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Volume 14 • Number 4 Fall 2011 a Letter from the General Secretary Volume 14 • Number 4 Fall 2011 A letter from the General Secretary hope you • Our commitment to the poor, to contents have had a those in prison, to the lost, the least, I great summer and the last. Vol. 14, No. 4 Fall 2011 UM Men Fall 2011 and that this • Our connection –– We are able to do Copyright © 2011 magazine finds more together than any of us could do General Commission on United Methodist Men you actively through a single congregation, district FEATURES living out your or conference. UMMen magazine is published 5 Why I became a United Methodist faith. Once you • Our world-wide reach –– We have four times a year, winter, spring, 10 Baptizing babies and burying old folks summer and fall by GCUMM: have finished planted churches and missions all 11 What’s in a label? General Commission on United Methodist Men 14 A proud remnant - legacy of faith reading it, find over the world. 1000 17th Ave. S. 17 Why I stayed in the United Methodist Church a unique way to • The Wesleyan movement changed the P.O. Box 340006 19 From prison to the mission fields pass it on. I have world in the late 1700s; I pray we can Nashville, TN 37203-0006 (615) 340-7145 20 Connecting again in Haiti given previous change the world again today. Internet address: http://www.gcumm.org 22 A Scout is Brave issues to my • The UMC has an historic commitment 23 UM Men help inner city church in Nashville Publisher: Gilbert C. Hanke pastor (then I just to develop small-group ministry. This 24 Hog father boosts hunger-relief effort Editor: Richard Peck gave him an EMS membership). I gave them was a vital ingredient in the early 26 Across the Nation Contributing Editor: Larry Coppock to guys in my small group, gave them to Wesleyan movement, which many vital 33 Scouts become brothers with Uganda troop Editorial Assistants: Martha Davis guys at the next UMM breakfast meeting, congregations are embracing today. 34 Austin district UMM President aids tsunami Nan Self and I have left a copy at a hospital/doctor’s And I must admit the denomination victims Graphic Design: Parris Printing waiting room. Have fun finding a way to has afforded me a place to serve. I have A few words about my dad Change of Address: 35 pass this magazine along; let me know what been an active lay person who has served Send the mailing label with your new address to: 38 UM Men support women clergy happens. in a wide variety of places as a volunteer UMMen I am one of those life-long Methodists; since being active in MYF. The 18 months of P.O. Box 340006 Nashville, TN 37203-0006 DAD’S ZONE I was “present” at Dulin Methodist Church employment by the UMC has been a special (615) 340-7145 before I was born. Although I was not given blessing and the position has taken me to Allow six weeks for changes. 39 How to deal with Nonversations an option to change churches while growing new and exciting places. 40 Consequences of absent fathers up, I was free to change once I left for As my friend, Jerry, would answer when Advertising: Contact Richard Peck P.O. Box 340006 college. I attended Lynchburg College, which asked, “How are you?” Nashville, TN 37203-0006 continues to be related to the Disciples of “I am blessed.” (615) 620-7264 Christ Church. Since I was in the choir at Stay in touch, and continue to watch for e-mail: [email protected] 41 MENS NEWS LC and our tours were always to Disciples new webinars scheduled this fall and winter. 47 SCOUTING NEWS The publishing of advertising in UMMen does churches, I got used to their worship services If you miss them, don’t worry we record not constitute endorsement by UMMen, and many of their ministries. The option to them as media files and they are available General Commission on United Methodist Men change was always available, but I never through the office. Enjoy the magazine and or The United Methodist Church. Advertisers and their agencies assume liability for all content really considered a move. pass it on. of advertisements printed or representations I continue to embrace the UMC for made therein. these reasons: Striving to be His servant- • Wesleyan discipleship –– that wonderful Gil Hanke Subscription: Subscriptions are $25 a year (4 issues). Bulk subscriptions available. balance of personal holiness and social Send check or money order to: holiness. UMMen • Our view of grace –– prevenient, Subscription Fulfillment P.O. Box 440515 Editor’s note: This magazine includes articles from justifying, and sanctifying. Nashville, TN 37244-0515 (615) 340-7145 individuals who hold diverse opinions. We hope all articles are thought provoking; they are not Unless otherwise indicated, all Scripture necessarily the opinions of the General Commission contained herein is from The New Revised The purpose of United Methodist Men is to help Standard Version. Copyright 1989, 1995. on UM Men. Used by permission. All rights reserved. men grow in Christ so others may know Christ. UM MEN l Fall 2011 l 3 Why I Became a United Methodist On the wrong side of history by Martin Thielen n 1959, I was serving members of that jurisdiction could move editor Ias the director of the to geographical jurisdictions on a voluntary ears ago, I served as an adjunct Wesley Foundation basis. They debated but did not set any professor of worship and at the University of deadline for the abandonment of the preaching at a Baptist seminary. the Y Wyoming in Laramie segregated structure. One day I was preparing for an while attending Iliff The students and delegates to the upcoming class. I went to a photocopy School of Theology in 1960 General Conference were on the shop in Nashville and began to make a Denver. wrong side of history. large number of photocopies of various from That summer I took some 30 students In 1968, the Central Jurisdiction was liturgies and sermons for the class. on a rickety school bus to a Methodist finally eliminated when the Methodist An employee at the shop noticed Student Movement Conference at Camp Church united with the Evangelical United the materials I was photocopying and Magruder near Rockaway, Oregon. Brethren Church. asked me, “Are you a minister?” “Yes, During the week-long conference, The Rev. Roy Nichols, an African I am,” I replied. He said, “Are you a students from across the Western American, was elected to the episcopacy Southern Baptist minister?” “No,” I Jurisdiction were asked to support a at a jurisdictional conference following the me tremendous ministry opportunities, replied, “but I used to be. I’ve recently including a large multi-ethnic church in General Conference resolution calling for formation of the United Methodist Church. joined the United Methodist Church.” the elimination of the racially constituted He served as bishop of the Pittsburgh Area Honolulu. The best part of that job was He looked at me for a moment with Central Jurisdiction. for 12 years, and the New York Area from that I kept a surfboard in my office, and suspicious eyes and said, “Are you Wesley Foundation directors had been 1980 to his retirement in 1984; he died in I could take it a few blocks to Waikiki advised of the proposal prior to the camp, 2002. divorced or are you gay?” “Neither beach. and I urged my students to speak in favor I doubt if any of the students attending one,” I replied. He said, “Then why did The Southern Baptist Convention of the petition. “It’s wrong to continue a the 1959 Magruder Conference ever noted you change denominations?” also provided me with significant segregated system when American society that we stood on the wrong side of history. I’ve been asked that question many teaching opportunities. I was an adjunct is tearing down similar structures in secular Subsequent elections of scores of black times over the years. Many people, professor of worship and preaching at society,” we argued. bishops of both genders underscore our including some of my dearest friends, one seminary, a guest teacher at several “The present system ensures that short sightedness. have asked me why others, and a workshop and conference African Americans will be guaranteed In this issue, Bishop Woodie White I gave up good leader at various sites across the nation. bishops in the future,” said opponents. explains why he stayed in the Methodist opportunities in the The Baptist church also allowed “If the Central Jurisdiction is abolished, it Church in spite of the presence of the Southern Baptist me to publish many articles and three is unlikely a white majority will elect black Central Jurisdiction, and the Rev. Martin Convention in order books. I spent four years working at bishops.” Thielen explains why he left the Southern to become a United national headquarters in Nashville Two black students joined arguments Baptist Convention to become a United Methodist. against dissolving the racially constituted Methodist pastor. I am grateful to each for as a worship and preaching editor, jurisdiction. “Although the Central sharing their journeys. consultant, writer and teacher. Jurisdiction comprises one twenty-seventh My own journey is uneventful. I was Appreciative of former denomination The Baptist church gave me of the whole Methodist Church, it is blessed to be raised as a Methodist. At no Although I’ve made a denominational incredible opportunities for service at a given one-sixth of the total representation point in my career have I considered joining shift, I have tremendous appreciation for very young age.
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