Volume LV Fall 2016 THE STORY Ecology-minded alums build MAGAZINE AND ANNUAL REPORT a stunningly efficient home

Two new faculty members bring international perspectives

Live from General Conference, it’s the MTSO student blog

Mark your calendar for seven fall events

Students reflect on cross-cultural trips to Korea and the Desert Southwest

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Methodist Theological School in Ohio Contents FROM THE PRESIDENT FACULTY Less impact and more, at the same time ...... 1 Nogueira-Godsey brings a Global South perspective to theology, ecology and race ...... 15 ON CAMPUS For Nuzzolese, pastoral care and counseling means Fall and winter campus events ...... 2 being present to those who are vulnerable ...... 16 Partnerships expand MTSO’s reach ...... 3 Beyond the classroom: faculty activities ...... 18 The D.Min. gets a new specialization ...... 4 REPORT TO DONORS STUDENTS Financial information ...... 23 MTSO bloggers cover UM General Conference . . . . . 5 Donor Honor Roll ...... 24 First-year students share their stories ...... 6 The Sterling Society: recognizing planned giving . . . . 26 Korea and New Mexico: Cross-cultural trip reflections . 8 MTSO Board of Trustees roster ...... 27 ALUMNI Restricted student scholarship giving ...... 28 The Pitneys and the house that gives back ...... 10 Alum news...... 12 Ordinations and commissionings ...... 13

THE STORY Fine dining h Our Oct. 3 Alumni Day celebration MAGAZINE AND ANNUAL REPORT will once again include a luncheon featuring Volume LV h Fall 2016 beautifully presented, locally sourced cuisine, much of it from MTSO’s Seminary Hill Farm. A publication of Methodist Shown here is a portion of last year’s family-style Theological School in Ohio Alumni Day meal. From left are roasted spaghetti squash, wild mushroom risotto and roasted 3081 Columbus Pike butternut squash. RSVP for this year’s celebration Delaware, Ohio 43015 at www.mtso.edu/alumniday 740-363-1146 www.mtso.edu Founded in 1958, Methodist Theological School in Ohio is one of 13 seminaries President: Jay Rundell formally affiliated with and funded in part by the United Methodist Church. Located Dean: Lisa Withrow in Central Ohio, MTSO offers five graduate degree programs: Master of Divinity, Editor: Danny Russell Master of Arts in Practical Theology, Master of Arts in Counseling Ministries, Master Contributors: John Henderson, of Theological Studies and Doctor of Ministry. It also offers graduate-level certificate Emily Howard, Nicole Pickens, programs in Basic Theological Education, United Methodist Deacon Studies and Anthony Thomas and the Advanced Course of Study in the United Methodist Church. In addition, MTSO Susan Zimmerman provides courses for General Board of Higher Education and Ministry certification in Design: Jeff Smith, DesignSmith Engaging in Ministry with the Poor. Printer: Robin Enterprises Co. MTSO is accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools. Its degree programs are authorized by the Ohio Board of Regents and approved by the University Senate of the United Methodist Church. We welcome your comments. Please send them to [email protected], or Danny Russell, MTSO, 3081 Columbus Pike, Delaware, Ohio 43015. FROM THE PRESIDENT

Less impact and more, at the same time Our school’s carbon footprint shrinks, and our missional reach expands

By Rev. Jay Rundell great news: We still have opportunities for President donors to fund panels if you are interested. The completion of this solar array system We have just welcomed MTSO’s newest will allow us to offset a substantial portion entering class. It’s an eclectic bunch, coming of the electrical supply for the Gault-Werner from a number of different directions and building complex. heading who knows where. These students will no doubt soon learn how different they Taken together, our reduced energy are from one another – and, we hope, how usage, solar electric power, and geothermal important and valuable those differences heating and cooling will have a significant will be for each one’s educational journey. impact financially and, more important, help MTSO do its part to address The makeup of this class would likely environmental pollution and climate be unrecognizable to the entering class of change. We are one of just a handful of 50 years ago or to me even 10 years ago seminaries that can make this happen. We when I arrived on this campus. The current are likely the only seminary that adds to the state of the seminary is not so much a state equation the kind of impact we get from as it is flux. As you know from reading sustainable, local campus dining due to recent MTSO publications, the students Seminary Hill Farm. are changing, the vocations they pursue are evolving, and we are doing everything While our carbon footprint is shrinking, we can provide the very best teaching and our missional reach is growing. We are learning environment possible. unwavering in our commitment to our longstanding motto: “To Preach the Word.” Some will work for nonprofits, and some We’ve welcomed this class with a bit of And we are concurrently reaching in new will take a theological perspective into a mess. Lest these new students come to directions to ensure that in a changing secular careers. Some will be activists. If believe theological education is a neat and world we are preparing our students to serve we’ve done our work well, many of them will tidy affair, we are greeting them this time and lead in countless ways. surprise us with their imagination and their around with an extensive muddy mess just courage. All will be prepared to change the outside the entrance to our main classroom Simply put, MTSO provides theological world around them for good. building. education and leadership in pursuit of a just, sustainable and generative world. I want to express my deep gratitude for It’s a mess with a purpose. We are drilling We endeavor to be a vibrant, diverse, all of you who compose this wonderful 18 deep, closed-loop wells as a part of a inclusive community that faithfully engages institution. You are students, faculty, staff, geothermal energy system that will enable the intersections of church, society and trustees, alumni, church leaders and friends. us to heat and cool the entire Gault-Werner academy to prepare leaders for ministry Some of you are in our midst every week building complex with heat exchangers and service in pursuit of a transformed and others, from a distance, hold us in capitalizing on differences between ground world. Celebrating and appropriating prayer every day. Together, you contribute and ambient temperatures year-round. the scriptures, traditions and myriad to the depth and breadth of this place and experiences of Christian faith in an open give us life. I thank God for each of you and This project is the latest step in reducing and challenging formational community, for this opportunity we share to shape the our carbon footprint and bringing our we cultivate learning for ministry and church and the world for many years campus life into greater alignment with our service. If you think this paragraph sounds to come. ecological commitments. We have nearly like a mission statement, you’re right. This completed our campus-wide conversion is language that is emerging as we move to high-efficiency LED lighting. Our toward adoption of a new strategic plan. photovoltaic solar array has been in service for a year, and we are ready to develop the Some of our future graduates will preach, second phase of solar installation. And some will teach and some will counsel.

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PUBLIC EVENTS On tap: Lectures, celebrations and more Here are highlights of events scheduled for the busy new Oct. 4, 7 p.m. academic year. All events are free and open to the public. Some require registration. Updates and details regarding Keeping Your Head Above these and additional events will be shared via the Trauma: Lessons to Share Campus View newsletter, www.mtso.edu/events, Rita Cavin was serving as interim president Facebook and Twitter (@MTSOedu). of Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, in October 2015 when a shooter killed Sept. 20, 7 p.m. eight students and a faculty member before A Long Way from Home: taking his own life. Now retired, Cavin will reflect on the school’s response, sharing lessons Displacement, Lament and learned about being prepared for the worst, getting through the Singing Sorrow in Psalm 137 acute emergency, and finding the path to resilience and recovery. MTSO Associate Professor of Homiletics Oct. 11, 7 p.m. and Hebrew Bible Valerie Bridgeman will speak on the role of lament when people Finding Deuteronomy in the Dirt: How feel disconnected from their home, whether Farming Informs My Biblical Scholarship because of social disparities or immigration. At work, Raymond F. Person Jr. is a professor of religion at This lecture was prepared with assistance from a faculty Ohio Northern University. At home, he lives on a historic Swiss development grant through the Theological Commons at MTSO. Mennonite homestead near Bluffton, run by a cooperative of 17 families to produce meat, eggs and vegetables. The author of eight Sept. 26, 6 p.m. books, Person will lecture on his written commentary and reflect on Building Resilience Through Mindfulness the influence farming has had on his insights into the biblical text. Brandi Lust, who has worked in the fields of education and social Nov. 17, 1 p.m. justice through her business, Learning Lab Consulting, will share her view that those who practice mindfulness have higher levels of Web Your Mission: Online Collaboration resilience and greater levels of attentiveness to their surroundings and Community Building and their work. MTSO Educational Technology Coordinator Shannon Harper leads a seminar offering the basics of an online ministry or online Oct. 3 nonprofit program. The presentation will include both live and Alumni Day Internet-based options for participation, real-time Q&A via chat, printable resources and web-based options for later viewing. A full day begins by honoring this year’s recipients of the John and Ruth Mount Alumni Awards for Distinguished Service: Brice Nov. 30, 1 p.m. Balmer (’73), assistant professor in spiritual care and psychotherapy at Waterloo Lutheran Seminary in Waterloo, Ontario; and Charles Compassionate Competency Harrison (’86), senior pastor of Barnes United Methodist Church in Alex Shanks, faith organizer for Equality Ohio, will lead Indianapolis. a workshop on LGBTQ competency and safety within faith Following a luncheon featuring Seminary Hill Farm produce communities. and other locally sourced food is a presentation by Robin Knowles March 14 and 15 Wallace, professor in the Taylor Endowed Chair of Worship and Music: “What I Learned in Seminary: Twenty Years of Teaching at Schooler Institute on Preaching MTSO.” The Schooler Institute will be led by Anna Carter Florence, Peter Alumni Day is presented at no cost to guests, though Marshall Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary. A we ask everyone who plans to attend to RSVP at sought-after preacher and lecturer, Florence is interested in historical, www.mtso.edu/alumniday. theological, aesthetic and performative dimensions of preaching and the ways it engages other fields and different traditions. 2 METHODIST THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL IN OHIO ON CAMPUS

Partnerships expand MTSO’s reach In an increasingly interconnected world, MTSO has been intentional about seeking relationships that allow us to share our resources, benefit from the strengths of other institutions and prepare well-rounded Christian leaders. As a seminary of the United Methodist Church, we always have enjoyed a special connection with the denomination. That relationship is complemented by those highlighted on this page.

Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary MTSO and Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary cooperate through a number of mission and ministry commitments in our shared Midwest region. Green Seminary Initiative MTSO is a participant in the Green Seminary Initiative, which fosters efforts by theological schools and seminaries to incorporate care for creation into their identities and missions. Associate Professor of Christian Education and Youth Ministry Tim Van Meter is a member of the Green Seminary Initiative Steering Committee. Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion MTSO and the Pines School of Graduate Studies at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion have formed a joint Instructional Preparation Program, through which well-qualified HUC-JIC doctoral students teach MTSO students in their fields of expertise, with mentoring by MTSO faculty. Hebrew Union, which has campuses in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles and New York City, is the largest Jewish seminary in North America. MTSO Professor John Kampen earned his doctorate at HUC-JIR and teaches a course on the Dead Sea Scrolls at its Cincinnati campus. Methodist Theological University MTSO and Methodist Theological University, the first school of theological education in Korea, share a relationship that includes the exchange of faculty and students. Professors Paul Kim, Paul Numrich and Joon-Sik Park all have taught at MTU, and MTSO’s Korean cross-cultural immersion trip in June included a visit to the school’s campus in Seoul. National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Through a cooperative relationship, MTSO will join the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center to promote justice and theologies of freedom. The two organizations will work together to further education in liberative and freedom theologies in areas of race, gender and economics and to engage Cincinnati-area churches and the public in conversations and action. Among other shared endeavors, MTSO will offer select for-credit course offerings at the Freedom Center in Cincinnati and looks forward to hosting traveling exhibits from the Freedom Center for the Columbus area.The Freedom Center’s mission is “to reveal stories of freedom’s heroes, from the era of the Underground Railroad to contemporary times, challenging and inspiring everyone to take courageous steps of freedom today.” Its president, Clarence G. Newsome, delivered the MTSO commencement address in May. Trinity Lutheran Seminary MTSO and Trinity Lutheran Seminary, the Bexley-based school of theology of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, collaborate on a joint Doctor of Ministry program. D.Min. students benefit from classes taught by the faculty of both schools. Professor of Religion and Interreligious Relations Paul Numrich serves both schools under joint appointment. Unitarian Universalist Association MTSO has formed a Unitarian Universalist House of Studies, serving individuals pursuing ministry within the Unitarian Universalist Association. The house of studies serves degree-seeking MTSO students and provides hybrid and intensive classes for UU students who are preparing in other seminaries. MTSO alum and adjunct faculty member Susan Ritchie, minister of the North Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Lewis Center and past trustee and secretary on the national board of the UUA, serves as director of the house of studies. www.mtso.edu/uu United Church of Christ Formed in partnership with the United Church of Christ, the UCC Learning Network at MTSO is a house of studies serving students, clergy and lay leaders who are members of the United Church of Christ. The UCC Learning Network will support UCC students throughout their theological education and help them become familiar with the denomination’s ordination processes. It also will serve UCC clergy and lay leaders with opportunities for lifelong education through MTSO’s Theological Commons. MTSO Professor of Worship and Music Robin Knowles Wallace, an authorized minister in the United Church of Christ, is coordinator of the UCC Learning Network. www.mtso.edu/ucc

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The D.Min. gets a fitting new specialization Ecology, Justice and Ministry is one of three options for doctoral students

The MTSO Doctor of Ministry program invites students to learn to lead with a profound respect for those they serve and the context in which they live. Consistent with that philosophy, the program has added a new specialization in Ecology, Justice and Ministry. “Our approach to Doctor of Ministry work is that we’re inviting students into global conversations about ministry, and we are then preparing and prompting them to become contributors to that global conversation,” said Professor Diane Lobody, the D.Min. program director. “That commitment is at the core of our decision to design this new specialization. Ecology and justice are critical global and national Leading with respectful knowledge h 2015 D.Min. grad Chris George being issues, crucial for the life and the ministry hooded by Professor Diane Lobody of the church. To cultivate and nurture a core group of doctoral students to make informed and creative original contributions to their wider communities is incredibly “‘Leadership’ is a big buzzword,” Lobody love.” More than 200 members of the Smoke important for us.” said. “Very often the kind of imaging people Rise congregation responded by making are using is ‘this one leader who is going to purchases at the station. “Our faith inspires D.Min. students in Ecology, Justice and save us.’ Our approach is that you cannot us to build bridges, not to label people as us Ministry will take specialization courses lead people without having a profound and them,” George told Kristof. including Creation and New Creation and respectful knowledge of the context in Christian Tradition; Environmental in which you are attempting to engage in MTSO’s D.Min. degree is offered through Theology and Ethics; Justice and the that leadership. Leaders are not people who a Joint Doctor of Ministry Program with Practices of Ministry; and Ecology, Place come in and force change on a community. Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Bexley. and Justice. That may work on Wall Street, but it does MTSO students in the program receive not work in religious communities whose their degrees from MTSO while having the Lobody said MTSO is uniquely suited to values are deeply human and spiritual.” benefit of working with faculty from both offer the new specialization in a number of schools. D.Min. students experience small ways, including the presence of Seminary One of Lobody’s former students, Chris classes, are taught by full-time and fully Hill Farm: “It would be easy to theorize George, apparently absorbed that lesson affiliated faculty, interact with a national, about things like how land is used and how during his time at MTSO. George, a 2015 ecumenical student base, and work with you make a network of organizations and Doctor of Ministry graduate, was featured attentive project advisors. farms, but what we have here is a living in an Aug. 13 column by Nicholas Kristof laboratory of that – on our campus. That of The New York Times. A gas station and Classes meet on campus in two intensive kind of resource is tremendously valuable convenience store with a Muslim owner was sessions per year – one week each in mid- and very rare in the United States.” burglarized and damaged this summer near summer and January – for 3 1/2 years. The the church George leads, Smoke Rise Baptist remainder of students’ work toward the MTSO also offers doctoral program Church in Georgia. D.Min. can be done off-campus. specializations in the Mission and Practice of Preaching, and Leadership for From the pulpit, George told the story April 20, 2017, is the application Transformational Change, its most popular of the store’s burglary before encouraging deadline for the Doctor of Ministry specialization. the church to “shower our neighbor with cohort that will begin study next summer. www.mtso.edu/doctorofministry

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Live from UM General Conference MTSO students covered events in Portland with a timely blog

When the United Methodist the convention center to the various Church’s global legislative body dinners and receptions we enjoyed. gathered in May for General It seemed a challenge from God. It Conference, 11 MTSO students had seemed odd to me that no one at the front-row seats. They were enrolled in conference was talking about the MTSO’s General Conference course, homeless. They certainly could not be taught by adjunct faculty member and ignored. MTSO alumna Valerie Stultz, who led them on a trip to Portland. I didn’t see any reference to poverty relief until after I got home and read To prepare, each student chose an an article about the United Methodist area of interest to research and cover. Rural Advocates, who addressed the Wearing black MTSO shirts, the homeless situation in Portland in a students attended legislative sessions humane, creative and brave manner. before returning to the press room The United Methodist News Service to file daily posts to the class blog, reported that “the group’s encounter mtsogc2016.wordpress.com. with the city’s homeless population Pausing for a selfie h MTSO’s bloggers became sparked an idea for a hands-on ministry “These students were on fire with go-to sources of committee news with the poor in the Portland area…. optimism and enthusiasm for the General Conference attendees can pick global church,” Stultz said. “The black up one of more than 1,700 cards made shirts became markers for people in The issue is made much more complex by children that hold meal tickets for the newsroom and around the conference. when we realize that the UMC is a global Sisters of the Road Café and share them as Students quickly became known as serious, denomination and that the UMC outside of they strike up a conversation with a local level-headed reporters on the committees the United States is growing while the UMC homeless person.” they were observing. It didn’t take long for within the U.S. is not. This means that the other conference attendees to seek out our denomination is forced to take into serious Julie Fairchild students to get a recap of the day’s events.” consideration the opinions and beliefs of those outside of the U.S. Specific to the Choosing sides Below are a few brief excerpts of students’ issues of LGBTQ inclusion, the globalization reporting and commentary, edited for length I am struggling with the protests I of the denomination means that this issue and clarity. witnessed at General Conference, as well as might not take center stage anymore, as the those I have read about since. I am social Inclusion and the UMC concerns of the African delegation around justice-minded and have participated in crippling poverty, polygamy and war move protests in the secular world and have felt My interest in the human sexuality to the forefront. very good about my participation. debate derives from the divisive nature of this issue. When I began to look into Andy Burns In Portland, I witnessed the “official it, I found what appeared to me to be a unofficial” ordination of Susan Laurie, who mess of contradictory stances on this issue Feed my sheep is not eligible for ordination in the UMC due contained in The Book of Discipline and The I have been following Petition 60705, to her status as a lesbian. As I sang songs, Book of Resolutions. “Uplifting the Poor”. Its current status is stood and watched, and took communion, “committee not considered.” I’ve been I was surprised. I was mindful that I was The denomination is clearly seeking frustrated that this is the only petition not entirely comfortable in my own skin. to uphold The Book of Discipline while addressing the issue of poverty, and it does And I have been asking myself why. I expect opening the hearts, minds and doors of not create any initiatives or actions. to have to peacefully protest in the secular the denomination as wide as possible. But world. I want a different way in the church. the fact remains that persons identifying as That was especially troubling against LGBTQ are still barred from marriage and the backdrop of the many, many homeless Wendy Hansen-Smith credentialed ministry in the UMC. people we encountered as we walked from

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Ready for the challenge These first-year students know the church has work to do, and they want to be part of it

Members of the newest class of MTSO students have seen the need of a young generation who feels ostracized and arrived on campus on Aug. 26, having discerned abandoned by the church,” she said. “I would like to show them their call to ministry in different ways. Each is the amazing love of Christ. Too many people today think that the inspired by the possibilities of a life spent as a church and God are irrelevant in today’s world.” Christian leader in response to the challenges faced As the first recipient of the new Bishop Judith Craig Endowed by the church and those it serves. Here are profiles Scholarship, Jones looks forward to pursuing a Master of Divinity of five of these promising new students, including degree at MTSO: “A seminary education will provide me with new highlights from their admissions essays. ways to critically look at modern challenges while also giving me the resources and tools to help find solutions to those challenges.”

Looking to show young A citizen of the world people Christ’s amazing love returns to MTSO Growing up as a child of a United Shin Sung has lived, worked and studied Methodist minister and MTSO alumnus, on four continents and in more than a dozen Courtney Jones might have seemed countries. One locale that made an impression destined to join the ranks of MTSO students. on him was the MTSO campus, where he Her journey to MTSO became complicated, spent a semester as an exchange student in the however, as she observed her congregation spring of 2015. His experiences stoked a desire and the denomination grapple with the issue to return. Aided by an International Student of human sexuality. “I struggled with watching my own annual Scholarship, Shin is pursuing a Master of conference yell and shriek at each other on the conference floor. Theological Studies degree. I could not imagine the loving God I knew would be so hateful,” she said. He envisions a ministry in mission around the world. “Through my experiences in other countries, I learned God’s love for the world Eventually Jones found a place that answered her desire for and felt a great responsibility for our global community,” he said. inclusivity. “I found a community of faith called the Crossing,” she said. “It has traditional liturgy and the most non-traditional Feeling the call to work with young adults, Shin has sought congregation I have ever seen. The mix of trans, gay, straight, out experiences in the United States and Korea that will give him old, young, black, white, Universalist Unitarians, Methodists, courage to pursue his goals. “I gained a better understanding of Episcopalians, and Mormons all worshipping God together. My faith God personally through the Youth with a Mission conference in was given new life.” Orlando,” he said. “By integrating my learning from Methodist Theological University in Korea with my understanding from While attending Boston University, Jones served as an intern MTSO, I focused the Bible study I led on the ministries of Jesus in at the school’s Marsh Chapel. “Interning at a university chapel the synoptic gospels, and I was reminded how important the good has forced me to deal with questions about tradition, and what news is to people, no matter their age.” traditions are important and why. I am forced to justify and critically analyze what I believe and why I believe it. I have gotten a While completing his Master of Divinity at MTU, he served as firsthand look at the complexities of appeasing those with generous in intern pastor at Gwang-ju Methodist Church in Seoul. “Serving wallets and being authentic in speaking truth to power. Through all as a Bible study leader and youth worship preacher taught me the of these experiences, I have been granted the opportunity to really meaning of servant leadership,” he said. “It also taught me to be figure out what kind of change I would like to be in this world truly grateful and compelled me to explore every day how I can and more specifically in the United Methodist Church,” she said.“I become more like Jesus.”

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Aspiring to be a counselor GrowHaus, a nonprofit urban farm, marketplace, food education in a church setting hub and community center. Fearlessly, Josh Stokes immersed “Through my work as an education coordinator teaching food himself in the discernment process and justice workshops for all ages, I have gained numerous skills,” she emerged confident about his role in the said. “Nothing has been more valuable than encountering my church and the world. “To begin my coworkers and the immigrant families in our neighborhood with a discernment process,” he said, “I prayerfully deepening appreciation for community. At GrowHaus, I found food considered some key questions: I know God to be central to our experiences of community and confirmed my wants to work through me, but am I letting passion for food justice.” him? I have my own plan for the future, but is that God’s plan?” A recipient of the Harding Scholarship, Simkins plans to pursue Seeking the advice of his pastor at King Avenue United a Master of Arts in Practical Theology degree. Methodist church near the Ohio State University campus, Stokes “Because it all comes back to community, I find it difficult, if found a way to merge his interest in psychology with his passion not impossible, to separate my interests in urban farming and food for the church: “I never thought I could mix a career in the church justice from my faith and theology,” Simkins said. “They are rooted and counseling. However, as she told me about MTSO’s MACM in the same place. For me, faith is an access point when thinking program, I could feel my fears for the future diminish as I realized about social change and ethics. Likewise, the practice of ministry, with certainty the direction the Holy Spirit wanted me to go.” whether in a church or secular setting, is a powerful tool for Stokes, who received a Methesco Scholarship, is seeking a engaging in communal dialogue about creating a more just society.” Master of Arts in Counseling Ministries degree. He envisions a “I feel called to help bring about a world where we are career shaped in some ways by his own experience of rejection reconnected more deeply with God, the earth and each other.” from a faith community. “Based my experience,” he said, “my goal is to work at a progressive church counseling anyone who seeks it, but focusing on college-age students who are facing rejection from Exploring her social justice their faith communities or are dealing with having identities that heart are often perceived to be contradictory to that of the majority.” “My hope with attending MTSO and Stokes champions the possibility that churches might graduating with a Master of Arts in Practical increasingly create staff positions for licensed counselors. “Working Theology with a specialization in Parish and at a progressive church is my goal because it was the progressive Community Ministry is that I will be better church that helped me feel at home and fall in love with the church suited to be Christ’s hands and feet in the again. After hearing about the MACM licensure program at MTSO, mission field,” said Torrianna Foster. I knew the program was a phenomenal fit for my future career.” Foster, a recent graduate of Pfeiffer University, does not feel called to ordained work in the church. Finding new meaning Instead, she envisions her life’s work in a nonprofit organization in familiar Bible stories helping women, children and people who identify as LGBTQ. “My call,” she said, “is to practice radical love and hospitality with people Kelsey Simkins’ discernment process who truly need it. I am driven to explore and create change.” started with a handful of earthworms pulled from a compost pile. Volunteering During her time at Pfeiffer, Foster was instrumental in creating a at a nonprofit urban farm in Milwaukee, campus-wide campaign known as It’s On Us, which sought to bring Wisconsin, Simkins marveled at “the way an awareness to sexual and domestic abuse. The campaign provided industrial urban space could grow food, build a platform for Foster to hone her research skills and sharpen her relationships and nourish a community.” relational skills through outreach to the campus community. “My senior year was all about exploring my social justice heart and what “This sparked a new direction,” she said, “as I also began to that means for my journey with Christ,” she said. rediscover the long familiar biblical stories of my Christian faith tradition and found new richness and meaning in them.” A recipient of an MTSO Scholarship, Foster looks forward to pursuing her goal of serving underserved communities and Following her graduation from Marquette University, Simkins individuals: “I feel that MTSO will cultivate leadership, with a focus relocated to Denver to join the Colorado Vincentian Volunteer on people and solutions for injustices that can be fixed if someone program for a year-long commitment to intentional community, cares enough to work for it.” h spiritual growth and direct service and advocacy with those on the margins of society. It was here that she began her work with

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Cross-cultural immersion: Students reflect on trips

In Korea, hope for an unseen reality By Anthony Thomas

When I began to explore the options MTSO offered for cross-cultural immersion, the Korea trip seemed to jump off the page. My wife has family in Korea, so when she was approved to travel as an auditing student, I realized that I was Korea-bound. During the two weeks spent in Korea, we were immersed in a culture seemingly built around religion and faith. We visited Buddhist temples high in the mountains and tucked away amongst the tall buildings of Seoul. MTSO meets MTU h The trip to Korea included conversations with students at Methodist Theological University in Seoul (the author is on the far right) We visited many different churches, including some of the oldest in the country, each with a story of struggle and survival, all with the tenacity to continue to be a shining bear to look through the magnifying viewers would imagine that this is a similar reality light. to catch a glimpse of North Korean farmers – for churches in Korea. The difference I people who might be family. experienced is how those Korean Christians The tension between Christianity and live into their Christian calling. As a United Buddhism was not terribly evident in our This experience of division was juxtaposed Methodist, I was deeply moved to see so time there, though it was shared that the two with prayers in the churches, prayers that many people of different ages participating have not had the best of relations. It brought always began with a call for unification. Even in the Wesleyan tradition of early morning to mind that even back here in the United in the midst of destruction and division, prayer, at 5 in the morning! They would States, relationships between religions have hope survives. The faith of the people return to church for two other services, not always been respectful. However, our astounded me. I am reminded of Hebrews essentially spending the day at church. We time with students at a Buddhist seminary 11:1: “Now faith is being sure of what we struggle with spending 45 minutes in church. demonstrated that it is possible to sit with hope for and certain of what we do not see.” those of a differing faith and have honest I have been challenged to re-examine The people of Korea hope to be a united conversation. my own church experience. Am I here to people, a reality they can’t see. Yet their faith follow tradition or to awaken souls? Are The rest of the world may think that there in God to bring about that unity and peace we as Christians called to go about our is peace in Korea. Koreans, however, know is unfailing. This is a lesson for everyone: humdrum existence, always following that there is only a ceasefire. On the two Even in the uncertainty that is life, God does the status quo? Or are we, possibly, called occasions that we visited the Demilitarized not forsake, and God does not forget. to much more? The culture and faith of Zone, there was a definite tension in the air. My experience in church, both as Koreans reminded me to have faith in all My wife, having family in both North parishioner and pastor, has been somewhat things, to pray without ceasing, and to keep and South Korea, was not able to look at the plain. Traditions are kept, time frames a religious fervor (Romans 12:11), always, in dividing markers at either site. She could not are kept, and little change is allowed. I all circumstances, serving the Lord.

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Twice each year, MTSO faculty lead students on cross-cultural immersion trips of roughly two weeks. This experience, which is available to all students and a requirement for those seeking a Master of Divinity degree, is not a mission trip. Rather it provides an opportunity to truly experience, rather than attempt to impact, a culture different from one’s own. Two cross-cultural trips departed this past spring and summer. Professor Jeff Jaynes and MTSO alum Charlie Knerr led a trip to the southwestern United States June 1-18. Professors Paul Kim and Paul Numrich led a trip to Korea June 17-July 2. Here are student reflections on those trips.

In the Southwest, shaping response to difference, we could potentially responses to difference cut off relationships – or we could choose to respond with strategies that have the potential By Emily Howard to deepen them.

Before traveling to the Southwest with a Every day of our travels brought a cross-cultural class from MTSO this summer, hundred opportunities to experience cross- I had been to New Mexico once before. As a cultural interactions and their accompanying teenager, I volunteered to help with a vacation decisions. Hiking the canyon, and gifted by bible school, on a mission trip that both an Indian tour guide with a meal of beans and disturbed me and changed bread, will you eat it or say no? Praying with my faith. Roman Catholic communities, if you are not of that faith, what will you do when invited On that trip, the missionaries we worked for a blessing during the Mass? Attending with would not allow us to attend any Native an Indian dance on a Pueblo, where will you American events. I remember the pastor sit, and what will you say to the people of the banning Kokopelli charms from church community around you? property and instructing our group that yoga was of the devil, like the American Indian Every day was full of spontaneous beliefs we desired to change. As missionaries, moments like these. Many times, the response we denigrated American Indians’ practices in starts before you know what is happening. At an attempt to convince them that their culture the end of each day, we could look back and should be replaced. By doing so, we attempted wonder: What responses would we choose to strengthen our Christian identity at the cost if we could do it again? And what seemed to of shutting others out. I remember feeling so work in ways that deepened relationships? frustrated with these rules. For the first time, I The point, for me, in these interactions Seeking mutual, not lopsided, h was aware that something was missing for me became wondering how to develop mutual relationships The author in New in the faith I had been given. relationships instead of lopsided ones. I Mexico Thirteen years later, I enrolled in MTSO’s learned on the trip that two of my go-to cross-cultural trip to return to the Southwest coping skills are to avoid a situation entirely with a new perspective. I sought to learn from or tell myself that my ways of doing things are within their experience, that the cross-cultural a culture not my own, to hear from American superior to others’ so that I avert the learning skills we practiced on the trip are crucial Indian people themselves about the traditions moment. (In that way, maybe I’m not so for realizing healthy relationships between they hold dear and the challenges they face, different from the mission trip leaders from cultures. When I practice these skills, as a and to gather alternatives to that mission trip my teenage days.) Christian, my prayer will be to play a small part within the mending of a historically long ago. I learned that I have other options and troubled interaction. As we prepared for the journey, our class abilities as well. I can choose to ask a question talked about cross-cultural skills. Human from a humble and curious point of view, and As a pastor, I want to understand the cross- beings all use coping strategies when faced I can practice jumping into a moment without cultural relationships I live with in my context by difference. When we step out of a comfort having all of my own trepidations resolved. and to be able to use these skills, both with the people around me most often and those I zone or when another culture pierces our There has been so much violence against meet away from home. world, we experience dissonance. In our American Indians, and such great trauma

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The Pitneys and the house that gives back

“We are doing something visible” h Debbie and John Pitney during the construction of their home in Oregon

Retiring after four decades Debbie and John met as students at Initiative of Oregon Interfaith Power and of ministry focused on MTSO in 1973 and were married on campus Light. And through That’s My Farmer, a ecology and justice, two three years later in a ceremony officiated by program John started, First UMC was one Professor Chuck Foster and involving a host of more than 20 local faith communities MTSO alums have built a of other MTSO clergy. Upon graduation to back community-supported agriculture home that creates more in 1976, they headed west to serve programs on 15 small, sustainable farms energy than it uses congregations in Idaho as ordained United around Eugene. John also writes and Methodist elders. performs songs with themes including By John Henderson economic and climate justice, civil In the early 1980s, they were reappointed resistance, and progressive faith. He has John and Debbie Pitney graduated from to Nome Community UMC in the Alaska recorded three albums. MTSO in 1976, long before ecotheology was Conference. John refers to the experience a common topic of classroom discussion, as a “life changer” that deepened his Throughout their ministry, the Pitneys before a solar grid was powering classrooms understanding of the ways scripture offers lived out their convictions at home, and before Dunn Dining Hall served fresh a moral response to land, wealth and upgrading several parsonages with solar hot organic produce grown on campus. Yet it’s economic conditions. water systems. “What we did on Sundays didn’t make any difference hard to imagine how anyone could better After five years in Alaska, they found model the ecological values that infuse unless it affected what we were doing every their way to Oregon, where John had other day of the week,” Debbie said. MTSO’s campus community today. grown up on a farm and first developed his Most recently, they have built and moved commitment to using resources wisely. They Upon deciding to retire to McMinnville, into a new home in Oregon that goes recently retired after 16 years at First UMC Oregon, a county seat an hour southwest well beyond mere energy efficiency. They in Eugene, where Debbie served as senior of Portland, the Pitneys considered various call it a “net-zero” home, but even that’s pastor and John served on staff. options for a low-energy lifestyle before settling on a drastic one: They purchased a a misnomer: It will produce more energy At First UMC, they worked with than it uses each year. The Pitneys’ amazing 75-year old house in poor repair and tore it parishioners to develop ministries related to down in March 2015 to make way for their new abode is a capstone on four decades food-system and climate justice. The church of ministry committed to the work of new net-zero home, which they also call a installed a photovoltaic power system “forever house.” environmental and food-system justice. with the help of the Solar Congregations

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Efficient to the extreme h The Pitneys’ “forever house” features rooftop solar panels, 13-inch exterior walls and triple-pane windows more than 3 inches thick

“A forever kind of house is one that has visible,” John said. “It’s not going to solve fuels in the ground, we have no chance a good chance of lasting for a long time,” the climate-justice issue, but it becomes an of maintaining a planet with livability Debbie said. “It treats eternity here on earth occasion for us to have lot of conversations that we can pass on to our children and very seriously.” with people about what’s at stake and what grandchildren.” we need to be doing.” Construction on the new, 1,000-square- “We are made from this wondrous foot house began in September 2015 Opportunities for conversation should humus under our feet. To live in a way and was completed by the end of come easily since the house is near the that demeans that in any way is totally March. They have documented the middle of town. The Pitneys wanted to build demeaning to ourselves.” project extensively online, starting their home in an area with easy access to with johnpitney.org/our-net-zero- McMinnville’s amenities and high visibility, Although John and Debbie are four life-an-introduction. in hopes of inspiring others to consider a decades removed from MTSO, they agree new standard of living. The grocery store, that their seminary experience laid the Debbie and John were in the house library, church and pool all are within groundwork for what their ministry became. every day from January on, assisting with walking distance. construction. This included repurposing “It wasn’t supposed to be a theological wood from the old house. John did much of education that removed us from the world and made us the work in a wood shop that belongs to a “We didn’t want to build an exclusive local United Methodist congregation. feel set apart,” Debbie said. “It house outside of town. We wanted was a theological education With 13-inch exterior walls and triple- to be in the neighborhood,” John that put us in the midst of the pane windows more than 3 inches thick, said. While the home was under world and basically said, ‘If the 1,000-square-foot net-zero home is you are not in the midst of the exceptionally well insulated. To keep it from construction, “we were literally giving world, you are not doing your becoming “a moldy slime-ball,” in John’s six or seven home tours per week.” job.’ That’s what I experienced words, it uses mechanical ventilation that t h e re .” exchanges one-third of the house’s air every The Pitneys said they continue to be hour. The water supply comes from 9,000 “We didn’t want to build an exclusive gallons in rainwater storage. inspired by MTSO’s movement toward an house outside of town. We wanted to be in emphasis on ecotheology, with the creation The home is Passive House certified, the neighborhood,” John said. While the of Seminary Hill Farm and increased meeting a standard for energy efficiency that home was under construction, “we were dialogue around environmental justice in calls for dramatically reducing a building’s literally giving six or seven home tours per the classroom. energy use and ecological footprint. This week.” allows a photovoltaic solar system to “I’m very proud to be from an institution “We are here to encourage people,” he that has that kind of vision and insight,” produce a yearly energy surplus – which the said. “We need to move toward everyone Pitneys will use to charge their electric car. John said. “It makes a difference for living to this standard. There is a lot at seminary students.” h “Bottom line – we are doing something stake. If we don’t keep 80 percent of fossil

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Patty, celebrate their 37th wedding anniver- sary Sept. 23. [email protected] 1980 Brad Martin has adopted a loving and thriving 2-year-old daughter, Leah Martin. [email protected] AlumIf you’re an alum or former faculty or staff membernews of MTSO and have news to share about your vocational or personal milestones, please submit it via the link 1981 at www.mtso.edu/update. If you don’t have an Internet connection, you may mail IN MEMORIAM your news to us at Alum News, MTSO, 3081 Columbus Pike, Delaware, Ohio 43015. Dennis Paulson passed away suddenly in July 2015. He retired in 2013 after 43 years in ministry, mostly with the United Methodist 1966 1975 Church. He is survived by his wife, Gerrie Cliff Black continues his prison inmate min- Daniel Drew retired after 42 years of Pedersen Paulson, three daughters and ten istry. He retired as director of the Interna- appointive ministry in the East Ohio Confer- grandchildren. tional Justice Center at Texas A&M Interna- ence. He is director of travel ministries in the tional University. [email protected] East Ohio Area for Educational Opportuni- 1984 ties Tours. “I have been blessed to be called James Adams is a national speaker on 1969 by God, educated at MTSO and serving in school shootings and is currently doing Eugene Finnegan and his partner, John God’s kingdom.” [email protected] research with Case Western Reserve Univer- Rainey, were married after 35 years to- Timothy Farabaugh sity into how communities heal after trauma, gether, following the Supreme Court ruling retired in June. His fifth book, A Guide to Christian and which trauma intervention models on marriage equality in June 2015. Their produce the best long-term outcomes for wedding took place in the chapel of the Administration, was published last June. [email protected] survivors. [email protected] Parkvue Community retirement home in Elizabeth Wineland Sandusky, where they have lived for 17 years. David Orendorff retired in July 2014. retired July 1, 2015, [email protected] [email protected] after serving 30 years in local church ministry in the West Ohio Conference of the UMC. Richar Morrison is retired in Traverse City, 1976 She and her husband, Lynn, are first-time Michigan. “Photography, skiing, fishing, David Broyles homeowners, living in Bowling Green. golf, traveling, anything not having to do retired from the minis- try in 2015. He retired from the United Their daughter, Katie Kuntz-Wineland, is with work is what I am doing these days.” a student at MTSO working on her M.Div. [email protected] States Air Force Chaplain Corps in 2007 with the rank of Chaplain, Colonel. Katie is married to Beth Kuntz-Wineland, Glenn Rohrer is professor emeritus at East [email protected] who is on staff at Dunn Dining Hall. [email protected] Carolina University and professor of social 1977 work at the University of West Florida. He 1985 is also an Episcopal priest at Holy Cross George E. Porter Jr. retired after six Barbara Grace “Babs” Allison Ripple Episcopal Church, Pensacola, Florida. years as a district superintendent in the [email protected] Western Pennsylvania Annual Confer- is retired and living in Kaneohe, Hawaii. “I ence. He now serves as a full-time interim am thankful for the education I received 1971 pastor at the First UMC of Pittsburgh. at MTSO, preparing me to serve God as a Roger Moore and his wife, Ellen, are [email protected] United Methodist pastor for all these years! [email protected] very actively involved in Ashland’s Team Great memories!” 1978 Ministry at Christ and First UMCs. 1987 [email protected] Joseph G. Burris retired after 40 years of Dr. Theodore D. Whitely Sr. pastoral ministry. His last Sunday in the pul- retired 1973 pit at Centenary UMC in Laurel, Delaware, July 1, 2015. He served more than 41 years in Brian and Anita Wood are was June 12. He will continue to be active as active ministry. He was an elder in full con- retired and living in Washington State. a director of travel ministry with Educational nection with the Detroit Annual Conference. [email protected] Opportunities Tours, helping local pastors He and his wife, Rev. Betty J. Whitely, an and others to host Holy Land, heritage and MTSO alumna, avail themselves for preach- other faith-based land tours, as well as ocean ing and teaching when called upon to do so. [email protected] and European river cruises. He and his wife,

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1988 ence after serving the Polk and East UMCs 1998 Lt. Col. Steven Jerles is deputy garrison in the Franklin District for nine years. Candy Thomas has begun ministry in the chaplain at Fort Hood, Texas, serving more [email protected] ambassador program at Miami Beach Com- than 400,000 soldiers, families, civilians and munity Church, UCC, in Miami Beach. She military retirees. 1993 greets visitors, community members and Kathy Brown has been appointed director street people Friday, Saturday and Sunday 1989 of the Office of Ministry in the West Ohio evenings, providing pastoral care and prayer Sharon Sauer has retired as a Presbyte- Annual Conference. at the church’s busy South Beach location. rian pastor and school teacher. She con- Elizabeth Young’s Sanctuary in the Midst [email protected] tinues as a part-time spiritual director. of Alzheimer’s: A Ministry for Spousal Caregiv- [email protected] ers and Their Churches was published by Au- 1999 thorHouse in 2015. Her article “The Power of Renee (Gonyea-MacDougall) Ford 1991 Positive Thinking and Dementia Caregiving” graduated in May 2015 with a Ph.D. in Work- Lea Guiney was appointed July 1, 2015, appeared in the Fall 2015 issue of the UMC force Education and Development from Penn to First UMC in Union City, Pennsylva- Board of Discipleship’s S.A.G.E. publication. State University. Her dissertation, “Factors nia, of the Erie-Meadville District in the [email protected] Western Pennsylvania Annual Confer- Continues

Students and alums ordained and commissioned We recognize and congratulate our alumni Greater New Jersey West Ohio and students who have recently been Christina Yost Lelache, ordained The following were commissioned as ordained and commissioned, along with as elder, serving as associate pastor at deacons: those taking other significant leadership Haddonfield UMC. • Margaret McErlean-Hoy. steps. The list below is organized by • Kate Smith, serving Peace UMC, conferences of the United Methodist Church. Indiana Pickerington. Melissa (Zimmerman) Englehart, Baltimore-Washington ordained as elder, serving as of July 1 at The following were commissioned as R. Lorraine Brown, commissioned as Hanover UMC. elders: Jennifer Casey elder, serving St. Luke UMC in Sykesville • , serving as associate Jennifer Huff and Simpson UMC in Mt. Airy, Maryland. , ordained as deacon. pastor at Church of the Master United Methodist, Westerville. Detroit Iowa • Pete Elliott, serving as associate pastor Wil Ranney Sarah Alexander, commissioned as , ordained as deacon. at Broad Street UMC, Columbus. Wendy Hansen-Smith deacon. She serves as director of Motown • , serving as New York Mission in Detroit. associate pastor at North Broadway Susan Ranous, commissioned as deacon, UMC, Columbus. East Ohio serving Ira UMC in Syracuse, New York. • Alexandra Petrey, serving at First The following were commissioned as UMC in Brookville. South Carolina elders: • Kim Wisecup, serving as pastor at Meghan Cook • Beth Ortiz, serving as pastor of , ordained as elder, serving Madison Mills UMC, Washington Kilbourne UMC. at Epworth Children’s Home, Epworth Courthouse. Paul Turner Memorial UMC, Columbia. • , serving as pastor of The following were ordained as elders: Cardington First UMC. Tennessee • Nicole Henderson-Johns. • Claudine Leary, serving as director Great Plains The following were commissioned as of annual giving at MTSO. Michael Brown, commissioned as elder, elders: • Bo Myers, serving as pastor of St. Luke serving as pastor of Quinter and Grinnell West Virginia UMCs. UMC in Columbia, Tennessee. • Mary Kate Myers, serving as pastor • Jeffrey Taylor, ordained as deacon, Emily Spearman Cannon, ordained as of Bethesda-Wesley Chapel UMC in serving as president of the United elder, serving as pastor of Auburn First Thompson Station and College Grove, Methodist Foundation of West Virginia UMC in Auburn, Nebraska. Tennessee. Inc. in Charleston.

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from previous page 2003 in her role at licensing school and serving Karen Cook has been appointed assistant as a field education instructor at MTSO. Influencing Clergy Leadership Effectiveness to the district superintendent of Capitol Area [email protected] in the UMC,” explored correlations between North in the West Ohio Annual Conference. church vitality indicators and situational 2011 and systemic factors leaders face in ministry. 2005 Meghan “Meg” (Sweeney) Cook was [email protected] Liatu Kane continues to work as a married to John Michael Cook on May 31, 2014. She is a provisional elder at Epworth Marcy Taylor district superintendent of the Eugene has been accepted into the Children’s Home in the South Carolina An- chaplain residency program at the Ohio Wesley District of the UMC in Nigeria. [email protected] nual Conference. [email protected] State University Wexner Medical Center. [email protected] Willie Smith received a Doctor of Min- 2006 istry degree from the Ecumenical Theo- 2000 Jerry Krueger has been appointed to logical Seminary in Detroit in June 2015. Carol Layton retired to her childhood home Boardman UMC as of July 1. He will [email protected] in western Colorado after 19 years serving in also serve as executive pastor for the California. In addition to occasional pulpit Greater Youngstown Area Ministry Team, 2013 supply, she is teaching driver safety for senior which includes five area UM churches. Melissa (Zimmerman) Englehart mar- citizens. [email protected] He is married to Rev. Susan Brown, who ried Chris Englehart on Nov. 7, 2015. serves as senior pastor of Canfield UMC. [email protected] Lynda McClanahan offers a solo exhibition [email protected] of new work, “Sights & Signs: a new collec- 2014 tion of paintings by Lynda McClanahan,” 2007 Seth Evans is online campus pastor for through Sept. 24 at Jung Haus in Columbus. Jacqueline DeLaney earned a Doctor of Ginghamsburg UMC and lives in Springfield. Her painted ostrich egg, “Ladies Choice,” is Ministry degree in Formational Counseling [email protected] also on view at the Columbus Museum of from Ashland Theological Seminary in May Art through August in conjunction with the 2016. [email protected] Meredith McDougle and her husband, “Art 360: Contemporary Art Hatching Across Jason, welcomed their son Dylan into the Risë Straight Hanifan Ohio” exhibit. Her graphic “River of Karma, and her husband world in March 2015. She is executive River of Life” was featured in the January welcomed their first child on May 12, 2015. director of the Greater Hilltop Area Sha- 2016 issue of Hinduism Today magazine. She Callan Ross Hanifan was born in Clarksburg, lom Zone and deacon in residence at [email protected] was invited to Kerala, India, to organize de- West Virginia. New Horizons United Methodist Church. [email protected] votional singing at a January 2016 meditation 2008 retreat led by Sri Dandapani. She continues Nancy Day-Achauer to appear the first Saturday of every month at formed the United 2016 the Columbus Unitarian Universalist church Westside Coalition, a community partner- Ashley Mills is continuing in her work with the In Spirit Band and serves as a music ship working on community revitalization as director of discipleship from birth minister and guest speaker at Unity Church and addressing the heroin epidemic on to young adult at Worthington UMC. of Delaware and Unity Church of Pickering- Columbus’s west side. She partnered with the [email protected] ton. [email protected] Ohio attorney general and Franklin County coroner to develop a heroin prevention and Dawn Peters is doing her first unit of clini- 2002 intervention initiative. A town hall meet- cal pastoral education at the Cleveland Clinic this summer and three more units at Wexner David MacDonald was recently featured ing featuring guest speaker Ohio Attorney Medical Center from August 2016 to August as a chapter author in the book The Prophetic General Mike DeWine will be held Sept. 29. [email protected] 2017. [email protected] Voice and Making Peace, published by the UMC General Board of Higher Education 2010 Rebecca Rogers passed the National and Ministry. He presented in 2015 at the Counselor Examination and is awaiting LPC Robin Dillon recently completed five United Methodist Campus Ministry Associa- licensure. [email protected] tion Summer Institute on “Merge: A Model years of meaningful ministry at Oak Cha- for Group Spiritual Direction for First Year pel UMC in Wooster and effective July 1 Students.” Also in 2015, he presented on was appointed to LeRoy UMC in Westfield “Discerning Calling at the Center and the Center. Also effective July 1, she is serv- Edge: Vocational Discernment as Spiritual ing on the East Ohio Board of Ordained Direction and Discipline” at a GBHEM col- Ministry as dean of licensing school. Robin loquium. [email protected] enjoys helping in the formation of new clergy

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NEW TO THE FACULTY Teaching theology with a new worldview Elaine Nogueira-Godsey brings experience in the Global South to a new role in theology, ecology and race

Something happened when Elaine Now she brings her expertise and an Nogueira-Godsey was 20 that gave her a international perspective to MTSO, where powerful new perspective on her life in she will begin teaching in the Spring Coming to MTSO from the University Brazil: She moved to South Africa. Semester as assistant professor of theology, of Johannesburg h Nogueira-Godsey ecology and race. “Growing up in Brazil, I knew from an early age that I wanted to travel and learn “Dr. Nogueira-Godsey brings an half Catholic. I was told from early age that more from other cultures,” she said. “It expansive understanding of theology all that I needed to do to please God and was not until I moved to Africa that I saw to our seminary,” said MTSO President have a happy life was to go to school, find the value of my perspective as a female Jay Rundell. “Her students will learn a husband, have children and be a good theologian of mixed race. Working with how environmental threats to our planet mother.” Angolan and Mozambican refugees in South compound the burdens faced by many Africa reinforced my desire to explore this people who already are marginalized “What to do with my life as a girl became perspective further. It opened my eyes to because of their race, gender or an existential problem. Why did God the injustices that had become normalized socioeconomic status. I expect she will help create me with intellectual needs if I was in my native habitat, of which religion was us see the faithful care of creation through a not supposed to think for myself? Why did inextricably central.” new lens.” God create me with leadership skills if I was supposed to become a good submissive wife As she observed “the centrality of Added MTSO Dean Lisa Withrow: “Her and focus on motherhood as fulfilment for the natural world in our everyday lives,” gift to us is going to be the conversation life? Gebara’s work helped me think through she developed an abiding interest in the about the Global South, ecology, feminism these questions.” intersection of ecology and issues of and culture. She’s going to centralize that racial and gender oppression. “The poor for us.” Nogueira-Godsey’s work in ecofeminism conditions exacerbated by pollution connects different but related forms of Nogueira-Godsey currently is a post- and disregard for the environment subjugation. “Most ecotheologies have doctoral research fellow intersecting disproportionately affected women, the poor addressed the idea that the domination of postcolonial theory, religion, ecology and and the racially marginalized.” humanity over nature and its exploitation gender in the University of Johannesburg’s are the consequences of a dominant Western Nogueira-Godsey gained these insights Department of Religious Studies. She has philosophy that foregrounds human while earning a master’s degree and spoken and written extensively on topics uniqueness above all living beings,” she said. doctorate in religious studies from the ranging from religion and cultural diversity “However, many ecotheological works fail to University of Cape Town, where she served in post-apartheid South Africa to the work adequately make the connections between as a lecturer and postdoctoral research of Brazilian ecofeminist theologian Ivone various forms and loci of power as they are fellow. She has taught classes including Gebara, whom Nogueira-Godsey studied asserted over the environment.” Religion Past and Present; Religion, Ecology for her doctoral dissertation. and Spirituality; and Religion, Gender and “The domination of humanity over “Gebara’s journey resonates with me on Sexuality. She received her bachelor’s degree nature is only one of the facets of a bigger many levels,” she said. “I too questioned my in theology from Faculdade Teológica picture. We need to re-examine the claim right to make my own choices and decisions D’Oeste do Brasil. that the Abrahamic religions convey from a young age. I was born in Brazil into a devoted Christian family, half Baptist and Continues on page 17

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NEW TO THE FACULTY ‘What would Jesus do? Jesus would show up.’ For Francesca Nuzzolese, pastoral care and counseling means being present to those who are vulnerable

From the time she was a child in southern care as primarily a ministry of intentional Italy, Francesca Nuzzolese had a sense and faithful presence.” of her life’s calling. She felt compelled to A childhood in Italy infused with seek out those who were vulnerable and Nuzzolese pursued a Bachelor of Divinity activism h Nuzzolese to be present with them. It would be years degree at Baptist International Seminary in before she learned that this instinct aligned Switzerland, trusting that she had a calling respond physiologically and neurologically with a specific vocation: pastoral care and to become a missionary. “I didn’t know that to the violation of the body that is very counseling. pastoral care and counseling was a field of study, an actual discipline you could learn helpful in treating trauma. The Bible was not Beginning with the Spring Semester of this and teach,” she said. designed to address this particular dimension school year, Nuzzolese will share her passion of suffering, but it offers invaluable wisdom with students at MTSO, where she has been Mentors she encountered in Switzerland in appreciating how deeply vulnerable human appointed associate professor of pastoral care introduced her to counseling and its beings are to the dynamics of sin and evil.” and counseling. psychological component. The marriage of the spiritual and psychological disciplines “Dr. Nuzzolese’s appreciation for In overwhelmingly Catholic Italy, enthralled her, and she discovered a gift for employing both pastoral and clinical Nuzzolese grew up in a Baptist household – “I articulating them to varied audiences. disciplines makes her an excellent fit with was the only Protestant in my whole school” – our approach to counseling ministries,” said attending a church with a fierce commitment “Each discipline has its own language and MTSO President Jay Rundell. “That she to social justice. its own construct,” she said. “What matters has learned and practiced these disciplines the most is to be able to articulate and use throughout the world brings an added “In this small group, I learned that faith in each language in their own right and to not dimension to her teaching.” God is expressed through activism,” she said. collapse their meaning, so that the integrity of “There was a strong sense of ‘What would both can be maintained.” Nuzzolese earned a Master of Theology Jesus do?’ Jesus would show up. Earthquakes, degree from the Melbourne College of mafia killings of judges, closing of industries, “I believe spiritual formation is an essential Divinity in Australia and a Doctor of civil rights violations: The Italian Baptists dimension of preparation for the ministry of Theology degree from Columbia Theological were there, to march, to shout, to sit in, pastoral counseling,” Nuzzolese said. “To do Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. During to mourn, to advocate. We showed up their work well, students need to stand on her doctoral work, she said, “I gravitated everywhere.” sound spiritual and emotional foundations. naturally to women of the lower classes, On these foundations, they can then lay the undocumented migrants, and all those “When I was about 8, there was an appeal bricks of clinical knowledge and thus become who shared a degree of vulnerability to the from South Africa, where Baptists suffering agents of transformation and healing.” variables of socioeconomic and political under apartheid had reached out to the disadvantage.” Over time, she was particularly European churches. As a youth group, we “While there’s a conviction in some Christian circles that the Bible is sufficient to drawn to those who had been subjected to raised funds and brought them to a big march human trafficking, which she considers “the held in Rome. I remember vividly the sense of counsel people,” she said, “my understanding is that multiple sources of knowledge, wisdom most tangible form of vulnerability of our solidarity we felt as we showed up to advocate t i m e .” for the rights of our brothers and sisters in and truth are necessary for this ministry to a faraway land. That has become a strong be effective. For example, there is a wealth During a recent sabbatical in the foundation for me in understanding pastoral of knowledge available to explain how we Netherlands, Nuzzolese spent time with

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women who work in Amsterdam’s Red Nuzzolese comes to MTSO from which I will be teaching and the overall ethos Light District. Many with whom she spent Philadelphia, where she is associate professor of the school. I looked at the commitment time were natives of ex-communist Balkan of pastoral care and spiritual formation at to ecology, for instance. I am delighted countries. “Nine out of 10 say, ‘I choose this. Palmer Theological Seminary and Eastern that a school like this exists, that there’s This is certainly better than what I could University. She also serves as pastoral care intentionality about ecology, theology and do in my own country’,” she said. But she is minister and theologian in residence at Holy justice.” skeptical. She believes the notion of choice Trinity Episcopal Church in Philadelphia and is something to be evaluated within the is a counselor in private practice. MTSO Dean Lisa Withrow said Nuzzolese contextual realities from which these women is an adventurer: “She’s got a stance of inquiry come. She has founded Be the Lifeline, a nonprofit and adventure, not only traveling the world foundation for anti-trafficking advocacy, but trying to understand human nature in “The majority have a history of some sort education and outreach. In particular she has new ways. I think she has an experimental of boundary violation,” she said. “What they been “reaching out to the ‘carers’,” offering mind: always learning.” define as free and intentional choices are support in the form of workshops, retreats, often the expression of a compromised notion and training for those who work directly with Nuzzolese expects her travels and of choice, tainted by the actual possibilities people who have been trafficked. international perspective to inform her life has offered them.” teaching at MTSO. For Nuzzolese, the opportunity to teach “Would I prefer they were waitresses pastoral counseling within MTSO’s Master “There’s a tendency in the United States rather than sex workers? I don’t know. The of Arts in Counseling Ministries program is to focus on domestic issues, to stay a bit debate about prostitution as a legitimate an exciting prospect: “For the past 10 years provincial, self-focused or navel-gazing,” form of work is very complex and needs to I have had the privilege to prepare mostly she said. “I live in multiple worlds, and be approached with right information and students called to church ministry. I look these worlds live within me. Everything wisdom. What I do know is that women and forward to shifting my focus to the more that happens in the international news has men, boys and girls, have a right to be safe intentional art of pastoral psychotherapy and the potential to be touching a person or a in the world, and that prostitution – chosen counseling.” community I know and love. So nothing to me or imposed – is fraught with violence, abuse is like, ‘Oh, it’s just happening over there.’ We and exploitation. It is definitely not dignifying “The possibility to teach what I personally are much more interrelated than we think.” work, for anyone involved.” love to study and practice is obviously very appealing. Even more so given the context in “I remain committed to international work.” h

NOGUEIRA-GODSEY ways in which poverty, gender inequality “It has become central to my scholarship From page 15 and racial oppression are themselves deeply and to transmit to my students that ecological issues. Such a perspective points adaptations, adjustments and changes are a to the fact that to care for the environment common occurrence and generally expected dualistic teachings that cause the separation represents a different rationale for those when reinventing our own relationship with of humans and nature, but which in turn who fight for their own family’s basic the earth and the sacred.” generate earthly hierarchies with men subsistence on a daily basis.” constituting the highest pinnacle. The Nogueira-Godsey, who interviewed and kind of ecofeminism that interests me She’ll encourage her students not to seek lectured at MTSO in May, said she has fond approaches the reality of poverty and a quick and tidy fix for these problems but memories of the students, faculty, staff and ecological devastation so common in rather to accept and encourage an evolving delicious Dunn Dining Hall cuisine. She’s colonized contexts as originating from the world. excited by the opportunity to teach graduate same mindset that foregrounds human theology courses and to be part of a campus uniqueness above all living beings.” “The beauty of Gebara’s ecofeminist community committed to the pursuit of a theology is the focus on alternative just and sustainable world. A life lived in Brazil and South Africa epistemologies as a vehicle for finding has sharpened Nogueira-Godsey’s sense solutions to environmental, gender or racial “The desire to live out a theology that that the study of ecotheology may begin problems,” Nogueira-Godsey said. “By promotes sustainable living for all became with humanity’s care of the planet but goes forging a space for different ways of learning clear during my visit to MTSO,” she said. somewhere broader and more complex: “I and transmitting knowledge to evolve and “For me this is very exciting. It feels like a think that by being exposed to the multiple adapt to changing human identities, the dream come true to imagine that I will be realities of the Global South’s postcolonial approaches to issues of ecological, gender working with scholars and students who are contexts, students will be better equipped or racial injustices will likewise adapt and serious about answering the call to respond to analyze and take into consideration the evolve.” to the world’s most urgent needs.” h

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Faculty activities Beyond the classroom | 2015-16 Valerie sented as a keynote speech at the McCormick Workshop presenter on preaching, Women of Theological Seminary Women’s History Month, Color in Ministry Conference, Atlanta, Oct. Bridgeman March 3, 2016. 15-17, 2015. Associate Professor Plenary presentation on “‘Tears for Food’: The American Academy of Religion/Society of Bib- of Homiletics and Psalms as a Resource for Emotional and Spiritu- lical Literature; presented in SBL; presided over Hebrew Bible al Health” and workshop on “Soul Journaling,” an AAR session; Atlanta, Nov. 19-22, 2015. Sankofa Women’s Conference, Oblate School of Academy of Homiletics, preceded by Black Theology, San Antonio, March 19, 2016. Publications Caucus, Dec. 2-5, 2015. Virzola Law installation as senior pastor at “What Will We Say to Our Children?” Sojourn- Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Social Lindenwood Christian Church, Memphis, April ers, Feb. 16, 2016. Justice and the Black Church and Academy, 1, 2016. Houston, Feb. 15-18, 2016. Contributor to No Innocent Bystanders: Becom- Plenary presentation on “Preaching to Mat- ing an Ally in the Struggle for Justice, ed. Chris Prophetic Activism as Ministry, April 4, 2016. ter” and workshop on “Preaching for Kin-dom Doucot and Shannon Craigo-Snell. Westmin- Movement,” The Voice of the Prophets Confer- Consultation Between AA Homileticians and ster John Knox Press, forthcoming. ence, April 7-9, 2016. Working AA Pastors, Christian Theological “‘I Will Make Boys Their Leaders’: Rhetorical Seminary, April 11-13, 2016. “Preaching to Matter: Taking the Real Bod- Use of Children in Lovelace,” in Womanist Bibli- ies Seriously in Preaching,” presented at the Association of Theological Schools Mid-Career cal Interpretation: Expanding the Discourse (a Consultation on African American Preaching Faculty Gathering, Phoenix, April 14-17, 2016. Semeia volume), forthcoming September 2016. in the Academy and the Church, at Christian Church and popular lectures “‘Now You Have Struck a Rock’: Rizpah, Black Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, April 11- Mama Trauma, and the Power of Shaming 13, 2016. Preached at First Baptist Church, Hillside, N.J., in the Face of the Powers,” in Unraveling and July 19, 2015. Workshop on preaching, presented for the Tus- Reweaving Sacred Canon in Africana Woman- carawas District, East Ohio Conference, United “How Race, Sexuality, and the Holy Spirit Col- hood: 107-117. Ed Rosetta E. Ross and Rose Methodist Church, April 23, 2016. lide in a Congregational Setting,” East Euclid Mary Amenga-Etego. New York: Lexington UCC, Cleveland, Aug. 1, 2015. Books, 2015. Meetings Preached at First Baptist Church in University Academic lectures and presentations Black Theology and Leadership Institute, Princ- Hills, Illinois, Aug. 2, 2015. eton Theological Seminary, July 11-18, 2015. “Have You Read This Text?” “Who is at Stake? Preached at Christ the King United Church of Reading the Bible with the Least Among Us” Movement for Black Lives conference, Cleve- Christ, Florissant, Missouri, Aug. 16, 2015. and “Justice as a Hermeneutical Lens,” Pem- land, July 24-26, 2015. Preached at First Bethel Baptist Church, Cleve- broke Institute, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Co-convener and panelist, National Gathering land, Aug. 23, 2015. Seminary, Aug. 3-7, 2015. of Black Scholars, Ferguson, Missouri, Aug. 7-9, Preached at MTSO chapel, Sept. 1, 2015. 2015. “On Standing in Solidarity, Choosing, and Preached at St. Paul’s Baptist Church, Philadel- Mentoring: The Vocational Work of Theologi- Plenary presenter and workshop leader, phia, Sept. 6, 2015. cal Education,” Louisville Institute’s Vocation of sponsored by WomanPreach! Inc., Women’s Vision Revival Preaching, East Euclid United Theological Education Fall Gathering, Work Preaching Workshop, Eden Theological Church of Christ, Sept. 10, 2015. Oct. 11-14, 2015. Seminary, St. Louis, Aug. 13-15, 2015. Preached at 150th anniversary of First Con- “My Great-Grandmother was Enslaved: Racial/ Consultation on Ph.D. in African American gregational UCC, Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, Ethnic Consciousness in the USA,” Black Lives Preaching, Christian Theological Seminary, 2015. Matters Symposium, Xavier University, Nov. 7, Oct. 4-5, 2015. Preached at Wesley Theological Seminary cha- 2015. “Theological Educator as Vocation,” plenary pel, Sept. 15, 2015. “Randall Bailey was Right All Along: In address, Louisville Institute Vocation of the Celebration of Randall Bailey’s 25 Years in the Theological Educator Gathering, Oct. 11-13, Preached on occasion of pastor’s anniversary at Academy,” Society of Biblical Literature African 2015. Antioch Baptist Church, Susan, Virginia, Sept. 20, 2015. American Biblical Hermeneutics Section in Workshop presenter on prophetic preaching, honor of Randall Bailey, 2015. inaugural Ella P. Mitchell Preaching Confer- Filming panel presenter, Palestinian/Israeli “Dancing My Way Home: Reflections on Bible ence, Atlanta, Oct. 15-17, 2015. Relationships, the Bible, and the American Church, sponsored by the Samuel DeWitt Proc- and Embodied Ritual Remembrance(s),” pre-

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tor Conference, filmed at First Congregational John Kampen Paul Kim UCC, Washington, D.C., Oct. 8, 2015. Professor in the Dunn Professor of Hebrew Women’s Day Celebration, Mount Zion Baptist Chair in Biblical Bible in the Williams Church, Cleveland, Oct. 25, 2015. Interpretation Chair of Biblical New Mount Zion Baptist Church, Women’s Day Studies Celebration, Cleveland, Oct. 25, 2015. Mt. Aery Baptist Church, Ma’afa Sunday, Bridgeport, Connecticut, Nov. 1, 2015. Publications Academic lectures and presentations Preached for church anniversary, Abyssinian “Response,” to Gerbern S. Oegema, “Was the “Japanese Occupation and Biblical Exile,” Baptist Church, Memphis, Nov. 8, 2015. Maccabean Revolt an Apocalyptic Move- Pyeongtaek University, Korea, Dec. 7, 2015. “Litany Witness to Joy” for the installation of ment?” in The Seleucid and Hasmonean Peri- “A Comparative Study of the Historical Pastor Troy Sanders, Atlanta, Nov. 15, 2015. ods and the Apocalyptic Worldview: 95-102. Ed. Aspects of Korea During the Japanese “You Are Not a Dummy: Finding Your Own Lester L. Grabbe and Gabriele Boccaccini with Occupation Era for a New Understanding of Voice in Preaching,” workshop at the Festival Jason M. Zurawski. London: Bloomsbury T & the Historical Contexts of the Exile” at Eastern of Young Preachers (Academy of Preachers), T Clark, 2016. Great Lakes Biblical Society meeting, Perrys- Lexington, Ky., Jan. 2-5, 2015. “Wisdom, Poverty, and Non-Violence in ville, Ohio, March 10-11, 2016. Preached at three services, Elmwood United Instruction,” in The War Scroll, Violence, War “Isaiah, Iconography, Images,” Richard E. Presbyterian Church, East Orange, New Jersey, and Peace in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Related Wilkin Faculty Chair lecture series, Jan. 10, 2016. Literature: Essays in Honour of Martin G. Mazza Museum, University of Findlay, Abegg on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday. March 15, 2016. Leadership consultation at Elmwood United Eds. Kipp Davis, Dorothy M. Peters, Kyung S. Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), East Orange, Baek, and Peter W. Flint. Leiden: Brill, 2016. Church and popular lectures N.J., Jan. 11, 2016. Meetings Preached at Daechi Good Neighbors Church, Preached at MLK Jr. Service, Fresh Waters Min- Seoul, Korea, Oct. 25, 2015. istries, Austin, Texas, Jan. 17, 2016. Official representative of Mennonite Church “Calling,” Methodist Theological University, Open Worship, MTSO, Feb. 2, 2016. USA to the National Council of Churches Jewish-Christian Dialogue meeting, Philadel- International Graduate Studies of Theology Conversation partner with Mike Graves, phia, Nov. 18, 2015. Chapel, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 12, 2015. Schooler Institute on Preaching, MTSO, Feb. “God’s Values,” Soongsil University, Seoul, 8-9, 2016. American Schools of Oriental Research, Atlanta, Nov. 18-20, 2015. Korea, Nov. 19, 2015. “Healing the Breaches: Preaching Through “Positive Psychology,” workshop at Osaka Social Upheaval” and “Finding Voice,” plenary Society of Biblical Literature, Atlanta, Nov. 21-24, 2015. Senior Citizens University, Osaka, Japan, Nov. leader, Chloe’s Circle by WomanPreach! Inc., 29, 2015. Chicago Theological Seminary, March 4-5, Church and popular lectures 2016. Preached at Osaka Korean Church, Osaka, “Dangerous Inspiration,” Columbus Menno- Japan, Nov. 29, 2015. Preached at 99th anniversary of Clair UMC, nite Church, Oct. 25, 2015. Columbus, March 20, 2016. Preached at Hilliard Presbyterian Church, Consultation: Rebranding of the Pines School Hilliard, Feb. 7, 2016. Preached at mid-day Good Friday service, St. of Graduate Studies, Hebrew Union College- “The Bible and Spiritual Well-Being,” five-week Paul’s Baptist Church, Philadelphia, March 25, Jewish Institute of Religion, Nov. 11, 2015. 2016. seminar co-led with Fulgence Nyengele, First “Mennonites and Jews,” adult education ses- Community Church, Columbus, May 1-29, Preached at evening Good Friday service, St. sions for Cincinnati Mennonite Fellowship, 2016. Sabina Catholic Church, Chicago, March 25, Dec. 6 and 13, 2015. 2016. Preached at Christ Missionary Baptist Church, Memphis, Tenn., April 3, 2016. Preached for three services and offered daylong consultation with staff at Elmwood United Pres- byterian Church, Trenton, N.J., May 1-2, 2016. Preached on Mother’s Day at First Baptist Church, Hillside, N.J., May 8, 2016. Preached on Church Anniversary for the Historic Concord Baptist Church of Christ, Brooklyn, N.Y., May 15, 2016. Continues

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from previous page Linda A. “Understanding the Rise in SBNR and Why It Matters,” Anglican Women’s Event keynote, Mercadante Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, Nov. Sarah Heaner Professor of Theology 7, 2015. Lancaster in the Straker Chair of “SBNRs and Mysticism,” American Academy Historical Theology Professor in the of Religion, Mysticism Section, Nov. 22, 2015. Werner Chair of “Spirituality and Belief for SBNRs,” the Hines Theology Publications Center for Spirituality, Houston, March 17, 2016. Live Commentary on the “Religious Landscape “Case Study: Beliefs in the SBNRM,” Rice Uni- Publications Study” Pew Forum Report, on All Sides with Ann Fisher, 89.7 NPR News, May 12, 2015. versity conference on the SBNR new religious Romans in the series Belief: A Theological Com- movement, Houston, March 18-20, 2016. Interviewed for “Lessons for the Church from mentary on the Bible. Louisville: Westminster “Belief without Borders,” Burchenal Lecture, John Knox, 2015. the Spiritual but not Religious,” by Joe Iovino, UMC.org, May 15, 2015. Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, April Introductions and reflections for 1 and 2 11, 2016. Corinthians, CEB Women’s Bible, forthcoming Interviewed for “FUMC Guests Bring Unique in October 2016. Views to Town,” by Megan Quinn, Boulder Meetings Daily Camera, June 6, 2015. Traverse City Film Festival, Friend of the Festi- Academic lectures and presentations Interviewed for “How to Get Millennials to val, July 28-Aug. 2, 2015. “The Church: Towards a Common Vision,” in Church? Houses of Worship Get Creative,” American Academy of Religion, Nov. 20-24, Ecumenism course at the Pontifical College Columbus Monthly, July 2015. 2015. Josephinum, Sept. 28, 2015. “A Right Orientation,” Collegeville Institute, Church and popular lectures Meetings Bearings Online, Nov. 19, 2015. “White Protestant Efforts to Convert Italian Keynote speaker, seminar, Metro Area Clergy 2015 United Methodist Studies Review Com- Americans,” Strangers in This World: Multireli- Association, Columbus, May 4, 2015. mittee for the Board of Ordained Ministry to gious Reflections on Immigration, ed. Hussam review UM Studies courses at about a dozen Presentation, PCUSA Clergy Women, May 6, S. Timani, Allen G. Jorgenson, Alexander Y. schools. This review committee gives recom- 2015. Hwang. Fortress Press, 2015. mendations to the University Senate. Presentation, “Sacred Bites,” First UMC, Boul- Video recorded on the theme “Fear Not! Be der, Colorado, May 19, 2015. Church and popular lectures Not Afraid!” by the Workgroup on Construc- Worship leader and preacher, First UMC, tive Theology, Nashville, for upcoming video Preached at Church of the Savior, Westerville, Boulder, Colorado, May 24, 2015. July 5, 2015. production, April 23, 2016. Evangelical Lutheran Church in America “Case Study: The Spiritual but not Religious Virginia Synod, “Getting Clear on Ministry Movement,” The Macmillan Handbook on Denise Lewis to SBNRs,” seminars and work sessions for Religion, Vol. 2: Social Religion: Historical Con- pastoral two-day Event, Virginia Beach, Oct. Assistant Professor sciousness and the Social Sciences, May 2016. of Pastoral Care and 13-14, 2015. “Spiritual Compass: SBNR? Let’s Talk,” Direc- Counseling “Cuba Today and Tomorrow,” keynote speaker, tion: A Mennonite Brethren Forum, Vol. 44:2. Worthington International Friends Associa- Manuscript reviewer, Religions. Topic: Addic- tion, Worthington, Oct. 28, 2015. tion, Ethics and Theology. “Sin and Addiction: Conceptual Enemies or Publications Interviewed by Charles Cotherman for Ph.D. Fellow Travelers?” video presentation, Recov- dissertation/book on women who migrated ery from Addiction Conference, University of Co-author, “Personality Disorders,” Disability through evangelicalism and beyond, passing Chester, United Kingdom, Nov. 2-3, 2015. Handbook, Aspen Professional Services, forth- through L’Abri and Regent College. coming in 2016. Academic lectures and presentations Church and popular lectures “Pastoral Care with SBNRs,” keynote speaker Established a counseling program in partner- and seminar leader, American Association of ship with Destiny Church International and Pastoral Counselors Winter Event, Chicago, Pastor Teddy Ceasar, in recognition of the lack Oct. 23-24, 2015. of resources for African-American congre- gants and their needs. Services are offered once Keynote speaker, Faith in Culture Institute, per week for eight weeks and are pro-bono for Wycliffe Institute, University of Toronto, Nov. persons referred by Pastor Ceasar. 5, 2015.

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Paul Numrich Joon-Sik Park Meetings Professor in the Professor in the “Through Hispanic Eyes,” Hispanic Summer Snowden Chair for E. Stanley Jones Chair Program, Emory University, Atlanta, June 21- the Study of Religion of World Evangelism 24, 2015. and Interreligious Executive Board Meeting, Hispanic Summer Relations Program, San Antonio, Oct. 14-16, 2015.

Design meeting for Midwest Initiative, Faith Academic lectures and presentations Academic lectures and presentations and Ecology (Garrett-Evangelical Theological “Missional Church: A Missio-Ecclesial Reflec- “Mapping the Civic Engagement of Selected Seminary), Jan. 3-5, 2016. tion,” Washington Conference on Ministry, Immigrant Religious Groups in America,” (on Led Wabash visit: Duke Divinity School and Washington, D.C., Aug. 10, 2015. a panel based on 2007 co-authored book), XXI Wake Forest Divinity School, Feb. 1, 2016. World Congress of International Association Meetings Led Wabash visit: Princeton Theological Semi- for the History of Religions, Erfurt, Germany, Course of Study Directors Meeting, Nashville, nary and Drew Divinity School, Feb. 22, 2016. August 2015. Sept. 22-24, 2015. “Sacred Assemblies under the Same Roof: How Awards and appointments Groups Share Common Space for Religious Awarded National Endowment for the Hu- Purposes,” Religion and the Social Sciences Ryan manities grant Section, American Academy of Religion An- Schellenberg nual Meeting, Atlanta, 2015. Assistant Professor of Robin Knowles Meetings New Testament Wallace American Academy of Religion, November Professor in the 2015. Taylor Endowed Chair Led two sessions on Islam with an adult Academic lectures and presentations of Worship and Music study group at Old Trinity Lutheran Church, “Mutualism or Charity? Locating Paul’s Eco- Columbus. nomic Program,” Society of Biblical Literature Publications Church and popular lectures Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Nov. 21, 2015. Editor, Summer 2015, Autumn 2015 and Presentation, Third Annual Day of Ahimsa Church and popular lectures Winter 2016 issues of The Hymn: A Journal of (Non-Violence) Celebration, Jain Center of “Paul the Prisoner,” presentation to Delaware Congregational Song. Central Ohio, Oct. 3, 2015. Ministerial Association, Delaware, Nov. 4, “Hymns in Periodical Literature,” The Hymn 2015. 66:2, 19-20. M. Fulgence Sermon response, “The New Jerusalem,” Articles on Arthur G. Clyde, Wesley Lee Nyengele Columbus Mennonite Church, Columbus, Forbis, Ruth Ellis Messenger, co-written with Oct. 25, 2015. Professor of Pastoral Carlton R. Young, Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. Carlton R. Young, USA ed., J. R. Care and Counseling Watson and Emma Hornby, eds. in the Chryst Chair in Timothy L. Pastoral Theology Van Meter “Singing the Psalms in Lent,” Worship, Music and Ministry: A Journal of the United Church Academic lectures and presentations Associate Professor of Christ Musicians Association 14:2 (Winter in the Alford Chair of “Reclaiming a Marginalized Voice: Ubuntu as a 2016), 20-22. Christian Education Resource for Postcolonializing Practical Theol- Academic lectures and presentations ogy,” Practical Theology Group, American and Youth Ministry Academy of Religion, Nov. 21, 2015. “Congregational Singing and Everyday Life: Academic lectures and presentations Results of a Survey,” Cambridge 2015 Interna- Meetings “Cultivating Prophetic Hope,” The Good tional Hymn Conference, July 30, 2015. American Academy of Religion, Nov. 21-24, Earth: Creation and Ministry in an Ecological “A Methodology for Seminary Students: 2015. Age, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, June Congregational Musicking as Local Theology,” 7-10, 2015. Contemporary Christian Music, Ripon Col- “Cultivating Ecological Hope and Commit- lege, United Kingdom, Aug. 6, 2015. ment” plenary panel presentation, Religious Baptism and Communion, all-day workshop Education Association Conference, Nov. 7, 2015. Continues

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from previous page Academic lectures and presentations Yvonne Presentation on Innovation and Imagination to Zimmerman for residents-in-ministry, East Ohio Annual ATS working groups, Pittsburgh, Feb. 19, 2016. Conference of the United Methodist Church, Associate Professor of North Canton, Oct. 15, 2015. Meetings Christian Ethics Worship and Music in the Interim, all-day Consultant for Carey Theological College, Van- workshop for interim ministry working group, couver, Canada, September 2015. Christian Churches in Ohio (Disciples of American Academy of Religion, Nov. 21-24, Academic lectures and presentations Christ) and Ohio Conference United Church 2015. of Christ, Delaware, Oct. 19, 2015. “Making Room for Other Dreams of Freedom,” Association of Theological Schools, School for Human Trafficking Center Fall Speaker Series, Meetings New Deans, Dec. 14-16, 2015. University of Denver, Oct. 28, 2015. Executive Committee of the Hymn Society of Wabash visitations with Tim Van Meter and “Who’s a Sinner; Who’s a Slave? Sex Trafficking the U.S. and Canada, July 11, 2015. Ryan Schellenberg (Duke, Wake Forest, Princ- and the Rescue Industry,” panelist with Amey Editorial Advisory Board of the Hymn Society eton, Drew), Feb. 1 and 22, 2016. Victoria Adkins and Letitia Campbell, Ameri- of the U.S. and Canada, chair, July 12, 2015. Deans’ Colloquy sponsored by Wabash Center, can Academy of Religion Annual Meeting: Hymn Society of the U.S. and Canada annual March 2-6, 2016. Women and Religion Section, Atlanta, Nov. 24, 2015. conference, introducer at three sessions, July Church and popular lectures 12-16, 2015. “Queer Theory and Human Trafficking,” panel- “Conflict in the Church,” keynote at United ist for the LGBT and Queer Studies Interest Cambridge 2015 International Hymn Confer- Church of Christ day retreat, April 20, 2015. ence, July 26-Aug. 1, 2015. Group, Society of Christian Ethics Annual Preaching and consultation, Wooster UMC, Meeting, Toronto, Canada, Jan. 9, 2016. Contemporary Christian Music (conference), Sept. 20, 2015. Ripon College, United Kingdom, Aug. 4-7, “Missing in Action: The Disappearance of Pro- 2015. Local church conflict consultation, East Ohio gressive Christianity in the Movement to End Conference of the United Methodist Church, Human Trafficking,” faculty lecture, MTSO, Executive Committee of the Hymn Society Oct. 25, 2015. Feb. 16, 2016. of the U.S. and Canada, Richmond, Virginia, Nov. 2-6, 2015. Seminary conflict consultation, Vancouver, Meetings Canada, Oct. 27, 2015. American Academy of Religion Annual Meet- Lisa Withrow Taught conflict management training work- ing, 2015. shop, Mid-Ohio District Leadership Institute, Dean and East Ohio Conference of the United Methodist Society of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting, Professor in the Church, Nov. 7, 2015. 2016. Dewire Chair of Led workshop for leadership of St. Paul AME Christian Leadership Church, Columbus, Jan. 23, 2016.

Publications Website Review, McKinsey & Co. (www.mckinsey.com), Journal of Religious Lead- ership, Vol. 14:2, Fall 2015. Review of Looking and Learning: Visual Literacy across the Disciplines (New Directions for Teach- ing and Learning book series), ed. Deandra Little, Peter Felten and Chad Perry Number 141, Spring 2015. Reviewed for Reflective Teach- ing, a Wabash online journal, Aug. 9, 2016.

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Financial information In the fiscal year ending June 30, 2016, Methodist Theological School in Ohio had revenues of $6,456,588 and expenditures of $6,456,454. If you have questions about this information, please contact our business office at 740-363-1146.

Operating budget for Fiscal Year 2015-16 (unaudited)

Revenues Expenditures MTSO relied primarily on three sources of income: endowment Compensation of faculty and staff accounted for 56 percent of the earnings (33.3 percent of total revenue), tuition and fees (32.4 MTSO operating budget, followed by student financial aid (20.4 percent) and the Ministerial Education Fund of the United percent) and other programs and services, which include such Methodist Church (14.5). Combined gift revenue accounted for items as the Course of Study School of Ohio (8.3 percent). 7.2 percent of total revenues.

Revenues Percent of total Expenditures Percent of total n Endowment $2,149,875 33.3% n Compensation $3,612,462 56.0% n Tuition and fees $2,093,432 32.4% n Financial aid $1,319,387 20.4% n Ministerial Education Fund $937,510 14.5% n Other programs and services $537,421 8.3% n Other programs and services $765,966 11.9% n Plant maintenance $256,537 4.0% n Methesco Fund gifts $214,803 3.3% n Academic support $195,472 3.0% n Release of restricted gifts $158,487 2.5% n General administration $186,098 2.9% n Student aid gifts $88,791 1.4% n Information systems $99,962 1.5% n Federal work study $47,724 0.7% n Business administration $90,371 1.4% n Institutional advancement $68,401 1.1% Total revenues $6,456,588 100% n Enrollment $58,373 0.9% n Instruction $31,970 0.5%

Total expenditures $6,456,454 100%

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Donor Honor Roll In grateful recognition of all those whose gifts between July 1, 2015, and June 30, 2016, contributed to the success of MTSO Gold Crest Society

President’s Circle Leaders’ Circle Clarksbury UMC $25,000 and above $5,000-$7,499 Diane Corbett and Richard Eureka Joseph Crockett Ronald Alford Janet and Roger Baker Richard Donnenwirth Barbara and Michael Cantlin IBM Matching Grants Program and Rosalie Laurenti James and Amy Chapman Sarah and Kermit Lancaster Mary Jo Edwards The Columbus Foundation Dale E. & Bernice E. Mansperger Suzanne and Bill Ellis The Foundation for Evangelism Foundation Inc. H. Eugene Folden Stanley C. Gault Estate of Bette Jean Meyer Julia Foster Estate of Martin Parks J. D. and Arlene Milliken Carla J. Fox Wayne E. and Mildred K. Smith David Schooler Olivia Graham Memorial Fund William and Kathleen Grové Ministerial Education Fund Anna and Garrett Guillozet of the United Methodist Church Werner Circle Robert and Elaine Hibbard Ellen Zienert and Mark Baker $2,500-$4,999 Maggie Jackson Jeff and Sally Jaynes Doug L. Aschenbach John Kampen and Carol Lehman Trustees’ Circle Chardon UMC Alex and Joan Keller $15,000-$24,999 Judith Craig Susan Kyser Preston and Barbara Jean Forbes Marybelle Landrum Susan and William Bowman Cyndy Garn Claudine and Allan Leary Walter & Marian English Foundation Ronald and Prudence Holtman Leipsic UMC Sandra Lutz Haviland Houston Wendy and Thomas Lybarger Jane Mykrantz June Ladd William and Martha McFadden Jay and Kristen Rundell Diane Lobody Isabel Miller R. Stanley and Jerilyn Sutton Karen Marshall Mary Ann Moman William and Diane Van Nostran Bill and Judy McCartney Alan and Lois Morrison Michael and Katie McNeil Beverly and Terry Myers Karen and F. Christopher Oehl Founders’ Circle Joon-Sik and Soo-Hea Park Sandra Selby Jack Patton $10,000-$14,999 Charles and Nancy Sheley Leigh Precise and Pete Black Ralph K. Shunk Howard and Jo Ann Preston Paul and Anne Donald David and Marjorie Wilcox Mark and Jennifer Reed Jane and Michael Endres Alfred Wise Retired Ministers Association The Magee Christian Education John and Cheryl Zeiger of West Ohio Foundation Benita Rollins Gerald and Dorothea Maloney John Wesley Circle Harold Shimfessel Harry C. Moores Foundation Margaret Sterling W. S. and Adele White $1,000-$2,499 Valerie and Francis Stultz Robert Tannehill and Barbara Tull Anonymous Stewards’ Circle J. R. and Catharine Warmbrod Battelle Grace Welch $7,500-$9,999 Janet and Roger Blocher Paul White April and Zac Casperson Norman and Shirley Dewire L. Cean Wilson William Casto Lisa Withrow Robert and Ann Oakley and Jennifer Kimball Casto

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Silver Level Bronze Level John Wilson and Mary Sturm Rebecca Guthrie $500-$999 $250-$499 Amy and Joel Wood Gerald and Beverly Hall Yvonne Zimmerman Robert and Sandra Hampton Grayson and Wende Lou Atha Donald and Frances Alguire King and Anne Marie Hanna Charles and Marilyn Barker Margaret Barno Century Level Denise Hart Philip and Rolanda Hunt Joyce and Ralph Barrera Mary Pat Borgess $100-$249 Patricia and Arthur Bennett and E. Christopher Ellison William and Patricia Hunter Kathleen and Charles Brown Linda Carter and Ernest Joan L. Adkins Carol Ingram David Browning Johansson Wayne and Fern Albertson Ethel Johnson Peter and Carol Browning E. Lynn and Judith Champion Sarah B. Alexander Bruce and Dawn Jones Warren and Verna Bulman Sade Davis-Reynolds Virginia Allen Jonathan D. and Michelle S. Robert and Lucy Caswell Nancy Day-Achauer Anonymous Jump H. James and A. Joann and Jeff Achauer Nse and Glory Aquaowo Gerald and Roberta Kalb Chalfant Robin Dillon Robert Arduino Jane and Phil Karl Yvonne and Bonnie Conner Lawrence and Emma Dixon Steven and Karla Averill Hyun Chul and Yi Kim Rollin and Anne Conway Lee Ann Dunlap Harold and Joyce Bailey Thomas Kiracofe John Cramton Paul and Charlene Ernst Jack Baird Cecil and Tharon Kirk Walter and Marilyn Dickhaut Mark Feinknopf Brice and Karen Balmer Cynthia Klingemier Katherine Dickson Eugene Finnegan Dorothy Beard and Paul Sentgeorge H. Daniel and Debra Drew and John Rainey Joe and Georgia Bottorff Robin Knowles Wallace David and Janice Erenrich James and Shari Gysel John and Dolores Brown Myron and Doris Kottke Benjamin and Dana Hall Mary and Robert Holm Larry and Kallen Brown Ernestine Krehbiel Anne Marie Hanna John and Elaine Hopkins James and Mary Brucklacher Jerry Krueger Steve and Diana Harsh Denise and Dennis Lori Burdette-Steele and Susan Brown Charles and Betty Hill Horst Marikis Cordelia Burpee John and Debbie Krumpelman Frank and Dorothy Himes Patricia Jefferis Dorothy Burr Carol and Bill Lakota Eastin Bruce and Barbara Lynn Irwin Carol Kautz J. Gary and Joy Campbell Linda and Roy Landers Clark and Linda Kandel Priscilla Keenan Ruth Ann Carnahan Bryan and Mary Lauzau James Kuse and Kathleen Dale and Nancy Lambert Ann Marie Champion Steven and Judith Lightner Barber Susan Lamphere Sue Chidley Charles Lindabury Joan Leitzel Vergel and Joy Lattimore Shirley A. Chipps Constance and Peter Lobody Randy and Terri Litchfield Gerald and Susan Leist William and Marti Cole Kris LoFrumento Living Hope UMC Lincoln Financial Group Coralee Cox Virginia Lohmann Bauman John Loeser Foundation Inc. James and Susan Cox and Gery Bauman James and Clare Long Mark and Deb Lindemood Susan Cromer Connie and Roger Long David and Beth Ann Bradley and Krista McKibben Clarence and Jane Charles and Jean Loveless Mansperger Linda Mercadante Cunningham Robert Lovell Geraldine Marston Paul and Christine Mottl Harold Davidson Robert and Diana Ludwig Pamela and Randall Monteith Mary Owen Donald and Dianna Dixon Rev. Terry L. MacArthur Joseph and Marion Nied Barbara Planck Jean and James Doane David Maly North Congregational Church Michael and Nancy Preston Michael and Rebecca Donnally Doris Mauck Gregory and Cynthia Palmer James and Wilma Roberson Thomas and Elizabeth Douce Robert and Janet McCartney Marian and David Plant The Rev. David J. Roberts, III Gerard and Bette Ervin Myron F. McCoy Phyllis and Richard Radlinski Edward and Monika Ross Seth and Elizabeth Evans Kenton and Dorothy McGraw Kenneth Ramsey Kevin and Kathy Schill Frank and Carolyn Fenton John Medaugh Daniel and Denise Russell Rina Shere and Rex Talbott Leanne and Franklin Fisher F. Victor and Barbara Metivier St. Luke’s UMC Barbara and Robert Sholis Rachael Gardner Margaret Miskimen Jim Summers R. Thomas and Carolyn Slack William and Betty Jo Gavitt William and Louwana Mock Terry and Anita Turner Bruce and Susan Smith Wayne and Connie Geissinger Dale and Leellen Moore United Methodist Foundation Howard and Joann Strauch John Germaine Haskel and Sarah Moore of West Virginia Mary Tame Elizabeth Gibbons James and June Moore Dale and Norma Wilhelm Jeffrey and Mary Taylor Dean Gibson Bhoke P. Mukami David Withrow Kenneth and Doris Tousley and Susan Regis Dean John and Susan Myers Susan and William Zimmerman Theodore Townsend Georgia and Norman Gillfillan Pamela and Mitch Myers Keith and Carolyn Vesper Richelle and Michael Goff Henry and Arlene Nettling Jo and R. Karl Watkins Grace Lutheran Church Suzanne and Julian Northcraft James and Carol Waugh Austin and Christine Greene Paul and Christine Numrich Sondra and Edwin Willobee Robert and Kay Grotsky Continues

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from previous page Thomas and Pamela Pottkotter Heather Rodenborg Betty A. Smith Randall and Joanne Preston Richard and Ann Royer Thomas Smoot Oak Chapel UMC Stanley and Jeanine Purdum Ralph and Patricia Rudy Joseph and Laura Sopher David and Margaret Orendorff Jack and C. Yvonne Pursell Karen and Paul Schaefer Sandra and Michael Spahr Richard and Elizabeth Parks Elizabeth Raitt Jean Schafer Emily E. Spearman Cannon Phillip Peoples Gretchen Rauschenberg Janet Schulte Steven and Donna Spearman A. Edward and Shirley Perkins Roylene Reed Jerry and Judith Seaman Albert Sprague, Jr. Warren and Karleen Pettis Richland County Foundation Thomas Simpson Mark and Virginia Steiger George Pomeroy Donald and Shirley Rock Ellen and George Sims Constance Sterner

The Sterling Society

These individuals have Joanne Duran William and Martha Dora Faye Smith named MTSO in their Mary Jo Edwards McFadden William and Janet Smith W. Philip English Beth McGuire Kenneth South estate plans and Charlene Nevil-English and David Kersten C. Joseph and Diane Sprague John Tyler and Kathy John Medaugh Margaret Sterling Shiro and Ritus Abe Erickson Donna Meinhard Valerie and Francis Stultz Ronald and Maurine Adams Harry and Donna and Arleon Kelley R. Stanley and Jerilyn Sutton Anonymous (13) Featherstone Linda Mercadante Robert Tannehill Doug L. Aschenbach Eugene Finnegan Edward and Ilse Meyer and Barbara Tull Robert and Susan Atchley and John Rainey J. D. and Arlene Milliken William Thorne Grayson and Wende Lou Julia Foster Paul and Jean Minus Paul and Corinne Van Buren Atha Carla Fox Loran and Vicki Miracle William and Diane Jon and Elaine Barker Cyndy Garn Roberta Moore Van Nostran Margaret Barno Gary and Barbara Giller Diana Morris Daniel and June Walcott Joyce and Ralph Barrera Betty Godard Alan and Lois Morrison J. R. and Catharine Reg and Jane Barss George Goshorn Jane Mykrantz Warmbrod Joel and Karen Biggers Olivia Graham Roy and Kay Nash Anita Watson Joe and Georgia Bottorff William and Kathleen Grové David and Lenore Nichols Evelyn Weaver Susan and William Bowman Robert and Nancy Hayden Joseph and Marion Nied Marie Webb Deborah Bowsher Walter and Jo Ann Hays William and Virginia Norman David and Jeanette Jackie Browning Joseph and Barbara Henson Richard and Elizabeth Parks Westerfield James and Mary Brucklacher Dale and Jean Hoak Cynthia and Jeff Parsons Sondra and Edwin Willobee Barbara and Michael Cantlin Robert and Barbara Ingram Marian and David Plant Alfred Wise Trevor Casto Gene and Laurene Kandel Howard and Jo Ann Preston Robert and Carol Wood Shelly Casto Clark and Linda Kandel Craig and Nancy Redecker Theodore and June Yewey Dana Casto James and Mary Kandel Craig and Rebecca Rice Karl and Carmen Zeigler William Casto and Jennifer Warren and Barbara Kandel Sharon Ringe Ellen Zienert and Mark Baker Kimball Casto Katherine Kegerreis Benita Rollins James and Amy Chapman Colleen and Barry Keith Donald and Constance Rose John and Patricia Chapman James and Mary Keller Edward and Monika Ross To explore options for Robin Clark Dwayne and Ruth Kelsey John and Elaine Ross joining the Sterling Society Diane Corbett and Richard Eleanore Kleist Jay and Kristen Rundell by including MTSO in your Eureka John and Florence Lee Steven and Judy Russalesi estate planning, visit Charles and Julia Cordle Jan Lichtenwalter James and Sonya Ryhal www.mtso.edu/plannedgiving Judith Craig Dennis Lippart Beverly and Glen Schmidt or contact Claudine Leary at Susan V. Cromer J. Franklin and Beth Jere Schrader 740-362-3323 or Deborah Cronin Luchsinger Louise and Craig Seipel [email protected]. Norman and Shirley Dewire Gerald and Dorothea Sandra Selby Donald and Dianna Dixon Maloney Edwin Shaffer Paul and Anne Donald Lisa Marchal Charles and Nancy Sheley Harry Donovan Russell and Ellen Martin Vernon Shepherd John and Ruth Doyle Martha Mattner Ralph K. Shunk H. Daniel and Debra Drew Richard and Judyth Maurer John and Judith Skinner M. Gilbert Dunn Bill and Judy McCartney David Sky

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James and Jeanette Stiles Philip and Helen Bareis Carol and David Edman Larry Keith Huffman Douglas Sweet Florence Beach Donald and Joe Anna Eirich David Ibokette Michael and Susan Sweet David and Carolyn Bearden George Ellis Israel and Joan Irizarri Patricia and John Tatham Grace Beebe William and Vicky Engelbert George and Beverly Jarrell Marcy Taylor Leonard and Marsha Benson Jacqueline and Terry Euper Charles and Susan Johnson William Thorne Samantha Bickerdt Phyllis Fetzer Al and Susan Jones Charles and Doris Titko Russell and Shannon Billau Patrick and Mary Fielder Walter and Myrna Jones Robert and Marilyn Town April and Martin Blaine Patricia E. Friel Christine Jones-Leavy Carol and Gene Traynor Bruce and Karen Blake Victoria and Vincent Front David and Eloise Kemner Thane and Patricia Trujillo James and Karen Bolz Jared Gadomski Littleton Kessler & Ballenger Co., L.P.A. John and Roxie Underwood Deborah Bowsher James and Janet Gallander Debra and Daniel Ketcham Timothy Van Meter Dagmar Braun-Celeste Charlotte Gallant Sharon and Mike Kiesel Sandra VandenBrink Brian and Karin Briggs Virginia Geaman Klager Social Committee and Noel Matthews Patrick Broz Theodore and Mildred David and Janet Knisely Craig Vander Veen and Abby Caseman Geunther Douglas and Judith Knopp Mary Lu and Rodney Warstler Robert and Doris Buckley Thomas and Dona Gibson Dan and Linda Kolhagen Donald and Renee Webb Leonard and Karen Budd Robert Giercyk Janan Kramer Josephine Whitely-Fields Diane Campbell Lloyd and Katharine Girbach Richard and Lorna Kretchmar Barbara and David Wiechel George and Genie Campbell Rikki Grace Gustav and Grace Lindemann Terry Williams Robert and Joanne Campbell Barbara and Russ Granroth Lynn Long Carol Williams-Young Ellen Carter Carl and Dorothy Gray Kevin J. Lowry Brian and Anita Wood L. Susan Carter Stonewall and Ernestine George and Carolyn Luciani Laura Young Jennifer Chamberlin Griffin Lisa Marchal Karl and Carmen Zeigler Darrell and Cara Chandler Richard W. Grigsby Terry and Mary Ann Maurer Clarence and Sarah Chapman Ralph and Esther Gross Linda McCowen Myung Ji Cho Paula Gruner, RSCJ John and Meredythe McDaniel Contributor Level and Sang Hyu Han Victor and Kay Guenther Charles and Kendra McNatt Up to $99 Melissa Claxton Ralph and Gail Hall Mark and Elizabeth McTrustry William and Susan Clemmer John and Rose Harra Charles and Henrietta Mehling Nathan and Alicia Adams Frederick and Margot Cooley Thomas and Pauline Hart Robert and B. L. Miller Nicholas and Teri Aiuto Flora Cotrone William and Nancy Harvey Wayne and Marilyn Miller Devon and Doris Allen Ramona Cowling Scott and Judy Herald Zoe and John Milliman Jonathan and Nora Almond John and Julie Crispin Christopher and Kristine Hintz Roy and Melissa Mitchell Jay and Lynn Anderson Carl and Sharon Curtis Dale Hoffman James Mitchiner John and Sallie Anderson Nancy and Herbert Molly and B R Hoffman W. Robert Morrison Sandra Anderson Curtis-Einheit Jean and Robert Hoitsma Rose Morse Cherrie Andres Cynthia Danals Jacqueline E. Holdsworth Jeno and Rosemary Nagy Dina Andrews Edna Darling-Lewis Dana and Ann Houck Donald and Irma Newland Anonymous (3) and E. J. Lewis David K. Houser Julia and Christopher Nielsen Paula and Carl Archdeacon Haden and Rosetta Davis Emily Howard Gary and Bernice Packard Asbury UMW Valeta Doorneweerd Gilbert and Jane Hubbard Sidney and Marie Parker Robert and Susan Atchley Cheryl and Steven Douglass Arden and Margaret Hudson Mark Bailey Continues

MTSO Board of Trustees 2016-17

Ronald B. Alford Ronald Holtman Michael McNeil Margaret Streiff Derek Anderson Maggie Jackson Alan Morrison Jeffrey A. Taylor Janet B. Baker Veronica Jefferson M. Fulgence Nyengele Paul White Patricia A. Bennett Susan A. Kyser Robert Oakley David E. Wilcox Janet Blocher, Vice Chair Sarah Heaner Lancaster Karen Oehl Kathleen Brown Joan R. Leitzel Gregory V. Palmer For more information about James S. Chapman James Long James Roberson MTSO’s trustees and the Ethan Collins Kevin Lowry Jay Rundell governance of the school, visit Preston Forbes Sandra Lutz, Chair Sandy Selby www.mtso.edu/governance. Cyndy Garn Tracy Smith Malone Barbara Sholis James Gysel Gerald P. Maloney Earl Stalter

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from previous page Robert and Pauline Schaffer Blair and Carol Stewart Thomas and Edwina Wilber Marilynn and Paul Schroeder Harold and Norma Stockman Walter and Cheryl Willey Frank and Karen Parrott Carolyn and Harry Scott Jessica and Samuel Jonathan Williams Cynthia and Jeff Parsons Jeremy and Daen Scott Stonecypher Orval and Ruth Willimann Margaret and Henry Passenger Linda Scott Karen and Steve Stoner Robert and Denise Wilson Lauren Patris de Breuil Sharon Seyfarth Garner Donald and Elizabeth Kimberly Wisecup Marilyn Paulsen and Andrew Seyfarth Garner Sutherland Janis Wright Meyers James and Cynthia Pence Michael and Margaret Shade Karen K. Tate Joseph and Jennifer Ziraldo Dawn and Lee Peters Johari Sharp Leslie Taylor Susan Ranous Everett Sherron Ronald K. Taylor Every effort has been made Katherine and Timothy Shiloh United Methodist Terry and Linda Thompson to accurately honor MTSO’s Reichley Women Lynn and Janice Thursby donors. If you believe an error Judith Riczinger Robert and Deanna Shrom Mary Tuley has been made, please contact Orman and Donna Roehm Terry and Joanne Smart Molly C. Turner Claudine Leary at 740-362- Lawrence and Sherrie Rogers Willie F. Smith and Dianne L. Diane Turner-Sharazz 3323 or [email protected]. Rebecca and Jesse Rogers Jefferson-Smith United States Coast Guard, Roger and Cheryl Roshon Kathleen Snapp Auxiliary Flotilla 17-07 Richard and Carol Rothrock Thomas and Katherine Snyder James and Vickie Valentine Saundra Runyan Bonnie Sowa Marion and Nancy Ward Larry Sarbaugh St. Paul’s UMC Toledo Ralph and Margie Ward Rozell and Norma Sattler Jacob Steele Donald Warren Richard and Marian Sayler Harold and Jennifer Steindam Eternity Wauls Restricted student scholarship giving These churches and Zion Evangelical Lutheran First Community Foundation, SOUTH DAKOTA other organizations Church, Freeland Columbus Lutheran Church of Our First Mennonite Church, Redeemer, Watertown have assisted in MISSISSIPPI Bluffton the sponsorship of Mississippi Conference of the Grace UMC, Willard TENNESSEE individual MTSO United Methodist Church Grand Chapter of Ohio, OES First UMC Trustees, Martin students’ educations Hayes Memorial UMC, Grible Education Fund, MONTANA Freemont McMinnville St. John’s Lutheran Ministries General Board of Higher CALIFORNIA King Avenue UMC, Inc., Billings Education and Ministry First UMC of Alhambra Columbus Marseilles UMC, Upper of the United Methodist NORTH CAROLINA Sandusky Church ILLINOIS North Carolina Conference New Life Korean UMC, Holston Conference St. Paul Lutheran Church, of the United Methodist Findlay United Methodist Church Gilman Church North Congregational UCC, Foundation Inc. Tennessee Conference of the KENTUCKY NEW YORK Columbus United Methodist Church The Episcopal Diocese of United Church Foundation Northwest Christian Church Lexington Foundation, Columbus United Methodist Higher OHIO Paulding UMC Education Foundation MICHIGAN Berea UMC St. John UCC, Cincinnati United Methodist Women Detroit Annual Conference Brownhelm Congregational The Columbus Foundation VIRGINIA of the United Methodist UCC, Vermillion United Church of Christ, Missionary Emergency Church Church of the Master, Cleveland Fund Inc. Grace Episcopal Church, Westerville West Ohio Conference of the Traverse City United Methodist Church Covenant Presbyterian WEST VIRGINIA Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, Williamsport UMC Church, Columbus West Virginia Conference Grand Blanc Dublin Community UCC Wooster UMC Martin UMC of the United Methodist Epworth Center, Bethesda Church Plante Moran Trust First Christian Church, OKLAHOMA West Michigan Conference Ashland Joy Lutheran Church, Tulsa of the United Methodist Church

28 METHODIST THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL IN OHIO On behalf of our students and those they’re preparing to serve, thank you for your generosity. You may give online at www.mtso.edu/giveonline or return this form with your check or credit card information to: Methodist Theological School in Ohio, 3081 Columbus Pike, Delaware, OH 43015. My gift to MTSO is: q $1,000 q $500 q I have enclosed a check payable to MTSO. q $250 q $100 q $50 Other $ q Please charge my q Visa q MasterCard I would like my gift designated for the following fund: Account no. ______Expiration date ______q No preference Signature______q Methesco’s Greatest Needs Name ______q Seminary Scholarship Address ______q Bishop Judith Craig Scholarship ______

q Other (please specify) ______Phone ______E-mail ______Please contact me to discuss: q Direct Donation monthly giving q a planned estate gift We look forward to discussing your philanthropic goals in more depth. To begin that conversation today, contact Vice President of Institutional Advancement April Casperson at 740-362-3372 or [email protected].

Three ways to invest in our students Your continuing financial support of MTSO’s mission provides vital assistance to our students. Each of these three methods of giving enables us to provide a meaningful theological education and enhance affordability for our students: Donate automatically Plan for an estate gift Give now every month Today’s MTSO students are You may make your MTSO’s Direct Donation benefiting enormously from tax-deductible online donation program provides the estate gift commitments made at www.mtso.edu/giveonline, convenient, budget-friendly years ago. Through planned or if you wish to give by mail, option of dividing your gift into giving to the seminary, you’ll you may return the form above manageable monthly portions join the Sterling Society, which with your check or credit card that are automatically withdrawn honors those committed to a information. from your account. Direct legacy of lasting significance. Donations may be stopped or We offer a helpful collection of modified at any time. Visit estate-planning tools at www.mtso.edu/directdonation www.mtso.edu/plannedgiving. to get started.