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By What Power? Yah-Yah Fun Day! Pages 12-13 S.C $2 September 2010 Season of Kingdomtide By what power? Yah-Yah Fun Day! Pages 12-13 S.C. asks Judicial Council to decide authority of GC secretary By Jessica Connor Are there any limits on the authori - ty of the secretary of General New Salkehatchie- Conference to decide the number of inspired mission delegates? effort That’s what the United Methodist Page 24 Judicial Council is being asked to PRAY 40 – Elizabeth Easler (left), Cecelia Williams and Alysha Walters praise Christ in determine when it convenes Oct. 27- song during a 40-day churchwide movement to pray for the next generation of 30 in New Orleans. Christian leaders as they head to college and university campuses. This trio, above, The S.C. Conference is requesting a participated in a Columbia College Galilean Service Aug. 23 at College Place UMC. ruling on whether the secretary has the For more photos, see page 11. (Photo by Jessica Connor) See “Power,” Page 24 ‘All children of God’ Summit celebrates, Columbia’s new Hispanic ministry First ministry reaches out to local community strengthens the candidates to go through Wesley By Jessica Connor black church Foundation for COLUMBIA – So many times, she has sat across a kitchen By Jessica Connor tion and enthusiasm for certification passionate worship – I see Page 2 table and heard the all-too-familiar stories of hardship and desperation. If United Methodism is that as yeast in the batter The mother who hasn’t seen her children in 10 years a loaf of bread, then for of Methodism. It’s some - because she’s working like a slave to support them. The the Rev. Ken Nelson, the thing particular to the Epworth Children’s husband facing a deportation hearing, scared he’ll never see black church is the yeast. black church, distinctive.” Home Work Day, his wife again. The man living in a trailer with seven other Like yeast, the black And it’s that distinctive - Sept. 12 men, eating stale bread just to survive. The woman with church uplifts and inspires ness and energy that broken English who struggles daily to help her children rise the denomination – and Nelson is hoping to tap above and succeed. adds a healthy dose of Right here in America. unique flavor. See “Summit,” Page 15 For the Rev. Emily Scales Sutton, the pain and sadness “Everyone that countless Hispanics endure every day is heartbreaking. brings something “These people live in fear,” Sutton said. “Every day I to the table,” said meet someone with an immigration issue. I got a call this Nelson, congrega - morning from a lady whose son might have a deportation tional specialist, hearing, but he might not, because she can’t understand the African-American documents. Every day someone tells me ‘I don’t have a job ministries, for the because I don’t have the documents,’ or ‘I can’t go to the S.C. Conference. food bank because I don’t have the documents,’ or ‘I can’t “The black church’s celebra - Bishop Linda Dobbins Lee to keynote. See “Hispanic,” Page 17 4 Opinion 18 Calendar 19 Obituaries 22 District News Issue Index: 5 Commentary 18 Classifieds 21 Resource Center 23 IBS Lessons Page 2, September 2010 The South Carolina United Methodist Advocate A different path First ministry candidates to go through Wesley Foundation instead of local church By Jessica Connor best way for me.” Lazarus and Augustine are now History has been made. working their way through seminary – This year, the S.C. Conference certi - Lazarus at Perkins School of Theology, fied two candidates for ordained min - Southern Methodist University, Dallas, istry who pursued their path in a non - and Augustine at Duke Divinity traditional way: through their campus School. Both hope their stories help ministry instead of their local church. people understand how valuable cam - Megan Augustine and Brandon pus ministries are both for students Lazarus are the first two candidates to generally and those called to ministry. achieve certification this way. And “Unfortunately for some people, though the path was sometimes rocky they don’t really view the Wesley and they sometimes felt a little like Foundation as a church per se,” guinea pigs, they consider it a special Lazarus said. “It’s something people way to honor the place where they got do while at college, but they don’t their divine call. view it as a typical church. But that’s Before the 2008 Book of Discipline , not the case at all. I see more going on candidates for ordained ministry could in our Wesley Foundation than in any only pursue certification through a other church. We do 15 hours of com - local church. But the new Discipline Brandon Lazarus brushes a child’s teeth during a spring break trip to Brazil this munity service a week. We have six authorizes certification through cam - year with a group from the Methodist Student Network at the University of South Carolina. A week after he graduated from USC in May, he learned he was certified different small groups, and in our small pus ministries. as a candidate for ministry. group of 40-50 people, I’ve seen us do “It’s particularly interesting because more work and grow closer to God John Wesley himself was a campus and switched to certifica - the right thing,” he said. than in some churches. minister,” said Tim McClendon, tion through the Wesley “Someone had to be first “Every year since I’ve been there, Columbia District superintendent, who Foundation. and lay the groundwork there’s been at least one person who’s said the new path is very much in It wasn’t easy, he said. for what we needed to gotten the call through the Wesley keeping with Methodist history. After all, the Discipline do.” Foundation.” “Wesley was a fellow, a tutor, at didn’t spell out every - Augustine feels much Narcie Jeter, campus minister for Lincoln College at Oxford University. thing a candidate needed the same way about her Winthrop’s Wesley Foundation, said His involvement in the Holy Club and to do, and there were historic role. she is pleased the new path of certifica - much of his sense of calling came some key differences he “This opens the door tion is bringing greater recognition to from the campus ministry.” had to iron out with help for other students and the importance of campus ministry. Lazarus and Augustine both from McClendon and young adults to go “This is a ministry setting that is answered their call through their cam - Conference Secretary Tim Rogers. through their Wesley Foundation,” she rich in its multifaceted approach to pus ministry – Lazarus through the “For instance, the Wesley said. “(College) is a time when a lot of ministry and is key to the future of our Methodist Student Network at the Foundation doesn’t have a charge con - us are called to ministry, and being church,” Jeter said. “As we as a gener - University of South Carolina, ference per se, and when you meet able to go through that makes a lot of al church look at the future of our con - Columbia, and Augustine through the with the Staff Parish Relations sense.” nection, we have got to continue to Wesley Foundation at Winthrop Committee, that doesn’t really exist in Unlike Lazarus, Augustine didn’t build up these areas that call forth the University, Rock Hill. the Wesley Foundation – it’s either a have a local United Methodist church next generation of leaders.” When Lazarus answered his call in board or group approved by the that would have certified her as a can - Jeter said right now, three Winthrop 2007, the church still operated under District Board of Ordained Ministry,” didate for ministry. She grew up in a Wesley students are in seminary, three the 2004 Discipline , so achieving his Lazarus said. “So we all had to sit different denomination, but when she are in active youth ministry, one is certification through his USC Wesley down and decide ‘What does this began working as a house manager at serving in Costa Rica with United Foundation wasn’t an option. He start - mean?’ A lot of things I would do and Winthrop’s Wesley House and she got Methodist Volunteers in Mission and ed the process through his former then get it approved by the board. So involved with the Wesley Foundation another is heading to the Philippines church in Knoxville, Tenn. they would be able to say this worked, there, she soon felt her call. with the Peace Corps. “But for me, my church was my and this is what we’ll do in the future, Before the 2008 Discipline , she “This generation is on the move and Wesley Foundation,” he said. or we’ll do things a little different next would have had to find another church is seeking ways to be in ministry,” Jeter Then he met Augustine at time.” home to help her through the certifica - said. “We as the church need to be Exploration, an event for people feel - But he knew the extra work would tion process, but under the new ready to equip these young leaders.” ing the call to ministry in The United be worth it in the end – not only for Discipline , she was able go through the McClendon agreed: “It’s another evi - Methodist Church. And he learned that him, but for future candidates also. process where she felt most comfortable. dence that we’ll do whatever it takes, the 2008 Discipline now allowed can - “It might have gone smoother had I She said it was exciting to be able to meet people wherever they are.” didates a different path.
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