been very successful, and more people are coming in
to study. Global Ministries in collaboration with GBHEM have helped to make
this program an effective ministry,” said
the Rev. David Martinez, director of
Specialized Programs of Theological
Education who oversees Course of
Study in El Salvador at GBHEM.
Online classes, new
curriculum offer new
options for local pastors
Throughout the world, low residency
and online learning options for
Course of Study continue to grow in
popularity. In the U.S., new online
interactive classes scheduled to
launch in January 2015 will provide
easier access for part-time local
pastors who have regular employment outside the church and wish
to complete some of the Course of
Study remotely.
GBHEM and Discipleship Ministries renew and expand e-readers
for theological education agreement
A pilot project to provide e-readers
loaded with theological texts has
proven so successful that GBHEM
General Secretary Kim Cape and Discipleship Ministries General Secretary
Tim Bias renewed their joint agreement,
continuing this interagency collaboration until December 2016. The
renewed agreement includes a partnership with the African Association of
United Methodist-related Theological
Institutions (AAUMTI) and its sixteen
United Methodist theology schools in
Africa, as well as four theology schools
in the Philippines.
The pilot project at Gbarnga School
of Theology (GST) in Liberia tested
simple and effective ways to help theology schools in remote, low-power areas
have access to current textbooks and
reference books necessary for a solid
theological education in the Wesleyan
tradition. In the evaluation of the 18month pilot project (January 2013-June
2014), GST faculty reported that the
use of the e-reader raised the level of
classroom discussion because students
now could read assignments before
class.
“Both agencies are called to develop
leaders who make disciples of Jesus
Christ and to equip and educate the
saints for the transformation of the
world,” said Bias. “We are excited to see
how using digital devices and content
can be a part of equipping our brothers
and sisters across the world for the
work of ministry.”
The e-reader team is refining English content and developing French and
Portuguese content. In the next year the
team will meet with the leadership of
the 22 theological schools, providing
their first e-readers and planning for the
implementation on each campus in
2015 and 2016.
“This is a wonderful partnership
with Discipleship Ministries. It is a
perfect complement to our ongoing
work—promoting theological education in fast growing central conferences,
expanding access to theological
resources and enhancing the
teaching/learning environment at each
institution, no matter how remote they
are,” Cape said.
The team settled on a “library
model” for the work with AAUMTI
schools in Africa. Students will be able
to use school-owned e-readers
(checked out from the school library)
and may be able to receive their own
e-reader when they graduate.
Funding for the “E-Reader Project”
comes from annual conferences, local
churches, individual donors, universities and a student fee each semester,
which helps offset the price of the
e-reader and its content.
To learn more or donate online,
visit www.umcereader.org.
Photo by Jeff Oliver
Photo by Kimberly Lord/GBHEM
MARCIE SMECK
A pilot project to provide e-readers loaded with theological texts for a seminary in Liberia is
being expanded to include other parts of Africa and the Philippines.
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Formation for Ministry
in American Methodism,
now available
Mark Your Calendar
Ministry Study Commission
NICOLE BURDAKIN
Formation for Ministry in American
Methodism: Twenty-first Century
Challenges and Two Centuries of ProblemSolving is a new publication that names
and critically considers the potential
future of formation for ministry in the
digital age. The book also presents an
overview of how the Methodist community in America has identified and
formed its ministers since the late eighteenth century.
Published by the General Board of
Higher Education and Ministry, Formation for Ministry in American Methodism
is critically important reading for district committees on ordained ministry,
candidates preparing for ordination
interviews, boards of ordained ministry,
district superintendents, bishops, seminary and Course of Study faculty, and
all who are involved in forming the
next generation of church leaders.
“Russ's book gives critical information for anyone involved in formation
for ministry, not only because of the
concise way he covers 230 years of our
evolving history, but because of the way
he helps us to configure and reconfigure our contemporary challenges in
light of that history,” said Marjorie
Suchocki, professor emerita of theology,
United Methodist-related Claremont
School of Theology.
“Many of those of us who were
involved in theological education in the
latter decades of the twentieth century
assumed we had ‘arrived;’ that things
were here to stay. How shortsighted!”
Suchocki said. “This is essential reading
for all who are involved in contemporary formation for ministry.”
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and points us forward as we face the
challenges of our time. Richey has
made a great contribution to our ongoing work, building on the sturdy
foundation of our United Methodist
heritage,” GBHEM General Secretary
Kim Cape said.
Author Russell E. Richey is professor of Church History emeritus and
former dean of United Methodistrelated Candler School of Theology at
Emory University. He serves as vice
president of the Wesley Works Editorial
Project and was a drafter for the General Conference Task Force to Study the
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