Volume LI Fall 2012

President Rundell on the future of theological THE STORY education MAGAZINE AND ANNUAL REPORT Getting to know our newest students

Immersed in Israel/Palestine: A student reflects

Eight years (and 200,000 miles) of MTSO cross-cultural travels

Schooler Institute will feature Bishop Palmer and Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki

For the first time, an alum leads the board

The Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem

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Methodist Theological School in Ohio

Methodist Theological School in Ohio Contents FROM THE PRESIDENT ALUMNI The future of theological education ...... 1 February Schooler features Bishop Palmer 10 Board of Trustees roster 1 Class of ’63 invited to 2013 commencement 10 Our Aspiration, Identity and Purpose . . . . . 2 A first: Alum David Wilcox chairs the board . . . 11

ON CAMPUS Alum news 12 Class of 2012 illuminates the outdoor chapel . . . 3 FACULTY Green Seminary Initiative recognizes MTSO . . . 3 Beyond the classroom: faculty activities . . . . . 14

STUDENTS REPORT TO DONORS New students share their stories ...... 4 Donor Honor Roll ...... 18 Israel/Palestine: A student reflects ...... 6 The Sterling Society ...... 20 Why do we call it “Israel/Palestine”? 7 Restricted student scholarship giving 23 A commitment to cross-cultural travel . . . . . 8 Financial information ...... 24

THE STORY Founded in 1958, Methodist Theological MAGAZINE AND ANNUAL REPORT School in Ohio is one of 13 seminaries formally affiliated with and funded in Volume LI h Fall 2012 part by the United Methodist Church. Located on a 72-acre campus in Central A publication of Methodist Ohio, MTSO offers five graduate degree Theological School in Ohio programs: Master of Divinity, Master of Arts in Practical Theology, Master of Arts in 3081 Columbus Pike Counseling Ministries, Master of Theologi­ Delaware, Ohio 43015 cal Studies and Doctor of Ministry. It also 740-363-1146 offers graduate-level certificate programs www.mtso.edu in Basic Theological Education, United Methodist Deacon Studies, Engaging in Ministry with the Poor and the Advanced Course of Study in the United Methodist h A new spin The MTSO campus Church. President: Rev. Jay Rundell was graced by a new permanent Academic Dean: Dr. Randy Litchfield sculpture in early 2012. Santa Fe, MTSO is accredited by the Association of Editor: Danny Russell N.M., artist Mark White created Theological Schools in the United States Design: Jeffery Smith, DesignSmith the kinetic, wind-driven Flame 3, and Canada and the Higher Learning Printer: Robin Enterprises Co. which features three independently Commis­sion of the North Central Cover photo: Jen Stockwell, MTS ’13 rotating elements. Standing 11 feet Association of Colleges and Schools. Its tall, the sculpture is a gift to the degree programs are authorized by the school from Jay and Kristen Rundell. Ohio Board of Regents and approved President Rundell saw the sculpture by the Univer­sity Senate of The United on a trip to New Mexico and was Methodist Church. reminded of the cross and flame of We welcome your comments. Please send the United Methodist Church. them to [email protected], or Danny Russell, MTSO, 3081 Columbus Pike, Delaware, Ohio 43015.

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Thoughts on the future of our field By Rev. Jay Rundell have come of age in a it serves education – and to guard President rapidly changing era. against doing the opposite. Roughly one-third It is a pleasure to share with you this of our students were Overlaying those issues is most recent issue of The Story. I trust you’ll born after compact the reality that the ways people enjoy reading about the many people, ideas, discs replaced LPs, and function religiously and spiritually experiences and commitments that carry they have always lived are shifting, and the Church is forward the vision of Methodist Theological in households with under great pressure to remain School in Ohio. This publication also personal computers. relevant and potent. While contains our annual report to donors. I am Collectively, they patterns of religious involvement profoundly grateful to each of you who bring a much more are changing, commitments to invest in our students and in the future of diverse collection religious belief and interest in the people and communities they will serve. of ministry paths spiritual practice are strong. Even and denominational in secular venues, references to As a new class of seminary students affiliations than the religion still permeate our culture. joined the MTSO community in August, generation before them. It’s common for Yet we see less and less true theological I was struck by two seemingly discordant them to hear multiple languages spoken and literacy. That’s why I can say with deep realities. This class will matriculate on a to encounter people from cultures and faiths conviction that our mission has never been campus with a long history and a distinct unlike their own. They don’t merely accept more important. Even as we continue to culture and ethos. Academic institutions that this is a rapidly prepare pastors for congregational ministry, changing world; we must also embrace a sacred obligation to provide thoughtful, well-grounded religious Even in secular venues, references to religion they expect to be part of that change. leadership to a wider world. still permeate our culture. Yet we see less As we prepare our students for ministry and less true theological literacy. That’s why This dynamic dance between and service, we need to be mindful of our mission has never been more important. the new ways they will work with people, what has been churches and communities. And we need to and what will be make sure what we do is in alignment with is performed on a that. Our founding motto, “To Preach the tend to have a cyclical pattern to them, and stage that stretches far beyond our campus. Word,” is at the center of what we do and we church-related institutions are characterized Higher education is undergoing significant will need to continue to define and expand by deep commitment to ritual and transformation as well, with challenges what that means in a changing world. tradition. Washing over these traditions over rising costs and student indebtedness. are the fresh perspectives of students who Schools struggle to shape technology so that Continues

MTSO Board of Trustees 2012-13

Ronald B. Alford James Gysel Gerald P. Maloney Sandy Selby Derek Anderson Ronald Holtman Randall May Barbara Sholis Douglas Aschenbach Bishop John L. Hopkins Michael McNeil Earl Stalter Janet B. Baker Maggie Jackson Alan Morrison Margaret Streiff Patricia A. Bennett Veronica Jefferson John T. Mount (Trustee Paul White Eugene Blair John Kampen Emeritus) David E. Wilcox, Chair Janet Blocher, Vice Chair Alex Keller Robert Oakley John W. Zeiger James S. Chapman Gregory Kendrick Jr. Karen Oehl For more information about Jane Endres Susan A. Kyser Bishop Gregory V. Palmer MTSO’s trustees and the Preston Forbes J.F. Lacaria Joon-Sik Park governance of the school, Cyndy Garn Joan R. Leitzel James Roberson visit www.mtso.edu/trustees. Flo K. Gault (Trustee Emeritus) Sandra Lutz Jay Rundell

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from previous page Our Aspiration You will find on this page our statements meetings, we’ll share our plans and ideas, In response to the grace and of Aspiration, Identity and Purpose, inviting your questions and feedback. We call of God in Jesus Christ, adopted in 2008. At that time, we also will soon be emailing specific instructions Methodist Theological School in adopted a detailed strategic plan. We have for joining these meetings. If you are not Ohio will prepare and invigorate accomplished much of what we set out to on our e-mail list, I hope you will visit transformational leaders to engage do in that plan, and we’ll continue to fulfill www.mtso.edu/update and provide the church and the world in what remains. At the same time, though, your address. leadership and service. we have recognized the need to update and revise our strategic navigation, a process we Our Identity began over the summer. Our founding motto, “To Preach the Word,” is at the Three groups have been appointed to center of what we do, and and Purpose meet over the next five months. The first we will need to continue Methodist Theological School in Ohio is focused on program and curriculum. is a center for rigorous theological The second is exploring partnerships to define and expand what inquiry, spiritual formation and and relationships with other institutions. that means. professional development rooted The third is responsible for determining in the scriptures and traditions of the needed resources – human, physical, the Christian faith. We provide a technological and financial – necessary I believe the experience and wisdom of vibrant learning environment for the to provide the best education to the most our extended seminary community will preparation of skilled, passionate people. be needed to shape our approach going transformational leaders for churches, forward. Thank you again for all you do to As these committees undertake their religious institutions, emerging faith support and extend the work of this vital work, we also want to connect with communities and the wider world. place. a broader circle of interested people, Grounded in our Wesleyan tradition including you. To that end, we are and influenced by our ecumenical organizing interactive “virtual” gatherings and interfaith commitments, we on Nov. 13, Dec. 12 and Jan. 17. At all three attend to the theological, spiritual and vocational formation of a diverse group of students involved in a wide range of pursuits. Get social Expecting active participation in our with us community of learning, we maintain an atmosphere of mutual respect and on the web openness, teaching how to engage If you haven’t in conversation with the past and already, join the with others so that new and faithful more than 700 perspectives may emerge. We strive people who for our graduates to demonstrate a keep up with deep understanding of the heritage MTSO’s latest disciplines of religious study, to be announcements, highly competent in areas of practical happenings and theology, and to show evidence conversations of thoughtful reflection. We are through Facebook. committed to individual wholeness, social justice, inclusiveness and In fact, Facebook is religious diversity. just one of the ways you can connect to We take seriously our responsibility your school through for stewardship of the intellectual life social media. We’re of the church and our commitment on Twitter, YouTube and other media. The quickest way to get to all of them to a just and sustainable world. is through this web page: www.mtso.edu/socialmedia. See you online.

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MTSO’s ecological focus recognized In recent years, MTSO has taken a number of steps that reflect the school’s commitment to a healthy and sustainable planet. These efforts have been recognized by the Green Seminary Initiative, an organization that “encourages schools of theology to be participants in, and keepers of, God’s creation in all its human, biological, geological, and ecological manifestations.” The current home page of the Green Seminary Initiative’s website features a profile of MTSO’s ecological efforts under the headline “Stories from Seminaries.” Read MTSO’s entire profile and learn more about the Initiative and its 45 member schools at New lighting and repaired benches h The chapel at sunset www.greenseminaries.org.

Are you receiving Class of 2012 illuminates ‘Campus View’ emails? Have you read about Chris the Vest Outdoor Chapel Henderson-Johns, the recent MTSO It’s been an eventful year for the Gene Vest Memorial Outdoor Chapel. Built by the class grad who now of 2000 on a rise between the residences and the lower campus, the outdoor chapel has serves Anderson provided a tree-sheltered place of respite and reflection for more than a decade. Hills UMC in As their own gift to MTSO, members of the class of 2012 were inspired to renovate and Cincinnati improve a space they had come to appreciate. through the West Ohio Conference residency program? Brian West, a member of the 2012 Senior Committee, presented the gift during the May 18 commencement ceremony. After expressing gratitude to the class of 2000 for the original Are you aware of second-year MTSO gift, West said, “It was our desire 12 years later to restore the outdoor chapel’s benches as student Christina Yost’s work as a well as add energy-efficient lighting, all for the purpose of enhancing and renewing this contributing scholar to the State of rather unique sacred space.” Formation website, which features writing by up-and-coming religious West and his classmates provided the funds and labor to replace rotting bench seats and thinkers? pay for professional installation of the lighting. The subtle, ground-level lights mark the center aisle between benches and illuminate surrounding trees from sunset to midnight These stories and more were shared throughout the year. in the June edition of Campus View, MTSO’s electronic newsletter. If a Unfortunately, shortly after the gift was presented, Central Ohio was struck by a June copy didn’t show up in your email 29 windstorm. The so-called derecho ripped large limbs from a number of campus trees, box, please visit though there was very little damage to structures. One exception was the altar of the www.mtso.edu/update to share outdoor chapel, which was obliterated by a falling branch. your email address. Meanwhile, you Thanks to the work of MTSO’s buildings and grounds staff, the altar has been fully still can read past issues online at reconstructed. Even the class of 2000’s commemorative plaque is back in its rightful place, www.mtso.edu/campusview. and the chapel is a place of quiet once more. h

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This fall’s newest students are eager They’ve to serve and lead By April Casperson Director of Admissions

Each new class at MTSO brings its own unique energy and As MTSO admissions staff, Sally Murphy, David Allen and I have perspective to campus. Among those arriving this fall,arrived there are a lot been privileged to learn their stories and assist them in discerning of individuals you might call optimistic realists. They’re well aware their paths toward lives of significance. To give you a sense of the of the challenges faced by the church and the world, but they’re gifts and insights this class brings, I’d like to share a few individual inspired rather than discouraged by them. profiles, featuring quotes from their excellent admissions essays. We look forward to watching them evolve as Christian leaders in the years to come.

TIMOTHY PARKER KENYA Making the church relevant and real CUMMINGS The 2012 Harding Scholarship recipient, Timothy Parker Drawn to ministry with the has already been appointed to serve Waterford UMC in marginalized Fredericktown. University of Kentucky graduate It was in a summer factory job that Parker found a Kenya Cummings had a unique opportunity to model a life of faith: “I worked formative experience as an with a group of people who were double political intern with the Isaiah Project, refugees, from Bhutan and then Nepal. I developed a close relationship with all which engages in ministry with of them and had many great inner-city children, youth and conversations with them about their families. religion. I never forced my “I was allowed to preach, teach and lead in outreach faith upon them but I tried to ministries one summer in one of the largest churches exemplify it by my work and in the Kentucky Conference,” she said. “During that actions towards them.” time I realized I enjoyed and excelled in working with He aspires to a ministry that’s marginalized populations. I served in ministry known meaningful for those the church as Good News Live, which served a weekly meal, had a isn’t currently reaching: “I wish short devotional service and ran a food pantry.” to show people that there is no “When I first read about the certificate in Engaging in separation between intelligence Ministry with the Poor, I could not help but be drawn and Christianity.” to MTSO,” she added. An English Scholar, Cummings believes MTSO provides what she seeks in a seminary: “an academic institution that is willing to challenge me, has a vibrant community and is inclusive.”

4 METHODIST THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL IN OHIO STUDENTS JOHN MA Eager to serve a constant but evolving church SASHA DOWNEY While earning his B.S. in Making the most of a gift business administration, of listening John Ma became a leader in Sasha Downey majored in a community- and campus- psychology and religion at focused church in the Ohio State Otterbein University, where she University area, where he still minored in language and culture serves. A recipient of the English of the deaf community. Her Scholarship, he arrives at MTSO college work was a natural fit mindful of the many paths his for someone in whom others are ministry could take. comfortable confiding. “I am open and looking “When I first realized I had a gift forward to serving full-time in and an ability to listen, I knew a ministerial setting,” Ma said, that I wanted to help others,” she said. “My goal in “whether that’s becoming a counselor, an overseas completing the Master of Arts in Counseling Ministries missionary, an ordained minister, whatever it may be. degree is to become a clinical counselor and, eventually, Ultimately, I want to continue to serve the Lord, become arrived a health psychologist.” a leader and raise leaders to engage in serving the constant but evolving church and world.” A recipient of the Burton D. Morgan Foundation Scholarship, Downey has tutored children and worked Ma is grateful for the “accommodating spirit” he has with WARM, an organization that offers counseling, job experienced already at MTSO: “As I approach this new placement and food to those in need. community, I hope to one day give back and continue the relationships that I will build here.” “My greatest wish is to make an impact on the lives of the people I come into contact with,” she said, “and to not only help but give them the tools and ideas to make a positive difference in how they live.” MARK RUPP Exploring God’s JESSICA boundlessness STONECYPHER At Bluffton University, Kansan Mark Rupp began preparing Searching leads her back to for a career teaching music. her heritage “Music education was “I was raised in the United something I enjoyed, but Methodist Church,” said Jessica I always had a deep sense Stonecypher. “As a teen, I felt that I was missing out on called to service, but I never something,” he said. “During really identified it until the past my sophomore year, I decided to switch my major to few months.” In the intervening years, she was shaped music with a concentration in ministry.” by invigorating mission trips, involvement in a number of different denominations and the process of earning a Rupp, a member of the Disciples of Christ, has been bachelor’s degree from Ohio State University in human awarded the Rice Scholarship. He enters his first semester development and family science, specializing in middle with both general and specific goals for ministry. childhood development. “While my goal is to become a voice for reconciliation Eventually, it all led Stonecypher back to the United between the church and those of differing sexual Methodist Church and the ministry inquiry process. She orientations, I understand that to reach this goal I must has chosen to enter the candidacy process and pursue an have a deep and broad base of knowledge in scripture, M.Div. degree at MTSO, where she has been awarded an theology, ethics, ministry and many other subjects,” he Alford Scholarship. said. “My hope is to fully prepare myself for all aspects of ministry by exploring the boundlessness of God.” “I was searching in so many places,” she said, “and it led me back to my spiritual heritage.”

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Nagging doubts about the trip melted away h The MTSO group in Tel Dan Peggy Norvelle Sham, M.Div./MACM ’13 Peggy Norvelle Sham, M.Div./MACM

Journey to the in-between place During our cross-cultural immersion trip to Israel/Palestine, I didn’t figure out who’s right or wrong. Instead, I learned to dwell in the complicated middle.

By Abigail Salak the varied reactions of my fellow travelers. made aliyah (immigrated to Israel). I M.Div./MACM ’14 knew little more about Israel and Palestine Our visits to historical sites gave us a than those two things – Palestinians were I have to admit, I had much-needed history of a region that has terrorists and Jewish people wanted to a nagging worry about been in near constant conflict and turmoil return to the Holy Land. As an adult, I the summer trip to Israel/ for centuries. Without the understanding learned more about the conflict and the Palestine I had signed up of the deep history of Israel/Palestine, we creation of Israel, but I still had a tenuous to take. Cross-cultural immersion trips have would have had no context to understand grasp of its meaning. become part of the fabric of MTSO, and I the current conflicts. We were fortunate was hoping for a valuable experience. Yet to be able to spend time with Palestinian Our trip changed that. As is the norm Israel/Palestine is a fairly “Western” place, Christians and Muslims, as well as for MTSO’s cross-cultural trips, our group met with a wide array of experts: Botrus and a lot of the sites on our itinerary were Orthodox and Reform Jewish Israelis. The Mansour, director of the Nazareth Baptist archeological; I was unsure how immersively time spent learning and in conversation School; Dr. Mustafa Abu-Sway, director cross-cultural the trip could be. with these people helped me to gain a better understanding of the current Israeli- of the Islamic Research Center at Al- Pushing through those doubts, on May Palestinian conflict and the contemporary Quds University (Jerusalem); Dr. Cedar 28, 2012, I boarded a plane bound for Tel history that preceded it. Duaybis, founding member of Sabeel Aviv with 20 of my classmates and two Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center; faculty members, Dr. John Kampen and Dr. Growing up in the 1980s, I rarely Dr. Debbie Weissman, who identified Yvonne Zimmerman. Over the next 14 days, heard the word “Palestinian” on the news herself as a religious Zionist; and Dr. David my concerns about the trip melted away, as when it wasn’t followed by “terrorist.” As a Mendelsson, head of Israel Studies at I became immersed not only in the histories college student in a predominantly Jewish Hebrew Union College (Jerusalem). And I and perspectives of those who struggle to neighborhood in Pittsburgh, I had a number began to see how deeply the region’s issues make that small piece of land home but in of friends with family members who had affect people.

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It had been easy, from here on the other side of the world, to Israeli Holocaust museum – just how important a homeland was dismiss the conflict as just that – a conflict far away. Hearing the and is to the Jewish people. For me, the visits and the personal stories of the day-to-day struggles of Palestinian Christians and interactions didn’t lead to conclusions about who was right or Muslims, of Jewish people who were looking for a homeland, I came wrong. Instead, they reminded me that the in-between place can be to realize that this is not solely a political conflict. It was a struggle an effective space for exploring deeper conflicts. between individuals just trying to live out Each cross-cultural their lives and their It had been easy, from here on the other side of the immersion trip is different; those in each group come to faith in a land they all world, to dismiss the conflict as just that – a conflict far called home. understand the communities away. Hearing the stories of the day-to-day struggles they visit in new and varied A number of of Palestinian Christians and Muslims, of Jewish people ways. For me, the trip to my friends and who were looking for a homeland, I came to realize Israel/Palestine allowed classmates, after that this is not solely a political conflict. me to be immersed in both the conversations the historical and current with Palestinians cultures and conflicts. and Israelis, chose decisive sides, some with the Palestinians and some with the Israelis. I saw the ancient alongside the present in Jerusalem and other For me, though, the conversations and understanding gained from cities. This juxtaposition gave me a context in which to better them led to a place of comfort with the in-between places. I was understand the history of the two nations, as well as the multiplicity easily able to see the Palestinians as a people struggling for a home. of religions and cultures that live, both together and divided, in that I also was reminded – particularly on a visit to Yad Vashem, the holy land. h Why do we call it ‘Israel/Palestine’?

Middle East, we have called it a trip to referred to themselves as Palestinians to Israel/Palestine. identify their place in this area. In 1988, the Palestinian Liberation Organization Had we chosen to make this trip prior proclaimed Palestine to be a state in exile. to 1948, there would have been only In the Oslo agreement of 1993, early steps Palestine, no Israel. With the creation toward a future two-state solution were Jen Stockwell, MTS ’13 of the state of Israel, a new name was advanced in which there could be an added to the list of countries, a name Israel and a Palestine. that had been used for this territory by the rabbinic tradition following biblical Other names can also be found on usage, in Hebrew Eretz Israel (“the land of modern maps. Often the area now Israel”). The name Palestine was attached under Palestinian jurisdiction, which in to this region after the destruction of the antiquity was in Samaria, is called the Second Temple in 70 C.E. and the further West Bank. Gaza also is under Palestinian devastation of Jerusalem and Judea in 135 jurisdiction. You also will find maps C.E. by the Romans, when they renamed that refer to these areas as the Occupied the area Syria Palaestina. Territories. Many people find that the name that is most broadly accepted by the In the modern era, the question Muslim, Jewish and Christian inhabitants By Professor John Kampen of name acquired new significance in and interested parties is the Holy Land. 1967 after the Israeli victory in those How people choose to name territories that had been under Jordanian In our cross-cultural trips, we want themselves and what we as foreigners do jurisdiction since the creation of the state our students to encounter the entire with those choices is a very interesting of Israel in 1948. This led to renewed territory that was called Israel in question. In the case of our trip to the efforts by those native inhabitants who Continues

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‘We go to listen and learn’ Over the course of 25 trips, MTSO’s cross-cultural who are there – not only our faculty but folks there who have the credentials to travelers have arrived with questions, not answers engage them to think theologically.”

The 200,000-mile threshold most likely Each trip includes at least two weeks in “The idea is that we shift our world view,” was crossed sometime in the past year. It a different culture and is part of a three- said Lisa Withrow, associate academic might have been during the India trip in credit-hour course. A trip is bracketed dean and professor in the Dewire Chair of January, or Israel/Palestine in July. But those by pre-immersion and post-immersion Christian Leadership. “We begin to think whose cross-cultural immersion travels sessions on campus. While it’s common about what it might be like to have another comprised those miles will tell you the for trips to include stops at historically and person’s perspective, if we can possibly do distance, while significant, is only part of the culturally significant sites, a key component that. Some students initially resist the cross- story. is the students’ interaction with others: cultural program because they say they the people of travel a lot. I’ve MTSO, which has a long history of the area they’re traveled a lot, too, providing intercultural education, took a visiting; faculty While it’s common for trips to and until I went on significant step in the fall of 2002, when it members leading include stops at historically and cross-cultural trips, introduced the cross-cultural immersion I didn’t understand the expedition; culturally significant sites, a requirement for incoming Master of local experts how much of a Divinity students. A visit to Mexico in on history and key component is the students’ tourist I was, rather January 2004 was the first of 25 MTSO context; and their interaction with others: the than a human being cross-cultural trips in the past eight years. own peers. people of the area they’re with potential for solidarity with To understand the unique value of these visiting; faculty members “We tend to others.” trips, it’s worth considering what they go to places that leading the expedition; local aren’t. They’re not whirlwind vacation tours, really shake you,” experts; and their own peers. Withrow, who marked by three great photo ops each day. Van Meter said. has led three Nor are they mission trips. “In India, you cross-cultural “We go to listen and learn. We don’t go have people living on the sidewalk who are trips, gained a new with answers in hand,” said Tim Van Meter, envious of the people living in cardboard appreciation for MTSO’s approach when assistant professor in the Alford Chair of behind them.” To add context, “We have she participated in a national research team Christian Education and Youth Ministry, graduate-level lectures and learning about that conducted a recent two-year study of who is in his fourth year coordinating cross- economic, political, social, cultural and 10 seminary cross-cultural and intercultural cultural trips. theological understandings from people programs with funding via a Wabash grant.

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antiquity. We visit archaeological sites in of that during the two weeks we spend Israel and in the West Bank. We speak together in the Holy Land. Many people find that with Israelis and Palestinians. While the name that is most we spend more of our time in Israel, in John Kampen, professor in the Dunn Jerusalem we stay at a hotel in Arabic- Chair in Biblical Interpretation, has broadly accepted by speaking East Jerusalem, close to the visited Israel/Palestine 10 times in the the Muslim, Jewish and walls of the old city. past 20 years, both as a Dead Sea Scrolls Christian inhabitants and scholar and as a leader of MTSO trips. He All of the diversity and complexity of will present a campus lecture, “Modern interested parties is the life in Israel/Palestine is part of my daily Research on Ancient Texts: The Story of the Holy Land. life when I am there working. It is my Dead Sea Scrolls,” at 7 p.m. Oct. 29. hope that the students experience a bit

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Appalachia Russia Israel/Palestine New Mexico and Arizona W05 W05 S08, S12 Korea W06, W09, S13 S05 Japan and Korea S09

Cuba Mexico W13 Vietnam and W04, W05, W06, Cambodia S07, W10 W14 Guatemala W07, W11, S14 India W08, W12 El Salvador Democratic W06, W08, Republic of S08, W09 the Congo S08, S11 Namibia W06, S10

Eight years of cross-cultural trips h MTSO students have visited countries around the world, with plans to add Cuba, Vietnam and Cambodia to the list over the next two years. Map labels identify dates of summer and winter trips, including dates for planned travels.

“MTSO, compared to some other “This is about doing theological example, it is decreasingly likely that the institutions, has an intentionality about reflection as a community, in the midst of ethnic identity and cultural background of a our program’s focus on student worldview some very different understandings of the seminary graduate will match closely that of challenges,” she said, giving credit to the world,” he said. “Even if you’ve traveled a her or his ministry setting. It follows, then, time MTSO’s travelers spend in structured lot, you can learn something new from your that intercultural immersion programs are a discussion before and after a trip. “Those peers. I’m all for travel as an individual or critical component of seminary curricula.” who take our trips spend a great deal of time as a family, but when you’re with a group in the pre-immersion sessions talking about where people host you as a group, you Van Meter said cross-cultural education cultural difference. And I think the post- engage them differently.” at MTSO is intended as a framework, central immersion debriefing and processing is even not only to academic work but to engaging more important than the pre-immersion This level of engagement requires a major in leadership and service in whatever sessions.” commitment from students and faculty. environment a graduate encounters. But the Wabash-funded research team’s “Cross-cultural is important to our Van Meter, who has led two trips to report on cross-cultural programs makes understanding of the entire curriculum India, said the time committed to the trip the case for its necessity in preparing a new for the M.Div.,” he said. “When these and the interaction among students also generation of religious leaders. are vital to the experience: “We’re there two courses are effective, people are still doing weeks to 15 days, and we consider it barely “Today’s ministry contexts are reflective theological reflection years later. I had long enough to actually be there, because it of major demographic changes and the people six years after India say, ‘I finally got h takes that long for people just to arrive in a increase in cross cultural interactions and this part we talked about there.’” new place. About days 7 through 10, people shifts in cultural norms that accompany can actually be there.” these changes,” the report says. “For

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West Ohio’s new bishop

featured Ohio Conference Courtesy West at Schooler Co-leaders for February’s event h Palmer and Suchocki

United Methodist Bishop Gregory V. United Methodist Church of Berea during Center for Process Studies at Claremont Palmer and United Methodist scholar his pastoral career. He also was Youngstown and is founder and director of the school’s Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki will lead the District superintendent. Whitehead International Film Festival. She Schooler Institute on Preaching Feb. 10-12 also is a frequent member of ecumenical on the MTSO campus. The institute will Elected to the episcopacy by the North juries at major film festivals in Montreal, begin on a Sunday evening and continue Central Jurisdictional Conference in 2000, Berlin, and Washington, D.C. through Tuesday. In conjunction with Palmer served the Iowa Area until 2008, Schooler, the Mount Alumni Awards when he was assigned to the Illinois Area. “We’re fortunate to have Dr. Suchocki Luncheon will be held Feb. 11. From 2008 to 2010, he served as president of and Bishop Palmer leading the Schooler the Council of Bishops. Institute,” said MTSO President Jay Palmer began his assignment with the Rundell. “They’re excited about working West Ohio Conference Sept. 1, following Suchocki is professor emerita at together, and we’re looking forward to their four years leading the Illinois Area of the Claremont School of Theology, where perspectives on the preparation and delivery United Methodist Church. A native of for many years she taught theology and of powerful sermons.” Philadelphia, Palmer is the son of a retired also served as dean. A United Methodist United Methodist pastor, Rev. Herbert E. laywoman, she participates in aspects of The Schooler Institute on Preaching is Palmer. local, national and international ministries presented at no cost to participants, but of the denomination, currently serving on registration is required. To learn more and In addition to churches in North the Ministry Study Commission. register, visit www.mtso.edu/schooler Carolina, Palmer served East Glenville or call April Casperson at 740-362-3372. h UMC and Werner UMC in Cleveland; The author of many books and articles, James S. Thomas UMC in Canton; and the Suchocki serves as co-director of the Class of ’63 invited to march with 2013 grads In September 2010, as MTSO celebrated return to campus as honored guests and to of a new tradition for MTSO. I’d like to see its 50th anniversary, President Jay Rundell share the wisdom they’ve gained over five our 50-year alums reunite every year to kept quiet about his idea for a sequel of decades in ministry with the class of 2013. celebrate their ministries and get to know sorts. It involved those who began their the graduates who are following in their “We challenge our students to honor footsteps.” studies in the fall of 1960 and went on to the past as they shape the future,” Rundell form the core of Methesco’s first graduating said. “This milestone gives us a golden Rundell has sent a letter regarding next class. opportunity to do just that.” spring’s celebration to the first graduating class, and more details will be shared in Shortly after the class of 2012 graduated, “Among other things, we’re inviting he shared his plan. Next spring, the class future correspondence. If you are a member members of the class of ’63 to march in our of the class of 1963 and haven’t received of 1963 will be recognized as part of the commencement processional on May 18, a letter, please contact the president at school’s Graduation Weekend. Rundell has and I hope a lot of them will take us up on [email protected] or 740-362-3121. h invited the members of that historic class to it,” he said. “In fact, I hope this is the start

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A first: MTSO alum Mike Schenk chairs the board 1973 grad David Wilcox takes the helm The Rev. Dr. David Wilcox holds a Lexington, Ohio; Rockport bachelor’s degree from Harvard, two UMC in Rocky River; and master’s degrees from Yale and a Doctor of Hudson UMC. In 2005, he Ministry degree from Princeton Theological arrived at Wooster UMC, a Seminary. Yet none of those is the school he church with strong ties to holds dearest. MTSO. Over the decades, a number of Methesco graduates “I have much more loyalty to Methesco have been in Wooster’s pulpit, than any of the other places I went to preaching to a congregation school,” said Wilcox, who earned a Master whose membership has included of Divinity degree from MTSO in 1973. One many Methesco trustees and tangible measure of that loyalty is his service friends. Methesco commands his loyalty h Wilcox at as a trustee for the past 33 years. On July 1, Wooster UMC he made history, becoming the first MTSO “That kind of presence graduate to chair its Board of Trustees. generates congregational Wilcox, the senior pastor of Wooster United support,” Wilcox said. His community there,” said Wilcox, who Methodist Church, succeeds Dr. Maggie personal support for MTSO “has to do with appreciated the opportunity to process a Jackson, who had chaired the board since the importance of the few years that I was time of national upheaval from a theological 2008. on campus.” perspective. Wilcox also becomes the first board “Between the academics of the school “I was at Methesco at a very significant chair to have served during the tenures of and the experience I had as a student pastor, time in our culture’s history,” he said. four school presidents. Founding President it was a very formative experience for me,” “I came there just after the Kent State John Dickhaut invited him to join the said Wilcox, who was a student associate at shootings, and I left just as the Watergate board in 1979 – at a time when Wilcox was Dublin Community Church while at MTSO. hearings were beginning.” The experience already leading an left him with an appreciation for “the educational board. importance of theological education in the Wilcox brings an appreciation for MTSO’s “I was president midst of significant change culturally and of the local school “commitment to education rather than simply in the church.” board when I training.” He also hopes to see a renewed As chair of the board, Wilcox brings came on the board appreciation for the value of theological an appreciation for MTSO’s “commitment of trustees,” he education among the church faithful. to education rather than simply training.” said. At the time, He also realizes these are changing and Wilcox was serving challenging times for theological education, his first pastoral “It was more holistic than any of the other and he hopes to see a renewed appreciation appointment, at LaGrange UMC in educational experiences I’ve had.” for its value among the church faithful. northeastern Ohio. Shortly after arriving in LaGrange, he was encouraged by a “We came there with a daughter who “I’m disappointed with the church as parishioner to run for the school board. He was 5 months old, and our second child a whole being less willing to support the was elected, ascended to the presidency and arrived while we were on campus.” David preparation of these religious leaders,” he served until 1980, when he was appointed to and Marjorie Wilcox have three daughters, said. “I really do believe that in a world Fairhope UMC in Lewisville. Jennifer, Rebecca and Elizabeth. that’s more complicated, it’s important that the church have articulate and thoughtful Wilcox has since served at the United “We had a garden plot and did a lot spokespersons to respond to what’s going on Methodist Church of the Cross in of canning. There was a real sense of in society and the church.” h

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Geoff Piper is now director of bereavement services at Mountain View Funeral Home, Lakewood, Wash, a licensed marriage and family therapist with a part-time private practice, and gramps to two children. He also has published an Alum news e-book on Kindle, Stress Is an Option, Not If you’re an alum or former faculty or staff member of MTSO and have news to share about your ministry or personal milestones, please submit it via the link a Requirement: Choose Stress-Free Living. [email protected] at www.mtso.edu/update. If you don’t have an Internet connection, you may mail your news to us at Alum News, MTSO, 3081 Columbus Pike, Delaware, 1976 Ohio 43015. Alum news also can be found online at www.mtso.edu/alums. Steven Miller retired in 2009 after 35 years in pastoral ministry in the Florida 1964 1974 Conference. [email protected] Calvin King is working on “Project Nuf” Rob Atchley has been appointed wing (“Fun” spelled backward). He has founded chaplain for the Florida Wing of the Civil 1978 a company and is writing children’s stories Air Patrol/United States Air Force Auxiliary. Mike Selleck has served eight years as with a mission of sharing happy stories from He has served as a chaplain in the Civil Air the director of the Office of Connectional Planet Nuf, helping children know each is Patrol since 1999. Ministries for the North Georgia enough. [email protected] [email protected] Conference of the United Methodist Church. [email protected] 1967 1975 Kenneth Morris retired from ministry in Stan Dunk is completing 28 years as In addition to his full-time appointment [email protected] 2010. director of pastoral care at Fort Hamilton at First UMC of Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., Gary Wedgewood 1970 Hospital in Hamilton. He also has been a is a part-time staff counselor national Red Cross Disaster Spiritual Care with the Pastoral Counseling Centers of Margaret Barno has moved back to manager for 10 years, with deployments Tennessee. the Piney Woods of East Texas where including the World Trade Center, Katrina [email protected] she worked for 11 years for the Texas and the crash of Comair 5191 in Lexington, Department of Health and volunteered Ky. [email protected] 1979 as director of religious education prior James Gysel to retiring on disability in 2000. She retired in 2011 yet is still Timothy Farabaugh has had his first active in ministry. He serves as a chaplain continues to write book reviews for the novel published. In Search of Revenge and Galveston County Daily News. Because to Albion District clergy; serves as a trustee Respect is set in western Pennsylvania for MTSO; consults with pastors and of the progressive nature of her cervical between the French and Indian War and dystonia, her voice is very soft, and churches; produces a weekly radio program, the Revolutionary War. The main character Faith Forum; and engages in local hospital she prefers communicating via email. seeks revenge for the death of his parents [email protected] chaplain ministry. [email protected] and tries to earn the respect of the father of the girl he loves. 1982 Ronald L. Figgins Iris retired in 2006 to [email protected] Bill Byrd singing, praying and teaching to the glory has written Basic Budgeting: You of God. He began farming in 2009 and Can Do It! It’s available both in hard copy Patricia Lawrence retired in 2011. She and as an e-book. volunteering in the church and community and her husband, Richard (class of ’73), both to build the sustainable kingdom of God in are retired now. [email protected] 1983 both. [email protected] Hal Noble, retired and living in Alabama, Carol Mays and two other poets have James Kuse and his wife, Kathleen wants to share this message: “I remain just published Mystical Poems by Three deeply grateful for the theological education Barber, are active in the Ocala First UMC Contemporary New England Writers. The Community Outreach Program and I received at MTSO, which is directly related book is available through a number of to the professionalism of each professor and Interfaith Emergency Services of Marion outlets worldwide, including Amazon. It County, Fla. Jim’s ministry included 25 instructor. Methesco prepared me for many also has been provided to the Dickhaut years of challenging and fruitful ministry years in the East Ohio Conference and the Library. [email protected] past 18 years with the Florida Conference. and mission in the United Methodist [email protected] Church.” [email protected]

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1985 1995 Elaine Turner is now serving at Amboy Paul Wehner retired in 2006. During David Hess is celebrating five years as UMC in Conneaut and the Hospice of the his ministry, he pastored a congregation chaplain of the Indiana Veterans’ Home. Western Reserve in Ashtabula. in Council Bluffs, Iowa, served as a family [email protected] [email protected] therapist with the VA and later worked at the Vet Center in Springfield, Ill. He assisted 1999 2006 in developing the Illinois World War II Neldon “Ned” Adams is now retired and Virginia Lohmann Bauman was officially Veterans Memorial. “Methesco was a joyful, one of five retirees in the local congregation installed as senior pastor at St. John’s educational and affirming program that of Christ Church United Methodist in Evangelical Protestant Church in Columbus empowered my ministries throughout these Tucson, Ariz. “And, we’re all busy.” in March 11. St. John’s is a historic urban years.” [email protected] [email protected] church affiliated with the United Church of Christ. [email protected] 1986 John Cordes, who serves Solebury Mary (Horn) Soderholm has retired UMC in New Hope, Pa., has been elected Susan Brown and her husband, Jerry and is living in Oscoda, Mich., where she president of the Delaware Valley Interfaith Krueger, have returned to the East is still preaching, teaching, and doing Council. [email protected] Ohio Conference from Texas. Susan is weddings, funerals and conference camping. senior pastor of Canfield UMC, and Jerry [email protected] is serving Trinity UMC in downtown 2000 Youngstown. [email protected] and 1987 Joseph Branch has been hired as the [email protected] program manager for Columbus Area Inc.- Phyllis Cole-Dai has helped to organize Bell Africentric Theraputic Community Fast for the Earth, begun by Brookings, Residential Treatment Center. 2007 S.D.-area residents who are troubled by [email protected] Ebenezer Appiagyei held a sacred and the environmental devastation being secular leadership seminar in Rwanda and wrought by the fossil fuel industry and their Lynda McClanahan has a new exhibition Burundi in August. Three hundred pastors financial and political supporters (www. of contemporary oil enamel folk paintings at and community leaders attended. He also fastfortheearth.com). The fast began Aug. the Columbus Metropolitan Library. “Visual has started a nonprofit organization called 1. The goal is to have at least one person Learning: Connecting Readers to Art” runs Make a Difference International, whose somewhere in the world fasting every single through Sept. 30. Her work also can be seen mission is to empower children, especially day until the Earth is once again treated at www.lyndamcclanahanart.com. girls, through education. with respect. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]

1988 2001 Gunnar Cerda is serving as the manager Betty Howard of pastoral care for Grady Memorial has opened Betty Ellis “Hap” Itson and his wife, Kathy, are Howard’s Caring Counseling Services, Hospital, part of the OhioHealth system in now living in Brodhead, Wisc., where Hap Delaware. He had an article, “A Theology a private practice office in Westerville. is pastor of Brodhead UMC. Hap is now [email protected] of Pastoral Care,” published in the March a member of the Wisconsin Conference. 7, 2012, edition of PlainViews, a journal of [email protected] Elaine Mikesell and her husband, Alan, healthcare chaplaincy. spent nine days on a mission trip to El [email protected] Salvador, where they helped activate an 2002 official partnership between the Northwest David MacDonald was appointed 2010 Association of the UCC and the Lutheran university chaplain at Ohio Northern Patrice and William Brewer’s daughter, Church of El Salvador. The church in San University effective July 1, 2012. Phaedra Elise, was born July 7. Patrice Salvador supports a daily soup kitchen, [email protected] is serving Church of the Redeemer in a school for grades 1-9 and a dental and Cleveland Heights, and William is serving medical clinic. [email protected] 2004 Mt. Pleasant UMC in Cleveland. [email protected] and Melany Chalker’s church, Concord UMC [email protected] 1989 in Michigan, birthed the Open Door Free Lori Burdette-Steel has been appointed Store in the fall of 2010 and served more pastor of the Trinity UMC in Mt. Gilead. than 7,200 different guests its first year. [email protected] Everything is free to everyone all the time. [email protected]

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Faculty activities Beyond the classroom | 2011-12

Stephen Jeffrey Jaynes John Kampen Ahearne-Kroll Professor in the Professor in the Warner Chair of Church Dunn Chair in Biblical Associate Professor of History Interpretation New Testament

Publications Publications Publications “The Scripturally Complex Presentation “African Christians, Christians visiting “‘Torah’ and Authority in the Major of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark,” Portraits Africa: the Early Modern Narrative Sectarian Rules Texts from Qumran,” of Jesus: Studies in Christology, edited by Cosmographies from Breydenbach to in The Scrolls and Biblical Traditions: Susan E. Myers; WUNT II; Tübingen, al-hassan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan Proceedings of the Seventh Meeting of Mohr Siebeck, 2012. [Leo Africanus],” in Die Begegnung mit the IOQS in Helsinki (edited by George Fremden in ihrer Bedeutung für das J. Brooke, Daniel K. Falk, Eibert J. C. Academic lectures and presentations Geschichtsbewusstsein, edited by Betina Tigchelaar and Molly M. Zahn; STDJ 103; “Publically Solidifying the Memories of Braun and Judith Becker, Veröffentlichung Leiden: Brill, 2012). Private Dreams and Visions in Ancient des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte, Religion,” The Stuff that Dreams are Made Mainz Beiheft 88, 2012. Academic lectures and presentations of: The Interpretation, Divination and Response to Gerbern S. Oegema, “Was Use of Dreams in Ancient Mediterranean Meetings the Maccabean Revolt an Apocalyptic Religions, Tenth Annual Conference of Faculty seminar participant, “German Movement?” Enoch Seminar, Nangeroni the Midwest Consortium on Ancient Church Complicity and the Holocaust,” Meeting, Villa Cagnola, Gazzada, Italy, Religion, Ohio State University, Feb. 25, United States Holocaust Memorial June 25-28, 2012. 2012. Museum, Washington, D.C., June 2012. Meetings Paul Kim The Stuff that Dreams are Made of: Judith Craig Professor of Hebrew The Interpretation, Divination and Use Visiting Professor in Bible in the Williams of Dreams in Ancient Mediterranean the Dickhaut Chair Chair of Biblical Studies Religions, Tenth Annual Conference of of Church Leadership the Midwest Consortium on Ancient Bishop in Residence Religion, Ohio State University, Feb. 24- 26, 2012. Publications Church and popular lectures Church and popular lectures Review of Exile as Forced Migrations: A Sociological, Literary, and Theological “Jesus and the Early Church,” Westerville Sing a New Song, reconciling event for the Approach on the Displacement and Community UCC, May 2012. United Methodist Church, Aug. 31, 2011. Resettlement of the Southern Kingdom of Study of Romans, Retreat for Central Judah by John J. Ahn, Catholic Biblical States Moravian Women, Oct. 24-25, Quarterly 74, 2012. 2011. “Re-reading the Adam and Eve Story,” Leadership event for Lansing District, United Methodists in Service, March/April West Michigan Conference, Nov. 19, 2011. 2012. “Heroines in Exodus,” United Methodists in Service, May/June 2012.

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Church and popular lectures Linda A. “The Scope of Buddhist Influence “Heaven on Earth,” sermon on Acts 4:32- Mercadante in American History and Culture,” 35, St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, presentation at the 26th General Professor of Theology Conference of the World Fellowship of Columbus, April 15, 2012. in the Straker Chair of Buddhists, Yeosu, Korea, June 13, 2012. “God’s Face,” sermon on Acts 3:12-19 and Historical Theology Psalm 4, St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Taught Summer Sampler at Trinity Columbus, April 22, 2012. Lutheran Seminary on the topic of world Publications religions. “Ministers of Our God,” sermon on Psalm 66 and John 14:15-21, Boulevard “The seeker next door: What drives the Reviews Presbyterian Church, Upper Arlington, ‘spiritual but not religious’?” The Christian Century, May 30, 2012. Reviewed manuscript for Social Forces May 29, 2011. Journal. Meetings Reviewed project proposal for United Chaired Religious Conversion Unit, States Institute of Peace. Sarah Heaner American Academy of Religion, Winter Lancaster 2012. Meetings Professor in the Werner Faith and Order Commission, Ohio Church and popular lectures Chair of Theology Council of Churches. “What Can the Church Do About SBNR?” Ramadan Iftar Dinner, sponsored by Weekend speaking engagement at First Scioto Educational Foundation and Presbyterian Church, Boulder, Colo., Students for Dialogue (OSU), Columbus. Publications February 2012. Interfaith Association of Central Ohio “Issues Facing Ecumenism: A Perspective Ohio Humanities Council and WOSU open house at Masjid Al-Urooj, Dublin, from the World Council of Churches,” in lecture series, guest lecturer, February Ohio. Ecumenical Directions in the United States 2012. Today: Churches on a Theological Journey, Church of the Brethren Ministerial Ethics Workgroup on Constructive Theology edited by Antonios Kireopolous and Training, Peoria, Ill. Juliana Mercera, Paulist Press, 2012. Consultation, April 2012. Met with representative of OhioHealth Academic lectures and presentations regarding local religious diversity and “Eucharist and Soteriology,” Theology, Paul Numrich implications for health care. Eucharist, and Ministry Conference, Professor in the Met with leaders of local congregation United Theological School, Dayton, May Snowden Chair for the regarding programming in science/ 17, 2012. Study of Religion and religion and interreligious relations. Interrreligious Relations Meetings Awards and appointments Drafting group, World Council of Appointed to editorial board of Journal of Churches Faith and Order Ecclesiology Publications Global Buddhism. Working Group, the Ecumenical Institute Review of Exploring the Spirituality of the Scioto Educational Foundation Award of Bossey, Celigny, Switzerland, Dec. 10- World Religions: The Quest for Personal, for Excellence in Dialogue, Academic 11, 2011. Spiritual and Social Transformation by Institutions category, at 7th Annual World Council of Churches Faith and Duncan S. Ferguson, Theology Today, Dialogue Dinner, Columbus. Order Standing Commission, Penang, January 2012. Church and popular lectures Malaysia, June 18-22, 2012. Academic lectures and presentations Led workshop for Certified Lay Ministers Church and popular lectures Organized and presented at session of Academy, West Ohio Conference of the Presentation on revision of World Council Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies, United Methodist Church. of Churches Faith and Order ecclesiology American Academy of Religion annual “Muslims in America,” series of three document to National Council of meeting, Montreal. Sunday presentations, Trinity UMC, Churches Executive Committee, “Christian Sensitivity in Interreligious Columbus, Spring 2012. Consultation on Ecclesiology, Chicago, Relations,” faculty lecture, MTSO, May 10, Nov. 10, 2011. 2012. Continues

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from previous page Joon-Sik Park “‘So I Send You’: A Missional Church,” Professor in the E. sermon, Sanmaru Korean Methodist M. Fulgence Stanley Jones Chair of Church, Seoul, Korea, Aug. 14, 2011. World Evangelism Nyengele “A Community of Healing and Professor of Pastoral Wholeness,” sermons, Quad Cities Korean Care and Counseling UMC, Bettendorf, Iowa, Sept. 9-11, 2011. in the Chryst Chair in Pastoral Theology “The Worldwide Nature of the UMC,” Publications presentation, East Ohio Chapter of the Academic lectures and presentations “Ecclesiology,” The Wesleyan Studies Methodist Federation for Social Action, Project – Methodist Evangelism Canton, Oct. 22, 2011. Panelist, “Toward a Global United (curriculum and video series), edited by Methodist Theological Imagination: “Watchful Waiting,” sermon, Harpster Laceye Warner, Washington, D.C., Wesley UMC, Harpster, Dec. 11, 2011. Challenges, Prospects, Possibilities,” and Ministry Network, 2011. invitation-only consultation of 10 United “Seek First God’s Kingdom and Review of A Protestant Theology of Methodist scholars, Garrett-Evangelical Righteousness,” sermon, Living Water Passion: Korean Minjung Theology Theological Seminary, Evanston, Ill., April Ministry, Cincinnati, Feb. 5, 2012. Revisited by Volker Küster, International 15-16, 2012. Bulletin of Missionary Research 35, no. 2, “The Worldwide Nature of the UMC,” Workshop presentation: “Challenges of 2011. presentation, West Ohio Delegation to the Postcolonial Trauma for Pastoral Theology General and Jurisdictional conferences, Review of Eschatology and Ecology: for the 21st Century,” Society for Pastoral Tipp City, March 3, 2012. Experiences gof the Korean Church by Paul Theology Annual Study Conference, Long Hang-Sik Cho, International Bulletin of Beach, Calif., June 14, 2012. Missionary Research 35, no. 3, 2011. Robin Knowles Meetings “Korean Protestant Christianity: A Wallace United Methodist Committee on Faith Missiological Reflection,” International Professor in the Taylor and Order, Nashville, March 11-13, 2012. Bulletin of Missionary Research, April Chair of Church Worship Pastoral Care Advisory Committee, OSU 2012. and Music Wexner Medical Center, May 2, 2012. Academic lectures and presentations Society for Pastoral Theology Annual “Korean Protestant Christianity: A Publications Study Conference, Long Beach, Calif., Missiological Reflection on Its Past, June 14-16, 2012. Review of Recovering the Love Feast: Present, and Future,” American Society of Broadening Our Eucharistic Celebrations Church and popular lectures Missiology, Chicago, June 19, 2011. by Paul Fike Stutzman, Homiletic 36:2, “Living Generously,” sermon, Maple Meetings 2011. Grove United Methodist Church, Study Committee on the Worldwide Review of Music and the Wesleys, Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 7, 2011. Nature of the United Methodist Church, edited by Nicholas Temperley and Stephen Presided at Holy Communion; Ebenezer Chicago, June 28-July 1, 2011. Banfield, and The Lyrical Theology of Charles Wesley: A Reader by S.T. Kimbrough Jr., United Methodist Church; Columbus, General Board of Discipleship Board of in Methodist History, April 2011. Ohio; Dec. 4, 2011. Directors Meeting, Nashville, July 19-22, “Men Under Construction,” sermon, 2011. Edited The Hymn, Winter and Spring 2012 Men’s Day Celebration at First AME Zion American Society of Missiology Board of issues. Church, Columbus, March 25, 2012. Directors Meeting, Chicago, Nov. 11-12, Academic lectures and presentations “The Transforming Power of Forgiveness,” 2011. Taught three classes in Certified Lay sermon, Good Friday Worship Service, General Conference of the United Pastors’ Training Course, a joint project Northland Cluster of United Methodist Methodist Church, Tampa, April 24-May of the Central Southeast Association of Churches, Columbus, Ohio, April 6, 2012. 4, 2012. Ohio of the United Church of Christ and Sermon: “Men Striving to Be Faithful Church and popular lectures the Presbytery of the Scioto Valley of the to their Calling in Christ,” Men’s Day Presbyterian Church (USA), April 21, May Celebration at Hilltop United Methodist “Who Do You Say I Am?” sermon, Bethel 19 and June 16, 2012. Church, Columbus, April 29, 2012. International UMC, Columbus, July 11, 2011. “Worship and Eucharist,” presentation at “Theology, Eucharist, and Ministry,”

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United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Church and popular lectures Academic lectures and presentations May 17, 2012. Guest speaker and retreat leader, Panelist, “The Role of Religious Meetings Episcopal Diocese Clergy Convocation, Institutions in Combating Human Syracuse, N.Y., October 2011. Trafficking,” the Protection Project’s Sixth Executive Committee of the Hymn “Getting Along with Neighbors,” Habitat Annual Symposium on Trafficking in Society of the U.S. and Canada, Dallas, Persons. The theme of the symposium Nov. 2-5, 2011. for Humanity, Delaware, Ohio, Feb. 14, 2012. was “The Five Elements of Civil Society: “Music That Makes Community,” A New Approach to Participation in Valparaiso University Institute of Consultation, conflict management tools, Combatting Trafficking in Persons.” Johns Liturgical Studies, April 16, 2012. Akron First UMC, April 2012. Hopkins University, Washington, D.C., Oct. 7, 2011. Church and popular lectures Yvonne Sermon, North Congregational UCC, Meetings Nov. 6, 2011. Zimmerman American Academy of Religion, Assistant Professor of November 2011. Workshop leader, Exploration 2011, Christian Ethics sponsored by the General Board of Society of Christian Ethics, January 2012. Higher Education and Ministry/Young Seminarians Network, St. Louis, Nov. 11- Church and popular lectures 13, 2011. Publications “Re-Examining Our Sexual Ethics,” Summit on 16th UMC, Jan. 19, 2012. Choir director, ordination of Jean Feeney “Christianity and Human Trafficking,” at North Congregational UCC, Columbus, Religion Compass, October 2011. May 12, 2012.

Lisa Withrow Trinity UMC expands its Professor in the Dewire Chair of Christian commitment to scholarships Leadership From its earliest days, MTSO has enjoyed a special relationship with Trinity United Methodist Church in Columbus. MTSO’s founding president, John Dickhaut, was a former Trinity pastor, and many Trinity members have been Publications trustees and friends of the school. Editor and contributor, Alienation and Now, thanks to fortuitous timing, the church’s foundation Connection: Suffering in a Global Age, has made an expanded commitment to theological education. Lexington Books, November 2011. It began last fall, when a letter arrived from MTSO’s advancement office updating the Co-editor (guest), “Women and status of an existing Trinity UMC Scholarship Fund. Leadership,” Journal of Religious Leadership, Spring 2012. “That letter came to us in the middle of a variety of discussions we have had on this very topic,” said Charlie Stearns, chair of the foundation. “It was an answer to prayer. Academic lectures and presentations We’re very conscious of the need for ministers and churches today, and we want to do “Ecology of Vocation,” co-presenter, what we can to help address that need in some way.” Trinity contacted the school about Academy of Religious Leadership, Seattle, adding significantly to the scholarship fund. Ultimately, the foundation committed to April 2012. $100,000 in new donations over 10 years. Beginning this fall, an MTSO student will benefit every year from a Trinity scholarship that pays 50 percent tuition. Meetings Participant, Association of Theological “In addition to that, we said if we’re going to put that money into the scholarship Schools Committee on Race and at Methesco, then we should make that same commitment to Trinity members,” Ethnicity, Pittsburgh, March 2-4, 2012. Stearns said. “If there are Trinity members at Methesco in the divinity track, we would favorably respond to the request for support up to 50 percent.” Awards and appointments “The point of the whole thing is our belief in Methesco and our belief in the Named guest editor of Journal of Religious importance of supporting theological education,” Stearns said. “That’s what it really Leadership, 2011-12. boils down to.”

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Gold Crest Society President’s Circle Leaders’ Circle Richard Donnenwirth and Rosalie $25,000 and above $5,000-$7,499 Laurenti Kathryn and Dale Dwyer Ronald Alford Janet and Roger Baker Suzanne and Bill Ellis Barbara and Michael Cantlin Brecksville UMC Richard Eureka and Diane Corbett John and Patricia Chapman Norman and Shirley Dewire Cyndy Garn The Estate of Frank Clever Sandra Lutz Olivia Graham The Columbus Foundation Mentor UMC William and Kathleen Grové Walter & Marian English Foundation David Schooler Steven and Diana Harsh The Foundation for Evangelism Robert and Elaine Hibbard Flo and Stanley Gault Werner Circle Robert and Sharon Hickson The Estate of Vern and Evie Hakes $2,500-$4,999 Frank and Dorothy Himes Huntington Bank Robert and Carla Chiles Maggie Jackson Ministerial Education Fund Warren and Barbara Kandel Jane Mykrantz Clarksbury UMC Judith Craig William R. Kaster Sandra Selby Susan and Ronald Kyser John and Cheryl Zeiger Preston and Barbara Jean Forbes Ronald and Prudence Holtman Leipsic UMC Stan and Deborah Ling Trustees’ Circle John Kampen and Carol Lehman Alex and Joan Keller Randy and Terri Litchfield $15,000-$24,999 June Ladd William and Judy McCartney E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Sarah and Kermit Lancaster William and Martha McFadden Foundation Diane Lobody Isabel Miller James and Amy Chapman Karen Marshall Kenneth and Kathryn Moody-Arndt J. D. and Arlene Milliken Michael and Katie McNeil John Mount Harry C. Moores Foundation Mary Ann Moman Alan and Lois Morrison Nationwide Foundation Beverly and Terry Myers Founders’ Circle Linda and Dick Ogden North Congregational Church Jack Patton $10,000-$14,999 The Estate of George and Shirley Perry Charles and Nancy Sheley Howard and Jo Ann Preston Susan and William Bowman Ralph and June Shunk Retired Ministers Association of West Paul and Anne Donald C. Joseph and Diane Sprague Ohio Jane and Michael Endres Rollin and Ann Tarter Benita Rollins The Magee Christian Education David and Marjorie Wilcox Donald and Constance Rose Foundation Alfred Wise The J.M. Smucker Company Gerald and Dorothea Maloney Albert Sprague, Jr. Karen and F. Christopher Oehl John Wesley Circle Margaret Sterling Jay and Kristen Rundell Gary and Margaret Streiff Trinity UMC Columbus $1,000-$2,499 Valerie and Francis Stultz W.S. and Adele White Anonymous R. Stanley and Jerilyn Sutton Grayson and Wende Lou Atha Robert and Alice Tannehill Stewards’ Circle Battelle J.R. and Catharine Warmbrod $7,500-$9,999 Robert Buchanan Paul White William Casto and Jennifer Kimball Lisa Withrow Robert and Ann Oakley Casto Wooster UMC The Estate of June Westgate Walter and Marilyn Dickhaut

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Silver Level Joan Leitzel Sade Davis-Reynolds Carolyn Piper and Norman $500-$999 David and Beth Ann H. Daniel and Debra Drew Gearhart Mansperger East Ohio Conference, TUMC James Rohler Jon and Elaine Barker John Medaugh Eugene Finnegan and John Carolyn Rothermel Patricia and Arthur Bennett Elaine and Alan Mikesell Rainey Paul and Donna Schrodt Eugene Blair Joon-Sik and Soo-Hea Park H. Eugene Folden Barbara and Robert Sholis Janet and Roger Blocher Richard and Elizabeth Parks Elizabeth Gibbons R. Thomas and Carolyn Slack Dale and Dorothy Brandon Ronald and Jane Payne William Haden Bruce and Susan Smith David Browning Daniel and Denise Russell C.M. Kempton and Fawn Betty Smith Peter and Carol Browning Schell Fund, Fifth Third Bank Hewitt Duane and Kay Smith Greg and Lynne Browning Beverly and Glen Schmidt David and Sandra Hood Constance Sterner Warren and Verna Bulman Jere Schrader G. Forrest Hoppe Joseph and Margaret Tilson Alan and Jean Carroll Nancy and Richard Shute Coy Hudson Robert and Marilyn Town Emerson and Jane Colaw Barbara Smigelski Bruce and Barbara Lynn Irwin Keith and Carolyn Vesper Dessie Cook Janice Smith Barbara and David James Daniel and June Walcott Joseph Crockett George and Alys Spears Colleen and Barry Keith Diana and Richard Wetzel David and Janice Erenrich St. Luke’s UMC J.F. Lacaria Tamara and Philip Wilden First Community Church Earl and Margaret Stalter Dale and Nancy Lambert Sondra and Edwin Willobee Julia Foster Guido and Anne Stempel Byung-Hee and Hee-Sook Lee John Wilson and Mary Sturm Craig Fox Carol and Gene Traynor Jonell and James Lewis Roger and Sue Grace West Ohio Conference, TUMC Lincoln Financial Group Century Level Dale and Jean Hoak Dale and Norma Wilhelm Foundation, Inc. $100-$249 Mary and Robert Holm Mark and Deborah Lindemood Anita, Erin and Ann Marie Bronze Level James and Clare Long Anonymous Ingram $250-$499 James and Virginia McCartney Shiro and Ritus Abe Jeff and Sally Jaynes Beth McGuire and David James and Nancy Adams Jonathan D. and Michelle S. Joyce and Ralph Barrera Kersten Stanley and Avis Adams Jump James and Mary Brucklacher Bradley and Krista McKibben Georgia and John Adamson Marion and Debbie Kite Linda Carter and Ernest Pamela and Randall Monteith Wayne and Fern Albertson James Kuse and Kathleen Johansson Thomas Morrison Virginia Allen Barber Rollin and Anne Conway Joseph and Marion Nied Bruce and Charlene Ough Lakewood UMC Continues

PROFILES IN GIVING in Cambridge. Within that role, he identified a novel opportunity to support MTSO. Each time he has received an Putting honoraria to work honorarium for a funeral, wedding or baptism, he and his wife, Beth Ann, have forwarded it to MTSO. It’s not uncommon for friends of MTSO to honor friends or loved ones with memorial gifts. It is, however, rare for one “I didn’t originate the idea,” donor to honor a long list of names, as David Mansperger Mansperger said, “but I thought has done over the course of almost a decade. it made good sense. I’ve got a little bit of discomfort accepting Mansperger wasn’t yet out of college when he began the honoraria when my salary is graduate studies at MTSO in the late 1960s. Thanks to a head paid. This is a good way to honor start, he finished his M.Div. with time to spare and went on someone else while continuing to to complete a Master of Religious Education degree as well. build scholarship funds.” “That education degree and those studies served me Many of his gifts have gone to well,” said Mansperger, who ultimately was certified as an the Dale and Bernice Mansperger MRDD superintendent by what is now known as the Ohio Scholarship Fund, honoring his Department of Developmental Disabilities. He spent 26 late parents, who established the fund with an estate gift. years working in service to people with disabilities and their families, “which I thought was an extension of my ministry.” “I’d been wanting to do something for MTSO, and I thought this might be an appropriate way,” he said, adding After retiring from MRDD in 2004, Mansperger with a chuckle, “The only thing I wish is that I served a much returned to parish ministry and now serves Center UMC larger congregation and I had more weddings and funerals.”

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from previous page Dorothy Beard Dorothy Burr Clarence and Jane Jean Bell Guy and Wilma Burt Cunningham Jonathan and Nora Almond Jerrie Bell-Brion and William William and Vicki Byrd Harold Davidson Jay and Lynn Anderson F. Brion Ruth Ann Carnahan Katherine Dickson Robert and H. Susan Atchley Benjamin Black April and Zac Casperson Robin Dillon Mark Bailey Fay Botten Ann Marie Champion Donald and Dianna Dixon Theron and Cheryl Bailey Joe and Georgia Bottorff E. Lynn and Judith Champion Jean and James Doane Barratt Banta Larry and Kallen Brown Robert and Amy Click James Donnan Theodore and Karin Barlow Prentiss Brown Coralee Cox Thomas and Elizabeth Douce Marilyn and James Barney Susan Brown and Jerry Krueger James and Susan Cox Lee Ann Dunlap Rosemary Bass Leonard and Karen Budd John Cramton Cuyler and Sandra Dunbar Martin Batross Lori Burdette-Steele Susan Cromer Paul and Michaelene Durbin The Sterling Society

Anonymous (11) Mary Jo Edwards Richard and Judyth Maurer Jere Schrader Shiro Abe Philip English and Charlene William and Judy McCartney Louise and Craig Seipel Ronald and Maurine Adams Nevil-English William and Martha Sandra Selby Robert and H. Susan Atchley John Tyler and Kathy McFadden Edwin Shaffer Grayson and Wende Lou Erickson Beth McGuire and David Charles and Nancy Sheley Atha Harry and Donna Kersten Vernon Shepherd Jon and Elaine Barker Featherstone John Medaugh Ralph and June Shunk Margaret Barno Eugene Finnegan and John Donna Meinhard and Arleon John and Judith Skinner Joyce and Ralph Barrera Rainey Kelley David Sky Reg and Jane Barss Julia Foster Linda Mercadante Dora Faye Smith Joanne Bartelt Cyndy Garn Edward and Ilse Meyer William and Janet Smith Joel and Karen Biggers Flo and Stanley Gault Robert and Bette Meyer C. Joseph and Diane Sprague Joe and Georgia Bottorff Gary and Barbara Giller Isabel Miller Margaret Sterling Susan and William Bowman Betty Dancey Godard J. D. and Arlene Milliken Harold and Norma Stockman Deborah Bowsher George Goshorn Paul and Jean Minus Valerie and Francis Stultz Jackie Browning Olivia Graham Loran and Vicki Miracle R. Stanley and Jerilyn Sutton James and Mary Brucklacher William and Kathleen Grové Roberta Moore Robert and Alice Tannehill Donald and Elizabeth Burge Robert and Nancy Hayden Diana Morris Marion Tappan Barbara and Michael Cantlin Joseph and Barbara Henson Alan and Lois Morrison William Thorne Dana Casto Dale and Jean Hoak John Mount Paul and Corinne Van Buren Shelly Casto Robert and Barbara Ingram Jane Mykrantz William and Diane Van Trevor Casto Clark and Linda Kandel Roy and Kay Nash Nostran William Casto and Jennifer Gene and Laurene Kandel David and Lenore Nichols Daniel and June Walcott Kimball Casto James and Mary Kandel William and Virginia Norman J.R. and Catharine James and Amy Chapman Warren and Barbara Kandel Jane Parker Warmbrod John and Patricia Chapman Katherine Kegerreis Martin and Phyllis Parks Anita Watson Robert and Carla Chiles Colleen and Barry Keith Richard and Elizabeth Parks Evelyn Weaver Robin Clark James and Mary Keller Marian and David Plant Marie Webb Diane Corbett and Richard Dwayne and Ruth Kelsey Howard and Jo Ann Preston David and Jeanette Eureka Eleanore Kleist Craig and Nancy Redecker Westerfield Charles and Julia Cordle John and Florence Lee Craig and Rebecca Rice JoAnn Williams Judith Craig Esther Ley Sharon Ringe Sondra and Edwin Willobee Deborah Cronin Jan Lichtenwalter Benita Rollins Alfred Wise Norman and Shirley Dewire Dennis Lippart Donald and Constance Rose Robert and Carol Wood Donald and Dianna Dixon J. Franklin and Beth John and Elaine Ross Theodore and June Yewey Paul and Anne Donald Luchsinger Jay and Kristen Rundell Karl and Carmen Zeigler Harry Donovan Gerald and Dorothea Steven and Judy Russalesi Ellen Zienert and Mark Baker John and Ruth Doyle Maloney James and Sonya Ryhal H. Daniel and Debra Drew Lisa Marchal David and Rosemary Sageser To join the Sterling Society, Gilbert Dunn Russell and Ellen Martin Beverly and Glen Schmidt contact Stan Ling at 740-362- Joanne Duran Martha Mattner Alice Schmutz 3130 or [email protected].

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Pamela Easterday and William Carol Ingram Upton Kenneth Ramsey Brandes Veronica Jefferson Herbert and Virginia Massey Gretchen Rauschenberg Jean Feeney Jane and Phil Karl Randall May Roy and Nancy Reed Larell Fineren Hea Kyung Kim David and Bonita Maze Roylene Reed Gaines UMC Hyun Chul and Yi Kim Elizabeth McCartney Joseph and Agatha Reiserer William and Betty Jo Gavitt Diana King Robert and Janet McCartney David and Hope Reynolds Karen Gee R. Frederic and Abby Kinne David Meister Richland County Foundation John and Nancy Germaine Craig Kinney Linda Mercadante Barbara Ripple Arthur and Marlene Gotjen Cecil and Tharon Kirk Margaret Miskimen James Roberson Grafton UMC Cynthia Klingemier and Paul William and Louwana Mock Donald and Shirley Rock Flora Grant Sentgeorge Dale and Leellen Moore Richard and Judith Royalty Catherine Green Myron and Doris Kottke Haskel and Sarah Moore Richard and Ann Royer Austin and Christine Greene Janan Kramer Paul and Christine Mottl Ralph and Patricia Rudy Carl and Deanna Greene Mary Kredel Richard and Joan Myers Georgianna Rymer Robert and Kay Grotsky Jeff and Debbie Krumpelman Martha Neebes Nancy Mumma Salisbury David and Wanda Guy Doris Kurfees Henry and Arlene Nettling Charles and Alice Salt James and Shari Gysel Kathleen and Gary Lama Donald and Irma Newland Larry Sanner Al and Carol Hammer Susan Lamphere Oak Chapel UMC Roger and Beverly Saunders Paul E. Hammock Linda and Roy Landers Jin-Won Park and Joo-Hyoun Karen and Paul Schaefer Bruce and Cherie Jo Hammond Marybelle Landrum Kim Scott and Beth Schieber King and Anne Hanna Gregory and Laura Leigh Patrick Harper & Dixon, LLP Kristin Schutte Carlton and Maxine Hayes Bobby and Shirley Lewis Phillip and Janet Peoples Jerry and Judith Seaman Althea and Kenneth Heath Steven and Judith Lightner A. Edward and Shirley Perkins Robert and Deanna Shrom Michele Holloway Charles Lindabury Nancy and James Petro Thomas Simpson John and Elaine Hopkins Alison Linn-Mowery Warren and Karleen Pettis Ellen and George Sims Herbert Hoppe Jared Littleton Deborah and John Pitney Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Snipes Haviland Houston George and Carolyn Luciani Barbara Planck Joetta Snow John and Jennifer Huff Robert and Diana Ludwig George and Kathleen Porter Kenneth South Harry and Jean Hull James and Bonnie Magaw Doris Prichard Sandra and Michael Spahr Philip and Rolanda Hunt David Maly Jack and C. Yvonne Pursell Eileen Hutcheson Rebeka Maples and James Elizabeth Raitt Continues

PROFILES IN GIVING husband, Richard, died in 2010, leaving her an IRA from which Putting a required IRA she was recently required by law to take a distribution. “When I needed to do that, I knew that there were some distribution to good use tax advantages to donating directly that way,” Lutz said. After consulting with MTSO President Jay Rundell, she utilized the Sandy Lutz has served on so many church boards and IRA distribution to donate $6,000 to Methesco’s Greatest Needs committees that her reputation sometimes precedes her. At one in each of two fiscal years. organization’s meeting, she recalled, “A woman came up to me She made a conscious decision to give the entire amount to and said, ‘Are you the Sandy Lutz?’ I said, ‘It depends. Are you the annual fund: “At that moment in time, I decided I would United Methodist?’ She said yes, and I said, ‘Well, I guess I am.’” not do designated giving. The people who are running an Lutz’s responsibilities increased institution know better than a donor what’s needed. I know yet again two years ago, when she there’s an element of faith and trust in doing that, but for me, became an MTSO trustee. that makes the most sense.” Lutz, who holds a doctorate from Texas Tech University “I am not one of the people and is a retired University of Akron instructor, has a deep who came on the board as a big appreciation for the work of MTSO. giver,” she said, “but I support the universities that my husband and “Any time I have one foot in education and one foot in I had our degrees from and also the church, I’m a happy camper,” she said. “And I have been my local church.” Recently, she impressed with how the school’s academic standards and lots of identified a smart way to donate things have grown over the years. People look with great respect generously to MTSO. Lutz’s to our graduates.”

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from previous page Diane Berger Frank and Carolyn Fenton Alana Kelley April and Martin Blaine Nancy and Austin Fergusson Debra and Daniel Ketcham St. Paul United Church of Robert and Gloria Bloomquist Phyllis Fetzer Paul Kim Christ Deborah Bowsher Janet Fillmore Bonnie and John King Mark and Virginia Steiger Dagmar Braun-Celeste Debra Foster Thomas Kiracofe Howard and Joann Strauch William and Patrice Brewer William Frayer Kiwanis Club of Northland Mary Tame Brian and Karin Briggs Victoria and Vincent Front Richard and Lorna Kretchmar Adreana Tartt Neil and Pat Bright Patricia and Howard Fruth Min Sun Lee and Bog Hyun William Thorne Robert Brinkmann Roberta and Thomas Fuller Shin Charles and Doris Titko George and Elizabeth Brown James and Janet Gallander Bonnie and Peter LeValley Theodore and Rosemary John and Dolores Brown Virginia Geaman Craig Lewis Townsend Daniel Brubaker Glory Geib John Loeser Mark and Mary Ann Turner Theodore and Sherri Buehl Wayne and Connie Geissinger Jeffrey and Karen Lohr Terry and Anita Turner Donna Burtch Allan Georgia Connie and Roger Long Diane Turner-Sharazz Linda Burton-Collier Thomas and Dona Gibson Tina Lott Ann Tyree Sam Byrd Robert Giercyk Robert Lovell United Methodist Foundation George and Martha Gene Joseph and Blanch Graham Robert Lucas of West Virginia Campbell Brenda and Donald Grauer Kelli Lutz Robert and Floredda Wagner J. Gary and Joy Campbell Carl and Dorothy Gray Lea Mahan Jo and R. Karl Watkins Robert and Joanne Campbell Robert and Barbara Graybill Lisa Marchal C. Diane Watters Dorothy Carney Brian Green William Mate James and Carol Waugh Sharon Carson and William Benjamin Hall Doris Mauck Terry and Joe Ann Zeyer Ralph and Gail Hall Earse and Esther Mauler Weatherford Ellen Carter Denise Hart Linda McCowen Kim Whitley Central Service Association Grace Hartway Welch James and Donna McCune Barbara and John Wienke Jennifer Chamberlin William and Nancy Harvey Kathryn McGregor Thomas and Edwina Wilber Sue Chidley Gary Hauk Patricia McIntyre Terry Williams Myung Ji Cho and Sang Hyu Arlene Hayworth, Diana Ted and Sally Messner William and Mary Willis Han Jennings, Gloria Craig, Wayne and Marilyn Miller Amy and Joel Wood Larry and Linda Christman Lewise Lishtenberger Roy and Melissa Mitchell David Yingling Church of the Celebration Rick and Jane Hazen Gregory and Debra Moore Dae-Sob and Moon Kyung Crystal Clark Timothy and Lori Jo Hazlett John Moore Yoon Sharon Clayborn James and Nancy Heininger Percy Moore Ellen Zienert and Mark Baker Carroll and Margie Cleek Nicole and Christopher Roger and Ellen Moore Tammy and Robert Coffey Henderson-Johns W. Robert Morrison Contributor Janice Coffman Kathleen and Robert Datha Myers Richard and Teresa Coldwell Herington NC Department of Up to $99 Charles and Julia Cordle Alice Herman Transportation Nathan and Alicia Adams Jonathan Cosner Alice Hoffman Karen and Greg Nelson Neldon and Eleanor Adams Jim Cummins Dale Hoffman Mary Nelson Stephen and Patricia Ahearne- Cynthia Danals Molly and B.R. Hoffman Shirley Nelson Kroll Edna Darling-Lewis and E. J. Christopher Hogan Cynthia Newberry Kay Albright and Lewis Robert and Dolly Holland William and Virginia Norman Marykathleen O’Haver George and Karen Davis William and Iretta Hollaway James Nothstine David Allen Haden and Rosetta Davis Andrew and Kristi Hopp Paul and Christine Numrich Thomas and Lois Anderson Nancy Day-Achauer and Jeff Benny and Gail Hopper Martha Ognibene and Bart Cherrie Andres Achauer Dana and Ann Houck Thompson Carrie Antczak Delaware Gay Straight Sylvia Howe and Paul L’Herrou David and Margaret Orendorff Ebenezer and Angelina Christian Alliance Gilbert and Jane Hubbard Scott and Carolyn Otis Appiagyei Jan and Bonnie Devereaux Jennifer and John Huff Andrew and Angelika Otte Robert Arduino Charles Dilgard Larry Keith Huffman Wesley Painting Cynthia and Kurt Ayers Robert and Ethel Dobson Ted and Rosalie Hulbert Bob and Jo Parrish Emily Badertscher Michael and Rebecca Donnally M. Edward and Louella Hunter Ruth Ann Parry Harold and Joyce Bailey Eugene and Shirley Doughty David Ibokette Mark Parsons Robert and Neaty Baker Margene Ellinger Pamela Ingram Margaret and Henry Passenger Michael and Betty Baldwin George Ellis Robert Irvin James and Cynthia Pence Betty Baxter Judy and Michael England Bruce and Dawn Jones Marco Peterson David and Carolyn Bearden Barbara Fant Christine Jones-Leavy Marshall and Patricia Peterson Grace Beebe L. Eugene and Janet Farison Brenda Kageorge Osuga and Paula Pinter Leonard and Marsha Benson Hal and Agnes Fausnaugh Donald Osuga Tom Porto

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Thomas and Pamela Pottkotter B. Kathleen Shamp Linda Taylor Gary and Diana Wedgewood Stanton and Charlotte Prior Everett Sherron Charles and Virginia Tedder Danny and Raden White Alissa Pummell Irene Smith Anzette Thomas Josephine Whitely-Fields Stanley and Jeanine Purdum Lynda Smith Lynn and Janice Thursby Walter and Cheryl Willey William and Brenda Pyatt Joseph and Laura Sopher Barbara and Nancy Trigg Robert and Denise Wilson Dean and Ann Ramsey Claudia Speakman Frances Truitt Sharon Wilson Elizabeth Raup James and Katherine Spears Johncie Turner Kenneth and Carol Woode Cindy Ray Elizabeth Spiker Mary Tysinger, Patty Halo, and Janis Wright Meyers Katherine Reichley Kerry Spitzer Terri Duke Laura Young Judith Riczinger Pam Spitzer John and Roxie Underwood Allan and Roberta Zagray Charles and Betty Rodgers Harold and Jennifer Steindam Timothy Van Meter Nancy Zahn Lawrence and Sherrie Rogers Charles and Patricia Stenner Sandra VandenBrink and Noel Richard and Carol Rothrock Mary Stevenson Matthews William and Barbara Rueger Thomas Stewart Richard and Debbie Vaughan Every effort has been made Saundra Runyan Harold and Norma Stockman Richard Waller to accurately honor MTSO’s David and Rosemary Sageser Karen and Steve Stoner Ralph and Margie Ward donors. If you believe an error Rozell and Norma Sattler Robert and Linda Suggs Richard Ward has been made, please contact Janet Schulte Richard and Carol Sutton Mary Lu and Rodney Warstler Stan Ling at 740-362-3130 or Jeremy and Daen Scott Dawn and John Swartz Eternity Wauls [email protected]. Michael and Margaret Shade Robert Sympson Evelyn Weaver

Restricted student scholarship giving These churches and Holy Cross Evangelical East Ohio Conference, TUMC United Church of Christ, other organizations Lutheran Church, Livonia Fairfield County Foundation Brooklyn King of Kings Lutheran The Federated Church, West Berlin Presbyterian have assisted in Church, Shelby Township Chagrin Falls Church, Delaware the sponsorship of North Congregational First Christian Church, West Ohio Conference, individual MTSO Church, Farmington Hills Zanesville TUMC students’ educations St. Paul’s UMC, Monroe First Community Foundation Worthington Presbyterian First UMC East Liverpool Church FLORIDA MISSISSIPPI First UMC East Liverpool, Christ Church United International Order of the Hope for the Hurting Fund PENNSYLVANIA Methodist, Fort Lauderdale King’s Daughters & Sons First UMC Lancaster Central Pennsylvania Florida Conference, TUMC Mississippi Conference, First UMC Newark Conference, TUMC TUMC Fresno UMC Emmanuel Episcopal Church, INDIANA Corry NORTH CAROLINA Grand Chapter of Ohio, OES Christian Theological Greensburg UMC Seminary Western North Carolina TENNESSEE Conference, TUMC Harlem Road UMC General Board of Higher Indiana Annual Conference Howard United Methodist of the UMC White Plains UMC Education & Ministry Church Holston Conference, TUMC United Methodist NEW YORK Jerome UMC Foundation of Indiana Munsey Memorial UMC First United Church of East Korean UMC Columbus United Methodist Higher MARYLAND Syracuse Marion Baptist Association Education Foundation Milford Center UMC Baltimore-Washington OHIO Conference, TUMC Northwest Christian Church, TEXAS Brownhelm Congregational Columbus North Texas Conference, Liberty Grove UMC, UCC, Vermilion Burtonsville Ohio Baptist Education TUMC Central Christian Church, Society MICHIGAN Newark Ohio Church of God Men WEST VIRGINIA Clare UMC Christ Lutheran Church, Riverside UMC Columbus United Methodist Detroit Annual Conference, Athens Tiffin Masonic Temple Foundation of West TUMC Church of the Good Trinity UMC Columbus Virginia First UMC, Holland Shepherd, Columbus Trinity UMC Mt. Gilead West Virginia Conference, First United Methodist The Downtown Sertoma Unitarian Universalist TUMC Church, Farmington Club of Columbus Fellowship of Delaware Dublin Community UCC

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Financial information In the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, Methodist Theological School in Ohio had revenues of $6,178,648 and expenditures of $6,177,437. If you have questions about this information, please contact our business office at 740-363-1146.

Operating budget for Fiscal Year 2011-12

Revenues Expenditures MTSO relied primarily on three sources of income: tuition and Compensation of faculty and staff accounted for 53.4 percent fees (40 percent of total revenues), endowment earnings (24.2 of the MTSO operating budget, followed by financial aid (18.6 percent) and the Ministerial Education Fund of the United percent) and other programs and services, which include such Methodist Church (15.3 percent). Combined gift revenue items as the Course of Study School of Ohio and Dunn Dining accounted for 7.6 percent of total revenues. Hall (11.2 percent).

Revenues Percent of total Expenditures Percent of total n Tuition and fees $2,471,223 40.0% n Compensation $3,296,759 53.4% n Federal work study $39,602 0.6% n Financial aid $1,146,673 18.6% n Other programs and services $757,092 12.3% n Other programs and services $688,903 11.2% n Ministerial Education Fund $946,365 15.3% n Plant maintenance $408,092 6.6% n Endowment $1,493,490 24.2% n General administration $170,261 2.8% n Release of restricted gifts $162,252 2.6% n Business administration $90,400 1.5% n Methesco Fund gifts $252,457 4.1% n Institutional advancement $41,622 0.7% n Student aid gifts $56,167 0.9% n Information systems $108,837 1.8% Total revenues $6,178,648 100.0% n Instruction $47,951 0.8% n Academic support $139,946 2.3% n Enrollment $37,993 0.6% Total expenditures $6,177,437 100%

24 METHODIST THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL IN OHIO The difference you make

In these pages, you’ve seen evidence of a investment in ever-changing educational community deeply engaged with a world in technology and the scholarships that attract need of passionate yet reasoned Christian the most promising students to our campus. leadership. Our students arrive on this campus eager to make a difference, and in their few But it’s beyond the campus walls where your years here, the subjects they study, the places generosity can best be appreciated – in the they visit and the communities they serve communities where the graduates of MTSO shape them into well-prepared leaders. are leading lives of significance every day. So, more than anything, it’s on behalf of those For many of them, this journey wouldn’t our students are preparing to serve that we be possible without your support. Your say a sincere thank you. gifts fund the appointment of faculty, the

If you’d like to give to MTSO today, there are several ways to go about it. You can donate electronically or register for check-free automatic monthly donations at www.mtso.edu/giving. Or, if you wish to give by mail, you may return this form with your check or credit card information to:

Methodist Theological School in Ohio K I have enclosed a check payable to MTSO. 3081 Columbus Pike Delaware, OH 43015 K Please charge my K Visa K MasterCard Account no. ______My gift to MTSO is: K $1,000 K $500 K $250 Expiration date ______K $100 K $50 Other $______Signature ______I would like my gift designated for the following fund: Name______K No preference K Methesco’s Greatest Needs Address ______K Seminary Scholarship Phone ______K Other (please specify) ______E-mail ______

Questions or comments? Contact Stan Ling, special assistant to the president for advancement, at 740-362-3130 or [email protected].

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