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1 No ALSO IN THIS ISSUE Horwood donates one million for theological edcation 3 Yong Clergy Initiative awards total of seventy-five grants 4 Imagine What s NEXT prepares college stdents to dream, go, do NICOLE BURDAKIN Average debt for a United Methodist M.Div. gradate reaches $49,303 5 NEXT 2014 photo highlights 6 Low-residency Corse of Stdy in El Salvador sees growing enrollment 8 GBHEM and Discipleship Ministries renew and expand e-readers for theological edcation agreement 10 Formation for Ministry in American Methodism, now available 11 United Methodist college stdents gather weekend of fellowship, worship, and inspiration at Imagine What s NEXT. Photos by Joseph McBrayer More than 680 United Methodist college stdents and yong adlts gathered in Denver, Colorado, for Imagine What s NEXT, a vocational discernment event that challenged participants to live ot the event theme, Dream. Go. Do. I see God s Holy Spirit poring itself ot 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 yong adlts designed to facilitate a fertile grond for imaginative work, focsed specifically on the spaces where chrch/world and present/ftre meet. The event was organized by a lanch team of college stdents, collegiate ministers and other creative disciples from across the General Board of Higher Edcation and Ministry

2 United Methodist connection, and was sponsored by the Division of Higher Edcation of the General Board of Higher Edcation and Ministry. Bishop Carcaño hoped for participants, That yo will dream for or chrch, for the body of Jess Christ, for the whole world. That yo will be agents of God s transformative mercy and grace. That yo will do all yo can. Sarah Bollinger and the B-Sides of St. Lois, Mo.; an A Cappella Ensemble from Wiley College in Marshall, Tex.; a drmming grop from First Tongan UMC in San Brno, Calif.; and JLYRIK, a Christian hip hop artist, all contribted to worship at NEXT. Diversity in msical worship styles was specifically cltivated to show the ftre and breadth of the chrch. Social media was integrated at new depths for NEXT with the online event platform Livecbe, which allowed stdents to engage directly in conversations with event speakers, sponsors, and small grops. Participants cold earn points by sing the Livecbe app, and aggregated Instagram photos and other ser-created social media were displayed in the event space. Ali Sokolowski, stdent 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. Yo are needed. Yo are called to be a wonded healer. Leia Williams, director of Commnications and Discipleship in the Northwest Texas Conference, told participants how she reimagined what effective commnications cold look like in chrches. Williams challenged stdents to consider, If yo cold erase an ineffective aspect of the chrch and start from scratch, what wold yo erase? Tyler Ward, North Central College stdent; Ismail Pathan, Mslim interfaith organizer and Syracse University gradate; JLYRIK; and Sarah Beth O Brian, who spoke abot activism to raise awareness of camps sexal assalt, all shared stories of discovering their passion or ministry. Stdents also attended topic-specific Pecha Kcha sessions led by United Methodist stdents, activists, and entrepreners in particlar fields of interest. Pecha Kcha is a presentation style originating in Japan in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each (6 mintes and 40 seconds in total). Designed to spark conversation in small participant stdio grops, each short presentation challenged stdents to rethink some aspect of chrch or commnity. Stdio grops of 8-12 stdents 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 stdio grop experience, We talked a lot abot individal, personal strggles, and being srronded by people who aren t jdging yo to discss what s going on in yor life, even if they re new people, was an amazing feeling. I really loved the fact that my grop was really open to share their testimonies and stories, said Jakaela Davis, stdent at Tskegee University. I had prayed to God for confirmation for a lot of things, and they were all answered in this conference. Satrday night, stdents participated in a service plnge and worship concert, led by the OU Wesley praise band and headliner Jimmy Needham, in downtown Denver. Jeff Lindstrom and Magen Dennis from the Wesley Fondation of Kalamazoo in Michigan came to NEXT to explore their vocational discernment. I ve had a complete reimagining of what I thoght I wanted, Dennis said. We came here searching for or ftre together, Lindstrom said. We feel more at peace in or hearts with my working as a teacher and Magen contining her work with yoth ministry. We can be missionaries right in or commnity. The Rev. Vance Ross from the Gordon Memorial United Methodist Chrch in Nashville, Tenn., told stdents at closing worship that even when they pt their dreams into action, they mst stay attentive to God s new agenda, not jst their individal vision of what new ministry in the chrch cold look like. God is looking to commission some folk to be athentic to who they are bt open to God s call, God s bleprint and ftre in a new direction, Ross said. God s looking for a chrch that is looking for jstice, not jst for s, bt for everyone. The world is begging for that chrch; the world is pleading for these disciples. The world has had enogh Christians, Ross said. We need some disciples of Jess. Brdakin is editorial and prodction assistant, Office of Commnications. Photo highlights from NEXT on pages C O L L E A G U E N O

3 Horwood donates one million for theological edcation MARCIE SMECK Lifelong United Methodist, Stan Horwood made a one million dollar gift to theological edcation in memory of his wife, Elizabeth. Horwood has designated the gift for theological stdents from the Rio Texas Conference who attend Perkins School of Theology at Sothern Methodist University or Asbry Theological Seminary. Horwood, son of a United Methodist pastor, said, I fell in love with United Methodist edcation, first as an ndergradate stdent at Sothwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, and later at Perkins. Circmstances cased Stan to drop ot of Perkins after stdying for a year and a half, and he then moved to Sterling City to be a part of the Elizabeth s family s ranching bsiness. With deep gratitde, we annonce this very significant gift to theological edcation. Stan and Elizabeth have been pillars, not only at First United Methodist Chrch in Sterling City bt Horwood with a photo of his late wife Elizabeth. also in the district and their entire annal conference, said Bishop James Dorff, resident bishop of the Rio Texas Annal Conference. I want to thank them on behalf of all the stdents in this annal conference who will benefit from their generosity, Dorff contined. Stan not only gave a very generos gift, bt he took the opportnity to help send a message to others that theological edcation and training of leaders is so important to the chrch. The gift is split, $500,000 to the scholarship endowment at each school. Income from the endowments will provide scholarships to stdents from the Rio Texas Conference who are called to ministry and seek theological edcation. Horwood has asked that stdents be selected by each school s scholarship committee based on need and demonstrated academic ability. What a great chrchman 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 Chrch 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 qadrennim. Cape thanked Horwood for offering GBHEM the opportnity to help him plan the gift, and reclaim or roots as the General Board, promoting generosity towards theological edcation. Photos by Donnie Reed/GBHEM Left to right: Neil Blair, Exective Director of Instittional Advancement at GBHEM; the Rev. Jim Noble, First United Methodist Chrch 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. Smeck is interim director, Office of Commnications. W W W. G B H E M. O R G 3

4 Yong Clergy Initiative awards total of seventy-five grants NICOLE BURDAKIN Over two ronds, 164 Yong Clergy Initiative grant applications were received. Twenty-nine grants were awarded in the first rond, and fortysix grants were awarded in the second rond, bringing the total amont awarded to approximately $5.5 million. Grants were awarded to programs geared toward increasing the nmber of yong clergy in The United Methodist Chrch and spporting the yong 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 chrches, annal conferences, other instittions or individals to work on the projects. Kim Ingram, a member of the YCI Selection Committee, said of the diversity among applicants, We got grant reqests from a nmber of different kinds of sorces local chrches, districts, camps ministries, conferences, non-profits, seminaries, United Methodist [related] colleges, fondations, and camps. There were also some exciting partnerships that are going to happen as a reslt [of the YCI grants awarded,] throgh camps ministries and United Methodist [related] colleges, between chrches and camps ministries, between seminaries and conferences, [and] between a seminary and a college, Ingram said. We re excited abot people working together. General Conference 2012 created the $7 million fnd to address the need for yong clergy in the UMC. While $7 million was approved, the amont disbrsed was abot $5.5 million, since the actal fnds are dependent on payments to the World Service apportionment fnd. See the fll list of grants awarded at A $100,000 Yong Clergy Initiative grant will fnd Project Transformation Tennessee s Chrch and Commnity Fellowship (CCF) Program to connect the ministry of emerging yong adlt leaders with the needs of nderserved commnities and strengths of local chrches in Middle Tennessee. For one year, nine fellows (yong adlts) commit to live in a diverse, intentional Christian commnity; serve marginalized commnities with the spport of local chrches; receive ongoing training and mentorship from spirital leaders; participate in weekly leadership corses and reflection; and meet reglarly with commnity and chrch leaders to examine careers in ministry and service. We already are celebrating how God will move in the lives of yong people throgh or partnership with the Yong Clergy Initiative, said Cortney Aldrich, Project Transformation exective director. Photos provided by Project Transformation 4 C O L L E A G U E N O

5 Average debt for a United Methodist M.Div. gradate reaches $49,303 NICOLE BURDAKIN New findings from the General Board of Higher Edcation & Ministry s Seminary Indebtedness Task Force reveal that the average edcational debt for United Methodist seminary gradates has reached $49,303. Based on median annal conference compensation for new clergy, we now know that many of or clergy are well beyond the nationally recognized critical level (10% of income) for manageable debt, said Allyson Collinsworth, exective director of GBHEM s Office of Loans and Scholarships. The figre for average stdent debt is calclated by combining the average M.Div. seminary debt for UM stdents ($35,761) and the average ndergradate (or prior to seminary debt) for UM stdents ($13,542), according to data from 13 United Methodist theological schools. Crrently in the U.S., college stdents have a trillion dollars of edcational debt. The Task Force is bringing or instittions and annal conferences together to look at this isse, which is affecting or clergy and their families, said Collinsworth. Active, fll-time provisional elders and deacons with one year or less of service in the UMC (as of Jly 2014) earn a median total annal compensation (salary pls hosing allowance or parsonage amont) of $49,742 according to data collected from the General Board of Pensions and Health Benefits. This incldes a median annal base salary of $38,000. "Seminary debt is keeping yong, innovative clergy from being able to take risks in their ministry the very same risks, in fact, that a 21st centry chrch needs to be making," said Tyler Sit, recent seminary gradate and chrch planting resident at Urban Village Chrch in Chicago. New calclations estimate the critical level of stdent debt for United Methodist new fll-time clergy to be arond $35,500. This figre assmes earning the median annal compensation for new clergy, ptting the FinAid recommended 10% of gross monthly income toward stdent debt and the ability to repay the debt in a 10 year standard plan at a 6.8% interest rate. Using data spplied by seminaries, we have painted a clearer pictre of the debt facing or clergy and seminarian stdents. Now we need to create discssion, cooperation, and resorcing among the levels of the chrch that can combat this problem, said Collinsworth. GBHEM staff and Task Force members shared the crrent calclations 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 annal 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 isses facing ftre ministers. Root cases discssed by the grop inclded the financial realities of the cost of seminary, loan availability and access, lack of financial literacy, process and timing for stdents to identify themselves as a candidate for ordination and additional pre-seminary debt. Soltions brainstormed at the meeting inclded creating a financial literacy element in the grop candidacy (or vocational discernment) process to provide information on fnding resorces as part of the grop stdy. This, however, wold be aimed at declared candidates on track to be certified and wold help only those who identified their call to ministry early. Other ideas inclded a greater emphasis at seminaries on financial training/conseling abot debt limits and fiscal realities. Annal conferences cold partner with seminaries to United Methodist stdent loan rates hold steady Contined on page 8 Despite the federal stdent loan interest rate increase on Jly 1, 2014, United Methodist stdent loans did not. Under legislation passed in 2013, federal stdent loan interest rates are tied to the 10-year U.S. Treasry note action and increased by 0.8 percent on Jly 1. An edcated mind with a heart for Jess Christ is the goal for every parent and faithfl member of the UMC. We strive to maintain scholarships and low interest loans throgh offerings, donations and endowments from ftre-sighted members to ensre or children have this opportnity, Allyson Collinsworth said. For more information on the UMC s low interest stdent loans and scholarships, visit: W W W. G B H E M. O R G 5

6 NEXT 2014 Photo Highlights MC Lewis Keys, Perkins School of Theology, leads worship. Stdents schedle appointments with service programs, seminary representatives, and internship opportnities at exhibitor PODs. Participant free time, or creative space, incldes a ball pit and open mic performances. United Methodist college stdents connected and networked with other yong adlts that want to live ot their faith. Iliff President Thomas Wolfe tells college stdents, "The chrch is changing in radical ways. Yo cold either watch it go or yo cold participate." Stdents relax in prayer space sponsored by Discipleship Ministries and assemble prayer beads for those living along the Border. 6 C O L L E A G U E N O

7 See more photos at Jon Woon, The Upper Room, speaks at a Pecha Kcha session on digital media convergence. Tongan drmming grop from the First Tongan UMC of San Brno, Calif., kicks off morning worship on Day Two. The Oklahoma University Wesley Praise Band performs at Trinity United Methodist Chrch in downtown Denver. The Rev. Vance Ross tells stdents, "The world has had enogh Christians. We need some disciples of Jess," at closing worship. Bishop Minerva Carcaño and the Rev. Michael McCord of GBHEM preside over commnion dring opening worship. A Cappella Ensemble from Wiley College performs on the main stage. Photos by Joseph McBrayer W W W. G B H E M. O R G 7

8 contact prospective stdents and inclde edcation abot regional fnding in the recritment process. Others wanted more spport from the district committee level in the discernment process, moving a conversation abot the reasonable maximm 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 sbset of the GBHEM Yong Clergy Initiative. Seminary representatives at the meeting expressed need to receive Ministerial Edcation Fnd checks at the schools before stdents pay tition bills, which wold avoid odd shortterm borrowing, and a hope to be involved earlier in the ordination process via candidacy retreats or discernment spaces. Annal 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 abot what debt limits are for candidacy and ordination, as well as when credit checks are reqired in that process. Sit advised stdents, Don't try to rn away from yor debt. Ask qestions (and demand answers) abot yor financial stats ntil yo are absoltely confident in how yo are going to scratch ot debt before it interferes with yor ministry. The Seminary Indebtedness Task will give a final report to the Concil of Bishops and the Connectional Table in 2015 and to the 2016 General Conference. Low-residency Corse of Stdy in El Salvador sees growing enrollment The Corse of Stdy in El Salvador's gradating class, May NICOLE BURDAKIN A camps in Ahachapan, El Salvador, is serving local pastors throghot Central America. Distance learning and concentrated weeklong learning retreats help train United Methodists from five contries who often preach in remote areas. This low-residency approach to Corse of Stdy has grown qickly in the past few years with 110 stdents actively enrolled in the program. In May 2014, 13 stdents gradated from the program and participated in a gradation ceremony at the end of their final on-camps training retreat. One of the great things abot Corse of Stdy in El Salvador is that we can establish relationships not only with other stdents bt also with or teachers. We are in constant commnication by Facebook or , and others throgh telephone, Estrella Pimentel, a forth-year stdent in the program and pastor in San Pedro Sla, Hondras, said. Corse of Stdy in El Salvador, the training and edcation program for local pastors who serve a specific appointment bt do not itinerate, helps five contries train pastors El Salvador, Gatemala, Nicaraga, Hondras and Costa Rica and is sponsored by the General Board of Higher Edcation and Ministry partnering with the General Board of Global Ministries and Dke Divinity School to make this program possible. Ismael Riz-Millán, director of the Hispanic Hose of Stdies and Stdent Pastor Program at Dke Divinity School and instrctor at the Corse of Stdy 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 contries, my nderstanding and practice of ministry has been challenged and transformed. Riz-Millán has taght for different classes at the Corse of Stdy and assists the director of the program, the Rev. Dr. Edgardo Colón-Emeric, in recritment and coordination before and dring the program. Photo by Jan de Dios Peña 8 C O L L E A G U E N O

9 Photo by Jan de Dios Peña Throgh this program, I am constantly reminded that it does not reqire a lot of resorces to do effective ministry, Riz-Millán said. I have witnessed how many relationships have developed among pastors, professors and staff. Ultimately, it is very hmbling and inspiring to see how passionate and eager to learn all participants are to the point to even miss a week of their jobs. Stdents in the Corse of Stdy program meet twice per year once in April or May, and again in December. A class on baptism and baptismal renewal, a poplar reqest in the Latin American chrch, is condcted offsite by Rio Paz, a river on the border of Gatemala and El Salvador. Stdents travel by school bs to Rio Paz, and many experience their own baptismal renewal as part of the class. Katie Benjamin, a doctoral stdent at Dke Divinity School and Corse of Stdy instrctor, explained that many stdents find a greater nderstanding of the Wesleyan identity. One stdent, she recalled, memorably reported his happiness to be able to answer the qestion of where the mission came from. Methodist chrches in Central America are yong, bt they have long transitioned beyond the phase where they can be called mission chrches, as all ministerial leadership is local. Yet for many in Central America, there remains the basic qestion of why a chrch in their commnity takes the name Metodista. Who were the Wesleys? Why do we worship and pray the way we do? What makes s different from the larger Catholic and Pentecostal chrches in or contries and what connects s to those chrches? The Corse of Stdy program aims to deepen Central American Methodists' biblical knowledge as well as giving them resorces for thinking theologically abot their tradition and crrent mission. Benjamin said. The program began as a partnership with United Methodist Claremont School of Theology, bt in 2010 transitioned to the leadership of Edgardo Colón-Emeric, assistant professor of Christian Theology at Dke Divinity School. Professors from the U.S. and other contries, inclding Mexico, Per and Great Britain, join the program as instrctors each year. A large plenary class and a nmber of small classes are condcted on camps dring biyearly learning retreats. Spirital msic and grop msical performances are a key component of class time. After meeting on camps, stdents individally carry ot homework in their home contries and local chrches throghot the year to reinforce learning and to contine bilding skills in their own local contexts. The program has been very sccessfl, and more people are coming in to stdy. 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 Edcation who oversees Corse of Stdy in El Salvador at GBHEM. Online classes, new crriclm offer new options for local pastors Throghot the world, low residency and online learning options for Corse of Stdy contine to grow in poplarity. In the U.S., new online interactive classes schedled to lanch in Janary 2015 will provide easier access for part-time local pastors who have reglar employment otside the chrch and wish to complete some of the Corse of Stdy remotely. W W W. G B H E M. O R G 9

10 GBHEM and Discipleship Ministries renew and expand e-readers for theological edcation agreement MARCIE SMECK A pilot project to provide e-readers loaded with theological texts has proven so sccessfl that GBHEM General Secretary Kim Cape and Discipleship Ministries General Secretary Tim Bias renewed their joint agreement, contining this interagency collaboration ntil December The renewed agreement incldes a partnership with the African Association of United Methodist-related Theological Instittions (AAUMTI) and its sixteen United Methodist theology schools in Africa, as well as for 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 crrent textbooks and reference books necessary for a solid theological edcation in the Wesleyan tradition. In the evalation of the 18- month pilot project (Janary 2013-Jne 2014), GST faclty reported that the se of the e-reader raised the level of classroom discssion becase stdents now cold read assignments before class. Both agencies are called to develop leaders who make disciples of Jess Christ and to eqip and edcate the saints for the transformation of the world, said Bias. We are excited to see how sing digital devices and content Photo by Kimberly Lord/GBHEM can be a part of eqipping or brothers and sisters across the world for the work of ministry. The e-reader team is refining English content and developing French and Portgese 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 camps in 2015 and This is a wonderfl partnership with Discipleship Ministries. It is a perfect complement to or ongoing work promoting theological edcation in fast growing central conferences, expanding access to theological resorces and enhancing the teaching/learning environment at each instittion, no matter how remote they are, Cape said. The team settled on a library model for the work with AAUMTI schools in Africa. Stdents will be able to se school-owned e-readers (checked ot from the school library) and may be able to receive their own e-reader when they gradate. Fnding for the E-Reader Project comes from annal conferences, local chrches, individal donors, niversities and a stdent fee each semester, which helps offset the price of the e-reader and its content. To learn more or donate online, visit A pilot project to provide e-readers loaded with theological texts for a seminary in Liberia is being expanded to inclde other parts of Africa and the Philippines. Photo by Jeff Oliver 10 C O L L E A G U E N O

11 Formation for Ministry in American Methodism, now available NICOLE BURDAKIN Formation for Ministry in American Methodism: Twenty-first Centry Challenges and Two Centries of Problem- Solving is a new pblication that names and critically considers the potential ftre of formation for ministry in the digital age. The book also presents an overview of how the Methodist commnity in America has identified and formed its ministers since the late eighteenth centry. Pblished by the General Board of Higher Edcation 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 sperintendents, bishops, seminary and Corse of Stdy faclty, and all who are involved in forming the next generation of chrch leaders. Rss's book gives critical information for anyone involved in formation for ministry, not only becase of the concise way he covers 230 years of or evolving history, bt becase of the way he helps s to configre and reconfigre or contemporary challenges in light of that history, said Marjorie Schocki, professor emerita of theology, United Methodist-related Claremont School of Theology. Many of those of s who were involved in theological edcation in the latter decades of the twentieth centry assmed we had arrived; that things were here to stay. How shortsighted! Schocki said. This is essential reading for all who are involved in contemporary formation for ministry. The book gives clarity to or historical practice of leadership formation, and points s forward as we face the challenges of or time. Richey has made a great contribtion to or ongoing work, bilding on the strdy fondation of or United Methodist heritage, GBHEM General Secretary Kim Cape said. Athor Rssell E. Richey is professor of Chrch History emerits 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 Stdy the Episcopacy. Formation for Ministry in American Methodism: Twenty-first Centry Challenges and Two Centries of Problem-Solving, by Rssell E. Richey ISBN is available for $12.95 throgh Cokesbry at or call to order by phone. Mark Yor Calendar Ministry Stdy Commission Febrary 23-26, 2015 Nashville, Tenn. GBHEM Spring Board Meeting March 10-13, 2015 Nashville, Tenn. AU Board Meeting March 19-20, 2015 Mtare, Zimbabwe AU Vice Chancellor Inagration March 21, 2015 Mtare, Zimbabwe Native American Ministries Snday April 19, 2015 Prepare and Smmer Institte An Edcation Collaborative for Collegiate Ministers Jly 13-17, 2015 Washington, D.C. For information abot the Special Sndays with offerings and to order resorces and make online donations, visit W W W. G B H E M. O R G 11

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