11111 New Series Vol. XXXVlll No. 8 • Whole Series Vol. LXVlll No. 4 • April 1978

3 Perils and Promises of a Missionary Life Style Today 7 The Year in Review 10 Trends in Missionary Personnel 13 Committee on Personnel in Mission 14 Crusade Scholarship Committee 15 Health and Welfare Ministries Division 18 Ecumenical and lnterreligious Concerns Division 20 Education and Cultivation Division 23 Women's Division 26 World Division 30 United Methodist Committee on Relief Division 34 National Division 38 Treasurer's Report 40 Directors of the Board of Global Ministries 42 Staff of the Board of Global Ministries

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War boa · the INTRODUCTION Perils and Bishop D. Frederick Wertz Promises of a President Board of Global Ministries Missionary Dr. Tracey K. Jones, Jr. Life Style Today General Secretary

e share a deep conviction throughout the world where the Word ments of the divisions and work units; that this Board of Global has not been heard or heeded and to and that of the mind, the heart and the Ministries is a part of the witness to· its meaning in all six wi 11 . At each level one can see creative W body of Jesus Christ, the continents through a program of global forces at work that profoundly influence Church. We have life as a missionary ministries." The global responsibi Ii ties where we are now and where we are agency only as we live within the whole assigned to this board cannot be ac­ going. body of our church affirming our need complished just by having more When we deal with the first level, we for those parts that are different from money, better organization, or turning see immediately that we are dealing ourselves. We believe in turn that we up the volume. Nor does it come out of with the issues of size and a unique play a vital role for the whole church in a preoccupation with tidiness, safety or experiment in the relationships of men providing the global ministries assigned public opinion. Its mission throughout and women and ethnic minorities. to us. We know that the board was its history has come through men and Within our church the size of this board given birth by the General Conference women who were convicted of the is unique. The response of some to this because of the desire of individual meaning of the life, death and resurrec­ is anger. They feel it is too big. The congregations seeking ways in which tion of Jesus Christ. They have been able response of others is frustration. It is so they could participate in the saving to express that commitment in different large that they wonder how all the parts ministries of Christ. We recognize that can fit together. For many in the church our hope for an effective global ministry this is a theoretical debate. But for those is not found so much in what is of us in this board it is one of the accomplished through this board, but in "givens" by the General Conference. enabling the total church to be involved Last year two-thirds of the 159 directors in global ministry and enabling people who assumed responsibility for this throughout the world, through the board were new. The same was true of power of God, to stand on their own the 81 division-at-large members. Be­ feet. We believe our servant role within cause of the size and complexity it took the church calls us not only to ministries weeks to complete the assignment of that are acceptable to all, but it calls us the directors to the seven divisions and to be prophetic in word and deed. We _... _..... ___ two work units and the 75 different are called to speak to the church at Bishop Wertz standing committees, task forces and times even as we are called to live interdivision committees. within it at all times. ways. They have first of all put aside Within our church not only is the size We begin by reminding ourselves of their own problems and focused their of this board unique, but the relation­ the qualities of leadership that the attention on the suffering of others. ship of men and women and ethnic church has a right to expect of all of us. They have felt the spiritual and physical minorities is unique. It is the only What is needed is fresh vision, a suffering other people bear. national agency where men and willingness to risk, courage, sound We see no way to get the evangelism women have an equal voice. It is not the judgment, poise under pressure, a debate translated into programs, or to only part of the church where minor\ties capacity to listen to and learn from deal with the empowerment of minority and youth are well represented, but in criticism, a courage to stand by convic­ programs, or to deal with a global this board special attention has been tions, and at all times openness to other women's agenda, or to help hungry given to be sure they are well repre­ people, to change, and to the presence people, without these personal marks of sented. Forty-four of the 159 directors of God in our lives. leadership in all of us. It will take strong are Black, Hispanic, Asian or Native It is in this context that we want to talk minds, hearts and wills to come to grips American. In summary: seventy-five­ about the work of this board. It is one of with the global mission issues that face percent of the directors are lay people, the important channels through which the membership of The United Method­ over half are women, 28% are minori­ United Methodists are in mission to ist Church. ties, 25% are clergy and 20% are youth people in a world plagued by sins of all and young adults. Each part of the Where We Have Been kind: distrust, selfishness, injustice, organization, from the largest division loneliness, moral corruption, hunger, An inquiry into what determines the to the smallest committee, is responsi­ war, ageism, sexism and racism. The direction of this board must take place ble to see that these delicate balances of board's first function, as given to it by at several levels: organization; his­ representation are maintained. the church, is "to discern those places tories, programs and global commit- An inquiry into what gives vitality and

New World Outlook• April 1978 (147] 3 "The Board's mission throughout Its history has come through men and women who were convicted of the meaning of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ " direction to this board must also look at and wills meet to think through where affect any future you might have in the histories, programs and global the Spirit of God is leading. The mind, and which inevitably create in commitments of the seven divisions and conventional wisdom of the past is no some situations opposition and contro­ two work units. These different his­ longer adequate to deal with the issues versy. tories, different sources of funding, we face. There is a need for fresh vision We believe that action to plan different constituencies in the church and a chance to examine new scenarios national meetings of this board only in that support them, and different net­ for the future. states that have ratified the Equal Rights works of people with whom they work, N9t only are there internal pressures Amendment was in the spirit of the also affect how we think and act. This but there are external ones. We are General Conference. It is consistent complexity is not unique in the church . facing criticism. It comes from many with actions already taken by a great Other program agencies face the same parts of the church. We are also feeling majority of the states. The action expires situation . But ours is unique in that its pressure from the General Council on in March, 1979 and applies only to responsibility includes an intricate and Ministries and the General Council on national meetings. The United Method­ complex funding apparatus that runs Finance and Administration. They have ist Church and this board have a long into tens of millions of dollars and 9,000 both a responsibility and a right to exert history of support for women's rights. At identifiable mission projects in 90 this pressure. It is in this setting of both this stage in our national life we believe nations and every state of the union. internal and external pressure that national attention should focus on this These 9,000 programs include every planning for the future takes place. This issue. conceivable type of Christian service: is what makes it both exciting and The decision of the National Division traditional ministries and high risk difficult. At this point in the quadren­ to phase out its funding of Support for ministries. They include programs nium there is always frustration. For just Action Ministries (SAM) in the annual committed to congregational develop­ atthe moment the directors feel ready to conferences has also created consider­ ment and church growth, to those talk about the future, someone reminds able response, both negative and posi­ aimed at alleviating hunger and other them that there is only a short time to go tive. The decision was reached after kinds of physical suffering, to those until the General Conference meets and months of study involving eight differ­ fighting sexism , racism, ageism and a the quadrennium is over. In spite of this ent National Division planning ses­ dozen other demonic forces that pursue frustration, we know from the past that sions. The budget cuts required a major and destroy human dignity. Some of the directors do make the difficult choices change in policy, but this program was programs are denominational, others that make change possible. one that could be continued through ecumenical . The issues that surfaced in the last annual conference funding in that it was All of them are committed to helping quadrennium were institutional racism, already on a matching basis, and over people help themselves and not to be evangelism, hunger, human rights, the past few years there has been a recipients of charity. These programs Southern Africa, the ethnic minority steady reduction in these grants. directly employ more than 2,000 per­ local church, the rights of the aging, the Considerable press comment and sons in mission, and involve more than Ten Year Review of the Women's correspondence have resulted from the ten times that number in a world wide Division and the global women's agen­ adoption by this board of a resolution network of professional ministries. The da of this board . These will continue to on " normalization of relations with the costs run into millions. These dollars do be vital concerns for all of us . But it People's Republic of China." In the past not belong to the board but belong to should be no surprise that new issues this board has never shirked responsi­ the thousands of men and women who are surfacing. The challenge is to bility for speaking to issues of this kind. in their commitment to God have discern their form as quickly as possible That does not mean we will always be shared it through the channels of our and make decisions as to what they right, nor that other points of view do church . Although these resources are mean for the future of the global not deserve equal time and attention, not the property of the board, the outreach of our church. but when we have something we think directors and staff are accountable for must be said, we believe it is important how they are spent. That accountability to say it. There is no issue in Asia today Where We Are Now is not to ourselves. It is an accountabil i­ more important to the future peace of ty within the providence of God to those One of the realities we all discover is the area than our relationships to the who gave the money. that just when you want total k about the people of China. There is a third level where direction future, you find you have already made The three missional priorities are very is determined. It is where minds, hearts assumptions and decisions that will much a part of the life of this board. We 4 [148] New World Outloolc •April 1978 are deeply troubled, as are others, that United Methodists are not responding as the General Conference hoped they would to the Ethnic Minority Local Church Priority. This is a testing ground of the future inclusiveness of the Church, and so far the signs do not look encouraging. The continuing response of this board to the priority will test its own integrity. The Evangelism Missional Priority was not conceived as a program in the same way as Hunger and the Ethnic Minority Local Church. Considerable attention has focused in discussion with some of the other boards on the meaning of evangelism. We welcome the leadership that has been given by the Board of Discipleship. We believe that Bishop Roy C. Nichols' paper on Evangelism raised many of the right issues for this board. The hunger issues remain. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The mass media no longer give attention to the problem, but we can be gratefu I that many annual conferences, local churches, and the entire program network of our church are working together on these issues. Since 1975 there has been a concern to probe how deep and pervasive institutional white racism is in the Board of Global Ministries. A study of institu­ tional racism was presented by profes­ pressures of inflation, the levelling off of A second ~heme concerns the em­ sion a I consultants at our annual income, and the higher costs that go powerment agendas for the poor, ethnic meeting. We anticipate that their find­ with quality programs. minorities, women and the handi­ ings will have significance not only for We will mention five themes that we capped . There is considerable evidence us but for the church. see surfacing. to suggest that there is a segment within The Judicial Council ruled against us First, there is a growing awareness The United Methodist Church that on the question of the constitutionality that from a global perspective we are believes the empowerment agendas of of a General Conference action making moving into a political and religious this kind have gone too far. We sense a it impossible to hire a non-United climate that is becoming more and hardening of the lines among those Methodist as an elected executive. It more authoritarian . The context in opposed to such agendas . This mood is was an issue that needed clarification. which Christians in Asia are looking at a clear challenge to this board. The United Methodists have a deep ecu­ the future is the spreading of authoritari­ empowerment agendas go to the very menical history. We believe that the anism from the left and from the right. center of this board's history, biblical issue will be on the agenda of future The question raised by Asian churches understanding and commitments. We General Conferences. is not global hunger or even dialogue believe that they are essential to a with the great religions but how does a missionary future and should in fact be Where We Are Going Christian church live, grow, and wit­ given even a higher priority. This will Where are we going? Where will we ness within a highly controlled political call for continuing risk, courage and be five years from now? The question system . We know that the same thing is skill. can only be answered within the happening in Africa, Latin America, Empowerment programs designed to context of the whole church. As we seek and the Middle East. We know that the help the handicapped may become one clarity about the future and our own churches of Eastern Europe, Russia, of the priorities of this board and vision of what it might be, we need to be China, Cuba and Uganda have had to church. Those over 65 have already mindful of the diverse expectations of learn how to survive in authoritarian found a way to organize themselves as a others within the church for us, for situations. Our concern in this board for political force within and without the themselves and the world. human rights will remain a crucial one, church . The crippled are already getting We have these past few months but it wi 11 also mean that the churches in organized and the mentally ill and the learned a good deal. It is too early to political situations of that kind will retarded are probably next. Our local suggest in a coherent way what themes inevitably give more attention to their churches and our board are not will emerge. Whatever we come up survival, the nurture of their inner life, equipped to help them . Perhaps the with will be influenced by the fiscal and their growth. time has come within this board to give New World Outlook• April 1978 [149] 5 special attention to the empowerment needs of the millions of handicapped people. The General Conference has requested something of this kind, and we are getting it underway. The challenge will be to do this without a loss of focus on and commitment to the empower­ ment of the poor, ethnic minorities, and women.

A third theme is our need to struggle with a new understanding of the role of the North American church in the global church. Unless we do this we may, without realizing it, cause through our attitudes and understanding as much harm as good. There are some thoughtful people who feel this is to be the greatest missionary task that I ies ahead. A few would go so far as to suggest a "moratorium" on much that we are now doing and concentrate attention, working with the other agen­ cies of the church, on a crash educa­ tional program. What does it mean to be a part of a global network of churches, where there are not rich or poor, large or small, or sending and receiving churches, but where every church both receives and sends, and where each is dependent on the other in fulfilling its global Christian commitments? We na believe that a real danger exists that the "Directors do make the difficult choices that make change possible." en American churches, including our its own, could without realizing it become ly together. There will need to be a Summary Ap a hindrance to the creative new forces continuing debate as to the role of the Pre that are emerging within the global confessional ecumenical movements We can be grateful that we are part of We family of Christian churches. The send­ such as the World Methodist Council, a Church that requires not only respon­ be ~ ing and receiving of missionary person­ the Lutheran World Federation, and sibility but gives considerable freedom Afr nel in the USA and around the world is others. They are playing an increasingly to its program agencies in carrying out Ap1 tied into this new self-understanding. important role. By the early 1980's a their tasks. We believe that there is wide the We see more and more people being revised COCU Plan (Consultation on support within our Church for the work le sent by this Board into different mission Church Union) will be presented to The of this board . The criticisms we hear are the situations, but we want to do this in United Methodist Church. We have a many and we must listen to them with hea such a way that it does not unintention­ close relationship with COCU and are care knowing they come from people rejo ally harm those we want to serve. the responsible board dealing with who are concerned as we are for a triu ecumenical agendas . We can think of Christlike global missionary outreach. no debate more fraught with feeling We need at the same time to affirm Fourth, there is every reason to than the one calling for a decision that ourselves. We need to be ready to lead. expect a broad and deep ecumenical The United Methodist Church actually Nor dare we forget that our ultimate commitment within this board and the is to be found in obedi­ become a part of the Church of Christ accountability entire church. We sense a recognition ence to God in Christ. The particular Uniting. These issues cannot be evad­ of the need for global interdependence angle from which we are to live out that ed . The Church has a right to expect and supra-national visions of the obedience is in global outreach minis­ leadership from within this board in church. This should be good news not tries "where the Word has not been preparation for those debates. only to the divisions of this board but to heard or heeded." This involves risk. the many ecumenical movements with But, this is what the Church demands in which we work. However, there are still Fifth, we should in the future make it life style of the corporate mission hard choices that will have to be made. clear that all we do "we do in the name community which is the Board of Fiscal pressures are going to require that of Jesus." We are not unaware of the Global Ministries. • the conciliar ecumenical movements, dangers of fanaticism that lurk inside all Bishop Wertz is president and Dr. Jones such as the World Counci I of Churches, of us. However, those dangers cannot general secretary of the Board of Global the National Council of Churches, and be an excuse for avoiding responsibility Ministries. This article is adapted from their the Asian, African and Latin American for making clear our personal and report to the Board's annual meeting in Church Conferences, work more close- corporate commitment as Christians. Atlanta last October.

6 (150) New World Outlook • April 1978 The Year in Review Frances S. Smith

he year 1977 was a time of fresh tionate share of the wealth . ment and banking policies relate to the beginnings for both the United Although President Carter did not put Social Principles as regards apartheid in T States and the United Methodist China at the top of his agenda (or South Africa. The Women's Division Board of Global Ministries because he did not), the World Division urged all United Methodist Women to (BGM). Even before taking office Jimmy brought to Atlantic City a position paper refrain from buying the Krugerrand (a Carter began a comprehensive assess­ on relations between the U.S. and the South African gold coin symbolizing ment of the country's foreign and People's Republic of China. It quoted apartheid) and to protest to those selling domestic policies. Before year's end , he the pledge contained in the Social it. had proposed so many new initiatives Principles " to seek the meaning of the The United Methodist Committee on that critics were suggesting he limit gospel in all issues that divide people Relief (UMCOR) heard Dr. Paul himself to a few and work diligently for and threaten the growth of world McCleary, director of Church World their passage. community." After considerable debate Service, predict a major movement of The Board of Global Ministries, the board adopted a statement urging peoples in southern Africa in the next named after the 1976 General Confer­ the U.S. Government: two years due to political upheaval. ence and organized late that year, held - " to reaffirm its position that China is CWS is therefore stockpiling blankets, its first program-oriented meeting in one nation. clothing and medical supplies to save April 1977 at Atlantic City, N.J. Its -"to terminate the Mutual Security lives. President, Bishop D. Frederick Wertz of Treaty and diplomatic relations be­ UMCOR allocated a total of $8,320,- West Virginia, reminded board mem­ tween the Republic of China and the 000 during 1977. The money went to bers they figuratively carried the dust of U.S., and to withdraw U.S. military projects in such places as Indochina, Africa on one foot and the mud of support and installations from the ROC Lebanon , Kenya , Guatemala, Bangla­ Appalachia on the other, representing on a clearly stated schedule. desh, Rhodesia and the South Pacific. It the seemingly insurmountable prob­ -"to seek to establish full diplomatic provided disaster relief for victims of lems of the world at that moment. Yet in relations with the People's Republic of floods in India, Appalachia and Penn­ the background, he said, could be China. sylvania. heard the songs of those same people -"to express its hope for a peaceful Even before Jimmy Carter produced rejoicing in the victory that brings settlement of the Taiwan issue by new treaties on the Panama Canal , the triumph in the face of tragedy . respecting the human rights and self-de­ 1976 General Conference had urged a General Secretary Tracey K. Jones Jr . termination of the people of Taiwan." new treaty that would return " genuine added a note of urgency saying: "We The board also registered its convic­ sovereignty to the Panamanian people are now organized. The time for deci­ tion the U.S. should stand ready to assist over their entire national territory in­ sions has come. This meeting will set "countries of the Western Pacific region cluding the Canal. " the direction for the rest of the qua­ in their development, respecting their At its October meeting in Atlanta, drennium." sovereignty, and basing its support on Ga ., the board supported the ratifica­ While President Carter was focusing principles of economic justice and tion of the newly negotiated Panama on such foreign policy issues as human respect for human rights ." treaties and urged " members and rights, SALT talks, U.S. policy toward Passage of the statement threatened churches to communicate their views to southern Africa and a new treaty with relations with the Methodist Church in their U.S. Senators. " Panama, the United Methodist World Taiwan, which called for reconsidera­ Division was examining its relations tion. But the October board meeting A New Kind of Missionary with colleague churches in Liberia and held firm. Sierra Leone, Uruguay, Bolivia and Having for years espoused black In this first year of the new quadren­ Indonesia. In each instance the ques­ majority rule for South Africa, the board nium the Board of Global Ministries and tion was how to forge a true partnership joined the Board of Church and Society all its divisions gave special attention to between a newly autonomous church in asking the General Council on the three missional priorities set by the struggling to become self-sufficient and Finance and Administration (GCFA) to General Conference. a U.S. church possessing a dispropor- consider how United Methodist invest- World Hunger had been a priority of New World Outlook • April 1978 [ 1 S 1] 7 th C1 re m hi d

The Atlanta Board meeting was highlighted by a public meeting and commissioning service. di th is board even before Portland held it ingredients," he said. " Like the Trinity " More, not fewer, m1 ss1onaries are wa up for church-wide attention . In 1977 they stand or fall together. Evangelism is needed. " He recommended sending ot the Edu cation and Cultivation Division not a suggestion; it is a command (Matt. only those capable of serving as co­ Ser arranged train ing events fo r hunger 28 :19)!" workers with nationals. " Some skills th coord inators from all annual confer­ He proposed six target area s: the other than preaching should be given do en ces. Together with United Methodist inner city, suburbia, small town and first consideration," he said , because sta Communications, it planned two hun­ rural communities, " inverted, defeated " the nationals can preach! " ] ger seminars for the mass media. congregations who revel in their past The Nichols address was referred to maj Variou s resources were prepared to take and feel threatened by present and the divisions and work units for study pha the message to the local churches. The future," the ever-increasing number of and action. triei World Division proposed numerous non-white Americans, and ch ildren . To give greater visibility to new per< projects overseas to receive allocations Much of his address was on the missionaries, the practice of commis­ chu from the Advance Special hunger funds. mission overseas . " As the leadership of sioning services at board meetings was enc And UMCOR noted 68 percent of its the new national states in Asia and revi ved at Atlanta. Some 2,000 people di vi projects attacked the root cau ses of Africa painfully address themselves to attended the evening " Celebration of prirr hunger. At the spring board meeting the task of nation-building, American Persons in Mission" at the Ci vi c Center. moo Method ists from Latin America under­ churches must take a new look at their Georgia' s contribution to mis sion lem. lined the structural nature of the prob­ role in overseas evangelism, " the bi sh­ through the years was shown in a T lem and called on Christians to tackle op said . multimedia presentation, then three gra the ca uses of hunger. According to Bishop Nichols, " The bishops commissioned 33 new mis­ of s The Evangel ism Missional Priority most significant stati stics are the na­ sionaries. An additional 90 candidates me ti was a key theme running through the tional persons in mission and the were approved at the fall meeting-39 ma , April meeting thanks to a major address international persons in mission. These for service in National Division , 51 in urba by Bishop Roy C. Nichols of the are indigenous recruits serving in their the World Division . Sout Pittsburgh Area, president of the World own countries or in other countries and In a key action in Atlantic City the Ai Division. His topi c: " A Global View of funded by the BGM. This represents the World Division reaffirmed its goal of a gled Evangel ism and Church Growth ." United Methodist effort at transferring minimum of 1,000 " persons in mis­ dec1 " In the threefold ta sk of the Church more and more responsibility to the sion" by 1980 and set an intermediate the/ everywhere in the world, 'Evangelism, new Christian leaders in the field ." goal of 750 short- and long-term World pre l' Ministry and Miss ion' are indispensabl e As to the future, he stated boldly, Division miss ionaries from the U.S. by Raci 8 [1 52) New World Outlook• April 1978 the end of 1978. Toward this end the a team of consu ltants. Key indicators of of the elderly. It pledged to help initiate Committee on Personnel in Mission is raci sm within the board were these : no local non-residential programs for the recruiting people for 85 new posts, organized plan for the elimination of elderly on a national basis, opposed many in Zaire where the government ra cis m; ethnics are in positions with the mandatory retirement in favor of flexi­ has returned the schools to the appearance of power but power is no ble retirement policies and favored the churches. longer with those positions; much of addition of nonprofit homes for the To increase the local churches' iden­ ethnics' time is spent fixing " ethnic" aging to the energy grant and loan tification with mission, the Education problems while whites care for the rest section of bills before Congress . and Cultivation Division assigned a of the organization. Following closure of Lafon Home in missionary-in-residence to each juris­ The Task Force on Institutional Rac­ New Orleans due to the cut-off of diction, held five linkage training events ism was continued through the April federal funds, the division gave special for conference and district secretaries of 1978 board meeting to recommend resources to help relocate the 89 elderly global ministries, and dispatched BGM how to implement the study's recom­ black residents. And the division's members to preach in churches mendations. Meanwhile the Women's director testified in Congress condemn­ throughout North Georgia during the Division was hammering out a new ing " impossible" government demands board meeting. Charter of Racial Policies due for on homes servi ng the poor and minority While President Carter was assessing presentation at its 1978 Assembly in group elderly. The division is forming a the domestic scene and attacking such Louisville, Ky., April 27-30. committee on the handicapped, with at thorny problems as energy consump­ While President Carter puzzled over least half the membership to be handi­ tion, inflation, unemployment and how to find jobs for unemployed capped persons. dwindling Social Security reserves , the blacks, the National Division renewed In preparation for the International BGM had domestic problems of its own. its commitment to provide education Year of the Child, the Women's Divi­ Chief among them was the financial and economic assistance to those dis­ sion decided to form a task force with crisis brought on by the 1976 General advantaged because of sex , race, geo­ other divisions represented to see what Conference action cutting the World g r a p h i c i sal at i 0 n a n d e c 0 n 0 m i c the churches can do to protect the rights Service allocation to the BGM. The discrimination. of chi ldren . budget for 1978 World Service alloca­ The division joined the National For the Ecumenical and lnterreligious tions was set at $10,765,000 but a Council of Churches in filing a friend­ Concerns Division 1977 was a yea r of shortfall was predicted by GCFA if of-the-court brief in the Allan Bakke dialogue. High on the li st were bilateral churches continue to pay only 89 case and affirmed the right of the conversations between United Method­ percent of askings as in '77. (See University of California Medical School ists and Lutherans, and Methodists and treasurer's report, p. 38, for actual to pursue an affirmative action pol icy. It Roman Catholics. Staff gave leadership year-end figures.) said: " White privilege and minority to the National Council of Churches' An attempt to cut all seven BGM deprivation are being redressed , rather committees on Christians and Jews and divisions by 4 percent failed when it than whiteness punished and minority Christians and Muslims. A theology of was noted the smaller divisions have no racial status rewarded . . . " dialogue with persons of other faiths is other source of income than World On women's rights, the board at its the goal of an ecumenical stud y spon­ Service. A cut in the appropriation to October meeting responded to the sored by the World Council of the general secretariat brought the Southeastern Jurisdiction College of Churches, to which EICD wi ll respond . closing of the missionary library and Bishops by reaffirming its intention to The division also voted to back an staff cuts in the treasurer's office. plan national meetings only in states ecumenical celebration giving all North The National Division, faced with that have ratified the Equal Rights American Christians a chance to mani­ major budget reductions, decided to Amendment. In addition, it asked the fest their growing oneness in Christ. phase out its Support for Action Minis­ Council of Bi shops to " lift up the In closing his address on " A Global tries (SAM) by 1978 after noting 50 position of the 1976 General Confer­ View of Ev angeli sm and Church percent of this aid usually went to rural ence concerning ERA and give leader­ Growth," Bi shop Nichols reminded the churches. It hoped the annual confer­ ship toward ratification of the board: " All we do in Evangelism , ences would pick up the tab. The constitutional amendment." The Ministry and Mission is preparation for division also warned it was shifting its Women's Division voted to press for an the Kingdom of God. Our success, primary focus from funding to providing extention of the March 1979 deadline therefore, must be determined by per­ models, training, consultant and prob­ for ERA ratification . so nal spiritual transformations whi ch lem-solving services. For the first time ever the Women's result in producing a society of persons Two new programs involved modest Division voted to become a plaintiff in in which righteousness, peace, justice grants to churches pioneering in the use the court case McRae vs. Califano, a and love prevail ." of solar energy, and pressing large national class action challenging the No doubt Jimmy Carter would be metropolitan banks in the Northeast to constitutionality of the 1976 Hyde willing to subscribe to this goal . It make loans to rehabilitate their own Amendment restricting the use of feder­ remains to be seen whether he or the urban areas rather than investing in al funds for abortions to women whose Board of Global Ministries will make South Africa or the Sunbelt. lives are in danger. the greatest contribution toward its As the Carter Administration strug­ The Crusade Scholarship Committee achievement in the 2Yi + years re­ gled to include blacks and women in pledged to recruit more women, Native maining to eac h. • decision-making posts in government, Americans and Asian Americans for the the Board of Global Ministries heard a program . Frances 5. Smith is News Director, New preliminary report on the Institutional The Health and Welfare Ministries York Office, United Method! t Communica­ Racism Study it had commissioned from Division took up the cudgels on behalf tions.

New World Outlook • April 1978 [153) 9 Trends in Missionary Personnel Ellen Clark

ar from over is the era of the career they don't have the same nurturing, " Where do I find a psychiatrist wi lling person commissioned to take the sense of community and, sometimes, to go to India?" asks Mr. Manchester. FGospel to the ends of the earth , financing. " Churches are asking for experienced although the ranks of home and " But as the deaconess movement is people but people already rooted in overseas missionaries have thinned and on the decline here, where women their careers are reluctantto leave them . the number of deaconesses has dropped have other options for service, it is on We can't give them job guarantees or sharply. the ascendancy in Third World coun­ sufficient pay to make it worth their " We' ll always need the career mis­ tries, " reports Ms. Ewing, the president while." sionary," affirms Lois C. Miller, chief of the world federation of deaconesses, At year's end the Board publicized its executive of the World Division, which DIAKONIA. missionary service opportunities and has stepped up recruitment of mission­ Low salaries may also deter persons, expected many inquiries. Jobs included aries. "You can't understand the cul­ particularly minorities, contemplating a dental hygienist in Kentucky, a spec ial ture, language and issues of a country National Division work. education teacher in Florida, a tropical like Algeria, for instance, in three " Many of our deaconesses and home agriculture specialist in Zaire and a years ." A missionaries are working for institutions seminary professor in Papua New The National Division recognizes Mi on the verge of bankruptcy," warns Guinea. that deaconesses and home mission­ vie Negail Riley, executive for mission Even as the number of career church aries give mission agencies a strong leadership in the Nati onal Division . workers declines, the trend toward church identification. exi " People with advanced degrees and briefer service builds. United Method­ re~ But the real impetus in the missionary years of service earn as I ittle as $4800 or ists may hesitate to become full-time movement is occurring elsewhere, co $6000. Church and community work­ missi onaries but many of them want to among short-termers, persons in inno­ experience mission, not simply fund it, te ers have had no raises in three years." vative programs, volunteers and Chris­ and they are willing to pay their own asi The cost of maintaining missionaries tians abroad-so-called persons in mis­ way to mission fie lds for short stints of Th overseas esca lates as the dollar plum­ sion . service. der mets , making career people with chil­ Why has the number of lifetime U.S. The United Methodist Committee on eth dren needing expen si ve private missionaries and deaconesses de­ Relief has promoted the concept of WO education frequently less attractive than clined? work teams and made available a staff em singles. " Large missionary families are person, the Rev . Paul T. Morton, to aid Images and Pay not as advantageous or feasible as they them . Last year UMCOR sent 650 catj were once deemed to be," comments Missionaries and deaconesses suffer volunteers abroad . Most were con­ pro Avery C. Manchester, executive secre­ from negative images, a perennial struction workers or medical personnel tu re tary of the Office of Missionary Person­ problem. Mention " missionary" and and most went to Central America and Wit! nel. young people still picture an Elmer the Caribbean . de Gantry type evangelist, sighs Lois Another reason that mi ss ionaries and " The majority of teams come from unt Dauway, Office of Missionary Person­ deaconesses are fewer is th at they have the Southeast but we're getting more of nel staffer. In contrast, a fresh program been replaced by locally hired persons, a geographical spread," reports Mr. like Mission Interns carries no historical often by Christians specially trained for Morton. " A team from Big Springs, baggage and smacks of " relevance. " those jobs. Overseas churches more­ Te xas, joined by a group from Alaska, As for deaconesses, they are caught over may find it essential to employ flew to the island of Roatan off the coast between the movement for ordination nationals as more and more countries of Honduras after Christmas to build a of women and the emerging diaconate deny or delay visas to mi ss ionaries. church and community center." of men and women (annual confer­ Different Personnel Requests Diversifying Missionary Corps ences report 644 diaconal ministers). They have been less successful than Churches here and abroad still want Work team members, like United Catholic nuns in carving out new roles, U .S. missionaries but their requests are Methodist missionaries, largely remain acknowledges Betsy Ewing, because more specialized and harder to meet. white, middle class, middle-aged

10 (154] New World Outlook • April 1978 Americans, and the Board of Global World Division has developed a num­ voluntary Human Relations Day offer­ Ministries wants to open mission ser­ ber of programs, such as mission ing which finances them . The World vice to others. interns, seminary interns, ministry of Division supported 1 72 special persons One avenue has been to integrate women interns and an ethnic interact­ in mission last year, including a black existing personnel programs. UMCOR ion program . Abroad the Division American couple who learned about reports that the South Carolina annual makes person in mission grants to oppression of Koreans in Japan and a conference requires bi-racial work church agencies to hire personnel from nurse midwife from India at work in teams and the Holston conference sets their own (nationals) or third countries Sierra Leone, but designated giving for aside funds for minority team members. (internationals). Dr. Miller lauds this them has lagged far behind support of The National Division notes strong internationalization of the missionary regular World Division missionaries. demand from annual conferences for force and says , " We won't ever go back Money woes, changing requests for ethnic minority church and community to as many western missionaries as we missionaries, new roles for women, a workers because of the ethnic church had. " desire to diversify and internationalize emphasis. While the Board promotes these the missionary force, a grassroots en­ A more fruitful vehicle for diversifi­ innovative programs, it has had difficul­ thusiasm for first-hand experience of cation has been creation of special ty raising funds for them. The National mission-all played a part in shaping programs, generally short-term in na­ Division's community developers have personnel in mission in 19 77 . ture . The National Division pioneered dropped from a high of 67 to 47 and As missionary personnel secretary with black and indigenous community United Methodist Voluntary Service has Anne Unander notes, more people developers and United Methodist Vol­ been halved in strength from a peak of want to be in mission and the Board untary Service . More recently the 600 because of poor receipts from the must find ways to respond to them. •

The Atlanta commissioning service (above) included members of new groups, such as mission interns, and those who plan lifetime careers. Robe rt and Jeanne Nave (left), serving in India, are examples of those who have served many years. WHO'S NEW

Victor Streit, World Division m1 ss 1on­ ary, is principal of Wesley College, a .. new secondary school in the Caribbean nation of Grenada; his wife, Mary, teaches there. At year's end 654 regu­ lar, full-salaried miss ionaries were working in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the South Pacific. Other World Division personnel and mission­ aries on leave of absence numbered 66. Some 77 nationals and 47 international persons, plus 48 volunteers and interns a brought the total of World Division p Persons in Mission to 892.

Kathryn Moody, deaconess, is associate director of the United Methodist Metro Ministry in Springfield, Ohio. The 178 active UM deaconesses fi lied servant ministries from Christian education to Woody Bebout, U.S. 2, does communi­ community center direction to disaster ty organization at the Lessie Bates Davis relief coordination. Neighborhood House, E. St. Louis, Illinois. Forty nine U.S. 2's, college­ educated young people, served in National Division mission projects in the United States and Puerto Rico for two-year terms .

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so WO onl de[ 2's yea ca fr or Lucretia H. Da vis and her hu sba nd , Mary Penn, church and community LeRoy, home missionaries, co-pastor worker, assists the rural Monroe County pe the Anchor Park UMC in Anchorage, United Methodist Parish in Mississippi . nat Alaska. Some 214 home missi onaries The 62 church and community workers see last year worked throughout the country at year's end engaged in leadership SC but were concentrated in the Alaska and development, parish outreach and has Red Bird (Kentucky) Missionary confer­ community service in annual confer­ A1 · ences and in northern New Mexico. ences . tun 12 [156] New World Outlook • April 1978 Committee on Personnel in Mission Florence Isaacs, chairperson Avery C. Manchester, executive secretary

he Board of Global Ministries Miss ionary Perso nnel circulated last only the rec1p1ents of mi ss ion," M s. revived the practi ce of the com­ Fall included 26 positions in Zaire. Dauway cautioned. T missi oning service at its annual Eighteen of the new World Division Consc ious of the need for better care meeting last year, a welcome personnel are participants in an inno­ of missi onaries, a joint committee of the event. Two thousand people watched vative short-term " Mission Intern Pro­ Office of Missi onary Personnel and the as 33 new missionaries and deacon­ gram" under which young people World Division last year continued esses were commissioned to " take the spend a year and a half abroad with working to provide counseling and Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ into all church-related groups, then return to career development for overseas per­ the world." the U.S. to do mi ssio n education, with sonnel, in conjunction with counseling The sending forth of new mission­ an emphasis on human rights. The centers of national churches in India aries, part of a joyous " Celebration of program gives a new facet to the and Singapore. Dr. Leigh Roberts, Persons in Mission," was the highlight internationalization of the missionary psychiatrist and consultant to the work of a banner year for the Committee on force, noted Stephen Fink, who helped unit who has worked closely with the Personnel in Mission, the Board of recruit the interns. committee, has made several visits Global Ministries work unit which Speaking of the new crop of mi ssi on­ abroad and al so met with a number of recruits, selects and trains personnel for aries as a whole, but especially of the missionaries in this country. mission in the United States and over­ mission interns, Mr. Fink praised their " In former days the stresses facing seas. intellectual and theological prepara­ missionaries were largely physical," The Committee, cooperating with the tion. " They have an interest in ortho­ said Avery C. Manchester, executive World and National Divisions, ap­ doxy and church hi story," he sai d. secretary of the Office of Missionary proved 141 new persons for mi ss ion " Missionary candidates in the '60s may Personnel. "Now there are increased service in 1977, 48 more than the year have read Bonhoeffer but not Augu s­ psychological stresses with the loss of before. Sixteen percent of the total were tine. Candidates now have both in status, power, tenure, uneasiness with ethnic minority persons, an all-time hand ." one's role, the dilemma of frequently high. The caliber of the new mission­ A black community developer from being needed but unwanted. " aries was termed " impressive" by Boston, Lois Dauway, joined the staff of Important to the Office of Missionary Committee members and the staff of the the Office of Missionary Personnel in Personnel is a comprehensive study Office of Missionary Personnel, which 1977 in an attempt to boost significantly underway by a Boardwide task force of does their day-to-day work. the number of ethnic minority candi­ the Board's diverse policies and prac­ Missionaries for overseas jumped dates for missionary service. On visits to tices involving personnel in mission, from 28 approved in 1976 to 73 last college campuses, Ms . Dauway found such as different methods and rates of year, accounting for most of the in­ students, both black and white, "woe­ compensation . While the study is far crease in personnel. The increase re­ fully unaware and suspicious" about from complete, it has already pointed flects a World Division commitment to the mission enterprise but " really en­ up the need for change and coordina­ bolster the missionary force, which has thusiastic" when they learned what the tion according to Florence Isaacs, been cut in half by attrition in the past church is doing. The church still has a chairperson of the Committee on Per­ decade. In April of 1977 the World long way to go to correct " the pervasive sonnel in Mission. • Division announced a goal of 1,000 mindsetthatethnic minority persons are Ellen Clark persons in mission by 1980, some 750 of them to be regular World Division missionaries. Among new National Division per­ sonnel , the 15 church and community 1977 New Personnel in Mission Handled Through Committee workers doubled the 1976 figure, and only a shortage of funds prevented the National Division World Division deploying of more workers. The 33 U.S. 2's also showed an increase over the Deaconesses 5 U.S. Missionaries 73 year before. The number of deaconess Home Missionaries 15 candidates approved dropped to five Chu rc h & Community from 15 the previous year. W orkers 15 Many of the new World Division U.S. 2's 33 personnel requests are for the African Grand Total 141 nation of Zaire. The church in Zaire is seeking missionaries to teach in the schools that the Zairean government has returned to church administration. A listing of 85 new missionary oppor­ tunities overseas that the Office of

New World Outlook • April 1978 (157) 13 Crusade Scholarship Forrest Stith, chairperson Committee Margaret Swift, executive secretary

ernando Galan is a 25-y~ar~o ld some support from Women's Division FMe ican American from M1ss1on , Supplementary gifts and interest in- south Texa . Grandson of a minister, he come. took an active part in United Methodist As the church's needs for trained youth activities and once spent a personnel have changed over the years, summer in New York City doing volun- so have the emphases of the Crusade tary mis ion work. New York City Scholarship program. It shou ld be opened his eyes to the problem of drug evident from the backgrounds of the addiction and shaped his career plans. U.S. Crusade Scholars that the Crusade Currently, Mr. Galan is completing a Scholarship Committee backs the mis- Ph .D . degree in social work at Brandeis sional priority of strengthening the University in Waltham, Massachusetts, ethnic minority local church. NEWSMAKERS his specialty being drug addiction Another goal is support for students The roster of former Crusade Scholars research . Other interests include alco- with career aims of alleviating world reads like a Who 's Who of church and holism and the impact of assimilation hunger. Two recent Crusade Scholars, society. President Agostinho Neto of on Hispanics, topics he has addressed David and Macrina Geoconcillo, have Angola , c. Eric Lincoln, the Duke in published articles and at internation- pledged to work for rural development Divinity School authority on black reli- I al conferences. in their native Philippines. gion, and Jose Miguez Bonino, the pi The ivory tower of Brandeis is a long Last year the committee set a goa l and Argentine theologian , have been Cru- tic way from the Rio Grande valley, but achieveditofatleast30percentwomen sade Scholars, to name just a few . w Mr. Galan does not intend to flee his in the program. One of them is Mamie Gaining prominence in 1977 was of past. " I have maintained much of my A. Williams, a black student at Wesley United Methodist Bishop Ben nie Warner a Mexican heritage," says the engaging Theological Semi nary and part-time of Liberia who was chosen vice-presi- ag1 young man, " and I feel a commitment pastor of an inner-city church in Wash- dent of his country. Another Crusade in to work with my people as well as my ington, D.C. Serious and devout, Ms. Scholar who combined religion with mi church ." Williams says her goals are to " grow in politics, Orthodox Archbishop Ma- Di Fernando Galan is one of 61 ethnic grace . .. to be a good pastor, friend and karios , president of Cyprus, died last el minority students pursuing graduate counselor ... and to serve God and year. gra studies in the U.S. or Puerto Rico in God's children. · · ·" At least 20 bishops have been Crusade 1977-78 with Crusade Scholarships of Abroad, a growing number of women Scholars. Among them is Bishop Her- me The United Methodist Church. This Crusade Scholars filling church leader- manus Sitorus, who in 1977 was elected onl number represents an increase of nine ship positions can be identified. Ta llon one of two episcopal leaders of the eld over last year's count. Unlike Mr. Tindit directs Christian education pro- 18,000-member Methodist Church of Galan, the great majority of the scholars grams for the I ban Conference of ~he Indonesia. No longer among them is su study theology. Malaysian Methodist Church. Lorine Bishop Wenceslao Bahamonde, head of ~al Crusade funds are divided 50-50 Tevi guides the Pacific Confe rence of the Methodist Church in Peru until he r between U.S. ethnic minority students Churches as general secretary. Agnes was killed in an automobile accident last Me and international persons. This aca- Loyall heads the Council of Women's August. sta\ demic yea r five international students Work for the Methodist Church of Church boards and agencies have a ~: · are enrolled in U.S . schools. The bulk of Southern Asia (India) and presides over liberal sprinkling of former Crusade the funds for international students, the Asian Church Women's Confer- Scholars on their staffs and as directors. Mo however, is sent abroad to church ence. tn 1977 Dr. Readus J. Watkins, a past ~~· scholarship committees which receive As a representative to the Christian Scholar, became associate executive We block grants so they can fu I ly or partially Conference of Asia assembly last year, secretary forthe Division of Program and Anr support students in their own or neigh- Mrs. Loya ll spoke up for the rights of Benevo lence Interpretation of United cial boring countries. It is difficult to deter- women. But it wasn't easy. "It takes a Methodist Communications. faci mine the exact number of international lot of courage to speak in a predomi- In earlier days of the 33-year-old The Crusade Scholars, but the figure tops nantly male gathering," she said. program , a handful of U.S . missionaries 400. "When other women asked how I cou 1dd received Crusade Scholarships, for ~~~ Crusade funds averaging $450,000 do it so calmly, I told them, 'If you cou 1 example, Dr. and Mrs. Duvon Corbitt, faci come from the yearly World Com mu- hear my heart pounding you would who gave many years of medical service rnai nion Sunday offering. A new color know what a terrible experience I go in the Congo. An international scholar, filmstrip produced by United Methodist through beforehand.' " Zenaida Lumba, a teacher at Harris fa!~ Communications, The Cup and the Chairperson of the Crusade Scholar- Development Center for Women in Loaf,interpretstheCrusadeScholarship shipCommitteeistheRev. ForrestStith . the Philippines, is currently a Person ~~ and Minority Scholarship programs Executive secretary is Margaret Swift. in Mission in the Southern Ind iana which share in support from the offer- Co nference . wf e I t -Ellen Clark aci 14 (158) N•• Wo•ld o""""' Hp.;1 "'' &..! ....in g...Th .. eC.. ru sade.. pro gra m.. a so.. g..es ...... lll LJ I • 11 1 1111 1111 111 BY ARTHUR J. MOORE Health and Welfare Ministries Division Plyna Strong, president John A Murdock, associate general secretary

or the Health and Welfare Ministries by black, Asian American, Hispanic in the Bakke Case involving minority FDivision, 1978 was a year of quiet American and Native American older admissions to medical school and progress, a year of strengthening rela­ people." Urging that the federal gov­ continued work to draw up affirmative tionships both with the institutions to ernment set up loan and grant programs action policy recommendations in its which it is related and to other divisions to meet fire and safety standards and to own related institutions. A divis ion of the Board of Global Ministries. It was build residential and nursing facilities, committee has been working through­ a year of improving services to the Mr. Murdock said that " Unless you out the year, in cooperation with the agencies it serves and supporting them provide such assistance, the govern­ Commission on Religion and Race, to in their moves into new forms of ment itself is going to be dismantling an draw up recommendations dealing with ministry. already inadequate long term care both personnel questions and services Among the issues addressed by the system for low income persons." provided . Division were the institutional needs of In other matters related to ethnic Handicapped Persons elderly blacks, affirmative action pro­ minorities, the Division both expressed grams for minorities, mandatory retire­ support for the position of the Board of Another group with which the Divi­ ment, and earning limitations for those Regents of the University of California sion has a special concern is the on Social Security. The question of the treatment of poor, Concerns of the aging continued to claim major attention. elderly members of minority groups surfaced in several ways. Most dramatic was the closing of Lafon Home in New Orleans after it was cut off from Medicaid funds for its failure to meet the standards of the Life Safety Code. Lafon was a United Methodist Home serving black people for more than 100 years. Most of its 89 occupants had to be moved far out of New Orleans, some of them more than 300 miles. Health and Welfare Division and the Louisiana Annual Conference had provided finan­ cial support for construction of a new facility when the Medicaid cutoff came. The Division has made available re­ sources to Lafon to maintain its admin­ istrator to direct replacement of the old faci I ities. But the over al I problem re­ mains. John A. Murdock, Health and Wel­ fare Ministries associate general secre­ tary, said in testimony before a Congressional forum, " The fact is that we as a nation do not have enough facilities offering long term care to and se

ence agencies undertaking building programs or expansion . These include bringing buildings up to safety stan­ dards. The estimated costs for these programs whose scheduled completion date is before 1980 is about 8147 million dollars. As a help to homes for the aging, the division (together with Education and Cultivation Division) will publish in the Spring of 1978 a financial guide for non-profit homes for the aging. Written by Charles Dilgard and designed to supplement existing materials, this 0 book has been tested with administra­ d tors of agencies for suggestions and deletions. An increasing trend among institu­ tions serving the aging is a move outside the walls of their buildings to serve their communities through teaching and the Veterans Administration director Max Cleland is a member of a committee on concerns of provisions of services. the handicapped. 0 New Programs D handicapped. Following the mandate limitation on earnings attached to the Several new programs exemplified of the 1976 General Conference, a Socia l Security program, urged Con­ new developments in various fields of committee at least half of whose mem ­ gress to reenact an Older Americans Act health and welfare. bers were hand icapped persons was when the present act expires in 1978, In health care , the hospice approach gotten together in 1977 and prepared to and favored the addition of nonprofit where terminally ill patients live in a begi n work in 1978. Among its mem­ homes for the aging to the energy grant setting designed to care for all their bers are Max Cleland, head of the and loan sections of proposed federal needs, emotional and spiritual as well Vete ra ns Administration and a triple legislation. as medical, is being undertaken at amputee. several hospitals such as Bellin Memori­ Homes for the Aging al Hospital, Green Bay, Wisconsin . The Aging The status of retirement homes and In Chicago, a pilot project in the sa The concerns of the aging continued homes for the aging received a great prevention of drug abuse is now under­ ~ to claim major attention during the deal of public attention in 1977, largely way. Working with community agen­ th year. The Division continued to press its because of the case of Pacific Homes. A cies, local United Methodist Churches en opposition to mandatory retirement and number of annual conferences with and the Northern Illinois Annual Con­ d to seek to get stronger flexible retire­ related institutions have looked at the ference, the program uses education fro ment enacted within the church as well financial situation but while four or five about drug abuse and counseling. as in the rest of society. conferences find it necessary to raise Centered in a largely black area, the In other questions of public policy of sums of money to assure financia l program seeks to win the trust and special interest to the aging, the Divi­ sec urity (so metimes to replace other confidence of local families as well as sion strongly supported the end of the guarantors) there are so me 50 confer- individuals.

16 [ 160) New World Outlook • April 1978 "A trend among institutions serving the aging is a move outside their walls to serve their communities."

Board Relationships Internally, the Division has worked to strengthen its working relationships with other units of the Board of Global Ministries. There have been more con­ sultations with both the World and National Divisions, more program planning with the United Methodist Committee on Relief, and more materi­ als produced with the Education and Cultivation Division. Important as this style of work is for its own sake, it is made even more so by division budget cuts and staff reduc­ tions . This has made the provision of staff services to constituent agencies even more difficult. Some funds from the Harry R. Kendall Fund have now been made available to insure con­ tinued leadership training. Some of the psychological elements of these problems were discussed by Division president Plyna Strong speak­ ing of the need to remind the Board of Global Ministries that Health and Wel­ fare Ministries are mission. " Basic to the relationship (to conference related agencies) is the assumption that the agencies themselves are committed to mission and that the Division acts as an enabler to strengthen and reinforce that mission ." Mr. Murdock summed up both the difficulties and the opportunities by saying, " We are going through a difficult period of transition as a division . Part of the difficulty comes from not having enough resources to do what we need to do, but the rest of the difficulty comes from a more positive direction-the need to do things that we have never done before . ... We need to work together better than we ever have before and we need better communications with al I of our constituencies." •

New World Outlook • April 1978 [161 ] 17 BY CHARLES E. BREWSTER Ecumenical and lnterreligious Concerns Division Jack M. Tuell, president Robert W, Huston, associate general secretary

n Mankato, Minnesota, the Cente­ lnterreligious Concerns on district and lie meeting but now has the nary United Methodist Church conference levels to interpret those participation of many Protestants and is shares a house of worship with the involvements, and particularly the In­ perhaps the most important workshop I First Baptist Church and the First terdenominational Cooperation Fund . on unity themes . As many as 55 -60 Congregational Church . All costs of It is through the Fund that the United United Methodist conference leaders maintenance, heating and upkeep are Methodist Church supports chaplains, attend each year. shared on a proportional basis, based Religion in American Life, the WCC, on size of membership. There is proba­ the NCC, and COCU . One way for local Bi-lateral Dialogues bly not another such " Multi-Church United Methodists to support their The Division participated in two Center" housing churches of three Church's ecumenical efforts, the EiC significant bi-lateral dialogues, a con­ denominations in the country. staffers point out, is to ensure that their tinuing one with the Roman Catholic An open and ecumenical outlook local church fully supports the Interde­ Church and a new one with the made this cooperation possible, but the nominational Cooperation Fund. It has Lutheran churches. With the Lutherans, underlying motive was money. Fuel been shown that some 80 percent of the who had representatives from all three bills are out of sight in Minnesota and money supporting the World and Na­ major branches of U.S. Lutheranism, costs of maintenance keep rising every­ tional councils of churches and COCU the subject for the first two meetings has where. " Pragmatic ecumenism"--co­ is used to implement mission goals of been the meaning of Baptism, while n operation growing out of a more eco­ the United Methodist Church. with the Roman Catholic Church the 0 nomical use of time and resources-is The Division participated in the 14th subject ha s been the Eucharist. growing on many levels, but in order to annual National Workshop on Christian Major points of agreement emerged flourish it needs a spirit of open­ Unity, held in Pittsburgh . The confer­ after the initial discussion on Baptism . mindedness towards other traditions ence started as a strictly Roman Catho- Lutherans and Methodists baptize in the and a desire to pursue the unity which Christ sought for the Church . The Ecumenical and lnterreligious Con­ cerns Division, with a staff of but three persons for most of 1977, tries to encourage that spirit and desire. In the view of the Division, those who Bi say the ecumenical movement has as 11 passed its prime overlook the facts . In f1 the words of one staffer, there is " more th1 going on than ever before" in such areas th1 as ecumenically supported meals on Di wheels programs, FISH , ministries to Cc the elderly and shut-in, social services, wi legal aid networks, and hunger and Di prison ministries. There are many more ch activities of worship and study across dr; denominational lines. co; Interpreting Involvements Wil Ch The division acknowledges that there Kir is not a commanding local enthusiasm co1 for the national and international efforts ca1 towards unity, such as the Consultation the on Church Union (COCU), the National I Council of Churches (NCC) and the Un World Council of Churches (WCC) . It is isn the job of the division and especially of gio perso ns attached to Ecumenical and car 18 [162] New World Outlook• April 1978 name of the Trinity, acknowledge baptism as a means of grace, baptize infants and recognize the sacrament as a sign of repentance and forgiveness of sins, and emphasize that sanctification follows justification and not vice versa . The differences are of emphasis. Divi­ sion president Bishop Jack M . Tuell and staffer Rev. Jeane Audrey Powers are United Methodist participants. In future talks, the United Methodists and Lutherans will examine the impli­ cations of baptism for the I ife of the churches in such areas as mutual recognition of membership, the min­ istry of all Christians, intercommunion, the nature of the church and possible mutual collaboration. None of the participants on either side, with the exception of Lutheran Council staff theologians, had ever been involved in such a theological encounter-which contradicts the impression that high level ecumenical meetings usually in­ volve the same people talking to each other but in different places. The three year series of dialogues with the Roman Catholic Church focus, in the words of one Catholic partici­ pant, on the "extent essential agree­ ment exists between the two churches Bishop Roy Nichols preaches at the National Workshop on Christian Unity. on the central doctrine of the Eucha­ conferences EiC is part of the confer­ Jersey. One focus of that workshop was rist. " In addition to the EiC chief exec­ ence Board of Global Ministries, but in Christian re sponse to the Holocaust. utive Robert W . Huston, other United others it is a separate commission . United Methodist training events for Methodist participants are Bishop James There are advantages and disadvan­ conference ecumenical persons have Mathews, Dr. J. Robert Nelson, the tages in both structures, but overall it is had Christian-Jewish relations as a Rev. Sharon Brown Christopher, Dr. the Division's impression that the major point of emphasis. Gerald Moede, the Rev. Don E. Saliers, "strongest and most effective work at The division has found itself increas­ and the Rev . Roy I. Sano. the conference level" most often ap­ ingly involved in a new role in Northern Toward an Ecumenical Statement pears when the EiC people are not a part Ireland. The Roman Cathol ic-Protestant of the Board of Global Ministries. This, conflict there is rooted in history and in The United Methodist Council of of course, reflects a long-standing an almost tribal identification of loya l­ Bishops receives from the EiC Division's problem within the division since it ties, but there are also legitimate associate general secretary an annual joined BOGM of the best way to pursue religious iss ues. Robert Huston visited "fu 11 scale report" on the present state of the ecumenical commitment of the Ireland twice, working both with the the ecumenical movement. In addition, Church. The Discipline allows confer­ Methodist Church in Ireland and the the Counci I of Bishops has asked for EiC ences to organize in whatever way they Ireland Council of Churches. The divi­ Division services in developing a see fit to get the job done and most sion also co-sponsored the visit of Eric Council statement on ecumenism and it conferences have simply copied the Gallagher, a leading Irish Methodist, to will then be the responsibility of EiC patterns of the national organizations. the U.S. Division to get this statement out to the Commenting on the quest for Chris­ churches and receive responses. The lnterreligious Concerns tian unity, the division staff members draft of the paper currently under note that " The current religious trend consideration by the Counci I concludes In the area of interreligious concerns seems to be toward a self-serving with the hope that "the community in the division participated in the forma­ 'turning inward' rather than a se lf-giving Christ may truly become a model for the tion of the National Council of in awe before the transcendence-mys­ kind of unity which God intends for the Churches' Task Force on Christian­ tery of God. The Board of Global community of humankind and that it Muslim relations. The task force, which Ministries is clear in its commitment to can show this through solidarity with all intends to concentrate its attention on mission . But mission needs the maturity those who seek this community." Muslims in the U.S. (see January New of unity in the faith . We must be equa lly One structural matter which affects World Outlook) named EiC staffer Rev. clear about the nature of the Christian United Methodist interest in ecumen­ R. L. Turnipseed as its chairperson . The Church as one, given by God through ism is how ecumenical and interreli­ division also participated in a national Jesus Christ as an organism into which gious concerns are set up on the workshop on Jewish-Christian relations we are drawn, not si mply an organiza­ conference and district levels. In some held at Seton Hall University in New tion."•

New World Outlook • April 1978 (163] 19 BY CONNIE MYER Education and Cultivation Division H. Claude Young, Jr., president Betty Thompson, associate general secretary

t's a generally recognized social lti neration agriculturists), farme rs, ranchers, com­ trend that Americans are increasing­ munity development, housewives, etc. ly distrustful of large bureaucratic The training events were only one Twenty-two of the Hunger Interpreters I facet of the Division's attempts to structures-their governments, cor­ are from ethnic minority groups. They porations and organizations, and cer­ provide more personal interpretation of were recruited on the basis of nomina­ tainly including church agencies. So in mission in the face of escalating re­ tions from bishops, conference council 1977 the Education and Cultivation quests from all over the country for this directors, from general boards and Division intentionally moved to try to kind of presence. To meet the need , the agencies, from conference hunger task lessen the understanding gap between division's Office of Field ltineration forces and from those attending the Board of Global Ministries' staff and initiated several new kinds of mission 1976 grainbelt hunger consultation . directors and people in local churches interpretation programs during 19 77. In today's world, " mission" is no and annual conferences. One of them was training for 107 longer narrowly confined to U.S. mis­ In a series of leadership development persons from 71 annual conferences to sionaries who go overseas and then e experiences in all five jurisdictions, interpret the missional priority on world regularly return to "itinerate" and tell about 750 annual conference global hunger across the church. The interpret­ their stories to supporting churches. The ministries' " linkage" leaders were ers were slated , at year's end , for persons now doing itineration include a brought together to share with BOGM Mission Saturation events in Maine, members of overseas Methodist Ii staff and directors some of the issues Baltimore and North Carolina Confer­ Churches, National Division workers, i and expectations behind global mis­ ences, as well as in several local members of volunteer teams , ethnic a~ sion . churches. Recommended as resource minorities, the new hu nger specialists Most valuable part of the training was persons to the ecumenical lnterreligious as well as present and former mission­ that local conference people " saw face s Task Force on Food Policy, the inter­ aries . to go with names" as ECD director Mrs. preters come from diverse back­ Four jurisdictions had newly ap­ te Ann Pfisterer, chairperson of the train­ grounds-academic (including pointed mission i nterpreters-i n-resi- M ing evaluation team, termed it. " In an general I think the five events affirmed what we are doing as a Board of Global wi Ministries," she added . " It was a great to opportunity for those attending to ask sio questions, to express their concerns, their needs and, basically, for us to engage in face-to-face dialogue with each other." mi1 The linkage training events also were Di unique because, for the first time, sto conference staff involved in mi ssi ons, vis persons responsible for ecumenical and Cht interreligious concerns and for health and welfare ministries were all includ­ Wo ed . Others who attended were confer­ dur ence hunger coordinators, di sas ter relief coordinators, communicators, ethnic minority persons, women, youth and others with interest and leadership potential in global ministries. The ECD Edu cation Section coordinated the events .

20 [164) New World Outlook• April 1978 dence, former overseas missionaries, as of the end of 1977. This developing program is an attempt to work with annual conferences in an expanded understanding of itineration of persons in mission . Putting local churches and confer­ ences in touch with this diverse wealth of persons will be the task of the interpreters-in-residence. They will as­ sist annual conferences in planning team vi sits to large clusters of churches for discussion of mission issues, in arranging dialogues with pastors and in other events. And the interpreters-in­ residence will assist in training people who will be itinerating, as well as visiting local churches themselves in cooperation with the Section of Culti­ A scene at the Portland vation field staff. linkage training event Another new thrust last year was (opposite page). intentional itineration events in Missou­ Photographic coverage of the ri East, New Hampshire and Oklahoma Johnstown flood included this dramatic shot of plasma Indian Missionary Conferences in bottles hanging on a cross which the Cultivation staff approached (left). Division members and the conferences and asked about speci ­ staff visited Clark College in fic needs . So successful was the New Atlanta during the annual Hampshire event that learnings from it meeting (below). were shared at the Northeastern Juris­ diction linkage training. Other confer­ ences are now developing similar models. Troy Conference in upstate New York and Vermont was supplied a spec ial live-in ethnic minority local church interpreter during part of the year. And about 60 Atlanta area local churches were visited by interpreters at the time of the board' s annual meeting in October. Two thousand Georgians at­ tended a Celebration of Persons in Mission jointly sponsored by the board and Atlanta area United Methodists. And the division continued to work with district missionary secretaries and to assist in teaching at Women's Divi­ sion Schools of Christian Mission. Communications Section At the same time that personal mission interpretation increased, the Division continued to tell the mission story through print media and audio visuals in both United Methodist Church and secular channels. Following are some highlights of the magazine representatives. In the fall 10 Audio-Visuals work of the Communications Section luncheons or dinners were held with During 1977, the division's audio­ during 1977: West Coast producers, directors and vi sual department cooperated with actors to sensitize them to hunger United Methodist Communications in Hunger Media Events issues. Follow-up is planned on devel­ production of the film on lifestyles, On the initiative of the section, oping hunger-related scripts for popular " How Do We Live in a Hungry World?" United Methodist Communications and television shows to bring to viewers the and on the filmstrip, " Navajo, the Story other churches sponsored a June brief­ church's concern for changing I ifestyles of a People." It also produced four ing on world hunger issues in New York and a more equitable distribution of the filmstrips, " The Sound of Loneliness" for church and secular newspaper and earth's resources. for the National Division ; " Created in New World Outlook• April 1978 [165] 21 God's Image," Women' s Division­ some eight million pi eces of materi al second -mile giving represented ·in the Board of Church and Society; " Women were processed. August set a new dollar Ad va nce despite a year in which no of the Bible," Women's Division, and volume record w ith the largest August major disaster, such as the Guatemala " A Living Gift" for the division's sa les in the past eight yea rs. Total dollar ea rthqu ake, occurred . The year 1977 deferred giving program . Promotion volume increased, although the num­ was the bi ggest year in Ad vance hi story continued for " Weaving the Fabric of ber of ord ers was somewhat down with a total of $16,696, 999 given to the Unity," a filmstrip relating to the compa red to 1973, also the first year of work of Christi an mission by individual Ecumenical and lnterreligious Con­ a new quadrennium. United Methodist congregations. cerns Divisio n. Response The addition of the missional priori­ The department also produced five ties-hunger and ethnic minority The magaz ine of United Methodist general and two specialized slide sets . churches-to the Advance program has Women had its first cooperative effort Photographic coverage of mission meant new opportunities and new w ith el lnterprete in printing miss ion work around the world continu ed in­ challenges. Response to both priorities study articles in Spani sh . During the cluding photos by a staff member within during 1977 was not as much as had year response al so contracted with a hours of the devastating flood in Johns­ been hoped, with hunger receiving new pub I isher effecting savings of about town, Pa . $1 ,670,415 and the EMLC only $2 75,- $22, 000 a year. The January 1978 issue 645 . This compares to the annual was the first printed by the new firm . Literature Department authorized amount of $3 million for A survey of the division's free litera­ New World Outlook hunger and $3 .5 million for the EMLC. ture distribution affirmed the impor­ During 1977, New World Outlook Only 14 percent of the churches have tance of pastors in the ta sk of miss ion negotiated a new contract with the responded to either priority through the communication and the necessi ty of United Methodist Publi shing House Ad vance, which caused the Cultivation continued close contact with confe r­ which involved moving to 48 pages Section to stress that the nature of both ence and district mission sec retaries. including a self-cover. The change will cri ses has not yet been realized in our The survey also validated the need fo r expand the possibility of use of four­ denomination. conti nu ed production and distribution color work on a number of pages and Activity in the Deferred and Current of free literature as a mean s of miss ion will effect cost savings as well. Gifts Department increased during education and promotion. 1977, with a total of $2 ,661 , 904 realized In line with this, the Literature Interpretive Services since the program began in 1973. Department reported 130 new pieces The department developed a four­ A self study of institutional racism during 1977 and 90 reprints, about a 20 page world hunger supplement that was initiated by ECO during the year percent increase over the previous yea r. went into all editions of the United beginning with a February staff retreat. Besides interpretive materia I, the de­ Methodist Reporter as wel I as 20 other As a result, the divi si on is beginning to partment p roduc ed an inc rea sed conference publications to reach an develop more networks with ethnic amount of advertising and promotional estimated one million United Methodist persons and a study of division suppliers pieces in the year. homes. is under way to see how many minori­ Th rough the division's Spani sh com­ Special projects included an adver­ ty-controlled businesses are used . municator, all the basic Women's tising/promotion campaign for the Unit­ More ethnic persons also were re­ Division material s were printed in ed Methodist Development Fund and cru ited for mission interpretation during Spanis h, includ ing the Program Re­ working with the Northeastern Jurisdic­ the year. In October an ev~nt was held sou rces Book. Production continued on tion in creating specialized promotional in Oklahoma Indian Missionary Confer­ the basic En glis h resources for United materials on the ethnic minority local ence to assist in the training of interpret­ Method is t W o men, ran gi ng from church mi ssional priority. ers for Native-American concern s, and pledge ca rd s to the Prayer Resources The Advance a similar event was held in December, Book. 1976, in Puerto Rico for the Hispanic Fund-rai sing continued to be a most community. Training is planned this Service Center important part of the division's program year in Rio Grande Annual Conference. At the Service Center in Cinci nnati , w ith an excellent record maintained in In light of recognized need for A scene at the Service Center in Cincinnati. mutuality in mi ssion , the division, under an Advisory Group on Research, 0 Planning and Evaluation, began a 0 serious attempt to tighten its program objectives and to evaluate over-al I effectiveness of its work. The Rev . H. Claude Young Jr ., Q division president, said this about ECD's work in 1977: " We are attempt­ ing to communicate a truth that is often hard , truth that can be a stumbling block and fooli shness to many people, as St. Paul observed in I Corinthians 1 :23 . We ca ll people to a cross, not comfort. We ask people to risk in the hope of resurrection and new life rather than holding safely to what is." • BYBETIYGRAY Women's Division Mai H. Gray, president Theressa Hoover, associate general secretary

he Women's Division is continu­ strictions on Medicaid funds for funding policies and procedures. ing to speak out as an advocate for abortions violate the free exercise of Two questions formed the core of the T mission. The role calls for com­ religion clause of the Constitution and discussion on corporate responsibility: mitment to the Gospel message the separation of church and state. The How did the Women's Division get through worship and through such Division's action is based on the 1976 involved? Why should the Church be practical forms of mission as education, General Conference position support­ involved? Through workshops and dis­ health care, and church development. ing the right of a woman to make a cussion the history of Women's Divi­ In some cases the advocacy is more choice, thus affirming the Protestant sion ecumenical involvement emerged . specifically in response to women principle of freedom of individual During 1977, the Women's Division seeking the protection of the Equal conscience. filed sha reholders resolutions with four Rights Amendment, of fair abortion Racism companies: American Home Products, legislation, of an end to racism . General Electric, Goodyear Tire and One concern is support of the Equal Following a process to eliminate Rubber Company, and Columbia Rights Amendment-an issue as close institutional racism , the Division has Broadcasting System, the latter as a to the heart of government as to the worked with consultants to identify continuing concern with media's dehu- heart of the church, and one in which indicators of such practices both in its the Women's Division has an historic own work and in relationships within interest. In addition to continuing its the Board and Divisions. support of ERAmerica and the National Personal and institutional racism was Coalition for ERA, the Division voted to the major focus of the workshop ses ­ plan national meetings only in those sions when the five Juri sdiction Com­ states that had ratified ERA. The Board mittees on Nominations and the of Global Ministries joined the decision jurisdictional presidents met at the which many other national organiza­ Bergamo Renewal Center in Dayton, tions had taken, and the impact was felt Ohio, in November. Dr. Phyllis Free­ in such big convention states as Florida, man of the University of Pennsylvania Illinois, and Louisiana. faculty and Ms. Thelma Stevens, former Official Division obser\ters attended CSR director, served as consultants the follow-up meeting of International helping participants work toward total Women's year at Houston in No­ inclusivene s in the leadership of Unit­ vember. Those delegates adopted an ed Methodist Women throughout the official plan of action including support jurisdictions and toward eliminating of ERA and forwarded it to the President racism throughout the structures of of the United States for action. United Methodist Women . Work continued around such per­ Another attempt to eliminate racism sonal health issues as abortion and and promote inclusiveness came in sterilization abuse. The Section of October at the Division's Consultation Christian Social Relations was active in for Black Women which explored ways a survey of sterilization abuse working to reclaim and revitalize the leadership with a team of local women volunteers of black women in the organization of and sociologists in New York City. United Methodist Women . Results were due early in 1978. Continuing orientation for its mem­ Acting on a CSR recommendation, bers, the Division held a seminar on the Division voted to become a plaintiff finance and corporate responsibility in in a national class action suit challeng­ September, and on human rights in ing Federal restrictions on funding December. Beginning with a Bible abortions. The case, McRae vs. Cali­ study on money, the finance seminar fano, maintains that Congressional re- reviewed the Women's Division's

New World Outlook • April 1978 [ 167] 23 realized in 1977 was the dedication in April of the Mrs .. C. Clifford Cummings Health Care unit of Brooks-Howell home. Named to honor the retiring president of the Women's Division, the new unit adds 20 beds for nursing care for retired deaconesses and mission­ aries . Property is a financial asset which allows the Women's Division to be in mission . Purchased to provide a needed service or witness to a community, property gives mission a visible form. The Women's Division currently owns some 250 properties in the United States and overseas. The overseas hold­ ings are gradually being transferred, within the guidelines of Women' s Division and World Division, to the local affiliated (United) Methodist Churches. A property-visitation plan /; has been implemented as part of the 10-year review to survey the condition of property in the U.S. owned by manizing presentation of women. Economic, Social and Cultural Rights . Women's Division and to plan its The Division, both singly as with maintenance. The Section of Finance Program Bu ilding other church agencies, acting through has administrative responsibility for all the Interfaith Center on Corporate Re­ In its new structure, the section of the property. The section's Committee sponsibility, has elected to participate Mission and Membership Development on Property reviews recommendations in stockholders meetings to call atten­ worked in many areas of program from National Division and World tion to corporate policies that may have building. The third in a series of New Division concerning Women's Division a negative social aspect. Officer Training Events was held in property which houses programs ad­ March. A small grant enabled the New ministered by National Division or Human Rights Mexico Conference United Methodist World Division. The committee directly Planned by the section of Christian Women to carry out an Every-Unit supervises other property. Social Relations, the human rights Visitation . Three communication Assembly Planning seminar drew 130 persons-primarily workshops were funded for the Dallas coordinators for Christian Social in­ region . Program innovations were Two assemblies caught the Division's volvement and Christian Global Con­ begun in San Francisco, Syracuse, and interest this year. One is the denomina­ cerns at the conference level . Th is was a Nashville. Consultations helped orga­ tional Assembly to be held April 27-30, second step in preparing United Meth­ nize United Methodist Women in Kore­ 1978, in Louisville, Kentucky. An in­ odist Women for human rights work at an churches of the Northeastern ternationa l group of speakers respond­ the local church level in 1979 when that Jurisdiction. Finally, a task force on ing to the theme, " A New People for A will be a mission study in regional and Standing Rules was set up to aid New Age" were to address United conference Schools of Christian Mis­ conferences and districts. Methodist Women " to confront them sion. The New Perspectives and Renewal with areas of critical need and concern; The impact of racism, sexism , and Program begun in 1971 acquired a task to challenge them to responsible action; economic exploitation was examined force to research the mystical Christian and to he lp achieve a sense of unity in in six areas: immigration, agriculture, tradition and draw from it to enrich the worship and in mission ." criminal justice, employment, health, Division. Another aspect is the Gath­ The other was the ecumenical and the media. The group was provided ered Silence, a period of quiet held Church Women United Assembly a historical perspective on defining and weekly from 11 :30 to noon in the which drew an official delegation from implementing human rights. Members lnterchurch Center chapel . the Women's Division to Purdue Uni­ were asked to examine anew Biblical versity in July . The theme was " Signa­ Schools of Christian Mission and theological assumptions about tures of Faith ." Another ecumenical basic human needs and aspirations. The Schools of Christian Mission highlight was the World Federation of A concrete objective of th is work wi 11 increased in attendance with 29,52 7 Methodist Women orth American be to build a body of opinion within present in 1977 over 27, 598 in 1976. Area Seminar held in Washington, D.C. United Methodist Women and the Study emphases were " The Caribbean in December on the theme, " Women in United Methodist Church to support the Crescent," " The Local Church in God's Christ's Redeeming Work: The Past treaties which the Carter Administration Mission," and " The Ongoing Journey: Prologue to the Future. " has sent to the Senate : the Convention Women and the Bible." There was al so Conti nuing Projects Against All Forms of Racial Discrimina­ a special emphasis on program building tion, the Covenant on Social and at the school s. Several projects continue to receive Political Rights and the Covenant on One thrust in mission that was support from the Division, among them

24 (168] New World Outlook • April 1978 the Family Farms Project, which w ill pursue its interests through the qua­ drennium via a 12-member ta sk force on farm iss ues . This group will oversee implementation of the early recommen­ dations and give visibility to the iss ues it rai sed . Support also continues for the Law of the Sea project. The Ethnic Women's Sem inars con­ cluded with Asian and black women. Plan s call forfour " feedback" seminars, two in 1978 and two in 19 70, which w ill be pl anned by the minority women for Women's Division members and staff. The process will begin with Hispanics and Native Americans in 19 78 and conclude with Asian and black women . Hopeful that the Carter Administra­ tion will be more inc lusive, the legi sla­ tive program has worked for racia l justice as it affects affirmative action in the Bakke case, supported a welfare reform bill and a new fa rm bill which brought reform in the food stamp program. Criminal justice, grand jury reform, and support for· the Panama Canal treaty also drew rndorsement. An increase in membership for Unit­ ed Methodist Women of nearly 32 ,000 was reported last year (19 76). Of a tota l of 537 districts in 73 conferences, 52 7 reported . This puts total membership at 1,222 ,346.

Section of Finance

Undesignated giving from the local units of United Methodist Women represents one form of Christian min­ istry and mission and empowers the program of concern for women around the globe. Receipts of $14,378,244 in 1977 from United Methodist Women reaf­ firmed the integrity of undesignated giving and will make possib le the extension of their witness in the world. Thi s amount becomes the basi s for the Women's Division 1979 budget. The Pledge to Missions, which is the largest source of undesignated giving, accounts for 85 .7 percent of the total amount received ; Special Memberships and Gifts to Mission 4.4%, World Thank Offering 6.2%, In Remembrance uted as designated by donors to world Human rights workshop (opposite page), and Memorial gifts .7% and Missionary and nati onal missio n projects. The South Atlantic regional school (below), Support 1.9%. Women's Divis ion spec ial supplemen­ planning mission study themes (above and Designated gifts, and Supplementary tary projects, " Women in Rural Deve l­ page 23). Giving showed increases over 1976 opment" recei ved $171,42 1 and "Medi­ income. There was a slight decrease in cal Care for Retired Missionari es and Call to Prayer and Self Denial from Deaconesses $128,455; United Method­ $794,455 in 1976 to $733 ,895 in 1977 . ist Committee on Relief $153 , 154; Maga­ Supplementary Gifts in the amount of zine and Pi cture Fund $1,692 ; Cru sade $1 ,004,86 7 were received and distrib- Scholarships $20,613 . •

New World Outlook • April 1978 [169] 25 BY CHARLES E. BREWSTER World Division Roy C Nichols, president Lois C. Miller, associate general secretary

or the World Division the year 1977 was marked by an unexpect­ ed war in Africa, an anticipated Fupswing of the number of mission­ aries, continuing concern over Korea , financial havoc caused by the decline of the American dollar, several sign ificant new efforts in evangelism, some impor­ tant consultations, and growing difficu 1- ty in Rhodesia . In mid-March rebel Katangese forces invaded Shaba province in southern Zaire from neighboring Angola and quickly reached the Kapanga mis ion station 50 miles from the border. For a period of two weeks there was virtually no communication regarding the af ty of seven United Methodist mis 1on­ aries . All that staff people in ew York could do, in the words of one, was to be "anxious and frustrated ." The U. State D partm nt had even le s infor­ mation than the mission agency. ot until th end of May, by which tim the Zair Army had r pul ed the invaders, did th ew York offic I arn that on of the mis ionarie , Dr Glen Eschtruth , who had rved in Za1r since 1 61 and had been upervi or of m dical work at Kapanga , had n killed by th invader . He a th fir t Methodist mis ionary killed on act1 rvice ince Burleigh Law, Jr. wa lain in 1 64 , al o in Zair . It wa v ral w lat r that the Board I arned that two oth r m1 ionari , th . Frank Ander on and Stan Maughlin, who had r mained at th andoa talion wh n th ir famil1e w r acuat d, had arrived a ly in Luanda , n ala aft r a k tr k. hool in Zair

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26 (170] w World • Aprof 1' I are not requesting great numbers of missionaries. Churches in Indonesia and Nepal have requested the most number of missionaries in Asia, but the governments of those countries are wary of prose lytizers and sti ngy with visas. Teachers and agricultural work­ ers are needed in both places. There is a continuing interest, howev­ er, in short-term missionary programs, such as the new Mission Interns, who go for a period of one-and-half years, and ~ return to the United States to interpret . . ' . for a similar length of time. Another type '• ~ ...... • I • • • • • '~ . -.. of program is that of the Perkins ...... -~ .. Seminary Intern Project. At its October • • • .. • • 0 ' ' • • • meeting the World Division granted ...... : .. . ' ' .\ .. ·...... '\ '. $12 ,000 to the Perkins School of .• . ....· .- ·.•.."' · .. \ \ .... •.• •.. ' Theology to support four students in . - ...... -. ' • . Liberia for about a year. The students An informal scene at a missionary conference. left in mid-January, 1978 to work in Monrovia, the Cape Palmas district, ing religious leaders, to support Presi­ means continuous monitoring of cost of and at the Gbarnga School of Theology. dent Park. No name connected with the living indices (a New York firm, Organi­ Board was listed. In another church zation Re sou rces Counsellors, Inc. Korea action there, the Korean Methodist supplies the tables). There are 93 As usual , Korea which is symbolic of Church strongly opposed any U. S. United Methodist missionaries in so many human rights issues around the effort to withdraw American troops Japan-the largest number any­ world occupied a large amount of the from the peninsula. where--of whom 38 are couples (with Division's attention. Concern focused At the start of last year the World 78 children) and 17 are single persons . on the fate of 18 political and religious Division hoped that progress would be The average total compensation for a dissidents in South Korea who were made in reuniting the Methodist Church family is about $23,000 around the arrested in 1976 after they had called for for South Korea , divided si nce 1975. In world, but in high-priced Japan this restoration of democracy and the resig­ July the Board received a cable from a could easily reach much more for a nation of President Park. In March of veteran missionary stating that Method­ family with severa l children . Fortu­ 1977 it was learned that nine of the 18 ist union in Korea was now "virtuall y nately, the Division was able to com­ would not have to serve prison terms; certain." This proved to be a prediction pensate missionaries in Japan for any two of them were Methodists. And by in the category of clouded crystal balls; currency loss over the year because the the end of the year the Board learned at the end of the year the two churches support budget was ample, but there that all but one of the 18 had been were no closer than at the beginning. could be difficulty if the dollar's decline released . However, in April , 1977 a This was one of the Division's " major continues. Also, it is worth noting that fresh wave of arrests included 11 disappointments," according to associ­ the Japanese church, the Kyodan, and students at Han Kuk seminary and eight ate general secretary Lois Miller. related institutions actually contribute a persons connected with the Human Two churches in Asia, the Methodist certain amount of money to the pro­ Rights Office of the National Council of Church in Southern Asia and the gram budget of the World Division Churches in Korea. One of those was Philippines Methodist Church, decided because, as Lois Miller notes, the Methodist pastor Rev . Miss Cho Wha­ in 1977 to move from central confer­ church has " placed foreign personnel Soon, chairperson of the Korean Urban ence status towa rd "affiliated auton­ among its highest priorities" and wants Industrial Mission. Miss Cho, who was omy," such as that of the United Church to contribute to their support. It is the briefly detained, had worked with the of Christ of the Philippines. In March, only church to do this . Rev . George Ogle, a United Methodist following the easing of emergency missionary deported from Korea in restrictions, elections were held in India Church Growth 1974. which overturned the government of A number of churches report signifi­ As for the one Korean who occupied Indira Gandhi. cant new efforts in evangelism and so much of American news in the pa st Money Fluctuations church growth. In Liberia, where Unit­ year, Mr. Tongsun Park, the National ed Methqdist Bishop Bennie A. Warner Council of Churches in Korea publicly Fluctuations in the value of the dollar was elected Vice-President in October, urged him to go back to the U. S. to are a headache to any organization the church's " God Power Movement" testify in the congressional bribery sending Americans overseas , and 1977 has placed a strong emphasis on scandal. The Council also asked the was a year to reach for the aspirin. The community development and set a goal South Korean government to explain value of the U. S. dollar declined 18 of 3,000 new members. A similar goal the situation fully to Koreans. percent against the Japanese yen and 22 of 3,000 new members has been set by In late November a document of the percent against the Swiss franc. The the church in Sierra Leone, for which Korean Central Intelligence Agency World Division is committed to com- the World Division sent a special grant disclosed an effort by the KCIA to win pen sat ing its missio naries roughly of $2 ,500 for evangelism and mi ssi on. over American opinion makers, includ- equally around the world, and that The Korean church has set a goal of

New World Outlook • April 1978 [171] 27 tripling its membership from 350,000 to one million by 1985, and the church in Singapore is hoping to double its membership by 19~0 . One local Meth­ odist church in Singapore, Faith Meth­ odist, said it would double its member­ ship of 500 in a year-the evangelism committee had 91 members and 15 subcommittees. The 6,000-member church in Argentina has set aside $30,000 for a three-year evangelism program . Although the Argentine church hasn't grown much in numbers it has deepened considerably the quali­ ty of its lay and pastoral leadership and has courageous mission projects among the urban poor, the Toba Indians, and political refugees from Chile. Evangelicals The World Division senses that its relations with evangelicals within The United Methodist Church improved in 1977. The division made a special grant of $7 ,500 to the Lausanne Conference on World Evangelism and also agreed to underwrite part of the support for missionary Dr. Dean Gilliland to teach for three years at conservative Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. This last action provoked a mini-controversy at the October board meeting when some persons objected that proper connectional procedures ari weren't fol lowed and the action seemed in! to slight United Methodist seminaries. WC The executive secretary of the Good asl News movement has attended mission­ Dt ary conferences at the invitation of the Eq Division. However, the Division turned fur down a request for an updated mailing thE list of missionaries. In the past the fro organization had compiled a list of (U "evangelical" missionaries and the PrE Division feels that all the Board's p missionaries meet the theological re­ co quirements of the Church's personnel SU committees and are therefore evangeli­ bu cal. (Zi Two Consultations cu Among the important consultations of of the past year were two in Latin the America. The Church in Uruguay " posed hard questions to the World Division," in the words of one staffer. They feel they have insights into what it means to be a Christian today, particu­ larly in a country in political stress, and " they challenged our jargon." Over the past year and a half the Division sent three couples to Uruguay for work in pastoral ministry; the church said it co Liberia's Bishop Bennie D. Warner is sworn in as his country's vice-president (below). Riots wanted to start with new people rather an

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Division th1 Wayne K. Clymer, president w J. Harry Haines, associate general secretary tUI an th' " As we looked at our involvement in poorest groups of people as measured pectation in many Guatemalans, an sti 1977 in 61 countries around the by PQLI : in Niger, where the PQLI is 14; alteration of self-image that gives hope co world, 11 says Dr. J. Harry Haines, in Bangladesh at 33 ; in Liberia at 26; in to families and communities and cre­ assoc iate general secretary of the Unit­ Nicaragua at 53 ; in Senegal at 22; in ates a ferment for change. frc ed Methodist Committee On Relief Upper Volta at 17; in Chad at 20; India " When we see this, " says Dr. de (UMCOR), " we kept asking ourselves in at 41 ; Botswana at 38 ; Guatemala at 53. Haines, " we find a growing feeling what better ways we could attack the An increasing amount of the work is among ourselves, and we have been fih root causes of hunger, handle emer­ in depth, with a concentration of saying to annual conferences, that this pr gencies, use our resources to improve resources and personnel sufficient to kind of concentration on special acute 'the quality of life'-€specially for the actually help turn situations around. An areas-the least developed areas in the u. least developed societies." increasing number of conferences are world-might make a significant differ­ For years al l progress has been making two and three year commit­ ence. " si measured by Gross National Product ments that attack the root causes of Helping with the landless peasant he (GNP) and per capita income; but this hunger. work in Guatemala, for example, is the un has said nothing about the distribution Central and Southern Illinois Confer­ re< Effects of Guatemala Relief of income nor the levels of physical ence which has pledged $80,000 a year lifE well-being of individuals. Recently the Moving in this particular direction for the next three years to the program . tia Overseas Development Council creat­ results, in part, from seeing the remark­ Meanwhile the number of specialist Sa ed a new indicator on which the basic able effects of the concentrated efforts volunteers for overseas work increases. pr human needs of the poorest groups can in Guatemala following the massively UMCOR in 1977 assisted 650 persons ua be measured . The Physical Quality of destructive earthquake of 1976. to serve-the largest number in its inf Life Index (PQLI) measures by Life UMCOR is now going into its third history. The vast majority of them went sill Expectancy, Infant Mortality, and Liter­ year of work here with 35 ,500 perma­ at their own expense for short-term w acy to tell how much of health, nent housing units built or rebuilt; assistance. These volunteers are not learning, and sustained good life landless poor peasants helped to buy in professional missionaries, but belong to co reaches the individual. and build new communities, " models an entirely different category. They are the PQLI can show exactly where are the of human settlement" as the govern­ essentially highly skilled lay people we one billion who are malnourished, the ment has called them; a program of who move into an area of acute need for ty 900 million who live below subsistence revolving loan funds which is enabling two, three or four weeks. level and the 300 million children rural cooperatives to expand their There is also a Volunteer Readiness crippled for life physically and mentally services to include land purchase; Bank with 200 persons on file who by malnutrition. potable water and water disposable represent 14 differing skills, as varied as UMCOR, which has always been systems provided in water- poor and an airplane pilot and a gynecologist. concerned with those in need-those sanitation-less highland communities; One church in Mobile, Alabama, is living in " fringe" societies and those vocational training programs turning working on its own "bank." With 58 still " on the fringe" in more viable out formerly helpless handicapped per­ doctors in its congregation, it hopes to societies, spent $8,230,000 in 1977 to sons with working skills, and indigent provide a regular flow of medical improve the quality of life in one workers with new trades; and farmers personnel overseas in order to upgrade country after another. Twenty percent who have been trained in agricultural public health efforts. went through Relief work, aiding peo­ technology. Personal Involvement Grows ples struck by disasters and emergen­ But striking as is the multiplicity of cies; ten percent went to help in projects, it is the inner growth taking UMCOR is concerned with the spiri­ Refugee Re settlement; and 70 percent place within the minds and spirits of tual quality of life as well as the physical went through Rehabilitation and Re­ project participants that is most signifi­ dimension. It knows that through the newal of Li fe programs to attack the root cant. Here is where the permanent caring and doing of Christians the causes of hunger. change is being made. There is a world's people can be touched by M uch of this work was among the transformation in confidence and ex- Christ-both those who give the care

30 [174) New World Outlook• April 1978 and ace involved in the doing and those ~ who benefit from it. When an annual conference makes a two or three year commitment, the overseas church can begin to plan its own involvement. Once the Domini­ can Republic knows, for example, that it can count on $40,000 a year and that the Wyoming Conference in Pennsylva­ nia will not only raise the money but will help in personal ways, it can begin to take hold with a difference. And once the conference has made the commitment, people from the Wyoming Conference have the oppor­ tunity and obligation to visit the country and prepare materials that will describe the issues and acquaint the con­ stituency with the project and the country they are supporting. In that exchange, special personnel from the area have the opportunity to be developed inside the country. The Wyoming Conference made its own filmstrip, educating local people in the process in audio-visual techniques. And people from the area come to the U.S. to minister to the conference. " This interchange helps in the mas­ sive educative job that needs doing to help church lay people in the U.S. to understand the overseas work, if we really hope to improve the 'quality of life'," says Dr. Haines. "Many Chris­ tians think only in terms of the good Samaritan and are concerned and fully preoccupied with the service of individ­ uals . But we must be aware of the influence of our programs on the total situations within which the people whom we want to serve live. " Is it enough, for example, that we consider methods of personal service to those who are oppressed and ignore the weightier issues of freedom and integri­ ty and justice? " Making decisions that take these issues into account requires the most competent and sophisticated knowl­ edge and understanding that we can muster. We cannot be guided only by feelings and prejudices. We must know the issues and we must be involved." Refugees Are Resettled Such involvement comes not only through interchange between coun­ tries, but through resettling refugees from overseas . The Willow Glenn United Methodist Church of San Jose, California, resettled Sergio and Pilar Abarca and their two children brought to this country by Haiti is a country to which many UMCOR under a U.S . Parole Program volunteer work groups from for Chileans in prison or detained in annual conferences have gone.

New World Outlook • April 1978 [1 75) 31 ' long after governments with their mas­ sive air-lift programs have gone, " after the debris is cleared, the dead are buried and the hungry fed, " says Dr. Haines, " then UMCOR digs in to meet the needs of people in a personal way." Increasingly that aid extends into the life of the people for a two or three-year period, as workers coming to give aid in times of disaster see a way to ease endemic problems and improve the " quality of life." Often the aid has I ifeti me effect. UMCOR was involved in planting thousands of seed lings on the hillsides of Algeria; today there are thousands of acres of forests . It was involved in doubling tne rice crop in northeastern Bangladesh where, reports Ms. Gillian Rose , a health clinic worker in nearby Khulna, " the huge winter rice project in this area has caused a transformation in people's lives. Medical work and family planning are on the increase in the This child was almost dead villages and the churches have opened three small clinics ... " d New Ways of Working s; Chile or in refugee camps in Peru . centers during their long exile. Hun­ Sometimes programs develop and tt The Rev. Wayne Williams wrote of dreds of teachers supported by the change direction as the issues involved IE the experience: church will soon transplant their whole in a situation come to be seen different­ g " I believe the Abarcas have made the schools to the Angolan countryside. ly. In the Sahel , for example, where the d transition to life in the U.S. with a Thousands more ca n go home because drought was initially diagnosed as an minimum of trauma. The willingness of church aid kept them alive." overuse of the land by too many people c the members of the congregation to and cattle, there is now a realization tr receive them has been of real help in Disaster Aid Continues that the problem is more complex than ir making the necessary arrangements. Church aid for those struck by disas­ that-involving creeping deserts and Cl The congregation has received new ters and natural catastrophes has also alternate flooding and drought. Thus al insights into the kinds of torture that kept hundreds of thousands alive over new ways of working are being devised . T persons in other countries may experi­ the years si nce UMCOR came into In that region where Niger has ir ence, creating a new awareness for the being. experienced good well-spaced rains tf emphasis on human rights." When, in the week of November 12, since the big drought, UMCOR helped Seven hundred and ninety refugees 19 77, two cyclones struck India, one in 1977 with the fish-stocking of 16 were resettled in the U.S. in 1977 by accompanied by 20-foot tidal waves, lakes . At the site of one, Guidimouni, m Un ited Methodists through their death came to 32 ,000 people and two 21 houses were built, along with a 5( churches, and hundreds of thousands of million were left homeless. Thirteen warehouse for storage materials and fa homeless and stateless people living as villages were wiped off the map and foodstuffs, two I iteracy classrooms and st refugees were helped in 19 other more than 100 coastal vi II ages were two ovens for smoking fish. All the UI countries. marooned . necessary fishing equipment, including Of the 20 million refugees around the " The fact that this catastrophe was canoes, was transported to the lake world classified as political, economic greater than the earthquake that truck along with personnel-master fisher­ and rel igious, nearly one-half million Guatemala added to the growing reali­ men , literacy teachers, a project direc­ are in Zaire alone, where the Ch urch of zation in the pa st yea r that man y of the tor. Christ in Zaire has assisted in caring for disasters UMCOR is ca lled to help are For the literacy classes , 300 booklets Angolan s, Burundi and Rwandese. enormous, impacting the people and were printed adapting the world of the Ms . Lelia Fernandez, UMCOR secre­ their economies for a ve ry long time," fishermen to the concepts of literacy. Of tary for refugee concerns, points out says Dr. Haines. " And they are coming the first 33 trainees, 17 attained levels of that "a certa in number of Angolan more frequently. While they averaged " hearing and speaking." They began refugees will be able to go home to push one every eleven days in 1976, they the second book, which teaches litera­ the task of national development with came one every eight days in 1977." cy and collectivism in an integrated way degrees won in Zaire and financed " Cyclone Re sponse-India," a spe­ and will help them organize into through the church's program. Others cial Advance fund to raise $300,000 cooperative cells for the selling of their will go with technical training in from United Method is ts through fis h. as mechanics, agriculture and other prac­ Church World Service for aid to India In Senegal , one of the four countries In tical fields gained at church training was the initial UMCOR reaction . But in the Sahel which may suffer drought so 32 (176) New World Outlook• April 1978 during this winter and This project stabilizes spreading deserts pose a constant sand dunes and pre­ threat, a new kind of agricultural vents desert en­ technology is developing: a way to croachment in Niger grow crops on rock or sand with no . ' (above). A training dependence on rainfall. ':..,.:...~ school for Arab refu­ The method uses brush and scrub, gees in the Middle East (left). A kitchen crushed and composted, watered , for flood victims in treated and applied. Thereafter plant­ Penn sy l v an ia ings come three times a year and the (below). crops of cereals and vegetables are above average in quantity and yield. The most expensive items in grow­ ing-weeding, watering and tending the plants are practically eliminated. The project is located on 4,000 0 hectares of land ceded by the govern­ ment about 50 miles north of Dakar, ina sandy dune area . Since the region is not far from the capital, marketing of crops should be facilitated and the urban unemployed can be drawn in. Not only is it anticipated that large scale cultivation will result, but tree nurseries should become possible, stock raising based on compost-grown forage, with milk cows for production to be sold in Dakar, and the training of middle-level managers and specialists in both production techniques and management. These are projects that can perma­ nently affect the economies of coun­ tries, can literally help change the quality of life. " And that is the question we are asking-What is the quality of life ... in their societies, our society, all societies." • re an tio crl fa(

• fro tor BY GEORGE M. DAN I ELS ad Mt National nii Division Jesse R. DeWitt, president Pr1 Randolph W. Nugent, associate general secretary Co Yo HL lagued by national crises of con­ West Virginia Annual Conference to The Office of Architecture, with a an1 tinuing inflation, increased un­ assist in repairing churches damaged by staff of two architects and a construction vit employment, soaring health costs the April flood waters. expert, aided 294 churches with build­ Ch Pand, among other things, its own we Forty-three loans totalling $3,442,- ing program I iterature, provided an­ budget, the National Division has 802 were made to churches categorized other 58 churches with information on anl managed somehow to maintain its as " Town and Country" churches and solar energy, hel ped 25 on energy cer commitment to undergird local 41 loans totalling $4 ,631 ,966 to conservation, gave on-site architectural ho churches and ethnic racial groups churches in metropolitan areas. Twen­ consultation to 37 , reviewed architec­ tio which in the 1960's had made signifi­ ty-three loans were made to Ethnic tural plans of 56 and prepared complete cant but precarious social and econom­ Minority churches. These loans tota lled plans for 14 others . It also completed an rel ic advances. Through the development $1 , 190,500. addition to a home for retired deacon­ foe of people with leadership potential , The Office of Finance and Field esses in Ashevi I le, N. C., bu i It a parso n­ bOJ initiation of new mission programs and Service assisted 197 churches and eight age in Cherokee, N.C. , completed the support of institutions for which it is conferences through financial cam­ construction of a church in Sta rkvi lle, ful responsible, the Division this past year paigns during 19 77. The anticipated Miss., and implemented a program ani sought to broaden the empowerment of amount of pledges rai sed may total wel l model of energy conservation utilizing the people and to create a broad-based in excess of $52 million th at will go to eight churches in various cli matic areas Chi infrastructure that would make more assist construction of new facilities for throughout the country. ing secure newly born national missionary worship, fellowsh ip, and training; to The Uni ted Method ist Development COl efforts (gains) of the Church. reduce indebtedness, fund pensions Fund (UM DF ) made loans to 4 1 tor Through its four major program units and undergird Conference church ex­ churches. Totalling $6, 180,500, they anc (Congregational Development, Agency tension programs. were granted to new ly developing, ( Concerns, Mission Leadership and Par­ we ish Ministries), the Division strove to hel remain faithful to both the Gospel se imperative for mission and to its Disci­ to ~ plinary mandate to form objectives and strategies for the national mission of the ing United Methodist Church . chi beg Congregational Development mo! The Congregational Development (hf Program Unit consists of the Offices of the Architecture, Church Extension, Fi­ incJ nance and Field Service, New Chu rch eler Development, and the United Method­ kin1 ist Development Fund . Throughout Vir1 1977 this unit served practically all bas1 levels of the church and consulted with you and granted loans for United Methodist sixtl congregational building programs. A F1 total of 84 loans amounting to $8 ,074,- You 768 were granted from National Divi­ Uni\ sion and UMDF loan funds. In addition invc the National Division granted $336,- mer 236 in conditional donations to 74 This communion service was during the celebration of the Japanese-American Christian ther congregations including $75 ,000 to the Centennial celebration. Chri

..11 31411111[117181]1111NlelwlWl olrlldlOlultloollkl•IAlprlil l11971811111111111111...... ~ relocated, renovated rural , suburban and inner city churches, for renova­ tions, refinancings, educational, re­ creational, fellowship and worship fa cilities. With an increasing demand for loans from local churches, the Fund's direc­ tors approved seeking $32 million in additional investments from United Methodist individuals and church orga­ nizations. Agency Concerns The Division' s Agency Concerns Program Unit, comprising the offices of Community Centers and Residences, Youth-Serving Ministries, Coalitions for Human Development and University and Young Adult Ministries, reflects a vibrant and meaningful expression of Christian concern for the total life and well-being of people, both individually and collectively. Through community centers and residences, schools and hospitals, physical, emotional, educa­ tional and spiritual needs are met. Though the 71 community centers related to the Division continued to focus on traditional services to neigh­ borhoods in which they are located, they were equally concerned about the full development of individual potential and self-determination. Thus many of them engaged in advocacy for systemic change, campaigning against " redlin­ ing," operating drop-out prevention counseling programs, and responding to resettlement problems of Vietnamese and other Asian immigrants. Of eight women's residences, two were saved from closing and were helped to make the transition from serving only young professional women to serving women with special needs. National Division-related child-car­ ing agencies and schools, which serve children, youth and their families, began with the women's missionary movement in the United Methodist Church nearly a century ago. Today, This day care center (above) is the Chinese Methodist Church in New York. Ministry in South the Division's Youth-Serving Ministries Carolina's Sea Islands (below). include 13 child-caring agencies, seven elementary and secondary schools, one Canada, exchanges with the Cuban Special Leadership Training program, kindergarten program at St. Croix, U.S. Student Christian Movement, a theolog­ and the Paine College Music Workshop Virgin Islands, and four Puerto Rico ical consultation, the launching of new and Values Seminar program. based educational programs serving projects on " Education and U.S. Cul­ Increased demand for services and youngsters from kindergarten through ture" and Asia-North America study­ difficulties caused by straining budgets sixth grades. travel on " the results of neo-colonialist faced many agencies as they sought to For the Office of University and relationships between the two regions respond to educational, social and Young Adult Ministries, work among in light of Christian understanding." health needs of people, especially universities and young adults means an Programs proposed and funded through women, children and senior citizens. involvement with a variety of move­ the Office of University and Young To meet these basic human needs, ments, projects and agencies. In 1977 Adult Ministries included the Huston­ and to overcome growing economic there was work with the World Student Tillotson Living Learning Student De­ difficulties, agencies, institutions and Christian Federation in the U.S. and velopment Center, the Pfeiffer College organizations have to at times cooper- New World Outlook• April 1978 (179] 35 rni1 ate by forming what some have come to 1 ca ll Coalitions for Human Develop­ ni~ ment. In Nome, Al~ska , last year, for car example, when the Maynard McDou­ gall Memorial Hospital, which had dai faced one financial and governmental per hurdle after another, was officially car turned over to the Norton Sound Health pro Corporation, strategy sessions had to be tot held to plan for an "adequate" ministry nee in Nome after the hospital was no longer related to the UMC. Participants in these strategy sessions included representatives of the Alaska Missionary sior Conference, National Division staff and the Board members and staff members of Urt the hospital, the Nome Community Thr1 Center and the Community United Nat Methodist Church . loCi The Center and the church turned out mis to be key elements of the new ministry, did but with both requiring more funding lib€ and enlarged facilities. Based on rec­ ommendations from the strategy ses­ A US-2 (above). Repairing the church and community sions, approval was given by the center, Robeson County, N.C. (below). National and Women's Divisions for the building of a new community center and renovation of the church. gro Another example is Northern New ing Mexico, where the unemployment rate pro rose from 1 7 per cent in 1976 to 26 per T cent in 1977, exacerbating the needs of eve the unemployed, the underemployed and and the elderly. In response, the Group pri Ministry, a coalition of church and beri community organizations primarily ed serving Hispanic people with low in­ dev comes, expanded its ministry by inau­ in gurating " Supportive Services for El­ I derly Persons" funded by the Call to Ethn Prayer. Prio Eth Mission Leadership con Deaconess and Home Missionary Wei Service is one of four offices of the Rice Mission Leadership Program Unit, 191 along with Voluntary Service, Church adv and Community Ministry and Commu­ of~ nity Developers. At the close of 1977 T there were 178 active Deaconesses, Pue 214 active Home Missionaries, 367 JU')'. retired Deaconesses and Home Mis­ wor sionaries, 11 approved Deaconess can­ thro didates and seven approved Home ass ii Missionary candidates. During the year lat 11 Deaconesses and 14 Home Mis­ for sionaries were commissioned, 10 re­ lndi1 tired, and 17 retired Deaconesses and Tc Home Missionaries died. Arne Both Voluntary Services and the Wer Community Developers Program, which completed its ninth year of service, continued to enable the local church to extend its ministry into the larger community and to focus on

36 [1 80] New World Outlook• April 1978 minority empowerment. The Division's Church and Commu­ nity Ministry provides leadership and consultative se rvice through non-or­ dained personnel. Last year it had 62 persons working in rural and urban communities , doing everything from providing hea lth and day-care services to helping people to secure their basic needs . Parish Ministries Parish Ministries, the National Di vi­ sio n's fourth program unit, coordinates the offices of Town and Country, Urban, and Ethni c Language Ministries. Through the work of these offices th e National Division so ught to provide local congregations the means to be in mission and ministry more effecti ve ly. It did this by assisting churches in de­ liberately developing cooperative pat­ Scene at a mis­ tern s of se rvi ce, w hereby they cooper­ sionary confer­ ated in such projects as blood banks, ence (above). meals on w heel s fo r se ni or citizens, Cub Scouts at community development projects, es­ Christ Methodist tablishment of commun ity concern Church, St. Thomas, Virgin groups, upgradi ng and providing hous­ Islands (below). ing, and establishment of transportation projects. To expand thi s approach to mi ssio n even further the Unit's Office of Town and Country Ministries, which works primarily with churches of small mem­ bership in town and rural areas, initiat­ ed or supported consultations on the development of cooperative ministries in nine Annual Conferences. Increasi ng services related to the Ethnic Minority Loca l Church Missional Priority, were requested of the Office of Ethnic and Language Ministries. Fi eld initiate two events including the Mis­ tio1 al Division programs are related to consultations in Nebraska, Kansas sion Interpreters Training and a Semi­ the EMLC pri ority. By December 1, West, Florida, Rio Grande, and Puerto nar on Global Awareness in the Native 1976 proposa ls had been submitted to Rico Conferences were responded to in American Community. the Division by 30 annual conferences. 1977, and the office processed and The Office of Urban Ministries coop­ The combined financial aski ng of these advocated hunger funding for a va riety erated with ecumenical groups in proposa ls, for programs in church of projects . working on such iss ues as metropolitan extension and development, sa lary The Office participated in issues on ministries, church development, hun­ supplement and outreach ministries Puerto Rican pol iti cal prisoners, grand ger, housing, unemployment, criminal amounted to $ l, 119,351. jury abuse, undocumented aliens, farm justice, economic and corporate re­ It is clear that the National Division workers, and criminal just ice, and sponsi bi I ity, publ ic education, and had its ups and dow ns last yea r. Money through Parish Partners provided salary iss ues affecting women and children. enough was there for so me programs, assistance to some 32 conference re­ Other spec ia lized ministries included and too I ittle was there for others. A few lated projects in addition to the support ministry with the deaf, and mobile programs faced bleak moments as the for 60 ministers se rving the Oklahoma home and apartment work . woes of people and institutions contin­ Indian Missionary Conference. In addition to handling the majority of ued to mount. Ten sions had to be To help surface need s of the Native proposals for 1977 Call to Praye r worked out. Clearly, it was the Divi­ American community, consultations funding in the areas of Neighborhood sion's conscious support of women, were necessary to empower urban Development and Young Adult Minis­ children, youth , minorities, ch urch reservation and smal I rural Ind ia n com­ tries, the Office of Urban Ministries institutions and agencies, parishes , munities to be better se rved by the processed a majority of the Hunger and rural and urban places of ministry and church through its outreach ministry. EMLC mi ssio nal priority proposal s sub­ innovative ch urch and community Other consultations enabled the Okla­ mitted to the National Division . workers that sustai ned its work in homa Indian Missionary Conference to Approximately 60 per ce nt of Na- 1977 . •

New World Outlook • April 1978 [181] 37 Treasurer's Report Stephen F. Brimigion, general treasurer

The Council on Finance and Admin­ $4 .1 million) is included in appropria­ United Methodist Women, needs of istration reports that the United Meth­ tions of the World Division of the Board retiring missionaries and deaconesses; odist Church gave a record of $67, 184,- of Global Ministries. This item is a the Women's Division's share of the 331 to world-wide benevolence and portion of the support of persons-in­ Board's operating expenses and appro­ administrative funds in 1977. The con­ mission. The remainder of persons-in­ priations to the Education and Cu ltiva­ nectional system continues to show mission support comes from World tion Division, ational Division and the strength . Dr. Ewing Wayland reports Service, the Women's Division and World Division. The Women's Division that World Service receipts for 1977 other so urces of income. A concern of provides appropriations to these three were approximately $23 ,226,000. This the World Division is that the Advance other Divisions on an undesignated is a record high . income decline includes a major de­ basis, but holds those Divisions ac­ Having recognized that we have cline in the area of support of persons­ countable to nurture and maintain the more to be thankful for from a financial in-mission. Furthermore, pledges from many ministries to families, to women stability standpoint than many denomi­ local churches for persons-in-mission and to children which these Divisions • nations, let us look at a hard reality. It is " support have also dropped . received from the Women's Division in .~ Ji • c estimated that it took two dollars in Advance income to the National Di­ 1964. " . 1977 to buy what one dollar wou Id buy vision showed an increase for the sec­ The One Great Hour of Sharing in 1963 . In 1963 World Service was ond year in a row. showed a decline (3.40%) in 1977. The " approximately $15,750,000. That says The decrease in UMCOR's Advance receipts totalled $2 , 189,000, of which ...~ ~ we would need $31 ,500,000 just to be support is not discouraging when it is $1 , 971 ,000 was forwarded to UMCOR •- 0• even with the 1963 program levels that analyzed . The Advance to UMCOR in after promotional costs . This still repre­ relate to World Service. The United 1977 ran $1 ,477,000 behind 1976. In sents the second highest year in the Methodist Church must make a bold 1976 there was support for the earth­ offering's history. This offering is the • grand gesture for Christ and stop losing quake victims in Guatemala of $2 ,359,- structure around which UMCOR does u" . 000 for which there was no counterpart its work. Interest income usuall y pays • 0 ground to inflation. ' 0 World Service income for the Board in 1977. In addition, funds for World most of the administrative costs . Practi­ of Global Ministries in 1977 was $1 1,- Hunger through UMCOR decreased cally all of the remainder of UMCOR's 458,000. The Board's World Service in over $715 ,000 in 1977 as compared to income is project designated by the •' .o ...1 1963 was $8,750,000. Using the same the prior year. It is interesting to note donors. ; ; 1963 measurement, it wou Id take $1 7 ,- that Advance gi ving for World Hunger The World Communion offering in •• 500, 000 in 1977 for this Board to ac­ through the quadrennial emphasis pro­ the year 1977 decreased slightly (. 44 %). complish the same program that it had gram and UMCOR was approximately This is of considerable concern to the • fifteen years ago. That says , we are $2, 996,000 in 19 77. This compares Board of Global Ministries because ."- ~ " running approximately 35% behind a with $2,042,000 and $2, 924,000 given one-half of the World Communion •0 • standstill situation. to UMCOR alone in 1976 and 1975 offering, after promotional costs , fi­ " 0 The only major benevolence fund not respectively. nances the Crusade Scholarship pro­ reported by the Council on Finance and When you couple the above infor­ gram, enabling students from this coun­ ;,' Administration is the receipts from Unit­ mation with the fact that only $275 ,645 try and abroad to pursue postgraduate • ed Methodist Women. These undesig­ was given to the Ethnic Minority Local studies . " nated receipts for 1 977 exceeded $14 ,- Church Missional Priority in the entire The income shown from subscrip­ 300, 000. This represents a 1 % increase year 1977, it is fa ir to conclude that the tions, advertising and audio-visuals re­ .." over 1976 and accounts for over 98% of church is not doing the job it could in flect sales of response magazine, ew • the Women's Division's budget. the areas of its own declared interest. World Outlook, printed materials from Advance income attained its record United Methodists have the ability the Service Center and news related to high since its inception-over $16,- (through the Advance) to designate their the total work of the Education and 696,000. Of that total $1 , 946,000 was funds one hundred cents on the dollar to Cultivation Division. for the Missional Priorities. These funds approved Advance projects . No ad­ The finance and field services opera­ •' go through the General Council on ministrative or promotional expenses tion of the ational Division charges • Ministries to all of the Boards and are subtracted . This is possible because service fees for its fund-raising efforts on Agencies . The portion of Advance funds the distribution system for these Ad­ behalf of the local churches across the • given directly to the divisions of the vance resources is paid for by funds country. In 1977, the Division's Service ~" ~ Board of Global Ministries declined in from World Service, the Women's Di­ Director conducted stewardship cam­ ." .~ total in 1977. Only the National Divi­ vision, One Great Hour of Sharing and paigns totalling about $52,000,000 in .' •-' sion showed an increase (8.7%), the investment income. Few organizations 19 7 local churches . World Division and UMCOR declined are fortunate enough to have this kind of The item identifi ed as the Council on 6.74% and 20 .68% respectively. Ad ­ financial tool. Finance and Administration in the vance income is the biggest single The Women's Divi sion is the largest amount of $292,621 is made up of source of income to the Board of Global single source of appropriations in the rece ipts from the Human Relations Da Ministries. It is essential to the future of Board of Global Ministries. These funds Offering. The Board of Global Ministrie mi ss ion that the nature of Advance in­ provide for Women's Division's admin­ share of the Missional Priority funds is come be understood. Only a small por­ istrative cost, programs of leadership $2 ,35 7, 159 made up of Apportioned tion of Advance income (approximately training and mi ss ion education for Benevolence and Ad vance Spec ial

38 [182) New World Outlook• April 1978 BOARD OF GLOBAL MINISTRIES OF THE UN ITED METHODIST CHURCH

General Fund UNAUDITED INCOME and EX PENDITU RES STATEMENT for the YEAR ENDED DECEMBER J 1, 1977

Ecumenical Crusade & Inter· Education Health & Scholar· religious & Cultiva· Welfare General ship Concerns ti on M inistries National Women's World Adjusted Boa rd Committee Division Division Division Division UMCOR Division Division Total El imination Total

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Advance income 2,414,616 5,666,739 6,669,583 14,750,938 14,750,938 United Methodist Women 14,234,339 14,234,339 14,234,339 World Servic e $2,484,069 318,220 1,677, 188 639,885 3,035,664 3, 178, 151 11 ,333, 177 11 ,333, 177 World Servic-Ethnic Minor ity Local Church 125,000 125,000 125,000 One Great Hour of Sharing 1,970,365 1,970,365 1,970,365 Income on investments 102,673 23,825 428 29,983 10,701 1,332,076 425,773 84,372 424,492 2,434,323 2,434,323 World Communion offering 469,740 469,740 469,740 Soles: Subscript ions, advertisi ng, and audiovisual 1,502,749 1,502,749 1,502,749 Service fee 993,654 993,654 993,654 General Council on Finance and Ad· ministration 292,621 292,621 292,621 T ronsfer from Women's Division for appropriations 462, 186 690,558 4,5 15, 122 4,515, 122 10, 182,988 10, 182,988 Transfer from Women ' s O ivi- s ion--other 17,527 52,064 45,078 1,468,824 1,583,493 l,583,493 Trans fer from other divisions for op- hropriations 106,672 200,000 306,672 306,672 Ot er income 90,504 4,787 1,255 106,886 48,566 1, 525,389 227,907 59,533 1,36 1,484 3,426,3 l l 3,426,311 M1ssional Priority. Advance Special World Hunger 977,570 977,570 977,570 Elhnic Minority Local Church 124,773 124,773 124,773 Apparl1onment World Hunger 793,264 793,264 793,264 Ethnic Minority Local Church 461 ,552 46 1,552 461 ,552 S5 ,728,263 5 15,879 3 19,903 4,259,428 699, 152 14, 154,220 8,290,784 14,378,244 17,617,656 65,963,529 10,489,660 55,473,869

Expenditures

Overseas M iss ions 4,5 15, 122 16,5 13,444 21 ,028,566 4,515, 122 16,513,444 Notiona l Missions 13,240,555 4,515, 122 17,755,677 4,515, 122 13 ,240,555 UMCOR Programs 7, 190,090 7, 190,090 7, 190,090 General Offic e & olher services S3 ,068,03 1 71 ,046 67,248 267,834 136, 100 791 ,47 1 297,289 2,850,894 419,908 7,969,821 568,858 7,400,963 S.C!1on of Mission and Membership O.velopment 244,460 244,460 244,460 Christian Socia l Re lations 237,0 14 237,014 237,014 Homes for Retired Workers 435,672 435,672 435,672 Promotion 72,617 530,383 690,558 207,220 1,500,778 890,558 610,220 Communication 1,230,92 1 1,230,921 1,230,921 Cull1vation 702,845 702,845 702,845 Educallon 274,262 274,262 274,262 Service Center 1,075,39 1 1,075,391 1,075,391 New World Oullook 208,538 208,538 208,538 res pons• 406, 106 406, 106 406, 106 Health and Welfare 492,902 492,902 492,902 Crusade Schalarsh1p 342,532 342,532 342,532 Ecumenic al & lnterrel1gious Concerns 195,763 195,763 195,763 M111 1onal Prionty Advance S~ i a l World Hunger 147,320 147,320 147,320 Ethnic Minority Local Church 5,000 5,000 5,000 Eth nic M inori ty Local Church Solary Supplement 300 300 300 Apporl1onment World Hunger 108,300 108,300 108,300 Ethnic Minority Local Church 45,000 45,000 45,000 Ethnic M inori ty Local Church Solory Supplement 6,700 6,700 6,700 1977 Commolmenh 1n process al year end 3~ 52 .504 58,700 4 1 166 126,860 477,084 759,718 759,718 S3 .380.651 416 982 3 155 15 4 224 597 670 168 14.23 1.503 8.017,762 13 488,8-42 17,617 656 62,363,676 10,<189 ,660 s 1,874,016 ACTUA.l.....:0.- Yua UllDaD---­ .,.~ at , t 9 77

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UN•RALP'UND GLOBAL A~IATIONS INCOM• Ms. A Y•AR •N.,.D H«:aMUA 31 , 1 .. 78 Or. )o AYdlovtMWI, .._ rt.,U-..... MINISTRIES 1 37 · A.4hrertilJftl S 1,M2,..0 M~ . I 3.73 0...0....tH_ of.._..,.. S797 ,130 M~ . I "~\, w-:!t::"o:;"" on.rt,.. M1. G ...... Tn-fer ltrom Ottlet' ll' YMI• Mrs. ( S 10,7 .., 000 s1.~ . 408 28 .•7 Ms. Beverly J. Abbott, Bath , Ma ine M~. I Mrs. Petra A. Acevedo, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico 11v.< Mrs. Gladys B. Adams, ashville, Tennessee Mrs.I Rev. Joe Agne, Park Forest South, Illinois Mrs. Donald E. Alguire, Downers Grove, Illinois Mrs. I Ms . Susie Anderson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Ms. Sally Curtis AsKew, Buford , Georgia Mii. I Or . ~ Mrs. Adelaide V. Barnes, Washington, D. C. lev.C Mrs. Kathleen Bellamy, Drayton , orth Dakota iev.C Dr. Donald R. Benton, Dallas, Texas Rev. C. Rex Bevins, Lincoln, Nebraska funds . The Human Rel ations Day Of­ Programs includes not only administra­ Mrs. I Rev. Rene 0 . Bideaux, Bolton , Connecticut Mr. fering showed a 4.25% increase in 1977 tive expenses, but al so some program Dr. John W. Bischoff, Loveland , Colorado from 1976. This offering is for United expend itures by the Women's Division. Rev. Judy Bither-Terry, Citrus He ights, California MI.fl Methodist voluntary services, co mmu­ Ad ministrative expense of the Board of Mrs. Karen K. Blackadar, Groveton , ew Hamp- M~ . I nity developers and other ethnic mi nori­ Global Ministries, as reported to the shire Ml . ~ Miss Ruth W. Blackburn, Lexington, Kentucky ty programs adm ini stered by the .a­ Council on Finance and Administration, Ml . ~ Bishop Ole Edward Borgen, Stockholm, Sweden Mrs.I tional Divisi on. is usually 7% to 8%. We anticipate that Mrs. Harry E. Born, Oakton, Virginia Mr. G As you look across the fi nancial the audited statements in 1977 will be Mr. Richard B. Bryant, Jr., Raleigh, orth Carolina Or. Ll statement on page 39, I believe the only approximately the same amount. Rev. Donald A. Burge, Cambridge, Ohio Mrs. Marjorie C. Burns, Crawford , Texas column w hi ch needs further explana­ In addition to the financial state­ \Ir.I tion is the one headed El imination. Ml. ~ ments, two pie charts demonstrate the Mr. Foy Campbell, Montgomery, Alabama C1 These amounts are those w hi ch are difference between income of the Board Rev. Minerva Carcano-Saucedo, Dallas, Texas Mrs. included in the receipts fo r more than of Global Ministries and the income Bishop Edward G. Carroll, Boston, Massachusetts one divis ion. For example, the amounts Ms. Kathryn D. Carroll, Walnut Creek, California Mr. available for appropriations (designated Mr. Richard Cash, New York, ew York recei ved by the Women's Division and by the Board of Global Ministries). Mrs. ~ Dr. Ignacio Castuera, Claremont, California Mrs. appropriated to the Educat ion and The first chart, which shows by Rev. Jonah J. Chang, San Francisco, Cal ifornia Mrs. Walter Chisholm, Painesville, Ohio Mr!. l Cultivation Di vis ion, the National Divi­ source of income the $55,473,869 Mr. M sion and the World Division are shown received in 1977, should be compared Dr. Richard Church, Sh iprock, ew Mexico lev. s Mrs. Henry C. Clay, Jr., Jackson , Mississippi in thei r respective income statements. to the second chart, which indicates the Bishop Wayne K. Clymer, Minneapol is, Minnesota Therefo re , the $10,489,660 must be 1978 appropriations for the Board of Rev. Karen Y. Collier, Durham , orth Carol ina Mrs.I Ms. eliminated to show net recei pts. Global Ministries in the amount of Mrs. Robert Compton, Jennings, Louisiana Net rece ipts in 1977 were $55,473,- $36,034, 188. This comparison empha­ Dr. Kennard B. Copeland, Waco, Texas Ms. Dollie Watkins Crist, Tequesta, Florida ~ 869 . About 18.6 million dol lars (34% ) sizes the stabilizing role played by Bishop Finis A. Crutchfield, Houston, Texas Mrs. of this amount was specifica lly desig­ World Service and the Women's Divi­ Mrs. Marlene Cummins, Fa irfield , Illino is nated by the donor. Th is ill ustrates sion in the on-going work of the Board Mrs. John W. Curry, Rock Hill , South Carol ina vividly th e Board's need to receive of Global Ministries. Please note that World Service is estimated at $10,765 ,- Mrs. Ruth A. Daugherty, Lancaster, Pennsylvania greater World Se rvice support from the Mr. James T. Davis, Cinc innat i, Oh io gene ral c hu rc h so that adequate 000. This amount can be considerably Rev. Lucretia Hurley Davis, Anchorage, Ala ka amou nts ca n be provided to some of the exceeded . If the number of local Mr. Marc Edward Dean, Chicago, Ill ino is more tha n 7,500 ministries in 90 churches paying the World Service on Bishop Emilio de Carvalho, Luanda , Angola countries th at do not receive designated apportionment in full equals, or is Rev. Stanley P. De Pano, Tacoma, Washington Bishop Jesse R. DeWitt, Sun Pra irie, Wisconsin giving, but are very worthy of support. greater than , 1977 World Service giv­ Mrs. Floyd W. Dickson, Kansas City, Mis ouri In the expendi ture portion of the ing, this amount could be as high as Mr. Charles K. Dilgard, Lebanon , Oh io fi nancial statement, th e item shown as $12 ,000,000. That difference is crucial Ms. Jean A. Dorsett, Mount Gilead , orth Carol ina General Office and Other Se rvices and to Christian concern world-wide. • Ms. Jean Dowell, Bloom ington , Minne ota

40 [184) New World Outlook • April 1978 Or. Gerald L. Downie, Kankakee, Illinois Mr. William B. Rollins, Los Angeles, California Dr. Harry Vanderpool, Albuquerque, New Mexi co Rev. Roy S. Dunn, Cupertino, Californ ia Dr. Israel L. Rucker, At lanta, Georgia Mr. Mark 0. Venson, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Paul Ryan, Mannington, West Virginia Rev. William S. Evans, II , Memphis, Tennessee Ms. Susan L. Wagar, Galesburg, Michigan Rev. Perry Saito, Wauwatosa, Wisconsin Mr. Leon E. Walker, Audubon, New Jersey Mr. Steven Ferguson, Lincoln University , Pennsyl­ Rev. Gildo Sanchez, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico Mr. Jim B. Waterfield, Canadian, Texas vania Ms. Gayle Shearman, Stockton, Ca lifornia Ms. Kathy Waters, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Or. Melvin M. Finkbeiner, Seattle, Washington Mrs. Robert Sites, Lafayette, Indiana Mr. J. Wallace Watson, Wilmington , Delaware Mrs. Geneva S. Foote, Lawton, Oklahoma Dr. F. Herbert Skeete, Bronx, New Yo rk Bishop 0. Frederick Wertz, Charleston, West Mrs. Lillian U. Sloan, Monroeville, Penn sy lvania Vi rgi nia Mrs. Elias Galvan, Granada Hills, California Mrs. Patricia A. Soderholm, Monroe, Wisconsin Mr. Charles H. Weston, Jr., Columbus, Ohio Mrs. Aurora T. Garcia, Lubbock, Texas Mr. Kevin C. Spears, Los Ange les, California Rev. Thomas M. Whitehead, Boise, Idaho Mrs. Jean H. Gard, Chesterfield, Missouri Rev. Forrest C. Stith, Baltimore, Maryla nd Mrs. Jean L. Wickett, Laguna Beach , California Mrs. Doris Gidney, Clyde, North Carolina Bishop Mack B. Stokes, Jackson , Mississippi Mrs. Anneliese Weigt, Wiesbaden, Germany (FRG ) Mrs. Dorothy E. Goebel, Madison , New Jersey Ms. Evelyn L. Strong, Detroit, Michigan Mrs. Norma R. Wilkening, Columbia, Missouri Mrs. John W. Gordon, Hueytown , Alabama Mrs. Donald T. Strong, Kalamazoo, Michigan Dr. James E. Will, Evanston, Illinois Bishop Paul L.A. Granadosin, Manila , Philippines Mr. Thomas P. Williams, Little Rock, Arkansas Mrs. C. Jarrett Gray, Sr., Kansas City, Missouri Ms. Joyce Takamine, Boulder, Colorado Mr. Donald R. Wood, Fort Collins, Colorado Mrs. Elizabeth Gutierrez, Garden Grove, California Mr. Clement W. Thomas, Bombay, India Mrs. Carlton E. Woodruff, Washington , Illinois Ms. Frances L. Thompson, Madison, New Jersey Ms. Audrey Jean Haight, Bozeman, Montana Mrs. Bonnie L. Totten, Fayetteville, New York Mrs. William H. Yaggy, Des Moines, Iowa Or. John Wesley Hardt, Baytown , Texas Mr. Jacob Tsotigh, Norma n, Okla homa Mr. Harry E. Young, Oelwein , Iowa Mrs. Andrea Taylor Harris, Gulfport, Mississippi Bishop Jack M. Tuell, Portland, Oregon Dr. H. Claude Young, Jr., Thomasville, North Mrs. Darrell Hasler, Olney, Illinois Ca rolina Mr. Greg Hefner, Bl anchester, Ohio Mrs. Dorenne Uppinghouse, Portland, Oregon J. T. " Bud" Young, Maben , Mississippi Mrs. Clelia 0. Hendrix, Greenville, South Carolina Mrs. Elizabeth L. Howard, Denver, Colorado Rev. Grace E. Huck, Faith, South Dakota Mrs. Harry E. Hull, Armagh, Pennsylvania DIVISION/WORK UNIT MEMBERS-AT-LARGE

Mrs. Florence Isaacs, Medina, Texas Ms. Sonia Aguila, Ozone Park, New Yo rk Dr. James Laney, Atlanta, Georgia Mrs. Winifred H. Ashford, Athens, Alabama Dr. Dora Ames Lee, Stockton, Cal iforn ia Mrs. Rubye Lee Jackson, Pine Bluff, Arkansas Rev. Young C. Lee, Phoenix, Arizona Dr. Bevel Jones, Athens, Georgia Mrs. June Barneson, Chico, California Dr. Joseph E. Lowery, Atlanta , Georgia Rev. Craig O. Jones, Bloo mda le, Ohio Mr. Roy 0 . Barton, Da ll as , Texas Rev. C. J. Lupo, Greenwood , South Carolina Rev. Charles W. Jordan, Chicago , lllinols Dr. Marion Baumgardner, West Lafayette, Indiana Rev. James C. Blackburn, Mi ddl etown, Delaware Ms. Fatima McCray, Pittsburg, Ca lifornia Mrs. Bonnie B. Killam, Lu fki n, Texas Rev. Walter Bremond, Los Angeles, California Mr. Walter 0. Kugler, Seattle, Was hington Dr. Earl Brewer, Atlanta, Georgia Mr. Edgar 0 . Mansfield, Columbus, Ohio Mrs. Cecil R. Matthews, Lubbock, Texas Mr. F. Owen Laforce, Parish , New Yo rk Rev. Gilbert Caldwell, New Haven, Co nnecticut Mr. Kenton Meadows, Gassaway, West Virgin ia Mrs. Edgar J. Lashford, Shavertown, Pennsylvania Rev. Walter Cason, Evanston, Il linois Ms. Barbara Michel, Hampton, New Hampshire Mr. Joe J. Lively, Jr. , Bradenton, Florida Dr. William B. Cate, Seattle, Washington Dr. Isaac Miller, Jr., Greensboro, North Carolina Mr. Nathan 0 . Lubba, Westfield , New York Rev. Lyle T. Christianson, Min neapolis, Minnesota Mrs. Dorothy Mizoguchi, Spokane, Washington Mrs. Donald J. Ludwig, Bloomington, Indiana Mrs. Anna Collins, Washington, D. C. Rev. Walter G. Muelder, Newton Center, Massa- Mr. Greg Lugo, Tucson, Arizona Mrs. Vivian Collins, Louisvil le, Kentucky chusetts Dr. Luhahi a Niama Luhahi, Kisangani , Zaire Mr. Robert Davis, East Chicago, Indiana Mr. Tom McDonald, Nashvi lle, Tennessee Dr. Sam Nader, Lubbock, Texas Mr. Leon T. McKenzie, Rancho Palos Ve rdes, Mrs. J. Robert Nelson, Boston , Massachusetts Mrs. Mary R. Ebinger, Rockvi ll e, Mary land Ms. Margaret Newton, Muskogee, Oklahoma Cali fo rn ia Dr. Doyle Ellis, Vi ncennes, Ind ia na Mrs. W. W. Mclendon, Lexi ngton , Kentucky Rev. Joe Emerson, Columbus, India na Professor Barbara Payne, Decatur, Georgia Mr. J. P. Paul Ephraim, Jr., Denton, Texas Mr. Marcus Matthews, Washi ngto n, D. C. Ms. Alyne J. Eslinger, West Roxbury, Massachusetts Mrs. Jean Matzke, Tieton, Washington Rev. Saul J. Espino, Miami, Florida Dr. Michael Germinal Rivas, Decatur, Georgia Mrs. Mary May, Wi nnsboro, Texas Dr. Leigh M. Roberts, Cross Plains, Wisconsin Mrs. Wilma Meier, Newton, Kansas Rev. Rebecca J. Fisher, Dayton, Ohio Miss Regina L. Roberts, Evanston, Ill inois Mr. Mike Miles, Birm ingham, Alabama Rev. Dan Rodriguez, San Antonio, Texas Rev. Susan M. Morrison, Si lve r Spring, Maryland Mrs. Celsa Garrastegui, Mia mi, Florida Ms. Dorothea Green, Indianapolis, Indiana Mrs. Margaret Sagan, Dearborn, Michigan Mrs. Roberta H. Neuman, Placentia , California Mr. W. E. Greer, Galveston, Texas Mr. N. Eugene St. Clair, Dallas, Texas Ms. Mary Jay New, Cl ayton, Ohio Rev. Ruben Salcido, Nashville, Tennessee Bishop Roy C. Nichols, Pittsburgh, Penn sy lvania Rev. Sung Koog Hahm, Lexington, Massachusetts Rev. Don E. Saliers, Atlanta , Georgia Ms. Beverly J. Nicholson, Memphis, Tennessee Rev. Justin Haruyama, New York, New Yo rk Dr. Frederick Sample, Annvil le, Pennsylvania Mrs. Wilton J. Norris, Berkley, Mic higan Mr. Herbert Henderson, Hu ntington, West Vi rginia Ms. Katie Scott, Tulsa, Oklahoma Mrs. Helen Humphrey, Overland Park, Kansas Dr. David Seamands, Wilmore, Kentucky Ms. Karen Palmer, Brunswick, Maine Rev. D. Severe, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Mr. H. Gene Parker, Ga rdendale, Alabama Rev. Steve Jackson, Claremont, California Dr. Grant Shockley, Atlanta, Georgia Mrs. Katharine Pellett, Defiance, Ohio Dr. William M. James, New York , New York Rev. William E. Smith, Columbus, Ohio Mrs. Ann Rader Pfisterer, Bowling Green, Ken­ Mr. David Johannides, Memphis, Tennessee Ms. Margaret Sonnenday, St. Louis , Missouri tucky Mrs. Bernice D. Johnson, Indianapolis , Indiana Ms. Priscilla Pierce, Whitesboro, New York Miss Carolyn E. Johnson, Dallas, Texas Mr. James E. Tallman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mr. Kenneth Plummer, Sr., Chambersburg, Penn- Ms. Edna Johnson, Litt le Rock, Arkansas Mr. Richard O. Tholin, Evanston , Illinois sylvania Mr. Harry Johnson II, Brook line, Massachusetts Mrs. Robert B. Pratt, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Mrs. Marian Jones, Co lumbia, South Carolina Rev. Lovett Weems, Jr., Ph iladelphia, Miss iss ippi Mrs. Josephine Price, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania Mrs. Patty Jones, Tacoma, Washington Rev. Melvin E. West, Columbia, Missouri Dr. Robert R. Price, Stil lwater, Oklahoma Rev. Kim Hae Jong, Paterson , New Jersey Mrs. Robert Wilcox, Maryville, Tennessee Mrs. Marilyn Winters, Beverl y Hill s, Cal ifornia Mrs. J. B. Ragsdale, Chattanooga, Tennessee Ms. Martha E. King, Rome, Georgia Mrs. Anna Wintle, Knox, Indiana Ms. Ina Randitt, Cochran , Georgia New World Outlook• April 1978 [1 85] 41 STAFF OF THE BOARD OF GLOBAL MINISTRIES Jan. 1, 1978

GENERAL ADMINISTRATION

Betsy K. Ewln11 M•ry·Allce Thom•• J•n• S . L. Brice 1.EI Assoc. Gen. Sec"y Pers. Dir. Recording Sec'y f

Treasury

Stephen F. Brlml11lon Fr•nk A. W. Morrison EmllloN.ter• N•bll Q . Abou-D-d Louis M. Krelsmer Gen. Treas Gen. Comptroller Chief Acc·t Acc"ting Systems Analyst Senior Acc't-Special & Designer Assign./Studies

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Zelm• Mellors Anthony S•nolr S . J-hBozek Jewel J . Tlllls H•rold M. Jenkins Supervisor Supervisor M•ry E . Hetrlch Supervisor Admin Legal Svs. Mgr . Elect Data Proc Systems Analyst Gift Proc Cash Disb Missionary Services

£ L•nlng Abr•mson Peter J . McL•u11hlln R-1 J. Rodrl11uez M•ry B. D•vls Albert B•n•• D Programmer Programmer Gen. Services Dir. Service Dept Mgr. Traffic Mgr E

Office of Crusade Missionary Scholarship Personnel Committee

Averr C. M•nchester LolsD•uw•y Anne Unender M•r11•r•t Swift H. Exec. Sec·y Secretary Secretary Exec Sec·y ~

Ecumenical and lnterreligious EDUCATION AND Concerns CULTIVATION DIVISION Division

Robert W. Houston Je•nn• Audrer Powers Robert L. Turnlps...t Jui Assoc. Gen. Sec·y Assist. Gen. Sec'y Exec. Sec'y Coo

General Section of Administration Communication

Betty Thompson D•vld W. Briddell Beverly J . Culn M•ry J•n• Suun Assist. Gen. Sec'y Assoc Gen. Sec·y Assist. Gen. Sec'y Service Center Dir. B. Ellz•beth M•rch•nt Giibert M. G•llow•ir John C. Goodwin Roger S•dler Lind• Elmlger N•ncir C•rt•r Goodleir Promo./Util. Dir. AV Resources Dir. Assoc. Dir.. AV Res. Li terature Dir. Assoc. Dir .. Literature Literature Editor

N•ncir SMtln Arthur J . Moore, Jr. C•rol M•rle Herb Ellen Cl•rk Charles E. Brewster Bettir Gr•ir Assoc Ed itor. Lit Ed .. New World Outlook Ed . response Assoc Ed .. Periodicals Assoc. Ed .. Periodicals Assoc Ed . Pe riodicals

Section of Cultivation

G-g• M. D-1•1• Con•t•nce Myer Ch•rl•• Lerrlgo J-W. W•lker How•rd Brinton Dir Interpretive Svs Sr Staff Writer Communicator Assist. Gen. Sec'y Exec Sec'y

D•vldFlude BeverlirJudge Robert C. Holstein D•vld H. Blmckburn Dwight S . Buamcc• Kenneth Mcintosh Exec. Sec'y Exec. Sec'y Assoc. Sec'y Cult. Field Rep. Field Rep. Field Rep.

Section of Education

H. T. Mmclln Allee M. Trost M. Deren• Fruler Warren Loesch Rene Ledesma Field Rep. Field Rep Coord . Field ltin. Dir., Cur. Def. Gifts Prog. Assist. Gen Sec·y

Ju•nlt• B. Wright Don•ld E. Struchen Ellnor K•Jlw•r• Coo rd Mission Ed Coord Mission Leaders Coord. Consult. Svs.

HEALTH AND WELFARE MINISTRIES DIVISION

General Administration

John A. Murdock Florence H. W•lter C.thl• Lirona • Lynn A . B erg man Assoc Gen Sec'y Treasurer Assist Gen. Sec'y Assist Gen Sec'y & Admin

Dual responsibilities - • also Exec Dir Certification Cou ncil Dual responsibilities - •also Exec. Dir. National Assoc. of Health & Welfare ministries I ••also Exec. Sec"y Devel. or Services lo Handicapped Persons. .

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Chllrles E. Frazier ..rth• E. Swlncl•ll Louis 8 . Bl•lr Duvon C. Corbitt, Jr., M.D. Ch•rles P. llellOftl • JuneShlmoll-•** Exec. Sec·y A"' Exec. Sec'y Assist. Gen Sec'y Spec. Consultant Exec. Sec'y Exec. Sec"y Health Care Overseas Medical Work Ministry Svcs. Conls. & Natl. Div. Svcs. Aging Svcs Ch tld·Youlh Chu

NATIONAL DIVISION

General Administration

R8ndolphNugent ..ttirHenderson Robert L. Johnson Robert J. H•m- Assoc. Gen. Sec'y Assist. Gen. Sec·y Admin. Recording Sec·y Planning Dir.

Agency Concerns

Enid M. Belle SlgrldQr•ir Giimore Deigado Lul•O•rett J•mH H. Dhls Exec. Sec"y Treasurer Comptroller Assist. Treasurer Research Dir. Comm. Ctr. & Res.

Pnoto not available

Lind• Schulze BettJr J . Letzlg JohnE. Jotod­ W•lter H. Schenck Minnie Stein JosephE. Poutlot Field Rep. Exec. Sec·y Exec. Sec·y Field Rep. Exec Sec·y Staff liaison UH Comm. Ctr & Res Coal Human Devel Univ. & Young Adult Min. Univ. & Young Adult Min. Youth Serv. Min. Goodwill Industries Secy

Parish Ministries

Peter Chen Joel M8rtlnez 81111• Now•bbl Mirong Qui Son 018dJrs C•mpbell Ass t. Gen Sec·y Exec . Sec"y Field Rep. Field Reo. Exec. Sec"y Parish Ministries Ethnic & Language Min. American Indian M in. Ethnic & Language Min. Town & Country Min.

Congreg. Devel.

Jerrir D. Ch•pm• lllnmoth Jefferson Cecll P. E. Pottleger M•rJorle Lutz Ell S.muel River• Field Rep. Exec. Sec·y Field Rep. Field Rep. Field Rep. Town & Country Min. Urban M inistries Urban M inistries Urban M inistrie s Urban M inistries ~ .. · -·~

Q-ge F. Wllll•m• Dougl.. R. Hoffm•n Cl•lr• M. Jones S.muel Hollenhe8d Bern•dCook Fred Helene Assist. Gen. Sec'y Exec. Sec"y Field Rep. Construction Agent Field Rep. Field Rep. Congregational Devel. Architecture Architecture Architecture Church Extension Church Extensi on •Field Representatives not shown: Irving Bruhn; William J. Erwin; Walter T. Jones; Alton S. Miller; Elvis L. North; Cecil L. Page; William A. Perry; Harrell Pitsenbarger; C. Clittord Sargent; David T. Scoates. Harry W. Scoates; William G. Smartt; Frederick H. Strathdee; Robert O'Kelly Wallace; Edmund R. Warne; Julius J. Webb; Hilton Howard Whitaker; Orville G. Wilson; R. Claire Wi nn.

Abrehem Cerer W. RuHell Herrls Relph E. Spoor Fr•nk L. Countrymen • Field Rep. Field Rep. Exec. Sec'y Exec. Sec'y Church Extension Church Extension UMDF Finance & Field Sv.

Mission Leadership

Negell R . Rller Chrlst!n• Brewer Louis Hodge Relph Nichols Assist. Gen. Sec·y Exec. Sec'y Statt Assist. Exec. Sec'y Mission Leadership Deaconness/ Home Miss. Sv. Community Devel. Church & Comm. Min.

UNITED METHODIST COMMITTEE ON RELIEF

6 .I. Herrr Heines Dor-n Tllghmen Frenklln P . Smtth R. Oerelcl Schmidt Assoc. Gen. Sec·y Assist. Gen. Sec'y Exec. Sec'y Sec'y for Program for Administration Hunger Coordinator

Liii• V. Fernendez PeulMorton Sec·y Refugee Concerns Sec·y Specialized Min.

WOMEN'S DIVISION

General

Ther••- Hoover Berber• E . Cempbell Ell-Klrbr Hel-L. Abslllre Assoc. Gen. Sec'y Assist. Gen. Sec'y Exec. Sec'y Statt Recording Sec'y

Staff In Regions

Mer,ruth Nlckels .loen L. Clerk Hel-L. Swett o-eMe•well •-i-L. ....er Atlanta. GA Dallas. TX Dayton. OH Denver. CO Evanston. IL

Lois E. Kohler Murden Woods ..rnlc• Dvor•lr. MH Frencea Spencer Nashvi lle, TN Sa n Fra ncisco. CA Syracuse. NY Washington, D.C. Section of Christian Socia I Relations

EIHM. AdJall P999r Bllllng• Ruth Ollbert JorceHamlln Annette Hutchln•Felder Assist Gen. Sec·y Exec Sec·y Sec·y Community Action Sec·y Legis. Affairs Exec. Sec'y Devel. Ed. UN/ lnternat'I Affairs

Section of fUI Finance E1 See•

Con•uelo Urquiza Sec'y Racial Justice Jore• D. Sohl Bettr J. Edwards Rosallnd M. Lesher Treasurer Peggr HalHr Comptroller Assist Treasurer Sec·y Fin lnterp

Section of Mission & T Membership Devel.

Marr L. Harver Elalne M . Gasser• Sec y Property Mgmt Mary Lou V.an Buren Josephine A . Harris Bernadette J. Sanders Assist Gen Secy Exec Secy Exec Sec·y Schools Sec·y Program Devel & Lea dership Devel Membership Concerns

Ann Ellton M•jorle S. Crossm•n Sec·y Schools & Secy Organ Devel Mission Education & Evaluation

In th' WORLD DIVISION worl Skille General by t Administration Meth Lol•C. Miiier CharlH H. Oermanr L. M. McCor Florence Llttle in-Mi Assoc. Gen. Sec·y Assist. Gen. Sec·y Assist. Gen. Sec'y Treasurer Program Admin. Planning & Research Africa ~ .. I I Patricia Ewald 1....,Blven• Juel Nordbr Patricia Rothrock Dir. Admin. Services Assist. Gen. Sec·y Exec. Sec·y Exec. Sec·y for Africa/ Europe

Asia

a.r-ac..... Henrr A. Lacr JlroMlzuno Edwin 0 . Flshar, Jr. •Patricia Patterson Assist. Gen. Sec'y Exec. Sec·y Exec Sec·y Exec. Sec'y Exec. Sec·y for Asia/ Europe •Dual responsibility- Functional Executive Secretary- Missionary Affairs Latin America , Nor• Q . Boots Jore• Hiii Joseph Perez Assist Gen. Sec'y Exec. Sec·y Exec Sec·y LA/ Caribbean

Functional Executive Secretaries

M81colm Mcveigh DorlsHeH Ro.. Catchings Ruth Herrls Church Devel.& Mass Commun. Ministry of Women Urban/ Rural & Univ Renewal & Adult Basic Ed. Youth Min.

Treasury Staff

H-• L. Aur ...kken Hunter D. Griffin JemesBrentllnger Assoc Treasurer Comptroller Internal Auditor

EMPOWERMENT . • • In this country and in more than 50 countries around the Persons-i n-M ission are often at the growing edge of the church. world we empower people to be in mission. Types of service are listed below: • Church and Community Workers • Deaconesse!1 Skilled people with abilities to share are accepted for service • Community Developers • Home Missionaries by the National Division. the World Division and Uni ted • Contract Workers •Short-Term Missionaries Methodist Committee on Relief. We call these folk Persons­ •Regular Missionaries • U S-2's in-Mission. Who are they? • International and National Workers

Teachers Pharmacists Nurses Musicians If you would like to find out more about these opportunities. Engineers Repairers write to: Office of Missionary Personnel - Room 1373 Counselors Writers Doctors Lawyers Social Workers Evangelists BOARD CJ= Administrators Architects Farmers Organizers Youth Workers Managers Technicians Communicators Superintendents Secretaries Builders Bookkeepers Librarians Helpers The United Methodist Church 475 Riverside Drive. New Yo rk , NY. 10027